Privacy Policy

Introduction

Channel Islands Law Group, a PC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use, and disclose personal information about you. This Policy applies to information we collect when you access or use our website and other online services, visit our offices, attend our events, apply for a job with us, or otherwise interact with us (collectively, our “Services”). We may provide separate notices about our privacy practices, in which case the separate privacy notice will apply.

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date of this Policy. We encourage you to review this Policy frequently to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

Effective Date: January 1, 2024

1. Collection of Information

Information You Provide to Us

We collect personal information you provide directly to us when you access or use our Services, subscribe to receive our emails, use any collaboration tools, participate in interactive features, send us an email, fill out a form, respond to a survey, comment on a blog, register for an event, apply for a job, interact with us on social media, or otherwise communicate with us.

Types of personal information we may collect include:
– Contact information: name, email address, postal address, phone number
– Education information: degrees, languages, memberships, qualifications, certifications
– Employment information: business unit, company name, job status, title, employment history, office location, LinkedIn profile
– Health-related information: accessibility requirements, dietary restrictions, symptoms or exposure to certain illnesses
– Government-issued identification: social security number, driver’s license number, state-issued identification number (for employment applications)
– Photos, videos, audio files
– Demographic information: age, gender, race/ethnic origin, nationality – Any other information you choose to provide

Information We Collect Automatically

We automatically collect personal information when you access or use our Services, including:
– Log information: browser type and language, app version, access times, pages viewed, IP address, links clicked, approximate geographic location, referring website
– Device information: hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information
– Location information: precise location of your device, if permitted by device settings
– Information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies: cookies, web beacons, pixel tags

We use cookies for various purposes, such as improving our services, understanding usage, and ensuring security. Most browsers accept cookies by default; you can adjust settings to refuse cookies.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also collect personal information from publicly available databases or other sources and combine it with information we collect through our Services. For example, we may use LinkedIn information to update our contact database.

Information We Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences based on other types of personal information we collect. For example, we may infer your location from your IP address or your interest in employment from your browsing behavior on our Services.

2. Use of Personal Information

We use personal information for various business purposes, including:
– Providing information or services you request
– Maintaining and improving our Services
– Personalizing your experience on our Services
– Responding to questions, comments, and requests
– Sending newsletters, updates, and other communications
– Administering surveys
– Enabling access to our premises for events
– Assessing job applicants and making hiring decisions
– Monitoring and analyzing usage, trends, and activities related to our Services
– Sending technical notices, updates, security alerts, support, and administrative messages
– Detecting, investigating, and preventing security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activities

– Complying with legal and financial obligations
– Protecting the health, safety, and vital interests of our personnel and others

3. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose personal information as follows:
– Name and bar number in Connection with an application for CLE credit
– Vendors, consultants, professional advisors, and service providers needing access to personal information to provide services to us
– During negotiations of any merger, financing, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale of assets or acquisition of our business
– In response to a request for information to comply with applicable laws or legal processes – To protect our rights, property, and safety, or the rights, property, and safety of others
– With other users of our Services if you post content in interactive areas
– With your consent or at your direction

– Sharing aggregated or deidentified information that cannot be used to identify you

4. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Data Subject Requests
Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to:
– Know and access personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you – Delete your personal information
– Correct inaccurate personal information
– Object to or request restriction of certain processing

To exercise these rights, contact us at info@channelislandslg.com. We will verify your request by confirming your identity, such as by requesting your name, email address, and information about your interactions with us. If you use an authorized agent, we may request evidence of authority to submit requests on your behalf and verify your identity directly with us.

Opting Out of Marketing Communications

You may opt out of receiving promotional communications or request changes to your communication preferences by following instructions in communications or visiting our unsubscribe page. We may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about ongoing business relations.

Cookies

Most web browsers accept cookies by default. You can usually set your browser to remove or reject cookies. Removing or rejecting cookies may affect the availability and functionality of our Services.

Links to Other Websites and Third-Party Content

We may provide links to or embed videos hosted by third-party websites, services, and applications that we do not operate or control. This Policy does not apply to third-party services. We encourage reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party service before providing information to or through them.

5. California Privacy Information

Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information

We collect the following categories of personal information: identifiers, protected classifications, commercial information, internet and electronic network activity, geolocation data, audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, professional or employment-related information. For precise data points, see “Collection of Information” above.

Rights Under CCPA

Under the CCPA, California residents have the following rights:
– To request disclosure of personal information collected, used, or disclosed over the preceding 12 months
– To request disclosure of information sold or shared, including recipients and purposes – To correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information
– To request deletion of personal information, subject to legal exceptions
– To opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information

Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not deny services or charge different prices or quality of services because you exercise any rights under the CCPA. However, we may not be able to provide services if you refuse to provide necessary personal information or request its deletion.

6. Data Retention

We store personal information as long as necessary for the purposes it was collected and for other legitimate business purposes, including meeting legal, regulatory, or compliance obligations.

7. Individuals in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland
Legal Basis for Processing
We process personal data based on the following lawful bases:
– Performance of a contract
– Legitimate interest in operating our business
– Compliance with legal obligations
– Consent, where applicable

Privacy Rights

Individuals in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland have the following rights:

– To access a copy of personal data held about you
– To request correction or supplementation of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
– To request erasure of personal data, subject to legal exceptions
– To object to or request restriction of certain processing

To exercise these rights, contact us at info@channelislandslg.com.

8. Data Retention

We store personal information as long as necessary for the purposes it was collected and for other legitimate business purposes, including meeting legal, regulatory, or compliance obligations.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Channel Islands Law Group, a PC
58 N. Ash Street, Ventura, California, 93001
info@channelislandslg.com
(805) 652-6941

Effective Date: January 1, 2024