PRIVACY NOTICE
Effective Date: December 28, 2022
INTRODUCTION
Thank you for visiting my website! Responsible personal information stewardship is one of my core values. Providing transparent information about the collection and use of personal information supports that value. This Privacy Notice sets out what personal information is collected over this website, how it is used and shared, and your rights concerning your personal information.
What Information is Collected About You and Who Collects Information About You When You Visit this Website?
The following lists the types of information collected over this website and detail about who collects and uses each type of information:
Contact Information: If you send information to me by email or phone, I will collect your first and last name, phone number, email address, and physical mailing address so that I can communicate with you. I, as the sole owner of The Virtual Arts Law Center, collect this information.
Usage Information: This website automatically collects the following information about your visit here: IP address, web pages you visited before coming to the site, information about your browser, network, or device (e.g., browser type and version, operating system, internet service provider, unique device IDs), information about how you interact with my website (such as timestamps, clicks, scrolling, browsing times, searches, transactions, referral pages, load times, and problems you may encounter, such as loading errors). I collect this information through Squarespace. Squarespace also collects this information for its own purposes. More information about how Squarespace uses this information is provided in the Squarespace Privacy Policy (see Section 12 of that policy). Squarespace needs this information to host this website and to protect and improve its platform and services.
Fonts: This website serves fonts from and renders them using Adobe Fonts to properly display this website to you. Usage information as described above is also used for this purpose. Adobe Fonts collect usage information so that Adobe fonts can be served and rendered on this website.
Email Addresses Used for Marketing: I may share your email address with Squarespace, my email marketing provider so that Squarespace can send marketing emails on my behalf. You can unsubscribe from my marketing emails by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.
Payment and Billing Information: As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Notice, I do not collect payment and billing information over this website. In the future, I may add functionality so that you can send me payment for services using a payment processor. When and if I enable payment processing, I will update the website and this Privacy Notice to provide more information about the personal information collected and used for that purpose.
How this Website Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. I have included a cookie banner on my website that will allow you to prevent the placement of certain types of cookies on your device and browser when those cookies are not necessary for the functioning of this website (such as analytics cookies). For information about the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
• These functional and required cookies are always used, to allow Squarespace, my website hosting platform, to serve this website to you.
• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Sensitive Personal Information
I do not collect sensitive personal information on this website. If you become a client of mine, you may disclose sensitive personal information offline so that I can provide legal services to you. In addition to the statements made in this Privacy Notice, I also am bound by ethical duties of confidentiality to my clients.
Whom I Share Data With
My website is powered by Squarespace, a third-party website hosting provider. Squarespace’s servers are located in the US. Except for the direct collection and use of personal information by Squarespace as set forth above, Squarespace only uses the personal information I provide to Squarespace as my service provider and is subject to a data processing agreement between my law firm (The Virtual Arts Law Center) and Squarespace.
In addition to the above, my website is integrated with social media network platforms (e.g., LinkedIn) whereby information may be shared with me from those platforms. For instance, if you interact with this website through a social media feature such as a plug-in, then you may be granting me or Squarespace ongoing access to certain information from that social media account. If you do not want a social media platform to collect or share information about you, please review the privacy policy and privacy settings of the applicable social media property before using features like a LinkedIn button on this Website.
Your Rights
At any time, you may:
Decline to Submit Directly Identifying Information: You may, of course, decline to submit personal information to me through this website. You are always welcome to contact me directly through my telephone number and email address listed in the Contact Me section of this website.
Unsubscribe from marketing emails: To unsubscribe from a particular newsletter, click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of that email newsletter.
Block cookies: Certain browsers may be configured to notify you when you receive cookies or allow you to restrict or disable certain cookies. If you choose to disable cookies, however, that could affect certain features of this website that use cookies to enhance its functionality. Please see the section of this Privacy Notice on cookies, above, for more information about the use of cookies on this website. Note that my website does not respond to Do-Not-Track requests or to Global Privacy Control.
Request Deletion of Your Personal Information: If you ask that I stop processing your personal information or ask that I delete it, I will respect your request to the extent I can. This means that, unless there are ethical or legal reasons for which I need to keep personal information, or unless there are reasons for which is it not feasible for me to delete your data, I will delete your personal information. The personal information Squarespace collects by hosting my website is retained by Squarespace as provided in the Squarespace Privacy Policy. You will need to ask Squarespace directly if you want Squarespace to delete the data it collects from my website and uses for its own purposes.
I may decline your request to delete your Personal Information when your Personal Information is used to:
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided by law;
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with client expectations based on your relationship with me and my law firm;
Comply with a legal obligation;
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provide it.
Personal Information of Children
This website is not directed to children or intended for use by children. I do not knowingly collect the personal information of individuals under the age of 18 years old.
Data Security and Data Breach
I care about the integrity and security of personal information and implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard personal information from unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, change, disclosure, acquisition, or access.
Data Retention
I keep personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which personal information is processed, as required by law, when deletion is infeasible, or for me to meet my ethical obligations as an attorney. Storage periods are determined on a case-by-case basis and depend on the type of personal information and the purpose for which it is processed.
Privacy Notice Changes
As my law firm grows and changes, how I process personal information may evolve. I will update this Privacy Notice from time to time to change practices. When I make changes, I will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Notice and will post it on my website. I will notify you of any material changes to how I process personal information by prominently posting a notice of material changes on my website before they take effect or by directly sending you a notification. The “Effective Date” of this Privacy Notice reflects the date of the most recent update to this Privacy Notice.
Further Information
For further information about this Privacy Notice, or how I or my service providers process your personal information, please contact me at kathleen.aguilar@virtualartslaw.com