Date Last Modified: March 11, 2025
This policy applies to information that is collected through the Phil IP Law Inc.’s website. If you have retained this law firm to represent you, our privacy and confidentiality obligations are described in the attorney-client agreement. This policy only addresses interactions occurring as you visit the law firm’s online page or portal. This policy does not apply to information collected by:
- the law firm offline or through any other means; or
- any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on the website.
Rest assured that your privacy is important to us at Phil IP Law Inc. That said, we want to take some time to explain to you our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is used on our website.
- The information we collect
We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about you – such as your name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, etc. – unless you choose to fill out a ‘Contact Us’ form or directly email it to us.
- How we use Non-Personal Information
We may, from time to time, automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit our website, such as: the type of browser you are using, the operating system or platform you are using to access the website as well as referrer data identifying the web pages you visited prior to and after visiting the website and your movement and activity within the website, device type, domain server and the domain name of your Internet Service Provider. We may use a variety of technologies that automatically collect non-personally identifiable information. We use aggregated non-personally identifiable information to analyze and improve the design, use and content of our website.
In the ordinary course of business, we use PII you provide solely to respond to your inquiry or process an application form you have completed on various sections of our website.
Any data gathered will be shared, if appropriate, with any third parties who provide services on our behalf. If we transfer your information outside of the United States, you should know that the applicable data protection laws may differ, and by visiting this site, you expressly agree to such transfer.
- How we use PII
We use your PII to fulfill the purpose(s) for which you have provided it, to respond to and process your specific requests for information, and for any other purpose that we disclose to you at the time we collect your PII . We may use some PII to send you updates, news, conferences, or other information, which we deem may be important to our visitors. We also may share PII with our contractors and service providers whom we retain to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep PII confidential and to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
If you provide PII to us via the website in the context of an event that Phil IP Law Inc. sponsors or hosts with another company, you may also be providing the PII to the co-sponsor or co-host. For purposes of events, we will obtain your consent to share your first and last name and applicable company name with our co-sponsor or co-host. For example, if we hold an event with an accounting firm, we would give the accounting firm your registration information to allow them to track reservations.
In certain instances we may be required, by law, to provide PII in response to a court order, subpoena, or government investigation. We may release certain PII when we believe that such a release is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Privacy Policy, to abide by our professional ethical responsibilities, or to protect the interests and/or safety of Phil IP Law Inc., its employees or its clients. We may also share PII in the event of a merger, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Phil IP Law Inc.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which PII held by Phil IP Law Inc. is among the assets transferred.
- Collection of information by third-parties
If you access the website from a third party platform, such as a Social Networking Site, you may be required to also read and accept the terms and conditions and privacy policy of that third party. Phil IP Law Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties, and you should contact such third parties directly to determine their respective privacy policies.
- Cookies, and to enable or disable them
Our website may use automatic data collection technologies to obtain the Non-Personal Information described in this policy. Specifically, our website may use browser cookies. A browser cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website. We do not use flash cookies or web beacons.
When we use cookies, we do this to help make our website function, to improve your experience on the website, and to allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our site – without being able to identify individual users of the website.
- Disabling/enabling cookies
Our website incorporates security to allow you to disable/enable cookies. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled. For further information about disabling or blocking cookies, please visit AboutCookies.org.
- Data and Information Security
Our website incorporates commercially reasonable security measures designed to reduce the risk of improper access to the online information that we collect. We cannot guarantee the privacy of PII you transmit over the web or that may be collectable in transit by others, including contractors who provide services to us. For this reason, you also need to use security measures such as anti-virus, firewall, anti-spamware, anti-malware, and anti-hacking tools, to protect the security of your PII. Further, our website and privacy policy are based in the United States. Your PII will be used and stored in the United States, where data protection and privacy rules may differ from the level of protection available in other parts of the world, including Canada, Mexico and the European Union.
- Special Note About Children
Our website is a general audience site that is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect PII from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not provide any information about yourself on this website or use any of the interactive or public comment features of this website. If we learn we have collected or received PII from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at: info@philip.law.
- Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits residents of the State of California to request from certain businesses with whom the California resident has an established business relationship a list of all third parties to which the business, during the immediately preceding calendar year, has disclosed certain PII for direct marketing purposes. For more information on how to submit a request please click here. We do not track your on-line activity across other websites, nor do we knowingly permit any third-parties to conduct online tracking of you while you are visiting our website. Consequently, we may not respond to your browser’s Do Not Track signal or technologies that you may have implemented in your web browser.
- Feedback
If you would like to contact us for any reason about this Privacy Policy or our privacy procedures and practices, please send an email to: info@philip.law with the subject heading “Privacy Policy” or write to Phil IP Law Inc. at: 1055 East Colorado Blvd., Suite 500, Pasadena, CA 91106, Attn: Privacy Policy.
- Communication via text messaging/SMS
PHIL IP LAW INC. is committed to upholding the highest standards of privacy for all PII collected through our text messaging services. We do not sell, rent, distribute, or trade your PII to third parties without your explicit consent unless legally required to do so. PHIL IP LAW INC. assures you that your data will never be shared with third parties for marketing purposes and you have the right to access, and correct your PII at any time, and we are committed to handling your data in a secure and transparent manner.
If you no longer wish to receive text messages from us, you can opt out at any time by replying with the word ‘STOP’ to the number from which you received the message. Upon receiving your request, we will promptly remove you from our messaging list, and you will no longer receive further text communications from us.
- Revisions to our Privacy Policy
To improve the services we can offer you, Phil IP Law Inc. may choose to expand its capabilities for obtaining information about users in the future. If we modify this Privacy Policy, we will update the “Date Last Modified” and such changes will be effective upon posting.
We will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have. Please be sure to check this page before proceeding to use our website. By continuing to use our services after these changes, you agree to the revised Privacy Policy. Regardless of any changes we make to our Privacy Policy, we will always use your PII in accordance with the version of the Policy in place at the time you provided your information, unless you give your express consent for us to do otherwise.
