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Privacy Policy. This privacy policy applies to all users of our site and services and covers what information we collect and why we collect it and how we use the information we collect. By using our site and services, you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information as described in this privacy policy. Each time you use our site and services, the current version of this privacy policy will apply. If you do not agree to this privacy policy, please do not use our site or services.
About Us. Praxis Technologies, LLC d/b/a attorneystars.com (also referred to in this Privacy Policy as “our,” “us,” or “we”), provides a website (sometime herein, a “site”) with a searchable database of lawyers located in various states who have chosen to advertise their law practice with us, their specialty (where permitted) and their practice areas. We may refer to users and visitors to our site as such and as “you,” ‘your” or “yours” in this privacy policy.
How Our Site Works. Our website enables a visitor to search for a lawyer from among our lawyer advertisers who practice in a specific state and locale of the visitor’s choice. Our attorney advertisers list their specialties or practice areas so a visitor can search for lawyers who handle the type of matter or case of interest to the visitor. Our site enables the visitor to send a confidential message directly to a lawyer’s inbox. In addition to his or her name, the message can include the name and address and other contact information of the visitor and a brief description of the consultation requested. The visitor pays no fee or cost of any kind to attorneystars.com in order to search our database of lawyers or to send a request for help message to the inbox of one of our listed attorney. There is no membership or club to join or any requirement of paying ongoing dues or fees or costs of any kind by the visitor searching for legal assistance. Advertisements and links to other websites for various products and services both related and unrelated to legal matters also appear on our website, but there is no obligation to purchase or even review the products or services in order to search our database for a lawyer or to use our site.
Your Personal Information. We do not use or (except as set forth herein) retain any of the personally identifiable information contained in the email which a visitor sends to an attorney from our site using our messenger tool. We do no enable lawyers do not communicate with visitors to our site. Lawyers will not know if a visitor accessed their listing unless the visitor send a message to the lawyer via our site. When a message is sent by a visitor to a lawyer, the visitor receives a written confirmation that the message has been sent to the lawyer selected to receive it, and that the message has been deleted from our system. Confirmation of delivery of the message is not guaranteed. We also cannot guaranty that the lawyer will respond to the visitor’s message, and, if so, that the lawyer will accept the matter or case. Please note that we may retain a record of your personal information such as name and email address solely for archival purposes as necessary to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse and to enforce our Terms of Use or any other contract entered into between you and us. We do not store the credit card information provided by advertisers to make payments to us. We do retain bank confirmations and reconciliations of payments received from or credits issued to advertisers.
Other Information. Certain composite information regarding our visitors that we compile and retain is used for marketing and to improve our services. This information (which does not identify any visitor’s personally identifiable information) which would include our users’ demographic information; information about how visitors interact with our site and our advertisers; geographic location of visitors if a visitor’s device transmits location data and/or your IP address and you have activated a location-enabled site or service. We also may send survey questions about areas such as customer satisfaction and retain responses from visitors and advertisers, but the personal information of a survey respondent will not be requested and if given, will not be retained. We may retain records of transactions and activities on our site involving our advertisers, such as number of visitors, types of legal services requested; general information you voluntarily provide to us. In each of the above instances, no personally identifiable information will be utilized or disclosed to others.
Cookies and Other Technologies
We may collect technical information when you use our site and services. For example, our receive and automatically collect information about your computer and browser, including, for instance, your IP address, browser type, domain name from which you accessed the site or service, device size and other software or hardware information. If you access our sites and services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device (UDID), type of device, general GPS location, or other transactional information for that device in order to serve content to it and to improve your experience in using the site or services.
In addition, we may collect information about how you use of our site, including but not limited to, the when you visited the site, the pages of the site visited, the amount of time spent, the number of times return visits to the site, sites visited through links on or to our site and other data. We use cookies and other tracking technologies (including browser cookies, pixels, beacons, mobile application identifiers, and Adobe Flash technology) to help us improve your experience, increase security, measure use and effectiveness of our services, and improve marketing and advertising. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. By visiting our sites and services, you consent to the placement of cookies and beacons in your browser and HTML-based emails in accordance with this privacy policy. You may opt out of allowing cookies as provide on our website.
We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals. Accordingly, your navigation on our site and services may be tracked as part of our efforts to gather user information described above. If you arrive at our site and services by way of a link from a third-party site that does respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals, such “Do Not Track” browser signal recognition will end as soon as you reach our sites and services.
Information Security. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of the information we collect, we utilize a number of safeguards, including: Transport Layer Security (TLS), firewalls, system alerts, and other information system security technologies; housing data in secure facilities that restrict physical and network access; and regular evaluation and enhancement of our information technology systems, facilities, and information collection, storage, and processing practices. We use what we believe are reasonable and appropriate data security procedures and controls to safeguard against unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, misuse, and alteration of user content.
We use third-party service providers to manage credit card and payment processing. These service providers are not permitted to store, retain, or use billing Information except for the sole purpose of credit card and payment processing on our behalf. When you enter payment information to be processed by our third party service providers, we encrypt the transmission of that information using transport layer security (TLS) technology and do not store it on our systems.
We do not and cannot guarantee the absolute security of information stored on or transmitted to or from our site. We cannot assume responsibility or liability for unauthorized access to our servers and systems. When disclosing any personal information through our site, you should remain mindful of the fact that it is potentially accessible to the public and, consequently, can be collected and used by others without your consent. You are ultimately responsible for maintaining the secrecy for all your personal information.
Links. Our site may link to other sites or services operated by third parties, and may carry advertisements or offer products, services, related and unrelated to legal services. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party’s site or service because once you click-on a link, you will be leaving our site and its privacy protections. Links, banner ads and other advertisement should not be considered an endorsement or a representation that we are affiliated with any third party or intended to endorse the privacy or policies and practices of such third party.
Contact. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our practices you can send an email to info@attorneystars.com.
Changes. We may modify this privacy policy from time to time so please refer to our “Last Updated” date. If you use of our site following changes to this policy, that indicates your agreement to the privacy policy as revised.
Last Updated: February, 2021
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