Welcome to Our Privacy Policy
At Sam Sachs Legal Insights, protecting your privacy is our top priority. As your go-to site for legal news, expert commentary, and trusted referral sources, we recognize the importance of respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines the specifics on how we collect, use, store, and safeguard your information when you visit the site at https://samsachs.com/, browse, subscribe to our newsletter, or otherwise interact with the site or our services.
Our commitment to transparency means you can be informed about your personal information. And you have the choice whether or not to divulge your personal information to us, whether you are a legal professional, a lay person seeking legal help or advice, or an otherwise interested party in law or politics. I encourage you to read this policy in full so you fully understand the details behind our policy and how it will affect you.
Introducing Who We Are
Sam Sachs Legal Insights is an online publication, helmed by legal professional Sam Sachs, that offers news, commentary, and analysis on issues of interest to a broad audience. Our goal is to provide consumers and businesses with legally reliable information, presented as plainly as possible. Sam Sachs Legal Insights is located in Columbus, Ohio and adheres to the highest ethical standards in content publishing and handling of user data and privacy matters.
To inquire about privacy practices, please contact us at:
Address: 700 N High St Ste 15, Columbus OH 43215
Phone: (614) 987-7345
E-mail: [email protected]
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is applicable to all visitors and users of Sam Sachs Legal Insights, found at https://samsachs.com/. It is relevant to the collection, handling, use, storage, disclosure, and protection of data acquired through utilizing our website, newsletter subscriptions, or any other method of engagement. This Privacy Policy does not include any external websites or services linked to from ours or its services; you should review their own privacy policies for how data is managed by these sites and services prior to submission.
The Information We Collect
- Personal Information: Information collected directly from you, such as your name, email address, and/or (if you provide us with this information) professional affiliation when you subscribe to our newsletter or submit a contact request or content to us.
- Automatically Collected Information: Information that we capture through cookies, log files, and analytics (see below), such as your IP address, browser type, device type, pages viewed, approximate time spent on a page, and referring URL.
- Communications Records: Correspondences between you and us are recorded and stored in order to allow us to respond to you efficiently and to improve our service.
- Content Contributions: If you send us articles/guest submissions or other content contributions, we may collect voluntary submissions containing certain user profile information, including (to the extent you have furnished this information) your biographical and/or resume information to verify you.
- Other Voluntary Submissions: We do not request or capture any other information about our users unless they voluntarily provide it.
We Do a Lot with Your Information
- Delivery of Services: Personal data are collected and used to provide access to articles, guides, and other materials published on our site, to provide our services to you, and to keep our site operational.
- Communications: To deliver our newsletter and information, respond to your inquiries, and to send notices, such as the info in the footer below.
- Personalization: To show your content history and generate recommendations.
- Analytics and Improvements: To assess how visitors use our site, identify preferences, monitor traffic patterns, and make further improvements to our site based on this information.
- Security: To protect ourselves and our users from abuse, misuse, theft, fraud, or invasion of privacy.
- Compliance with Law: To meet requirements under applicable law and respond to requests from authorities.
Our Legal Grounds for Processing Data
- Your Consent: If you opt to receive our newsletter or otherwise provide us with information voluntarily, then we process your information based upon your consent.
- Contractual Necessity: In order to fulfill the services which you have requested from us (i.e., to send email alerts, respond to queries).
- Legitimate Interests: To enhance our website, maintain security, and deliver relevant content to users.
- Compliance with applicable law: To comply with laws, regulations, and legal requests.
We Share Information with Others
- Service Providers: To trusted third parties who help us operate our website, send newsletters, or analyze website usage and transactions. These third-party service providers are required by law and/or contract to use your information only for the purpose of providing these services.
- Compliance with Law: Where we are required to do so by law or to comply with legal process (subpoenas, court orders, etc.), or in response to a search warrant or other lawful request received from law enforcement or governmental authorities.
- Transfer of Business Assets: In the rare event that we buy or sell any part of our business or make it subject to reorganization or reconstruction, your data may be transferred to another entity. In the event that such a transfer occurs, any transferee will be required to protect your data in the same way that we do.
- Guest Contributors: When you contribute to our blog, we will publish your name and professional details on our website with your explicit organization.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Our website employs cookies and various technologies to improve your browsing experience, monitor website activity, and provide customized content. Cookies are data files that we store on your computer to remember your preferences and improve our website functionality. We use session cookies (stored in temporary memory and deleted when you close your browser) as well as persistent cookies (which remain on your device until their expiration).
Cookie preferences can be managed through your web browser settings. Please note, however, that some features of our website may not function correctly if your cookies are disabled. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy.
Analytics and Other Third Parties
We and our third-party service partners use certain analytics tools to help us understand how visitors interact with our website and services and to improve our services. These services (such as Google Analytics) may use cookies and collect information about your computer, internet activity, browsing history, and the pages that you visit. Providers of analytics services may process this information in accordance with their privacy policies. We do not permit providers of analytics services to use your Personal Data for their own purposes independent of the provision of analytics services to us.
Communications and Newsletters
By subscribing to the Sam Sachs Legal Insights newsletter, we collect your email address and other information that you provide. We use this information only to send you our updates, news about the legal education field, and resources. You can easily unsubscribe from our communications: simply click “unsubscribe” on any newsletter, or email us at [email protected] with that request.
We protect your contact details and do not sell or share your email address with advertisers or unrelated third parties. We send these emails in compliance with anti-spam legislation.
User Submissions and Contributions
If you post stories, comments, and/or other material to Sam Sachs Legal Insights, the information (i.e., name, professional credentials, text submitted) will be posted on our site. By providing content, you grant us the rights to post and publish that content on our site as part of the site. You have the right to ask for either a removal or edit of your posted content by contacting [email protected].
We screen certain user-generated content prior to posting for compliance with our editorial guidelines. Content that is offensive, abusive, defamatory, or illegal is not permitted. For more information about contributing, please see our Guest Contributions page.
Security and Safety Measures
We take a variety of security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, including but not limited to encryption of certain sensitive information, secure servers, firewalls, regular security scans, and access controls.
However, we cannot guarantee the security of any transmission or storage system or method of encryption and we do not guarantee that you will be able to avoid all security hazards. We advise users to take care when using our services. This includes, but is not limited to: using strong complex passwords on your account, logging out of your account if you’re using a shared system, etc.
Retention and Storage of Information
We keep your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, including to provide services to you and meet legal requirements; manage disputes or issues and enforce our agreements. When your personal data is no longer needed, it will be securely and permanently deleted or anonymized.
Subscribers can unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time and, in that case, their contact details will be removed from our mailing lists within a reasonable time.
Your Rights and Options
- Access: The right to request copies of your personal information that we hold.
- Correction: The right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Deletion: The right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to legal and contractual restrictions.
- Restriction: The right to request restrictions on the processing of your personal information.
- Objection: The right to object to the processing of your personal information, for example direct marketing.
- Portability: The right to request personal information portability with respect to certain types of data, meaning you have the right to ask us for a copy of some of your information in a structured, commonly used format.
You may exercise these rights by contacting us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law and within a reasonable timeframe.
Protection of Children’s Personal Data
Sam Sachs Legal Insights is not targeted to children under age 16, nor do we knowingly collect personal information from minors under age 13. If you believe that we have collected personal information from a child without parental permission, please contact us at [email protected] so that we may promptly address the issue.
International Transfers
Our website is available worldwide and your personal data may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country from which you are accessing the site, including the United States. We take steps to ensure that your data receives an adequate level of protection in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as required under applicable law. If you are accessing our website from the European Economic Area (EEA) or other jurisdictions with data protection laws, we may implement safeguards such as standard contractual clauses or rely on other legal mechanisms.
Links to Third Party Websites
This site may include links to third-party web sites, resources, or services. Those sites are separate from Sam Sachs Legal Insights, and have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for external web-site content, practices, or policies. We suggest that those privacy policies be read before giving out any personal information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may from time to time make changes to this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, applicable law and legal requirements, or to accommodate improved methods in the provision of our services. All changes will be posted in prominent locations on our website, and/or be provided by an email from us to active subscribers. The date on which the current version was most recently revised is located on the top of this page. We encourage you to check our policy periodically to stay up-to-date about how we protect your information.
Contact Us About Privacy
If you have questions, comments, or requests concerning this Privacy Policy or our data handling practices, please contact us as follows:
Sam Sachs Legal Insights
700 N High St Ste 15
Columbus OH 43215
(614) 987-7345
[email protected]
We will make every commercially reasonable effort to address them in a prompt and thorough manner. You may also reach us via our Contact Sam Sachs Legal Insights page.
Legal Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability
While we make every effort to protect your information, Sam Sachs Legal Insights is providing materials to you for informational purposes only and nothing in this document or on our site shall be considered legal advice or the formation of any type of attorney-client relationship. The use of the resources and site is at your own risk. Under no circumstances should you allow individuals to gain unauthorized access to your information resulting in access and use of those sites which are beyond our control and we will not be liable for any such uses. Please refer to our Terms of Service for additional detail pertaining to your rights and obligations as a user of https://samsachs.com/.
How to Change and/or Delete Your Information
You have the power to control your personal information gathered by Sam Sachs Legal Insights. Please contact us via email at [email protected] to update contact information, change newsletter subscriptions, or request data deletion. We will verify identity prior to making any updates or changes, in order to keep your information safe and secure.
If you requested newsletters, opt out instructions are included in all such emails.
Consent and Acceptance
By accessing and using Sam Sachs Legal Insights you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our website and newsletter and other services constitutes acceptance of revisions and changes to this policy.
If you do not accept our privacy and policy practices, we ask that you discontinue use of our website and services.
Effective Date and Version History
This Privacy Policy was last modified June 1, 2024. Prior privacy policies are replaced by this one. We will provide notice of any material changes in accordance with the law and strive to be transparent about our data collection and use practices.
Adherence to Privacy Best Practices
SamSachs.com Legal Insights routinely monitors the shifting landscape of privacy laws, industry standards, and best practices. Our data handling practices are routinely reviewed for continued adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and other applicable data privacy frameworks. Our team members participate in periodic privacy and data protection training. We take our users’ trust and privacy seriously.
This Privacy Policy is subject to change without notice.
How We Seek to Protect Your Rights
We value your privacy rights and do everything we can to ensure that they are respected. We have procedures and processes for data access requests, corrections, and deletions that are easy to navigate. And we conduct regular privacy impact assessments whenever practical to assess risks and determine what reasonable actions we can take to mitigate them. In the unlikely event of a data breach, we’ll follow our incident response plan for timely notification of affected users, as well as any relevant authorities, in compliance with applicable laws.
Accessibility and Language Options
We believe that our Privacy Policy must be accessible and understandable to all users. We have made every reasonable effort to ensure accessibility and, if you require this policy in an alternate format or language, you can contact [email protected] and we will do everything we can to accommodate your needs so that no one is excluded from making informed decisions on how to manage their personal data.
Remaining Updated
We encourage you to be informed about your privacy rights and the privacy and data practices of our company. By subscribing to our newsletter, you will be notified of legal developments and resources related to these topics, in addition to important information regarding changes in our Privacy Policy or other notices that impact your user experience. You can access privacy and security best practices and information on many of these topics through some of the articles and resources found at https://samsachs.com/.
Fin通函
It is our privilege to earn and maintain your trust with regard to the information you share with Sam Sachs Legal Insights. We take that responsibility seriously, and endeavor to facilitate your access to legal resources, insights, information, and tools, as well as the opportunity to review and update your selections. Thank you for your confidence in us as a source of such legal knowledge and news. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy or this site, please contact us via email at [email protected] or at (614) 987-7345.