Lawyers Associated Worldwide ("LAW") is committed to protecting your online privacy while you use our website. We urge you to read the privacy policy in its entirety so you will understand all of the practices and procedures we follow relating to your online privacy.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

In this privacy policy, LAW will inform you about the type of information that is collected about you on this website, how the information is collected, what the information will be used for and to whom it will be given. This privacy policy will also tell you how to limit our use of your personal information.

Contact our Website

This website is the responsibility of LAW. You can contact Hallie Mann, the Executive Director of Lawyers Associated Worldwide by e-mail at halliemann@lawyersworldwide.com.

What Kind of Personal Information LAW Collects

While we don't ask for any registration or personal information to browse our site, some information about your server address, Web browser, and computer system are automatically transmitted to our Web servers so that we can operate our site on the Internet. [If you choose to register with us, we require you to give us your personal information (such as name, address, e-mail address, birth date, etc.).] In addition, as part of our site operation, we reserve the right to automatically collect and track:

• The home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of computer, and type of Web browser you are using while you visit our website
• Information on what pages of the website you access.

How We Use Your Personal Information

LAW stores its visitor information in a secure database to fulfill your requests for information and to contact you if necessary.

LAW will never sell or rent your personally identifiable information to other companies.

LAW will share your personally identifiable information with other companies in the following circumstances:

• Since LAW does not provide legal services, and since legal services are only provided by our member law firms, LAW will share your personally identifiable information with our member law firms, which may use the information to contact you and to provide you with legal services.
• We may use your personally identifiable information for marketing purposes that we determine may be of interest to you;
• We will share your personally identifiable information when we are required by law to do so ; and
• We will share your personally identifiable information if we determine that your actions on our website have violated our Terms of Use , which you agreed to abide by when you began using our website.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a persistent client side hypertext transfer protocol file. Cookies are pieces of information that a website can transfer to a visitor's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies help Web surfing by saving visitor preferences and other information. The use of cookies is a widespread industry standard and thus many major websites use cookies.

Most Web browsers are initially configured to accept and process cookies. You can configure your browser to refuse cookies.

More extensive information concerning cookies is available on the World Wide Web by searching for the word Acookies". If you have any questions concerning our use of cookies, please contact Hallie Mann, the Executive Director of Lawyers Associated Worldwide by e-mail at halliemann@lawyersworldwide.com.

We reserve the right to use cookies on the LAW website.

Opting-Out

You may opt-out of having your personal information collected by contacting us by e-mail or regular mail. Please note that in order to fulfill certain obligations, we may need to continue sending you notices or other important information concerning any inquiries you may make.

Requesting to See Your Personal Information

You may request, via e-mail or regular mail, that we provide you with the personal information we have concerning you. Once you receive this information, you may request that we modify or remove any of your personal information. We reserve the right to verify your identity before sending you this information.

Links to Other Web Sites

Our website may contain links to other Internet websites, including the websites of the law firms that are members of LAW. We encourage our member law firms, contributors and other third parties to implement policies and practices that respect your privacy.

We are not, however, responsible for any other website's privacy practices or website content, including the websites of our member law firms. Occasionally, you may receive cookies from our member law firms or from third party advertisers and vendors. We do not control these cookies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. We ask that you review this privacy policy from time to time to insure that you are familiar with the most current version of the policy.

Acceptance of this Privacy Policy

By using this website, you agree to the terms of, as well as any posted changes to, this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms, DO NOT use our website.

Date of last update: October 4, 2001