Rikka Law Privacy Policy

Last Revised: May 10, 2023 

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how Rikka Law PLLC (“Rikka Law,” “we,” or “us”) collects, stores, uses, and discloses personal information about you. This Policy applies to information we collect online and offline (a) through our websites, our software applications, and our social media properties and (b) in connection with services we provide to our clients, any job applications or inquiries you send to us, and any offline business interactions you may have with us (collectively, the “Services”).

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Policy or by posting a notice on our website. We encourage you to review this Policy frequently to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, you may email us at info@rikkalaw.com.

1. Collection of Information

The personal information we collect about you depends on how you interact with us or use our Services. We describe below the categories of personal information we collect and the sources of this information.

 Information You Provide to Us 

We collect personal information you provide directly to us including when you create an account to access or use the Services, subscribe to receive our emails, access or use any collaboration tools, participate in any interactive features of the Services, send us an email, fill out a form, respond to a survey, comment on a blog, register for or participate in a webinar or event, apply for a job with us, interact with us on social media, or otherwise communicate with us. 

The types of personal information we may collect include:

  • Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, and phone number;

  • Education information, such as educational degrees, languages, professional memberships, qualifications, and certifications;

  • Employment information, such as business unit/division, company name, job status, job title, employment history, office location, and LinkedIn profile information;

  • Payment information and associated contact information when you engage in a transaction with us;

  • Biographical information and state-issued identification numbers when you inquire about or apply for a position with us; and

  • Any other information you choose to provide.

Personal Information We Collect Automatically When You Interact with Us

We automatically collect personal information when you access or use the Services. The types of personal information we collect may include:

  • Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Services, including your browser type and language, app version, access times, pages viewed, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, linked clicked, approximate geographic location, and the webpage you visited before navigating to the Services.

  • Device Information: We collect information about the mobile device you use to access our Services, which may include the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.

  • Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We and our service providers use various technologies to collect information about your use of the Services and other websites and applications, including cookies and web beacons (or pixel tags). See below for more information on how we and our service providers use tracking technologies like cookies.

Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may also collect personal information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases, and combine that with information we collect through the Services. For example, we may use information from LinkedIn to update information about you in our contact database. 

Information We Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on other types of personal information we collect. For example, we may infer your location based on your IP address, or that you are interested in employment or participating in an event based on your browsing behavior on our Services.

2. Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from and about you for various business purposes including to:

  • Maintain and improve our Services;

  • Personalize and improve your experience on our Services;

  • To provide legal services to our clients;

  • Respond to your questions, comments, and requests;

  • For marketing purposes, including to send client alerts and other information and communications we think you may be interested in;

  • Manage our business relationship with customers, clients, vendors, suppliers, business partners, office visitors, and other contractors;

  • Enable you to access our premises to attend events;

  • Assess job applicants and make hiring decisions;

  • Monitor and analyze usage, trends, and activities related to the Services;

  • Manage your online account(s) and send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;

  • Identify, report, and repair errors that impair the functionality of the Services;

  • Comply with our legal and financial obligations; and

  • For other business purposes, such as to perform data analysis, detect, prevent and respond to actual or potential fraud, illegal activity or protect the rights and property of Rikka Law and others. 

3. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information as follows or as otherwise described in this Policy:

  • To our parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership;

  • As necessary to provide legal services to our clients, including opposing counsel;

  • With vendors, consultants, professional advisors, and other service providers that need access to your personal information to provide services to us;

  • In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, financing, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale of Rikka Law’s assets or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company;

  • In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;

  • If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of us or any third party; and

  • With your consent or at your direction.

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you. Rikka Law processes, maintains, and uses this information only in a de-identified fashion and will not attempt to re-identify such information, except as permitted by law.

4. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

You have certain choices with respect to your personal information, as described below.

Opting Out of Marketing Communications

You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us or request changes to your communication preferences by following the instructions in those communications. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

Mobile Push Notifications/Alerts

With your consent, we may send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.

Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through the browser settings. Be aware that, if you do not agree to certain cookies, your experience on our Services may be diminished and some features may not work as intended depending on the cookie.

To find out more about cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent to use cookies.

The type of cookies we may use include: 

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are strictly necessary to make our Services available to you; for example, to manage traffic on our website and for security purposes. We cannot provide you with the Services without this type of cookies.

  • Performance cookies. We use cookies for analytics purposes in order to improve our Services. We may use third party analytics providers, including Google Analytics, to help us understand how users engage with the Services. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions and understand how users use our Services. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Services.

  • Marketing cookies. These are used to provide customized content and information to you on the Services. We may use third-party service providers to personalize website content based on visitors’ actions and browsing history, to measure campaign effectiveness, and to improve our Services.

5. Links to Other Websites and Third-Party Content

We may provide links to or embed videos hosted by third-party websites, services, and applications, such as YouTube, that Rikka Law does not operate or control. This Policy does not apply to third-party services, and we cannot take responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of third-party services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party service before providing any information to or through them. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the third-party service that provides the feature.