Who we are
Our website address is: http://new.barnesattorneys.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 in the exact 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, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We at Barnes Firm LLP recognize the importance of and respect your privacy. We want you to make the most of this website and to feel confident while doing so. The following discloses the information collection, use and disclosure practices for this website: http://www.barnesattorneys.com. This policy does not address information obtained offline from an attorney’s personal contacts.
What personal information does Barnes Firm LLP Collect?
When you visit the public area of our site, you remain anonymous. To the extent you use e-mail links via the website to communicate with us or anyone affiliated with us and provide us with personally identifiable information, however, you will not remain anonymous. Because it is not possible to anticipate every conceivable context in which such information might be provided to us via email, we can provide you no assurance that personally identifiable information you choose to provide to us via email will be maintained as private. Barnes Firm LLP and/or the host of its website uses “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that are placed on a visitor’s computer hard drive that allow us and/or the host of its website to record how many times a user or computers within a user’s network of computers has visited the website, the number of times various pages of the website have been accessed and to track the user’s home page customization preferences. You may disable receipt of cookies using features of your web browser that disable or turn off cookies. With cookies disabled in your browser, the site’s customization features will not function, and the home page will revert to its default content. We do not use cookies to retrieve information that is unrelated to your visit to or your interaction with the website.
Barnes Firm LLP may collect your internet protocol (IP) address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you use the internet. The IP address data that we may collect does not contain any personally identifiable information about you and is used to administer our site, to determine the numbers of different visitors to the site and to gather broad demographic data. The non-personally identifiable data that we collect in these ways is accessible by certain Barnes Firm LLP personnel as well as certain third-party website designers and personnel involved with the third-party service that hosts the website. We us all non-personally identifiable data that it collects internally and together with its website designer and host in order to improve the website. The information is used, for example, to evaluate what portions of the website are more popular than others, to determine from where visitors came to the site, and to determine how many times particular pages of the site were accessed in aggregate. Barnes Firm LLP personnel may use the data to prepare reports regarding website activity as part of the process of maintaining and improving the site. Cookies also are used to identify prior users to the website in order to provide certain homepage customization preferences and create a more personal viewing experience for the user.
What steps does Barnes Firm LLP take to protect your privacy?
To the extent permitted by law, Barnes Firm LLP will not sell, share, or otherwise disclose any of the information it collects online without your permission. Exceptions and disclosures to third parties who monitor the website, to parties who assist or cooperate in preparing firm mailings and to third parties with whom we may co-sponsor an event (in which case we may share attendee lists for purposes of the event). In addition, Barnes Firm LLP does not presently collect personally identifiable information via the public area of its website except to the extent that such information is provided from visitors who voluntarily submit a feedback/inquiry form, register for homepage customization features, send email to us or any of our lawyers, register for events, subscribe to newsletters or submit resumes through the site. Personal information collected through this website is saved in our contact database where it may be combined with pre-existing contact information in the database. Barnes Firm LLP and the host of its website take reasonable security precautions to maintain the privacy of the data that is collected, such as ensuring that it is accessible only to appropriate personnel and that the information is user ID and password-protected.