Privacy Policy
Medina Law Firm, LLC (“MLF”, “we”, or “us”) has offices in New York, and Florida. We are committed to safeguarding the personal data that you provide us, that we collect in the course of our business, or that we receive from you after you have visited the MLF Website.
This privacy policy (“MLF Privacy Policy”) explains to you how we collect and process your personal data and your rights in relation to your personal data that we process. It is a global policy that applies to all MLF offices.
Please note, if you reply to one of our marketing emails or otherwise send a communication to us, that communication does not create an attorney-client relationship with us. Please do not send any information that you consider confidential unless and until we have agreed in writing to represent you with respect to a matter. Any information provided to us prior to an agreement may not be protected from disclosure and may not be subject to applicable privileges.
Personal Data
Personal data is any information that enables us to identify you and that is related to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as your name, identification number(s), business or residential address, certain commercial information, online identifiers, and educational and employment history. It does not include data that is anonymized or de-identified.
Personal Data We Collect From or About You
From time to time, we collect and process the following types of personal data from you:
Contact Data: this includes, for example, your name, your home or business address, your email address, your phone number, and your social media handles.
Client Data: this includes, for example, personal data provided to us by or on behalf of our clients and personal data that we collect in the course of providing our services to our clients, such as personal data provided by third parties.
Technical Data: this includes, for example, personal data that we collect from you when you interact with our website, applications, and email communications, such as your IP address and device ID.
Financial Data: this includes, for example, your bank account, payment card, and other related financial data.
Recruitment Data: this includes, for example, your CV, professional history, educational background, and related qualifications.
Other Data: any other personal data that you provide to us and which can be reasonably used to identify you.
How We Collect Your Personal Data
We collect personal data from you through a variety of sources. We strive to collect only personal data that is adequate, relevant, and limited to achieve the purpose(s) for which it was collected. We may from time-to-time provide you with supplemental information at the time we collect your personal data to address unique or situational collection needs.
Examples of ways in which we collect your personal data include:
Direct Interaction: you may provide us with your personal data when you interact with us, for example, by enquiring about our services, giving us your contact details, registering for one of our events, subscribing to our updates or promotional material, or engaging in any way with our partners, lawyers, and staff.
Automated Technologies: we may collect personal data automatically when you visit our website through logging and analytics tools, cookies, or click on links in our emails.
Private Third Party Sources: we may collect personal data from private third party sources, such as, for example, other law firms, banks, clients, recruitment agencies, regulators, certain governmental agencies, on or from social media platforms, other organizations that you may have dealings with, and electronic data sources.
Publicly Available Sources: we may collect personal data from publicly available sources, including, for example, personal data available on the internet, from governmental agencies, or company registries.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We process and use your personal data to the extent permitted by applicable law. This means:
We process your personal data if you have given us consent to process for one or more specific purposes;
We process your personal data if it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject; and/or
We process your personal data if it is necessary for the purposes of our or a third-party’s legitimate interests where those interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of your personal data.
How and to Whom We Share Your Personal Data
We share your personal data within MLF and with our contracted third-party processors and/or service providers who assist us in the administration and operation of MLF, and in providing our legal services to our clients. In addition, we share your personal data when required by law.
Third-party processors and service providers with whom we may share your personal data include:
Our information technology and telecommunications service providers, including data centers and cloud storage providers.
Our marketing service providers.
Our litigation support service providers.
Professional services organizations (for example, law, accountancy, auditing, insurance, forensic, and company formation service providers).
Expert witnesses and jury consultants.
Cybersecurity service providers.
Other service providers to whom we outsource aspects of the provision of our legal services and the administration and operation of MLF.
Third parties when we believe it is required by, or necessary to comply with, applicable law, such as opposing parties in litigation.
We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration and have not done so in the prior 12 months since the effective date of this privacy policy.