Law Offices of Jude A. Akubuilo, Ph.D.

3655 Torrance Blvd, Suite 300,
Torrance, CA 90503

(310) 406-3765, (310) 358-7464, (800) 504-1LAW

Fax: (888) 377-1995

info@akubuilolaw.com

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE:

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers the following topics:

Personal Information We Collect

How We Use Your Personal Information:

How to Opt Out

How We Protect Your Information

Your Choices

Retention of Personal Information

Sharing Your Information

Using Our Services From Outside The United States

Children’s Privacy

Changes To This Privacy Policy

Contact Us

LAW OFFICES OF JUDE A. AKUBUILO, PH.D., the Akubuilo Law Firm (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to complying with this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), which describes what personal information we collect about you, how we use it, to whom we may disclose it, and what choices you have regarding our use of your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected in connection with our website located at https://akubuilolaw.com (the “Site”), any current or future mobile applications associated with Us or the Site, our email communications, email services, our social media pages, SMS Opt-in service, other online or wireless offerings and other circumstances in connection with the services we provide (collectively the “Platform”).

1. Personal Information We Collect: The types of personal information we collect will depend on the services you request and, if you are a client, the nature of our representation or your case. The list below describes the categories (with non-exhaustive examples) of personal information we may collect about you. We may also collect other personal information that is not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection. We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our Site, fill out a form, or interact with other services, or resources we make available on our Site and Platform. The types of personal information we may collect include:

A. Sensitive Personal Information

i. Government ID numbers, such as Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, and other identification information.

ii. Financial information, such as financial account numbers, wiring instructions, insurance policy numbers, invoices, and other payment or bank account details.

iii. Medical information, such as doctor’s notes, treatment plans, medical conditions, prescription medicines, insurance documentation, doctor visit information, daily symptom reporting, and other records and information.

B. Commercial Information: Representation information, such as details about your claim, case, or other legal matter, the distribution of settlement of other payments to you (if applicable).

C. Contact Information: Information such as your full name, email address, phone number, and any other details when you call or email us, confidential and privileged communications that you may make with us, and your conversations with our SMS services.

D. Third Party Tools: We may use third party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics in order to better understand your use of our Site and how we can improve them. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other usage information. For more information regarding how Google collects, uses, and shares your information please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To prevent data from being used by Google Analytics, you can download the opt-out browser add-on at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

E. SMS Opt-In Service Information Usage: When you use our SMS Opt-in Service, the Information and phone numbers collected specifically for SMS purposes are NOT shared with third parties under any circumstances. You may also choose to opt out of our SMS service by replying STOP.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information: We may use the personal information we collect for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

A. Information Provided to Our Platform. We use personal information to provide our services, including the Platform. For example, we use personal information:

i. To facilitate your requests for a free case evaluation and determine your legal needs;

ii. To provide you with legal and other services, content, and features you request;

iii. To create, manage, and monitor your service request;

iv. To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you, to provide you with updates related to your inquiries, our services; including placing calls, send periodic emails or sending texts using any automated technology, including prerecorded messages;

v. To operate, troubleshoot, and improve the Platform;

vi. To process your transactions, invoices, and settlement payments;

vii. To understand your interests, personalize your experience on the Platform, and deliver information about products and services relevant to your interests;

viii. To respond to your inquiries and requests for customer support, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses;

ix. To Improve Our Site and to better understand how users interact with our Site, allowing us to improve the user experience and functionality.

B. Service Providers. We may share your personal information with third-party service providers that perform services for us or on our behalf, such as web-hosting companies, mailing vendors, analytics providers, event hosting services, and information technology providers. These third-party service providers have limited access to personal information as needed to perform their functions on our behalf and for no other purpose. We will not share with third-party service providers any text message originator opt-in data and consent, or any election to receive SMS communications.

C. Other Law Firms or Lawyers. We may share, at your direction or with your permission, your personal information with other law firms and/or other lawyers where we jointly represent a client and when we refer cases or potential cases to other counsel, or as otherwise required in connection with our legal representation of you. Personal information provided pursuant to an attorney/client relationship may not be shared with third parties except as is done with such precautions to preserve the confidentiality of such information and any attorney/client privilege as may attach to such information.

D. Authorities, Law Enforcement, and Private Parties. We may disclose personal information to comply with laws, regulations or other legal obligations, to assist in an investigation, to protect and defend our rights and property, or the rights or safety of third parties, to enforce our agreements, Terms of Use or agreements with third parties, or for crime-prevention purposes.

E. Business Transactions. We may disclose your personal information to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a transaction (or potential transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, financing, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale, spin-off, or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, We or our related companies (including in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

F. Professional Advisors. We may disclose your personal information to our professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

G. 10.Deidentified Information: We may at times receive, or process personal information to create, deidentified data that can no longer reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual or household. Where we maintain deidentified data, we will maintain and use the data in deidentified form and not attempt to reidentify the data except as required or permitted by law.

3. How to Opt Out:

A. SMS Service: We may offer communications via SMS texts or similar technology sent by Us or our service providers, such as when we send you text messages for customer service or representation-related purposes, and such Information and phone numbers collected specifically for SMS purposes are NOT shared with third parties under any circumstances. To stop receiving text messages from a short code operated by Us, reply STOP. Note that we may send you a message to confirm receipt of your STOP request. Message and data rates may apply for this service.

B. Cookies. Most browsers let you remove or stop accepting cookies from the websites you visit. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser’s settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all functionality of the Platform and our Site may not work properly. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your browser and how to manage and delete them, check your device browser setting.

C. Email Service: If you decide to opt-in to our mailing list, you will receive emails that may include updates, or related service information. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in the email we send to you.

4. How We Protect Your Information: We take commercially reasonable measures to secure and protect the personal information we collect. Nevertheless, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. Moreover, we are not responsible for the security of information you transmit to us over networks that we do not control, including the Internet and wireless networks. WE DO NOT send case solicitations by text or email. Should you receive such types of solicitations, notify us immediately at info@akubuilolaw.com or (800) 504-1LAW.

5. Your Choices: Depending on your residency and subject to certain legal limitations and exceptions, you may have certain rights relating to your personal information, such as the rights listed below. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. Please note, these rights may not apply in your jurisdiction, or may otherwise be limited by applicable law.

A. Right to Know. The right to confirm whether we are processing personal information about you and to obtain certain details about the personal information we have collected about you, including, where applicable:

i. the categories of personal information collected;

ii. the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information;

iii. the purposes for which the personal information were collected;

iv. The categories of personal information disclosed to third parties (if any), and the recipients to whom this personal information were disclosed;

B. Right to Access & Portability. The right to obtain access to the personal information we have collected about you and, where required by law, the right to obtain a copy of the personal information in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.

C. Right to Correction. The right to 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.

D. Right to Deletion. The right to request the deletion of personal information that we maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions.

E. Right to Objection: You may object to the processing of your personal information based on legitimate interests.

F. Right to Non-Discrimination. The right not to receive retaliatory or discriminatory treatment for exercising any of the rights described above. However, please note that if the exercise of the rights described above limits our ability to process personal information (such as in the case of a deletion request), we may no longer be able to provide you our services or engage with you in the same manner.

G. Right to Withdrawal of Consent: If we process your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent previously given at any time. While we take measures to ensure that those responsible for receiving and responding to your request are informed of your rights and how to help you exercise those rights, when contacting us to exercise your rights, we ask you to please adhere to the following guidelines:

i. Tell Us Which Right You Are Exercising: Specify which right you want to exercise and the personal information to which your request relates (if not to you).

ii. Authorized Agents: If you are an authorized agent acting on behalf of another consumer, please clearly indicate this fact and your authority to act on such consumer’s behalf. We may require the consumer’s proof of identification, the authorized agent’s proof of identification, and any other information that we may request in order to verify your request, including evidence of valid permission to act on the consumer’s behalf.

iii. Help Us Verify Your Identity: Provide us with information to verify your identity. Please note that if we cannot initially verify your identity and confirm you are a resident of a state that offers the relevant right(s), we may request additional information to complete the verification process. Any personal information you disclose to us for purposes of verifying your identity will solely be used for the purpose of verification.

iv. Direct Our Response Delivery: Please provide us with an e-mail or mailing address through which we can provide our response. If you make the request by email, unless otherwise requested, we will assume that we can respond to the email address from which you made the request.

v. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee or decline to comply with your request if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.

vi. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within 45 days of your request, or as otherwise required by applicable law. Occasionally it may take us longer than 45 days to respond, for instance if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this situation, we will notify you of the delay, and may continue to update you regarding the progress of our response.

5. Retention of Personal Information: We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process it (and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means), and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case it is no longer personal information.

6. Sharing Your Information: We Do Not Knowingly Disclose, “Sell,” “Share” or Use your Personal Information. We will use your information as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

7. Using Our Services From Outside The United States: We are headquartered in the United States of America, and we may have service providers in the United States and other countries. Please be aware that your personal information may be transferred to, stored or processed in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated, and other locations outside of your home country. The data protection and other laws of these countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using any portion of the Platform, you understand and, where applicable law permits, consent to the transfer of your personal information to our facilities in the United States and those third parties to whom we disclose it as described in this Privacy Policy.

8. Children’s Privacy: We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information online from children under the age of 18. Please contact us as provided below in the “Contact Us” section if you believe we may have collected such information.

9. Changes To This Privacy Policy: We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in applicable law. Such changes will be effective upon posting the revised Privacy Policy on our Site. You will be able to tell when this Privacy Policy was last updated by the Last Updated date included at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. By continuing to use our Platform, or communicating electronically with us thereafter, you acknowledge such changes to this Privacy Policy.

10. Contact Us: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Our information privacy practices, please contact us at:

E-mail: info@akubuilolaw.com

Telephone: 310) 406-3765, (310) 358-7464, (800) 504-1LAW

Fax: (888) 377-1995

Last Updated: [11.24.2024]