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Our website address is: http://firstpageattorney.net/usbl.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

USBUSINESSLAW PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: June 20, 2019 


At USBUSINESSLAW, LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company (“USBL”, “we” or “us”), we place the highest importance on respecting and protecting the privacy of our customers. Our most important asset is our relationship with you. We want you to feel comfortable and confident when using our website, our apps, and our service. Therefore, we would like to share with you the following principles that govern our information practices and other privacy aspects of our website, our apps, and our service. Throughout this policy, we refer to information that personally identifies you as “personal information.”

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) describes our privacy practices in relation to the use of USBL websites (including USBUSINESSLAW.COM and any customer portal or interactive customer website), its software, services, solutions, tools, and related applications, services, programs, webinars, document sales and services, website, apps and including attendance of corporate events and research and marketing activities, offered by USBL (the “Site(s)” and/or “Services”) as well as your choices regarding use, access and correction of personal information.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal data collected related to our Services and otherwise in the course of our business activities, including the information practices of the Sites that link to this Privacy Policy. 

The USBL Site may contain links to other websites; and information practices and/or the content of such other websites shall be governed by the privacy statements of such other websites.  

Change to this Privacy PolicyWe will update this privacy policy when necessary to reflect customer feedback and changes in our services as well as applicable laws, rules and regulations. When we post changes to this policy, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of the policy and post the updated policy at www.USBUSINESSLAW.com/privacy-policy. If there are material changes to the statement or in how USBL will use your personal data, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes before they take effect or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy policy to learn how USBL is protecting your information. Using USBL websites, apps, or services after a notice of changes has been sent to you or published on our website shall constitute consent to the changed terms and practices. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that USBL has about you and your account.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

You can contact us

If you have privacy-related questions that are not addressed here, please contact the Privacy Team or write us at: [email protected], or  USBUSINESSLAW, LLC, 146 Main Street, Norfolk, MA 02056, USA.

What information do we collect?

Data Relating to Our Customers and Users of Our Sites

USBL collects information as part of its normal business operations and in the administration of its relationship with Customers and prospects, which may include personal information.

Business Contact and Customer Relationship Management

We collect and maintain information about our Customers, which may include company name, business contact name and title, phone number, email and other contact details. We may also collect billing address, financial account, credit card information, order details, subscription and license information, and usage details.

Data Submitted on Sites

In order to access or use certain portions of the Sites, to enjoy the full functionality of the Sites, or to conduct or seek to conduct business with us, you may be prompted to provide certain personal data to us, including in the following ways:

By filling in forms (for example, a “Contact Us” form) on our Sites or at a trade show or anywhere else we conduct business

  • by downloading or accessing the USBL Documents and/or Services
  • by downloading documentation like USBL Documents from our Sites
  • by subscribing to newsletters or other communications
  • by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise using our contact details

Typically, the personal data you give us may include name, business affiliation, business address, telephone number, and email address, and any personal details required to resolve any enquiries or complaints.

Third Parties

We may also obtain personal data about Customers from third parties, such as LinkedIn and other publicly accessible sources.

Customer Support and Service

When Customers contact us for support or other customer service requests, we maintain support tickets and other records related to the requests, including any information provided by Customers related to such support or service requests.

We collect information about Customers’ usage of our Services, including IP address, Customer ID, email address, and other usage statistics. We do not collect PII usage details about Customer end users, except as necessary for support or to provide the Services requested by Customers (in which case we are a data processor of such data).

When you visit our Sites, our server automatically collects certain browser or device generated information, which may in some cases constitute personal data, including but not limited to:

  • your domain
  • your IP address
  • your date, time and duration of your visit
  • your browser type
  • your operating system
  • your page visits
  • information from third parties
  • other information about your computer or device
  • Internet traffic

Our API service may collect

Anonymized device identifiers for iOS installs of your app 

Randomly generated GUIDs for Android installs of your app

Use of Personal Data

Typically, the personal data you give us may include name, business affiliation, business address, telephone number, and email address, and any personal details required to resolve any enquiries or complaints.

Third Parties. We may also obtain personal data about Customers from third parties, such as LinkedIn and other publicly accessible sources.

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
  • To improve our website
    (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
  • To improve customer service
    (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
  • To process transactions
    Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
  • To send periodic emails
    The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, events, promotions, updates, related product or service information, etc. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email
  • Conduct and develop our business with you and with others
  • Process, evaluate and complete certain transactions involving the sites, and more generally transactions involving USBL Documents and Services
  • Operate, evaluate, maintain, improve and develop the Sites (including by monitoring and analyzing trends, access to, and use of the Sites for advertising and marketing)
  • Evaluate, improve and develop our Services generally
  • Customize our Sites to users’ needs
  • Engage you about events, promotions, the Sites and USBL Services
  • Provide you with documentation or communications which you have requested
  • Correspond with users to resolve their queries or complaints
  • Provide you with any Services you request
  • Send you marketing communications, where it is lawful for us to do so; manage, protect against and investigate fraud, risk exposure, claims and other liabilities, including but not limited to violation of our contract terms or laws or regulations

For individuals in the European Union, the following is an overview of our purposes for using personal data that we process as a data controller. Our processing (i.e. use) of your personal data is justified on the following legal bases:

  • The processing is necessary to perform a contract with you or take steps to enter into a contract at your request
  • The processing is necessary for us to comply with a relevant legal obligation
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests, subject to your interests and fundamental rights, and notably our legitimate interest in using applicable data to conduct and develop our business activities
  • You have consented to the processing

How do we protect your information?

We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to ?keep the information confidential.

\After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.

Security

USBL aims to safeguard and protect your personal data from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, and USBL utilizes and maintains certain reasonable processes, systems, and technologies to do so. However, you acknowledge that no environment is completely secure or error-free, and that these processes, systems, and technologies utilized and maintained by USBL are subject to compromise. Accordingly, we cannot be held responsible for unauthorized or unintended access that is beyond our control. There is no guarantee that your information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of USBL physical, technical or managerial safeguards and we are not responsible for third party circumvention of your privacy settings or USBL’s security measures. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information and for controlling access to your USBL account.

Disclosures

Law Enforcement or National Security. In accordance with our legal obligations, we may also transfer Customer Data, subject to a lawful request, to public authorities for law enforcement or national security purposes

Additional Disclosures. We may also disclose Customer Data (including any personal data), where otherwise required by law.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We apply a general rule of keeping personal data only for as long as required to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. However, in some circumstances, we may retain personal data for other periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements, or if required to do so by a legal process, legal authority, or other governmental entity having authority to make the request, for so long as required. In specific circumstances, we may also retain your personal data for longer periods of time corresponding to a statute of limitation, so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges.

External Links

The Site may contain links to third party sites. Since USBL does not control nor is responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third party sites. This Policy applies solely to personal data collected by our Sites or in the course of our business activities.  

Your Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have some or all of the following rights available to you in respect of your personal data to obtain a copy of your personal data together with information about how and on what basis that personal data is processed to rectify inaccurate personal data (including the right to have incomplete personal data completed)

to erase your personal data (in limited circumstances, such as where it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed); • to restrict processing of your personal data under certain circumstances to port your data in machine-readable format to a third party (or to you) when we justify our processing on the basis of your consent or the performance of a contract with you to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data (where that processing is based on your consent); and to obtain, or see a copy of the appropriate safeguards under which your personal data is transferred to a third country or international organization.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to USBUSINESSLAW, LLC, 146 Main Street, Norfolk, MA 02056, USA.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us at [email protected] as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

If you contact us regarding Customer Data for which we are a data processor, we will attempt to refer your request to the relevant Customer, and data controller for your personal data.

USBL Cookie Policy

Please read the following carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding the use of cookies on the USBL websites (USBL Website(s) or Website(s)). By using or accessing our Website, you agree to this cookie policy (Cookie Policy or Policy).  This Policy may change from time to time and your continued use of the Website is deemed to be acceptance of such changes.  Please check the Policy periodically for updates.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your browser when you visit a website.  Most web pages contain elements from multiple web domains so when you visit www.USBUSINESSLAW.COM , your browser may receive cookies from several sources.  This includes third parties that we have hired to provide services on our behalf, such as site analytics, site acceleration, or ad targeting. Local Shared Objects (aka Flash cookies) and local storage in HTML5 may also be used on our website to enhance your experience by, for example, storing your user preferences and settings.  Local Shared Objects are data files similar to browser cookies, but can store more complex data than simple text.  You can manage Local Shared Objects by following the instructions on Adobe’s help site. We use cookies and other technologies to ensure visitors to our Websites have the best possible experience and to provide targeted advertising.  By continuing to visit or use our services, you agree to use of cookies and similar technologies for these purposes.

Types of Cookies Used by USBL 

We use different types of cookies to run USBL Websites and Services. Some or all of the cookies identified below may be stored in your browser.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Description: Strictly Necessary cookies are necessary for the operation of our Website. These cookies are essential in helping you to move around our Website and use the features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website or using the shopping basket.

We may use Strictly Necessary cookies to:

  • Remember Login credentials
  • Identify you as being logged into the Website
  • Provide access to protected areas of a Website
  • Remember previously entered text so it is not lost if the page refreshes

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies simply help us improve the way our Website works. We utilize these cookies to analyze how our visitors use our Website and to monitor our Website performance. They tell us how people use each page, which ones are most commonly viewed, or whether any errors occurred. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience and quickly identify then fix any issues that arise.

We may use Performance cookies to:

Store preferences to see which method of linking between pages is most effective

Enable web analytics to provide anonymous statistics on how our Website is used

To assist with error management in helping us improve the Website by measuring any errors that occur.

Monitor ad response rates and see how effective our ads are.  You can delete or manage Performance cookies as instructed in the “How to Manage and Delete Your Cookies” section of this Policy.

Functionality Cookies

We use Functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences.

We may use Functionality cookies to:

  • Remember settings you have applied such as layout, colors, font sizes and page backgrounds
  • Detect if you have already seen a pop-up to ensure it doesn’t get shown to you again
  • Process a request from a user to submit a comment or blog or forum post

If you delete Functionality cookies, preferences or settings you selected will not be retained for later visits.

Targeting Cookies

Targeting cookies helps us make sure that the ads you see on our Websites are relevant to you and your interests. Targeting cookies may be placed on your device by our third party service providers that remember you have visited the Website in order to provide you with ads more relevant to you.

We may use Targeting cookies to:

  • Collect information about browser habits to target advertising
  • Collect information about browser habits to target Website content
  • Provide links to social networks

Many of the cookies placed through our Website are session cookies, while others are persistent cookies, and some are “first-party” cookies, while others are “third-party” cookies.

First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time (e.g., cookies placed by www.USBUSINESSLAW.COM)

Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.

Persistent cookies are cookies that remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies are cookies that allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Withdraw Your Consent at Any Time

If you do not wish to accept cookies in connection with your use of our Websites, you will need to delete, and block or disable cookies via your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies will likely affect the functionality of our Websites.

Do Not Track

Our system may not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers. To learn more about the use of cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and your choices about not having this information used by certain service providers, please click (http://www.aboutads.info/choices/) (for users in the United States) or (http://youronlinechoices.eu/) (for users in the European Union).

Targeting Cookies

For cookies that track activity in connection with targeted advertising, you can opt-out of third party targeting cookies on the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer choice page or the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer choice page or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance consumer choice page

Third Party LinksWhen you click on links on our website, in our apps, or through our service, you may leave our website or app. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites and we encourage you to read the privacy statements at such websites.

California Online Privacy Protection Act ComplianceBecause we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent. As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into email preferences at by clicking the link at the bottom of any email. You may also contact us by phone at 781-229-4500 or by email at [email protected]

Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act ComplianceUSBUSINESSLAW.COM is not for use by children under the age of 16 years and USBL does not knowingly collect, store, share or use the personal data of children under 16 years. If you are under the age of 16 years, please do not provide any personal data, even if prompted by the Site to do so. If you are under the age of 16 years and you have provided personal data, please ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify USBL and USBL will delete all such personal data. We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 16 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 16 years old or older.

Marketing

Where lawful to do so, and subject to your consent where required, we may communicate with you, customers (and related business contacts) about our documents and Services. If you wish to unsubscribe from receiving marketing communications, please use the Unsubscribe Link contained the email communication or contact us at [email protected] to request that we will stop sending you communications. We will then do so immediately.

Submitting GDPR Requests

Please submit all GDPR Privacy Requests to:  [email protected].

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy. Organization Information: 
USBUSINESSLAW, LLC

146 Main Street

Norfolk, MA 02056, USA