PRIVACY POLICY

At Webel Law, PLLC (Webel Law, PLLC), we value our clients, and we understand your concerns about keeping your personal information is confidential. This Privacy Policy applies to how we handle your personal information.

CLARITY

This Privacy Policy is to communicate clearly how we collect, store, use, and disclose your information when you visit this website.

SECURITY

Webel Law, PLLC follows standards, processes, and well-designed procedures to protect personal information.

INTEGRITY

Our Privacy Policy adheres to applicable state and federal laws and requirements from applicable bar associations. We do not sell or rent your personal information. We take our professional obligation seriously to protect, use, store, and destroy personal information provided by you.

This Privacy Policy details your personal information that is collected and used by Webel Law, PLLC.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third parties hyperlinked from this website as we do not control them.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected from third parties, including accountants, financial advisors, insurance agents, bankers, and other advisors and to information collected at events, webinars, seminars, and other professional events when we do not have exclusive control over the information.

By continuing to this website, you are granting Webel Law, PLLC, permission to collect and use certain information.

By visiting this website, you are agreeing that you have read, understand, and accept this Privacy Policy, the Disclaimer, and the Terms of Use. If you disagree, do not use this website and do not give information to Webel Law, PLLC.

1. What Personal Information is Collected?

The personal information collected depends on how you interact with us.

When visiting this website, we use sophisticated third-party software, such as cookies, to collect information that helps us understand how visitors use our website. We use this information to improve this website. Generally, this type of information is not used to identify individual persons. Instead, the information gathered involves your computer and may include internet use on this website, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, version, operating system, network, location, computer settings such as time zone, the pages visited on our website, length of time on specific web pages, unique device identifiers, and more. This information is often referred to as non-personally identifying information.

When you contact us and provide us with your information via this website or otherwise, we may collect personal information, such as your name, email address, billing address, phone number, and other identifiers. This more sensitive information is often referred to as personally identifying Information. This information can be used alone or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a person directly or in a context. We only collect this information when you or your confidant give it directly, knowingly, and willingly.

Separate from this website, we may also collect Personally-Identifying Information from sources available to the general public or third-party collectors who give, rent, or sell it to us for marketing purposes.

Furthermore, in considering taking you on as a client or in our representation of you, we may collect personally identifying information directly from you, including your name, address, telephone number, social security or taxpayer identification number, passport number, driver's license number, credit card number, email address, and more.

Webel Law, PLLC handles your information with professionalism and trust to prevent disclosure to unauthorized persons.

2. Why is Personal Information Collected?

Purposes of Information Gathering
We collect, process, and store information, according to applicable law, to provide superior legal representation and, as necessary, to administer our law firm. We use the information collected for many legitimate business purposes, including:

• Providing legal advice
• Evaluating professional and legal obligations toward prospective clients
• Managing business relationships
• Communicating with clients and prospective clients
• Marketing
• Conducting due diligence and other compliance obligations
• Responding to legal requests
• Defending clients' rights
• Event registrations, including dietary restrictions which may reveal information about your health or religious beliefs
• Mailing lists
• Comments or evaluations
• Job applications
• And more

Webel Law, PLLC may disclose your personal information for legitimate business purposes, including:

• Providing services to you
• Compliance checks
• Communicating with you
• Adhering to legal and regulatory authorities, upon request
• Working with outside third parties such as accountants, auditors, attorneys, financial advisors, bankers, insurance professionals, real estate professionals, and more
• Law enforcement agencies, courts, or other governmental bodies, to the extent necessary for representing your legal rights
• Safeguarding of public security
• Conducting surveys
• Ensuring security of our facilities and systems
• Conducting investigations where necessary
• Improving our website
• Fraud prevention
• Recruitment

3. How is Personal Information Collected?

Generally, you can browse this website without submitting your personal information to us. However, we may automatically collect some personal information electronically when you visit our website, including:

• Web Server Logs
• Cookies
• Web Analytics
• Advertising
• Geolocation
• Business Partners, Contractors, or Other Third Parties

Web Server Logs
Visiting our website may allow our servers to collect information your browser sends automatically. This information may include the domain name and hostname of your internet service provider's (ISP), computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, visit date and time; and linking the website's internet address.

Cookies
Cookies are small electronic files placed in your internet browser by our website to speed navigation and provide content tailored to specific visitors. Like most websites, we may use cookies to recognize when you return to our website so that we can improve your visit with (1) a personalized or enhanced browsing experience, (2) remembering your information so that you don't have to enter it again; (3) analyze our marketing and communication efforts; and (4) to document analytics of visits to our website, pages viewed, and more.

Generally, most internet browsers are automatically set to receive cookies from websites, including ours. However, your browser may allow you to change your computer settings to either notify you when a website is attempting to leave or to read a cookie on your computer or to completely reject all cookies by disabling the ability of websites to leave them. By not allowing cookies entirely, some features of our or other websites may not be accessible or function as intended.

Web Analytics
Like others with an online presence, we partner with third parties to learn from your visit to our website. These third parties may place cookies on your computer to identify specific information about your visit to our website, including from which website you were referred to our website, which pages you viewed on our website, which of our marketing efforts led you to our website, and more. We use this information to improve our website, marketing plans, communications strategies, and more. We prohibit our third-party partners from collecting information or using any information they collect for themselves or others for any purpose.

Advertising
We may partner with third parties on advertising, marketing, or communications campaigns that collect your information through web server logs, cookies, web analytics, and more. Information gathered from other websites and sources may be used to customize advertisements, marketing, or communications that are customized for you. We do not control these third parties and have neither control over the information they gather from other websites or sources, where it's gathered, how it's gathered, nor how it's used.

Geolocation
When you visit our website, we may collect from your computer, tablet, telephone, or other device information that may be able to identify your location generally or specifically. This information may be used to improve our website, advertising, marketing, or other communications and services. Information gathered may be collected from your internet browser and other settings, usage, search terms, and more.

Business Partners, Contractors, or Other Third Parties
We may collect information from our business partners, contractors, associates, friends, clients, or third parties. Because we do not control any third party, we do not direct how they use your information or where or how it was collected. Furthermore, we may need to find out whether you affirmatively authorized them to provide your information to us.

Other Collection Methods
This website never requires you to provide Personally Identifying Information, but you may choose to provide personal information on public areas of this website or otherwise when:

• Requesting an attorney to contact you
• Sending us an email
• Filling out a Contact Us form
• Signing up for a newsletter or seminar
• Completing a survey
• Leaving comments or reviews
• Applying for a job
• Other voluntary transfer of information

Please do not provide any information that you do not want to provide to us. If providing it electronically is a concern, provide it via a transfer method that you select to be more secure.
Furthermore, as part of providing legal services and operating our business, we may request or obtain personal information via other ways including:

• Third party professionals
• Public documents
• Other websites

We may keep and control the data and information sent to us directly and indirectly, such as by an email inquiry. Sometimes combine information provided by you with information gathered from other sources.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by Webel Law, PLLC. We have no control over information collected by third parties before you reach our website, while visiting our website, or after you leave our website, including via the use of links from our website. We encourage you to read any website's privacy policy carefully.

4. How Do We Use Personal Information?

Webel Law, PLLC uses your personal information to provide superior legal representation, customer service, and business administration. We use your personal information to:

• Provide legal services, products, and other recommendations or information
• Conduct legal and other research to improve our services and products
• Administer promotions or surveys
• Communicate with clients
• Customize and improve our website and advertising
• Communicate with a variety of other legal parties
• Communicate with courts and other governmental agencies or organizations
• Manage our law firm and website

5. How Do We Secure Personal Information?

Webel Law, PLLC is committed to securing your information. We want you to feel confident that your personal information is safe, so we take significant physical, technological, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. Only persons with legitimate business need to have access to it. We also provide appropriate training to our employees. We also use data encryption and secure data storage procedures and destroy, erase, or make unreadable personal information before disposal.

Security
Webel Law, PLLC has invested in technology, training, security measures, and other steps to protect and safeguard your information.

WARNING: The Internet is open to global threats, viruses, and other technological intrusions from criminals and others outside our control so that no one can guarantee, and you should never expect, that your personal information is always safe in every circumstance. Be aware that while we work with third parties to protect our systems and your information using the latest advanced technology and procedures, sophisticated criminals are always seeking technological advances to jeopardize information on the Internet. Email, contact forms, and other online communications are not secure and should never be used to transmit sensitive or confidential information because an unauthorized third party may intercept or view it. By choosing to transmit information by such methods, you take the risk and responsibility of any interception, viewing, or breach of security by an unauthorized third party. Furthermore, digital images may be embedded with location data, which any viewer may download and extract. No transaction over the Internet can be completely secure. Transmit data at your own risk.

Notification of Changes
This Privacy Policy is modified as laws, regulations, services, technology, risks, and requirements change. Modification notifications are not made available, so you are required to review the Privacy Policy on each visit to see, understand, and agree to the changes. Continuing to use this website after modifications to the Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of and agreement to all changes. If you do not agree to Privacy Policy modifications, stop using this website and immediately notify Webel Law, PLLC, that you do not accept the changes and do not want your information used as changed.

6. With Whom Do We Share Personal Information?

Webel Law, PLLC may use your information for legal representation, internal purposes, to contact you, and other purposes in operating a law firm. Webel Law, PLLC does not sell, distribute, or lease your information to third parties.

Information Sharing
Webel Law, PLLC is located in the United States but may disclose your information to third parties who may be located in other states or countries as legally or contractually obligated or as part of our day-to-day business operations or as required or permitted by law, bar associations, or other governmental organizations. Using this website, you agree to have your information transferred by Webel Law, PLLC. As part of business operations, Webel Law, PLLC provides personal information to third-party partners who provide information security, marketing, promotional, and other services to Webel Law, PLLC, or you. Webel Law, PLLC may also provide that information if we sell any or all business and assets.

Third Party Partners
Webel Law, PLLC may provide your personal information to trusted professional analysts, advisors, partners, subcontractors, service providers, or other agents that may be in your best interest. Your information will be subject to those parties’ privacy policies once transferred to them.

Credit Card Companies
All credit card transactions are handled by required third-party financial institutions and their vendors or contractors, who may be given your credit card details and other personal information to verify and process transactions. Once that information is transferred to a third-party financial institution, your information is protected by their privacy policy, which we do not control.

Law Enforcement Officials as Required by Law
Although we protect your legal rights, in our judgment, we may determine when it is necessary to release your information to:

• Comply with laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests
• Enforce or apply the terms of our contracts, policies, user or other agreements
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of Webel Law, PLLC, our clients, our employees, our partners, or others

Other Websites or Service Providers
We may operate or partner with others on their website, services, or other enterprise. Your information may be shared with others, directly or indirectly, as part of that relationship. Once your information is shared, their privacy policy governs the shared information.

7. How Long is Your Information Retained?

When providing legal advice and representing clients, Webel Law, PLLC retains information as long as it is reasonable, according to legal and business needs, ethical obligations, and professional responsibilities. Some information may be kept indefinitely. Other information may be kept up to what is reasonably necessary for the purpose it was collected.

Information Safeguards
Webel Law, PLLC has appropriate safeguards that protect your information from improper access, use, and disclosure.

A secure operating environment protects any information you transmit to us. Furthermore, we limited access to your information to only those employees with a legitimate business need. When your information is no longer needed, we dispose of it properly to prevent further access.

Age of Visitors

This website is intended for consenting persons at least 18 years or older when they have a parent or legal guardian. Non-consenting adults and minors under the age of 18 who have a parent or guardian are not authorized to use this website or to send personal information to Webel Law, PLLC. Webel Law, PLLC removes all personal information sent to us by a person without consent or under the age of 18 who has a parent or legal guardian once notified via the steps provided in the Stop Receiving Information section below. These restrictions do not apply to adults who cannot consent or minors under the age of 18 without a parent or legal guardian and who may need legal representation regardless or because of their age, lack of capacity, or other legal restrictions.

8. Who Do I Contact if I Have Questions or Concerns?

Stop Receiving Information or Questions
If you have any questions, want to stop receiving emails, alerts, direct marketing, or other communications, or want Webel Law, PLLC to stop using your information, contact us at webmaster@webellaw.com. You may also mail this information to:

Merrie Webel
Webel Law, PLLC
535 Fifth Avenue, Floor 4
New York, NY 10017

After you request to be removed from receiving email or other communications, you may continue to receive them for a reasonable amount of time.

Updated: April 20, 206