Effective Date: August 28th 2024
The following discloses our information collection and use practices for this Website (“Website”). By using or accessing this Website, you signify your agreement to our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such changes here. We will provide advance notice of any material changes. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of such changes. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE WEBSITE.
Cossé Law Firm, LLC has created this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients, Cossé Law Firm, LLC, including its affiliated partnerships, (collectively, the firm) is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, or others inside or outside the firm). It has always been and remains the policy of the firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel.
Information Collection
We collect information you voluntarily provide to us, including your name, email address, phone number, physical address, or additional information you choose to provide us. We collect this information when you contact us through any means, including when submitting online forms. We collect technical information including, but not limited to, device type, operating system, browser type, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, internet service provider (“ISP”) domain name, pages visited and other activities on the Site, and time and date of visit. We may use cookies or similar technologies to collect such information for advertising and other purposes.
Collection and Information Use
We may collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy. We use your personal information for a number of purposes, including, but not limited to:
- To contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries;
- To provide you with newsletters and other updates on the firm or legal matters that may be of interest to you;
- For business purposes, such as analytics, research, advertising and marketing, and operational purposes;
- To maintain, operate, customize, and improve the Site;
- To comply with law enforcement and maintain the security of our Site; or
- As otherwise disclosed at the time of collection or use.
We process your personal information, for the performance of a contract including to enter into an engagement with you; in our legitimate interests to improve our services; or with your consent.
Information Sharing
We do not sell or rent any of the information we collect about you to third parties.
We do not disclose any information about you to third parties, except: (i) as permitted or required by law or regulation or pursuant to any legal process; (ii) in response to governmental, regulatory, law enforcement or judicial inquiries; (iii) to affiliates; (iv) to third party suppliers and service providers (including vendors providing hosting, database management and development services related to the operation of the Website, outsourcing providers of our back-office and internal functions, technology service providers, and/or email marketing services related to events we are hosting, our publications or other communications we may send to you); (v) our lawyers, auditors and other professional advisors; and (vi) entities to whom we may transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets in a restructuring or in connection with a corporate transaction. If a change happens to our business, then the successor entity may use your information in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.
We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without restriction.
Our commitment to data security
We consider the protection of Personal Information to be a sound business practice, and to that end we employ commercially appropriate organizational, physical, technical and procedural safeguards and measures to protect your Personal Information in our possession or under our control, to the extent possible, from unauthorized or accidental access and improper use.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to or through the Website; any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Information, we will use the procedures and security features described above to try to prevent unauthorized access of your Personal Information.
Cookies
When you visit our Website, we may track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our Website. The servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include: your unique Internet protocol address; the name of your ISP; the town/city, county/state and country from which you access our Website; the kind of browser or computer you use; the number of links you click within the Website; the date and time of your visit; the web page from which you arrived to our Website; the pages you viewed on the Website; and certain searches/queries that you conducted via our Website. The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the Website, analyze its usage, protect the Website and its content from inappropriate use and improve the user experience.
In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, we and/or third-party contractors may use cookies, web beacons, clear gifs and similar technologies to store and help track information about you, customize your use of the Website and for other purposes to make your access more convenient or to enable us to enhance and monitor the Website. An example of such third party is Google Analytics, which we use to collect and analyze demographic and other information, and through which Google will collect certain information to be used according to Google’s privacy practices.
Social Media
This Website contains links and interactive features with various social media platforms. If you already use these platforms, their cookies may be set on your device when using our Website. These social media platforms collect Personal Information pursuant to their own policies. We do not control their practices, so you should read their policies on their sites. You should be aware that Personal Information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, chat room, social media platform or otherwise online may be viewed and used by others without any restrictions. We are unable to control such uses of your Personal Information when interacting with a social media platform, and by using such services, you assume the risk that the Personal Information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes.
Your Choices, Rights and the Opt-Out Process:
You may opt-out of receiving commercial emails from us at any time by contacting us at miguel@cosselaw.com. Please note that there might be a brief delay between when you submit your request to opt-out of such emails and when it is processed and reflected in our systems; accordingly you may continue to receive communications from us for a limited time after you unsubscribe.
For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use our Site, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Links to third party websites
We may provide links to third party websites for your information or convenience. Such websites are independently operated and are not under our control, and the privacy practices of such third party websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such third party websites or any products or services offered through them or the confidentiality, use, processing and security of any Personal Information that you provide to such websites.
Notice to California Residents of Certain Rights Under the CCPA
This section outlines specific rights granted under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to individual California residents and provides information regarding how such California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA. This section is only relevant to you if you are a resident of California as determined in accordance with the CCPA. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA regarding the collection of their Personal Data that is not set forth in this section is otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Deletion Rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we retain, subject to certain statutory exceptions, including, but not limited to, our compliance with U.S., state, local and non-U.S. laws, rules and regulations. We will notify you in writing and provide an explanation if we cannot comply with a specific request.
Disclosure and Access Rights: You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information regarding our collection and use of Personal Information specific to you over the last twelve (12) months. Such information includes:
- the categories of Personal Information we collected about you;
- the categories of sources from which the Personal Information was collected;
- our business or commercial purpose for collecting such Personal Information;
- the categories of third parties with whom we share the Personal Information;
- the specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you; and
- whether we disclosed your Personal Information to a third party, and, if yes, the categories of Personal Information that each recipient obtained.
No Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA, including by denying service, suggesting that you will receive, or charging, different rates for services or suggesting that you will receive, or providing, a different level or quality of service to you.
How to Exercise Your Rights: To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA or to access this notice in an alternative format, please submit a request on your behalf using any of the methods set forth on the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy.
Cellular Communications
When providing your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from the firm and agree to the privacy policy set forth. Message frequency varies. Reply ‘STOP’ to unsubscribe. Standard messaging rates may apply.
Minors’ Rights. In order to respect the privacy of minors, the firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent the firm collects Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in the Statement, the firm will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
If our information practices change, we will post those changes on this page. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of any updates.
Contact Us
If you have questions, comments, or concerns about Cossé Law Firm, LLC’s privacy practices, please contact us at:
ATTN: Marketing and Communications Department
1515 Poydras St New Orleans, LA 70112
(504)-588-9500
miguel@cosselaw.com