Privacy Policy
Our Commitment
Curtis | Law PC is a professional corporation registered in the State of Texas in the United States of America.
Consistent with our professional responsibilities and applicable law, Curtis | Law PC is committed to ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to its clients, potential clients, their affiliates and affiliated individuals, and to adhering to the policy set out below. Reference in this policy to "your personal data" means any information that identifies, or could reasonably be used to identify, you as one of the aforementioned persons.
Use of Your Personal Data
Curtis | Law PC collects and processes your personal data to facilitate the provision of our professional services, including client services, conflicts checking, billing and marketing. We may also process your personal data in order to comply with our legal obligations. Personal data includes contact details (e.g., name, work address, telephone number and email address), work history (e.g., work function, education, training and details of former employment), identification information (e.g., passport details, visa and immigration status, date and place of birth) and billing information (e.g., account numbers and tax information). We collect personal data through direct contact with our clients, potential clients, their affiliates and affiliated individuals, through subscriptions submitted to our website or other websites sponsored by Curtis | Law PC and through information publicly available on websites or from subscription services.
During the course of our representation of you, we may transfer your personal data to other attorneys and/or legal staff within our office to facilitate and centralize the operation of client services, conflicts checking, billing, marketing and related professional services. You should be aware that when you provide information to any individual Curtis | Law PC lawyer, you are providing it to Curtis | Law PC as a whole, and your information may therefore be exported to, processed in and accessed. Please be assured that Curtis | Law PC has adopted various procedural and technical safeguards, in accordance with the State of Texas’ data protection law, to protect your data within our network.
Access by Third Parties
Consistent with our professional and ethical obligations, Curtis | Law PC may allow others to access your information in order to process data on our behalf in connection with the conduct of our business or where disclosure of your information is in your interest or is otherwise permitted, required or authorized under applicable law.
Prior to allowing any third party access to your information for the purpose of conducting our business, Curtis | Law PC will take all reasonable steps to ensure that such third party enjoys a sound business reputation and provides at least the same level of privacy protection that we offer to our clients.
How to Access Your Personal Data
If you have any questions about our use of your personal data (including categories of third parties to whom your personal data has been disclosed), or if you want to exercise your right to see a copy of, correct, erase or block the personal data we hold about you or to submit a written demand that Curtis | Law PC cease processing your personal data, please click on this [link] to send an e-mail to our Privacy Officer. The name and contact information of the Privacy Officer in our offices can be obtained by clicking on this
Data Integrity
Personal data is only collected and processed to the extent necessary for the purposes described above. Curtis | Law PC updates, corrects and erases personal data on a regular basis. Curtis | Law PC will store and process your data only for the term of your retention of Curtis | Law PC and for a period thereafter reasonably determined by business necessity and our professional obligations to you or as may be required by law.
Security
Curtis | Law PC takes all commercially reasonably steps consistent with industry practice to protect your personal data by using established security standards and procedures. To prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction of your personal data, all attorneys and legal staff employed by Curtis | Law PC have established physical, electronic and managerial security procedures appropriate to the risks represented and the nature of the personal data to be protected. Our operations are reviewed at least annually for compliance with this Privacy Policy. We communicate this Privacy Policy to all Curtis | Law PC personnel and train them as appropriate in implementing it. Curtis | Law PC personnel who depart from our Privacy Policy are subject to strict disciplinary measures, which may include termination of employment or association.
Enforcement Questions or concerns about the protection of your personal data or about this privacy policy should be directed to our Privacy Officer via the following [link]
Curtis | Law PC will work in good faith to resolve any concerns you may have about this policy and our privacy practices. If Curtis | Law PC fails to resolve a complaint regarding the processing of personal data, under certain circumstances the matter may be referred to the local data protection authorities in the State of Texas. Curtis | Law PC will work with such authorities and comply with their decisions. Curtis | Law PC engages in an annual exercise to verify that this privacy policy is accurate, comprehensive, prominently displayed, completely implemented and accessible, that its personnel are informed about complaint-handling arrangements, that procedures exist for training personnel and that internal procedures exist for conducting periodic objective compliance reviews.
Website Privacy Policy
Personal Information: Curtis | Law PC provides this notice to explain its practices regarding collection and use of personal information through this website (the "Site"). Curtis | Law PC may collect information from you relating to your application for employment at Curtis | Law PC . We will not disclose, sell, or rent any of your identifiable personal information to any third party, unless approved by you, or required by law. Curtis | Law PC may offer you access to certain information by e-mail, and may distribute your e-mail address and name to external service providers who would manage this process for us. These service providers have agreed not to sell or distribute your information to any other party. Instructions to unsubscribe will be included in each e-mail message. Curtis | Law PC may share non-personal, anonymous, summary or aggregate user data with certain affiliates and other third parties. Please note that, although Curtis | Law PC aims to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, the Firm cannot guarantee that your personal information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this policy.
Links to Other Sites
This Site contains links to this other sites. When you enter these other sites using links from this Site, you are entering a site for which Curtis | Law PC has no responsibility. Curtis | Law PC does not control these other sites and cannot guarantee their practices regarding data privacy and security. We recommend that you read the privacy policies of those sites, which may differ from the policy of this Site.
Security
Curtis | Law PC uses a variety of security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, including the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, when it transmits your personal information over the Internet.
Questions/Comments
If you have any questions or comments about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us:
By mail at:
Curtis | Law PC
901 Main St., Ste. 6515
Dallas, TX 75202
Terms and Conditions
This Site is operated by Curtis | Law PC ("CLPC"). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using this Site. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. Curtis | Law PC reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time by posting modified Terms of Use, and your continued use of the Site thereafter will constitute agreement with such modifications.
Nature of Information and Materials
Although this Site may provide information concerning legal issues, such information is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for legal advice from qualified counsel. You agree that Curtis | Law PC is not engaged in rendering legal services or advice by providing the information and materials on this Site, and that your use of the Site does not create any attorney-client relationship between you and Curtis | Law PC . Curtis | Law PC assumes no responsibility for any consequence relating directly or indirectly to any action or inaction you take based on the information or material on this Site. While Curtis | Law PC takes reasonable measures to keep the information on this Site accurate, complete and up-to-date, Curtis | Law PC will not be responsible for any damage or loss related to the inaccuracy, incompleteness or lack of timeliness of the information.
Restrictions on Use of Materials
All materials contained on this Site, and all intellectual property rights thereto, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names and trade dress, are owned by Curtis | Law PC or its affiliates. You agree not to copy, reproduce, republish, transmit, modify or distribute any of the materials contained on the Site, except for your personal, noncommercial use, absent the prior written approval of Curtis | Law PC.
Links to Other Sites
This Site may include links to other Internet sites that are beyond the control of Curtis | Law PC . Curtis | Law PC is not responsible for the content of any such sites, makes no representations regarding any such sites, and does not necessarily endorse or approve of the information, material, products or services contained on or accessible through any such sites. You acknowledge and agree that your linking to other sites, your use of such sites, and your use of any information, material, products and services offered by such sites, are solely at your own risk.
Disclaimer
The materials provided on this site are provided “as is” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Curtis | Law PC disclaims all express and implied warranties with regard to the information and materials contained on this site, including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Curtis | Law PC , or its partners or affiliates, or contributors to this Site, be liable for any loss or injury, or any damages, whether direct, special, indirect, punitive, incidental, exemplary, consequential, or otherwise, whether based on breach of contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or otherwise, resulting from your access or use of this Site. You hereby waive any and all such claims against Curtis | Law PC , its partners, affiliates, and contributors. You agree that the limitations set forth above are fundamental elements of this agreement, and that the site and its materials would not be provided to you absent such limitations. Some state statutes may restrict this limitation of liability.
Indemnification
You agree that you will not use this Site for any unlawful purpose, or for any purpose prohibited by these Terms of Use. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Curtis | Law PC, its partners, affiliates and contributors from any liability, loss, claim and expense (including attorneys’ reasonable fees) related to (i) your violation of these Terms of Use, and/or (ii) your posting or use of materials on this Site.
Governing Law and Forum
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. Any dispute between you and Curtis | Law PC regarding the content or use of the Site shall be resolved by arbitration under the Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association, with hearings held in the English language in Dallas, TX, USA, and shall not be joined with any dispute that any other person or entity may have with Curtis | Law PC .
Unless otherwise indicated, attorneys listed in this website are not certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. None of the attorneys listed in this website is certified as an "expert" or "specialist" pursuant to any authority governing the practice of law in any jurisdiction in the U.S.
Non-Waiver
Curtis | Law PC 's failure to insist upon strict enforcement of any provision of this agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.
