Introduction
The Dunaway Law Group, PLC is a U.S. law firm based in Mesa, Arizona. We operate offices in Arizona. We may collect Personal Information from any of our offices or locations.
We respect your privacy. We are committed to using responsible practices in the collection, maintenance and use of Personal Information. This Privacy Policy explains how we process Personal Information. You should review this Policy each time you visit our website as we may update it from time to time without specific notice to you.
We will make every effort to review this Policy, no less than once a year, and update it whenever we have made substantive changes. When substantive changes are made, we will update the Policy effective date. In the event of a conflict between a translated version of our Privacy Policy and the English version, the English version will control.
Communications Regarding Our Legal Services
Please note that any communications that you may have with us do not establish an attorney-client relationship. Any information sent to the Dunaway Law Group, PLC before establishing an attorney-client relationship will not be held in confidence and may be used for the benefit of the firm’s other clients or future clients. Accordingly, unless and until we formally establish an attorney-client relationship, do NOT send or otherwise communicate to us any information you would want to be maintained in confidence, whether through this website, through any email address posted on this website, or otherwise.
How We Use Your Personal Information
The Dunaway Law Group, PLC respects your privacy and is committed to using responsible practices in the use of your Personal Information. Information we collect is for legitimate business interests, for example to provide legal services, for recruiting and for marketing legal services.
The Dunaway Law Group, PLC does not sell your Personal Information to third parties or share it with unrelated third parties for their direct marketing campaigns.
How We Collect Personal Information
We collect Personal Information directly from these sources:
- Third Parties involved in legal proceedings in which you are named
- Legal and regulatory agencies and entities
- In relation to a business association between you and one or more of our employees
- Via our website, www.DunawayLG.com
- Through your subscription to one of our publications, newsletters, blogs or other informational products or materials
- By your acceptance of an invitation to and/or attendance of a firm event
- By feedback that you have provided to us regarding a firm event or publication
- By submission of a resumé, job or fellowship application
- Through the recruitment or application process
- Via conversations, mail, email, faxes, voicemail and texts sent to our employees
- From social media services
Types of Personal Information We Collect Directly
Here are the types of Personal Information we collect or may collect directly:
- Name, alias
- Personal email address
- Home address
- Home phone number
- Financial information
- Name of your business or your employer
- Your job title
- Business email address
- Business address
- Business phone number
- Signature
- Communications, dietary and other preferences
- Name of spouse or partner
- Resumés
- Passport identifiers
- Work permit, visa or other immigration or citizenship document identifiers
- Languages spoken
- Health or disability specifics
- Reasons for applying for employment with the firm
- Criminal or credit history
- Information available to us on the Dunaway Law Group’s own social media accounts or on social media sites or services accessible to the public
- Information related to the client engagement process
- Billing and payment information for us to service your legal matter
- Login ID and password provided for your access to one of our extranets as well as access and activity logs detailing your use of our extranets, where applicable.
- Any other Personal Information required to comply with our legal duties
Types of Personal Information We Collect Indirectly
Here are the types of Personal Information we collect or may collect indirectly:
When you visit the Dunaway Law Group’s website, a session cookie is created. Cookies are small files in which information may be collected when you visit a website. These session cookies do not store your Personal Information. They allow our website to recognize you as you browse our website and remember that it was you who entered information to one or more of our pages. As soon as you close your browser, the session cookie is deleted.
To learn more about cookies as well as how you can manage them, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/cookies/.
We use Google Analytics to track and report how you use our website. Google tracks and stores information about the type of browser you are using, your operating system, your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, the time, date, and length of your visit and which of our website pages you visited. We use the reporting provided to us by Google to identify the preferences of our website visitors in order to improve our website content as well as to analyze website usage statistics and trends. These reports do not include your IP address. We may share this aggregate data with third parties (the most common example of which is to our website service provider for improvements to or for maintenance of our website). Google creates its own cookies as part of this process. You may wish to read Google’s privacy policy as it relates to that service.
You can learn about Google’s practices at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, where you will also be given the opportunity to opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We do not track your online activity across other websites, nor do we knowingly permit third parties to conduct online tracking of you while you are visiting our website. Consequently, we do not respond to your browser’s Do Not Track signal.
Social Media Use Awareness
For your convenience, our website contains links to other websites whose information and privacy practices are probably different than ours. If you choose to use these links, you will leave our website, and will then be subject to the privacy and information practices of those websites. We do not control and are not responsible for any of their content or their privacy policies, if any. We do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you choose to access any of the other websites listed on our website, you should understand that you do so at your own risk.
Any Personal Information you choose to share on our social media pages will be visible to persons visiting those internet-based services. Please be aware that the privacy of any Personal Information you choose to share on those services is governed by the privacy policies of those social media services and not by the Dunaway Law Group’s Privacy Policy or Privacy Notices. We reserve the right to remove comments or postings from any or all of our social media accounts which we find to be offensive or illegal, unrelated to the intended subject matter or promoting the services or products of other businesses or entities.
Children
Our website is not targeted to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from any child visiting our website. If we become aware that such data has been collected, we will delete it.
Personal Information directly from children under the age of 16 is generally obtained through parental consent. A child’s parent or guardian may also request that the Personal Information of their child be deleted from our records by emailing us at [email protected] or calling us at 480-389-6529.
Where Your Personal Information Is Stored
We store the Personal Information which we collect on encrypted servers and computers located in the United States where data protection and privacy regulations may differ from those in other parts of the world.
Required Disclosure
The Dunaway Law Group, PLC may disclose Personal Information about you to legal authorities (such as a subpoena, court order or a law enforcement request) if we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or if we believe that it is necessary to protect our legal interests. We may also report Personal Information as may be required by law in the event of a suspected or actual violation of applicable laws or regulations.
Any third parties that we may contract to process your Personal Information will be required to process it as we have described within our contract with them or as otherwise described in writing to them.
In the unlikely event of a sale, acquisition, merger or bankruptcy involving the Dunaway Law Group, the information you have provided to us may be transferred to a third party.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
If you have provided us Personal Information via our website, we will retain it as long as we have an ongoing relationship with you. We audit our mailing lists regularly to remove contacts with whom we do not have an active business relationship.
If you do not want to receive email from us, please unsubscribe through the link that is included in our emails. If you do not want to receive mailings, do not check the box to receive such mailings when you give us your Personal Information, or follow the directions to remove your name from our mailing list.
If you have submitted a resumé or application for employment consideration, we will retain it as part of your personnel file if you are hired. If you are not hired for the position for which you originally applied, we may keep your resumé or job applications on file for consideration for possible future openings unless you notify us to delete them. We delete applicant resumés and job applications on file that are dated beyond the period specified in our internal retention policy.
For our clients and for individuals named within a legal matter, we may retain, for a period of time, some or all of your Personal Information for legal, ethical or business reasons.