Privacy Policy

Our clients trust us with sensitive information, and we work hard to safeguard and protect it. This Privacy Policy governs Atticus's use and collection of personal data.

This Privacy Policy describes the information Atticus Law, P.C. and its affiliates (“Atticus,” “we,” or “us”) may collect from and about you when you visit Atticus-owned or operated websites and domains (including www.atticus.com), use our other products and services that include an authorized link to this Privacy Policy, interact with our social media pages or content on those pages, or otherwise interact with us, including via phone, email, or in person, such as at one of our offices for legal consultations (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy also describes how we use, disclose, and otherwise process such information, and your choices regarding such information.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and forms part of our Terms of Use. By using the Services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Please note that your use of certain of our Services may be subject to separate or additional privacy notices, which will be presented to you in connection with such Services.

Please review this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use carefully. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy and to the Terms of Use, do not use or access the Services.

This Privacy Policy contains the following sections:

• Information We Collect
• How We Use the Information We Collect
• How We Disclose Information
• Your Choices
• Children's Privacy
• Security
• Retention
• Third Party Websites
• Data Transfers
• California Resident Notice at Collection
• Changes
• Contact Us

1. Information We Collect.

1.1. Information You Provide.

Clients, Prospective Clients, and Other Individuals Seeking Legal Services from Atticus

We may collect information directly from you when you use the Services, including by creating an account, filling out forms (whether electronic, physical, or in any other medium), contacting us, or interacting with us via social media (including by commenting, filling out forms, or otherwise interacting with our content). This information may include:

• Contact information, such as name, postal address, email address, and phone number.
• Login information, such as username and password.
• Personal characteristics and demographic data, such as age, date of birth, gender, military or veteran status, marital status, and income.
• Government-issued identifiers, such as Social Security numbers.
• Education information, such as whether you hold a degree and your highest completed level of education.
• Health information, such as medical history information that you provide when inquiring about legal services.
• Employment information, such as job title, job history, income and/or compensation, and health/family leave information.
• Audio recordings of phone calls with us related to customer service, which we and our vendors record in accordance with applicable law for training and quality control purposes.
• Any other information that you choose to provide us.

You are not required to provide us with any of the information above. However, if you do not provide us with certain information, you may be unable to access some features or functions of the Services.

Atticus Network Lawyers

Atticus works with a network of lawyers and law firms to ensure clients have the right lawyer for their needs. In addition to the information detailed in the preceding section (“Clients, Prospective Clients, and Other Individuals Seeking Legal Services from Atticus”), we collect additional information from our network lawyers. This information may include professional calendar information when partner lawyers grant permission and agree to use the Atticus integrated calendar solution.

Please note that when you make payments for the Services, our third-party payment processor, Stripe, collects and processes your payment information on our behalf.

1.2. Automatically Collected Information.

When you use the Services, we (and third parties on our behalf) may also use automated technologies, such as cookies, web beacons, and scripts to collect certain information on how you use our Services. Cookies are small text files placed on your device or browser that perform a variety of functions, including recognizing your device, remembering your preferences, enabling the Services to function, assisting with security, and improving our advertising and analytics. The information we collect by automated means may include: (1) information about the device you use to access the Services, such as the IP address and the type of the device, operating system, and web browser you use; (2) information about your interactions and use of the Services, such as dates, times, and duration of use of the Services and actions taken when using the Services, such as page views, website navigation patterns, whether you open our emails, clicks and cursor movements, searches on the site; and (3) screen recordings.

1.3. Information Collected from Other Sources.

We may receive information about you from other sources, such as business partners, marketers, researchers, analysts, social network services, and other parties to help us supplement our records.

2. How We Use the Information We Collect.

Atticus collects and uses your personal information to deliver the help you request, to evaluate whether to represent you, and to improve our services and website. As part of the process for identifying and connecting you with the right legal help, we may share your personal information with other law firms, service providers, and/or financial partners.

We may use the information we collect to:

• Provide and maintain the Services.
• Complete transactions.
• Communicate with you via email, phone, text, and mail, including by sending you information or materials you request, responding to your questions and comments, and providing customer support.
• Market and advertise ourselves and our products and services, or those of our third-party partners, subject to your marketing and advertising preferences, including to create marketing and/or advertising profiles.
• Operate, evaluate, and improve our business and the products and services we offer.
• Analyze use of the Services.
• Conduct internal research and develop products and services.
• Secure and debug the Services and repair errors.
• Conduct audits, including of use of the Services and ad performance.
• Enforce our website Terms of Use and other agreements, and otherwise exercise and defend our legal rights.
• Comply with applicable legal requirements and industry standards.

We also may use the information we obtain about you in other ways for which we provide separate notice and, where required, obtain your consent.

We may aggregate and/or de-identify information we collect, and we may use and disclose such aggregated and/or de-identified information to any party for any purpose. We may combine information we collect from various sources for any of the purposes above.

3. How We Disclose Information.

We may disclose the information we collect to the following types of entities or in the following circumstances:

• Affiliates. We may disclose your information to affiliates under common ownership or control of Atticus to provide the Services and for other legitimate business purposes such as the administration of IT services as well as security, accounting, and general business and financial management.
• Vendors. We may disclose your information to third-party vendors that perform services on our behalf that help us run our business, such as data storage and web hosting, billing and payment, customer service, marketing and sales, content creation, analytics, shipping and fulfillment, consulting, and legal services.
• Online advertising partners. We may disclose certain information to online advertising providers, networks, and other partners (as described below under “Online Advertising”) to assist us in our online advertising and measurement activities.
• Legal compliance. We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary or appropriate to comply with any law, regulation, or legal process (such as a subpoena, warrant, or court order), including to respond to any government or regulatory request or inquiry.
• Protection of rights, property and/or safety. We may disclose your information where we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Atticus, users of the Services, or others, including to prevent, detect, or investigate fraud, abuse, illegal use, or violations of our website Terms of Use and other agreements, to defend ourselves from claims or allegations, and to enforce our terms and policies.
Business transfers. In the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, sale, or other transfer of some or all of our assets and/or equity or any similar transaction, your information may be disclosed to a third party following completion of such transaction and/or during the diligence period leading up to any transaction. Should such a sale, merger, or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use your personal information in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Policy or otherwise permitted by applicable law.
• With your consent. We may disclose your information consistent with your consent to do so.

4. Your Choices.

4.1. Marketing Communications.

You may opt out of email communications from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the emails, or following instructions in our text messages. You may also opt out of email communications by contacting us using the information in Section 12 of this Privacy Policy. Please note that if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you service-related communications such as an email informing you about information related to your claim, or a notice of changes to our legal terms, including this Privacy Policy.

4.2. Privacy Rights.

Residents of certain jurisdictions, such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah, may have certain rights regarding their “personal data,” as defined in these states’ laws (“personal information”), that we process.

Applicable law may permit you to request that we:

• Confirm whether or not we are processing your personal information and provide you with access to such personal information;
• Provide you the categories of personal information we have collected or disclosed about you; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, “sharing” or “selling” your personal information as those terms are defined under applicable law; the categories of third parties to whom we disclose or “sell” or with whom we “share” personal information; and the categories of personal information we “sell” or “share” (much of which is already provided above).
• Correct inaccuracies in your personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information;
• Delete your personal information;
• Provide you a copy of personal information that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another business, where our processing is carried out by automated means; and
• Opt you out of processing of personal information for purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you (please note that we do not engage in this kind of processing).

To exercise these rights, you can email us at privacy@atticus.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

We may ask you to provide us with information necessary to reasonably verify your identity before responding to your request. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so, you must provide us with written authorization or a power of attorney, signed by you, for the agent to act on your behalf. You may still need to verify your identity directly with us.

We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period required by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests (e.g., where we are required to keep information for legal purposes, or where deletion of information would prevent us from providing services you have requested).

Applicable law may also permit you to appeal any denials of your rights requests; to do so, contact us at privacy@atticus.com and describe in detail why you believe the denial was in error. Your description must include your full name and the email address used for your account with us, along with a copy of the denial notice you received from us.

You also have the right to opt out of the processing of the “sale” of your personal information and the processing of your personal information for purposes of “targeted advertising,” as defined in applicable law. To opt out of our use of cookies, pixels and similar technologies for purposes that could be considered “sales” or processing for purposes of “targeted advertising” (i.e., “share”), you can disable cookies by following the instructions in the “Cookies” section of this Privacy Policy. To submit a request to opt out of our disclosure of information other than through cookies and similar technologies that are subject to applicable opt out rights, you can email us at privacy@atticus.com.

4.3. Cookies.

As noted above, we and our vendors use cookies and similar technologies to collect certain information about you. You may be able to set your internet browser or device to stop accepting new cookies, notify you when you receive a new cookie, or disable existing cookies. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser or your device settings for more information. The setting will apply only to the browser or device you are using, so you will need to reset the setting on a different browser or device. If you disable some or all cookies, the Services may not function as intended and some features may be unavailable.

4.4. Web Analytics.

We and our vendors may use third-party analytics services on the Services to help us understand how users engage with the Services, including Google Analytics. These parties may use cookies and other technologies to help collect, analyze, and provide us with reports and/or data. For more information about Google Analytics and how it collects and processes data, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To opt out of the Google Analytics using your information for analytics purposes, see: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

4.5. Online Advertising.

We may allow third-party advertising technologies (e.g., ad networks and ad servers, or other advertising partners) to place cookies or other tracking technologies on your browser or device to collect information about you to assist in the delivery of relevant advertising on other websites you visit and other online services you use. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online services and may be tailored to your interests. For example, if you visit one of our websites, you may see ads for us on other websites you visit. Our Services may also contain ads about third parties or third-party products or services, and cookies and other similar technologies may be used to deliver such ads based on the websites you visit and other online activities.

We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your browser or device by third parties. For more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Opt-Out link to opt out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. You also may opt-out from Google Analytics for Display Advertising or the Google Display Network by using Google’s Ads Settings. We do not control and make no representations about the appropriateness, functioning, completeness, or availability of these or any other third-party opt-out tools.

5. Children's Privacy.

Our Services are intended for and directed to adults. The Services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit “personal information” (as defined in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) from children under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us using the information in Section 12 of this Privacy Policy.

6. Security.

We have implemented measures intended to protect your information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Nevertheless, no website, mobile app, database, system, or electronic transmission of information is guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, we disclaim liability for the theft, loss, or interception of, or unauthorized access or damage to, your data or communications by using the site, applications, and our Services. By using our Services, you acknowledge that you understand and assume these risks.

7. Retention.

We retain your information for as long as it serves the purposes for which it was collected as described in this Privacy Policy, as subsequently authorized, as necessary or appropriate to provide the Services, and for business continuity purposes. For example, we may keep your account profile data for as long as you keep your account, but we may keep your transaction history longer to comply with legal obligations. We also retain information as required or permitted by applicable law, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our rights and agreements.

8. Third Party Websites.

The Services may contain links to third party websites and apps. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors, or other websites to which we provide links. Such third parties treat any information you provide to them in accordance with their own privacy policies, which you should review before providing your information. Linked sites and apps have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly encourage you to review. To the extent any linked websites or apps are not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for their content, any use of the linked websites or apps, or the privacy practices of the linked websites or apps.

9. Data Transfers.

Atticus is based in the United States. Our Services are operated from within the United States and intended for users located domestically. When we obtain information about you, we may transfer, process, and store such information outside of the country in which you reside in any location where we or our vendors are based, including in the United States. The data protection laws in these countries may be different or less protective than the laws of the country where you reside. By using the Services, you consent to the transfer to and processing and storage of your information in countries outside of your country of residence.

10. California Resident Notice at Collection.

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide you with the following additional information about: (1) the purpose for which we use each category of “personal information” (as defined in the CCPA) we collect; and (2) the categories of third parties to which we (a) disclose such personal information for a business purpose, (b) “share” personal information for “cross-context behavioral advertising,” and/or (c) “sell” such personal information. Under the CCPA, “sharing” is defined as the targeting of advertising to a consumer based on that consumer’s personal information obtained from the consumer’s activity across websites, and “selling” is defined as the disclosure of personal information to third parties in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration. We “share” information to provide more relevant and tailored advertising to you regarding our Services. While we will never sell your information for money, our use of third-party online advertising and related services may result in the sharing of online identifiers (e.g., cookie data, IP addresses, device identifiers, and usage information) in a way that may be considered a “sale” under the CCPA. The following chart details our practices in this regard. For all categories of third parties to which we disclose personal information for a business purpose, please see the “Disclose Your Information” section of our Privacy Policy above.

11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy.

Atticus reserves the right to update or change this Privacy Policy at any time. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to check for any updates or changes.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or to exercise one of the rights above, please contact us at privacy@atticus.com.