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We understand your concerns about how Hicks & Motto, P.A., may use or disclose your personal information. Your privacy is very important to us, and the following informs you of the information that we may collect from you, and how we use it. By using our website at HMElawfirm.com, you accept the practices described below in this Policy.

Information Collection

We may collect non-personal information, such as a domain name and IP Address. The domain name and IP address do not reveal anything personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. We may also collect information about the type of web browser you are using, your operating system, what brought you to our website, and which pages of our website you access.

Should you communicate with us through our Contact Form, or communicate with us regarding this website or services, we will collect any information provided to us in any such communication.

In the future, we may use email to contact you about changes to this Privacy Policy, tell you about new services, or let you know we have added new informative content to this website.

Information Use

We use the collected information primarily for our own internal purposes; for example, providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving our services and our website, fulfilling your requests for information, and providing required customer support.

Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

If we ever collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon in the browser’s address bar, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

We also protect your sensitive information offline. Only those of our employees who need the information to perform a specific function (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to your personally identifiable information. The computers and servers where our firm stores anyone’s personally identifiable information are maintained in a secure environment.

Cookies

This website uses cookies — pieces of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Sharing

We will never sell or otherwise provide the information we collect to outside third parties for the purpose of direct or indirect mass email marketing. We will disclose personal information and/or an IP address when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on our firm
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of our website and related properties
  • Identify persons who may be violating the law, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing our website or its related properties

It is vital to keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, whether via the use of contact forms, sending emails, leaving comments, or other communications, that information can be collected and used by others. Be aware that if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the privacy and secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

Links

This website may contain links to other sites. Please understand that Hicks & Motto, P.A. is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any websites other than this one. We highly encourage you to remain aware when you navigate away from our website, and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects your personally identifiable information.

Feedback, Surveys, Contests

There may come a time when our site requests information via reviews, surveys, or contests. Participation in any of them is 100 percent voluntary, and it is solely your choice whether to participate and thereby disclose this information. Information requested may include opinions of our services, contact information (such as name and mailing address) and/or demographic information (such as zip code, age). All such information will be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving the use of or satisfaction with this website, to provide valuable experiential feedback to our firm, or, in the case of a contest, to notify winners and award prizes.

Consent

By using the website HWElawfirm.com, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above. If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Please review this page frequently to remain up-to-date with the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. You must review the new Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand this firm’s Procedures and practices.

If you ever believe we are not abiding by this Privacy Policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 561.683.2300 or via postal mail to Hicks & Motto, P.A., Attn: Privacy Policy, 3399 PGA Boulevard, Suite 300, Palm Beach Gardens, FL  33410.

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    What information do we collect?

    We collect information from you when you register on our site or place an order. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or mailing address.

    What do we use your information for?

    Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways: To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs) To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you) To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs) To process transactions Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested. To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature To send periodic emails The email address you provide for order processing, will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order.

    How do we protect your information?

    We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to?keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be kept on file for more than 60 days.

    Do we use cookies?

    Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business. If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders by contacting customer service. Google Analytics We use Google Analytics on our sites for anonymous reporting of site usage and for advertising on the site. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behaviour on our sites please use this link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/)

    Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

    We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

    Registration

    The minimum information we need to register you is your name, email address and a password. We will ask you more questions for different services, including sales promotions. Unless we say otherwise, you have to answer all the registration questions. We may also ask some other, voluntary questions during registration for certain services (for example, professional networks) so we can gain a clearer understanding of who you are. This also allows us to personalise services for you. To assist us in our marketing, in addition to the data that you provide to us if you register, we may also obtain data from trusted third parties to help us understand what you might be interested in. This ‘profiling’ information is produced from a variety of sources, including publicly available data (such as the electoral roll) or from sources such as surveys and polls where you have given your permission for your data to be shared. You can choose not to have such data shared with the Guardian from these sources by logging into your account and changing the settings in the privacy section. After you have registered, and with your permission, we may send you emails we think may interest you. Newsletters may be personalised based on what you have been reading on theguardian.com. At any time you can decide not to receive these emails and will be able to ‘unsubscribe’. Logging in using social networking credentials If you log-in to our sites using a Facebook log-in, you are granting permission to Facebook to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth and location which will then be used to form a Guardian identity. You can also use your picture from Facebook as part of your profile. This will also allow us and Facebook to share your, networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Facebook account settings. If you remove the Guardian app from your Facebook settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a Google log-in, you grant permission to Google to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth, sex and location which we will then use to form a Guardian identity. You may use your picture from Google as part of your profile. This also allows us to share your networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Google account settings. If you remove the Guardian from your Google settings, we will no longer have access to this information. If you log-in to our sites using a twitter log-in, we receive your avatar (the small picture that appears next to your tweets) and twitter username.

    Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

    We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

    Updating your personal information

    We offer a ‘My details’ page (also known as Dashboard), where you can update your personal information at any time, and change your marketing preferences. You can get to this page from most pages on the site – simply click on the ‘My details’ link at the top of the screen when you are signed in.

    Online Privacy Policy Only

    This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

    Your Consent

    By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

    Changes to our Privacy Policy

    If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
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