Garrett Law Group, PLC collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Garrett Law Group, PLC’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Garrett Law Group, PLC’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Garrett Law Group, PLC may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Garrett Law Group, PLC also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Garrett Law Group, PLC only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Garrett Law Group, PLC’s websites choose to interact with Garrett Law Group, PLC in ways that require Garrett Law Group, PLC to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Garrett Law Group, PLC gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at WordPress.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Garrett Law Group, PLC – by purchasing access to the Akismet comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Garrett Law Group, PLC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Garrett Law Group, PLC. Garrett Law Group, PLC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Garrett Law Group, PLC may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Garrett Law Group, PLC may monitor the most popular blogs on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Garrett Law Group, PLC may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Garrett Law Group, PLC does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Garrett Law Group, PLC discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Garrett Law Group, PLC’s behalf or to provide services available at Garrett Law Group, PLC’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Garrett Law Group, PLC’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Garrett Law Group, PLC will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, the Garrett Law Group discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Garrett Law Group, PLC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Garrett Law Group, PLC, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Garrett Law Group, PLC’s website and have supplied your email address, Garrett Law Group, PLC may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Garrett Law Group, PLC and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Garrett Law Group, PLC takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Garrett Law Group, PLC uses cookies to help Garrett Law Group, PLC identify and track visitors, their usage of Garrett Law Group, PLC’s website, and their website access preferences. Garrett Law Group, PLC visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Garrett Law Group’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Garrett Law Group, PLC’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Garrett Law Group, PLC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Garrett Law Group, PLC’s sole discretion. Garrett Law Group, PLC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.