Privacy Policy
Effective as of August 27, 2021
This privacy policy applies to Wild Coast Law and its affiliates and explains how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information. Generally speaking, "personal information" is information about an identifiable individual, subject to more particular definitions or interpretations under applicable law.
Wild Coast Law offers and provides legal services and information to a wide range of clients. We collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information as necessary to offer and provide clients and potential clients with these legal services and information and generally to fulfill our professional legal responsibilities and manage our business. As a law firm, we have a professional obligation to keep confidential all information we obtain within a lawyer-client relationship.
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
Information in relation to clients, potential clients and others, generated in the course of our practice
The personal information we collect in relation to clients and potential clients includes:
name, address, email address, contact details, nature of the client or potential client’s legal issue, financial, credit, billing and account information, and other incidental information relating to the services we provide;
information material to your legal issue and any other information you give to us when you ask or instruct us to act for you;
information about individuals we collect in the course of acting for clients, including personal information about employees of clients, referrals, adverse parties or other information needed to provide our services
information about you contained in communications between us and you, whether online or offline.
We use this information to:
assess whether we can act for you, including to avoid conflicts of interest;
offer and provide legal information and services to you;
communicate with you regarding the services you request and to respond to your requests and inquiries;
administer, issue and collect accounts;
develop and collect precedents within our firm;
manage and administer our business, including to avoid negligence and protect you and us against error and fraud; and
comply with legal, regulatory and self-regulatory requirements, and to fulfill our legal and professional obligations.
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How We Collect Information About You
We typically collect personal information directly from you or through our interaction with you. However, sometimes we may obtain personal information about you from other sources. For example, in relation to clients, in addition to personal information that you provide, we may collect personal information from:
a government agency or registry;
third parties, such as your financial institution, your insurance company, or your employer; and
other law firms or agents who have acted for you in the past, where these parties have information relevant to the matter in which we are acting for you..
How We Disclose and Share Your Information
We disclose the personal information we collect about clients or other individuals we deal with to third parties where:
the legal services we are providing to you require us to give your personal information to third parties, such as when we incorporate your business on your behalf;
we are required or authorized by law to do so;
we retain another law firm or agent to act or assist us in acting on your behalf;
it is necessary to collect fees, for instance, to a financial institution or collection agent;
necessary to comply with regulatory (including self-regulatory) requirements or requests from governmental authorities, for example, disclosure of personal information reasonably requested or required by governing bodies of the legal profession in the course of its oversight of our practice;
you have instructed us to disclose your personal information to a third party for a designated purpose; and
we reasonably believe a third party requesting your information is your agent.
Our Website
As most websites do, we use automatic data collection technologies to track usage patterns on our website. Each time you visit our website, our server records your Internet service provider, IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages you visit and the documents downloaded, the searches you performed, and the referring URL’s you came from. We use this information to optimize our website service.
We also use cookies to collect information about your visit to our website. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information about our use of cookies.
For your convenience, we may offer links from our website to other websites. However, we are not responsible for, nor do we accept any liability for, the personal information collection, use and disclosure practices of other entities to which our website may link. You should consult the privacy policies of these other entities before providing any personal information on their websites.
Inquiries and Complaints
If you have any questions, inquiries or complaints about our personal information practices, please contact Jaime Bell at Wild Coast Law via email at jaime@wildcoastlaw.com
Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. We will take reasonable steps to advise you of any changes to this privacy policy, including by posting the revised policy on our website. We recommend that you review this privacy policy from time to time to obtain the current version. You may contact us at the address, email address or telephone number above to obtain a current copy of this privacy policy.