Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 6/25/2024

1. Introduction
Egerton McAfee Armistead & Davis, P.C. is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website emlaw.com. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. In the course of our representation of clients we may collect personal information which is not covered by this policy, but is covered by our engagement with you and the rules of professional conduct.

2. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://emlaw.com.

3. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:

Contact Information: Name, email address, and phone number (SMS number, if provided) provided on our “Contact Us” page.
Comments: Data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media: Embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included in images uploaded to the website.
Cookies: Data to remember your login information and screen display choices.
Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform.

4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:

To respond to your inquiries and provide you with the information you request.
To communicate with you about our services and updates.
To approve comments and display your profile picture (via Gravatar) if you leave comments.
To save your login information and screen display choices using cookies.
To prevent spam and ensure the security of our site.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. No mobile information, including phone numbers and consent, will be shared with third parties, affiliates, or partners for marketing/promotional purposes. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

We may disclose your information:

To comply with any legal obligations.
To protect and defend the rights or property of Egerton McAfee Armistead & Davis, P.C.
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our services.
To protect the personal safety of users of our services or the public.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

6. Cookies
Comments Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
Login Cookies: When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login persistent for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
Editing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie in your browser indicates the post ID of the article just edited. This expires after one day.

7. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

8. Data Retention
Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely for follow-up comments to be recognized and approved automatically.
User Profiles: For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except username changes). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

9. Your Rights
You have the right to:

Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to the processing of your personal data.

10. Data Protection and Breach Procedures
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

11. Third-Party Data Sources
We may receive data from third parties including analytics providers and spam detection services.

12. Automated Decision Making and Profiling
We do not engage in automated decision making or profiling with user data.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

14. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: information@emlaw.com