Privacy Policy

At the Whistleblower Law Collaborative we recognize that your privacy is important. This Policy explains our practices with respect to your personal data and information.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://whistleblowerllc.com.

What personal information and data we collect and why

We may collect personal identifying information as well as non-personally identifiable data that is trackable or assignable to personal data. We only collect and process personal information and data for the purposes of:

  • Improving legal services we offer
  • Auditing, research, and analysis in order to maintain, protect, and improve our services
  • Ensuring the technical functioning and security of our network
  1. User-Supplied Information

The following types of personal information and data may be collected when you fill out our “Do You Have a Case?” form, upload documents through that form, respond to questions on that form, and/or send an email to the firm or one of its attorneys or staff through the website:

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Physical Address
  • Mailing Address
  • Telephone Number(s)
  • Email Address(es)
  • Personal information contained in any documents or media you upload
  • Personal information in any descriptions provided in response to questions

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

  1. Other Information

As described in this Policy, we track user activity using web server logs, cookies, and similar technologies. Information collected in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use, and improve the user’s experience. Information collected in web server logs helps us analyze website usage and improve the user’s experience. Cookies allow us to offer you a customized experience.

Web Server Logs: Web server logs are records of the activities on our site. The servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include:

  • your unique internet protocol address;
  • the name of your unique internet service provider;
  • the town/city, county/state and country from which you access our website;
  • the kind of browser or computer you use;
  • the number of links you click within the site;
  • the date and time of your visit;
  • the web page from which you arrived to our site;
  • the pages you viewed on the site; and
  • certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website.

Cookies: When you visit our website, we send one or more cookies (a small file containing a string of characters) to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Do Not Track Signals: Our web services do not alter, change, or respond upon receiving Do Not Track (DNT) requests or signals in browsers.

 Content on other websites

Articles, blog posts, and other content on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, press releases, etc.) or links to other websites. Content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

This Privacy Policy applies to how we handle your information on our website. We do not exercise control over the websites that are displayed in other browser windows opened by links from within our website, for example, in blog posts or press releases or through social media links. These other websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other websites using the links provided, the operators of those websites may collect personal information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policy, which may differ from ours. You are responsible for checking the terms of any privacy policy when you visit any other website.

 Analytics

We use Google Analytics and related tools. The kind of personal information and data available through these tools includes are specified here.

Whom we share your data with

We do not sell or rent user data to others. We restrict access to personal information and data to our employees, contractors, and agents who need to know that information in order to provide, operate, develop, or improve our services, except in the following limited circumstances:

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues including automated spam detection services, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of Whistleblower Law Collaborative, its users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

How long we retain your data

For information provided through our Do You Have a Case? form, we store the information indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data

If you have provided us with information and data by filling out and submitting our Do You Have a Case? form and uploading any related documents, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you without charge to you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. If you do choose to decline to submit personal information, there may be some instances in which we may not be able to provide our services to you.

How we protect your data

We employ security measures to protect your information from being accessed by unauthorized persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post them to this section of this website.

Terms of Use

We’ve established the foregoing “terms of use” to explain the conditions of your use of this website, including how you and we may and may not use the information provided on our website, and our intent in providing such information to you. By accessing any areas of https://whistleblowerllc.com, you agree to be bound by the terms set forth below. If you disagree with these terms, please do not use this website.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, please contact us through email@whistleblowerllc.com.

Effective Date: 06/24/2019