Privacy Policy for LCounsel LLC

Last updated: July 22, 2024

At LCounsel LLC (“lcounsel,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”), together with our website terms and use and any other documents referred to in it, sets out the types of personal information we collect, how we collect and process that information, who we share it with in relation to the services we provide and certain rights and options that you have in this respect.

What Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

• Identity and Contact Data: Including your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, marital status, passport number, employment history, educational or professional background, tax status, employee number, job title and function, and other personal data concerning your preferences relevant to our services.
• Business Information: Including information provided in the course of the contractual or client relationship between you or your organization and lcounsel, or otherwise voluntarily provided by you or your organization.
• Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number.
• Financial and Payment Data: Including your bank account and other data necessary for processing payments and fraud prevention, including credit/debit card numbers, security code numbers and other related billing information.
• Non-Personal Information: Browser type, IP address.
• Information You Provide: When using our services or contacting us, including personal data, passwords you provide, and communication preferences.
• Technical Data: Including passwords to lcounsel websites or password protected platforms or services, your preferences in receiving marketing information from us, your communication preferences and information about how you use our websites(s), including the services you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs).
  • Cookies: We use cookies to operate and administer our services, packages, and improve your experience. A “cookie” is a piece of information sent to your browser by a website you visit. You can set your browser to accept all cookies, to reject all cookies, or to notify you whenever a cookie is offered so that you can decide each time whether to accept it. However, refusing a cookie may in some cases preclude you from using, or negatively affect the display or function of, a website or certain areas or features of a website. For more details on cookies, please visit All About Cookies.

Information about other People

If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, your employees, counterparties, your advisers or your suppliers, you must ensure that they understand how their information will be used, and that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our outsourced service providers, to use it.

How We Collect Information

We collect information:

• Directly from you when you provide it.
• When you or your organization or business offer to provide, or provides, services to us.
• When you or your business uses our services or inquires about our services or packages.
• Automatically as you navigate our website.
• From third parties in some cases.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• Provide and improve our services.
• Communicate with you.
• Fulfill contract, legal, or compliance obligations.
• To conduct lcounsel business and pursue our legitimate interests.
• For training purposes.
• Fulfill any other purpose you’ve consented to.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with:

• Our service providers, including those we use in connection with providing services and products.
• Legal authorities when required by law.
• On a confidential basis with third parties for the purpose of collecting your feedback on the firm’s services, products, and offers, and/or to help us measure our performance and improve our services.
• If we sell or buy any business assets, we may disclose your personal data to prospective buyer or seller to a legitimate bona fide potential buyer.
• Other parties with your consent.

Your Choices and Rights

You can choose to:

• Opt-out of marketing communications.
• Request access to your personal information.
• Ask us to access, request, update for accuracy, or delete your information.
• You can withdraw any partial or full consent by sending written notification, unless there is another legal grounds for processing that information.

You may exercise any of your Choices and Rights above by reaching out to [email protected] with proof of your identity and your request.

 

Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting a notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this policy, please contact us at [email protected]

Supplemental Privacy Provisions concerning California

If you are a California resident, you have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Acts of 2020 (CPRA), from hereon referred to as CCPA. The following provisions apply in California in addition to the provisions of the Privacy Notice set out above.

Definitions

‘Personal Information’ (“PI”) has the meaning given in the CCPA.

Personal Information that we collect

As set out in the ‘Personal data we collect’, above.

Sources and disclosure

We may collect Personal Information directly from you, automatically from your interactions with us or other third parties.

We may disclose information about you with other Lcounsel entities, suppliers and, where appropriate, with selected partners to help us provide you with our legal services, or to fulfil your requests.

Purposes of processing your Personal Information

As set out in ‘How will we use your personal data’, above.

Rights relating to your Personal Information

As a California resident, you have the right to:

• Know your Personal Information
• Request Deletion or Rectify your Personal Information
  • Opt out of Sale or Sharing of your Personal Information, including:
    To opt out of the use of cookie data for the purposes of targeted advertising; and
  • To opt out of the use of email address for the purpose of marketing communications and targeted advertising.
• Limit the Use or Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

Sale and Share

We do not sell Personal Information as the term sell is commonly understood. In CCPA, a sale is defined to include disclosures of personal data to a third party for monetary or valuable consideration. Certain third parties may collect or receive information from us so that we can provide you with legal services. These third parties do not use your personal information for other purposes than those we contracted them for.

Supplemental Privacy Provisions for the GDPR

This GDPR Privacy Policy Supplement provides certain additional notices to our privacy policy  for website visitors who may be from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland and their associated General Data Protection Regulations (the “GDPR”).

Lawful Basis

Under the GDPR, the lawful bases we rely on for processing your information include: 

• Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us.
• We have a contractual obligation.
• We have a legal obligation.
• We have a vital interest.
• We need it to perform a public task.
• We have a legitimate interest.

How we store your personal information.

Your information is stored and processed in the United States using appropriate technical and organizational measures. We keep Your information for as long as required to provide a service to you, or as required by applicable law. We will then dispose your information in accordance with our records retention policies.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate.
• You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
• You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information or wish to exercise your rights.