Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 7, 2024                                                   

Your privacy is very important to us and we take your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how Bodman PLC (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects and uses the personal information you provide to us on our website and all other websites, mobile sites, applications, platforms and tools where this Privacy Policy appears or is linked, and through the use of our services, (collectively the “Site”). It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. 

By creating an account, providing information to us (by any means, whether in correspondence, via our Site, or otherwise), using our Site, or continuing to use our services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy. 

If you do not agree with this PRIVACY Policy or our practices, you may not use our SITE. This PRIVACY Policy may change from time to time and your continued use of our SITE constitutes your acceptance of those changes. We encourage you to review this PRIVACY Policy periodically.

1.      Attorney-Client Relationship and Privilege. Use of our Site, including the submission of information through the Site, does not establish an attorney-client relationship with Company. Thus, information communicated to Company through our Site is not necessarily protected by the attorney-client privilege. Company enters into attorney-client relationships only by means of an engagement agreement. If you have such an agreement with Company, this Privacy Policy does not supplant the rules governing confidential and privileged communications. However, even clients cannot assume that information communicated to us through our Site is privileged.

2.      Personal Information We Collect About You. We may collect and use the following personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“personal information”):

 | Categories of Personal Information | Examples Personal Information | Collected               
| Category A - Identifiers  | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | Yes            
 
| Category B - Customer records information (i.e. Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual) | Name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. | Yes

| Category C - Characteristics of protected classifications under state or federal law  | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). | Yes

| Category D - Commercial information | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | No

| Category E - Biometric information  | Retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry. | No

| Category F - Internet or other electronic network activity information | Browsing history, including total website visits within a given time period and top webpages viewed and how long the average visitor stayed on the page, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, including the percentage of visitors who are new versus returning and the top initial landing pages within our Site, application, or advertisement, how a visitor was referred to our Site (through search results, referred by another web site, accessed directly by typing in URL, referred from a social media account), and the top search terms that led users to our Site (for those Site visitors who found Company through a Google search). | Yes

| Category G - Geolocation data | Physical location or movements. | Yes

| Category H - Sensory data | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | No

| Category I - Professional or employment-related information. | Place of employment, position, job history, salary, resume, and other related data. | Yes, when you apply to work with us

| Category J - Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | No

| Category K - Sensitive personal information | (1) personal information that reveals: A person’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; A person’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; A person’s precise geolocation; A person’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; The contents of a person’s mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication; or A person’s genetic data.(2) the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a person. (3) personal information collected and analyzed concerning a person’s health, or personal information collected and analyzed concerning a person’s sex life or sexual orientation. | No

| Category L - Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | An inference is essentially a characteristic deduced about a person (such as ‘married,’ ‘homeowner,’ ‘online shopper,’ or ‘likely voter’) that is based on other information a business has collected. | No

 

This personal information is required to provide the Site to you. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing the Site to you.

3.      Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files of information stored by the Internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use these cookies to collect browsing data to keep track of your preferences and profile information and to collect general usage and volume statistical information. Our cookies are not spyware. 

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our Site only uses:

·         Essential – These cookies are necessary to the core functionality of our Site and some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

·         Analytics and Customization – Our Company uses these cookies and technologies to analyze how the Site is accessed, used, or performing in order to improve your user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the Site. For example, we use Google Analytics on the Site to collect: page url/page title and user browser/system information, which includes browser type, referrer, language, java/flash support, IP address, and ad-serving data. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. To opt-out of Google Analytics, visit Google’s “How you can control the information collected by Google on these sites and apps” article available here.

Web Beacons

Our Site contains electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our Site is used and may be used in some of our emails to let us know which emails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our communications. We use a third party to gather information about how you and others use our Site. For example, we will know how many users access a specific page and which links they clicked on. We use this aggregated information to understand and optimize how our Site is used.

How to Manage Cookies. 

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject certain cookies. You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our Site features may not function as a result. Essential cookies cannot be rejected, as they are strictly necessary to provide you with our Site.

4.      Do Not Track.

We do not track users across the web and therefore do not respond to web browser “do not track” signals. 

5.      Communications. We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our Site, including new services.

We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organizations for marketing purposes.

You have the right to opt out of receiving communications at any time by:

·         Contacting us by using one of the methods listed in the “How to Contact Us” Section below; or

·         Using the “unsubscribe” link in emails.

We may ask you to confirm or update your communication preferences if you instruct us to provide further services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.

6.      How Your Personal Information is Collected. We collect most of this personal information directly from you in person, by telephone, text or email and/or via our Site. However, we may also collect information:

·         From a third party with your consent (e.g., your payment providers);

·         From other third parties providing publicly available information, including social media websites;

·         From cookies on our Site; and

·         From our IT systems, including automated monitoring of our Site and other technical systems, such as our computer networks and connections, access control systems, communications systems, email and instant messaging systems.

7.      How We Use Your Personal Information.We use your personal information for the following reasons:

·         To provide services to you, where we have an established attorney-client relationship, including to manage payments, fees and charges and to collect and recover money owed to us;

·         To administer the Site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data);

·         To prevent and detect fraud against you or Bodman PLC;

·         To respond to requests for employment and to evaluate a potential candidate for employment;

·         To ensure business policies are adhered to (e.g. policies covering terms of use, security and Internet use);

·         To use data analytics to improve our Site, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences and to otherwise help us manage our business;

·         To prevent unauthorized access and modifications to systems;

·         To update and enhance customer records;

·         To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or governmental regulations;

·         To ensure safe working practices, staff administration and assessments;

·         To send you advisories, alerts and updates; and

·         To market our legal services and otherwise communicate about programming and events, and other information we think will be of interest to existing and former clients, and other third parties.

We may also anonymize, aggregate or de-identify personal information so the end-product does not identify you or any other individual. For example, we may use this information to generate norms by industry, geography, level, , to understand where our services are being utilized, conduct ongoing validation studies, compile reports, and improve the Site. Such aggregated, anonymized or de-identified information is not considered personal information for purposes of this Privacy Policy and we may use it for any purpose.

8.      Who We Share Your Personal Information With. We routinely share personal information with:

·         Our Service Providers. We disclose your personal information to third parties that provide business, professional, or technical support services to us and/or administer activities on our behalf.

·         Our Analytics Providers. We disclose your personal information to parties that assist us in performing analytics and help us measure the effectiveness of the Site and our marketing and advertising efforts.

·         Our Marketing and Advertising Partners. We disclose your personal information to our marketing and advertising partners, including social media networks, third-party advertising networks, and other parties that assist us in serving, measuring the performance of, and optimizing our advertising.

·         Public posting and Social Sharing. When you post public comments on our Site, on public forums like our social media sites, blogs, and online reviews, your comments are accessible by other members of the public.

·         Governmental and Public Authorities. We disclose your personal information to government and public authorities as necessary or permitted by the laws of any jurisdiction in which we operate, including in response to a subpoena, court order, investigative demand, request for cooperation from a law enforcement agency, or similar request from a self-regulatory body or government agency.

·         Relevant Third Parties in Connection with a Business Transaction. We may disclose or otherwise transfer your personal information to a successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, attorney departure or similar transaction as well as in the event of any insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure they only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you.

We may also need to share personal information with other parties to the extent we believe it is necessary or appropriate to: (1) protect our operations and those of our affiliates and subsidiaries; (2) investigate and prevent against fraud and other illegal activity; (3) protect our rights, privacy, safety, property, and/or those of others; or (4) allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we may sustain.

We may disclose your personal information for other reasons described at the time of information collection or prior to disclosing your information. Additionally, we may disclose your personal information with your consent or when you direct us to do so.

Except as set forth above, we will not share your personal information with any other third party.

9.      How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:

·         To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;

·         To show that we treated you fairly; or

·         To keep records required by law.

Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of personal information; the potential risk from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information; the purpose(s) for which we use or may use the personal information; whether we can achieve the purpose(s) through other means; and the applicable legal requirements. We do not retain information related to requests for employment for longer than two (2) years.

10.  Children and our Site.

Our Site is not directed to children, and you may not use our Site if you are under the age of 16. If you are under 16, do not use our services, access the Site, or provide any information about yourself including, without limitation, your name, address, email address or any screen name or user name you may use.

If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we will purge such information from our database and cancel the corresponding accounts. If you believe we may have any information from or about a child under 13, please see our “How to Contact Us” Section below. Please visit the FTC’s website at www.ftc.gov for tips on protecting children’s privacy online.

11.  Keeping Your Personal Information Secure.We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized use, access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. We endeavor to protect the personal information we receive, gather and store, by password protection, firewalls and other means. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We require third party service providers acting on our behalf or with whom we share your information also provide appropriate security measures in accordance with industry standards. We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

However, no computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard, including when information is transmitted over the Internet. COMPANY CANNOT GUARANTEE SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. COMPANY ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE MISUSED BY THIRD PARTIES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CIRCUMVENTION OF ANY PRIVACY SETTINGS OR SECURITY FEATURES. 

12.  Where Your Personal Information is Held.Personal Information may be held at our offices and those of our third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above (see above: “Who We Share Your Personal Information with”).

13.  A Note to Users Outside of the United States. Company is headquartered in the United States and utilizes service providers in the United States. The Site is not intended for Site visitors outside the United States. If you are a non-United States user of the Site, by visiting the Site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be processed for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy. If you choose to access our Site outside the United States, Company and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. In particular, you are advised that the United States uses a sectoral model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation, governmental regulation, and self-regulation. Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, by using the Site or the services or by providing your data, you consent and authorize Company to transfer, store, and use all such personal information in the United States which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required in the country where you reside and to the processing of that personal information by us on our servers located in the United States, as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want your personal information transferred to the United States, please do not submit any information to us or use our Site or the services.

14.  Your Rights and Choices.

If you reside in the State of California please go to our Privacy Notice Addendum to learn about additional rights you may have under applicable data protection laws.

15.  Third Party Websites.

If, in your interactions with the Site, you are linked or directed to, or click on, a third party website, we cannot control what information you provide to that third party or on such website, and we are not responsible for how that third party may use or disclose any information you may provide to them. Linking or directing you to a third party website is not an endorsement by us of any third party website, content that may be offered on such third party website, or of any products or services provided by such third party. We do notcontrol, nor are we responsible for, such third party website, product or service offerings. As such, we urge that you exercise caution before providing any third party with your personal information and to review the third party’s privacy policy for information on its data processing practice. 

You should contact the site administrator for such third party website if you have any complaints, claims, concerns or questions regarding such third party website or its privacy practices.

16.  Changes to This Privacy Notice.This Privacy Policy was published on the date “Last Updated” above.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be made by updating this page. Please visit this Privacy Policy regularly to read the current version.

17.  How to Contact Us.Please contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the information we hold about you.

Anthony Allegrina
 1901 St Antoine, Detroit, MI 48226
 aallegrina@bodmanlaw.com
313-393-7564

PRIVACY NOTICE ADDENDUM 

This Privacy Notice Addendum (“Notice”) supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California  ("consumers" or "you").  

We adopt this Notice to comply with the California Shine the Lights law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable (collectively, the "Statutes"). Any terms defined in the Statutes will have the same meaning when used in this Notice. Any terms used in this Notice but undefined herein shall have the meaning provided in the Privacy Policy.

As further set forth in our Privacy Policy, we may collect certain information that is: (i) linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual or natural person; or (ii) that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a consumer or household; or (iii) as further defined in the Statutes as “Personal Data” or “Personal Information,” as further described in our Privacy Policy.

1.      Shine the Light Law.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law permits individuals who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request to us using the contact information listed in the “How to Exercise Your Rights” Section below.

In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold any categories of personal information to any third party.

In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties the following categories of personal 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:

You may have the right under the Statues, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:

 | Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You | You have the right to know: The categories of personal information we have collected about you; The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. Please note that we are not required to: Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained; Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period. 

 | Personal Information Sold, Shared, Disclosed, or Used for a Business Purpose | In connection with any personal information we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know: The categories of personal information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold; and The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose.  We do not sell personal information to any third party.

 | Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. | You have the right to opt-out of the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information for anything other than supplying requested goods or services.  We do not collect sensitive personal information.

 | Right to Correction | You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information maintained by us about you. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.

 | Right to Deletion | Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: Delete your personal information from our records; and Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to: Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; Comply with an existing legal obligation; or Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

 | Protection Against Discrimination | You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the Statutes. This means we cannot, among other things: Deny goods or services to you; Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods and/or services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information.

 

If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Notice, please:

Please note that you may be restricted on the number of data access or data portability disclosures you may make within a 12-month period.

If you choose to contact us to exercise any of your rights as described in this Notice, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. In order to help protect your privacy and maintain security, you will need to provide us with:

In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we may require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request.

You may use a representative, called an "authorized agent," to submit a request to us. 

In some states, an authorized agent must be a natural person, or a business entity registered with the appropriate Secretary of State, that you have authorized to act on your behalf. 

In order to protect your privacy, Company requires you to confirm that you have provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request and you must provide the authorized agent with signed permission. "Signed" means that the written attestation, declaration, or permission has either been physically signed or provided electronically pursuant to the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. In California, an authorized agent that has power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code section 4121 to 4130 must submit proof of statutory power of attorney, but in such cases, consumer verification will not be required.

Company may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized to act on your behalf. Requests submitted by an authorized agent will still require verification of the person who is the subject of the request in accordance with the process described above. 

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.

Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.