ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT
As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients, Still She Rises is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the organization). It has always been and remains the policy of the organization to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel.
This Privacy Statement is based on common privacy and data protection principles. We apply it in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Statement is intended to summarize the organization’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the organization’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.
This Statement is also specifically addressed to parties outside the organization who provide Personal Information to the organization or who visit or use the organization’s website, our social media sites, our extranets, as well as email messages that we send to you that contain a link to this Statement (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Statement also describes how the organization collects, processes and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The organization collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to its website or users of Internet Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:
to contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries
to conduct our recruiting and selection process
to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the organization, and otherwise engage with you/your case(s), and administer the matters you instruct us on
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the organization to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other Internet Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We require consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Statement and in our applicable policies.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the organization except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you.