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PRIVACY STATEMENT AND COOKIE POLICY
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As professionals engaged providing legal services to clients in Georgia and Pennsylvania Read Legal LLC is dedicated to safeguarding the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, legal interns, job applicants or others inside or outside the law firm). It is the Read Legal LLC’s policy to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which enforces a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their personnel.
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This Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy is based on the privacy and data protection practices common to countries Worldwide. We implement it in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to protect client confidentiality. This Statement is intended to be a synopsis of the firm’s data protection practices. Furthermore, to advise our clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies.
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Collection and Use of Personal Information
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The law firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website. Additionally, we may also gather Personal Information about you when you interact with us via social media and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
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We may use the collected Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following reasons:
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to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries
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to personalize your visit and use of our Internet Services and to assist you while you use those services
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to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
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to conduct our recruiting and selection process
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to provide you with legal services
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to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds
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to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to
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Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
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We maintain reasonable and appropriate, tangible, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work. Additionally, we may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected.
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Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
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We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the law firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or authorized by you.
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Cookie Policy
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The firm uses Session cookies in connection with its Internet Services. Session cookies differ from Persistent cookies primarily in that Session cookies are temporary and expire and are typically deleted when you close your browser. Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet technologies, such as web beacons, to analyze behavior on the Internet. Similarly, we may use or receive reporting from tracking scripts that recognize unique cookies issued by another website. Tracking scripts are not utilized to gather information on your use of the Internet unrelated to the law firm.