California Notice at Collection
We value our relationship with you and understand the importance of protecting your privacy. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains what personal information Loeb & Loeb LLP (“Loeb & Loeb”) collects, how we collect it and the purposes for which we use it. This Privacy Policy applies to your interactions with Loeb & Loeb’s website (www.loeb.com) (the “website”), Loeb-hosted webinars, newsletters and alerts, any Loeb & Loeb website or mobile app that displays this Privacy Policy, (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy also applies when you visit our offices, attend Loeb-hosted events.
We also collect information automatically through cookies and similar technologies during your interactions with our Services. For more information on our use of cookies, please see the Cookies & Similar Technologies section of this Privacy Policy.
The personal information we collect includes:
- Name and contact details (for example, your e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and social media handles).
- Your passwords and any other security information used to authenticate your access to certain areas of the website.
- Preferences (such as which areas of the law you are interested in).
- Contents of your communications with us.
- Device information (including your browser type and language, IP address, device type, unique device identifiers, mobile network information and operating system).
- Website interactions (such as the pages visited on the website, time spent on each page, whether you’ve clicked on a hyperlink and search queries).
- Education information (such as your degrees, professional certifications, and other details about your qualifications and training).
- Professional/employment information (such as your employing entity, business unit, manager and management reporting structure, job title, function, and the nature of your duties and responsibilities).
- Demographic information (such as your country, age, gender, religion and disability information, which you may provide to us in connection with an application for employment).
- Health information (such as your accessibility requirements, dietary restrictions, and, where necessary and appropriate to protect the health and safety of our personnel and others, information related to symptoms of, or risk of exposure to, certain illnesses).
- Government-issued identifiers (such as social security number, driver’s license, or other state-issued identification number).
- Recruitment information (such as your references, information provided to us during an interview, interview notes, and background check information).
- Photos, videos, and audio files that contain images or voice recordings;
In connection with onboarding and managing our client relationships (our “Legal Services”), we may also collect commercial and financial information, such as invoices, payment information, bank account statements, tax returns, and asset and net worth information;
Loeb & Loeb uses the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain and improve the Services.
- Personalize and improve your experience on the Services.
- Respond to your inquiries.
- Send you alerts or other newsletters that you have requested or that we think may be of interest to you.
- Confirm your registration for seminars or other events.
- Send you other marketing or promotional information related to Loeb & Loeb, including news about our attorneys, practice groups and events.
- Send you service announcements or other administrative messages relating to our website or your relationship with Loeb & Loeb.
- Evaluate and process your application for employment.
- Improve the website and our communications with you.
- Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of Loeb & Loeb and others.
- Debug to identify and repair errors in the Services.
- Comply with our legal obligations, enforce our website terms and other policies, and notify you about any changes to the Services.
- Carry out our contractual obligations to you.
- Provide you with access to our offices and ensure the physical safety of the offices.
- Provide our Legal Services, including to: advise on current, prospective, or potential legal claims, provide personal or estate planning guidance; ensure compliance with legal obligations; assist with due diligence and commercial deals; and to facilitate client intake and administration, including generating invoices, and disbursements.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations and that are compatible with the context in which the information was provided to us.
We share your personal information:
- With our vendors, consultants and other professional advisers which work with us to provide services on our behalf.
- For example, companies we hire to help us maintain the website, manage our mailing lists, and provide marketing assistance and data analysis may need your information in order to provide those services. Loeb & Loeb requires these vendors to comply with our data privacy and security requirements, and we prohibit those companies from using the personal information they receive from us for any other purpose.
- With third parties as part of a merger, acquisition or other corporate transaction.
- As Loeb & Loeb develops, we may acquire other law firms or their assets or be acquired by or merge with another law firm. Personal information is generally one of the business assets involved in such transactions. Thus, in the unlikely event that Loeb & Loeb or all of its assets are acquired through such a transaction, your information would be one of the transferred assets.
- As required by law or to bring a legal action or enforce our agreements or policies.
- We will share your personal information when we have a good faith belief that doing so is required by law or is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other visitors, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.
- With the applicable state bar association, we may share your name and bar number in connection with an application for CLE credit.
- With other parties not included in this list we have your consent to do so.
We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
We and our service providers use various technologies to collect information about your use of the Services. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a webpage and to develop other statistics about the use of the website. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your device to store information. This data often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well, including your IP address, clickstream patterns, and dates and times that you access a website.
When we are required by applicable law, we obtain your consent to use cookies. You can customize your preferences regarding the use of cookies on our websites via our cookie banner.
The type of cookies we may use include:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are strictly necessary to make our Services available to you, for example, to manage traffic on our website and for security purposes. We cannot provide you with the Services without these types of cookies.
- Analytics/performance cookies. We use cookies for analytics purposes in order to improve our Services. We use third-party analytics providers, including Google Analytics, to help us understand how users engage with the Services. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions and understand how users engage with our Services. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Services. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser. However, please be aware that some features of the website may not function properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies. To find out more about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can opt out of Google Analytics here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (requires you to install a browser add-on).
Loeb & Loeb does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
Opt out of marketing communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us or request changes to your communication preferences by following the instructions in those communications or visiting our unsubscribe page. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
Individual Rights Requests: You have the following rights with respect to your information:
Access your information. You have the right to confirm whether Loeb & Loeb is using or storing your information and to obtain a copy of the information that we have.
Correct/edit your information. If you discover that any of the information we have about you is incorrect, you have the right to request that we correct or update it.
Delete your information. If you withdraw your consent or otherwise object to our use of your information, you have the right to request that we delete your information.
Restrict or limit the use of your information. You have the right to restrict how we use your information. For example, you may request that we not use your information for marketing purposes or certain types of marketing messages.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us here. In order to protect your personal information, we may ask you to provide additional personal information to verify your identity. You may submit a request to exercise your rights through an authorized agent. If you do so, the agent must present signed written permission to act on your behalf and you may be required to independently verify your identity with us and confirm that you have provided authorization to the agent.
The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a prominent notice on the website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
Last update: 05/01/2024
Loeb & Loeb LLP
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 2200
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Phone: 310.282.2020
Fax: 646.924.3272
Legal Basis for Processing
When we process your personal information, we will do so in reliance on the following lawful bases:
- To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you (e.g., providing our Services or the Legal Services).
- When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to operate our business or protect our interests (e.g., to provide, maintain and improve our Services; conduct data analytics; and communicate with you).
- To comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to maintain a record of: 1) your consents and 2) individuals who have opted out of marketing communications).
- When we have your consent to do so (e.g., when you opt in to receive marketing communications from us). When consent is the legal basis for our processing your personal information, you may withdraw such consent at any time.
Questions or Complaints
If you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below:
For individuals in the EEA: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
For individuals in the U.K.: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
For individuals in Switzerland: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html
Categories of Personal Information Collected | Purpose for Collection/Use |
Identifiers (name and contact details (for example, your email address, mailing address, phone number and social media handles, and government issues identifiers)). |
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Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information (device information, including your browser type and language, IP address, device type, unique device identifiers, mobile network information and operating system, and website interactions, such as the pages visited on the website, time spent on each page, whether you’ve clicked on a hyperlink and search queries). |
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Preferences (such as which areas of the law you are interested in). |
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Professional/Employment Information and other Recruitment Information (such as your employing entity, business unit, manager and management reporting structure, job title, resume, interview notes, background check information, and the function, and the nature of your duties and responsibilities).
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To evaluate and process your application for employment |
Education Information (such as your degrees, professional certifications, and other details about your qualifications and training). |
To evaluate and process your application for employment |
Demographic Data (such as age, gender, religion, and disability information, which you may provide to us in connection with an application for employment). |
To evaluate and process your application for employment |
Contents of your Communications with Us |
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Health Information (such as your accessibility requirements, dietary restrictions, and, where necessary and appropriate to protect the health and safety of our personnel and others, information related to symptoms of, or risk of exposure to, certain illnesses). |
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Audio and Visual Materials |
In connection with our marketing activities, including our social media content and webinars. |
Commercial Information |
Provide our Legal Services |
We do not “sell” or “share” and have not “sold” or “shared” personal information in the preceding 12 months under the laws applicable to you. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information about individuals under the age of 16. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
Shine the Light. California law requires us to inform California residents who have provided us with personal information that they may request information from us about our disclosures to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not provide personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.