PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR PRIVACY POLICY HAS CHANGED EFFECTIVE APRIL 8, 2022.
This “Privacy Policy” applies to the Website controlled by Syed Law P.C. and/or its subsidiary and affiliated entities (“Syed Law P.C.,” “Syed Law,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) where the Privacy Policy is posted. A “Website” includes a site hosted by one or more web servers {however accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices, or otherwise (collectively, “Computer”)} and other interactive features, applications, or downloads that are operated by us and that are available through, or interact with, Website where this Privacy Policy is posted. This Privacy Policy does not apply to our collection of information from other sources (unless specifically stated). Please continue reading to learn more about our Privacy Policy, which includes compliance with California privacy rights. See, Privacy and Data Security, State of Cal. Dept. of Justice, available at: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy.
We have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Use posted on our Website, sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
We generally keep this Privacy Policy posted on our Website, and you should review it frequently, as we reserve the right to change it from time to time without prior notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Privacy Policy. Syed Law P.C. will not use your personally identifiable information, however, in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time it was collected without your consent.
WHEN YOU ACCESS OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR TO ANY CHANGES WE MAY SUBSEQUENTLY MAKE, IMMEDIATELY STOP ACCESSING OUR WEBSITE, AND CONTACT US AT THE EMAIL ADDRESS LISTED IN THE FINAL PARAGRAPH OF OUR TERMS OF SERVICE.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Our Website typically collects two (2) kinds of information about you: (a) information that you provide that personally identifies you; and (b) information that does not personally identify you that we automatically collect when you visit our Website or that you provide us.
A. Personally Identifiable Information
Our definition of personally identifiable information includes any information that may be used to specifically identify or contact you, such as your name, mail address, phone number, etc. As a general policy, we do not automatically collect your personally identifiable information when you visit our Website. In certain circumstances, we may request, allow, or otherwise provide you an opportunity to submit your personally identifiable information in connection with a feature, program, promotion, or some other aspect of our Website.
For instance, you may: (a) provide your name, mail/shipping address, e-mail address, credit card number, and phone number when registering with our Website, using our online store; (b) provide certain demographic information about you (e.g., address, age, gender, purchase preference, usage frequency, etc.) when participating in a survey, poll, or purchase; or (c) post a product rating and recommendation on our Website. Certain information may not be personally identifiable when standing alone (e.g., your age), but may become so when combined with other information (e.g., your age and name). Whether or not you provide this information is your choice; however, in many instances this type of information is required to participate in a particular activity, realize a benefit we may offer, or gain access to certain content on our Website.
B. Non-personal Information
Our definition of “non-personal information” is any information that does not personally identify you. Non-personal information can include certain personally identifiable information that has been de-identified; that is, information that has been rendered anonymous. We and/or our third-party service providers obtain non-personal information about you from information that you provide us, either separately or together with your personally identifiable information. We and/or our third-party service providers also automatically collect certain non-personal information from you when you access our Website.
Click here to learn more information about one way in which we use a third-party service to collect and use the information on our Website.
2. HOW WE USE & SHARE INFORMATION COLLECTED
A. Personally Identifiable Information
The personally identifiable information you submit to us is generally used to carry out your requests, respond to your inquiries, and better serve you or in other ways naturally associated with the circumstances in which you provided the information. We may also use this information to later contact you for a variety of reasons, such as customer service, to provide you with information or services or process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive, to provide you with marketing or promotional information for our products or those of our parent company, subsidiaries or other affiliated companies (“affiliated companies”), to communicate with you about the content or other information you have posted or shared with us via our Website or about your use of the Website and, in our discretion, changes to the Website and/or Website policies, for internal business purposes, or for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise outlined in this Privacy Policy. You may opt out from receiving future promotional information from us, or direct that we not share your information in the future with any affiliated companies or third parties for their direct marketing purposes, by contacting us.
In certain instances, we may also share your personally identifiable information with our third-party vendors performing functions on our behalf (or on behalf of our affiliated companies) – e.g., vendors that process credit card orders, deliver our merchandise, administer our promotions, provide us marketing or promotional assistance, analyze our data, assist us with customer service, etc. Our vendors agree to use this information, and we share information with them, only to carry out our requests. In addition, we may share your personally identifiable information with participating sponsors to a program or promotion (e.g., an offer) you enter via our Website, and with third parties who assist us in using the content or other information you have posted or shared with us via our Website (e.g., production companies we may use). Further, we may share your personally identifiable information with third parties such as our co-promotional partners and others with whom we have marketing or other relationships.
B. Non-Personal Information:
In addition to any personally identifiable information or other information that you choose to provide to us on the Website, we and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies, now and hereafter devised, that automatically collect certain website usage information whenever you visit or interact with the Website. This information may include browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, the source of the request, the preceding page view, and other similar information.
We may use this usage information for a variety of purposes, including to enhance or otherwise improve the Website. In addition, we may also collect your IP address or some other unique identifier for the particular device you use to access the Internet, as applicable (collectively, referred to herein as a “Device Identifier”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Computer, and we may identify your device by its Device Identifier. When analyzed, usage information helps us determine how our Website is used, such as what types of visitors arrive at the Website, what type of content is most popular, what type of content you may find most relevant, and what type of visitors are interested in particular kinds of content and advertising. We may associate your Device Identifier or website usage information with the personally identifiable information you provide, but we will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information. Web site usage information may be collected using various methods, such as the following:
i. Web Beacons
Small graphic images or other web programming codes called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in our web pages and e-mail messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a web page or e-mail can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for several purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to the Website, monitor how users navigate the Website, count how many e-mails that were sent were opened, or count how many particular articles or links were viewed.
ii. Cookies
A cookie is a data file placed on a Computer when it is used to visit the Website. Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, tracking user preferences and web pages visited while using the Website. You may be able to remove, reject and/or disable some types of cookies using your browser’s preferences or other programs. Some features of the Website may not function properly or may operate slowly if you disable, delete, or refuse to accept cookies. Some of the cookies we use may be “Flash” cookies. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a Computer via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built into or downloaded by you to your Computer. While they are harmless, depending on your browser, these cookies may not be deleted when your cookies are deleted or disabled and, in some instances, they may cause your cookies to reappear in your browser. Please check your browser to determine where these types of cookies are stored and how they may be deleted or disabled.
iii. Mobile Device Identifiers
Certain mobile service providers uniquely identify mobile devices and we or our third-party service providers may receive such device information if you access the Website through mobile devices. Certain features of our Website may require the collection of mobile phone numbers, and we may associate that phone number with mobile device identification information. Additionally, some mobile phone service providers operate systems that pinpoint the physical location of devices that use their service. Depending on the provider, we or our third-party service providers may receive this information.
iv. Embedded Scripts
An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Website, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Computer from our web server or a third-party service provider is active only while you are connected to the Website, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.
Information collected through passive means may be non-identifying or may be associated with you. In the latter case, it will be treated as personally identifiable information.
We use non-personal information in a variety of ways, including to help analyze site traffic, understand customer needs and trends, carry out targeted promotional activities, and improve our services. We may use your non-personal information by itself or aggregate it with information we have obtained from others. We may share your non-personal information with our affiliated companies and third parties to achieve these objectives and others, but remember that aggregate information is anonymous information that does not personally identify you. We may provide our analysis and certain non-personal information to third parties (who may, in turn, use this information to provide advertisements tailored to your interests), but this will not involve disclosing any of your personally identifiable information.
Our properties may feature Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, such as Nielsen TV Ratings. To learn more about the information that Nielsen software may collect and your choices about it, please see the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Policy at Digital Privacy.
v. Google AdSense and Google Analytics
We participate with Google AdSense and Google Analytics to better understand how you use our Website across the various devices you use and to deliver relevant advertisements and promotions.
3. Information You Provide About A Third Party
If you send someone else a communication from the Website, such as sending Website content to a friend, the information you provide (names, e-mail addresses, etc.) is used to facilitate the communication and is not used for any other marketing purpose unless we obtain consent from that person or we explicitly say otherwise. Please be aware that when you use any send-to-a-friend functionality on our Website, your e-mail address may be included in the communication sent to your friend.
4. Information Third Parties Provide About You
We also may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect with outside records from third parties to enhance our ability to serve you, tailor our content to you, and offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from those other sources with information we collect through the Website. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any personally identifiable information received, unless otherwise specifically disclosed by us at the time you provide your personally identifiable information.
5. OTHER USES
A. E-mail Communications
If you send us an e-mail with questions or comments, we may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your questions or comments for future reference. For security reasons, we do not recommend that you send non-public personally identifiable information, such as passwords, social security numbers, or bank account information, to us by e-mail.
Further, we may send you an e-mail under the following circumstances: (a) if you request a particular service or sign up for a feature that involves e-mail communications; (b) if it relates to purchases you have made with us (e.g., trademark packages or monitoring); (c) if we are sending you information about our other products and services; (d) if you consented to being contacted by e-mail for a particular purpose; (e) if you send us an e-mail, post information on the Website (i.e., a blog) or otherwise submit information to us electronically, we may e-mail you to follow-up or otherwise communicate with you with respect thereto; (f) to provide you legal notices or notices concerning your use of the Website; or (g) to otherwise facilitate a transaction between us. In certain instances, we may provide you with tools on the Website that will allow you to set your preferences for receiving e-mail communications from us; that is, agree to some communications but not others. You may “opt-out” of receiving future commercial e-mail communications from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” link or following the other instructions included at the bottom of most e-mails we send; provided, however, we reserve the right to send you transactional e-mails such as customer service communications.
B. Transfer of Assets
As we continue to develop our business, we may sell or purchase assets. If another entity acquires us or all (or substantially all) of our assets, the personally identifiable information and non-personal information we have about you will be transferred to and used by this acquiring entity, though we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your preferences are followed. Also, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, all such information may be considered an asset of ours and as such may be sold or transferred to third parties.
C. Other
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose any personally identifiable or non-personal information about you if we are required to do so by law, concerning notices and counter-notices according to our DMCA notice and takedown policy and procedures and/or if we believe that such action is necessary to: (a) fulfill a government request; (b) conform with the requirements of the law or legal process; (c) protect or defend our legal rights or property, our Website, or other users; or (d) in an emergency to protect the health and safety of our Website’s users or the general public.
D. Your California Privacy Rights
Residents of the State of California, under certain provisions of the California Civil Code and California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (see https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa), have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third-party direct marketing purposes. You are limited to one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information in writing.
E. How We Respond to Browser “Do Not Track” Signals.
Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to the Website that you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Cal Bus & Prof. Code § 22575(b) (as amended effective January 1, 2014) provides that California residents are entitled to know how Syed Law P.C. responds to “Do Not Track” signals. How browsers communicate the Do Not Track signal is not yet uniform so a standard technological response has not yet been developed by the policy and technological communities. For this reason, we do not respond to Do Not Track signals currently, and we await the result of work by the policy community and industry to determine when such a response is appropriate and what form it should take. Syed Law P.C. does provide a means for opting out of targeted advertising on our Website, and that opt-out feature can be found here. The effect of an opt-out will be to stop targeted advertising, but it will still allow the collection of usage data for certain purposes (e.g., research, analytics, and internal online services operation purposes).
6. Third Party Ad Server Networks
The Website may use third parties such as network advertisers to serve advertisements on the Website and may use traffic measurement services to analyze traffic on the Website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to the Website and other websites. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. The Website’s third-party ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors, and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their cookies and other technologies on your Computer and track certain behavioral information regarding users of your Computer via a Device Identifier. These third-party cookies and other technologies are set to, among other things: (a) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third-party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third-party cookies, web beacons, and other third-party technologies are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one. While we may use a variety of companies to serve advertisements on the Website, Syed Law P.C. does provide a means for opting out of targeted advertising on our Website. You may wish to visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1, which provides information regarding the practice of behavioral tracking by Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including the “opt-out” procedures of NAI members. Opting out of one or more NAI members only means that those NAI members will no longer be able to deliver targeted content and/or ads to you, which will affect this and other websites, but does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content and/or ads. In addition, opting out may still allow the collection of usage data for certain purposes (e.g., research, analytics, and internal online services operation purposes). Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit this opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your NAI opt-out may not, or may no longer, be effective. Additional information is available on the NAI’s website accessible by the above link.
7. PUBLIC FORUMS
We may offer chat rooms, message boards, bulletin boards, or similar public forums where you and other users of our Website can communicate. The protections described in this Privacy Policy do not apply when you provide information (including personally identifiable information) in connection with your use of these public forums. We may use personally identifiable and non-personal information about you to identify you with a posting in a public forum. Any information you share in a public forum is public information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post or share through our Website.
8. CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE
The features, programs, promotions, and other aspects of our Website requiring personally identifiable information are not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) and believe he or she has disclosed personally identifiable information to us, please contact us at asyed@syedlawoffices.com. A parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen (13) may review and request deletion of such child’s personally identifiable information as well as prohibit the use thereof.
9. KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SECURE
We have implemented security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information. In the unfortunate event that your “personally identifiable information” (as the term or similar terms are defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security breach) is compromised, we may notify you by e-mail (at our sole and absolute discretion) to the last e-mail address you have provided us in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances; provided, however, delays in notification may occur while we take necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity to the system as well as for the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal investigation. From time to time we evaluate new technology for protecting information, and when appropriate, we upgrade our information security systems.
10. OTHER SITES/LINKS
Our Website may link to or contain links to other third-party websites that we do not control or maintain, such as in connection with purchasing products referenced on our Website and banner advertisements. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any third-party website. We encourage you to note when you leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of all third-party websites before submitting any personally identifiable information.
11. THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS
Third-party applications may be available via the Website. The owners of these applications (“Third-Party Owners”) may collect personally identifiable information from you and may have their policies and practices. We are not responsible for how Third-Party Owners or their applications use your personally identifiable information. These Third-Party Owners may have their terms of service, privacy policies, or other policies and ask you to agree to the same. We are not responsible for these policies or the practices of Third-Party Owners. Be sure to review any available policies before submitting any personally identifiable information to a third-party application or otherwise interacting with it.
12. CONTACT & OPT-OUT INFORMATION
The Website may include subscription and registration management tools that allow you to make changes regarding your preferences for receiving communications.
Regardless of whether these tools are available through the Website, you may contact us at asyed@syedlawoffices.com if: (a) you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy; (b) wish to make corrections to any personally identifiable information you have provided to us; (c) want to opt-out from receiving future commercial correspondence, including e-mails, from us (we may continue to send you transactional messages such as responding to your inquiries); or (d) wish to withdraw your consent to our future sharing of your personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. Please, note that we may not be able to fulfill certain requests while allowing you access to certain benefits and features of our Website. Also, please note that it is not always possible to completely change, remove or delete all of your information from our databases and that residual data may remain on backup media or for other reasons. Also, if you have made any public postings on the Website such as in forums or blogs, these communications are generally not removed by us.
13. CONSENT TO TRANSFER INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES
The Website is operated in the United States and is intended for users located in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada, or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that the information we collect will be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the Website or providing us with any information, you consent to this transfer and processing of your information in the United States.
14. GDPR COMPLIANCE
This Website complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) law promulgated by the European Union.
A. Data Protection Officer
To communicate with our Data Protection Officer, please contact Syed Law at asyed@syedlawoffices.com. Syed Law serves simultaneously as the “controller” and “processors” for this Website’s data. While we prefer email, our mailing address is 1600 Golf Rd., Ste. 1200, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008. In addition, our telephone number is 312-618-0713.
B. Automated Decision Making
We may use automated decision making in processing your personal information for some services and products, you can request a manual review of the accuracy of the automated decision if you are unhappy with it.
C. Legal Basis for Processing Data
Our legal basis for processing data obtained through this Website is (1) consent and (2) the purpose of legitimate interests. Because we are a law office, in select cases, the basis is (1) performance of a contract between two parties and/or (2) completion of a legal obligation (e.g., purchasing a legal service from our Website.
D. Your GDPR Data Rights
Under GDPR principles, you have the right to be:
- The right to be informed: This means that you have the right to inquire, and we must make clear, how we process and control your data and for what legitimate means.
- The right of access: You have the right to request and see the data we hold about you within a reasonable time by making an inquiry to the Data Protection Officer.
- The right to rectification: If the data we hold is inaccurate, then you have the right to notify us and to request amendment within a reasonable amount of time.
- The right to erasure: Unless other applicable law or ethics rule applies, you have the “Right to Be Forgotten” – in other words, we must remove your data if the purpose for which it was collected is no longer relevant or if your data is processed for an impermissible purpose.
- The right to restrict processing: In special cases, you may request that data processing related to you be halted, such as during the pendency of a legal dispute.
- The right to data portability: This means that you may request, and we must provide you with data in our possession in a structured, machine-readable format.
- The right to object: You may object to further processing of dating which is not consistent with the primary purpose for which it was obtained.
- Rights related to automated decision making and profiling: Generally, subjects do not have the right to decisions based upon automated processing.
By using this Website, you consent to our Privacy Policy and our collection and processing of your identifiable and non-identifiable personal data consistent with GDPR principles and applicable law. You can submit an inquiry to the contact listed in the final paragraph labeled “Contact Information.”
E. Third-Party Use
Please refer to paragraphs 3, 4, 6, and 11 above.
15. SOLE STATEMENT
This Privacy Policy as posted is the sole statement of our privacy policy for the Website, and no summary, modification, restatement, or another version thereof or other privacy statement or policy, in any form, is valid unless we post a new or revised policy to the Website.
16. CONTACT INFORMATION
Written requests or inquiries may be sent to Syed Law P.C.’s mailing address is 1600 Golf Rd., Ste. 1200, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008. In addition, our telephone number is 312-618-0713. However, the fastest, and most preferred method of contact is by email at asyed@syedlawoffices.com. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, excluding U.S. holidays. Please be advised that we do not accept walk-ins unless an appointment is scheduled at least 12 hours prior to the meeting time.
