As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients, Solorzano Johnson Law, LLC and Ave Title, LLC, including its affiliated partnerships, (collectively, the firm) is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the firm). It has always been and remains the policy of the firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel. We apply our Privacy Policy in light of our overarching obligations to comply with law, to preserve client confidentiality and to represent our clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Policy is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.
This Policy is also specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s websites and our social media sites, as well as email or text (SMS) messages that we send to you that contain a link to this Policy (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Policy also describes how the firm collects, processes and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and Internet Services. We do not share any client data with third parties. No information will be shared nor sold with third parties/affiliates for marketing/ promotional purposes. We do not sell, rent, or share this information with any third parties. Your personal information is kept confidential and is not disclosed to any outside organizations except as required by law or with explicit consent.
Collection and Use of Personal
Information
The firm collects Personal Information
in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by
visitors to its website or users of Internet Services. We may also collect
Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites
and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information
that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Information
where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:
- to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries
- to personalize your visit and use of our Internet Services and to
assist you while you use those services - to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
- to conduct our recruiting and selection process for the hiring of
positions at our firm - to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of
the firm, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you
instruct us on - to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or
professional obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money
laundering requirements. Where Personal Information is necessary for the
firm to carry out its anti-money laundering checks, failure to provide
such information may result in the firm not being able to provide the
representation.
Confidentiality, Security, and
Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional
obligations, it has always been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost
discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
We maintain reasonable and
appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural
safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information,
including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other
Internet Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We require consultants and vendors to
maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate
obligations required of the firm in its operations.
We may retain information provided by
you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with
our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was
originally collected and for the purposes described in the Policy and in our
applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details on our information
practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal
Information
We do not disclose any Personal Information for promotional or marketing purposes. In limited circumstances, we may disclose personal information to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you.
Cookie Policy
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and placed on your computer by your web browser. We use cookies to collect non-personal statistical data about visitors to monitor how many people are using our website and what areas they visit. None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Internet Services. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the Internet Services may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet Services will issue cookies when you logon to the firm’s Internet Services. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies.
Do Not Track Signals
“Do Not Track” signals are options
available on your browser to tell operators of websites that you do not wish to
have your online activity tracked. Our websites operate no differently if these
“Do Not Track” signals are enabled or disabled. Our Internet Services do not
allow any third parties to collect Personal Information about your online
activities over time or across websites for their own purposes.
TEXT MESSAGE DISCLOSURE
At Solorzano Johnson Law, LLC, we
offer text message services to help us communicate with our clients more
efficiently and conveniently. By providing us with your mobile phone number and
opting in to receive messages from us, you consent to receive text messages
related to your legal matter.
Note that standard message and data
rates may apply, depending on your mobile carrier and plan.
Additionally, while we take measures
to ensure the security and privacy of our text message communication, we cannot
guarantee that these messages will always be secure or free from interception.
If at any time you wish to stop receiving text messages from
us, simply reply with “STOP” to any of our messages. You may also contact us
directly to opt out of our text message services.
By using our text message services,
you acknowledge and agree to the terms of this disclosure and acknowledge being
informed of our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about our
text message services, please do not hesitate to contact us by email to [email protected].
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Policy
at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for
our Internet Services, the firm will post it on this website and relevant
Internet Services.
Contact Us
If you have any questions relating to
our use of your Personal Information please contact us by email to [email protected] or by mail at:
Solorzano Johnson Law, LLC
ATTN: Andrea Solorzano Johnson
111 Clebourne Street, Suite 230, Fort Mill, SC 29715