LegalBloodHound.com is a registered trademark of the Law Office of Chantal M. Eldridge. The website was designed strictly to provide legal information and services to its users. As such, Ms. Eldridge is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all individuals who utilize her website.
Ms. Eldridge collects certain information about her website users through client intake sheets, web server logs, and cookies. Client intake sheets require personal information to the extent necessary to respond to a legal inquiry or to provide the legal services requested. It may be necessary from time to time for Ms. Eldridge to ask certain users to disclose additional personal information beyond the client intake sheet to provide the level of service requested. This additional information will be maintained and protected to the same extent and manner as all other personal information obtained from the user. Web server logs may contain the following information: (a) the user’s Internet protocol address; (b) the kind of browser or computer the user is using to access the website; (c) the number of links the user clicked within the site; (d) the state or country from which the user accessed the site; (e) the date and time of the user’s visit; (f) the name of the user’s Internet service provider; (g) the Web page from which the user linked to the website, and (h) the pages the user viewed on the website. Cookies are small bits of text that our servers place into a file on the user’s computer's hard drive. This is used to save the user’s preferences and login information and to provide personalized functionality. The user can reject cookies by changing his/her browser settings, but this will disable some of the functionality on the website.
Ms. Eldridge uses technical security measures
to protect personal identifying
information from unauthorized access. Unfortunately,
no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Accordingly, despite Ms. Eldridge’s efforts to protect a user’s personal
information, she cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which
the user transmits to her, or information which is transmitted to the user from
the website. All such information is
transmitted at the risk of the user. However,
once Ms. Eldridge receives a transmission, she will use her best effort to
ensure its security on her system. The
user is solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords he/she sets
up and any other account information at his/her end.
Information collected by Ms. Eldridge is maintained in a secure environment. This information is not shared with third parties for marketing purposes. Ms. Eldridge does not disclose any information about a user=s inquiry unless the disclosure would be permitted as a proper disclosure of attorney-client privileged information pursuant to the Disciplinary Rules promulgated by the Texas Board of Ethics.
Ms. Eldridge does not obtain any financial information directly from any of its users. This information is provided directly to Pay Pal through the link provided in the website. Ms. Eldridge does not access, collect, or disclose any financial information from the website users.
The website does not permit the
use of its records to compile mailing lists or consumer marketing data. It does not maintain any databases of
non-public individual financial data such as individual credit reports, income
tax records, employment information or bank information. It does not collect or distribute information
about any person's race, religious preference or health, nor does it collect any
person's medical records. It does not distribute
non-public information about people under the age of 18.
The
privacy and protection of a user’s personal information is vitally important to
Ms. Eldridge. Ms. Eldridge does not make personal information available to any
third parties without the user’s permission. Any user statistics that she may
provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding usage of
LegalBloodHound.com is provided only in the aggregate and does not include any
personally identifiable information about any individual user. Personal
identifying information is information about a person that
identifies them or is directly attributed to them. Personal identifying
information is contained in public records, non-public information and publicly
available information. Examples include: (1) a person's name; (2) their
address; (3) their date of birth; and (4) their telephone number. Permissible use means that LegalBloodHound.com
must use public records data for specific, legitimate purposes. These purposes
must comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and other
laws. Examples of permissible uses
include: (1) detecting fraud; (2) locating individuals; (3) engaging in
homeland security activities.
Users may receive promotional
offers from LegalBloodHound.com or any of its affiliated links. If the user does not want to receive
promotional materials from LegalBloodHound,com
or its affiliated links, the user may opt out at any time. The user may simply unsubscribe whenever an
unwanted e-mail is received. Please be
advised that each affiliated link has its own privacy policy which may or may
not be identical to this one. The privacy
policy for any accessed site should be reviewed independently.
LegalBloodHound.com also contains unaffiliated links to websites
which Ms. Eldridge believes will be helpful to her users. However, because these are unaffiliated
links, Ms. Eldridge is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content
of those sites. It is recommended that the
user view the privacy policy posted on each of these sites.
If this
privacy policy changes in a significant way, these changes will be posted and
highlighted for the user to review.
If any
user has any questions or comments concerning this privacy policy, please send
an e-mail message to LegalBloodHound.com.