Privacy Policy

The Flatiron Law Group (“we”) recognizes the importance of your privacy. This policy is intended to inform you about the information we collect from visits to our website, blogs, and social media accounts (collectively referred to as “website”), how we use that information, and with whom we may share the information.

Who We Are
The Flatiron Law Group, LLP is a law firm based in the United States and was formed in 2017 ( the “Firm”). We are a limited liability partnership organized under New York state laws for the practice of law. We have offices in four states. Our Firm’s management office is located at 500 Fashion Avenue (7th Ave), New York, NY 10018.

Scope of Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect online through our website. It does not apply to information that we collect by other means, such as information you share with us verbally, in writing, in email messages to our lawyers, consultants, or employees; or to information obtained while representing a client. This Privacy Policy also does not cover information collected by any other company, third-party site or third-party application that may link to, or that can be accessed from, our website.

Information We Collect From Website Visits
Information we obtain from visits to our website can be broadly described as the personal information that visitors provide us and technical information that we collect through the use of technology concerning those visits.

Personal Information
Visitors to our website may have the opportunity to register for events, seminars, or webinars; sign up to receive newsletters, publications, and marketing materials; or respond to surveys. We will collect any information that you voluntarily provide us through our website, such as your name, email address, telephone number or fax number; your company or firm name; and other business contact information. We will also collect other types of information you might provide such as preferences as to the types of information—such as notice of seminars or events, or publications—that you would like to receive, as well as responses to surveys or questionnaires. In addition, we may endeavor to determine whether you are a current or former client of the Firm from the information you provide.

Consent and Withdrawing Your Consent
You are under no obligation to provide us with your personal information when visiting our website. Whether you provide any personal information is entirely voluntary and is solely within your discretion. You will suffer no legal detriment if you decide not to provide any of the requested personal information. We may be unable to provide you with any services or information you request if you decide not to provide us with some or all of the personal information requested via our website.

You can withdraw your consent to our possession or processing of any of the personal information you provide us at any time. To do so, you can either send an email or written letter as explained at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Technical Information

We collect certain types of technical information provided by the browser of the computer, tablet, or mobile device used when visiting our website, such as:
Usage Details, IP Addresses and Browser Type

When you visit our website, we collect technical information such as the identity of your internet protocol (IP) address, your computer or device’s operating system and browser type, geo-location data, and the pages of our website that you visit. Most browsers transmit this type of information to websites automatically. We will anonymize your IP address. We collect this information to administer and manage our website, to ensure that it functions properly, and to review aggregate information.

Cookies
Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files downloaded to the browser of a computer, tablet, or smartphone used to visit a website. A cookie will identify your browser, help you log in, and improve the navigation of a website. In addition, we use cookies to help us improve the performance of our website. Cookies allow us to review the number of visitors to our website and understand a visitor’s usage patterns; track key performance indicators such as pages visited, frequency of visits, downloads and other statistical information; know whether a visitor views the mobile or desktop version of our website; recognize visitors if they return to our website; store information about visitors’ past visits; and remember visitors’ preferences.

You may be able to disallow cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. To learn more about cookies and how to disallow or manage them, go to: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts or pages of our website.

How We Use or Process Your Information
We may process the information you provide and that we collect via our website to:

  • Provide invitations to seminars, conferences, and other firm programs; register you for events or to sponsor events; provide newsletters, publications, blogs, social media feeds, and marketing information; or provide CLE or CE information
  • Deliver any requested products or services, or provide you with customer support
  • Improve or modify our website; update and maintain client, subscription or email lists; and achieve other internal purposes
  • Respond to requests for information, respond to requests for proposals, or provide information about legal services you request
  • Respond to lawful requests for information through court orders, subpoenas, warrants, and other types of legal process or obligations.
  • Enforce our website’s terms of use ([[Link to Terms of Use]]) or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
  • Protect the operations of our law firm, or the safety, security and privacy of our Firm, our lawyers and staff, our clients, or third parties. This potentially includes sharing information with others for purposes of fraud protection, information security and related matters.

We will not share or sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

We will not use your personal data for making any automated decisions affecting you or your legal rights or for creating profiles other than as described above.

Limited Information Sharing
We may share the information you provide us on a confidential basis with contractors, vendors or service providers that support our Firm’s operations and website, but only for those purposes.

We may also share your personal information with courts, law enforcement authorities, regulators, attorneys or other parties when it is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal or equitable claim, or for purposes of an alternative dispute resolution process; to comply with a subpoena or court order, legal process or other legal requirement, or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, prevent imminent physical harm or material financial loss; to investigate, or prevent or take action concerning, illegal activities, suspected fraud or threats to our Firm, any of its lawyers or our property; or as necessary in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity.

Links to Social Media and Third-Party Websites
Our website may include links to blogs, social media and other third-party websites. These third-party sites have their own privacy policies and terms of use and are not controlled by this Privacy Policy or the terms of our website’s disclaimer. You should carefully review any terms, conditions and policies of such third-party sites before visiting them or supplying them with any personal information. If you follow a link to any third-party site, any information you provide that site will be governed by its own terms of use and privacy policy and not this Privacy Policy.

The Law Office is not responsible for the privacy or security of any information you provide to a third-party website or the information practices used by any third-party site, including links to any third-party site from The Law Office’s website. We make no representations, express or implied, concerning the accuracy, privacy, safety, security or the information practices of any third-party site. The inclusion of a link to a third-party site on our website does not constitute any type of endorsement of the linked site by The Law Office. The Law Office is not responsible for any loss or damage you may sustain resulting from your use of any third-party website or any information you share with a third-party website.

Updating, Correcting or Withdrawing Your Personal Information
It is important that the personal information we have about you is accurate. If any of the personal information you provide us should ever change—for instance if you change your email address or phone number—or should you wish to change your preferences or to stop receiving announcements from us, or if you wish to correct any inaccurate personal information about yourself or to delete any personal information that you provided through your visits to our website, please let us know by sending an email or written letter as explained at the end of this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for any losses that could arise from any inaccurate, deficient or incomplete personal information that you provide to the Firm.

For security reasons, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity before we correct, update or delete any personal information you provide us.

Information Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information from inadvertent or unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, no method of data storage or data transmission over the internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. Therefore, your use of our website, and any personal information that you transmit over the internet to our website, is at your own risk.

California Visitors
In addition to the rights set forth above in this Privacy Statement, if you are an individual who is also a California resident, you are afforded rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which allows you to make certain requests about your personal information in our possession. Specifically, the CCPA allows you to request us to:

  • Inform you about the categories of personal information we collect or disclose about you; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we share/disclose your personal information.
  • Provide access to and/or a copy of certain personal information we hold about you.
  • Delete certain personal information we have about you.
  • Provide you with information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any.

The CCPA further provides you with the right to not be discriminated against (as provided for in applicable law) for exercising your rights.

Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under California law. For example, the CCPA provides that we are not required to comply with a request to delete personal information if the information is necessary for our Firm to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Complete the transaction for which the information was collected, provide a good or service you requested, perform a contract with you, to fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or take actions reasonably anticipated in the context of our ongoing business relationship with you.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against deceptive, malicious, fraudulent or illegal activity, or to prosecute those responsible for that activity.
  • Debug products, services or applications to identify and repair errors that impair existing functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, to ensure the rights of others to exercise their free speech rights, or to exercise another right provided by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code §1546 et. seq.).
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based upon your relationship with our Firm.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of the information that are compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Furthermore, we are not obligated under the CCPA to respond to any request where compliance or disclosure would violate an evidentiary privilege under California law, or conflict with federal or state law.

The CCPA, does not require that we provide personal information to a consumer more than twice in a twelve-month period. Any disclosures we make will only cover the twelve months preceding the request.

Regulations proposed by the California Attorney General prohibit us from disclosing specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure creates a substantial, articulable and unreasonable risk to the security of that information or the security of our systems or networks. These proposed regulations further prohibit us from disclosing in response to a consumer’s request a Social Security number, driver’s license number, other government-issued identification number, financial account number, any health insurance or medical identification number, an account password or security questions and answers.

Before we respond to any request involving personal information, the CCPA requires that we confirm the identity of the person making the request, and if the request is made on behalf of another person, their authority to make the request on the other person’s behalf. We are not obligated to provide or to delete any information pursuant to your request if we are unable to adequately verify your identity or the identity of the person requesting on your behalf. Accordingly, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request, which may include, at a minimum, depending on the sensitivity of the information you are requesting and the type of request you are making, verifying your name, email address, and other account information. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to respond to or take action upon such request.

You are also permitted to designate an authorized agent to submit certain requests on your behalf. In order for an authorized agent to be verified, you must provide the authorized agent with signed, written permission to make such requests or a power of attorney. We may also follow up with you to verify your identity before processing the authorized agent’s request.

For our Privacy Notice for California Residents in Connection with Professional Services, please see here.

If there is a discrepancy between any of the other provisions of this Privacy Statement and the requirements of the CCPA involving an individual who is a California resident, the CCPA shall govern our obligations and responses.

In addition, the California Civil Code permits California residents with whom we have an established business relationship to request that we provide you with a list of certain categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. To make such a request, please contact our Privacy Officer as explained at the end of this Privacy Statement and mention that you are making a “California Shine the Light” inquiry.

Visitors From Outside the United States
If you are visiting our website from outside the United States (“U.S.”), any information you voluntarily provide via our website and any technical information from the browser of your computer, tablet or mobile device will be transferred out of your country and into the U.S., where our law firm is located. The laws and protections available to the privacy of your personal information in the U.S. may significantly differ from the protections available in your country. Personal data transferred to the U.S. may be subject to lawful access requests by state and federal authorities in the U.S. If you do not want any personal information to be transferred to the U.S., please do not provide that information to our Firm via our website.

Visitors From the European Union
On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) went into effect in the European Union (“EU”). The GDPR extends to natural persons certain rights involving the privacy of their personal information.

Our Firm is the data controller for any personal information provided via our website. Our Firm does not have a data protection officer in the EU. Any information that you provide us will be stored in the United States. We do not intend to transfer your personal data to another country or international organization.

We will retain any personal information that you provide via our website for seven years from the date you provided or last updated that information unless you request that information be deleted at an earlier date. If that information is subject to a litigation hold, or is required to assert or defend a legal claim, we will hold that information until the claim or action is finally resolved.

Under the GDPR, individuals are granted the following rights:

Right of Access
You have the right to ask what personal information we have about you in our possession. You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data free of charge so long as it does not adversely affect the rights of others. We may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs for additional copies. The right of access includes the right to request that we update, correct or complete your personal information in our possession.

Right of Erasure
You have a right to request that data be deleted or erased when it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected or processed, when you withdraw your consent, when data is unlawfully processed, to comply with a legal obligation of the EU or a Member State, or when you object to the processing and we are unable to demonstrate compelling, legitimate grounds for the processing that overrides your rights, freedoms or interests. Personal data does not have to be erased when and to the extent it is necessary “for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.”

Right to Restrict Processing
You have a right to restrict the processing of your personal data when you contest the accuracy of the personal data in our possession until we are able to verify its accuracy, if the processing is unlawful and you oppose its erasure and request restriction instead.

Right to Data Portability
The right to data portability is triggered when processing activity was based on your consent or was necessary for the performance of a contract, and the processing was carried out by automated means. This right, however, shall not adversely affect the rights of others.

Automated Decision-Making
You have the right to not be subjected to decision-making based solely on automated processing or profiling that either significantly affects you or results in some sort of legal effect. This right does not apply to decisions that are necessary for entering into or performing a contract with you or are based on your explicit consent.

Right to Object to Processing
You have the right to object to processing when it is based on a “legitimate interest” of the controller or a third party, or to processing that occurs for direct marketing purposes.
Withdrawing Your Consent from further Processing
You are able to withdraw your consent to further processing of your personal information at any time. You can do this by contacting us at privacy@flatiron.legal. Please state in the email that you wish to withdraw your consent to further processing of your personal information data.

Right to Complain
You also have the right to complain about our data privacy practices with the supervisory authority where you reside.

How to Exercise These Rights
You can exercise these rights by contacting our Firm’s General Counsel as explained at the end of this Privacy Policy.

We will review any requests we receive and will endeavor to respond in a timely manner. However, for security reasons, we may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity before taking action on any request and ensuring your right of access and that the exercise of any GDPR right of yours does not adversely affect the rights of others.

We reserve the right to refuse to act on a request or charge a reasonable administrative fee when a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive because of its repetitive character.

Notice to Minors
Our Firm’s website is not directed at and is not intended to be visited by minors. No visitor to our website who is a minor or under the age of 18 should provide any personal information to our Firm. If you are a minor, do not visit our website (including our blogs and social media sites) and do not send any personal information about yourself to our Firm or website.

Privacy Policy Updates
This Privacy Policy was last updated in July 2021. We occasionally will update our Privacy Policy and the terms of our website’s disclaimer. Please periodically check our Privacy Policy and our website’s disclaimer to learn about our Privacy Policy and disclaimer changes. This Privacy Policy supersedes all prior versions governing our website.

No Legal Advice or Attorney-Client Relationship Intended
Nothing in this Privacy Policy, or our website or disclaimer, is intended to provide legal advice or create a contractual or attorney-client relationship. You agree that visiting our website or providing information to our website does not create a contractual or attorney-client relationship.

How to Contact Us
We welcome your views about our website and our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or would like to share any comments with us, please contact us at privacy@flatiron.legal, or you may directly contact the Partner with whom you have been communicating.

Privacy Notice for California Residents in Connection with Professional Services
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA” or “Act”) grants residents of the State of California ( “you” or “consumer”) certain privacy rights in their personal information. The CCPA requires that a business that collects a consumer’s personal information disclose, at or before the collection point, the categories of personal information to be collected and the purposes to which that information is to be used. This Privacy Notice for California Residents (“Privacy Notice”) is intended to meet that requirement when we are providing professional services that may involve your information. This Privacy Notice only applies to residents of the State of California.

Personal Information

The CCPA defines personal information as 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 under the CCPA, however, does not include:

  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
  • Publicly available information from federal, state or local government records.Information excluded from the scope of the CCPA:

(i) Medical or health information covered by the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act of 1966 (“HIPAA”) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”) or clinical trial data.
(ii) Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”), or California Financial Information Privacy Act (“FIPA”) and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

This chart identifies categories or examples of personal information covered by the CCPA:

Category
Examples

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.
B.  Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e)):
A 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.  Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
C.  Protected classification characteristics under California 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).
D.  Commercial information:
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
E.  Biometric information:
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
F.  Internet or other similar network activity:
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
G.  Geolocation data:
Physical location or movements.
H.  Sensory data:
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
I.  Professional or employment-related information:
Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
J.  Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)):
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.
K.  Inferences drawn from other personal information:
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities and aptitudes.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

The categories of personal information we collect when we are retained to provide legal advice or services will vary depending on the nature of the engagement and the services we are requested to provide but can include any of the categories of personal information listed.

Purposes For Which Your Information Will Be Used

First of all you should know that:

We do not and will not sell your personal information.
We will not share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We will not use your personal information to make any automated decisions affecting you.

We will use and process any personal information we receive to provide legal advice or services that our law firm is retained to provide, to establish, exercise or defend of any type of legal claim or dispute, to comply with any legal obligation imposed upon us by law, or in connection with pursuing our Firm’s legitimate interests. Those legitimate interests include not only the provision of legal advice and services, but also our internal administrative or operational processes.

Accordingly, we will use personal information to:

  • Provide legal advice or services;
  • Defend or prosecute a lawsuit, administrative proceeding, or any type of legal, regulatory, or administrative claim, challenge or dispute, which may include responding to discovery requests involving your information;
  • Negotiate, document, settle or close a deal, transaction, contract, or legal dispute;
  • Manage or administer your, your employer’s or a related third party’s business and affairs, business activities or business relationship with our Firm, including processing payments, accounting, auditing, billing, collection, and support services;
  • Communicate with you, your employer, or a related third party about the status, developments, or the outcome of an engagement.
  • Comply with any legal demands or orders issued in an administrative proceeding, by a tribunal or court of law, or to comply with a regulatory obligation imposed by a governmental or regulatory agency or official, which could include meeting various compliance, screening, or recordkeeping requirements, anti-money laundering, financial and credit checks, fraud, and crime prevention requirements, and which may require manual or automated checks of your personal information against various databases and lists;
  • For internal administrative purposes such as to open a new matter as part of our new business intake, file opening, and conflict resolution process as well as for processing payments, accounting, auditing, billing and collections, and related support services;
  • For any other purpose necessary for the legitimate interests of our Firm;
  • To fulfill or meet the reasons you provided us the information, including to process your requests, transactions, or payments and to prevent transaction fraud.
  • To respond to your inquires, process your requests concerning your personal information in our possession, investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses;
  • To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products, services, databases, networks, and other technical assets and business;
  • To deliver any other type of requested product or service, or to provide support for any such product or service;
  • Improve, develop, modify or support our products and services, to update and maintain client contact or email lists and for other internal purposes;
  • Respond to requests for information, or to provide information about legal services that you request;
  • Respond to lawful requests for information through court orders, subpoenas, warrants and other legal process, obligations or governmental regulations;
  • Protect the operations of our law firm, or the safety, security, and privacy of our Firm, our lawyers and staff, our clients or third parties. This includes sharing information with others for purposes of fraud protection, information security, and related matters;
  • For any purpose related to any of the preceding;

Categories of Third Parties With Whom We May Share Your Personal Data

We will share personal data received as part of an engagement when necessary to provide our legal advice or services. This may require that we share your information with other parties or their lawyers involved in a transaction, deal or litigation, or with related parties and their attorneys, or when necessary with other third parties such as lay and expert witnesses, or with vendors we retain to assist us in providing our legal services, and when necessary with judges, courts, tribunals, and mediators involved in the resolution of a dispute.
We may also share your personal information with courts of law, law enforcement authorities, governmental officials or regulators, attorneys or other parties when it is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal or equitable claim, or for purposes of an alternative dispute resolution process; to comply with a subpoena or court order, legal process, or other legal requirement or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, to prevent imminent physical harm or material financial loss, to investigate, prevent or take action concerning illegal activities, suspected fraud, threats to our Firm, any of its lawyers or our property; or as necessary in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity.

Your CCPA Privacy Rights

The CCPA also provides you with the right to request that our Firm:

  • Inform you about the categories of personal information we collect or disclose about you; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we share/disclose your personal information.
  • Provide access to, or a copy of, certain personal information we hold about you.
  • Delete certain personal information we have about you, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Provide you with information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any.

The CCPA further provides you with the right not to be discriminated against (as provided for in applicable law) for exercising your rights thereunder.

Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under California law. For example, the CCPA provides that we are not required to comply with a request to delete personal information if the information is necessary for our Firm to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Complete the transaction for which the information was collected, provide a good or service you requested, perform a contract with you, to fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or take actions reasonably anticipated in the context of our ongoing business relationship with you.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against deceptive, malicious, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
  • Debug products, services, or applications to identify and repair errors that impair existing functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, to ensure the rights of others to exercise their free speech rights or exercise another right provided by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code §1546 et. seq.).
  • Enable solely internal uses reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based upon your relationship with our Firm.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of the information compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
  • Furthermore, we are not obligated under the CCPA to respond to any request where compliance or disclosure would violate an evidentiary privilege under California law, or conflict with federal or state law.

The CCPA does not require that we provide personal information to a consumer more than twice in twelve months. Therefore, any disclosures we make will only cover the twelve months preceding the request.

Regulations proposed by the California Attorney General prohibit us from disclosing specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure creates a substantial, articulable and unreasonable risk to the security of that information or the security of our systems or networks. These proposed regulations further prohibit us from disclosing in response to a consumer’s request a Social Security number, driver’s license number, other government-issued identification number, financial account number, any health insurance or medical identification number, an account password or security questions and answers.

Before we respond to any request involving personal information, the CCPA requires that we confirm the identity of the person making the request, and if the request is made on behalf of another person, their authority to request on the other person’s behalf. We are not obligated to provide or to delete any information according to your request if we are unable to adequately verify your identity or the identity of the person requesting on your behalf. Accordingly, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request, which may include, at a minimum, depending on the sensitivity of the information you are requesting and the type of request you are making, verifying your name, email address, and other account information. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to respond to or take action upon such a request.

You are also permitted to designate an authorized agent to submit certain requests on your behalf. For an authorized agent to be verified, you must provide the authorized agent with signed, written permission to make such requests or a power of attorney. We may also follow up with you to verify your identity before processing the authorized agent’s request.

If there is a discrepancy between any of the other provisions of this Privacy Notice and the requirements of the CCPA involving an individual who is a California resident, the CCPA shall govern our obligations and responses.

How To Exercise Your Privacy Rights
You can exercise any of the rights in this Privacy Notice by contacting our Privacy Officer as explained at the end of this Privacy Notice.
We will review all requests we receive and will respond in a timely manner. For security reasons, we will request specific information from you to help us verify your identity before taking action on any request and ensure your rights of access and deletion do not adversely affect the rights of others.

We reserve the right to refuse to act on a request or charge a reasonable administrative fee when a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive because of its repetitive character.

Notice to Minors
Our Firm’s website is not directed at and is not intended to be visited by minors. No visitor to our website who is a minor or under the age of 18 should provide any personal information to our Firm. If you are a minor, do not visit our website (including our blogs and social media sites) and do not send any type of personal information about yourself to our Firm or website.

Privacy Notice Updates
This Privacy Notice was last updated in July 2021. We occasionally will update our Privacy Notice and the terms of our website’s disclaimer. Please periodically check our Privacy Notice and our website’s disclaimer to learn about our Privacy Notice and disclaimer changes. This Privacy Notice supersedes all prior versions governing our website.

No Legal Advice or Attorney-Client Relationship Intended
Nothing in this Privacy Notice, or our website or disclaimer, is intended to provide legal advice or create a contractual or attorney-client relationship. You agree that visiting our website or providing information to our website does not create a contractual or attorney-client relationship.

How to Contact Us
We welcome your views about our website and our Privacy Notice. If you have any questions about our Privacy Notice, would like to exercise any of your rights, or share any comments with us, please contact our Privacy Officer via email at privacy@flatiron.legal.