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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2025

General

Avruch Law LLC (the “Firm” or “We”) respects your privacy.  We are committed to protecting your privacy through our compliance with this privacy policy (this “Policy”).

This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the www.avruchlaw.com site (our “Website”) or contact us through email, one of the links provided on our Website or other means, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Our policies for how we use your information when you engage us to provide legal services will be set forth separately in the terms of legal engagement that are provided separately when the Firm expressly agrees to a client engagement.  Your use of our Website or merely contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and the Firm or any of the Firm’s attorneys. The Firm does not represent you or your company or any other organization unless we have specifically agreed in writing to serve as your or their legal representative.  If you wish to engage the Firm, or if you have legal questions, please contact us directly and ask to be directed to one of the Firm’s attorneys.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from you when you choose to provide it to us, including your name, postal address, email address, telephone number and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”).

We will not collect additional categories of personal information without providing you with prior notice.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

We allow third party providers to gather other technical information, which may include through their or our use of data analytic tools such as AWStats, Google Analytics or similar, about your visits to our Website.  This may include the collection of technical information such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, geographic location, the dates and times of your visits to our Website and page views, the duration of time spent at those pages, how you got to our Website and any links you click on to leave, and metadata about your use of our Website and emails we send you.

The technologies used for this automatic data collection may include “cookies”:

  • Cookies are small pieces of data or text files stored on your computer that are tied to information about you. A cookie can provide information such as websites, pages, or advertisements your browser has accessed. Cookies are used for the proper functioning of this Website, to enable personalization or security features on this Website, for the security of the Website, or to compile aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how visitors use the Website, and to help us improve the functionality and structure of the Website.
  • Most Internet browsers can be set to refuse cookies and/or allow you to configure your Internet browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, which gives you the chance to accept or refuse it. We do not require you to accept cookies to access this Website, although functionality may be affected if you refuse cookies. This Website is not set up to recognize “do not track” signals from browsers.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, which may include personal information, to respond to your inquiries and to provide you information about our Firm and the services we offer. This may include newsletters and promotional materials from the Firm about the Firm, our services, and/or general legal or business information. We use the other technical information gathered to analyze Website usage, for the security of the Website, and to improve the design, function and content of our Website.  We will not use personal information we’ve collected for purposes that are materially different, unrelated, or incompatible with this Policy without providing you with prior notice by updating this Policy.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose or share your personal information and technical information as described in this Policy to contractors, service providers and other third parties who require such information to assist us with professional, consulting, marketing, technical or communications services, including third parties providing our email and web hosting services. We allow third parties access to such information to perform specific tasks at our instruction for us or on our behalf. We may also disclose such information as required by law or regulation, in response to a court order, subpoena or request by law enforcement, in connection with a merger, acquisition or other transactions involving our Firm or its attorneys, or if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to protect our property or to assert our legal rights, or to protect the safety or rights of others.

We do not sell your personal information or technical information.

In the past twelve (12) months, we have not sold any personal information or technical information we collect to third parties, and we have shared and/or disclosed the categories of personal information we collect only as set forth above.

We do not communicate orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information to any third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Choices Regarding Personal Information You Provide to Us

You have choices regarding any personal information you provide to us. There are mechanisms that provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

    Accessing and Correcting Your Information

    You may also send us an email to privacy@avruchlaw.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may be unable to delete certain of your personal information (such as your name and contact information) if you are an existing or prior client of the Firm. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

    Jurisdiction-Specific Privacy Rights

    The laws in certain jurisdictions may provide their residents or individuals located in those jurisdictions with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.  To learn more about any additional rights that may be applicable to you as a resident or citizen of one of these jurisdictions, please see the applicable information below that is intended to supplement this Policy.

    For California Residents Only

    This section of our Policy applies solely to visitors and users who reside in the State of California. The California Consumer Protection Act, or CCPA, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, or CPRA (collectively, the “CCPA”) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes those CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

    The categories of personal information that we collect from you can be found in the “Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It” and “Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies” sections above.

    The business or commercial purpose for which we use the categories of personal information we collect can be found in the “How We Use Your Information” and “Disclosure of Your Information” sections above.

    Your California Rights Under the CCPA

    The CCPA provides California residents the following rights, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

    • The right to request (a) the categories and specific pieces of sensitive personal information and other personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you, (b) the categories of sources from which we collected your sensitive personal information and other personal information, (c) the purposes for which we collect or sell your sensitive personal information and other personal information, (d) the categories of your sensitive personal information and other personal information (if any) that we have either sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and (e) the categories of third parties with which we have shared your sensitive personal information and other personal information;
    • For certain categories of sensitive and other personal information, the right to request a list of what personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes in the past twelve (12) months and the names and addresses of those third parties;
    • The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you;
    • The right to seek information about, and opt out of, any automated decision-making technology (if any); 
    • The right to opt out of: (i) our sale(s) and sharing for the purposes of “cross-context behavioral advertising” (if any) of your personal information and (ii) the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information;
    • The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA;
    • The right to initiate a private cause of action for data breaches;
    • The right to correct inaccurate personal information; and
    • The right to limit use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information.

    If you are a California resident and would like additional information about your rights under the CCPA related to your personal information, or to make a request to exercise your rights under the CCPA, please contact us by email at privacy@avruchlaw.com or by mail addressed to Avruch Law LLC, 2 Clarendon Street #701, Boston, MA 02116.

    Privacy Laws Applicable to Certain Other U.S. States

    There exists an evolving patchwork of laws in other U.S. states that may, under certain circumstances, provide their respective residents with certain rights regarding the use of their personal information. For example, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Utah and Virginia have enacted laws that provide their state residents with certain rights to:

    • Confirm whether we process their personal information.
    • Access and delete certain personal information.
    • Data portability.
    • Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.
    • Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and our purposes for processing such information.
    • Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
    • Opt out of any future sale of your information in the unlikely event we change our current practice of not selling your information.

    If you are a resident of any of these states and would like to request exercise of any such rights as may be applicable to you, please contact us at privacy@avruchlaw.com.

    For EU and UK Citizens

    If you are a citizen of the European Union (“EU”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), you have the following rights, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

    • To be informed: You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. We fulfill this right by making this Policy accessible via our Website.
    • Access to your personal information: You can request access to a copy of your personal information.
    • Right to withdraw and opt-out: You may unsubscribe from our mailing list (if any) by responding “unsubscribe” to any email we may send through our mailing list.
    • Right to object: You may object to our processing of your personal information by us, subject to certain exceptions.
    • Rectification: You can ask us to change or complete any inaccurate or incomplete personal information held about you.
    • Erasure: This is also known as “the right to be forgotten” and this means that you can ask us to delete your personal information where it is no longer necessary for us to use it, you have withdrawn consent (where applicable), or where we have no lawful basis for keeping it or otherwise using it. This right is subject to exceptions, for example where we need to use the information to bring or defend a legal claim.
    • Portability: You can ask us to provide you or a third party with some of the personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. This is limited to personal information you have provided with your consent or in relation to the products you have with us, and which we process by automated means.
    • Restriction: 
      • You can ask us to restrict the personal information we use about you where: it is inaccurate; you have asked for it to be erased; you have objected to our use of it; or where you need this for the bringing or defending of legal claims.
      • When you have asked us to restrict the use of your personal information we may still store your information but will not use it further without your consent, unless we need to process it: to bring or defend legal claims; to protect the rights and freedoms of other individuals; or for other important public interest reasons. 

    When using your personal information for the purposes and on the legal basis described in this Policy, we may share your personal information with other law firms and third party service providers we work with around the world. We may also have to share your personal information with regulators, public institutions, courts or other third parties.

    If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), as part our services, any personal information you provide may be transferred to the United States for processing.  As part of our services, we may also have a need to transfer your personal information to a third party outside of the EEA or the United States.  Such jurisdictions may not be subject to an adequacy decision of the European Commission. We will always ensure that there is a legal basis and a relevant safeguard method for such data transfer so that your personal information is treated in a manner that is generally consistent with EU and other applicable laws and regulations on data protection.

    If you are a citizen of the EU or UK and would like further information or would like to request exercise of any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@avruchlaw.com

    How Long Will We Retain Your Information?
    We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, record retention or reporting requirements.

    To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. 

    Data Security

    Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. We take reasonable security measures, using physical, electronic, and other procedural controls, designed to safeguard against the unauthorized access to and use of the information under our control. We cannot, however, guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to us electronically, including via our Website or via email or other communications methods. 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 our Website.

    Children Under the Age of 18

    Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age.

    Links to Third Party Websites

    This Website may contain links to other websites. If you choose to click those links, you will leave our Website. Third party websites may have privacy practices that differ from ours. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy policies or statements of any other website that collects your personal information. 

    Changes to Our Privacy Policy

    We reserve the right to change this Policy, in whole or in part, from time to time. If we make changes to this Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Please review this page frequently to remain up-to-date with the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. You must review the new Policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures.

    Consent

    By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above.

    Right to Withdraw Consent

    If you have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information, you have the right to fully or partly withdraw your consent. To withdraw your consent, please contact privacy@avruchlaw.com.  Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose(s) to which you originally consented unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for further processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. In case we processed your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time, in which case we will no longer process your personal information for such marketing purposes.

    Contact Information

    If you have any questions or comments about this Policy or our privacy practices, contact us by email at privacy@avruchlaw.com, by phone at (657) 398-0401 or by mail at Avruch Law LLC, 2 Clarendon Street #701, Boston, MA 02116.