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The Saidi Firm Website Privacy Policy
The Saidi Firm (the "Firm") is committed to collecting, maintaining, and using information about you and your business responsibly. Please read the below privacy notice to understand the Firm’s online data practices. This Privacy Policy(the “Policy”) applies to all your use of www.thesaidifirm.com (the “Site”). This policy describes how your data will be treated as you use this site. This Policy does not apply to information provided to us in the course of our attorney-client relationships or information that is protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable protection. Nothing in this Policy shall be construed as creating an attorney-client relationship with visitors to this Site, nor shall this Policy be understood to reduce the protections resulting from such relationships.
I. Information we collect from you when you visit this site
Our server logs capture and collect the following internet or other electronic network activity information: information regarding Site users’ operating systems, browser software, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, and the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstreams to, through and from the Site, including date and time. We may use this information to improve the services we provide through the Site, to monitor and improve technical performance, and to protect and defend our rights, property, or safety or that of our clients and other users of the Site.
II. Information you submit to us through the site
You may choose to submit information on this Site by completing forms available in the Site, including the Contact form. If you choose to provide information to us through the Site, we will collect the following information about users of the Site: first name, last name, email address, phone number, postal address; professional and employment information; and educational information. We use that information for the purpose for which it was collected and in accordance with the privacy wording on the relevant part of the Site.
III. How We Use This Information
We may use this information to:
• Operate the Firm and improve the content, functionality, and usability of this Site;
• Provide legal services;
• Communicate with you about our business;
• Provide publications, products and services you request;
• Invite you to, and register you for, events;•
Add you to mailing lists and send you marketing materials we believe will be of interest to you;
• Process and respond to requests, inquiries and complaints; and
• For other purposes and operations that are reasonably related such as administering, monitoring and improving the Site, our products, and servicesto better understand your needs and interests.
Your information may be accessed by third party service providers who will process that information solely for our benefit and in accordance with our instructions – see Section 6 below for more information. However, we will not provide your personal information to or save it with any third party for their own marketing purposes except in connection with a request you make that clearlyinvolves third parties.
III. How We Use This Information
We may use this information to:
- Operate the Firm and improve the content, functionality, and usability of this Site;
- Provide legal services;
- Communicate with you about our business;
- Provide publications, products and services you request;
- Invite you to, and register you for, events;
- Add you to mailing lists and send you marketing materials we believe will be of interest to you;
- Process and respond to requests, inquiries and complaints; and
- For other purposes and operations that are reasonably related such as administering, monitoring and improving the Site, our products, and services to better understand your needs and interests.
iv. Your Rights to Access and Update Your Information
The Firm takes appropriate steps to avoid unauthorized changes to personal information you submit to this Site. For so long as the Firm elects to continue to provide this Site, and provided that you comply with all agreements concerning use of this Site, we will make all reasonable efforts to provide you with online access to your registration data and other personal information so that you may view update or correct it. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take appropriate steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections.
We retain information that is collected through this Site only for as long as needed for the purpose for which it was provided, or as otherwise required for our legitimate business purposes. Your information may be retained for longer periods if there are valid legal grounds, for example if required by law or court order or to defend or pursue legal claims.
v. Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Information
Much of the information collected by the Firm is provided by you voluntarily on the Site, for example when you sign up to join a mailing list or register for an event and is therefore collected with your permission. The remaining information is collected for the Firm’s legitimate business purposes, for example to monitor and improve the quality of the Site and our services, and to protect and defend our rights, property or safety or that of our clients and other users of the Site.
vi. links
Links to web sites that are not operated by or for the Firm (“Third Party Sites”) are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to Third Party Sites. We have not reviewed the Third Party Sites, 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 decide to access any of the Third Party Sites listed on or linked to or from this Site, you should understand that you do so at your own risk.
vii. sharing of information
The entity responsible for the management and use of this Site and information collected from it is The Saidi Firm in the United States. The Firm may also disclose and/or transfer your personal information (i) to its trusted third party service providers (for example, companies that provide systems, web hosting including microsites of the Site and other IT services; internal and external advisors and auditors); (ii) if required by applicable law; (iii) in connection with a reorganization or combination of our firm with another firm, (iv) if it believes that such disclosure is necessary to enforce or apply its terms of use and other agreements or otherwise protect and defend our rights, property or safety or that of our clients and other users of the Site; (v) in order to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or other legal obligation, or a regulatory or government inquiry; or (vi) with consent.
viii. Children's privacy
We are committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This Site and the Firm’s services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If we receive personal information that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 16, we will promptly destroy such information. Schools and parents should supervise their children's online activities and consider the use of other means to provide a child-friendly online environment. Additional information is available on the Direct Marketing Association's home page at http://www.the-dma.org. If you would like to learn more about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission home page at http://www.ftc.gov.
ix. security
This Site uses measures that are appropriate to protect your information against unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, and all our employees and any third parties that process your personal information on our behalf are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information. However, we cannot and do not provide any assurance that these measures will be sufficient to protect the information you choose to transmit to our Sites.If you have registered to use online services on this Site, your account details will be password protected. It is your responsibility to keep your password confidential and secure, and to sign out once you have finished browsing. This Site is not designed to store sensitive personal information such as financial, health, criminal, racial or ethnic origin or political affiliation and you should not use this Site for that purpose.
x. agreement, changes
By submitting your personal information on this Site, you agree to the collection and use of your information on the basis described above. If you do not agree, please do not provide any information via this Site. If we decide to update our Privacy Policy, we will indicate this next to the Privacy Policy link on the front page of our Site. If there are material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will prominently post and/or communicate such changes prior to implementing them.Any information collected under previous versions of our Privacy Policy will then become subject to the terms of our new Privacy Policy.
xi. rights
You may have the following rights in relation to personal information about you:
- the right to know (i) the specific pieces of personal information collected; (ii) the categories of personal information; (iii) the categories of sources of the personal information: (iv) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information; (v) the categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose; and (vi) the categories of third parties with whom the personal information is shared;
- the right to have personal information corrected, for example if it is incomplete or incorrect;
- the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time;
- the right to request that personal information is deleted;
- the right to restrict or object to the processing of personal information;
- the right to receive a copy of personal information which you have provided to the firm, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (known as “data portability”);
- where you have provided personal information voluntarily, or otherwise consented to its use, the right to withdraw your consent;
- the right not to be discriminated against if you exercise any rights conferred on you by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018; and
- the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority (see further below).
The Firm does not and will not sell your personal information. If you have questions regarding this statement or wish to exercise your rights as defined in this Policy, please contact po@thesaidifirm.com
xii. artificial intellegence
The Firm is committed to safeguarding the privacy and security of your data. This provision outlines our approach to data protection as it relates to Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Learning Models, and Machine Learning (“AI”) and the measures we take to ensure your information is handled with the utmost care and security. The Firm does not input your personal information into AI software for any purpose.
