Privacy Statement

Effective: January 1, 2022

This website is directed at commercial businesses and is not for personal or household use.

This Privacy Statement describes our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of information we collect from or about you on this website. This Privacy Statement applies to our websites that post or link to it, regardless of how you access or use them, including through mobile devices. Visiting our website or contact us is not an invitation to form an attorney-client relationship.

BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT AND YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement, please do not use our website. We may make changes to this Privacy Statement from time to time. We will post any changes to our website. Your continued use of our website following the posting of any changes will mean you accept those changes.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect, process, and retain information from you and any devices you may use when you use or interact with our website, and in other ways described below.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store information submitted to our website or given to us in any other way, including your name, email address, and other information you submit. We have provided a Contact Us form for your convenience, but you should not use that form to send us any confidential information. The mere act of contacting an Accrete Privacy attorney does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Information We Automatically Collect: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you use our website. Our website use “cookies,” tagging and other tracking technologies to help enable us to enhance or personalize your online experience. This information includes computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from our website, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, device identifiers, and your web log information.

Information From Other Sources: We may supplement the information we collect with information offline or from third parties. This Privacy Statement does not apply to this other information.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OR ABOUT YOU

We use the information we collect from or about you to help us personalize and continually improve your experience on the website, responding to requests for information, analyzing and compiling trends and statistics, and communicating with you. For information about how to manage information about you and the choices you have, see the Your Choices section below.

We also may use information about you to: provide, maintain, and improve the website and for internal or other business purposes; fulfill your requests for information; communicate with you; detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal; optimize, perform analysis, or improve our website or operations; and send you communications about our services.

We may use the information from one portion of the website on other portions of the website, and we may combine information gathered from multiple portions of the website. We also may use or combine information that we collect offline, or we collect or receive from third-party sources for many reasons, including to enhance, expand, and check the accuracy of our records. Additionally, information collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such information was collected.

We may retain information we collect from or about you for as long as reasonably required to satisfy the purposes for which we have collected the information, or as required by law, whichever is longer. This means we will retain information about you both while you are an active user of our website and after you cease to be an active user.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

We share information we collect from or about you with third parties as described below. In addition, we may share information that does not personally identify you, such as aggregate information, de-identified information, device identifiers, or other unique identifiers with third parties. For information about how to manage information about you and the choices you have, see the Your Choices section below.

Third-Party Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf such as: hosting, content management, technical integration, marketing, and analytics. These third parties may have access to information about you when needed to perform their functions.

Sale, Assignment or Change of Control: We may change our ownership while providing the website. We may transfer some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. Under such circumstances, we will request the acquiring party to follow the practices described in this Privacy Statement with respect to previously collected information. Nevertheless, we cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat information about you in the same way as described in this Privacy Statement.

Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations: We may also use or disclose information we collect from or about you if required to do so by law or on the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or our website; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the website, or our users; (c) respond to a third party that alleges that you have infringed their intellectual property rights; or (d) act to protect the personal safety of us, users of the website, or the public.

HOW TO ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION

If you would like to access or update information that you have provided to us, please contact us at privacy@accreteprivacy.com. You will not be permitted to examine information related to any other person or entity. You may be required to provide us with sufficient information to verify your identity prior to accessing any records containing information about you. We may not accommodate a request to change information about you if we believe doing so would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Like many websites, we use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to record your preferences, track the use of our website, and to better understand how you arrived at our website. We may also use these technologies to monitor traffic, improve the website, and make it easier to use and more relevant. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. In addition, you may also render some web beacons unusable by rejecting or removing their associated cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the website may not work or may not work as designed.

We use third-party analytics services on the website, including Google Analytics. These analytics service providers use cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use our website, compile reports about activity on our website, and provide us other services. The technologies may collect information such as your device identifiers, third-party cookies, IP addresses, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, any referring website, and other information. We do not use these analytics service providers to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google click here.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection, disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide, will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Statement, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.

YOUR CHOICES ABOUT HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU IS USED AND SHARED

You have choices about the information you provide and how we use that information. These choices are described below.

Emails: By providing us with an e-mail address, you acknowledge that we may use your e-mail address to communicate with you. While you cannot opt-out of receiving notifications and other service-related communications regarding your relationship with Accrete Privacy, you can opt-out of receiving promotional and other marketing emails from us by using the “unsubscribe” feature in our marketing e-mails.

Cookies: You may decline non-essential cookies using the banner that is presented when you first visit our website. You may also block all cookies within your browser and/or on your device. Please note that if you want to block these cookies you will need to configure this setting on each device and on each different browser that you use.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Users Outside of the United States: If you use our website outside of the United States, you understand and consent to the transfer of information we collect from or about you to, and the collection, processing, and storage of information about you in, the United States and elsewhere. The laws in the U.S. and these countries may be different than the laws of your country.

Your California Privacy Rights: At this time, Accrete Privacy Advisors, PLLC is not subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act or California Privacy Rights Act. If that changes in the future, we will update this Privacy Statement.

For questions about our Privacy Statement, you can contact us at privacy@accreteprivacy.com.