Online Privacy Policy

 

1. Introduction.

(a) Web Site Owner. McMillan-McCalla Law ("the Firm") is the owner of this web site ("the Firm Web Site"). The Firm can be contacted by mail at 1201 West Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, by phone at (678) 769-5540, or by e-mail at info@mcmillanmccalla.com. This online privacy notice discloses the Firm information practices for the Firm Web Site, including what type of personal identifiable information is requested in order to make a purchase, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.

(b) Web Site Visits. The Firm collects certain information from the Firm Web Site visitors. This includes, but is not limited to, the home server domain name, e-mail address, type of computer and web browser, what pages visitor accessed, and limited information about search requests. This information is used to solve technical problems and to calculate overall usage statistics.

(c) Web Site Transactions. At times, the Firm will need personal information regarding a customer or a prospect. For example, to process an order or provide a subscription, the Firm may need to know a customer's name, mailing address, e-mail address and credit card details. It is the Firm's intent to inform you before the Firm collects personal information, such as user's name and/or address on the Internet. If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact with you, the Firm will respect your wishes.

2. Personal Information That May Be Collected.

(a) Identifying Information. In order to make a purchase and/or access designated subscriber services and/or restricted areas within the Firm’s Web site, the Firm will request a user to provide certain personal identifying information, which may include: legal name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, facsimile number, method of payment, and, if applicable, credit card number. the Firm may request additional information necessary to establish and maintain customer's account.

(b) Service Quality Monitoring. Some Web site transactions may require a customer to telephone the Firm, or the Firm to call the customer. The Firm will not contact you by telephone without your prior consent, except to confirm an order placed online and/or to inform a customer of the status of such order. Customer should be aware that it is the Firm's practice to monitor, and in some cases record such calls for staff training or quality assurance purposes.

(c) Information from Children. The Firm does not sell products or services for purchase by children, and will not collect or post information from a child under the age of 18 without the involvement of a parent or guardian. The Firm will notify the child's parent or guardian at the e-mail address provided by the prospective customer, alerting the parent or guardian to the child's use of the Web site and providing instructions as to how the parent or guardian can delete the child's registration from the Web site.

(d) Lost or Stolen Information. If a customer's credit card and/or password is lost or stolen, the customer should promptly notify the Firm in order to enable the Firm to cancel the lost or stolen information and to update its records with a changed credit card and/or password.

(e) Chat Rooms, Forums and Bulletin Boards. If customer participates in the Firm chat room, discussion forum, or posts messages to an Firm bulletin board, customer should be aware that the information disclosed and shared will be broadly available to other persons, both inside of and/or outside the Firm, who have access to that chat room, forum or bulletin board. Some individual Firm chat rooms, forums or bulletin boards have additional rules and conditions regarding participation. Also, participant's expressed opinion is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of the Firm.

(f) Links to Other Web Sites. The Firm Web site may contain links to other web sites. The Firm is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other Web sites.

3. Uses Made of the Information.

(a) Limited Uses Identified. Personal information collected by the Firm will be used by the Firm for the following purposes: Statistical analysis of customer's behavior; for product and service development; for content improvement; to customize the content and layout of McMillan-McCalla Law's Web site; and for internal company reviews.

(b) Marketing Uses. Unless customer explicitly opts-out, the Firm reserves the right to provide customer with information about the Firm's Web site, the Firm products and services, and related information in which customer has indicated an interest.

(c) Stored Information Uses. The Firm stores and retains the information entered on the Firm’s Web site. Stored information is used by the Firm and the Firm’s agents: to support customer interaction with the Firm’s Web site; to deliver customer purchases; and/or to contact customer again about other Firm services and products.

(d) Online Advertising. Some companies that help the Firm deliver interactive on-line advertising, such as banner ads, may collect and use information about the Firm's customers to help the Firm better understand the types of advertising or promotions that are most appealing to the Firm's customers. After it is collected the information is aggregated so it is not identifiable to a specific individual. If, however, customer would prefer that these companies not collect such information, please send your request to info@mcmillanmccalla.com.

4. Disclosure of the Information.

(a) Within Corporate Organization. The Firm is a organization, with legal entities, business processes, management structures, and technical systems that cross borders. The Firm may share your personal information within the Firm’s corporate organization, and may transfer the information to countries in the world where the Firm conducts business. Some countries may provide less legal protection for customer personal information.

(b) Mergers and Acquisitions. For the purpose of developing and expanding its business, the Firm may share, rent, sell or buy business assets. In such transactions, customer information is generally one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event the Firm is acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.

(c) Agents. The Firm employs or engages other companies and individuals to perform business functions on behalf of McMillan-McCalla Law. These persons are provided with personal identifying information required to perform their functions, but are prohibited by contract from using the information for other purposes. These persons engage in a variety of functions which include, but are not limited to, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer services.

(d) Affiliated Businesses. The Firm works closely with affiliated businesses operating web site stores, providing services or selling products on each other's Web sites. These businesses identify themselves to customers. Customer information related to a transaction with an affiliated business is shared with that affiliated business.

(e) Marketing Analysis by Third Parties. The Firm reserves the right to disclose to third parties personal information about customers for marketing analysis; however, any information disclosed will be in the form of aggregate data that does not describe or identify an individual customer.

(f) Disclosure to Governmental Authorities. The Firm may release personal information to appropriate governmental authorities where release is required by law (for example, a subpoena) or by a regulation, or is requested by a government agency conducting investigations or proceedings.

5. Use of Computer Tracking Technologies.

(a) No Tracking of Personal Information. the Firm's Web site(s) are not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information not entered by visitors. Our site logs do generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our sites. This information is used for internal purposes by technical support staff to provide better services to the public and may also be provided to others, but, again, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

(b) Use of Cookies. the Firm, or its third party vendors, collects non-identifiable and personal information through the use of various technologies, including "cookies." A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier that a Web site can transfer to customer's hard drive through customer's browser. The cookie is then stored on customer's computer as an anonymous tag that identifies the customer's computer, but not the customer. Cookies may be sent by the Firm or its third party vendors. Customer can set its browser to notify customer before a cookie is received, giving an opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. Customer may also set its browser to turn off cookies; however, some Web sites may not then work properly.

(c) Use of Web Beacon Technologies. The Firm may also use Web beacon or other technologies to better tailor its Web site(s) to provide better customer service. If these technologies are in use, when a visitor accesses these pages of the Web site, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by the Firm or by its suppliers. Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If customer does not want cookie information to be associated with customer's visits to these pages, customer can set its browser to turn off cookies; however, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.

(d) Collection of Non-Identifiable Information. The Firm may collect non-identifiable information from user visits to the Firm’s Web site in order to provide better customer service. Examples of such collecting include: traffic analysis, such as tracking of the domains from which users visit, or tracking numbers of visitors; measuring visitor activity on the Firm Web site; Web site and system administration; user analysis; and business decision making. Such information is sometimes known as "clickstream data." the Firm or its contractors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics.

(e) Collection of Personal Information. The Firm collects personal identifying information from customer during a transaction. the Firm may extract some personally identifying information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information, such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level (not at an individual level) to help the Firm understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level.

6. Information Security.

(a) Commitment to Online Security. The Firm works to protect the security of customer personal information during transmission by employing industry standard encryption technology for the information that customers and prospects input. The Firm's practice is to reveal only the last five digits of customer's credit card numbers when confirming an order. During order processing the entire credit card number is revealed to the credit card company selected by customer.

(b) No Liability for Acts of Third Parties. The Firm will exercise all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of customer personal information. However, transmissions protected by industry standard security technology and implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure. Consequently, the Firm shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal information due to no fault of the Firm including, but not limited to, errors in transmission and unauthorized acts of the Firm staff and third parties.

7. Privacy Policy Changes and Opt-Out Rights.

(a) Changes to Privacy Policy. This privacy notice was last updated on July 11, 2022. The Firm reserves the right to change its privacy policy statement at any time. A notice of any material change will be posted on the Firm’s Web site on page www.mcmillanmccalla.com/privacy-policy for seven (7) days prior to the implementation of such change. There are two boxes at the end of the Firm's notice of change: (1) an "I accept" box, and (2) an "I do not accept" box. If customer does not mark the "I do not accept" box, customer will be deemed to have accepted the Firm's privacy policy updates.

(b) Opt-Out Right. Customer has the right at any time to cease permitting personal information to be collected, used or disclosed by the Firm and/or by any third parties with whom the Firm has shared and/or transferred such personal information. Right of cancellation may be exercised by contacting the Firm via e-mail at info@mcmillanmccalla.com, telephone at (678) 769-5540 or certified postal mail. After processing the cancellation, the Firm will delete customer or prospective customer's personal information from its data base.

8. Access Rights to Data.

(a) Information Maintained by THE FIRM. Upon customer's request, the Firm will provide a reasonable description of customer's personally identifiable information that the Firm maintains in its data bank. The Firm can be contacted by e-mail at info@mcmillanmccalla.com, telephone at (678) 769-5540, or certified postal mail at 1201 West Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.

(b) Corrections and Changes to Personal Information. Help the Firm to keep customer personal information accurate. If customer's personal information changes, or if customer notes an error upon review of customer information that the Firm has on file, please promptly e-mail the Firm at info@mcmillanmccalla.com and provide the new or correct information.

(c) Your California Privacy Rights. Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of the Firm who are California residents to request certain information regarding the Firm’s disclosure of personal information for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to: 1201 West Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Within 30 days of receiving such a request, the Firm will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. The Firm reserves its right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified in this paragraph.

California’s privacy laws require a company to provide notice to California users of their rights to receive information on to which entities their information was shared for marketing purposes.

9. Accountability.

(a) Questions, Problems and Complaints. If you have a question about this policy statement, or a complaint about the Firm’s compliance with this privacy policy, you may contact the Firm by e-mail at info@mcmillanmccalla.com. If the Firm is unable to resolve your complaint to your reasonable satisfaction or if customer does not receive acknowledgment of an inquiry, customer may elect to proceed by contacting the Firm at 678-769-5540.

(b) Terms of Use. If customer chooses to enter into a purchase order or to subscribe to the Firm's services, customer's action is hereby deemed acceptance of the Firm practices described in this policy statement. Any dispute over privacy between customer and the Firm is subject to the provisions of this notice and to the Firm's Terms of Use Agreement which is hereby incorporated herein and which can be read at www.mcmillanmccalla.com/terms-of-service.