Fears Law Privacy Policy

We may receive, collect and store any information you enter on our Site or provide us in any other way, such as contact forms. In addition, we may collect the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address used to connect your computer or other electronic device to the internet; your login information (if any); your email address; your computer and connection information and information relating to your internet browsing. By using our Site, you represent that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age.

We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page, whether using a computer or mobile device. We may also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, phone number, etc.); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, recommendations, and personal profile information.

We collect your phone number through our contact information form, and with your consent we will send you text messages on a regular basis if you’ve opted in. Reply STOP at any time to unsubscribe from text messages. We will never share your customer data with third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

When do we collect information?
We collect your information when you fill out a form, visit the Site, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, or use other Site features.

Why do we collect information?
We collect your information for the following reasons:

1. To provide and operate the Site;
2. To contact you when you indicate that you would like us to;
3. To provide you with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
4. To contact you with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
5. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
6. For marketing and advertising purposes;
7. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How do we protect your information?
We do not use vulnerability scanning, scanning to PCI standards, or SSL authentication. Any website, blog, or app we provide is provided for informational purposes only, and we never ask for personal or private information. Any information sent to us through the internet, apps, www.fears.com, or in an email is neither secure nor confidential and is sent at your own risk.

Usage of cookies and Similar Tracking Tools
Cookies are small files that a website or its service provider transfer to a visitor’s computer hard drive through their web browsers that enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize a user’s browsers and capture and remember certain information.

Websites, blogs, and apps provided by Fears Law use cookies to collect certain information about visitors, even when they aren’t logged in. We may record the following:

• IP address;
• URLs of websites and pages visited;
• Dates and times of visits;
• Computer hardware and software information;
• Other available information.

This Site uses cookies to:

• Keep track of advertisements and advertisement-related metrics;
• Understand your preferences based on previous or current Site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services;
• Compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interactions in order to offer better Site experiences and tools in the future;

To disable cookies, please adjust your browser settings. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. If you turn cookies off, some features of this Site may be disabled. It may make your Site experience less efficient and some of our services may not function properly.

If you no longer wish us to process your data, please contact us at [email protected] or send us a letter to: 6120 Swiss Ave. Suite 140980, Dallas, TX 75214.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. It is your sole responsibility to check this Privacy Policy, so please review it before using our Site. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Site. Should we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of any changes to our information collection practices and use.

This Privacy Policy shall not apply to information that you provide to third parties. Our Site may direct you to a third-party service or website; however, disclosure of information to these third parties shall be subject to the relevant third party’s privacy policy. We accept no responsibility for the third-party’s content, procedures or privacy practices.

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. We have not enabled Google AdSense on our Site, but we may do so in the future.

This Site may use Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our Site. Adwords is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google that collects the cookie and usage data of visitors to this Site. It connects the activity of users on this Site with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past browsing activity. You could be shown an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network based on your visit to this Site. You  can opt out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or control the use of device identifiers by using your device’s settings.  Place of Processing: USA. Read the Google Adwords Privacy Policy for more information.

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. It utilizes the cookie and usage data of visitors to this Site to track and examine the use of this URL and to prepare reports on the activities and performance of this URL and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Place of processing: USA. Read Google’s privacy policy for more information.

Any website, blog, or app provided by the Company may allow third party behavioral tracking.

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information We Collect 
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Personal information does not include:

• 1. Publicly available information from government records.
  2. De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
  3. Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
     • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
     • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

1. Directly from our Site visitors, customers or service providers; 
2. Indirectly from our Site customers. For example, through information we collect from our customers in the course of providing services to them.
3. Directly and indirectly from activity within our Site. For example, from submissions through our Site or Site usage details collected automatically.

Use of Personal Information 
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

1. To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided. 
2. To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
3. To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections.
4. To improve our Site and present its contents to you.
5. For testing, research, analysis and product or service development.
6. As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our Consumers, Service Providers or others.
7. To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
8. As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

1. Category A: Identifiers.
2. Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
3. Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

1. Our affiliates.
2. Our service providers.
3. Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.

Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

1. The categories of personal information we collected about you.
2. The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
3. Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
4. The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
5. The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
6. If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing: sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and disclosures for a business purpose or identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable 

consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
8. Comply with a legal obligation.
9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us through our Site.

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12- month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

1. Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
2. Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to ninety days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

1. Deny you goods or services.
2. Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
3. Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
4. Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to amend this notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this notice, we will notify you by email or through a notice on our Site.

Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, our Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us through the Site using “ATTENTION: PRIVACY COMPLIANCE OFFICER” in the message. 

If you are a citizen of the European Union (“EU”), you are entitled to certain rights under the GDPR. You have the right to:

1. Know how long we’ll keep your information. We’ll keep your personal information until the earlier of: (1) you either ask us to delete your information or (2) we decide we no longer need the data and the cost of retaining it outweighs the value to keeping it.
2. Access, rectify or erase your personal information.
3. Withdraw your consent to our processing of your data, which shall have no effect on the lawfulness of the processing of your personal information prior to your withdrawal.
4. Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over GDPR issues.
5. Provide only your personal information which is reasonably required to enter into a contract with us. We will not ask for your consent to provide unnecessary personal information on the condition of entering into a contractual relationship with the us.