PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: March 12, 2021
Law Firm Anti-Racism Alliance (“LFAA” or “we” or “us” or “our”) is a non-profit organization that values your privacy. In this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), we describe what information we collect from you as a user of our Site or Service, why we collect and use it, and how you can manage and delete your data. It does not apply to any offline collection of personal information by LFAA.
“Personal Information” refers to (i) any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with you, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you, and (ii) any information that is associated with you and thus could potentially be used to identify or reidentify you, including when combined with other information from or about you.
“Site” refers to our website at [insert URL] and all related subdomains or web pages on which this Policy is posted.
“Service” means our services available through our Site and any mobile applications we may provide.
LFAA is the data controller and responsible for your information under this Policy. The following is our contact information:
Law Firm Anti-Racism Alliance
155 N. Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60606
By visiting the Site, or using the Service, you agree that your Personal Information will be handled as described in this Policy. Before using the Service or submitting any Personal Information to us, please review this Policy carefully and contact us at brenna.devaney@probonolaw.com if you have any questions. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not access the Site or otherwise use the Service. Your use of our Site or Service, and any dispute relating to privacy or data protection, is subject to this Policy and our Terms of Use, including any applicable limitations on damages and provisions for the resolution of disputes.
We ask for and collect information about you when you use our Site or Service. We collect this information directly from you, from third parties, and automatically through your use of our Site or Service.
Our Site and Service are intended for general audiences and not directed or intended for children under the age of 18. You may not use our Site and Service if you are under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18.
We use your information for the following purposes:
We use your information to provide our Site and Service, communicate with you about your use of our Site and Service and the projects you may post, to respond to your inquiries, and for other customer service purposes.
We use your information to ensure our Site and Service are working as intended, to analyze how users access and use our Site and Service, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, to maintain and improve the content and functionality of our Site and Service, to develop new services, and for other internal research and analytical purposes.
We may use your information for outreach and promote our Site and Service and upcoming events. When you submit your email address to the Site during registration, we will ask you whether you want to receive periodic announcements from the Site by email. Accepting emailed announcements is entirely optional and not a condition of registration, and you may change your email settings at any time to subscribe or unsubscribe to these mailings[PSW1] .
We may use your information to prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Site or Service, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks. We also may use your information to comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our, your or any third party’s rights, privacy, safety or property.
Where you have provided consent, we share your information, including Personal Information, as described at the time of consent and only for the purpose for which you have provided your information to us. We will not sell, lend, or disclose to third parties any Personal Information collected from users, except as described in this Policy.
The Site and Service includes certain areas, such as bulletin boards, where users can post projects for viewing by affiliated law firms and other users of the Site and Service. If these postings contain Personal Information, the will be viewable by other users of the Site and Service.
We may disclose the information we collect from you to third parties, such as service providers, vendors, or agents who perform functions on our behalf, including, but not limited to, providers of hosting services, cloud services and other information technology services providers, email communication software and email newsletter services, and payment processors. Pursuant to our instructions, these third parties may access, store or otherwise process Personal Information in the course of performing their duties for us.
We may disclose the Personal Information to third parties when complying with the law, or in connection with a judicial proceeding, court order, warrant, subpoena or other legal process.
We also may disclose the information we collect from you where we believe it is necessary to respond to requests by law enforcement, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, to enforce or defend actions relating to this Policy our Terms of Use, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
We may choose to transfer your Personal Information to any person or entity that is our successor or to another person or entity in the case of a merger, acquisition or corporate reorganization or as a result of a bankruptcy involving us.
We may use third-party automated devices, applications and other means, such as Google Analytics, to evaluate and improve our Site and our Service, including without limitation performance and user experience. These tools may involve third parties that use cookies and other tracking technologies to perform their services. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used.
The Site may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by us, including social media services (“Third Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these Third Party Sites and we are not responsible for the information practices of such Third Party Sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.
You may request access, modification, or deletion of Personal Information that you have submitted to us by contacting us at brenna.devaney@probonolaw.com. We will reply to and honor such requests to the extent required by law. We may need to retain some information in order to comply with law, and to defend or exercise our legal rights or claims. Please note that copies of information that you have updated, modified, or deleted may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Site for a period of time.
We may also send periodic informational or promotional emails to you if you have signed up for such information on the Site. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your account or any Service you have requested or received from us.
We generally retain Personal Information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected, including for as long as you use our Service. We may continue to retain such Personal Information even after you cease to use any particular Service, as reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws and our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements, and protect our legitimate interests.
The Site and Service are intended for use within the United States. If you use the Site or Service outside of the United States of America to submit any of your own Personal Information, you acknowledge that your Personal Information may be transferred to and processed in the United States of America, which may have fewer protections than your jurisdiction of residence.
You use the Site and Service at your own risk. No system or electronic transmission is ever fully secure, impenetrable, or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Service or email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Information to us via the Internet. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service, or third party websites. We are also not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.
This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. As we periodically review our security measures and Privacy Policy, the Service may change from time to time. As a result, we may change this Policy at any time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Policy on the Site, unless another type of notice is required by the applicable law, including, in some cases, by providing notice to the email address associated with your account (for this reason you should make sure to update your account information promptly if it changes). By continuing to use our Service or providing us with Personal Information after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, or notified you by other means if applicable, you acknowledge the revised Privacy Policy and practices described in it.
If you have questions or complaints about this Policy or our information practices, please contact us at brenna.devaney@probonolaw.com.