At Malvin Law, we are committed to maintaining transparency and ensuring the responsible use of your personally identifiable information. This privacy policy outlines our dedication to informing you about the collection, usage, and protection of your data. We have implemented administrative and technical measures to safeguard your information from unauthorized access or misuse.

Who We Are

Malvin Law, LLC (referred to herein as “ML”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) owns and operates this website (the “Site”).

Personal Data Collection and Purpose

Personal Information You Provide Us

We collect information when you fill out a form, visit the site, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, or use certain other site features.

Personal Information Collected Automatically

We and third-party providers may use technologies like cookies, log files, tracking pixels, and analytics tools to automatically collect information such as geolocation, online identifiers, device details, and online activity. Technologies include:

  • Cookies. Small data pieces stored by your browser or mobile device for various purposes. We use cookies to collect information from you regarding your usage of the Site in order to remember user preferences and settings, personalize your experience with the Site, facilitate online advertising, and for security purposes. You may opt-out of the automatic collection of some information by referring to your web browser or mobile device options or settings menu. However, doing so may disable many of the portions, features, or functionality of the Platform. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences or visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org for more information.
  • Pixels. Pixels, which are also known as “web beacons,” or “clear GIFs,” are typically used to determine whether a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked. Data collected from pixels is often used to compile statistics about usage of websites and the success of email marketing campaigns.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We may use third party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics and Mouseflow, in order to better understand your use of our Platform 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 http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. For more information on Mouseflow’s privacy practices, please visit https://mouseflow.com/privacy/. 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. You can opt out of Mouseflow analytics at: https://mouseflow.com/opt-out/.

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:

  • To Provide Our Platform. We use personal information to provide our services. For example, we use personal information:
    • to facilitate your requests for a free case evaluation and determine your legal needs;
    • to provide you with legal and other services, content, and features you request;
    • to respond to your inquiries and communicate with you, including placing calls or sending texts using any automated technology, including prerecorded messages;
    • respond to your inquiries and requests for customer support, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses; and
  • For Direct Marketing. We may use your personal information to send you newsletters, legal updates, event information, marketing communications, and other information that may interest you.
  • For Research and Development. We use personal information for research and development purposes and to understand how people are using the Platform, including by generating and analyzing statistics, preferences, and usage trends, to make our Platform and other offerings better, diagnose technical issues, and develop new features and functionality. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Platform and promote our business.
  • For Hiring Purposes. If you apply to one of our open positions, submit application information or inquire about a position, we will use your personal information as part of the evaluation, recruitment, and hiring of personnel, including conducting background checks and contacting references.
  • For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety.
    • to enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements we may have;
    • to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes;
    • to protect our, your, or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
    • to maintain the security and integrity of our business, the Platform, users, our third party business partners and service providers our databases and other technology assets;
    • audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies; and
    • prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
  • For Interest-Based Advertising. We, our business partners, and our third party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for advertising purposes. We may contract with third-party advertising companies and social media companies to help us advertise our services, identify potential customers, and display ads on our Platform and other sites and services, including through the use of interest-based advertising. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about you (including the device information and online activity information described above) over time across our Platform and other sites and services or your interaction with our emails, and use that information to serve ads that they think will interest you and/or use hashed customer lists that we share with them to deliver ads to you and to similar users on their sites and services. You can learn more about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising, in the “Advertising Choices” section below.

Who Do We Share Your Data With

In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise described at the time of collection, we may share personal information with the following categories of recipients:

  • Service Providers. ML 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 only as needed to perform their functions on our behalf and for no other purpose. ML will not share with third-party service providers any text message originator opt-in data and consent, or any election to receive SMS communications.
  • Other Law Firms or Lawyers. ML 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.
  • Authorities, Law Enforcement, and Others. ML 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 this Privacy Policy or agreements with third parties, or for crime-prevention purposes.
  • Advertising Partners. We may share your personal information with third party advertising or joint marketing partners for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection.
  • 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.
  • Affiliates and Related Companies. We may share your personal information with companies that are affiliated with us (that is, that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with us) or may be affiliated with us in the future for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
  • Consent. Malvin Law may otherwise disclose your Personal Information in accordance with your consent.

Your Choices Regarding Data

  • Opt-Out of Marketing Communications. If you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can let us know by sending an email to [email protected] or by mail at the address provided below in “Contact Us”. The electronic marketing communications we send may also contain an opt-out mechanism. Please note that it may take up to 10 calendar days to remove your contact information from our marketing communications lists, so you may receive correspondence from us for a short time after you make your request. Please also contact us to update or correct your information if it changes or if you believe that any information that we have collected about you is inaccurate.
  • Text Messages. We may offer communications via SMS texts or similar technology sent by Malvin Law or our service providers, such as when we send you text messages for customer service, account-related, or marketing purposes. To stop receiving text messages from a short code operated by Malvin Law, 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.
  • 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, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • Advertising Choices. Some of our advertising partners are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and are subject to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising published by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). You can obtain more information about these companies’ information collection practices and opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising from participating NAI and DAA members at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and/or the DAA’s website at optout.aboutads.info. You can also limit collection of your information for interest-based ads by blocking third party cookies in your browser settings or using privacy plug-ins or ad blocking software that help you block third party cookies. In addition, your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for targeted online advertising purposes. If you opt-out of interest-based advertisements, you will still see advertisements online but they may be less relevant to you. Some of the third party advertising companies we may work with offer their own opt-out options that you can use to limit their use of your information for interest-based advertising. Please note that we also may work with companies that offer their own opt-out mechanisms, such as Google (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/about/ads), or do not participate in the opt-out mechanisms described above. Even after using these opt-out mechanisms, you may receive interest-based advertising from other companies.
  • Declining to Provide Information. We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide those services.

Information Security

Malvin Law takes commercially reasonable measures to secure and protect the personal information we collect. Nevertheless, 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.

Linked Websites

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or social media features that may be accessed through links that we provide for your convenience and information. Accessing those links will cause you to leave ML’s website and may result in the collection of information about you by a third party. We do not control, endorse or make any representations about those third party websites or their privacy practices, which may differ from ours. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any site you interact with before allowing the collection and use of your information.