Privacy Policy

The Loree Law Firm (the “Firm”) values your privacy and cares about how your personal information is treated. The Firm’s Privacy Policy has expressly been made part of the Terms set forth in the Firm’s Legal page, here. Please review carefully the Firm’s Legal page, as well as this Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy describes:

what personal information the Firm collects about you;
how it obtains your personal information;
how it uses your personal information;
on what basis it uses your personal information;
how long it keeps your personal information;
with whom it shares your personal information;
how it protects your personal information; and
your rights regarding your personal information.

Personal Information the Firm Collects

We may collect personal information from persons in the course of the Firm’s business, including through your use of this website and our blog, The Arbitration Law Forum (collectively, the “Site”), when those persons contact or request information from us, when they engage the Site, when they contract or request information from us, when they engage the Firm to provide legal or other services, or otherwise as a result of those persons’ relationship with The Firm or Philip J. Loree Jr.

The personal information that the Firm may collect, and process includes:

Basic identifying information, such as a person’s name (including name prefix, suffix, or title), the company for which a person works, a person’s title or position and, where applicable, the person’s relationship to another person.
Contact information, such as a person’s mailing address(es), email address(es), url(s), and phone number(s).
Financial information, such as fee payment-related information.
Technical information, such as information concerning a person’s visits to the Site or applications or in relation to materials and communications that the Firm may send the person electronically.
Information a person provides to the Firm for the purposes of attending meetings and events, including access and dietary requirements.
Identification and background information provided by a person or collected by the Firm as part of the process of accepting business from a client or potential client.
Personal information provided to us by or on behalf of our clients or generated by us in the course or providing services to them, which may include special categories of data.
Any other information relating to a person that the person may provide to us.

How the Firm Obtains Personal Information

The Firm collects information from persons as part of its process of accepting business from clients and potential clients and from clients and others as necessary in the course of providing legal services.
The Firm may collect personal information while monitoring the Firm’s technology tools and services, including the Site, and email communications sent to and from the Firm or Philip J. Loree Jr.
The Firm may obtain information from a person when the person interacts or otherwise communicates with the Firm or when a person registers on a digital platform or application the Firm owns, licenses, or is otherwise privy.
We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as keeping the contact details we already hold for you accurate and up to date using publicly available sources.

How the Firm May Use Personal Information

The Firm collects and process personal information in several ways, including through a person’s use of the Site and by the Firm’s provision of services to a person. The Firm may use that information:

To provide and improve the Site, including auditing and monitoring its use.
To provide and improve our services to clients, including the handling of personal information of others on behalf of clients.
To provide information requested by clients, prospective clients, and others.
To promote the Firm’s services, including sending legal updates, publications, news releases, and details of events.
To manage and administer the Firm’s relationship with its clients and prospective clients.
To fulfill the Firm’s legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your device by websites you visit. The Site uses Google Analytics, a web-based analytics tool that tracks and reports on the way the Site is used to help the Firm improve it. Google Analytics does this by placing ‘cookies’ on your device. The information that the cookies collect, such as the number of visitors to the Site, the pages visited and the length of time spent on the Site, is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

You may refuse the use of cookies or withdraw your consent at any time by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser but please note that this might affect your use and experience of the Site. By continuing to use the Site without changing your privacy settings, you are agreeing to the Firm’s use of cookies. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Marketing/Emails

Contact information is maintained in one or more databases to notify our audiences of Firm news, events, services, and other developments, as well as for internal statistical analysis While we may forward contact details to appointed third party vendors to assist us in processing mailings, we will not provide them to any other party for any other purpose, other than as required by law. If you wish to be added to or removed from our database, or if you would like to correct your information, please contact us at PJL1@LoreeLawFirm.com.

The Basis on which the Firm Uses Personal Information

The Firm may use personal information:

To perform a contract, such as an agreement with an individual or entity to provide legal or other services.
To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, actions, or proceedings, including arbitration proceedings.
To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
For legitimate business purposes.

How Long we Retain Personal Information

Your personal information will be retained in accordance with our data retention policy which specifies the appropriate, minimum retention period for that information. The period for retaining that information is based on legal and regulatory requirements, limitations periods for actions and proceedings, good practice, and the Firm’s business purposes.

With Whom we May Share Personal Information

We may share your personal information with certain trusted third parties in accordance with contractual arrangements in place with them, including:

Suppliers to whom we may outsource certain support services such as word processing, cloud storage, cloud back-up, translation, photocopying, scanning, and document review.
IT service providers that the Firm may retain.
Third parties engaged by or with the prior consent of clients for purposes of providing services to those clients, such as barristers, local counsel, consulting and testifying expert witnesses, accountants, digital and other forensic professionals, and technology service providers like e-discovery providers and data room and case management service providers.
Third parties involved in hosting or organizing events or seminars.

Where necessary, or for the reasons set forth in this policy, the Firm may also share personal information with regulatory authorities, courts, tribunals, government agencies and law enforcement agencies. While it is unlikely, the Firm may be required to disclose a person’s information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements. The Firm will use reasonable endeavors to notify the person before it does this unless it is legally restricted from doing so.

The Firm may use social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. If you use these sites, you should review their privacy policy for more information on how they deal with your personal information.

The Firm does not sell, rent, or otherwise make a person’s personal information commercially available to any third party, except with the prior consent of the person who owns that personal information.

How the Firm Protects Personal Information

The firm uses a variety of technical and other measures to help protect personal information from unauthorized disclosure, access, use, alteration, or destruction consistent with data protection laws.

Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Information

Where applicable, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation provide certain rights for data subjects, as do other data protection laws where applicable.

A person is entitled to request details of the information we hold about that person and how we process it. A person may also have a right in accordance with applicable data protection law to have it rectified or deleted, to restrict the Firm’s processing of that information, to stop unauthorized transfers of personal information to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have personal information transferred to another organization. A person may also have the right to lodge with a local supervisory authority a complaint concerning the Firm’s processing of that person’s personal information.

If a person objects to the processing of that person’s personal information, or if that person provides its consent to processing but later chooses to withdraw that consent, then the Firm will respect that choice in accordance with its legal obligations.

A person’s objection (or withdrawal of any previously given consent) could mean that the Firm is unable to perform the actions necessary to achieve the purposes set out above or that the person may not be able to make use of the services the Firm offers. Please note that even after a person has chosen to withdraw its consent to processing that person’s personal information the Firm may be able to continue to process that personal information to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law, including for purposes of helping the Firm exercise and defend its legal rights or satisfy its legal and regulatory obligations.

The Firm needs to be sure a person’s personal information is current and accurate. Accordingly, persons should advise of any changes by emailing PJL1@LoreeLawFirm.com.

Last Updated

This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 24, 2020.