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SAYAR FAUSTO, LLP PRIVACY POLICY Effective Date of Current Policy: March 18, 2009 Introduction. This Privacy Policy describes the personally identifiable information that Sayar Fausto (“Sayar Fausto,” “we,” “us”) collects in the United States through our website located at www.sf-legal.com (the “SF-Legal Site”) and how we use that information. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies solely to our online information-gathering and dissemination practices in connection with the SF-Legal Site, and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline or outside of the US. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our practices regarding your personally identifiable information, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Information Collected. Sayar Fausto collects two types of information about users of the SF-Legal Site: (1) Personally identifiable information: In general, you do not have to provide us with your personally identifiable information to use this SF-Legal Site. However, certain services to which you may subscribe through this SF-Legal Site (e.g., our “legal updates” email messages, “events,” “client-access,” “client document manager,” “RSS Feeds,” and “forums” and “chat on-line”) may require you to provide personally identifiable information, such as your name, physical address, and email address. We use such personally identifiable information to respond to your inquiries and to send you newsletters or publications that you request or to subscribe you to the additional services offered by Sayar Fausto. You may also receive other mailings relating to Sayar Fausto events that we think may be of interest to you. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive mailings from us, please send us an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and in the subject matter please include “REMOVE CLIENT FROM WEBSITE.” If you contact us by email or chat on-line through the SF-Legal Site, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence as well as a transcript of the communication held by you and Sayar Fausto, and we reserve the right to use your email address, and any information that you provide to us in your message, to respond thereto. In addition, on rare occasions, we may send by email important administrative information regarding the SF-Legal Site or services to users who have provided us with their email addresses; because this information may be important to your use of the SF-Legal Site. You may “opt out” at any time by sending us an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and in the subject matter please include “OPT OUT.” The SF-Legal Site is not directed to children under thirteen (13) years of age, and Sayar Fausto does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from such children. If you are younger than thirteen, please do not provide any personally identifiable information while using the SF-Legal Site. (2) Non-personally identifiable information: We may use cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information in connection with the SF-Legal Site. Our web pages may incorporate “tags”, “web beacons,” “cookies,” “trackers” or similar tracking technologies (collectively, “tags”) that allow us or our agents to track the actions of users of the SF-Legal Site. You may also disable the Tags however it may render the SF-Legal Site inoperable. Tags are used to collect non-personally identifiable information, such as the name of your internet service provider, the Internet Protocol address of the computer you are using, the type of browser software and operating system that you use, the date and time you access the SF-Legal Site or chat on-line, the website address, if any, from which you linked directly to the SF-Legal Site, the website address, if any, to which you travel from the SF-Legal Site, and other similar traffic-related information. We may also aggregate your information with similar data collected from other users to help us improve the SF-Legal Site and the services that we provide through the SF-Legal Site. We do not use such data in any way to create or maintain a personal profile of you or collect personally identifiable information from you. How to Protect Your Personal Information. The privacy and protection of your information is important to us. We do not make any personal information available to third parties without your permission. Your access to some services and content is password protected. We advise that you do not disclose your password to anyone. In addition, we recommend you sign out of password-protected services at the end of your session. How We Use the Information We Gather. Generally, we will not disclose personally identifiable information that we collect through your use of the SF-Legal Site to unaffiliated third parties. We reserve the right, however, to provide such information to our employees, contractors, agents, and designees to the extent necessary to enable them to perform certain SF-Legal Site-related services (e.g., web hosting, improve SF-Legal Site-related services and features, or maintenance services) on our behalf. We also reserve the right to disclose such information to any third party if we believe that we are required to do so for any or all of the following reasons: (i) by law; (ii) to comply with legal processes or governmental requests; (iii) to prevent, investigate, detect, or prosecute criminal offenses or attacks on the technical integrity of the SF-Legal Site or our network; and/or (iv) to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sayar Fausto and its affiliates, their partners, and employees, the users of the SF-Legal Site, or the public. You may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personally identifiable information to third parties and their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us either by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by mail at the following address:
Los Altos, CA 94022 Within thirty (30) days of receiving such a request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to separate legal entities for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these entities. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the email or mailing addresses specified in this paragraph. If you would like to change your personal information, or if you no longer wish to receive materials from us or want your personal information removed from Sayar Fausto database, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Alternatively, when you receive materials from us by email or other communications you can make use of the “OPT OUT” provision in such communications so that we know that you no longer wish to receive such materials from us. Security and Vulnerabilities. Sayar Fausto seeks to adopt commercially reasonable security measures consistent with legal industry practice to assist in protecting against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personally identifiable information which is under our control. Unfortunately, no security system, or system of transmitting data over the Internet, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We exercise commercially reasonable efforts to protect your personally identifiable information private and secure however we cannot guarantee the security of our servers, the means by which information is transmitted between your computer and Sayar Fausto’s servers, or any information provided to us or to any third party through or in connection with the SF-Legal Site and the hosting thereof. You provide all such information entirely at your own risk. Revisions to Privacy Policy. Sayar Fausto reserves the right to revise the Privacy Policy at any time. You can determine if this Privacy Policy has been revised since your last visit by referring to the “Effective Date of Privacy Policy” date at the top of this page. Your use of the SF-Legal Site constitutes your acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy as amended or revised by us, and you should therefore review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of its terms. Change in Entity. Sayar Fausto reserves the right to transfer any and all information that we collect from users, or that we otherwise collect in connection with the SF-Legal Site, including, without limitation, to unaffiliated third parties or third parties, in the event of a sale or transfer of assets or of any portion of our business. Links to Other SF-Legal Sites. Our SF-Legal Site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not and cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites and that this Privacy Policy applies solely to the information which we collect through this SF-Legal Site. We encourage you to ensure that you read the privacy statements of all the destination websites which you visit. Special Notification about Additional Subscribed Services. The services offered to our clients using the SF-Legal Site are governed by the privacy policies of the service agreement entered into by you and Sayar Fausto. |