Privacy Policy & Disclaimer

1. Introduction

Bridgepoint Counsel LLC ("Bridgepoint Counsel" or "we" or "our") are committed to respecting the privacy of all individuals visiting our website and any online applications (collectively, the “Sites”).

Your visit to our Sites is subject to the following Privacy Policy (“Policy”) and Terms of Use (“Terms”). By visiting our Sites, you agree to this Policy and the Terms, which may be updated by us at any time. If we update this Policy or the Terms, we will post the updated document on the Sites. Any such changes will be effective upon posting. We urge you to review the Policy and Terms each time you visit our Sites. If you do not agree with any provision of the Policy or the Terms, you should not use our Sites.

This Policy sets out:

In general, the types of personal information that Bridgepoint Counsel collects on the Sites, such as when browsing our consent or using our online application. In some cases, portions of this Policy also will apply to information collected on our Sites as well as when collected offline, such as while visiting our offices, attending one of our events, or otherwise interacting with us in the normal course of our business;
The purposes we may use, disclose or otherwise process personal information;
Information regarding our marketing and individuals’ ability to withdraw their consent or otherwise object to marketing; and
Individuals’ rights with respect to our use or disclosure of their personal information.

This Policy summarizes Bridgepoint Counsel's policies and procedures with respect to personal information. Any personal information collected, held, used or processed by Bridgepoint Counsel is also subject to the relevant provisions of applicable local laws. We store personal information in the United States which may not have data protection laws as protective as those in your location.

2. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following personal information from you:

Identification and contact information: such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name or other similar identifiers;
Commercial information: such as records of products or services purchased, obtained, used, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies;
Financial and Payment Data: including bank and other financial account information and other information necessary for processing payments, billing and invoicing, as well as fraud prevention;
Event registration or mailing list data: such as marketing and communications preferences and interests, subscriptions and downloads;
Internet or similar network activity: including information collected during your visits to our Sites, the Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, device type, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform. To learn more about our use of cookies, please see “Cookies and Similar Technologies” below;
Geolocation data: such as physical location when visiting the Sites;
Professional or employment-related information: such as job application information including résumé, work history, and other data provided by you on our Sites, as well as employment information concerning performance, pay and employee benefits, etc.;
Sensory data: such as audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information;
Sensitive personal information: such as an individual’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication; genetic data; personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health and and other personal information;

We may supplement the information that you provide to us with information that we receive or obtain from other sources, such as from our personnel, clients, third parties with whom we interact and publicly available sources. If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, such as your employees, suppliers, shareholders or directors, you must ensure that they understand how their information will be used and disclosed. By providing such information, you represent that you have provided any required notices and/or obtained any required consent or authorization to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our outsourced service providers, to use and disclose it as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

3. Purposes of Collecting and Using Personal Information

The laws in certain jurisdictions require companies to disclose the purposes they collect and use personal information and/or the legal ground they rely on to use, process, or disclose personal information. To the extent those laws apply, our purposes and/or legal grounds are as follows. We collect, use, and otherwise process the personal information referred to above for the following purposes and on the below legal bases:

To provide you with information, products, or services you request from us, including as described to you when collecting your personal information;
To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided;
To contact you and/or provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning our products, services, events, or news that may be of interest to you. For example, we may send you announcements, surveys, and newsletters using any communications preferences you have expressed. We may provide these communications via email, postal mail, online advertising, social media, telephone, text message (including SMS and MMS), push notifications, in-app messaging, and other means. Of course, if at any time you no longer wish to receive such communications, you have the option of unsubscribing from our mailing list for that communication;
To communicate with you in social media concerning our products and services;
To ensure your information is accurate and to personalize our communications to you. For example, we may aggregate your personal information with data from various sources for purposes of keeping information up to date. If you connect your social media services or other accounts to our services, we may use this information to make your experiences with us more personal or share and use it as described elsewhere in this Policy;
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights including those arising from any contracts entered into with you including for billing, payment, and collections. This includes fulfilling contract obligations or taking steps linked to a contract, including providing legal services, verifying your identity, processing payments;
To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Site, products, and services;
To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us;
To provide customer service and engage in quality control activities concerning our products and services;
To personalize your Site experience and to deliver content and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Site, third-party sites, and via email;
For testing, research, analysis and product and service development. We may use data, including public feedback and surveys, to conduct research and for the development of the Site and the services, products, and information we provide;
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, governmental regulations, or other lawful processes;
As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, security, and safety of us, our employees, our consumers, our information systems, and the public.

In certain circumstances, we will not be able to provide legal services to clients if we are not provided with all relevant personal information.

4. Marketing Communications and Withdrawing Consent

We may contact you with information about services or events that might be of interest to you. Where necessary in compliance with applicable law, at the time that you provide your personal information to us, you will be given the opportunity to indicate whether or not you agree for us to use your personal information to tell you about such services and events.

You will always be able to withdraw your consent to allow us to process your personal information, although we may still have other legal grounds for processing your data, such as those set out above. In some cases, we are able to send you marketing materials without your prior consent, where we rely on our legitimate interests, but you have an absolute right to opt-out of receiving future marketing materials at any time. You can do this by following the instructions in the email communication you receive, or by contacting us at ben@bridgepointcounsel.com.

5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We have the right to disclose your personal information with trusted third parties including:

Legal or other advisers, consultants and other professional experts, complainants, employers, correspondents and inquirers, and suppliers and service providers of any of the above, and each of their associated businesses;
Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors in connection with the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you; and
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:

To comply with applicable laws, regulations, subpoenas, legal process, governmental investigations or inquiries, to cooperate with law enforcement, to assert or defend legal claims, and to protect our and others’ rights, property, or safety we may share data with the appropriate law enforcement, regulatory or government agency, as well as adversaries; and
For the purposes of crime and fraud prevention and remediation we may share data with law enforcement, regulatory or government agencies and/or independent regulatory bodies.

We do not sell any personal information to any other person.

6. Transfers of Personal Data Outside the EU, UK, and Switzerland

Bridgepoint Counsel may provide services to or with respect to persons who reside in jurisdictions outside the United States. As such, personal information may be transferred to a country which may not provide the same protections to personal information as the country in which you reside. In particular, personal information from the EU, Switzerland or UK will be transferred to, and processed in or shared across computer networks with iin the United States and, in certain instances, where necessary to provide our services in a given instance, it may be shared with individuals as necessary to provide you with the appropriate legal services.

7. How Long We Keep Your Personal Data

When we process personal information for marketing purposes or with your consent, we process the data until you ask us to stop and for a short period after this (to allow us to implement your requests). We also keep a record of the fact that you have asked us not to send you direct marketing or to process your data so that we can respect your request in future.

In general, where we process personal information in connection with the provision of legal services, we keep the data for 10 years from the date the matter is closed.

8. Cookies and Similar Technology

What are they?

Cookies are small pieces of information sent by a web server to a web browser which allows the server to uniquely identify the browser on each page. Other tracking technologies are also used which are similar to cookies. This can include pixel tags and tracking URLs. All these technologies are together referred to in this Policy as “Cookies”. Please note that if you delete or disable Cookies from us, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our website.

How do we use Cookies?

The types of Cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

Strictly Necessary/Essential Cookies: These Cookies are essential to enable you to move around our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these Cookies, any services on our website you wish to access cannot be provided.
Analytical/Performance Cookies: These Cookies collect information about how you and other visitors use our website, for instance, which pages you go to most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. We use data from these Cookies to help test designs and to ensure that a consistent look and feel is maintained on your visit to the website. All information these Cookies collect is aggregated and is used only to improve how a website works.
Functionality Cookies: These Cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These Cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video. Additionally, these Cookies can be used to allow an optional service to function. The information these Cookies collect may be anonymized and these Cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Advertising/Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements relevant to your interests. They track your browsing habits and help, and our advertising partners display targeted advertisements based on your online behavior. These cookies may collect information such as your IP address, device identifier, or browser type. They are often placed by third-party advertising networks.
Pixel tags: These are also known as a clear GIF or web beacon. These are invisible tags placed on certain pages of our website but not on your computer. When you access these pages, pixel tags generate a generic notice of that visit. They usually work in conjunction with Cookies, registering when a particular device visits a particular page. If you turn off Cookies, the pixel tag will simply detect an anonymous website visit.
Tracking URLs: These are used to determine from which referring website our website is accessed.

If you do not want to place any non-essential Cookies, or only want to allow the use of certain Cookies, you can use your browser settings to withdraw your consent to our use of Cookies at any time and delete Cookies that have already been set.

To find out more about Cookies please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org or see www.youronlinechoices.eu which contains further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.

Do Not Track

We do not track visitors of the site over time and/or across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals. However, some third-party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, your browser allows you to set the DNT signal so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked. You should consult the help pages of your browser to learn how to set your preferences so that websites do not track you.

9. Additional Information for California Consumers

This section (“CCPA Section”) of the Policy supplements the Policy but pertains to the California Consumer Privacy Act, and any amendments thereto (“CCPA”). This CCPA Section applies solely to individuals who are residents of the State of California (“consumers” or “you”) as required under the CCPA. This CCPA Section supplements the description in the Policy concerning our policies and practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we collect about you, including personal information we obtain when you access or use the Site, or through other channels including but not limited to visiting one of our offices, phone and email conversations, attending our events, in-person interactions, interactions on our websites and other third party websites such as social media sites, viewing our emails, or through our authorized services providers.

Any terms defined within the CCPA have the same meaning when utilized within this subsection. All other terms shall have the meaning set forth in the Policy or Terms of Use, as applicable. The other provisions of the Policy continue to apply except as modified in this CCPA Section.

Business or Commercial Purpose for Collecting and Using Data: We collect and use personal information for the purposes described in the “Processing of Personal Data” section above.

Categories of Sources of Personal Data: We collect personal information directly from you (via any medium) and from the sources described below:

Social media and related services.
Service providers and contractors. When you obtain products and services from us, we may collect your personal information from service provider and contractors who collected information about you that is needed to provide those products and services.
Information Collected Automatically. As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may compile statistical information concerning your usage of the Site through analytics services, such as those provided by Google Analytics. To do so, we may collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Site, such as traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site;
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type;
- Information about the type of device you are using, mobile ad identifiers, the time and length of your visit, and the website that referred you to our Site; and
- Information about your preferences to make your use of the Site more productive, via the use of cookies. For more information on cookies, please see “Cookies and Similar Technologies” above. While all of this information can be associated with the IP address your computer had while you visited the Site, it will not be associated with you as an individual or with any other information you may submit through the Site or that we may store about you for any other purposes. We may use this information to generate aggregate statistics about visitors to our Site. Please check your web browser if you want to learn what information your browser sends or how to change your settings.

Sharing and Sales of Personal Data: We do not sell or share your personal information (as “sell” is defined in the CCPA), though we do disclose personal information to our affiliates, service providers and other vendors as described above. We also do not have actual knowledge that we have sold personal information of minors under age 16.

Uses and Disclosures of Sensitive Personal Information: We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes that, with limited exceptions, are not necessary in order to provide our products and services as are reasonably expected by an average consumer requesting those goods and services.

Retention of Personal Data: Please see “How Long We Keep Your Personal Data” above.

Your Consumer Rights as a California Consumer: The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Right to Know. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

The categories of personal information we collected about you;
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you;
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information;
The categories of third parties with whom we disclose that personal information;
The categories of personal information we sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request (see below), and as required by the CCPA, we will provide a response to such requests.

Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers and contractors, as applicable, to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated by you within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between the Company and you;
Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes;
Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code;
To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with the Company and compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information;
Comply with a legal obligation; and
Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Right to correct. You have the right to request that the Company correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of that information and purpose for processing it. Upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request (see below), and as required by the CCPA, we will provide a response to such requests.

Exercising the Rights to Know, Delete, and Correct. To exercise the know, correction, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us to ben@bridgepointcounsel.com. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. We will verify your identity before responding to your request.

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collect personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Authorized Agent. You may authorize a natural person or a business (the Agent) to act on your behalf with respect to the rights under this CCPA Section.

Nondiscrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. The right to nondiscrimination also includes an employee’s, applicant’s, or independent contractor’s right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of their CCPA rights.

Changes to the CCPA Section. We reserve the right to amend this CCPA Section at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this CCPA Section, we will post the updated notice on the Site and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

California’s Shine the Light Law: California Civil Code Section 1798.83, known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us a list of what personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the names and addresses of those third parties. Requests may be made only once a year and are free of charge. Under Section 1798.83, we currently do not share any personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

10. Governing Law and Forum

The laws of the State of New Jersey govern this Policy. Any dispute relating to this Policy or your use of our website shall be resolved solely in the state or federal courts located in New Jersey. If any provision of this Policy is held to be unenforceable, such provision will be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at ben@bridgepointcounsel.com.

DISCLAIMER

Bridgepoint Counsel LLC (“company”) provides this website and the information on it for general informational purposes only. Information accessible through the site is not, and should not be relied upon or regarded as, legal advice. No one accessing or reviewing any content or information accessible through the company’s website, whether or not a current client of the firm, should act or refrain from acting on the basis of such content or information, without first consulting with and engaging a qualified, licensed attorney, authorized to practice law in such person’s particular jurisdiction, concerning the particular facts and circumstances of the matter at issue. The company and its personnel expressly disclaim all liability in connection with actions taken or not taken based on any or all of the contents or information accessible through this site.

Any information on the site about prior results attained by the firm or its lawyers is not a guarantee or warranty that a similar outcome will be achieved.

The company’s website may offer links to websites owned and controlled by others. The company is not responsible for the content, operation, links or transmissions, or any information provided on any third-party website which may be accessed by a link from the company's site. Additionally, any reference to any third-party on the company's website does not constitute an endorsement of such third-party’s services.

Operation of the company’s website is not intended to form, and will not create, an attorney-client relationship. Any person who accesses information from the company's website or who unilaterally communicates any information to the company or any of its lawyers through the website, by e-mail or otherwise is not considered to be a client or prospective client of the company. As such, no attorney-client relationship exists between any such person and the company and the company does not owe such a person any professional duties that would ordinarily be owed to a client or a prospective client, including without limitation any duty of confidentiality. Further, operation of the company's website does not guarantee that the company or any company personnel is willing to consider or discuss entering into an attorney-client relationship with any particular individual.

Communications and information transmitted via email or the Internet may not be secure, confidential, or protected by the attorney-client privilege. Do not send any confidential or sensitive communications or information to the company without first contacting one of our lawyers and receiving further instructions about how to proceed.

This website may be considered attorney advertising under the rules of some states. The hiring of an attorney is an important decision that should not be based solely upon advertisements. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.