We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to various laws in the United States and the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom), and we are responsible as “controller” of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
1. Key Terms. It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:
We, us, our | Law Office of Erica DiAngelo, PA D/B/A/ DiAngelo Law, and our group companies |
Personal information | Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual |
2. Personal Information We Collect About You. We may collect and use the following personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonable capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
Categories of Personal Information | Specific Types of Personal Information Collected |
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Identifiers (e.g., 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) | Name, email address, social media handles or accounts |
Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her 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. | Name, signature, addresses, telephone numbers, employment information, business ownership information, credit card numbers. |
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law. | |
Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies) | |
Biometric information | |
Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement) | |
Geolocation data | |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | |
Professional or employment-related information | Name of businesses you have ownership interest in, Tax Identification numbers of businesses, Business addresses, employment status |
Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) | |
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 |
This personal information is required to provide legal and consulting services to you. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from our services to you.
3. 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 website. However, we may also collect information:
4. How and Why We Use Your Personal Information. Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.,:
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The table below explains what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:
What we use your personal information for | Our reasons |
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To provide services to you | For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
To prevent and detect fraud against you or DiAngelo Law | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to minimize fraud that could be damaging for us and for you |
Conducting checks to identify our customers and verify their identity Screening for financial and other sanctions or embargoes Other processing necessary to comply with professional, legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, e.g. under health and safety regulation or rules issued by our professional regulator |
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, enquiries or investigations by regulatory bodies | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g. policies covering security and internet use | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you |
Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training and quality control | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price |
Ensuring the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to protect trade secrets and other commercially valuable information To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Statistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g. in relation to [our financial performance, customer base, product range or other efficiency measures] | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price |
Preventing unauthorized access and modifications to systems | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for us and for you To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Updating [and enhancing] customer records | For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products |
Statutory returns | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Ensuring safe working practices, staff administration and assessments | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. to make sure we are following our own internal procedures and working efficiently so we can deliver the best service to you |
Marketing our services [and those of selected third parties] to: – existing and former customers; – third parties who have previously expressed an interest in our services; – third parties with whom we have had no previous dealings. | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to promote our business to existing and former customers |
Credit reference checks via external credit reference agencies | For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to ensure our customers are likely to be able to pay for our products and services |
External audits and quality checks, e.g. for ISO or Investors in People accreditation and the audit of our accounts | For our legitimate interests or a those of a third party, i.e. to maintain our accreditations so we can demonstrate we operate at the highest standards To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
[The above table does not apply to special category personal information, which we will only process with your explicit consent.]
5. Promotional Communications. We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and/or services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see above “How and why we use your personal information”). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and never sell OR share it with other organizations outside the DiAngelo Law group for marketing purposes.
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing 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. Who We Share Your Personal Information With. We routinely share personal information with:
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 relating to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you. We may also share personal information with external auditors, e.g. in relation to ISO[ or Investors in People] accreditation and the audit of our accounts.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
[We will not share your personal information with any other third party.]
7. Personal Information We Sold or Disclosed for a Business Purpose. In the preceding 12 months, we HAVE NOT sold to any 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:
In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties, some of 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:
8. Where Your Personal Information is Held. Information may be held at our offices and those of our DiAngelo Law’s third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above (see above: “Who We Share Your Personal Information with”).
Some of these third parties may be based outside the European Economic Area. For more information, including on how we safeguard your personal information when this occurs, see below: “Transferring Your Personal Information Out of the EEA”.
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:
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.
10. Transferring Your Personal Information Out of the EEA. If you are within the EEA, it is necessary to deliver services to you, for us to share your personal information outside the European Economic Area (EEA), e.g.:
These transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection law.
The following countries to which we may transfer personal information have been assessed by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for personal information: United States of America, Canada.
11. Your Rights Under the GDPR.
These rights are not applicable to all vistors, customers, clients, or users associated with DiAngelo Law.
Right to Access | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information (the right of access) |
Right to Rectification | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal information |
Right to be Forgotten | The right to require us to delete your personal information—in certain situations |
Right to Restriction of Processing | The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information—in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data |
Right to Data Portability | The right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party – in certain situations |
Right to Object | The right to object: – at any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling) ; – in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests. |
Right Not to be Subject to Automated Individual Decision-Making | The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individual rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
12. Your Rights Under the CCPA. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
These rights are not applicable to all visitors, customers, clients, or users associated with DiAngelo Law.
Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You | You have the right to know:
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Personal Information Sold 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. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the sale [or disclosure] of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale [or disclosure] of your personal information, we will refrain from selling your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale of your personal information. To opt-out of the sale [or disclosure] of your personal information, email info@diangelolaw.com with subject line: Do Not Sell My Personal Information and your request. |
Right to Deletion | Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
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Protection Against Discrimination | You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things:
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13. Keeping Your Personal Information Secure. We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. 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 will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
14. How to Exercise Your Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please:
Please note that you may only make a CCPA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period, if it is applicable to you.
If you choose to contact directly by email, you will need to provide us with:
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 you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
15. How to File a GDPR Complaint. We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the Country of your habitual residence is the entity who may be contacted.
16. Changes to This Privacy Notice. This privacy notice was published on April 9, 2020 and last updated on April 9, 2020.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time–when we do, we will inform you via website.
17. How to Contact Us. Please contact us by email if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
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