PRIVACY POLICY

Audette Law Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 2024

INTRODUCTION

Welcome!  This privacy notice details the policies used by Audette Law PLLC (“Firm,” “we,” or “us”) in collecting information from www.audettelawpllc.com (“Website”), and how the information is stored, used, shared, and protected. Audette Law PLLC respects your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it and any personal information collected through this Website through our compliance with this policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use in their entirety to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Website.  By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy, and you expressly consent to our collection, use, and retention of your personal information as described in this privacy policy.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age.  No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website.  We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.  If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.  If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.  If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please email us at hello@audettelawpllc.com.

COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION AND HOW IT IS USED

When you visit our Website some personally identifiable information may be gathered at various points on the Website.

Information you choose to submit:

Through Audette Law PLLC you may choose to book services through the Website or subscribe to our email list. The information collected from those fields are your name, email address, business name, address and/or phone number. You are not obligated to provide your information to us through this Website. Information may be collected from you if you choose to purchase any services or products through this Website, including your name, address, organization name and industry, billing address and billing information. 

Information collected from third parties:

If you purchase any product or become a client of Audette Law PLLC, any purchase transaction will be made through a third party. Any information provided by you at that time is stored through the third party in accordance with their terms, and not on this Website. Information provided by you to third parties may be transferred to Audette Law PLLC to allow us to perform services, assist with tracking advertising, and in maintaining this website.

We use third-party services to schedule appointments, process purchases, and payments, and to store all purchase information and history. When you use this website, you are agreeing not to hold Audette Law PLLC responsible for any security breach and/or for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties.

Information automatically collected:

We may at times automatically collect additional data for website analysis, including but not limited to using Google Analytics, as well as collecting information including the IP address used to access this Website, domain information, links clicked on, and the date and time of access.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Information on this website, including advertisements, may be processed using cookies, pixels, web beacons, server logs, or other tracking technologies. A "cookie" is a small data file placed on your hard drive by this Website. These are used to assist with your use of this Website and our products and do not contain your personal identification information. Cookies or logs allow certain information to be stored for the next time you visit our Website by remembering your browser; this may assist you with purchasing items from our Website as well as with navigating your experience through our Website. Cookies may also be used to track users’ interests on our Website to help us improve. You are not required to accept cookies to use our site, however, access to some information on this Website may be limited.

Content placed on our Website from third parties may also use these tracking technologies to collect information from you when you are using this Website. The collection and use of your information by third parties are not under our control. For additional information, you can contact the third parties for details on their policy, or opt-out or limit permission through the settings on your internet browser.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED

Your information may be used by Audette Law PLLC for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with customer service, requested information or content,

  • To provide products or services purchased,

  • To communicate with you via email, including promotional information, newsletters, updates to our Website, and other content,

  • To create a personalized experience for the visitor of the Website, including retaining purchase history to make suggestions for other products or services you may be interested in, retain and evaluate how you use and access different pages of our website for analytics purposes in order to improve our Website and target advertisements based on previous interactions you have had on our Website,

  • To enforce our rights under any contract created between you and us,

  • To respond to any request made where we are obligated to by law,

  • In managing our business activities, such as maintaining our records, providing services, marketing assistance, and other legal purposes,

  • For any other purpose, you consent to.

Your information may be shared with third parties if we send you a promotion regarding a third party and you choose to pursue that promotion or offer. Your information may be shared with third parties for data and analytic purposes to perform the services we request from them only. When you use this Website, you are agreeing not to hold Audette Law PLLC responsible for any security breach and/or for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties.

PROTECTING AND DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION

We will store your collected information in a commercially reasonable method for as long as necessary for our business and in compliance with applicable laws.

We do not intend to sell, share, or transfer your information to any third parties without providing you with notification, except we may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide, as described in this Privacy Policy, as follows:

  • To our affiliates and subsidiaries.

  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, including payment processing, data analysis, marketing, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service, and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. This includes Stripe, which is our payment processor. Stripe’s privacy policy can be found here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.

  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any lawful government or regulatory request.

  • If necessary, to enforce our Terms of Use.

  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others.

We intend to keep all your information safe and confidential; however, given the nature of submitting information through the internet by an unencrypted email, please do not submit any private or confidential information through this website.

If any information provided to us needs to be updated or amended, please email a request to hello@audettelawpllc.com.

OPTING OUT

To opt-out of using cookies, you may change the permission through your internet browser settings.

To opt-out of having your information used through Google Analytics, you can opt-out by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

To opt-out of email correspondence, please click the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of our emails or see the section below.

For residents of the European Union or the European Economic Area, please see the GDPR section below for more information.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make a request, please email us at: hello@audettelawpllc.com.  For all requests, you must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the body of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code.  In the body of your request, please provide enough information for us to determine if this applies to you.  You need to attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response.  Please note that we will not accept requests via the telephone, mail, or by facsimile, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.

If you wish to change your "Do Not Track" ("DNT") settings, this can usually be done by changing a setting on your internet browser. There is no universally agreed-upon standard as to what should be done by site and app operators regarding these DNT signals, and as such, we may not respond to DNT settings. For more information, please go to: https://allaboutdnt.com

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

This Website is intended for US users. However, to the extent you are an individual accessing information on our website from within the European Union, you are considered a data subject. A “data subject” is defined as an identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as: a name, an identification number, location data, or online identifier. Alternatively, the person may be identified by reference to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. A data subject may be of any age or nationality.

As a data subject, you are entitled to certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The following are the rights granted to you when viewing our site from within the European Union.

  • You have the right to be informed with respect to your personally identifiable information (PII) retained by the Firm. As such, you may request access to your data that the Firm stores and the rights to either correct or erase your personal data.

  • We will retain any personally identifiable information you choose to provide to us unless: (a) you request for us to delete the information, (b) we stop using our existing data providers, or (c) at Firm's discretion, we decide to remove the data.

  • You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

  • You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

  • You have the right to withdraw consent provided to the Firm concerning the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

  • You have the right to not be subjected to automated decision-making via pre-ticked boxes, additions to our email marketing lists and the like.

  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

  • We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering a contract with us by way of downloading a lead magnet, webinar, freebie, or any other traditional list building methods.

EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE

We are committed to protecting your privacy, and this includes keeping your email address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or share our email subscription list. It is only disclosed to third parties to provide services to you.

Our emails comply with the CAN-SPAM Act. An unsubscribe button is found at the bottom of every email from us.

If you would like to unsubscribe to receive future correspondence from Audette Law PLLC please click on the link at the bottom of our email or email "unsubscribe" to hello@audettelawpllc.com.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy regularly for updates.

DATA SECURITY

We securely store your data within SquareSpace and Stripe. Please review the Data Security and Privacy Policies of these third parties. We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Some of these security measures include: (1) storing all information you provide to us on secure servers behind firewalls, and (2) encryption of all payment information.

It is your responsibility to make sure that your personal information is accurate and that your password(s) and account registration information are secure and not shared with third parties.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

CONTACT US

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and/or our privacy practices, please email us at hello@audettelawpllc.com.