Privacy Policy
eTek Law PC is a high-end law firm proving top quality legal services to technology companies and financial institutions.
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how eTek Law PC and its affiliates (collectively referred to as “eTek Law”, “the Firm”, “we”, “us” or “our”), eTek Law processes Personal Information when we provide legal services to you as a client, when we manage our business, you use our technology and cloud-based services (including our website, mobile application, newsletter or publications to the extent we make those available to you) (collectively, the “Services”) or you otherwise communicate with us. We are committed to ensuring the privacy and integrity of the Personal Information you share with us or we otherwise collect in connection with the Services.
Throughout this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
1. Information We Collect
In most cases, we collect Personal Information directly from you. However, we may also obtain Personal Information about you from third parties or automatically when you interact with our Services.
Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. For example, if you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from the Services if that information is necessary to provide such Services or if we are legally required to collect it.
Below is a description of the different types of Personal Information we process and the sources from which we obtain them:
- Clients. If you are a client of eTek Law, we collect your name, contact details, payment information and any other information you provide to us or we otherwise obtain from third parties when providing legal services to you. The type of information we collect from our clients varies depending on the matter and may include information about our clients’ employees, customers, and vendors (e.g., name, contact details), communications with our client, information provided by our client, and any other information that may be relevant for the matter, including Personal Information, if applicable.
- Tek Law business partners and vendors. We may receive contact details and payment information from business partners’ and vendors’ employees in furtherance of the relevant partner or vendor relationship.
- Events. We collect Personal Information about you if you choose to register for an event sponsored by eTek Law. This Personal Information may include your name, address, title, company, phone number, and email address, as well as specific information relevant to the event for which you are registering.
- Newsletters and informational programs. As part of our Services, may make available to you newsletters, client alerts, and programs on topics of potential interest to you. If you sign up to receive our client alerts and newsletters, or our invitations to events, we may collect your name, company name, email address, and the information of interest to you.
- Communications. If you choose to contact us for any purpose, we will collect your contact details, your name, and the content, date and time of your message, as well as our reply and any follow up action we take in relation to your inquiry.
- On-demand learning. If you decide to use our on-demand learning tools, we will collect your registration information, such as your email address, password, first and last name, company, mailing address, country and, optionally, your phone number, title, bar qualification, CLE and bar membership number. You may also use our email support tool if you have questions regarding the on-demand learning, by providing your first and last name, email address, phone number and the content, date and time of your communications. You may leave any comment by clicking on the “Have a comment?” button and entering your message into the comment box.
- When you register on our Alumni website, we ask you to provide your first and last name, email address, password, country of residence, state/province, city and last primary eTek Law office location. You may also choose to provide additional information, such as your eTek Law Employee ID, your current employer and your position/title. If you previously used another eTek Law alumni website, we may obtain certain Personal Information from that website. Via the website, we may collect your posts, chat on forums, and responses to online surveys we conduct to gain a better understanding of our Alumni network and to assist current employees in their professional development. If you use your social network credentials (e.g., LinkedIn credentials) to log in to the Alumni website, we may collect your name, email address and other basic information from the relevant social network.
- Job applicants. If you apply for a job with us via our website, you will be asked to provide various relevant data, such as your name, resume and transcripts, phone, email address, law school, graduation year, application office, department, position and other similar information.
- Other sources. We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources, including third parties that help us update, expand, and analyze our records, identify new customers, or prevent or detect fraud. We may also receive information about you from social media platforms, for example when you interact with us on those platforms or access our social media content. The information we may receive is governed by the privacy settings, policies, and/or procedures of the relevant social media platform, and we encourage you to review them.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may collect Personal Information via cookies, pixel tags, Internet identifiers, or similar technologies on our Services (collectively denoted “cookies”). Through the use of Cookies, we may collect your device IP address, unique device ID, hardware and software type, Internet service provider, serving domain, geographical area, location data, browser type and settings data (such as screen resolution, color depth, time zone settings, browser extension and plugins) operating system, referring URLs, search history, information on actions taken or interaction with our digital assets (e.g., page views) and dates and times of actions.
Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent to use Cookies. Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through the browser settings. Be aware that, if you do not agree to certain Cookies, your experience on our Services may be diminished and some features may not work as intended depending on the Cookie. To find out more about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
3. Use of Personal Information
We may use your Personal Information for the follow purposes:
- To provide legal services to our clients, including to advise clients on legal matters, represent them in the context of legal proceedings such as court proceedings, arbitration and settlement, and dealings with regulatory authorities; to file patent applications; to manage and collect information for potential or actual litigation proceedings, including e-discovery; to conduct due diligence in the context of IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and other transactions; and to process payments and advance payments on behalf of our clients.
- For marketing purposes, including to send client alerts, newsletters and other communications to our clients and business contacts. We may send you communications that are relevant to you, based for example on the practice areas and industries you select when you subscribe to receive our communications. We may also use your Personal Information to register you for, and confirm your attendance at, events; furnish biographical details to other attendees; provide you with the opportunity to participate in on-demand learning; and assess the effectiveness of our events, promotional campaigns, and publications.
- To manage our business relationships with customers, clients, vendors and suppliers, business partners, office visitors, cooperating law firms and other contractors, including processing invoices and sending service-related communications.
- To communicate with you, and respond to your inquiries.
- For other business purposes, such as to provide, operate and improve our products and services; perform data analyses; detect, prevent, and respond to actual or potential fraud, illegal activities, or intellectual property infringement; secure our facilities; defend our legal rights; and comply with our legal obligations and internal policies.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose Personal Information about you as described below:
- With eTek Law affiliates, subsidiaries, offices and representatives around the world as needed to provide legal services.
- With third party contractors engaged by eTek Law in the course of business (e.g., accountants, insurance companies, banks, auditors, eTek Law’s network of external legal counsel and other professional experts, advisors and/or consultants engaged by eTek Law).
- With government agencies, regulators or courts, as required by applicable law and/or in the context of legal proceedings.
- As necessary to provide legal services to our clients.
- With event partners or co-sponsors.
- With vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, including dealers, distributors, marketing and research agencies, with whom eTek Law has a direct contractual relationship.
- With social networks when you use your credentials to log in to some of our Services (if applicable).
- If you post other information through our Services, such as comments or posts, that information may be displayed and viewable by other users.
- If you gave us your permission, or if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to (i) comply with laws, law enforcement requests, and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (ii) respond to your requests; or (iii) protect your, our or others’ rights, property, or safety.
- In case of merger, sale, or other asset transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy or liquidation where the business will not continue as a going concern, receivership, sale of eTek Law assets, or transition of our products or services to another firm, then your Personal Information may be transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract.
5. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on applicable law, you may have some rights and choices with respect to your Personal Information. Those rights may be limited by local law requirements. You may exercise these rights by contacting us as specified below.
- Events. To update or correct the information you provide to us via our website for an event sponsored by us, you may contact the event coordinator via email or telephone. You may also be able to submit your Personal Information through the website by registering for the event.
- Marketing. We allow you to opt out of future communications at any time by following the opt-out process outlined in the respective communication. Alternatively, you can contact us as provided in this Privacy Policy and request us to remove you from future communications.
6. California Privacy Rights.
If you are a Consumer receiving products or services for which we are a Business, as those terms and any other capitalized terms in this section are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (California Civil Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.199) and its implementing regulations, as amended or superseded from time to time (the “CCPA”), California law may permit you to request information regarding the:
- Categories of Personal Information (as defined by applicable California law) Collected, Sold or Disclosed by us;
- Purposes for which categories of Personal Information Collected by us are used;
- Sources of information from which we Collect Personal Information; and
- Specific pieces of Personal Information we have Collected about you.
In addition, if you are a Consumer you may:
- Opt-out of the Sale or Disclosure of your Personal Information, in some circumstances;
- Opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us; however, you may still receive administrative communications regarding the Services; and
- Request deletion of your Personal Information by us and our Service Providers, in some circumstances. The CCPA also provides Consumers with the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by a Business for the exercise of these rights regarding Personal Information. We do not offer financial incentives to consumers based upon the retention or sale of a consumer’s personal information.
As of the date of last update and review of this Privacy Policy, we have no reason to believe that we have collected, disclosed, sold or otherwise processed the Personal Information of more than 10 million California Consumers.
You can make requests related to your California privacy rights by email to privacy@eteklaw.com or in writing to eTek Law PC at 14309 Stanford Ct, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022. Please be aware that we do not accept or process requests through other means (e.g., via fax or social media).
We will review the information provided and may request additional information to ensure we are interacting with the correct individual. Additional information to verify your identity may be required by law before we may take action upon such a request. This additional information may vary depending on the nature of your request and/or the nature of the information about which your request relates. In some cases, we may also be required by law to obtain a signed declaration under penalty of perjury from you that you are the subject of the request being made. If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity on or from your account, we will delay taking action on your request until we can appropriately verify your identity and the request as authentic.
By law, we are not required to collect personal information that we otherwise would not collect in the ordinary course of our business, retain personal information for longer than we would otherwise retain such information in the ordinary course of our business, or reidentify or otherwise link information that is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information. If we have not requested specific additional information from you to verify your request, please do not send such information.
We generally will aim to avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot reasonably verify your identity or more information is needed for security or fraud-prevention purposes, we may consider any of the following factors, alone or in combination, in requesting additional information:
- The type, sensitivity, and value of the personal information collected and maintained about the consumer, as applicable law requires a more stringent verification process for sensitive or valuable personal information;
- The risk of harm to the consumer posed by any unauthorized access or deletion;
- The likelihood that fraudulent or malicious actors would seek the personal information;
- Whether the personal information to be provided by the consumer to verify their identity is sufficiently robust to protect against fraudulent requests or being spoofed or fabricated;
- The manner in which the business interacts with the consumer;
- Available technology for verification; and
- Other factors that may be reasonable in the circumstances, are consistent with industry practice, are recommended by California government officials, or which may be required by law or regulation following the effective date of this Privacy Policy.
If your request is regarding household information, the same verification steps above are required before we can provide you with aggregate household information. For us to process a request for access to or deletion of specific pieces of information regarding your household, all members of the household must make the request, and we must be able to verify each household member.
In some cases, we may not have sufficient information about you or your household to be able to verify your identity or sufficiently differentiate you from another consumer or household to the degree of certainty required by law, in which case, we will not be able to act upon your request. In such cases, it may be unlikely that we would be able to identify you or your household in the future without collecting significantly more information or seeking to reidentify deidentified information. At this time, we do not intend to take such steps in response to a request made pursuant to this Privacy Policy and applicable law does not require that we do so. If, in the future, we determine a reasonable method to identify you or your household absent such steps, we will provide an update to you through this Privacy Policy and in response to any such request at that time.
Information that you submit for the purpose of allowing us to verify your identity in furtherance of a consumer-related or household-related request pursuant to California law will only be used by us, and our service providers if any, for that purpose and no other. Except where we are required by law to maintain such information for record-keeping purposes, we will take steps to delete any new personal information collected for the purpose of verification as soon as practical after processing your request.
Please also be aware that making any such request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal or deletion of Personal Information or content you may have posted, and there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow us to fulfill your request, including, for example, where fulfilling your request may infringe upon the rights and freedoms of other consumers.
We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee or take other appropriate action in response to requests from a consumer or household that are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character.
You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf pursuant to applicable law. We accept documentation of your designation in the form of a valid power of attorney and/or a notarized statement. You must submit evidence of your designation of an authorized agent in writing to: eTek Law PC at 14309 Stanford Ct, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022. We may require verification of your authorized agent in addition to the information for verification above for consumers and households.
7. Links to Other Websites
This website may link to websites maintained by outside organizations, including third-party social networks (such as Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and our clients. Please be aware that these third-party websites are governed by their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the content or policies maintained by these websites. Please familiarize yourself with the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit, as it will govern any information you submit through that website.
8. Security
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards that are intended to appropriately protect Personal Information against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the Personal Information in our possession. However, because no information system can be 100% secure, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
9. Data Retention
We take measures to delete your Personal Information or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when this information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it, unless we are required by law to keep this information for a longer period. For example, we keep client records for the length of the client relationship and for maximum 5 years after we close the matter. When determining the retention period, we take into account various criteria, such as the nature and length of our relationship with you, mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations, the type of Services requested by or provided to you, the possible re-enrolment with our Services, and the impact on our Services if we delete some information from or about you. If we do not believe that retention of client data is desirable or necessary after our relationship ends, we may delete your data as an additional precautionary measure for your protection; consequently, you must not rely on us retaining your data for any period of time after our relationship ends in the absence of a specific agreement between us that addresses retention of your data.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy. The “Last updated” date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Changes to this Privacy Policy become effective when posted on this website, unless otherwise specified in the Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy periodically to stay up-to-date about our privacy practices.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:
eTek Law PC
14309 Stanford Ct,
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
privacy@eteklaw.com
