Privacy Policy

Introduction

The-Ansah Law Firm, PLLC, a New York professional limited liability company (“ALF” “us,” “our,” and “we”), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you interact with our firm, whether through our website, via email, over the phone, or in person. By engaging our services or using our website, you agree to the practices described in this policy.

Intended Users of Our Website

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 18. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on our website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this website or through any of its features, register on the website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may collect various types of personal information, including but not limited to:

Contact Information: Name, company’s name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
Identification Information: Passport numbers, driver’s license numbers, or other identification details.
Financial Information: Bank account details, payment card information, billing address, and transaction records.
Case-Related Information: Any information pertinent to your legal matters, including sensitive or special category data, where necessary and with your explicit consent.
Website Usage Information: Information gathered via cookies and other tracking technologies, including IP addresses, browser type, operating system, and browsing behavior on our site.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through our website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information for the following purposes:

Provision of Legal Services: To deliver legal advice and representation tailored to your needs.
Client Communication: To communicate with you regarding your legal matters, billing, updates, and other relevant information.
Legal Compliance: To comply with legal, regulatory, and professional obligations.
Internal Operations: To manage our business operations, including record-keeping, billing, and improving our services.
Marketing and Updates: To send you newsletters, legal updates, or marketing communications, where you have opted in to receive them.
Other Purposes: To fulfil any other purpose for which you provide the information

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on one or more of the following legal grounds:

Contractual Necessity: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
Legal Obligation: Processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, except where such interests are overridden by your rights and freedoms.
Consent: Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before processing your personal information.

Disclosure of Your Information

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

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide to us as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To other legal professionals, experts, or third party involved in your matter.
To courts, law enforcement agencies, and regulatory bodies as required by law.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of ALF’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by ALF is among the assets transferred.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of ALF, our customers, or others.

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law. Once your information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

Your Rights

You have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:

Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
Right to Erasure: You have the right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to our legal obligations.
Right to Restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request the transfer of your personal information to another organization.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If we process your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet 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. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or for other operational reasons. Any updates will be posted on our website, and we encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Unenforceability

If any provision of this privacy policy is found to be unenforceable, then the unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by an enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision, and the remainder of this Privacy Policy shall continue in full force and effect.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: theansahlawfirm@gmail.com