Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 3, 2001

We designed ParalegalGateway.com™ to facilitate the sharing of information between paralegal colleagues. We provide this notice to explain our site’s information collection practices and the choices you may make regarding the use of the information you share with us through our site. This Privacy Policy covers the site www.ParalegalGateway.com and its directly associated domains. By using or accessing ParalegalGateway.com, you are accepting the practices set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collected
Personal Information (PII). When you register withParalegalGateway.com, choose to participate in ParalegalGateway.com activities, or if you would like ParalegalGateway.com to provide you with products, services, or other information, we collect certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and any other personal or preference information.

Non-Personal Information (non-PII). We may collect non-personally identifiable information. When you access the ParalegalGateway.com site, we may collect information such as IP address, browser type, domain name, and aggregate user data.

Information About Others. When you invite colleagues or acquaintances to ParalegalGateway.com by using our invitation service, you will need to provide us with certain information on such persons (e.g., first name and email address) so that we may send them an invitation in your name. We may send reminders to such persons to visit the site. The persons you invite may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.

Other Information. We may collect information you provide when you use ParalegalGateway.com to form connections, send messages, perform searches, form groups, set up events, and add applications. Additionally, ParalegalGateway.com may collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, and other source to provide you with useful information and to personalize your experience.

Cookies and Similar Technologies. We may use cookies on our site to remember your username and password. We may also use session cookies to collect and store anonymous information about your visit to our site. Additionally, we may use cookies and similar technologies to customize the content and advertising you receive based on the information you provide us.

Use of Information
Fulfill Requests. ParalegalGateway.com uses the information you share with us to satisfy your requests for products and services, and to respond to your inquiries.

Management of Services. ParalegalGateway.com may use aggregated user data to manage and improve ParalegalGateway.com services, track usage, and for security purposes. ParalegalGateway.com may also ask for information to better understand how we may be of service to you.

Advertising and Marketing. We may use the information collected about you through this site and from other sources to offer you products, services, and for other purposes that may be of interest to you. If you would prefer not to receive future promotional materials from us, you may indicate your preference here. Electing this preference will not prevent you from receiving important administrative communications from us. ParalegalGateway.com may also use information you provide us or information from other sources to customize the advertising and marketing messages you receive on the ParalegalGateway.com site. We may work with outside companies to customize advertising. We may share your information with these companies to accomplish this customization. ParalegalGateway.com may provide your information to a third party if you have chosen to receive certain information, products, or services, and have been notified that such a request requires the sharing of your information. If you would prefer not to receive future items from third parties, you may indicate your preference at here. We may also post advertisements of third parties on the ParalegalGateway.com site. Additionally, we may use your information for purposes such as aggregating preferences and personalizing advertisements.

Law Enforcement and Other Purposes. ParalegalGateway.com may disclose information in response to a legal process, such as a court order or a subpoena. We may also disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, and situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of a person, violations of our policies, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

Acquisition or Merger. ParalegalGateway.com may transfer information about you to the party or parties involved in a transaction as part of that transaction if ParalegalGateway.com sells all or part of its business, or makes a sale or transfer of all or a material part of its assets, or is involved in a merger or transfer of all or a material part of its business.

Links
Links to sites operated by affiliated or other companies may appear on the ParalegalGateway.com site. ParalegalGateway.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such linked sites. If you leave ParalegalGateway.com through such a link, consult the privacy policy of the site to determine how information collected from you may be treated.

Third Party Applications
Third party applications, such as widgets, created by third party developers may be available on ParalegalGateway.com. ParalegalGateway.com does not control third party applications or their actions. Consult the third party developer’s policies to learn how the use and “download” of such applications could implicate the collection and use of your information as well as your Internet exposure.

Access to and Control of Information

You may change your registered information or information in your profile at any time. You may also control how ParalegalGateway.com and site visitors and users communicate with you, and the information that such visitors or users may view. You may choose your settings to allow other site users to supplement your profile. To control your account settings, please login to ParalegalGateway.com and click My Account. ParalegalGateway.com allows users of the site to search for other ParalegalGateway.com users. Search engines may also index portions of a user’s profile that is publicly displayed. Persons who see your name in searches will not be able to access information in your profile unless you permit such access based on your privacy settings. If you wish to deactivate your ParalegalGateway.com account, you may do so by contacting us and we will remove it immediately. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time.

Security

ParalegalGateway.com takes appropriate precautions to help protect the information of our users. However, we make no guarantees as to the safety or security of any information transmitted to or from this site.

Changes to this Policy

From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy, and such modifications will be effective upon posting by ParalegalGateway.com on the ParalegalGateway.com site. Your continued use of this site after any such changes have been posted constitutes your agreement to those changes. We encourage you periodically to check back to this page to learn what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of the ParalegalGateway.com site, please contact us.