ELG Law (registered in California as Etemadi Legal Group PC), is committed to ensuring your privacy. We are a law firm with its principal office in California and offices coming soon in other locations. References to “ELG Law”, “we” or “us” in this Privacy Notice mean the relevant firm entity with which you are working. For the purposes of applicable data protection law, the ELG Law that you have instructed, or that is providing services to you, or is communicating with you, is responsible for this Privacy Notice and, to the extent relevant to applicable data protection law, is the controller of your personal information.
This policy describes how ELG Law uses information it collects on its website(s) where this policy is posted. It also applies to outreach, informational, and marketing emails we send as well as to our interactions with our clients and potential clients. This policy does not apply to our use of employee information.
NOTICE AT COLLECTION
ELG Law may collect:
1. Contact information: Name, email address, fax number, phone number, and postal address;
2. Other identifying information: partial social security number or in other cases, driver's license numbers for job applicants;
3. Geolocation data: The general region or area from which you access our site;
4. Demographic information: Race, gender, national origin, age, religion or creed, marital status, physical or mental disability, citizenship status, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and veteran or military status;
5. Professional or employment-related information: If you are applying for a job with us, we may collect (as permitted by law) your salary range, education, current or past job history or performance evaluations, resume, skills, qualifications, and education records;
6. Internet or other electronic activity: IP address, including information about how you navigate the Internet, operating system, device identifiers;
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, as defined by California law, for inferring characteristics or for purposes other than those permitted by law. We keep these categories of personal information as long as necessary or relevant for the purposes for which it was collected. We also keep information as required by law.
WE USE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IT WAS COLLECTED
We use personal information for the following business and commercial purposes:
1. Transactional purposes: Information collected for transactional purposes is used to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries. We use your information in order to communicate with you. We may also communicate with you about voluntary programs like client surveys.
2. Analytical purposes: Information collected for analytical purposes is used to analyze preferences, trends and statistics about the use of our site.
3. Marketing and promotional purposes: Information collected for marketing and promotional purposes is used to let you know about recent developments or services updates. For example, sending you relevant articles, blog posts, and legal updates. We may also send you information about events that we think may be relevant to you.
4. Maintenance and improvement of services and website: We use your information to answer your questions and respond to queries. We also use your information to improve our websites and to provide and maintain functionality on our websites. For example, to help us diagnose technical problems, service problems, and administer our websites.
5. Security and fraud prevention: We use your information to protect our websites, our firm and others, and to prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.
6. Legal: We use your information to comply with our legal obligations, including reporting requirements. We also use your information to defend our firm, property, and others through legal proceedings.
We use information as otherwise permitted by law (or as we may notify you).
If you are in Europe: Our basis for processing your information is likely to be the performance of a contract, by responding to your request. We may also process your information on the basis of either consent or a legitimate interest.
SOURCES AND USES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information means any information about a person from which that individual can be identified. ELG Law processes personal information in a number of different situations, set out in the sections below.If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, your employees, counterparties, your advisers or your suppliers, you must ensure that they understand how their information will be used, and that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our outsourced service providers, to use it.
1. If you are a client, an officer, employee, or contractor of a client of ELG Law: To act for your organization and/or advise you as a client, we will need to collect personal information about you, including your name, role at work, work address, work contact details and business details. We will, from time to time, also collect data on your areas of expertise and experience and your business interests.Where we are required by law, we will collect certain identifying information about you to comply with our professional conduct obligations, including your name, address or regulatory status or identity documents.In the course of any particular matter that we are working on for you, we will from time to time collect other personal information about you that is relevant to the matter. Usually, we obtain this personal information directly from you or from your colleagues but may also from time to time obtain personal information about you from third parties or public sources (for example, we may obtain data about your directorships from a company search or from your other advisors).
Where we need to collect personal information in compliance with our legal obligations and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to carry out our services, perform your instructions or act for your organization. In this case, we may have to cancel our engagement with your organization, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time. You can unsubscribe from any marketing emails you may receive from us at any time – by emailing us directly ator via the Contact page provided on this website. Please note that if you opt out of marketing emails, we will still send you communications regarding legal advice or services that you have requested.
2. If you are an individual who is involved in or connected to a client matter: To act for clients, ELG Law will process the personal information of individuals who are involved in or connected to client matters, e.g. representatives of organizations that clients are contracting with and their legal advisors and consultants. It may include both individuals who are connected with our client, and individuals who are connected with other parties involved in the transaction.
Categories of personal information we collect:
In the course of any matter, we will collect personal information about individuals who are involved in or connected with the matter and the types of personal information we collect will depend on what is necessary for and relevant to the matter. The data we usually collect for a matter includes your name, role, address, contact details and business details.
In the course of any particular matter that we are working on, we will, from time to time, collect other personal information about you that is relevant to the matter. Usually, we obtain this personal information directly from you or from your colleagues but may also from time to time obtain personal information about you from third parties or public sources.
3. If you are a potential client or an officer, employee, or contractor of a potential client of ELG Law: ELG Law may process certain personal information about individuals with whom it would like to develop a business relationship or whom it targets for business development and marketing activities and communications.
Types of personal information we collect:
We will collect personal information about you, including your name, job title, position, address, contact details and business details, as well, from time to time, your areas of expertise and experience and your business interests. If we invite you to an event, we will occasionally ask for additional personal information about your dietary or accessibility requirements. This would include sensitive personal information (known as special categories of personal data under some data protection laws), such as inferred information about your religion or health status.
Usually, we will obtain this personal information directly from you, such as via an email signature or business card but may also obtain information about you from a third party, such as a colleague or a public source, for example a LinkedIn profile.
You can unsubscribe from any marketing emails you may receive from us at any time – by emailing us directly at or contacting us via the Contact page on this website. Please note that if you opt out of marketing emails, we will still send you communications regarding legal advice or services that you have requested.
4. If you are an individual associated with a vendor or supplier to ELG Law: We will process certain personal information about individuals who are employees, contractors or otherwise associated with vendors or suppliers to ELG Law.
Types of personal information we collect:
To engage your organization as a supplier, we will need to collect personal information about you, including your name, role, work address, work contact details and business details.
5. If you are a candidate applying for a role at ELG Law: We will process personal information about individuals who have applied for a role at ELG Law for recruitment purposes.
Types of personal information we collect:
The personal information we collect in order to progress your application as a candidate will include personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, personal email addresses, date of birth, gender, current salary, compensation history, annual leave entitlement, pension and benefits information, current notice period and other employment records from previous roles, start date and location of employment; recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV, cover letter or as part of the application process) and visual images and any photographs provided for business purposes. We will collect such personal information directly from you, or indirectly from recruitment agents or public sources, such as LinkedIn. If you are successful in your application, to the extent relevant, we will transfer this personal information to your employment record.
SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We disclose your personal information to third-party service providers who provide administrative or professional assistance, storage, security, telecommunications, and other services to us in support of our business, including secure remote working environments and office cloud software.We ensure that all such suppliers are subject to contractual obligations to protect personal information appropriately, in accordance with data protection law.
SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
California, Nevada, and Virginia law require that we tell you if we share personal information or “sell” personal information with a third party for monetary or (in California) other valuable consideration. We do not sell information in this way, including of minors under the age of 16. Share is specifically defined under the law. Sharing means providing personal information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not share personal information in this way based on our understanding of that term.
COOKIES AND ADVERTISING POLICY
Tracking
We collect personal information about users over time and across different websites when you use this website. We use several common tracking tools like cookies, on our website and digital platforms. When we refer to cookies, this includes other similar technologies such as pixel tags, or web beacons. To learn more about what tracking tools are and how they work, visit https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-websites-and-apps-collect-and-use-your-information#Controlling_Online_Tracking.
Our vendors or third parties may place and use these tools on our sites or apps. In this policy “we” and “us” refers to ELG Law and affiliates. It also includes our vendors and third parties who place tools on our sites or apps.This policy describes how and why we use these tools. This policy also describes your choices.
Why We Use Tracking Tools
We may use cookies and tracking tools on our sites and apps and in our emails and other communications for the following reasons:
1. To improve our website and your experience on our sites and platforms.
2. To carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services
3. To understand how visitors use our site and your interests. This includes navigating, scrolling, and looking at pages
4. they access and content they open.
5. To recognize new or past website visitors
6. To integrate with third party social media websites
Gathering Information
We use information you make available to us when you interact with us, our affiliates, and other third parties to decide what content is relevant to you. We gather this information using the tracking tools described above. For example, we or our partners might look at your browsing behaviors. We might look at these activities on our platforms or the platforms of others.We work with third parties who help gather this information. These third parties might link your name or email address to other information they collect. Or, it might include online usage information.
Controlling Certain Tracking Tools
Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies. You have choices about our tracking tools that are not required for our website to function. Some browsers can also be set to reject cookies. To find out more about how to control cookies from your web browser, please visit here. To control flash cookies, which we may use, you can go here. Why? Because flash cookies cannot be controlled through your browser settings.
Our Do Not Track Policy: Some browsers have “do not track” features. It lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want them to track your online activity. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. We do not currently respond to those signals. If you block cookies, certain features on our sites may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described here will stop.
The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising program provides consumers with the ability to opt-out of having their online behavior recorded and used for advertising purposes. To opt-out of interest based advertising you can visit here and follow the instructions on that page. Your mobile device may also provide its own instructions on how to prevent interest-based advertisements.
Choices you make are both browser and device specific.
If you live in California or Virginia, or a state with a similar law, you may have the following additional legal rights:
1. Access: to learn the categories of information we collect and use, and for those in California, the categories of sources of collection and disclosure and the business purpose for collection;
2. Portability: a copy of (Virginia) or specific pieces of (California) personal information collected;
3. Deletion: to have us delete information we collected from you;
4. Correction: asking us to fix your information; and
5. Non-retaliation: not to be discriminated against for exercising a privacy right.
How it works: To submit a request please send an email to donna.elgaw.co. You can also call us at 323.688.0616 to submit your request by phone.
For all requests, you must provide us with your name, email address and phone number. Failure to provide all of the foregoing information will prevent us from processing your request. To verify your identity we match information you provide to the information we have in our systems. To designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf, you must send a signed, written authorization to us at.
In some situations we may not be able to process your request. This may include if a legal exception applies. If you disagree with our decision you can contact us as described at the end of this policy.
Nevada residents: You may also opt out of the future sale of their information to a third party so that they may license or sell that information by emailing us at noted at the end of this notice.
Third party agents: If you are submitting a request on behalf of an eligible resident, we may ask for additional information to verify your identity. This may include providing proof that you are registered with the Secretary of State to act on someone’s behalf or proof of a power of attorney.
EU, EEA, and UK Residents: Certain additional rights exist if European law applies. These include rights to access, update or correct your information. These rights may also include requesting a portable copy of your information. These rights may also include requesting that we delete your information or that we restrict how we process your information. It may also apply if you object to profiling or direct marketing. You can also withdraw your consent. You may also be able to object to having your information used for other purposes. You also have the right to direct complaints about our privacy practices to your local Data Protection Authority. To exercise your rights, you can contact us as noted below.
INFORMATION IS STORED IN THE UNITED STATES
Information we collect is stored in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States be aware that information you submit will be transferred to the United States and you consent to this transfer. If you reside in the EU, we will transfer your personal information to the United States in accordance with EU data protection law requirements by using model contractual clauses that have been approved by the European Commission or other appropriate means. You understand that the United States may not provide the same level of protections as the laws in your country.
SECURITY MEASURES
We use reasonable security as required by applicable law. No website is completely secure, however. We encourage you to use websites and share information with caution.
OUR WEBSITE MAY HAVE THIRD PARTY LINKS
Our website may have links to third party content. We do not control that content or the third party’s privacy practices. We encourage you to read their privacy policies to understand how they use your information.
INFORMATION COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN
Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13 (if you are located in the United States) and under the age of 16 (if you are located outside the United States). We do not knowingly collect information, including personal information, from children. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected personal information from someone under the applicable age listed above, we will promptly delete it. If you believe that we have mistakenly collected information from someone under the applicable age listed above, please contact us at.
YOU CAN CONTACT US
If you have questions about this policy you can email us at donna@elglaw.co or contact us if you want to know what information we have or want us to take you off of our lists. To reach us by mail send your requests and questions to: Etemadi Legal Group PC, 137 Pineview, Irvine, CA 92620.
WE MAY UPDATE THIS POLICY
We may update this policy from time to time. The updated policy will be posted on our website. Your continued use of the website after we post a revised policy signifies your acceptance of the revised policy.
