Privacy Policy
1. Introduction and Scope
Camuti Law Group APC (the Firm, we, us, or our) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit camutilaw.com (the Website) or communicate with us through it. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website. It does not govern information we receive in the course of representing a client, which the Firm protects under its professional duty of confidentiality, including California Business and Professions Code section 6068(e) and Rule 1.6 of the California Rules of Professional Conduct, and under the terms of any engagement agreement.
By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with it, please do not use the Website or submit information through it.
No Attorney-Client Relationship
Your use of the Website, and any message you send to the Firm through the Website, its contact forms, or the email addresses listed on it, does not create an attorney-client relationship. An attorney-client relationship with the Firm arises only after the Firm completes a conflict check and both you and the Firm sign a written engagement agreement. Until then, please do not send the Firm any confidential or time-sensitive information about a legal matter. The Firm may not be able to treat unsolicited information as confidential, and receipt of that information may not prevent the Firm from representing another party in the same or a related matter.
2. Information We Collect
The Firm does not require you to register or create an account to browse the Website. We collect personal information from three sources.
Information You Provide
We collect the information you choose to give us when you complete a contact or consultation request form, schedule an appointment, subscribe to a newsletter or alert, register for a seminar or webinar, send us an email, or send us a text message. This information typically includes your name, email address, telephone number, company name, and the content of your message. If you pay a fee through the Website, our payment processor collects your billing information directly, as described in Section 5.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, our servers and analytics tools automatically record certain technical information. This information includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring website, the pages you view, the links you click, and the date and time of your visit.
Information From Third Parties
We may receive information about you from the service providers that operate features of the Website, such as a scheduling tool that sends us the contact details you enter when you book an appointment.
Sensitive Personal Information
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the Website. Sensitive personal information includes Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, financial account numbers, health information, and information about racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, political opinions, sexual orientation, criminal history, or union membership. If you submit that information anyway, this Privacy Policy will govern our handling of it.
3. How We Use Information
The Firm uses personal information for the following purposes:
To respond to your inquiries and requests for a consultation.
To perform conflict checks before the Firm agrees to speak with you about a legal matter or accept a representation.
To schedule and confirm appointments, seminars, and webinars.
To send newsletters, legal updates, and event announcements that you request. Each email includes a link you can use to unsubscribe.
To process payments you make through the Website.
To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website and understand how visitors use it.
To comply with legal and professional obligations, respond to lawful requests from courts and government authorities, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
The Firm does not use personal information for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you.
4. Cookies, Analytics, and Do Not Track
Cookies
The Website uses cookies, which are small data files that a website places on your device. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or you delete them. The Firm uses cookies to keep the Website functioning, remember your preferences, and measure Website traffic. You can set your browser to refuse or delete cookies. If you do, some features of the Website may not work properly.
Analytics
The Firm uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the Website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as your IP address, device and browser characteristics, and the pages you visit. Google processes that information under its own privacy policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your information by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, which Google makes available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Advertising and Tracking Across Websites
The Firm does not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or other technologies that allow third parties to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers transmit a Do Not Track signal to the websites you visit. Because no uniform industry standard governs how websites should respond to these signals, the Website does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals.
5. How We Disclose Information
The Firm does not sell your personal information, and it does not share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. The Firm discloses personal information only in the following circumstances. Section 6 separately governs mobile information and text messaging consent, and the Business Transfers and With Your Consent provisions below do not apply to that information.
Service Providers
The Firm relies on third-party service providers to host the Website, deliver email, schedule appointments, process payments, and analyze Website traffic. These providers may access personal information only to perform services for the Firm, and the Firm requires them to protect it. Each provider also maintains its own privacy policy. The Firm currently uses the following providers in connection with the Website:
Provider
Function
Information Involved
Squarespace
Website hosting
Technical and usage information; form submissions
Google Analytics
Website traffic analysis
IP address, device, browser, and usage information
Google Mail
Newsletters and legal updates
Name and email address
Clio Scheduler
Appointment scheduling
Name, email address, telephone number, appointment details
Confido Legal
Payment processing
Name and billing information (the Firm does not receive full card numbers)
Zoom
Consultations and webinars
Name, email address, telephone number if you join by phone
The Firm may change these providers from time to time and will update this table when it does.
Legal Requirements and Protection of Rights
The Firm may disclose personal information when it believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with a subpoena, court order, or other legal process; to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Firm, its clients, or others; or to investigate fraud or other unlawful activity. The Firm will make these disclosures consistent with its professional obligations.
Business Transfers
If the Firm merges with or transfers its practice to another firm, Website information may transfer to the successor, subject to the successor's compliance with this Privacy Policy and applicable professional rules.
With Your Consent
The Firm may disclose personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
6. Text Messaging
The Firm does not send marketing, advertising, or solicitation text messages. The Firm sends text messages only in reply to a person who first sends the Firm a text message, and only about the subject of that message or the Firm's representation of that person.
Information Collected Through Text Messages
When you text the Firm, the Firm and its messaging provider, [MESSAGING PLATFORM], receive your mobile telephone number, the content of your messages, and the date, time, and delivery status of each message. The Firm uses this information only to respond to you, to communicate with you about your matter, and to keep the records of client communications that its professional obligations require.
Consent and Opting Out
By sending the Firm a text message, you agree to receive text replies from the Firm about the subject of your message. You do not need to text the Firm to schedule a consultation or obtain legal services. Message frequency varies with your conversation. Message and data rates may apply. Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
You may stop receiving text messages from the Firm at any time by replying STOP, or by telling the Firm in any other reasonable way, including by email or telephone. The Firm will honor your request promptly, and in no event later than 10 business days after it receives the request. The Firm may send one text message confirming your request. For help, reply HELP or contact the Firm using the information in Section 13.
No Sharing of Mobile Information
The Firm will not share your mobile information with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. The Firm will not share text messaging originator opt-in data or consent with any third party. The Firm discloses mobile information only to the service providers, such as its messaging platform and wireless carriers, that transmit text messages on the Firm's behalf, and only to the extent necessary to deliver those messages.
Text Messaging Is Not a Secure Channel
Standard text messages are not encrypted end to end. Copies may remain on your device, on your carrier's systems, and on the Firm's messaging platform. Please do not send confidential information, documents, or the details of a legal matter by text message. The Firm may respond to substantive questions by telephone, email, or another secure method rather than by text.
7. Data Retention
The Firm retains personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. The Firm may retain information longer when its professional obligations require it, including records it keeps to perform conflict checks, or when the law requires a longer retention period.
8. Data Security
The Firm uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information. The Website encrypts data in transit using TLS. No method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure, however, and the Firm cannot guarantee the absolute security of information you send over the internet.
9. Children's Privacy
The Website is intended for adults. The Firm does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If you believe a child under 16 has provided personal information through the Website, please contact the Firm at the address below, and the Firm will delete it.
10. Your Choices and Rights
Email Communications
You may unsubscribe from Firm newsletters and updates at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting the Firm. The Firm may still send you messages related to an inquiry you made or an existing engagement.
Access, Correction, and Deletion
You may ask the Firm to tell you what personal information it holds about you through the Website, to correct inaccurate information, or to delete your information. The Firm will verify your identity before acting on a request and will respond within a reasonable time. The Firm may decline to delete information it must retain to meet a legal or professional obligation, such as conflict-check records.
California Residents
The Firm does not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. Accordingly, the Firm has no information to report in response to a request under California Civil Code section 1798.83. This Privacy Policy also contains the disclosures that the California Online Privacy Protection Act, California Business and Professions Code sections 22575 through 22579, requires.
11. Third-Party Websites
The Website may contain links to websites the Firm does not operate, such as court, government, and social media websites. The Firm does not control those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. Please review the privacy policy of each website you visit.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
The Firm may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When it does, the Firm will post the revised Privacy Policy on this page and change the Effective Date at the top. Your continued use of the Website after the Firm posts changes means you accept the revised Privacy Policy.
13. Contact Us
Please direct questions or requests about this Privacy Policy to:
Camuti Law Group APC
33 Brookline
Aliso Viejo, California 92656
Email: privacy@camutilaw.com
Telephone: (949) 716-5565