Privacy Policy

Last updated on April 4, 2024

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) sets forth the information Lakhani Legal PLLC (“we” or “us”) collects from you when using this website, www.lakhanilegal.com (the “Website”) or interacting with our third-party partners (“Partners”), as applicable. We are committed to the protection of your privacy, and will treat all of the information you provide through our website with the utmost respect. We work diligently to ensure that we have taken all appropriate administrative and technical measures to prevent the unauthorized or unlawful use, access, disclosure, and destruction of your personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”), and to prevent any accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, such information. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, security measures are not impenetrable, and we can’t guarantee against misuse. 

By using this Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Policy.


INFORMATION COLLECTION
We may collect non-Personal Information, such as domain names and IP Addresses through our Website and the use of third-party data analytics services. We may also collect information about the type of Internet browser you are using, operating system, what brought you to our Website, as well as which of our web pages you have accessed.

Additionally, if you communicate with us regarding the Website or our services, we will collect any information that you provide in any such communication, including your name, email address, phone number, and any specific messages. If you provide any payment information through the Website or create or open an account to process payments, we will collect and store your credit card or bank account information. 

INFORMATION USE
We may use the collected information as follows: 

  • If you communicate with us, we may send you newsletters and marketing information, until you decide to opt out. We may also send you notifications, updates, and changes about our Website, and contact you to provide customer service and support.  
  • We use your information to operate, manage, and improve our Website, and for marketing and administrative purposes.
  • If you provide us with payment information, we will use that information to process payments.
  • We may use your Personal Information to improve our programs and services.
  • We may use your Personal Information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, to respond to lawful requests, court orders and legal process, to enforce our rights, to prevent fraud, and to protect the security of the Website and for safety.   
  • We may use your IP address and location data to analyze usage, administer our Website, and gather demographic information for aggregate use.
  • With your consent, we may use your Personal Information in other ways.

INFORMATION SHARING
We do not knowingly sell, trade or otherwise share your Personal Information with any unaffiliated third parties without your consent except as disclosed in this Policy, as required by law, and when we reasonably believe it is necessary to prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or to protect the safety of any person.

We may share Personal Information in collaboration with our Partners, including companies that assist with business analytics, data processing, customer and user management, and other services. Although we take reasonable steps to ensure that any third party Partners receiving your information are bound by privacy restrictions as restrictive as those set forth in this Policy, we are not responsible for any issues that may arise regarding the privacy policies or practices of any of the third party partners. By using the Website, you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any claims and/or damages that may arise from the actions of any of our Partners.

SECURITY
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. If we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

Lakhani Legal PLLC uses encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online and also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

COOKIES
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve our Website, analyze trends, and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when cookies are used to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on a website. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Depending on their purpose, some cookies will only operate for the length of a single browsing session, while others have a longer life span to ensure that they fulfill their longer-term purposes. Your web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies or reject cookies, to notify you each time a cookie is sent to your browser, or to delete cookies that have already been set. If your browser is set to reject cookies, certain aspects of the Website that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to the Website, and some Website functionality may be lost. The “Help” section of your browser may tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies. 

SHARING
We will not sell or otherwise provide the information collected to outside third parties for the purpose of direct or indirect mass email marketing. We will disclose Personal Information and/or an IP address, when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Lakhani Legal PLLC
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of our Website and related properties
  • Identify persons who may be violating the law, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing our Website or its related properties

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose Personal Information online – for example through e-mail, discussion boards, or elsewhere – that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post Personal Information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your Personal Information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

SOCIAL MEDIA
If you click on our social media links (such as Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn), you will be directed to a third-party platform, and any information you share on those websites will be covered by their privacy policies, not this Policy. 

LINKS
This Website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites.  Please be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

COMMUNICATIONS
By using our Website, you expressly allow us to contact you and use your information as set forth in this Policy. You may opt-out of receiving marketing emails anytime by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email that contains the marketing communication. 

BUSINESS TRANSITION 
In the event we go through a business transition, including without limitation any merger, acquisition, partnership, business reorganization, debt finance, or sale of association assets, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership (each a “Business Transition”), we may use information collected in accordance with this Policy and subject to its restrictions, as part of any such Business Transition. In such instances, your information can be part of the assets transferred.

DATA RETENTION
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to accomplish our purposes for such data as set forth in this Policy. You can request that your information be deleted by contacting us at the address provided at the bottom of this Policy. At the time your information is deleted, we will destroy your Personal Information using reasonable data destruction practices. We may, however, retain certain information to comply with legal or contract obligations or to facilitate law enforcement requests. 

CONSENT
By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above. If any changes are made to the Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Please review this page frequently to remain up-to-date with the information collected, how its used, and under what circumstances it is disclosed.

CONTACT
If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, please reach out to us at [email protected] or (516) 206-6996. 


SUPPLEMENT TO PRIVACY POLICY: RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

This Supplement (the “Supplement”) is part of our Policy.  This Supplement applies only if (i) we conduct business in California and qualify as a “Business” as defined under the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 (CCPA) and (ii) you are a California resident.   This Supplement describes what your rights are regarding your Personal Information, as defined under the CCPA, and how you may exercise them when we act as a Business.  If our Policy says something that conflicts with this Supplement, you can refer to this Supplement instead of the Policy to understand what will happen with your Personal Information and what your rights are. Nothing in this policy is intended to expand the territorial reach of the CCPA to cover us if we would not otherwise qualify as a “Business” subject to the Act. 

If and when we operate as a “Service Provider” (as defined under the CCPA) for our clients and they provide us with your Personal Information for business purposes under a service contract, the client’s privacy policy applies to the collection of your Personal Information, not this Supplement or our Policy..

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use the Personal Information we collect, as described in this Supplement, for the same purposes identified in our Policy.  We also use your Personal Information for purposes of assessing the prospective engagement of you as a client or, if you are already a client, as needed to perform and deliver requested services.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose the Personal Information we collect, as described in this Supplement, for any of the same purposes and to the same categories of persons and entities as identified above in the Policy.  We may also disclose the Personal Information we collect for purposes of assessing the prospective engagement of you as a client or, if you are already a client, as needed to perform and deliver the requested services.

RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The CCPA gives certain rights to California residents regarding their Personal Information.  To the extent that we are subject to the CCPA, you do not need to have an account with us to exercise these rights.

  • Right to Know About the Collection, Use, Disclosure and Sale of Personal Information: Upon providing us with a verified consumer request, you may ask us to disclose certain types of your Personal Information we have collected and used over the 12-month period prior to the date of your request.  You may make this request only twice within any 12-month period.  
  • The categories of Personal Information we collected about you:
    • The categories of sources of the Personal Information we collected about you
    • The business or commercial purpose for collecting that Personal Information
    • The categories of third parties with whom we shared that information
    • The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (except to the extent prohibited under CCPA including, for example, disclosure of Social
    • Security numbers or other government, health insurance or medical identification numbers, account passwords)
    • If we disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, a list identifying the Personal Information we disclosed to each category of recipient.
  • Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information

You have the right to submit a verified consumer request at any time that we delete any of your Personal Information collected and retained by us, unless an exception under the CCPA applies. 

If no exception applies, and if we have been able to verify your consumer request, we will delete, aggregate or de-identify your Personal Information from our records in accordance with the CCPA.  We will also direct third parties to whom we have disclosed your Personal Information to delete it, although we cannot guarantee that such third parties will comply with our direction. 

Please note that we may deny your deletion request if your Personal Information based on certain provisions of the CCPA, including where it is necessary for us or our service providers to carry out certain business functions, comply with laws or to engage in other internal and lawful uses of the information within the context in which you provided it to us.

You also have the right to opt out of (or for minors under 16, the ability to opt in to) sales of your Personal Information.  However, we do not and will not sell your Personal Information.  If, in the future, we decide to sell Personal Information, we will provide you with notice and the right to opt-out of (or for minors, opt-in to) such sales.

MAKING A VERIFIED CONSUMER REQUEST TO US
To make a request to exercise your rights under CCPA described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by either: emailing us at [email protected] or calling us at ))) 

A verifiable consumer request must be made by you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State whom you have authorized to make the request on your behalf.  (A representative must be authorized by you in writing or have a valid power of attorney under California probate law.)  You may also make a verifiable request to us on behalf of your minor child. 

To be considered a proper verified request, your request must:

  1. provide us with sufficient information allowing us to reasonably verify that you are the same person about whom we collected the Personal Information or the authorized representative, and
  2. describe your request in reasonable detail so we can correctly understand, evaluate and respond to the request.

NON-DISCRIMINATION
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.  This means that, except where permitted under the CCPA, if you make a request for disclosure or to delete your Personal Information, we will not (i) deny you goods or services, (ii) charge you different prices for goods or services (e.g., through penalties or withholding of otherwise available discounts), (iii) giving you a different level of goods or services,  or (iv) suggesting to you that we will take any of the actions in (i) through (iii).

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS
Nevada law requires us to post the following: certain Nevada consumers may opt-out of the sale of “Covered Information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information.  “Covered information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.