WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

 

April 15, 2023

This Privacy Policy applies to any user or visitor of the Business IP Law (“BIPL”) website, www.businessiplaw.com and mobile applications that include a direct link to this Privacy Policy. We take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies and practices regarding the collection and use of your personal information, and it sets forth your privacy rights.

Information We Collect

Personal Information. We collect personal information that identifies you such as your name, title, employer, address, telephone number, email address or any information you provide (“Personal Information”) by phone, email or otherwise.

Automated Information. As is true of most other websites and mobile applications, the BIPL website collects certain information automatically and stores it in log files. The information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system and other usage information about the use of our website, including a history of the pages you view.

Through Cookies and Other Similar Technologies. “Cookies” include commonly used pieces of information in the form of small files that are placed on an individual’s device to enable the individual to more easily communicate and interact with the website. When you visit our website, we may send one or more cookies to your device. They enable us to store information about your device which helps us, amongst other things, to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and enhance the level of services and functions provided.

Do Not Track. Our website does not support Do Not Track settings (“DNT”) at this time. DNT is a privacy preference you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your website visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on a page.

How We Use Personal Information

BIPL will not use your Personal Information for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was originally obtained without your prior consent. We use your Personal Information to communicate with you, to provide support regarding our services. We may use your Personal Information and data to contact you via email or by telephone regarding your services. Nothing in this Privacy Policy should be understood as creating an attorney-client relationship with visitors to this website or, alternatively, to reduce of the protections resulting from such relationships.

How We Share Information with Others

We do not rent, sell, or share your Personal Information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies for their direct marketing purposes. We use third party service providers to perform functions or services on our behalf. When we transfer your information, we require all our service providers to maintain the privacy, confidentiality and security of the Personal Information and data. We take steps to ensure that these parties take protecting your privacy as seriously as we do.

Types of Service Providers. We engage third parties to perform services on our behalf such as software maintenance services, hosting services, email service providers, database management, web analytics, and other services.

Law Enforcement and Internal Operations. Personal Information may be provided where we are required to do so by law, or if we believe in good faith that it is reasonably necessary (i) to respond to claims asserted against BIPL or to comply with the legal process (for example, discovery requests, subpoenas or warrants); (ii) to enforce or administer our policies and agreements with users; (iii) for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, customer support, product development and de-bugging purposes; or (iv) to protect the rights, property or safety of BIPL, its users or members of the general public. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify users about law enforcement or court ordered requests for data unless otherwise prohibited by law. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to any third-party request to compel disclosure of your information.

Notice to Minors

Our website is not directed at and is not intended to be visited by minors. No visitor to our website who is a minor or under the age of 18 should provide any personal information to our firm. If you are a minor, do not visit our website and do not send any type of Personal Information about yourself to our website.

Your Choice to opt-out

Right to Review and Rectify Your Personal Information. You may access your account at any time to correct, update, or delete inaccuracies by logging into your account through our website. If additional assistance is required to change or delete inaccuracies within your Personal Information or you would like to know what information about you was collected, please contact us at info@businessiplaw.com. We reserve the right to charge for copies of data requested.

Right to Remove or Withdraw Consent. You have the right to withdraw consent where such consent is required to share or use data, however, you will not be able to opt-out on via the website. You may request that we delete your Personal Information. If you receive communications from us and no longer wish to receive them, please follow the opt out or removal instructions in the email. To delete your account, you must contact us at info@businessiplaw.com. Since your Personal Information is required for us to provide the services or to you, deleting it will also terminate your access to the services. We may be required by law, to retain it to exercise or defend legal claims, or contractual obligations with our customers to retain some information in connection with our obligation to provide the services. We may de-identify and anonymize some data for purposes of retaining it.

Data Portability. If you would like us to transmit your Personal Information to another company providing similar services and we are required to so by law, we will work with them to do so upon request and verification of such request with both the requestor and the company receiving the Personal Information.

Right to Redress. If you are located in the European Economic Area and you believe we have violated any data protection laws, you may file a complaint directly to your local Data Protection Authority (also known as the “DPA”).

Communication. We will provide you reasonable mechanisms to exercise your choice regarding receipt of information from BIPL. When you receive an email from us, you may opt-out from receiving future emails from BIPL by contacting us at info@businessiplaw.com.

Data Storage and Retention

Your Personal Information is stored by BIPL on its servers, and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services BIPL engages, located in the United States. We will retain and use your Personal Information for 5 years as your account is active, as needed to provide you services, or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

For more information on where and how long your Personal Information is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact BIPL at info@businessiplaw.com.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. To help protect privacy and personal information you transmit through use of our website, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction by taking into due account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the personal data.

We restrict access to your Personal Information to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you. In addition, we train our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information. However, because no security system can be 100% effective, we cannot completely guarantee the security of any information we store, process or transmit.

Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to websites of other organizations. Unless otherwise specified, linkage to these other websites does not imply any relationship, sponsorship, or affiliation between BIPL and these linked websites, nor does it imply any adoption or approval of the content of such websites. BIPL does not have control over the policies or practices of these websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices or their content.

Data Integrity

BIPL will use your Personal Information only for the purposes for which it was collected, unless you provide prior consent. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is relevant to its intended use, accurate, complete, and current.

Your California Privacy Rights

California residents who have an established business relationship with BIPL may make a written request to BIPL about whether we have disclosed any Personal Information to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the prior calendar year. To make such a request, please send an email to info@businessiplaw.com.

Changes and Updates to the Privacy Policy

As our company changes from time to time, this Privacy Policy is expected to change as well. We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Policy, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Policy. We may send you an email reminder of our notices and material changes, but you should check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy is in effect and any changes that may have been made to it.

Questions, Concerns, or Complaints

Please contact us at:

Business IP Law
info@businessiplaw.com