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Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY FOR THE MCANDREWS, HELD & MALLOY, LTD. WEB SITE
(Effective November 2004; Last Updated July 2024)

McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd., an Illinois professional services corporation, (“MCANDREWS”) welcomes your use of the MCANDREWS website. Your use of the MCANDREWS website is subject to the Terms and Conditions provided elsewhere on this website, which are incorporated by reference. You must immediately stop using the MCANDREWS website if you object to terms of this Privacy Policy. McAndrews’ privacy policy is as follows.

GENERAL

Existing Client Agreements
If you are a client of MCANDREWS, nothing in this Privacy Policy supersedes any provision of your engagement letter or other agreement pertaining to your attorney-client relationship with MCANDREWS.

Changes To This Privacy Policy
MCANDREWS may remove, amend, or replace any provision of Privacy Policy at any time, but, if it does so, MCANDREWS will post such changes on the MCANDREWS website before they become effective.

PRIVACY POLICY

Collection of Information

We collect:

  • Names;
  • Email addresses; and
  • Phone numbers

You may choose not to provide Personal Information, (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from experiencing certain features of the MCANDREWS website.

We also collect non-Personal Information, that is, information that does not personally identify an individual. The non-Personal Information we collect includes how you interact with the MCANDREWS website, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing our website.

Examples of the non-Personal Information we collect are:

  • The pages of our website that you viewed during a visit;
  • What information, content, or advertisements you view or interact with;
  • Language preferences;
  • The city and state in which you are located (but not your precise geographic location); and
  • Unique identifiers that are not connected and cannot reasonably be connected to your identity.

We will not use non-Personal Information to try to identify you, and if we associate any non-Personal Information with information that personally identifies you, then we will treat it as Personal Information. As discussed in more detail below, we sometimes use cookies and other automatic information gathering technologies to gather non-Personal Information.

Information collected by the MCANDREWS website may be collected by us or one of our Service Providers or Online Tool Providers.

Cookies and Automatic Information Gathering Technologies

Every time you use the Services (e.g., access a Service webpage) we collect Personal Information and non-Personal Information regarding that use. For example, to improve our website, we collect how, when, and which parts of the website or its features you use, which social media platforms you connect to the website, and when, how, and what you post to the social media platforms. Also, we may use your device’s unique identifier (UDID) or other unique identifiers to assist us in collecting and analyzing this data.

To assist us in collecting and storing this non-Personal Information, we may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies,” local browser storage, and “web beacons,” “pixels,” or “tags.” A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit the MCANDREWS website. A web beacon, pixel, or tag is a small, usually transparent image placed on a web page that allows the operator of that image, which may be the operator of the website you visit or a third party, to read or write a Cookie.

Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies and local browser storage. But if you do so, you may lose some preferences or settings. You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all website storage or to indicate when it is permitted, but some features of our MCANDREWS website may not function properly without it. We may use Cookies to save your preferences and to collect information about how you use our website.

More information about managing Cookies is available here. Cookie management tools provided by your browser may not affect Flash Cookies. More information about managing Flash Cookies is available here. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser. An Online Tool Provider may collect information automatically, in which case Personal Information and non-Personal Information it receives are subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy. Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collection and/or uses of your information. You can read more here:
Google Analytics.

Transparency and Choice; Do Not Track Signals

You may request access to your Personal Information by sending an email to dschulte@mcandrews-ip.com. We will try to locate and provide you with your Personal Information and give you the opportunity to correct this data, if it is inaccurate, or to delete it, at your request. But, in either case, we may need to retain it for legal reasons or for legitimate business purposes. You may also remove any information that you provide by using the deletion or removal options where available within the MCANDREWS website. However, we (and you) are not able to control information that you have already made available to third parties through the website.

If you need further assistance with removing any information you provided to the MCANDREWS website, you can email us at dschulte@mcandrews-ip.com. Removal of your information may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal from our computer systems.

We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backups), or relate to information that is not associated with your Personal Information. In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Please be aware that if you ask us to delete your Personal Information, you may not be able to continue to use the MCANDREWS website. Also, even if you request that we delete your Personal Information, we may need to retain certain information for a limited period of time to satisfy our legal, audit, and/or dispute resolution requirements.

All information you provide will remain Private and Confidential. It will not be sold or given to any mailing list companies, marketing companies, or anyone else. The information you provide will ONLY be used for our own billing, educational, marketing, and/or client relationship purposes, and with respect to your name and E-mail information, for use by MCANDREWS to notify you of new information, updates, and news-worthy content.

You can opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the e-mails. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for your opt-out request to be processed. Also, even if you opt out of marketing e-mails, we may continue to send you certain account-related e-mails, such as notices about your account.

Monitoring
MCANDREWS reserves the right to monitor any and all of your activities on the website, and to take appropriate action with respect to inappropriate or unlawful conduct, including without limitation reporting such conduct to the appropriate authorities.

MCANDREWS’ Right To Contact A Visitor/Subscriber
MCANDREWS reserves the right to contact users of the MCANDREWS website regarding changes to this privacy policy or any other policies or agreements relevant to website users.

Your Privacy
MCANDREWS is committed to the protection of your privacy and will treat all information you provide through the website with reasonable care. MCANDREWS works diligently to ensure that it has taken all appropriate administrative and technical measures to prevent the unauthorized or unlawful use of your personally identifiable information, and to prevent any accident, loss, destruction, or damage to such information.

Child Privacy
MCANDREWS does not knowingly solicit information from children and does not knowingly market the site or its services to children. No one under the age of 13 should submit any personal information to MCANDREWS or the MCANDREWS website. In the event that MCANDREWS discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided personally identifiable information to us, in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, MCANDREWS will delete the child’s personally identifiable personal information from our files. For more information on the law regarding internet privacy for children under the age of 13, see the Federal Trade Commission’s website explaining the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/statutes/childrens-online-privacy-protection-act.

How To Contact Us
If you have any suggestions as to this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by telephoning 312-775-8000, e-mailing dschulte@mcandrews-ip.com, or mailing David Schulte, 500 West Madison, 34th Floor, Chicago, Illinois, 60661.