WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

Gard Law Firm, LLC (“Gard Law”) respects your privacy and is committed to collecting, maintaining and using personal information about you responsibly. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to all of your use of this website (the “Site”) including services offered through related sites, which are together referred to as “Gard Law Sites”. To the extent that any of those services include specific privacy policies or terms and conditions, they will take priority over this Policy. 

This Policy describes how your personal information will be treated as you use the Gard Law Sites. This Policy does not apply to information provided to us in the course of our attorney-client relationships, which is protected by attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable protection. Nothing in this Policy should be understood as creating an attorney-client relationship with visitors to the Gard Law Sites or, alternatively, to reduce of the protections resulting from such relationships.

1. Information We Collect From You When You Visit Gard Law Sites

Our server logs capture, and we have in the past 12 months collected, the following internet or other electronic network activity information: information regarding Gard Law Site users’ operating systems, browser software, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, and the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstreams to, through and from the Gard Law Sites, including date and time. We may use this information to improve the services we provide through the Gard Law Sites, to monitor and improve the performance of our servers, to administer the Gard Law Sites, and to protect and defend our rights, property or safety or that of our clients and other users of the Gard Law Sites.

2. Information You Submit To Us Through the Gard Law Sites

You are not required to submit any information to the Gard Law Sites. However, you may choose to do so by completing the contact forms available on the Gard Law Sites or by emailing us.  If you choose to provide personal information to us through the Gard Law Sites, we will collect, and have in the last 12 months collected, the following information about users of the Gard Law Sites, first name, last name, email address, phone number, and postal address.  We use that information for the purpose for which it was submitted, typically to inquire about legal services and set meetings to initiate an attorney-client relationship. In addition, we may use this information to:

communicate with you about our business;
provide services you may request;
include you in our mailing lists and send you materials we believe will be of interest to you;
process and respond to requests, inquiries and complaints; and
for other purposes and operations which are reasonably related, such as administering, monitoring and improving the Gard Law Sites, our products, and services.
We will not provide your personal information to or share it with any third party except in connection with requests you make that clearly involve third parties.

3. Your Rights to Access and Update Your Personal Information

Gard Law takes appropriate steps to avoid unauthorized changes to personal information you submit to Gard Law Sites. For so long as Gard Law elects to continue to provide the Gard Law Sites, and provided that you comply with all agreements concerning  use of these sites, we will make all reasonable efforts to provide you with access to your data and other personal information so that you may view, update, or correct it. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take appropriate steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections.

4. Links

Links to web sites that are not operated by or for Gard Law (“Third Party Sites”) are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Gard Law Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Sites. We have not reviewed the Third Party sites, do not control and are not responsible for any of their content or their privacy policies, if any. We do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the Third Party Sites listed on or linked to from Gard Law Sites, you should understand that you do so at your own risk.

5. Children’s Privacy

We are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Gard Law Sites and services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If we receive personal information that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 16, we will promptly destroy such information. Schools and parents should supervise their children’s online activities and consider the use of other means to provide a child-friendly online environment. Additional information is available on the Direct Marketing Association’s home page at http://www.the-dma.org. If you would like to learn more about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission home page at http://www.ftc.gov.

6. Security

Gard Law Sites use measures that are appropriate to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, and all our employees and any third parties that process your personal information on our behalf are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information., However, we cannot and do not provide any assurance that these measures will be sufficient to protect the information you choose to transmit to our Sites.

7. Agreement, Changes

By submitting your personal information on the Gard Law Sites you agree to the collection and use of your personal information on the basis described above. If you do not agree, please do not provide any personal information via the Gard Law Sites. 

8. Contacts, Rights

In certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions and applicable law, you may have the following rights in relation to personal information about you:

the right to know (i) the specific pieces of personal information collected; (ii) the categories of personal information; (iii) the categories of sources of the personal information: (iv) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information; (v) the categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose; and (vi) the categories of third parties with whom the personal information is shared;
the right to have personal information corrected, for example if it is incomplete or incorrect;
the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time;
the right to request that personal information is deleted;
where you have provided personal information voluntarily, or otherwise consented to its use, the right to withdraw your consent;
the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority (see further below).
Gard Law does not and will not sell your personal information.

9. Data Controller

The data controller for this website is: Gard Law Firm, LLC, 2541 Spruce Street, Boulder CO 80302.

If you have any questions about your privacy or this policy, including if you need to access this policy in an alternative format, please contact us at email@gardlawfirm.com