RELIC LAW PLLC

Privacy Notice

Effective: January 1, 2025

Relic Law PLLC may collect or obtain a variety of personal information in the course of operating our law firm and in providing legal and law related services.

 

To the extent your personal information is subject to legal privilege, then the protections afforded by such such legal privilege may be different from and more extensive than as set forth in this Privacy Notice.

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Please note that we may make periodic updates to this Privacy Notice, so you are advised to check back regularly for updates as indicated by the date at the bottom of this Privacy Notice. 

1. SCOPE AND APPLICABILITY

 

This Privacy Notice applies to personal information collected or obtained by our law firm, directly or indirectly, wherever we may conduct business, and encompasses all of our services, both online and offline, including as may be made available through our website at https://reliclawpllc.com and any of its subdomains (e.g., https://kb.reliclawpllc.com). 

2. TRANSPARENCY

This Privacy Notice provides transparency about our privacy practices, including how we collect, use, and disclose personal information, and how you may contact us with privacy inquiries and requests.

 

By interacting with this Site or otherwise submitting or making your personal information available to us, you consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Notice. 

3. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT OR OBTAIN

We may collect the following categories of personal information directly from you or from third party sources:

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Usage Data. We may collect a variety of information (some of which may be identifiable) from persons who access our website or engage with us online, including the following types of information:

• Log Data: Information collected when you access our website through your browser, including your Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, referral URLs, browser type and settings, date and time of usage, language preferences, and cookie data.

• Device Information: Information collected about your device, including the type of device, operating system, application IDs, device IDs, and crash data. 

• Location Data: Approximate location information based on your IP address combined with other information, including information about your browser and device. 

 

Interaction Information. If you interact with us through our website, call, write, or email us, or by otherwise interfacing with us, we may collect the following types of information: 

• Contact Information: Your full name, title, phone number, email address, mailing address, and physical address, etc.

• Communications Information: The object of any communications or messages we may exchange with or about you. 

• Video and Audio Recordings: Video and audio recordings to the extent any communications between us are electronically recorded. 

• Other Information: Anything else you may disclose to us or is obtained through your interactions with us.

 

Information Related to Legal and Law Related Services. If you inquire about or engage us for legal or law related services or are relevant to a matter in which we are engaged, we may collect or obtain a variety of personal information, directly or indirectly, in connection with our engagement. Such information may include:

• Case and Matter Information: Any information relevant to a case or matter in which our firm is engaged.

• Business and Financial Information: Information pertaining to you and/or your business, trade and commercial practices, transactions, banking and other financial information, including "know your customer" information. 

• Legal Information: Information about your experience with the legal system, legal agreements, legal roles and relationships, and other facts and circumstances. 

• Biodemographic and Sensitive Information: Information about your personal and professional history, immutable characteristics, date of birth, familial relationships, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, health information, and unique identifiers (e.g., SSN), among others.

• Investigatory Information: Information obtain about through investigation, including by or from third parties, such as consumer report information, character and reputation information, and other investigatory information, including computer forensic information (e.g., device images), photographs, and video and audio recordings.

• Associate Information: Information about persons with whom you associate or have a relationship, including family members, friends, partners, business associates, employees, vendors, customers, counterparties, witnesses, and others.

• Intellectual Property Information: Information pertaining to proprietary and confidential information, including, but not limited to, information subject to nondisclosure obligations, trade secrets, patents and patent applications, copyrighted works, and other intellectual property. 

• Privileged Information: Information subject to attorney-client privilege, medical privilege, or attorney work product protection. 

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Other Information from Third Party Sources. We may collect or obtain information about persons relevant to a case or matter from third party sources, including both public and non-public records. Such information may be obtained directly from the third party source by us or through an intermediary, such as an investigator or forensics professional.

 

4. HOW WE MAY USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

In the course of providing legal or law related services, we may use personal information we collect or obtain for the benefit of our clients, including for any such purposes as may be permitted by applicable lawyer ethics rules and legal requirements. 

In the course of operating our business, we may also use personal information for the following purposes: 

• Providing our services

• Administering our business, including billing and payments

• Following up on legal matters and prospective engagements

• Communicating by phone, email, and other means

• Improving our business and services

• Generating business insights and analytics

• Providing information about our services

• Sales, advertising, and marketing

• Making referrals to third parties

• In relation to media publications

• Social networking (e.g., through LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Google, and other platforms)

• Detecting and preventing fraud, abuse, and security risks

• Complying with ethical, legal, and regulatory obligations

• Enforcing our legal rights and the rights of others

Please note that we may use de-identified or anonymous information to the extent that it can no longer reasonably identify you for other purposes. 

5. HOW WE MAY DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Subject to applicable lawyer ethics rules, we may disclose or make available personal information to the following categories of third parties in order to provide our services and operate our business:​

• Affiliates: We may disclose personal information to our affiliates, including Reflexive LLC. 

• Service Providers: We may disclose personal information to our service providers, including Information Technology, cloud storage, software (e.g., case management, invoicing, email, and business applications), network security, and other web service providers (e.g., CRM), as well as remote reception desk services. 

• Business Associates: We may disclose personal information to our business associates, including consulting or referring attorneys, investigators, and consulting experts. 

• Advisors and Auditors: We may disclose personal information to auditors, financial advisors and accountants, legal professionals, and other professional consultants. 

• Corporate Transaction: We may disclose personal information to interested or potential investors or lenders and as part of a transaction involving a merger, acquisition, or other transaction involving the assets of our business.

• Legal and Public Authorities: We may disclose personal information to public authorities and third parties as may be required by applicable law, regulation, or legal process. 

6. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

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Subject to applicable lawyer ethics rules and legal requirements, we may retain personal information for a period commensurate with the purposes for which it was collected or obtained, including any ongoing legitimate interests. Generally, this means:

• Usage Data will be retained only for a reasonable length of time, but not longer than 24-months, except as may be reasonably necessary to protect the security of our website and services. 

• Contact Information will be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or obtained, e.g., for as as long as we may still need to contact you.  

• Information Related to Legal and Law Related Services will be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected or obtained, e.g., for as long as the information may remain relevant to us or to our client or other interested party in the matter.

Personal information may be retained but not further processed beyond its retention period in the form of archives and data backups. 

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7. PRIVACY INQUIRIES AND REQUESTS

 

We provide several ways to inquire and make requests about your personal information. If you have an established relationship with us, please contact us using the communication channels through which we usually communicate. Otherwise, you may email our Privacy Office at Privacy Office Email or by calling (248) 579-9537. Please state that your correspondence is in regards to a privacy inquiry or request and be sure to provide your relevant contact information.

 

We confirm all privacy inquiries and requests within a reasonable time, but typically within 10-days of receipt. Certain inquiries or requests may be subject to appropriate prior verification. We will respond to legitimate inquiries and requests within a reasonable time, but typically within 30-days of receipt. 

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As may be required by applicable law or as we may otherwise process voluntaritly as a courtesy to you and in our absolute discretion, to the extent that a privacy request does not conflict with applicable ethical or legal obligations, we will process requests to access personal information and provide it to you in a relevant format, correct inaccurate personal information, delete personal information, and stop processing personal information, to the extent appropriate. 

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To opt-out of receiving certain communications from us, such as emails sent for marketing purposes, you may contact us at the contact information above or click "Unsubscribe" in the footer of the email itself, if applicable. Please note that opting out will not limit us from contacting you for other legitimate reasons.

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Our services are marketed to and provided to clients in the United States. Our collection of personal information originating from other jurisdictions is unintentional and/or incidental. This website is intended exclusively for a U.S. audience. If you are located outside of the United States and our collection and processing of your personal information is not merely incidental, we may provide you with a supplemental privacy notice, as applicable. 

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If you have a complaint about our privacy practices, you may contact us at the information above. We will promptly respond to the receipt of legitimate privacy complaints and attempt to resolve them in good faith.

8. COOKIE NOTICE, "DO NOT TRACK" SIGNALS, AND UNIVERSAL OPT-OUT REQUESTS

 

Our website may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, and other third party technologies to track user interactions and personalize your browsing experience, which may involve the collection and disclosure of your information to third parties. For example, we may use Google Analytics to log and analyze website visitor data. While we have taken steps to limit the amount of data obtained by Google, you can learn how Google may use this data here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ To the extent that third parties receive data or personal information about you, the privacy policies of such third party providers, including Google and Wix (our website hosting provider), will govern how they may use and disclose your personal information.

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To the extent available to you, you may adjust your cookie preferences when you visit our website through the cookie banner at the bottom of our website. Please note that your choices may need to be reestablished if you access our website from a new browser or device or clear your web browser's cookie history (cache). 

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a feature that some web browsers offer to allow users to send signals to websites so that no information about their browser session will be shared. At this time, our website is not configured to respond to DNT signals.

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Our website may not recognize universal opt-out requests configured through your web browser, such as Global Privacy Control.

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Under California's "Shine the Light" law, we do not share covered personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. 

9. CHILDREN'S DATA

Our website and services are not marketed to or intended for children under sixteen years of age and we do not have knowledge of having collected children's personal information. We encourage parents and guardians to take appropriate steps to ensure the safety and privacy of their children online.

10. SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Consistent with our ethical and legal obligations, we have taken measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the personal information we collect from and about our clients and others, including with respect to the systems upon which such information is stored and processed.

 

Notwithstanding, we encourage you to exercise caution online, including with respect to your use of our website and services. We recommend that you connect to our website over secure networks and stay alert to unusual and suspicious circumstances. Do not respond to emails, download attachments, or click on hyperlinks that purport to be from us if they are suspicious or involve unusual requests, including in relation to payments or the transfer of funds. Do not transmit sensitive personal information through our website. We will never request sensitive personal information over the phone or by email. We offer secure transfer systems for the transmission of sensitive information. Please notify us of any unusual or suspicious requests or suspected fraud by calling our office directly. 

This Privacy Notice was revised December 26, 2024 at 18:10 UTC.