Jessica Adams Law Privacy Policy.

As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients in the Southwest Missouri area, Jessica Adams Law is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, job applicants or others inside or outside the law office). It is our policy to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information upon lawyers and their associated personnel, as well as other laws governing the privacy of such Personal Information.

This Privacy Policy is based on the privacy and data protection principles common to the state in which we operate. We apply it in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Privacy Policy is intended to summarize our data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, website visitors, and other third parties about our privacy policies that may be applicable to them.

This Privacy Policy is also specifically addressed to parties outside the office, including our clients, who provide Personal Information to us, visit or use our website and/or our social media sites and correspond with us by email, including messages that we send to you containing a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Privacy Policy also describes how we collect, use, disclose and secure Personal Information obtained in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services (referred to together as the “Services”).

Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

Jessica Adams Law collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to our clients and prospective clients and as provided by visitors to our website and/or users of the Internet Services. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from third parties as described below.

Our Collection of Personal Information

By providing Personal Information to us, you are consenting to and expressly authorizing our collection of Personal Information such as the following, and from certain sources including, but not necessarily limited to, the following:

Information we receive from and/or about you, such as your name, dba(s), address, telephone number, email and social media addresses, date of birth in the case of individuals, credit card information, Employer Identification Number (“EIN”), Social Security number (“SSN”); and including, without limitation, other information that you provide to us online, via email, over the phone or in documents, applications and otherwise;

Information about your financial, loan, debt and other related transactions, including without limitation, your income, expenses, account balances with your creditors, accounts with financial services companies, loan and payment histories, account activity, and other information provided to us by you or that may be contained in your credit card statements or other reports relating to your debts and any and all other financial information concerning you; and

Information we receive from entities such as the Better Business Bureau, Yelp, consumer reporting agencies and other sources, such as your credit bureau reports, collection agency reports or other communications, and other information relating to your payment histories, creditworthiness, annual income, expenses and/or ability to satisfy your obligations. In this regard, you expressly authorize us to access, obtain and use any information contained in all of the foregoing resources and credit reports.

Our Use of Personal Information

By providing Personal Information to us, you are consenting to and expressly authorizing us to use your Personal Information in a variety of ways, including, but not necessarily limited to, the following:

To offer additional services to you;

To perform our Services for you and/or on your behalf;

To develop and maintain a full picture of your financial status.

We may use the Personal Information we acquire from you for any or all of the following purposes:

to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries;

to personalize your visit and use of our Services and to assist you while you use those Services;

to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of Jessica Adams Law, and otherwise deal with you and administer the matters you instruct us on;

to contact you regarding legal or law office developments that may be of interest to you;

to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds; and

to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering requirements. Where Personal Information is necessary for us to carry out its anti-money laundering checks, failure to provide such information may result in the Firm not being able to provide the representation.

Our Disclosure of Personal Information

Notice Regarding Your Right to Opt-Out

You are not permitted to opt-out from our making use of or sharing your Information in the following circumstances:

Information-sharing that is necessary for processing or administering a financial transaction requested or authorized by you;

Information disclosures for purposes of preventing fraud, responding to judicial process or a subpoena, or complying with federal, state, or local laws and

Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information

Consistent with our professional obligations, it is the policy of Jessica Adams Law to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.

We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by visitors to our website and provided while using our Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.

We require our consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain data security protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, where applicable, data protection laws and regulations.

We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and in our applicable policies.

Log Files

Jessica Adams Law follows a standard procedure of using log files on its website. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Children’s Information

The Firm does not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on the Firm’s website, which are sent directly to the users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that Jessica Adams Law has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To learn more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Changes

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time with or without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our Services, the Firm will post it on this website.

Contact Us

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at jessica@jessicaadamslaw.com.