Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 11, 2013

Melnik Legal PLLC cares about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose Personal Information you provide to us.  This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with
Personal Information that we collect through our website located at https://melniklegal.com and the e-mail messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services"). If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us by e-mail at tatiana@melniklegal.com or by using one of the other means listed on our Contact page.

By using the Services, you agree with all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, then please do not use the Services.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

"Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual, such as (1) name; (2) postal address (including billing and mailing addresses), (3) telephone number, or (4) e-mail address.
We, and our service providers, may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including,
  • When you contact us:
    • to sign up for an email or other mailing list,
    • to register for a seminar or event, or
    • to request information by submitting our contact form or sending us an e-mail.
We may use Personal Information:
  • To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you legal updates, newsletters or publications that you request or to register you for events.
  • To send you our updates and mailings relating to our seminars or events that we believe may interest you.
  • To keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and use it to respond to you, if you contact us through the Services.
  • To send administrative information, such as information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, or policies.
  • For our business purposes, such as audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, data analysis, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.
  • As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (1) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (2) to comply with legal process; (3) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (4) to enforce our terms and conditions; (5) to protect our operations; (6) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (7) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
Your Personal Information may be disclosed:
  • To our third-party service providers that provide services such as website hosting, Services-related consulting and monitoring, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
  • To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Services.
  • To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock.
  • As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (1) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (2) to comply with legal process; (3) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (4) to enforce our terms and conditions; (5) to protect our operations; (6) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (7) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
OTHER INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

"Other Information" is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as: (1) browser and device information; (2) information collected through cookies, and other technologies; (3) demographic information and other information provided by you; or (4) aggregated information.
How We May Collect Other Information

We, and our third party service providers, may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
  • Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your media access control (MAC) address, computer type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, and Internet browser type and version.
  • Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. We may use cookies in connection with the Services. You have a variety of tools to control cookies and similar technologies, including controls in your browser to block and delete cookies.
  • IP Address:  Your "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet service provider (ISP). An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files, or those of our website hosting vendor, whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited.
  • By aggregating information:  Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services. We may aggregate information for a variety of reasons, for example, to calculate the percentage of our users live in a particular state.
How We May Use and Disclose Other Information

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.  If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it as described in "How We May Collect Other Information" section above, as well as for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.
THIRD PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link.  The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

We are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices of other organizations, such as your ISP or wireless service provider.

SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us
by e-mail at tatiana@melniklegal.com or by using one of the other means listed on our Contact page.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

Your choices regarding our use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes:
You may opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails (e.g., legal updates, newsletters) by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message or by contacting us using the means provided on our Contact page. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.

If you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.

USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under the age of 13 and the Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 13. We request that these individuals not provide Personal Information through the Services.

INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

The Services are controlled and operated from the United States, and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States.  If any material on the Services, is contrary to the laws of the place where you are when you access them, then we ask you not to use the Services. You are responsible for informing yourself of the laws of your jurisdiction and complying with them. By using the Services, you consent to the transfer of information to the United States, which may have different data protection rules than those of your country.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time.  Please take a look at the "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised.  Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.  Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mail at tatiana@melniklegal.com or by using the other means provided on our Contact page.

Please note that email communications are not always secure; so please do not include credit card information, confidential information or sensitive information in your emails to us.