General information:
Harvey Wurie, LLC values your privacy and cares about the way that we manage your personal information.
As a law firm, we collect, use, and disclose information on a daily basis in order to render our services in consultations, litigation, and transactions. Confidentiality is important to us, as we put professional secrecy at the heart of our client relationship. We use all information – especially personal information – in accordance with the highest ethical standards. We alone determine the purposes for which, and the manner in which, any personal information is, or is likely to be, processed or used.
This Privacy Policy aims to help you understand our personal information collection, use, disclosure, and retention practices. By providing personal information to us (whether via our website or client portal, by email, in person or over the phone), you agree to the processing set out in this Privacy Policy as well as authorize Harvey Wurie, LLC, its third parties, and service providers to process your personal information for purposes set out below.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and Harvey Wurie, LLC is not responsible for, any third-party websites which may be accessible through links from this website. If you follow a link to any of these third-party websites, they will have their own privacy policies and you will need to check these policies before you submit any personal information to such third-party websites.
Privacy policies:
- What personal information do we collect?
We may collect and process different types of personal information in the course of operating our business and providing our services. These include:
- Contact information such as name, physical address, email address, and telephone number;
- Biographical information such as job title, employer, photograph, and video or audio content;
- Marketing, communication preferences and related information such as meal preferences, feedback and survey responses;
- Billing and financial information such as billing address, bank account and payment information;
- Services information such as details of services that we have rendered to you;
- Recruitment information such as your curriculum vitae, your education and employment history, details of professional memberships and other information relevant to potential recruitment or association to or with Harvey Wurie, LLC ;
- Website usage and other technical information such as details of visits to our websites or information collected through cookies, your interaction with our online advertising and content and other tracking technologies;
- Information provided to us by or on behalf of our clients or generated by us in the course of providing our services, which may, where relevant, include special categories of personal information (such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, health or sexual orientation, etc.);
- Identification and other background verification data such as a copy of driver’s licence, passports or utility bills or evidence of beneficial ownership or the source of funds to comply with anti-money laundering laws and collected as part of our client acceptance and ongoing monitoring procedures;
- Any other personal information provided. Please note that if you provide personal information to us about other people (such as your customers, directors, officers, shareholders or beneficial owners), you must ensure that you have given those individuals an appropriate notice that you are providing their information to us and have obtained their consent to that disclosure;
- Where applicable, Records of consent given to us (date, time, means of consent), in circumstances where such consent is need for the processing of personal information; and
- Where we need Special Personal Information, it will happen in the ordinary course of business, in accordance with the applicable law and/or for a legitimate purpose.
We do not knowingly collect information from children or other persons who are under 16 years old. If you are a minor under 16 years old, please do not provide us with any personal information without the express consent of a parent or guardian. If you are a parent or guardian and you know that your children have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from minor children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
You cannot send us confidential information until we have confirmed in writing that we represent or act for you or your company or organization. Unsolicited emails sent to us from non-clients do not establish a lawyer-client relationship. They may not be privileged and, therefore, are subject to disclosure to third parties.
2. How do we collect your personal information?
We collect your personal information from you and during interactions with you:
- During your initial consultation
- During the course of providing legal services to you
- When you register for seminars, training, or newsletters
We also collect information publicly available in public platforms and visible on your public record, including Pacer, Lexis Nexis, GSCCA, and our website.
3. How do we use personal information?
We may use personal information in the following ways, either with your consent or, where applicable, according any other legal basis. In each case, we identify the grounds that we rely on to use your personal information:
- To provide our legal and other services and to conduct our business, to administer and perform our services, including to carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us.
- To fulfill the performance of a contact and carry out actions for the conclusion of the contract;
- To respond to requests for information or inquiries from visitors to our websites;
- To facilitate the use of our website and to ensure content is relevant and presented in the most effective manner for you and for your devices.
- For marketing and business development purposes – to provide details of new services, legal updates and invitations to seminars and events where an individual has chosen to receive these.
- For research and development purposes (including from a security perspective) – analysis in order to better understand our clients’ services and marketing requirements and to better understand our business and develop our services and offerings;
- For recruitment purposes – to enable us to process applications for employment and to assess your suitability for any position for which an individual may apply at Harvey Wurie, LLC;
- To ensure that we make the most appropriate recruitment decisions for Harvey Wurie, LLC , so that we may take steps to enter into a contract with someone who requested it;
- To fulfil our legal, regulatory, or risk management obligations – to comply with our legal obligations (performing client due diligence, anti-bribery, sanctions, reputational risk screening, or identifying conflicts of interests);
- To defend against fraud and/or other relevant background checks, notably as may be required by applicable law and regulation and/or best practices at any given time (if false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified or suspected, details may be passed to fraud prevention agencies (including the Office of the United States Trustee) and may be recorded by us or by them);
- To cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities, to ensure acceptable risk profile and to assist with the prevention of crime and fraud).Where we process special categories of personal information we may also rely on substantial public interest (prevention or detection of crime) or legal claims;
- To enforce our legal rights, to comply with our legal or regulatory reporting obligations and/or to protect the rights of third parties;
- To ensure that we are paid – to recover any payments due to us and where necessary to enforce such recovery through the engagement of debt collection agencies or taking other legal action (including the commencement and carrying out of legal and court proceedings);
- To reorganize or make changes to our business – In the event that we do undergo a reorganization (for example if we merge, combine or divest a part of our business), we may need to transfer some or all of personal information to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any due diligence process or transfer to that reorganized entity or third party your personal information for the same purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy or for the purpose of analyzing any proposed reorganization.
4. With whom do we share personal information?
Any personal information that we collect may be shared with and processed by Harvey Wurie, LLC or any entity within our network. We may also share personal information with certain third parties such as:
- Third-party service providers and/or partners who provide website, application development, hosting, maintenance, and other services to us. These third parties may have access to, or process personal information as part of providing those services for us. We limit the information provided to these service providers to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and our contracts with them require them to maintain the confidentiality of such information;
- Law enforcement and governmental entities when required by law. For greater clarity, we may disclose personal information or other information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in response to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies;
- An acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets; and
- We will only use personal information to fulfil the primary purpose and applicable legitimate purpose it was collected for, or for a purpose compatible with that primary purpose.
5. How long do we keep personal information?
We will only keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the relevant purposes set out in this Policy Privacy and in order to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. If you would like further information regarding the periods for which personal information will be kept, please contact us as set forth in the “How to contact us?” section below.
6. How do we protect personal information?
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. We maintain appropriate physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the personal information in our possession. We have taken steps to ensure that the only personnel, under a duty of confidentiality, who are granted access to your personal information are those with a business ‘need-to-know’ or whose duties reasonably require such information.
However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit or provide to us, and you do so at your own risk. We also cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or administrative safeguards. If you believe personal information has been compromised, please contact us as set forth in the “How to contact us?” section below.
7. What rights does someone have in relation to its personal information?
Under certain circumstances and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, an individual has the following rights:
- Access: entitled to ask if we are processing information and, if we are, request access to personal information. Subject to applicable law and, where applicable, payment of a possible fee, this enables the individual to receive a copy of the personal information we hold and certain other information about him or her or it;
- Accuracy: we are required to take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information in our possession is accurate, complete, not misleading and up to date; and
- Correction: entitled to request that any incomplete or inaccurate personal information we hold be corrected.
- Deletion: entitled to ask us to delete, destroy or remove personal information in certain circumstances. There are certain exceptions where we may refuse a request for erasure or destruction, for example, where the personal information is required for compliance with law or in connection with claims or required by contract between the parties;
- Restriction: entitled to ask us to suspend the processing of certain personal information, for example to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it;
- Transfer: request the transfer of certain personal information to another party;
- Objection: one may challenge when we are processing personal information based on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) or for certain direct marketing purposes. However, we may be entitled to continue processing information;
- Automated decisions: contest any automated decision made where this has a legal or similar significant effect and ask for it to be reconsidered; and
- Consent: where we are processing personal information with consent, withdrawal of consent in the circumstances permitted by law.
Finally, you may also have a right to file a complaint with a data protection agency where we are based, or where an alleged infringement of data protection law has taken place.
To exercise any of the rights above , please contact us as set forth in the “How to contact us?” section below.
8. How do we use cookies and similar technologies?
We use “cookies” on our website to improve its functionality and enhance our visitors’ user experience. Cookies are small text files which this website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit the webpage. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognize your device the next time you visit. We use the term “cookies” to refer to all files that collect information in this way. There are many functions cookies can serve. For example, they can help us remember your preferences, analyze how well the Website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant and beneficial to you. Most cookies will not collect information that identifies you but will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use the Website.
Cookies do not cause any damage to devices, but make it easier, to find preferences, pre-fill certain fields and adapt the content of the services on the site visited. Such data allows the improvement of ergonomics and services according to your interests. You can disable cookies in your browser or application settings but doing so may reduce website’s functionality. By visiting our website and not disabling cookies, you consent to our use of cookies for the purposes described in this policy.
We will only keep cookies for as long as necessary to achieve the relevant purposes set out in this Cookies Policy, notably for marketing and statistical purposes. We use first and third-party session and persistent cookies. The cookies set by us are called “first-party cookies” and the cookies set by our third-party partners and service providers are called “third-party cookies.” We do use a third-party analytics provider (Google Analytics) to help us understand how visitors use our site. You can review the Google Analytics privacy policy for additional information. Our website may also use the Google AdWords “remarketing” service to serve advertising on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors of our site. This service also uses cookies, and any information collected will be in accordance with this privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you close your web browser. Many session cookies are essential to make our website work correctly, as they typically enable you to move around our website and use our features.
Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser or until you manually delete it (for the former, how long the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of the specific cookie and your browser settings). Persistent cookies help us recognize you as an existing user of our website, so it’s easier and convenient to return to our website or interact with our Services without signing in again. In addition, persistent cookies also help us recognize you when you view a resource belonging to our website from another website or app (such as an advertisement) and help us record information about your web browsing habits during the lifetime of the persistent cookie.
9. How to contact us?
For any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or personal information, to exercise any applicable rights, to make a complaint, or to obtain information about our policies and practices, our Privacy Officer can be reached by email at: [email protected] or by mail using the following contact information:
Harvey Wurie, LLC
Attn: Privacy Officer
P.O. Box 513
Clarkston, Georgia 30021
10. How can I opt out of marketing emails?
If you no longer wish to receive marketing or informational communications from Harvey Wurie, LLC, reply “unsubscribe” to any marketing communication.