Privacy Policy

Effective as of January 1, 2020
Last Updated: May 1, 2024

Introduction

Husch Blackwell LLP (“HB,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects the privacy of your information. This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, share, and safeguard your information. This Privacy Policy applies to individuals who access this website, our mobile applications, social media pages, and platforms (collectively, “Site”) and any of our online and, where required, offline services, activities, live events, and business interactions (collectively, “Services”).

From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. If we do, we will post an amended version on this webpage. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically.

This Privacy Policy covers the following topics:

1. Personal Data We Collect

2. How We Use Your Personal Data

3.  How We Share Your Personal Data

4. Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms

5. Security

6. Third-Party Links

7. Children’s Privacy

8. Notice To California Residents

9. Accessibility

10. How To Contact Us

1. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

We collect personal data from you through your use of the Site and Services. Personal data is information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. We collect the following types of personal data:

Personal Data You Provide

Depending on how you interact with our Site and Services, we will collect the following personal data that you voluntarily provide to us for the following purposes:

• Create an Account. If you create an account to use any of our client platforms, you will provide us with your name, email address, and company information.
• Subscribe to Our Mailing List. If you sign up to receive emails from us, you will provide us with your name, company name, and email address. To unsubscribe from our marketing emails, please click the unsubscribe link included in the footer of our emails. You also may submit a request to us at privacy@huschblackwell.com.
• Register for an Event. If you register for an event, you will provide us with your name, company name, email address, city of residence, state of residence, and zip code. You may also provide us with your phone number.
• Make a Payment. To pay your bill, you will provide us with your name, email address, physical address, company information, and financial information. We may use a third party to process payments on our behalf. This third party may collect, use, and share your personal data.
• Communication. To communicate your needs to our attorneys, you will provide us with your legal and regulatory compliance requirements, commercial and financial information, information supplied in relation to presenting and defending legal claims as well as offering legal counsel, and any other information you choose to provide.
• Social Networks. When you connect with us through a social network, such as LinkedIn or Facebook, we will collect personal data from the social network in accordance with your privacy settings on that social network. The social network may provide us with your name, profile picture, network, gender, username, user ID, age, language, country, and any other information you have agreed that the social network can provide to us.
• Subscribe to a Blog. If you subscribe to blog posts, you will provide us with your email address.

Personal Data as You Navigate Our Site

We automatically collect certain personal data through your use of our Site and our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, such as the following:

• Usage Information. For example, the pages on the Site you access, the frequency of access, and what you click on while on the Site.
• Device Information. For example, hardware model, operating system, application version number, and browser.
• Mobile Device Information. Aggregated information about whether the Site are accessed via a mobile device or tablet, the device type, and the carrier.
• Location Information. Location information from visitors to the Site on a city-regional basis.

To learn more about how we use cookies and to manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy.

Personal Data We Collect About You from Other Sources

In some cases, we may receive personal data about you from other sources. This includes our clients, through case/legal information and requests, government entities, advertising networks, operating systems and platforms, social networks and advertising and marketing partners.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

In addition to the purposes stated above, we may use all the personal data we collect in accordance with applicable law such as to:

• Maintain and improve our Site and Services;
• Protect the security and integrity of our Site and Services;
• Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or violations of our Terms of Use, and to otherwise fulfill our legal obligations;
• Monitor compliance with and enforce this Privacy Policy and any applicable agreements and policies;
• Defend our legal rights and the rights of others;
• Fulfill any other purposes for which you provide it;
• For any purpose that is reasonably necessary to or compatible with the original purpose for which we collected the personal data as disclosed to you; and
• Comply with applicable law. 

3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may share the personal data that we collect about you in the following ways:

• With vendors who perform data or Site-related services on our behalf (e.g., email, hosting, maintenance, backup, and analysis);
• To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
• To establish, exercise, or defend our or a third party’s legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention;
• With any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal data;
• With any other person or entity as part of any business or asset sale, equity transaction, merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, or in preparation for any of these events;
• With any other person or entity where you consent to the disclosure; and
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the personal data or for any other purpose we deem necessary, including to protect the health or safety of others.

4. UNIVERSAL OPT-OUT MECHANISMS

The Site recognizes the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. If you are using a browser setting or plug-in that sends an opt-out preference signal to each website you visit, we will treat that as a valid request to opt out. To download and use a browser supporting the GPC browser signal, click here: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. If you choose to use the GPC signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use.

Some internet browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Given that there is not a uniform way that browsers communicate the “Do Not Track” signal, the Site does not currently interpret, respond to or alter its practices when it receives “Do Not Track” signals.

5. SECURITY

We maintain commercially reasonable security measures to protect the personal data we collect and store from loss, misuse, destruction, or unauthorized access. However, no security measure or modality of data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Although we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

6. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

The Site may contain links that will let you leave the Site and access another website. Linked websites are not under our control. We accept no responsibility or liability for these other websites.

7. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The Site and Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal data from children under 13.

8. NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), requires that we provide California residents with a privacy policy that contains a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, sale, sharing, and retention of personal information and of the rights of California residents regarding their personal information. This section of the Privacy Policy is intended solely for, and is applicable only as to, California residents. If you are not a California resident, this section does not apply to you and you should not rely on it.

The CCPA defines “personal information” to mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. Personal information does not include publicly available, deidentified or aggregated information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this “Notice to California Residents” section we will refer to this information as “Personal Information.”

Notice at Collection of Personal Information

We currently collect and, in the 12 months prior to the Last Updated date of this Privacy Policy, have collected the following categories of Personal Information:

• Identifiers (name, alias, postal address, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name)
• Unique personal identifiers (device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or other similar technology; customer number, unique pseudonym or user alias; telephone numbers)
• Personal information described in California’s Customer Records statute (California Civil Code § 1798.80(e)) (signature, physical characteristics or description, telephone number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information as well as the categories listed in “Identifiers” category above)
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (race, color, sex/gender (including pregnancy, and/or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age (40 and older), religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, disability, citizenship status, genetic information, marital status, medical condition), military or veteran status, political affiliations or activities, request for family care leave, request for leave for an employee’s own serious health condition, request for pregnancy disability leave
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (browsing history; search history; and information regarding consumer’s interaction with website, application or advertisement)
• Geolocation data
• Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information
• Inferences drawn from above information to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

We collect Personal Information directly from California residents and from our clients, through case/legal information and requests, government entities, advertising networks, operating systems and platforms, social networks and advertising and marketing partners. We do not collect all categories of Personal Information from each source.

In addition to the purposes stated above in the section “How We Use Your Personal Data” we currently collect and have collected the above categories of Personal Information for the following business or commercial purposes:

• Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards
• Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes
• Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
• Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us, provided that your Personal Information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about you or otherwise alter your experience outside the current interaction with us
• Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services
• Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
• Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us
• Advancing our commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction

Sale, Sharing, and Disclosure of Personal Information

The CCPA defines “sale” as the transfer of Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration. Although we do not “sell” Personal Information as that term may be commonly interpreted, we engage in online activities that may constitute a sale or a share of Personal Information under California law. This may include showing you advertisements on other websites.

The following table identifies the categories of Personal Information that we sold or shared to third parties in the 12 months preceding the Last Updated date of this Privacy Policy and, for each category, the categories of third parties to whom we sold or shared Personal Information:

We sold or shared Personal Information to third parties to advance our commercial and economic interests.

The following table identifies the categories of Personal Information that we disclosed for a business purpose in the 12 months preceding the Last Updated date of this Privacy Policy and, for each category, the categories of recipients to whom we disclosed Personal Information: 

We disclosed Personal Information for all of the business and commercial purposes listed above.

We do not knowingly collect, sell, or share the Personal Information of consumers under 16 years of age. We do not use sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations.

Retention of Personal Information

We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect it, such as to provide you with the service you have requested, and for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, contractual, or reporting requirements that apply to us.

Your Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights with respect to your Personal Information:

1. The right to know what Personal Information we have collected about you, including the categories of Personal Information, the categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing Personal Information (if applicable), the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information (if applicable), and the specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you;
2. The right to delete Personal Information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
3. The right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you;
4. If we sell or share Personal Information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing;
5. If we use or disclose sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations, the right to limit our use or disclosure; and
6. The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of privacy rights the CCPA confers.

How to Submit a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct

If you have an account with us, you must log into your account and submit your request to know, delete, and/or correct through your account. If you do not have an account, you may submit a request to know, delete, and/or correct through our interactive webform available here, by emailing us at privacy@huschblackwell.com, or by calling us toll free at 1-800-711-5413.

If you submit a request to delete online, you may be asked to confirm separately that you want your Personal Information deleted.

If you are submitting a request on behalf of a California resident, please submit the request through one of the designated methods discussed above. After submitting the request, we will require additional information to verify your authority to act on behalf of the California resident.

Our Process for Verifying a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct

We will comply with your request upon verification of your identity and, to the extent applicable, the identity of the California resident on whose behalf you are making such request. We will verify your identity either to a “reasonable degree of certainty” or a “reasonably high degree of certainty” depending on the sensitivity of the Personal Information and the risk of harm to you by unauthorized disclosure, deletion, or correction as applicable. To do so, we will ask you to verify data points based on information we have in our records concerning you.

Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

If you are a California resident, you have the right to direct us to stop selling or sharing your Personal Information.

You may submit a request to opt out of sales or sharing by clicking here. If you have enabled privacy controls on your browser (such as a plugin), we will also treat that as a valid request to opt out. Please see the “Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms” section above for more information.

Shine the Light Law

If you are a California resident and have an established business relationship with us, you may request that we do not disclose your personal information to third parties for the third parties’ own direct marketing purposes (as those terms are defined in California Civil Code § 1798.83). You may submit such a request here.

9. ACCESSIBILITY

We are committed to ensuring this Privacy Policy is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you wish to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format, please contact us as described below.

10. HOW TO CONTACT US

To contact us for questions or concerns about our privacy policies or practices, please email privacy@huschblackwell.com.