Privacy Policy - LegalStreet

LegalStreet statement of online privacy practices

Scope

Your privacy is important to Legal Street, a service offered by FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, and we go to great lengths to protect it. This Privacy Statement applies to the online collection of personal information via the Legal Street website. This Statement does not apply to information collected in any other way, including offline.

This website may contain links to sites and services maintained by others. This Privacy Statement does not reflect the privacy practices of those sites or services.

Highlights

What personal information is collected and how is that information used?

We collect information about our users in these ways: directly from the user (for example, when ordering a product, registering an account, or signing up for a newsletter), from our web server logs, and through cookies and similar technologies.
We use the information primarily to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you.
We do not share with others any of the information you provide, unless we say so in this Privacy Statement, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

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How is my personal information protected?

We have implemented certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
We store the information about you in a data center with restricted access and appropriate monitoring.
We use intrusion detection and virus protection software.
Despite these measures, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.

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Who has access to the personal information?

We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other customer data to others, and we will not make your personal information available to any unaffiliated parties, except our approved agents, vendors, affiliates and contractors, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Statement.
We rely on some of our affiliates for support of the products and services we offer, and we share some of our back-office functions with other Thomson Reuters companies; our affiliates are all required to preserve the confidentiality of any personal information they may access.
We will not disclose any personal information to unaffiliated third parties, except as necessary to service the account, to enforce the terms of use, to meet our obligations to content and technology providers, or as required by law.

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How are cookies and similar technologies used?

In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service and to display relevant content, products, services and advertising, we may use cookies, clear gifs (web beacons), ad tags and similar technologies to store and help track information about you.
Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
We do not share your personal information (information that could identify you personally) with any third-party analytics provider, advertiser, ad server or ad network.

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How may I correct, amend, or delete my personal information, or update my preferences?

You may cancel your registration or update your preferences at any time.
If you do not want to receive information about our products or services, please update your account preferences (where available), check the appropriate box when registering and/or utilize the “unsubscribe” mechanism within the communications that you receive from us.
If you have any additional questions or concerns related to this statement and/or our practices, email us.

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Full Privacy Statement

What personal information does legal street collect and how do we use it?

We collect information about our users in these ways: directly from the user, from our web server logs, and through cookies and similar technologies. We use the information primarily to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. We don’t share any of the information you provide with others, unless we say so in this Privacy Statement, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

User-Supplied Information

When you register for services or order products via our site, we ask you to provide some personal information, for example, your name, address, phone number, email address, payment card information, and/or certain additional categories of information resulting from use of our websites and services, such as research requests. We keep this information in a contact database for future reference, as needed. We may use certain information you provide to offer you products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you don’t wish to receive such offers, you may opt out (unsubscribe) as described below.

If you contact us for customer support, we may ask you to provide information about your computer or about the issues you are trying to resolve. This information is necessary to help us answer your questions. We may record your requests and our responses for quality control purposes.

Web Server Logs

When you visit our website, we may track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our sites. Our servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include:

Your unique Internet protocol address
The name of your unique Internet service provider
The city, state, and country from which you access our website
The kind of browser or computer you use
The number of links you click within the site
The date and time of your visit
The web page from which you arrived to our site
The pages you viewed on the site
Certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website(s)

The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use, and improve the user’s experience.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, we may use cookies, clear gifs (web beacons), ad tags and similar technologies to store and help track information about you. Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to help remind us who you are and to help you navigate our sites during your visits. Cookies allow us to save passwords and preferences for you so you won’t have to reenter them each time you visit.

We may present advertising through ad servers and ad networks, including Google, to website visitors using a variety of technologies such as web beacons, pixels, ad tags, and cookies. This allows us to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests. For example, we may use targeting or advertising cookies to customize the advertising and content you receive on our site, to limit the number of times you see the same ad on our site and to help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. Further, you may see Thomson Reuters ads on this website and on other internet websites and web applications based upon your visits to this website. Please keep in mind that we do not share your personal information with any third-party advertiser, ad server or ad network.

How Can You Control Cookies?

The use of cookies and similar technologies is relatively standard. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You may refuse to accept cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse cookies. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. Please refer to All About Cookies for information on commonly used browsers. Please note that by disabling or blocking any or all cookies, some features of the website may not operate as intended, or you may not have access to features or personalization available through the website. You can refuse to accept Flash cookies from this website using Adobe’s Flash management tools.

You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings.

By visiting this website, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Third Party Services

We may use services hosted by third parties, such as Google Analytics, to improve the website, assist in providing our services, help us understand our customers’ use of our products and to display relevant content, products, services and advertising. These services may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including your IP address or cookies. If these third party services collect information, they do so anonymously and in the aggregate to provide information helpful to us such as website trends, without identifying individual visitors.

How does legal street protect the personal information that it collects?

We have implemented certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, some of our websites are protected with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. Also, we store the information about you in a data center with restricted access and appropriate monitoring, and we use a variety of technical security measures to secure your data. In addition, we use intrusion detection and virus protection software. However, please note that we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.

Also, please note that we may store and process your personal information in systems located outside of your home country. However, regardless of where storage and processing may occur, we take appropriate steps to ensure that your information is protected, consistent with the principles set forth under this statement.

Who has access to the personal information?

We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other customer data to others, and we will not make your personal information available to any unaffiliated parties, except as follows:

To agents, vendors and/or contractors who may use it on our behalf or in connection with their relationship with us (for example, we may use third parties to help us with promotional campaigns).
For customers who subscribe to the Legal Service Plan offered through this website, we disclose information to the Plan Administrator so that the Plan Administrator can provide service to you.
As required by law, in a matter of public safety or policy, as needed in connection with the transfer of our business assets (for example, if we are acquired by another company or if we are liquidated during bankruptcy proceedings), or if we believe in good faith that sharing the data is necessary to protect our rights or property.

We also rely on some of our affiliates for support of the products and services we offer, and we share some of our back-office functions with other Thomson Reuters companies. Our affiliates are all required to preserve the confidentiality of any personal information they may access.

We will not disclose any information about your usage to unaffiliated third parties, except as necessary to service the account, to enforce the terms of use, to meet our obligations to content and technology providers, or as required by law. We may also use statistics regarding usage for product development purposes, but we only use those statistics in the aggregate and they don’t include any personally identifiable information about individual users.

Your access to some of our services and content may be password protected. We recommend that you refrain from disclosing your username(s) and password(s) to anyone. We also recommend that you sign out of your account or service at the end of each session. You may also wish to close your browser window when you have finished your work, especially if you share a computer with someone else or if you are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

How may I correct, amend, or delete my personal information and/or update my preferences?

You may cancel your registration or update your preferences at any time. If you don’t want to receive information about our products or services, please update your account preferences (where available), check the appropriate box when registering, and/or utilize the “unsubscribe” mechanism within the communications that you receive from us.

Questions?

If you have any additional questions or concerns related to this statement and/or our practices, please email us. Or contact us via the following:

Jon J. Olson
FindLaw Counsel
610 Opperman Drive
Eagan, MN 55123
Telephone +1 651 687 8261
Facsimile +1 651 687 1899

Privacy Statement Changes

If our information practices change in a significant way, we will post the policy changes here. This Privacy Statement was last updated on March 28, 2014.