Last Updated: August 9, 2024
The following is the privacy policy of J. Wright Law PLLC, a professional limited liability company formed in Texas which also does business under the trade name of Wright Commercial Litigation. References to “Firm” below are meant to refer to J. Wright Law PLLC d/b/a Wright Commercial Litigation.
This privacy policy may be modified at any time by posting new or revised terms on this page as reflected by the “Last Updated” date. You are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. Changes to the privacy policy become effective immediately upon being posted on this page.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
Capitalized terms referred to or defined herein shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural, and regardless of the gender of their usage.
General Definitions
For the purposes of this privacy policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access the Service or parts of the Service.
- Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cellphone, or a tablet.
- Service refers to the Website and any other electronic marketing, advertising, or other services engaged in by Firm or its Service Providers.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of Firm. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Firm to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of Firm, to perform services related to the Service, or to assist the Firm in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Website refers to the site accessible from https://jwrightlaw.com/
- You or Your means the individual or entity accessing or using the Service, or any other person accessing or using the Service on behalf of such individual or entity, as may be applicable.
Collecting and Using Data
Types of Data Collected and How it is Collected
Personal Data
- While using the Service, You may be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. The types of personal data that may be collected depends on how You interact with the Firm, and may include:
- Identifying information like Your name, company, and job title
- Contact information such as Your mailing address, email address, and phone number(s)
- Information regarding Your particular legal matter or inquiry, including any claims, assertions, lawsuits, and adverse or potentially adverse parties
- Government and tax information, such as Your driver’s license number, social security number, employer identification number, or otherwise
- Information obtained about You from background checks, investigatory services, credit monitoring organizations, or others as necessary for the Firm’s due diligence of a client or matter, or adversary
- Financial information, such as credit card or banking information to secure payment for Firm’s services or to provide legal services
- Information You provide for purposes of attending meetings or events
- Information provided by You or collected from You as part of Firm's business acceptance or recruitment processes
- Confidential and proprietary business information provided by You or obtained by Firm in the course of seeking or providing legal advice
- Where necessary and legally permitted, data such as diversity, health data, religious, dietary, criminal offenses, and other personal matters
- Any other information which you may voluntarily provide to the firm in any form, including electronically, in writing, or by oral conversation
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of the Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, the information automatically collected may include the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
Cookies and similar technologies track activity on the Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze the Service. The technologies used may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of the Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, the Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of the Service and Firm emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that allow for counting users who have visited those pages or opened the email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies: What Are Cookies?.
Both Session and Persistent Cookies are used for the purposes below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Firm’s Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and these Cookies are used only to provide You with those services. - Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Firm’s Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website. - Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Firm’s Service Providers
Purpose: These Cookies allow for choices made when You use the Website to be remembered, such as login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website. - Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. These Cookies may be used to test new pages, features, or new functionality of the Website to see how users react to them.
Use of Data Collected
The Firm and its Service Providers may use Your information as permitted by law, including but not limited to using it for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service, including to monitor usage of the Service.
- To manage Your Account if you have registered and been given access to different functionalities of the Service available to registered users.
- To contact You by mail, email, phone, SMS, or other forms of communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications.
- To manage Your requests, including by responding to requests or inquiries received from You, as necessary for the performance of legal services for which You have engaged Firm, to ensure compliance with Firm’s legal obligations, and to pursue the Firm’s legitimate interests (such as carrying out the business of providing legal services, pursuing other business interests, and for the general administrative or operational processes of Firm's business).
- To deliver targeted advertising, such as to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to Your interests and/or location, and to measure its effectiveness, or to provide You with news, offers, and general information about services and events similar to those You have already purchased or inquired about, or to evaluate Your level of interest in a particular legal topic.
- For business transfers, such as to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Firm’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which data held our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes, such as general or specific data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve the Service, products, services, marketing, and Your experience.
The Firm and its Service Providers may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With business partners: persons or entities who assist the Firm in providing legal services, including other law firms and attorneys that may be engaged by a client or the Firm.
- With others when legally required or reasonably necessary: although the Firm is committed to maintaining the confidentiality of personal information, Your information may be disclosed to third parties not providing services to Firm when it is compelled by law or deemed reasonably necessary to further and/or carry out a legal representation or other legitimate business purpose of Firm.
- With Your consent: personal information may be shared for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Data
Firm retains information about You only for so long as, determined in the firm's sole discretion (and otherwise subject to any engagement agreement or applicable law), it is appropriate in consideration of the relationship with You and according to the applicable laws in the jurisdictions in which the Firm operates. Firm may, in particular, retain Your data where required for Firm to assert or defend against legal claims until the end of the relevant retention period or until the claims in question have been resolved, and longer for purposes of maintaining Firm’s own professional knowledge.
Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of the Service, or there is a legal obligation to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including personal data, is processed at Firm’s operating offices and in any other places where the Firm’s attorneys and/or Service Providers involved in the processing are located. That means Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers and servers located outside of Your state, country, or other jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction. Your submission of information represents Your agreement to such transfer.
Security of Data
Firm is committed to ensuring information is secure. It has implemented generally accepted technical standards appropriate for a law firm of its size and scope to prevent unauthorized access to data. In the interest of facilitating convenient communication and services, however, Firm uses email, facsimile transmissions, mobile phones, data sent over the Internet, and electronic data sent via computer software applications hosted remotely or through secured portals or clouds. In using these data communication and storage methods, Firm makes all reasonable efforts to keep communications and data secure in accordance with its obligations under applicable laws and professional standards. In addition, the cloud-based software solutions used by Firm have been certified by the third-party owners that they use suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information. Additional information about third-party providers can be provided on request.
Despite the security procedures employed by Firm and/or its vendors, please be aware it is not possible to guarantee the security of any information stored or transmitted via the Internet. In particular, Firm has no control over the unauthorized interception or breach of any communications or data once it has been sent from the Firm’s computers, notwithstanding all reasonable security measures employed by Firm or its third-party vendors.
Right to Change, Update, or Remove Data
Firm wants the contact details and other information collected by the Firm or its Service Providers to be as up-to-date as possible, and so You are requested to assist with that effort. You may correct or update any information at any time and may withdraw any consent to future use of Your data at any time (allowing at least thirty (30) business days from the Firm’s receipt of a request for processing of the request), subject to any other agreements (including engagement agreements) and laws which may apply.
If You wish to revise information about You that is maintained by Firm, you may do so by sending an email to the person designated in the “Contact” block below.
In certain jurisdictions and in accordance with applicable privacy laws, You may be entitled to one or more of the following rights:
- The right to request details of information collected about you and how it is processed.
- The right to have that information corrected or deleted.
- The right to restrict processing of that information.
- The right to have information relating to You transferred to another organization.
- The right to object to processing of Your information and to withdraw any consent in relation to Your data (although any objection or withdrawal of consent may mean that Firm is unable to perform the actions necessary to provide services to You or otherwise fulfill the purpose for which the information was collected).
- The right to lodge a complaint with an appropriate authority.
Please note that even if You have chosen to withdraw Your consent and have the right under applicable law to do so, the Firm may be able to continue thereafter to process Your information to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law; such as in connection with exercising and defending the Firm’s legal rights or meeting other legal and regulatory obligations.
To exercise any rights you may have in relation to data that the Firm has about You, please email the person in the “Contact” block below.
Detailed Information on Processing Personal Data
The Service Providers used by Firm and others providers and partners as previously noted may have access to Your personal data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on the Service in accordance with their own privacy policies. Contact the Firm if you wish to receive information about its Service Providers.
Analytics
Firm may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze use of the Service, including:
- Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor use of the Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having Your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Invisible reCAPTCHA operated by Google, which may also collect information from You and from Your Device for security purposes. The information gathered by reCAPTCHA is held in accordance with the privacy policy of Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Behavioral Remarketing
Firm and its Service Providers may use remarketing services to advertise to You after You have accessed or visited the Service. They may use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help recognize Your Device and understand how You use the Service so that the Service can be improved to reflect Your interests and provide advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to You and/or others.
These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on the Service in accordance with their own privacy policies and to enable Firm to:
- Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on the Service
- Show advertisements for Firm’s services to You on third-party websites or apps
- Measure and analyze the performance of Firm’s advertising campaigns
Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit You to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving You interest-based advertising:
- The NAI's opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
- The EDAA's opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
- The DAA's opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on Your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See Your mobile device Help system for more information.
Firm may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or other online identifiers collected on the Service, with such third-party vendors. This allows those third-party vendors to recognize and deliver You ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by those third-party vendors and their cross-device capabilities please refer to the privacy policy of the vendors listed below:
- Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
- Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc. YYou can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/516147308587266. To opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217. Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings. For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.
- Instagram and its privacy policy can be viewed at https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.
Firm reserves the right to share information with other vendors at any time in its own discretion and for legally permissible purposes. Contact the Firm at any time if you desire up-to-date information on the Firm’s current vendors.
Links to Other Websites
The Service may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily that are not operated by Firm. If You click on any such links, You will be directed to a third-party's site where Firm will not be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information You provide as a result of clicking the link or visiting such websites. Firm has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services, whether accessible through a link on Firm’s website or otherwise. You are strongly advised to carefully review the privacy policy of every site You visit by any means.
Contact
The Firm’s contact details and person responsible for this website are:
J. Wright Law PLLC d/b/a Wright Commercial Litigation
7300 State Hwy 121, Suite 300 (meetings by appointment only)
McKinney, TX 75070
Tel: (469) 270-7819
Fax: (469) 270-7822
Jason E. Wright, Managing Member
Email: info@jwrightlaw.com