Website Privacy, Cookie, and Data Use Policy

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (“PSZJ”) respects your privacy and is committed to responsibly collecting, maintaining, and using personal information about you. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to all of your use of www.pszjlaw.com (the “Site”).

This Policy describes how your personal information will be treated as you use the PSZJ Site. This Policy does not apply to information provided to us in the course of our attorney-client relationships or that is protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work-product doctrine, or any other applicable protection. Nothing in this Policy should be understood as creating an attorney-client relationship with visitors to the PSZJ Site or, alternatively, as reducing protections resulting from such relationships.

1. Information We Collect From You When You Visit the PSZJ Site

Like many websites, our server logs capture, and we have in the past 12 months collected, the following internet or other electronic network activity information: information regarding PSZJ Site users’ operating systems, browser software, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, and the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstreams to, through, and from the PSZJ Site, including date and time. We may use this information to improve the services we provide through the PSZJ Site; to monitor and improve the performance of our servers; to administer the PSZJ Site; and to protect and defend our rights, property, or safety or that of our clients and other users of the PSZJ Site. We also collect and have in the past 12 months collected the fact that PSZJ Site visitors’ viewed and when they viewed materials on the PSZJ Site. We log this information to determine which materials PSZJ Site visitors consider useful.

The PSZJ Site also uses cookies for data analytics provided by third parties (Google Analytics, etc.). We use cookies and tracking tools for the following purposes:

  • To improve your experience on our sites and platforms
  • To carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products, and services
  • To understand how visitors use our site, including navigating, scrolling, and looking at pages visitors access and content they open

2. Information You Submit to Us Through the PSZJ Site

You are not required to submit any information to the PSZJ Site. If you join one or more of our mailing lists or otherwise choose to provide personal information to us through the PSZJ Site, we will collect, and have in the last 12 months collected, the following information about users of the PSZJ Site, first name, last name, email address, phone number, postal address, personal and professional interests; and professional and employment information; and educational information. We use that information for the purpose for which it was collected and in accordance with the privacy wording on the relevant part of the PSZJ Site. In addition, we may use this information:

  • To communicate with you about our business
  • To provide publications, products and services you request
  • To invite you to and register you for events
  • To add you to mailing lists and send you marketing materials we believe will be of interest to you
  • To process and respond to requests, inquiries, and complaints

For other purposes and operations that are reasonably related, such as administering, monitoring, and improving the PSZJ Site, our products, and services

Your information may be accessed by third-party service providers who will process that information solely for our benefit and in accordance with our instructions—see section 6 below for more information. However, we will not provide your personal information to or share it with any third party for their own marketing purposes except in connection with requests you make that clearly involve third parties. This might include publications produced by third parties or events that are presented or sponsored by third parties.

3. Your Rights to Access and Update Your Personal Information

PSZJ takes appropriate steps to avoid unauthorized changes to personal information you submit to the PSZJ Site. For so long as PSZJ elects to continue to provide the PSZJ Site, and provided that you comply with all agreements concerning use of the site, we will make all reasonable efforts to provide you with online access to your registration data and other personal information so that you may view, update, or correct it. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take appropriate steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections.

We retain information that is collected through the PSZJ Site only for as long as needed for the purpose for which it was provided or as otherwise required for our legitimate business purposes. Your information may be retained for longer periods if there are valid legal grounds if, for example, required by law or court order or to defend or pursue legal claims.

You may opt out of receiving marketing and market research communications at any time by using the unsubscribe links provided or by contacting us at [email protected]. You may also change your preferences regarding the communications you receive from us here.

For further information on your Rights, see section 10 below.

4. Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Information

The majority of the personal information collected by PSZJ is provided by you voluntarily on the PSZJ Site. For example, when you sign up to join a mailing list or register for an event your information is collected with your permission and consent. The remaining personal information is collected for PSZJ’s legitimate business purposes. Some examples of legitimate business purposes include monitoring and improving the quality of the PSZJ Site and our services, and protecting and defending our rights, property, or safety or that of our clients and other users of the PSZJ Site.

5. Links

Links to web sites that are not operated by or for PSZJ (“Third-Party Sites”) are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the PSZJ Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to Third-Party Sites. We have not reviewed the Third-Party Sites, do not control them, and are not responsible for any of their content or their privacy policies, if any. We do not endorse or make any representations about Third-Party sites or any information, software, or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the Third-Party Sites listed on or linked to from the PSZJ Site, you should understand that you do so at your own risk.

6. Sharing of Information

The entity responsible for the management and use of the PSZJ Site and personal information collected from them is Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP. The PSZJ Site is operated on servers located in various jurisdictions within the United States. When you access or use the PSZJ Site, personal information about you may be transferred outside the country in which you are situated to these locations.

PSZJ may also disclose and/or transfer your personal information (i) to its trusted third- party service providers (for example, companies that provide systems or web hosting, including microsites of the PSZJ Site and other IT services or internal and external advisors and auditors); (ii) if required by applicable law; (iii) in connection with a reorganization or combination of our firm with another firm; (iv) if it believes that such disclosure is necessary to enforce or apply its terms of use and other agreements or otherwise protect and defend PSZJ’s rights, property, or safety or that of our clients and other users of the PSZJ Site; (v) in order to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal obligation, or a regulatory or government inquiry; or (vi) with consent.

We have in the last 12 months disclosed for a business purpose the following categories of personal information: (i) identifiers (name, email address, phone number, postal address, IP (Internet Protocol) address, personal and professional interests); (ii) internet or other electronic network activity information (information regarding operating system, browser software, information regarding interaction with the PSZJ Site, namely the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstreams to, through and from the PSZJ Site, including date and time, and that materials on the PSZJ Site were viewed and when they were viewed); and (iii) professional and employment information.

7. Children’s Privacy

We are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The PSZJ Site and services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If we receive personal information that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 16, we will promptly destroy such information. Schools and parents should supervise their children’s online activities and consider the use of other means to provide a child-friendly online environment.

8. Security

The PSZJ Site uses measures that are appropriate to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized or unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All PSZJ ,employees and any third parties that process your personal information on our behalf are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information. However, we cannot and do not provide any assurance that these measures will be sufficient to protect the information you choose to transmit to our Site.

If you have registered to use online services on the PSZJ Site, your account details will be password protected. It is your responsibility to keep your password confidential and secure, and to sign out once you have finished browsing. The PSZJ Site is not designed to store sensitive personal information such as financial, health, criminal, racial or ethnic origin or political affiliation and you should not use the PSZJ Site for that purpose.

9. Agreement, Changes

By  visiting the PSZJ Site, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information on the basis described above. If you do not agree, please do not provide any personal information via the PSZJ Site. If we update our Privacy Policy, we will indicate this next to the Privacy Policy link on our Site.

10. Contacts, Rights

In certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions and applicable law, you may have the following rights in relation to personal information about you:

  • The right to know (i) the specific pieces of personal information collected, (ii) the categories of personal information, (iii) the categories of sources of the personal information, (iv) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information, (v) the categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose, and (vi) the categories of third parties with whom the personal information is shared
  • The right to have personal information corrected if, for example, it is incomplete or incorrect
  • The right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time
  • The right to request that personal information is deleted
  • The right to restrict or object to the processing of personal information
  • The right to receive a copy of personal information that you have provided to the firm, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (known as “data portability”)
  • The right to withdraw your consent where you previously have provided personal information voluntarily or otherwise consented to its use
  • The right not to be discriminated against if you exercise any rights conferred on you by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.

PSZJ does not and will not sell your personal information as defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.

11. Data Controller

The data controller for this website is:

Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard, 13th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90067, United States