Last Updated: November 19, 2016
LawGro, Inc. (“LawGro,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) values your privacy. In this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), we describe the information we collect, how we use it, and when and with whom we share it. This Policy applies to all sites, mobile applications, and other online services (collectively, “Service”) made available by LawGro. This Policy applies only to information collected on or through the Service. It does not apply to information collected or obtained by or through any other means (including, without limitation, information collected offline, in person, over the telephone and/or by mail, or from third parties outside the Service). Undefined capitalized terms used herein shall have the definitions as set forth in our Terms of Service. By accessing or using the Service, you agree to this Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE.
KEY TERMS
Please review the “Key Terms” section in the Terms of Service.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
How we collect and store information depends on how you access and use the Service. We collect information in multiple ways including when you provide information directly to us, when you permit third parties to provide information to us, and when we passively collect information from you, such as information collected from your browser or device.
Information You Provide Directly to Us
We may collect information from you during your use or access of the Service, such as:
When you register for an Account;
When you participate in polls or surveys;
When you enroll for electronic newsletters;
When you request a proposal or other information;
When you submit a proposal;
When you make a purchase;
When you fill out any forms;
When you enter a sweepstakes or contest, or register for a promotion;
When you transmit User Content;
When you download or use one of our mobile applications; or
When you otherwise communicate with us or other users through the Service.
This list is illustrative, not exhaustive; the Privacy Policy applies to all use of the Service.
The information you provide directly to us may concern you or others and may include, but is not limited to: (a) name; (b) zip code; (c) email address; (d) home or business telephone number; (e) home, business or mailing address; (f) demographic information (e.g., gender, age, political preference, education, race or ethnic origin, and other information relevant to user surveys and/or offers); (g) date of birth; (h) insurance information; (i) photographs; (j) information about your job, request or need; (k) documents; (l) video or audio files; and/or (m) in certain circumstances, payment and/or identity verification information. It may also include information specific to services you are requesting or offering through the Service, such as a business name, service description, qualifications and credentials. You are not required to provide us with such information, but certain features of the Service may not be accessible or available, absent the provision of the requested information.
Information from Affiliates, Social Networking Sites, and other Non-affiliated Third Parties
We may collect information about you or others through LawGro affiliates or through non-affiliated third parties. For example, you may be able to access the Service through a social networking account, such as Google or Linkedin. If you access the Service through your Google account or Linkedin account, you may allow us to have access to certain information in your Google or Linkedin profile. This may include your name, profile picture, gender, networks, user IDs, list of friends, location, date of birth, email address, photos, videos, people you follow and/or who follow you, and/or your posts or “likes.”
Social networking sites, such as Google and Linkedin, have their own policies for handling your information. For a description of how these sites may use and disclose your information including any information you make public, please consult the sites’ privacy policies. We have no control over how any third-party site uses or discloses the personal information it collects about you.
We may also collect information about you or others through non-affiliated third parties. For example, to the extent permitted by law, we may, in our sole discretion, ask for and collect supplemental information from third parties, such as information about your credit from a credit bureau, or information to verify your identity or trustworthiness, or for other fraud or safety protection purposes. We may combine information that we collect from you through the Service with information that we obtain from such third parties and information derived from any other products or services we provide.
Information That is Passively or Automatically Collected
Device/Usage Information. We and our third-party service providers, which include ad networks and analytics companies including DoubleClick and Google Analytics, may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about the computers or devices (including mobile devices) you use to access the Service. As described further below, we may collect and analyze information including but not limited to (a) browser type; (b) ISP or operating system; (c) domain name; (d) access time; (e) referring or exit pages; (f) page views; (g) IP address; (h) unique device identifiers (e.g. IDFA or Android ID); and (i) the type of device that you use. We may also track how frequently you access or use the Service. We use this information (including the information collected by our third-party service providers) for Service analytics (including to determine which portions of the Service are used most frequently and what our users like/do not like), to assist in determining relevant advertising (both on and off the Service), to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns, and as otherwise described in this Policy.
Location Information. When you use the Service, we may collect general location information (such as IP address). If you install our mobile app, we may ask you to grant us access to your mobile device’s geolocation data. If you grant such permission, we may collect information about your precise geolocation, and we may use that information to improve the Service, including providing you with location-based features (e.g. for identification of Services available near you). To deliver customized content and advertising, we may share your location information with our agents, vendors, or advertisers. If you access the Service through a mobile device and you do not want your device to provide us with location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to do this. See your device manufacturer’s instructions for further details. If you disable certain functions, you may be unable to use certain parts of the Service.
Cookies and Other Electronic Technologies. We and our third-party service providers may use cookies, clear GIFs, pixel tags, and other technologies that help us better understand user behavior, personalize preferences, perform research and analytics, and improve the Service. These technologies, for example, may allow us to tailor the Service to your needs, save your password in password-protected areas, track the pages you visit, help us manage content, and compile statistics about Service usage. We also use certain of these technologies to deliver advertisements through the Service that may interest you. We or our third-party service providers also may use certain of these technologies in emails to our customers to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.
We may also use local shared objects (also known as “Flash cookies”) to assist in delivering special content, such as video clips or animation. Flash cookies are stored on your device, but they are not managed through your web browser. To learn more about how to manage Flash cookies, you can visit the Adobe website and make changes at the Global Privacy Settings Panel.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but your browser may allow you to modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you disable cookies, you may be prevented from taking full advantage of the Service, because it may not function properly. Flash cookies operate differently than browser cookies, and cookie management tools available in a web browser may not affect flash cookies. As we adopt additional technologies, we may also gather additional information through other methods.
HOW LAWGRO USES THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may use your information for any of the following reasons:
For the purposes for which you provided it;
To enable you to use the services available through the Service, including registering you for our services and verifying your identity and authority to use our services;
For customer support and to respond to your inquiries;
For internal record-keeping purposes;
To administer surveys, sweepstakes, promotions, or contests;
To process billing and payment including sharing with third-party payment gateways and payment service providers in connection with the Service;
To improve and maintain the Service and for product development;
To address fraud or safety concerns, or to investigate complaints or suspected fraud or wrongdoing;
To periodically send promotional emails regarding new products from LawGro, special offers from LawGro, or other information that may interest you;
To contact you by text message regarding certain services or information you have requested;
To contact you by telephone or text message regarding Service features, improvements, or other products and services that may interest you;
For LawGro’s market research purposes, including, but not limited to, the customization of the Service according to your interests;
To contact you about goods and services that may interest you or with information about your use of the Service;
For other research and analytical purposes; and
To resolve disputes, to protect ourselves and other users of the Service, and to enforce any legal terms that govern your use of the Service.
We may combine information that we collect from you through the Service with information that we obtain from affiliated and nonaffiliated third parties, and information derived from any other products or services we provide.
We may aggregate and/or de-identify information collected through the Service. We may use de-identified or aggregated data for any purpose, including without limitation for research and marketing purposes and may also share such data with any third parties, including without limitation, advertisers, promotional partners, sponsors, event promoters, and/or others.
WHEN LAWGRO DISCLOSES YOUR INFORMATION
Unless otherwise described in this Policy, we may also share the information that we collect from you through the Service as follows:
Affiliates. We may share your information with any LawGro affiliates.
Consent. We may disclose your information to non-affiliated third parties based on your consent to do so. Such consent includes the disclosure of your information (a) in order to provide services or products that you have requested (please see below for more details); (b) when we have your permission; or (c) as described in this Policy, the Terms of Service, or any other legal terms governing your use of the Service.
Service Providers. We may provide access to your information to select third parties who perform services on our behalf. These third parties provide a variety of services to us including without limitation billing, sales, marketing, advertising, market research, fulfillment, data storage, analysis and processing, identity verification, fraud and safety protection and legal services. As we retain new service providers, we generally seek contractual assurances from these service providers that they will not use your information in any manner other than to help us provide you with the services and products available from LawGro.
Legal Requirements. We may disclose your information when required by law or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process we receive; (b) establish or exercise our legal rights including enforcing and administering agreements with users; or (c)defend LawGro against legal claims.If we are required by law to disclose your information, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you unless we believe in our sole discretion that (a) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, court order or applicable law; or (b) we, in our sole discretion, believe that providing notice could create a risk of injury or death, or that harm or fraud could be directed to LawGro or users. We will attempt to provide the notice by email if you have given us an email address. If you do not challenge the disclosure request, we may be legally required to turn over your information.
Protection of LawGro and Others. We may disclose your information when we believe it appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Terms of Service or any other legal terms governing use of the Service, and/or to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of other users.
Business Transfers. As we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses, or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions or where there is any change of control of LawGro, user information may be among the transferred assets.
App Store Providers. We may provide your identity and mobile device identifier to third-party app store providers (for example, the Apple App Store) to allow you to download our mobile apps.
Academics and Research. We may provide information about users to third parties for academic and research purposes, in anonymized or aggregated form.
Please be advised that some information you provide will be publicly accessible. For instance, registration for an Account requires that you provide us with your name. If you register through Google or Linkedin, the Service will use the name associated with your site’s account. Your name (full name, or in some instances, your first name and last initial) may be visible to other users. Depending on the circumstances, your name may be attached to your Content or information, such as scheduling of Services, service requests, reviews, participating in discussions or forums, messaging, and profile information. Certain other people, including other users with whom you have interacted via the Service, will see information about you that is attached to your name. For example but without limitation, if you are a Customer Member seeking Services, the description you provide of your desired services will be shown to some Provider Members registered in the relevant category along with your name. Thus, other users may be able to personally identify you based on Content you provide.
We invite you to post Content on or through our Service, including your comments, feedback, pictures, and any other information. However, please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. If you choose to post User Content on or through the Service, such as through Member-to-Member messaging, through our review boards, forums, blogs, or other postings, that information: (a) may be or become publicly available; (b) may be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge; and (c) may be used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law, or your personal privacy.
ONLINE ANALYTICS AND TAILORED ADVERTISING
Analytics
We may use third-party web analytics services on the Service, such as those of Google Analytics. These service providers use the sort of technology described in the Information That Is Passively or Automatically Collected section above to help us analyze how users use the Service, including by noting the third-party website from which you arrive. The information collected by the technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Service. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to advertising, as described in the following section. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.
Tailored Advertising
Third parties whose products or services are accessible or marketed via the Service may also place cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other device to collect information about your use of the Service in order to (a) inform, optimize, and serve marketing content based on past visits to our websites and other sites and (b) report how our marketing content impressions, other uses of marketing services, and interactions with these marketing impressions and marketing services are related to visits to our websites. We also allow other third parties(e.g., ad networks and ad servers such as Google Analytics, DoubleClick, Facebook and others) to serve tailored marketing to you and to access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Service. We neither have access to, nor does this Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Service by non-affiliated, third-party ad technology, ad servers, ad networks or any other non-affiliated third parties. Those parties that use these technologies may offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising as described below. You may receive tailored advertising on your computer through a web browser. Cookies may be associated with de-identified data linked to or derived from data you voluntarily have submitted to us (e.g., your email address) that we may share with a service provider in hashed, non-human readable form.
If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored marketing, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out Linkand/or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out Linkto opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. To opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising or customize Google Display Network ads, you can visit the Google Ads Settings page. Please note that to the extent advertising technology is integrated into the Service, you may still receive advertising content even if you opt out of tailored advertising. In that case, the advertising content will just not be tailored to your interests. Also, we do not control any of the above opt-out links and are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms. If your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit this opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, yourNAI or DAAopt-out may no longer be effective. Additional information is available on NAI’s and DAA’s websites accessible by the above links.
When using a mobile application you may also receive tailored in-application advertising content. Each operating system, iOS for Apple devices, Android for Android devices and Windows for Microsoft devices, provides its own instructions on how to prevent the delivery of tailored in-application marketing content. You may review the support materials and/or the privacy settings for the respective operating systems in order to opt-out of tailored in-application advertising. For any other devices and/or operating systems, please visit the privacy settings for the applicable device or contact the applicable platform operator.
CALIFORNIA DO-NOT-TRACK DISCLOSURE
LawGro is committed to providing you with meaningful choices about the information collected on our Service for third party purposes. That is why we have provided links below to the NAI “Customer Opt-out” link, DAA opt-out link, a Google opt-out link. However, LawGro does not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do-Not-Track signals, as the internet industry is currently still working on Do-Not-Track standards, implementations and solutions.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Services are not designed for children under 18. Only persons 18 years of age or older may use the Service. If we discover that an individual under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will close the account and delete such information.
SECURITY
We employ appropriate physical, procedural and technological security measures, which are reasonably designed to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. LawGro may use encryption, passwords, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure. No security measures, however, are 100% failsafe. Therefore, we do not promise and cannot guarantee, and thus you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will not be collected, disclosed and/or used by others. You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, keeping your log-in and password private, and not recycling passwords from other websites or accounts. LawGro is not responsible for the unauthorized use of your information nor for any lost, stolen, compromised passwords, or for any activity on your Account via unauthorized password activity.
LINKS TO EXTERNAL SERVICES
The Service may contain links to other websites or resources over which LawGro does not have any control. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by LawGro of those external websites. You acknowledge that LawGro is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that LawGro is not responsible for the content of such external websites or the protection and privacy of information you provide while visiting such external websites.
UPDATING, DELETING, AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You may review, correct and delete certain information about you by logging into the Service and navigating to your preferences page in “Your Dashboard.” You must promptly update your Account information if it changes or is inaccurate. Upon your request, we will close your Account and remove your profile information from view as soon as reasonably possible. We may retain information from closed Accounts in order to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations of any user, enforce our Terms of Service, and/or for any other purposes otherwise permitted by law that we deem necessary in our sole discretion. You should understand, however, that once you transmit User Content through the Service, you may not be able to change or remove it. Once we have deleted or removed your Account, you agree that LawGro will not be responsible to you for retaining information related to your Account.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS
We may send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. 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 30 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 services you have requested or received from us.
DATA HOSTING, TRANSFER, AND RETENTION
Our computer systems are currently based in the United States, so your personal data will be hosted processed by us in the United States, and in other countries through LawGro and third parties that we use to operate and manage our Service, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as the European Union. If you create an Account with the Service as a visitor from outside the United States, by using the Service, you agree to this Policy and you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States, which may not offer an equivalent level of protection of that required in the European Union or certain other countries, and to the processing of that information as described in this Policy.
We will retain Service Data that is processed on behalf of our users in accordance with the instructions received from our users for as long as needed to provide our services to our users, subject to compliance with this Policy. We may retain and use other personal information, including personal information we collect as a “data controller,” as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, maintain accurate accounting, financial and other operational records, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements as described above. Our policy for the deletion of Service Data following termination or cancellation of a user’s account to the Service can be found here.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
THIS POLICY IS CURRENT AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE SET FORTH ABOVE. LAWGRO MAY, IN ITS SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, CHANGE THIS POLICY AT ANY TIME. LAWGRO WILL POST ITS UPDATED POLICY ON THE SERVICE OR SEND YOU AN EMAIL IN ADVANCE OF THE NEW EFFECTIVE DATE. LAWGRO ENCOURAGES YOU TO REVIEW THIS POLICY REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES. YOUR CONTINUED ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THE THEN-CURRENT POLICY.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us by sending an email to support@lawgro.com, or by writing to us at 46746 Crawford St, Unit 1A, Fremont, CA 94539.