PRIVACY POLICY & DISCLAIMER
This Privacy Policy outlines how our Immigration Law Firm ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information in compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
1. Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked with a particular consumer or household ("Personal Information"). Over the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information:
Identifiers: Name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, phone number, and account name.
Sensitive Personal Information: Government identifiers (Social Security number, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number), citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin.
Commercial Information: Records of legal services purchased or considered.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity: Browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our website.
2. Sources of Information
We collect this data directly from you when you fill out contact forms, schedule consultations, or communicate with our office, as well as automatically through website cookies and analytics tools.
3. Purpose for Collecting Personal Information
We use your Personal Information solely for the following business or professional purposes:
Evaluating your potential immigration case and providing legal consultations.
Communicating with you regarding your inquiries.
Preparing legal petitions, applications, and filings for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) or other government entities.
Maintaining and improving our website performance and security.
4. Disclosure and Sale of Personal Information
No Sale or Sharing: We do not sell your personal information, nor do we share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Service Providers: We may disclose your information to trusted third-party service providers (such as secure cloud storage, legal billing software, or IT support) who are contractually obligated to keep your data confidential and use it only to perform services for us.
Legal Obligation: We may disclose information if required by law or a court order, subject to the attorney-client privilege.
5. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:
Right to Know/Access: You can request to know what personal information we have collected, used, and disclosed about you.
Right to Delete: You can request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions (such as our legal obligation to maintain case files).
Right to Correct: You can request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to limit our use of sensitive personal information. However, we only use this information to perform the requested immigration services, which is permitted under California law without an opt-out.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us via email at [Insert Email Address] or by phone at [Insert Phone Number].
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information, including sensitive immigration data, for as long as necessary to fulfill the legal services requested, comply with state bar record-retention requirements, or resolve legal disputes.
7. Important Attorney-Client Relationship Disclaimer
Submitting an inquiry through this website, filling out a contact form, or sending an email does not create an attorney-client relationship. The information you submit on this website is handled securely, but it is not protected by the attorney-client privilege until a formal, written retainer agreement is signed by both you and the firm.