Privacy Policy

Last updated June 8, 2020

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy applies to both the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown and burtonabrown.com and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown include burtonabrown.com. Burtonabrown.com is an information and advertising website. By using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on burtonabrown.com. These may include: (a) sending us an email message; (b) signing up for a newsletter or other special offers from us or third-parties; (c) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (d) filling out a form on our website. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. 

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or provide a better website experience. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. 

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown; (b) protect and defend the rights of property of the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of website users or the public. 

Tracking User Behavior

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within burtonabrown.com in order to determine which services are the most popular. This data may be used to deliver customized content and advertising to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. This data may also be used to update or customize the user experience on burtonabrown.com. 

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring websites. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of burtonabrown.com.

Use of Cookies

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies, or delete them after a period of time. If you choose to do this, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of burtonabrown.com or the websites you visit. 

Links to Third-Party Sites

This website contains links to other sites not owned by the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. 

Security of your Personal Information

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure by enabling SSL protocol. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: 

  • delete your personal information from our records; and 

  • direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records. 

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to: 

  • provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; 

  • detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity; 

  • debug to identify and repair errors that impair existed intended functionality; 

  • exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided by law; 

  • comply with the California Electronics Communications Privacy Act; 

  • enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; 

  • comply with an existing legal obligation; or 

  • otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information. 

Not Intended for Children Under Age 13

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown may contact you via email for the purposes of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and other general communication. 

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from the Law Offices of Burton A. Brown, you may opt out of such communication by replying to the message and requesting to be removed from the mailing list or clicking the “UNSUBSCRIBE” link at the bottom of the email. 

Changes to this Policy

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and by updating the privacy information on this page. Your continued use of burtonabrown.com and the services available through this site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy. 

Contact Information

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have concerns, you may contact us at: 

The Law Offices of Burton A. Brown
161 N. Clark Street, Suite 1600
Chicago, IL 60601
312-236-5582

Effective date: June 8, 2020.