At Cornerstone Legal, PLLC (“Cornerstone Legal”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the information you share with us. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website or otherwise communicate with us, as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.

1. HOW THIS POLICY APPLIES

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On our website, https://www.cornerstonelegalpllc.com.

• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and Cornerstone Legal, via telephone conversations between you and Cornerstone Legal, or via mail received from you by Cornerstone Legal.

• Through our mobile/desktop client portal you are invited to collaborate on by Cornerstone Legal.

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect several types of personal information from and about users of our website or mobile/desktop client portal, including:

• Contact information and registration details, such as name, address, email and telephone number.

• Unique identifiers, internet connection and preference information, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, usage details and navigation behavior from actions that you take on our website or mobile/desktop client portal.

• Portal usage details, which are automatically collected through your access to and use of the portal, including logs and other communications data and the resources that you access or use on or through the portal.

• Mobile device and connection information, including your devices’ unique identifier, operating system, browser type, mobile network information and the device’s telephone number.

We may collect this information directly from you, from third parties or automatically through various web and mobile technologies, including:

• Web or mobile/desktop client portal logging, which records and logs information about your internet connection, devices and usage, such as IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider, referring and exit pages, operating system, date and time stamp and clickstream data.

• Browser and mobile cookies, which are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer or on your smartphone or other mobile device, which collect and store information regarding your user identification and preferences on our website or mobile/desktop client portal. You may refuse to accept these cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or mobile device. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website or mobile/desktop client portal. Unless you have adjusted your settings so that your browser or mobile device will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website or open our mobile/desktop client portal.

• Flash cookies, which are locally stored objects that collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse flash cookies, please note that some parts of our website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• Web beacons, which are small electronic files (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited our web pages, accessed or mobile/desktop client portal or opened an email and for other related website and mobile/desktop client portal statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To improve and personalize the content on our website and mobile/desktop client portal.

• To administer our web services and mobile/desktop client portal.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please notify us at the address below. We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

SMS Messaging Privacy Policy

• Data Usage: Your mobile information will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

• Opt-Out: To stop receiving messages, text STOP at any time.

• Support: For help, contact us at Katrina@CornerstoneLegalPLLC.com

4. LIMITED USE

We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we have collected it, unless we reasonably determine we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE MAY PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ABOVE RULES, WHERE THIS IS REQUIRED OR PERMITTED BY LAW.

5.  DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.  

6. HOW WE MAY DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties that provide services to help us with our business activities such as responding to your requests for more information. These business partners are authorized to use personal information about you only as necessary to provide these services to us.

We may also disclose, without restriction, aggregated information about our users that does not identify any individual.

In certain situations, we may be required to disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Cornerstone Legal. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

7. CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• As described above, you can set your web browser or mobile device to refuse all or some browser, mobile and flash cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, you may not be able to access all parts of our website or mobile/desktop client portal, or our website or mobile/desktop client portal may not function properly.

• You may choose not to download our mobile/desktop client portal or delete if from your device.

8. CHILDREN UNDER 13

Our website and mobile/desktop client portal are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information through our website or mobile/desktop client portal. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at Katrina@CornerstoneLegalPLLC.com.

9. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and organizational measures designed to secure our systems and your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our mobile/desktop client portal, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile networks is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website or mobile/desktop client portal. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our website or mobile/desktop client portal.

10. GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS

We are based in the state of Michigan in the United States. We make no claims that our website or any content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. By using our website or mobile/desktop client portal, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.  If you are not a resident of the state of Michigan and you choose to use our website or mobile/desktop client portal, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and consent to having your data transferred to and processed on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you do not accept this Privacy Policy, please do not use our website or mobile/desktop client portal.

11. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We may periodically update this Privacy Policy to address new features or changes in how we use or collect your information. If we make changes, we will update the date that this Privacy Policy was last revised at the top of the page. We recommend that you periodically check this this Privacy Policy for any changes.

12. HOW TO CONTACT US

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

Cornerstone Legal PLLC

PO Box 9, Dimondale, MI 48821

517-708-2222

Katrina@CornerstoneLegalPLLC.com