Tigris Legal PLLC is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and personal information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals. It has always been and remains our policy to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information upon attorneys and their associated personnel.
This Privacy Policy is based on the privacy and data protection principles in the U.S. We apply it in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law.
This Privacy Policy is also specifically addressed to parties outside our firm who provide personal information to our firm or who visit or use the firm’s websites, social media sites, as well as client portals. This Privacy Policy also describes how our firm collects, processes and discloses personal information in connection with the provision of legal services.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect personal information in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to our websites, social media sites, or users of client portals. We may also collect personal information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain personal information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:
- to contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries
- to personalize your visit and use of our client portals and to assist you while you use those services
- to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
- to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the firm, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you instruct us on
- to contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal or law firm developments that may be of interest to you.
- to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to.
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of our firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of personal information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other social sites or client portals. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We may retain information provided by you, including personal information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We do not disclose any personal information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.
Cookie Policy
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and placed on your computer by your web browser. Cookies can be divided into two different types, session and persistent. Session cookies differ from persistent cookies primarily in that session cookies are temporary and expire and are normally deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies, in contrast, remain stored on your computer after you close your browser until they are deleted either because they expire or you delete them.
Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet technologies, such as web beacons, to understand behavior on the Internet. For example, the firm uses cookies in conjunction with web beacons, which are small sections of code that we may place in our Internet Services to understand the number of unique users that have visited a specific page. Similarly, we may use or receive reporting from tracking scripts that recognize unique cookies issued by another website. These tracking scripts are not used to gather information on your use of the Internet unrelated to the firm, and they do not identify you unless you choose to provide personal information to the firm.
Our firm’s internet services use cookies. The firm uses session cookies in connection with its internet services, specifically for cybersecurity purposes, to provide you with customizations of your experience, such as highlighting your recently viewed items, to detect and remember your region and language preferences, and track your activities on the internet services. Our firm also uses the services of third parties such as Google Analytics in connection with these cookies. We allow the third-party service provider to use personal information about the users of our internet services in order to improve our services to clients.
None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our internet services. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the internet services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our internet services will issue cookies when you logon to our firm’s internet services. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our internet services, we will post it on this website.
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