Privacy Policy
CKV VIENNA, LLP, recognizes the importance of your privacy. This policy is intended to inform you about the information we collect from visits to our website, blogs and social media accounts (hereinafter collectively referred to as “website”), how we use that information, and with whom the information may be shared.
Scope of Our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect online through our website. It does not apply to information that we collect by other means, such as information you share with us verbally; in writing; in email messages to our lawyers, consultants or employees; or to information obtained during the course of representing a client. This Privacy Policy also does not cover information collected by any other company, third-party site or third-party application that may link to, or that can be accessed from, our website.
Information We Collect From Website Visits
Information we obtain from visits to our website can be broadly described as the personal information that visitors provide us, as well as technical information that we collect through the use of technology concerning those visits.
Personal Information
Visitors to our website have the opportunity to register for events, seminars or webinars; sign up to receive newsletters, publications and marketing materials; or respond to surveys. From our website, we will collect any information that you voluntarily provide us such as your name, email address, telephone number or fax number; your company or firm name; and other business contact information. We will also collect other types of information you might provide such as preferences as to the types of information—such as notice of seminars or events, or publications—that you would like to receive, as well as responses to surveys or questionnaires. We may endeavor to determine whether you are a current or former client of the firm from the information you provide.
Consent and Withdrawing Your Consent
You are under no obligation to provide us with your personal information when visiting our website. Whether you provide any personal information is entirely voluntarily and is solely within your discretion. You will suffer no legal detriment if you decide not to provide any of the requested personal information. We may be unable to provide you with any services or information you request, however, if you decide not to provide us with some or all of the personal information requested via our website.
You can withdraw your consent to our possession or processing of any of the personal information you provide us, at any time. To do so, you can either send an email to info@ckbvienna.com.
Technical Information
We collect certain types of technical information provided by the browser of the computer, tablet or mobile device used when visiting our website, such as:
Usage Details, IP Addresses and Browser Type
When you visit our website, we collect technical information such as the identity of your internet protocol (IP) address, your computer or device’s operating system and browser type, geo-location data, and the pages of our website that you visit. Most browsers transmit this type of information to websites automatically. We will anonymize your IP address. We collect this information to administer and manage our website, to ensure that it functions properly, and to review aggregate information.
Cookies
Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to the browser of a computer, tablet or smartphone used to visit a website. A cookie will identify your browser, help you log in and improve the navigation of a website. We use cookies to help us improve the performance of our website. Cookies allow us to review the number of visitors to our website and understand a visitor’s usage patterns; track key performance indicators such as pages visited, frequency of visits, downloads and other statistical information; know whether a visitor views the mobile or desktop version of our website; recognize visitors if they return to our website; store information about visitors’ past visits; and remember visitors’ preferences.
You may be able to disallow cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. To learn more about cookies, and how to disallow or manage them, go to: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts or pages of our website.
How We Use or Process Your Information
We may process the information you provide and that we collect via our website to:
Provide invitations to seminars, conferences and other firm programs; register you for events or to sponsor events; provide newsletters, publications, blogs, social media feeds and marketing information; or provide CLE or CE information
Deliver any requested products or services, or provide you with customer support
Improve or modify our website; update and maintain client, subscription or email lists; and achieve other internal purposes
Respond to requests for information, respond to requests for proposals, or provide information about legal services you request
Respond to lawful requests for information through court orders, subpoenas, warrants and other types of legal process or obligations.
Protect the operations of our law firm, or the safety, security and privacy of our firm, our lawyers and staff, our clients, or third parties. This potentially includes sharing information with others for purposes of fraud protection, information security and related matters.
We will not share or sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
We will not use your personal data for making any automated decisions affecting you or your legal rights or for creating profiles other than as described above.
Limited Information Sharing
We may share the information you provide us on a confidential basis with contractors, vendors or service providers that support our firm’s operations and our website, but only for those purposes. This may include, for instance, tracking registrations, confirming attendance and providing your biographic information to attendees of our programs. If you are seeking continuing legal education credit after attending one of our educational offerings, we will provide certain personal information you provide us to the appropriate authorities in the state(s) in which you seek CLE credit.
We may also share your personal information with courts, law enforcement authorities, regulators, attorneys or other parties when it is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal or equitable claim, or for purposes of an alternative dispute resolution process; to comply with a subpoena or court order, legal process or other legal requirement, or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, prevent imminent physical harm or material financial loss; to investigate, or prevent or take action concerning, illegal activities, suspected fraud or threats to our firm, any of its lawyers or our property; or as necessary in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity.
Links to Social Media and Third-Party Websites
Our website may include links to blogs, social media and other third-party websites. These third-party sites have their own privacy policies and terms of use and are not controlled by this Privacy Policy or the terms of our website’s disclaimer. You should carefully review any terms, conditions and policies of such third-party sites before visiting them or supplying them with any personal information. If you follow a link to any third-party site, any information you provide that site will be governed by its own terms of use and privacy policy and not this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information you provide to a third-party website or the information practices used by any third-party site, including links to any third-party site from Our website. We make no representations, express or implied, concerning the accuracy, privacy, safety, security or the information practices of any third-party site. The inclusion of a link to a third-party site on our website does not constitute any type of endorsement of the linked site by Us. We is not responsible for any loss or damage you may sustain resulting from your use of any third-party website or any information you share with a third-party website.
Updating, Correcting or Withdrawing Your Personal Information
It is important that the personal information we have about you is accurate. If any of the personal information you provide us should ever change—for instance if you change your email address or phone number—or should you wish to change your preferences or to stop receiving announcements from us, or if you wish to correct any inaccurate personal information about yourself or to delete any personal information that you provided through your visits to our website, please let us know by sending an email to info@ckbvienna.com. We are not responsible for any losses that could arise from any inaccurate, deficient or incomplete personal information that you provide to the firm.
For security reasons, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity before we correct, update or delete any personal information you provide us.
Information Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information from inadvertent or unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction. No method of data storage or data transmission over the internet, however, is guaranteed to be completely secure. Your use of our website, and any personal information that you transmit over the internet to our website, is at your own risk.
Visitors From Outside the United States
If you are visiting our website from outside the United States ("U.S."), any information you voluntarily provide via our website and any technical information from the browser of your computer, tablet or mobile device will be transferred out of your country and into the U.S., where our law firm is located. The laws and protections available to the privacy of your personal information in the U.S. may significantly differ from the protections available in your country. Personal data transferred to the U.S. may be subject to lawful access requests by state and federal authorities in the U.S. If you do not want any personal information to be transferred to the U.S., please do not provide that information to our firm via our website.
Notice to Minors
Our firm’s website is not directed at and is not intended to be visited by minors. No visitor to our website who is a minor or under the age of 18 should provide any personal information to our firm. If you are a minor, do not visit our website (including our blogs and social media sites) and do not send any type of personal information about yourself to our firm or website.
Privacy Policy Updates
This Privacy Policy was last updated in May 2019. We occasionally will update our Privacy Policy and the terms of our website’s disclaimer. Please periodically check our Privacy Policy and our website’s disclaimer to learn of any changes to our Privacy Policy and disclaimer. This Privacy Policy supersedes all prior versions governing our website.
No Legal Advice or Attorney-Client Relationship Intended
Nothing contained in this Privacy Policy, or in our website or its disclaimer, is intended to provide legal advice, or to create a contractual or attorney-client relationship. You agree that visiting our website or providing information to our website does not create a contractual or attorney-client relationship.
How to Contact Us
We welcome your views about our website and our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or would like to share any comments with us, please contact Michael Kim at mkim@ckbvienna.com.