Data Privacy Policy
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Contact forms
If you leave information on any contact forms used throughout this website the information will be stored. According to the contact forms data utilization policy of the owners of this website, the information left on contact forms may be used for the marketing or other purposes of the firm and may be available to the third-party software vendors used on this website.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing information that is relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
TYPES OF COOKIES USED
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: These cookies are used to personalize any educational information that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
If you leave a comment on our site, cookies may be saved as a result. These cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for fifteen days after which they expire.
If you are using a login page on this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Data stored by this website may be available to third-party vendors, and/or other software vendors utilized by the owner of this company for the purposes of managing this website.
Why we use your data
Based upon your voluntary consent we use may use your browsing data to enhance your (and other) users experience, allowing us to make changes to the website as needed to achieve this goal.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Contact information is kept for an indefinite period of time and solely kept for the purpose of internal, administrative, marketing, and other reasonable business of the website owners. Contact information submitted by a website user may be available to third party vendors utilized by this website.
Additional information
How we protect your data
WEB HOSTING SERVICES
Data protection begins with secure web hosting. This website utilizes only web hosts that are considered trusted and reliable, with reliable internal processes for backup and recovery of data.
LIMITING ACCESS
Only trusted employees of our company have access to this website and the data contained therein. Plug-ins or other software chosen by administrators of this website are chosen based upon its affiliation of that software with WordPress, and from suggested WordPress plug-in’s or themes.
PREVENTION OF INTERNAL VULNERABILITIES
Hardware and web browsers used by administrators of this website is kept up-to-date. Hardware is protected by anti-virus software. Firewall protection exists to keep the domain and other aspects of the website safe.
NETWORK VUNLNERABILITIES
Networks used to send or receive information are trusted networks.
What data breach procedures we have in place
The CCPA currently requires notification of a user of breach of data where that data would be “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” Where such a breach has occurred, affected parties would be notified of the breach in a timely manner.
Company Information
The Law Offices of Richard Alan Gaudet, LLC., is located at 49 Blanchard Street, Ste 102, Lawrence, Ma. 01843, and is a company organized under the laws of Massachusetts.
Our website address is: gaudetlawoffice.com