Privacy Notice
Effective Date: May 26, 2025
Colby Law Office, P.C. (“Colby Law,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this Privacy Notice. This Notice describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit www.colbylaw.com (the “Site”), and it explains your rights under applicable laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Information We Collect
A. Information You Provide to Us Directly
– Name, email address, phone number, and any information you provide via our contact forms or emails.
– Information you provide when applying for employment or requesting consultations.
B. Information Collected Automatically
We collect certain information automatically through cookies and analytics tools:
– IP address, browser type, device information
– Pages visited, duration of visit, and referring URLs
– Geolocation data (to the extent provided by your device)
2. How We Use Your Information
- To respond to inquiries and provide requested legal information or services
- To operate, maintain, and improve our website
- To manage our client relationships and comply with legal obligations
- To detect or prevent fraud or misuse of our website
- To maintain internal records and comply with bar or ethical rules
3. Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)
- Your consent
- The performance of a contract with you
- Compliance with a legal obligation
- Our legitimate interests (e.g., improving website performance, preventing fraud)
4. Your Rights Under GDPR
- Access – You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction – You may request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Erasure – You can request deletion of your personal data.
- Restriction – You can request we restrict processing in certain circumstances.
- Portability – You can request to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Objection – You may object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Withdraw Consent – Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
- To exercise your rights, email us at: info@colbylaw.com
5. Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA
- Right to Know – About the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell (we do not sell your information).
- Right to Delete – You may request we delete the personal information we collected from you.
- Right to Correct – You may request we correct inaccurate personal information.
- Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Data – We do not use sensitive personal information for profiling or advertising.
- Right to Opt Out of Sale/Sharing – We do not sell or share personal data with third parties for cross-contextual behavioral advertising.
- Right Against Discrimination – You will not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA rights.
- To submit a request, email us at [Insert Contact Email] with “California Privacy Request” in the subject line. We may verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
6. Sharing of Personal Information
- With third-party service providers who support our website and IT services, under confidentiality obligations
- To comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests
- To protect the rights, safety, or property of Colby Law, our users, or others
- We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
7. Data Security
We use reasonable physical, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect your personal data. However, no internet-based system is 100% secure.
8. International Data Transfers
If you are located outside the United States, your information may be transferred to and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ. We implement appropriate safeguards (such as standard contractual clauses) for international transfers as required under the GDPR.
9. Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Notice, including to comply with legal, accounting, or ethical obligations.
10. Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies for analytics and website functionality. You can adjust your browser settings to refuse some or all cookies.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not directed to or intended for children under 13 (or under 16 in the EEA), and we do not knowingly collect data from children.
12. Changes to This Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. Updates will be posted here with an updated effective date.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our data practices, or wish to exercise your rights, contact us at:
Colby Law Office, P.C.