Privacy Policy

At Villalobos Law ("Firm", "we", "our", or "us"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you through our website ("Site") and our legal services and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

 

It is the policy of the firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it.

 

By interacting with our Site or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Site or services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

 

Children's and Minors' Data

Our Site is not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

 

Consent to Receive SMS Messages

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy and providing your personal information in the contact form, you agree to receive SMS messages from Villalobos Law. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. You may message HELP for help. You may reply STOP to any message to opt out.

 

Your SMS consent to Villalobos Law is not shared with third parties.

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By texting Villalobos Law at 575-288-2263, you agree to receive SMS messages from Villalobos Law. 

 

The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

"Personal Data" is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or payment information, or any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline).

 

We also collect:

•Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from Personal Data.

 

•Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with Site, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Site, products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information, or methods used to browse away from a page.

 

How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us. We collect information about you when you interact with us or our Site.

 

Automatically Through Our Site. As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include Personal Data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

 

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

•Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Site. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Site.

 

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a Personal Data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by adjusting your browser settings to refuse cookies. Please note that some aspects of the Site may be unavailable as a result.

 

From Business Partners and Service Providers

We may receive Personal Data about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors.

 

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Data:

•To provide you with services.

•To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

•To provide you with notices about your account.

•To carry out contracts entered into between you and us.

•To carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations, which may be used to improve our Site or services.

•To comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to.

•In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

•For any other purpose with your consent.

 

Who We Disclose Your Information To

We may disclose aggregated information and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

 

We may also disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

•To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

•To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

•To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

•For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

•With your consent.

 

We may also disclose your Personal Data:

•To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

•To enforce or apply agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

•If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our customers, or others.

 

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

 

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:

•Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Site features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Site may not respond to all browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the cookie controls and advertising controls described in this policy.

 

How We Protect Your Personal Data

Consistent with professional obligations, it is the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information clients entrust to us. We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Data. We do not and cannot guarantee that our safeguards will always work.

 

We require service providers and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors.

 

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your Personal Data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

 

How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of Personal Data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain Personal Data. At the end of the retention period, Personal Data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

 

We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Data, 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 this Privacy Policy.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the Site. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Site periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.

 

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at 575-288-2263.