Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 29, 2021

Sharma, Smith & Gray, P.C. ("SSG" and sometimes referred to as "we" or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to collecting and using information about you responsibly. This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") applies to your use of www.sharmasmith.com (the "Site") and other services offered through the Site now or in the future, except to the extent that those services include privacy policies that expressly override this Policy. This Policy describes how your personal information will be treated when you use our Site and services. This Policy expressly does not apply to information provided to us in the course of our attorney-client relationships or protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable protection. Nothing in this Policy shall be construed to create an attorney-client relationship with visitors to our website or, conversely, to detract from any of the protections resulting from such relationships.

BY USING THE SITE YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. PLEASE READ IT.

Information We May Collect From You.

In general, you may visit our Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself except as set forth in the following sentence. Like many websites, our server logs capture information regarding your operating system, browser software, IP (Internet Protocol) address, and the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to and from our website, including date and time (collectively, "Personal Information").

Information You Submit To Us.

If you submit Personal Information to us through our Site, we will use that information as we see appropriate and necessary. We will not provide your information to any third party, except that we reserve the right to disclose personal information to regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies or as required by applicable law.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Site; and

Information about your computer, mobile device and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type. The information we collect automatically is intended to be statistical data. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, we will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.

California Business & Professions Code Section 22575(b) provides that California residents are entitled to know how we respond to "Do Not Track" browser settings or signals. We do not currently take actions to respond to "Do Not Track" signals. It is our view that a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. We may adopt a standard once one is created.

How We Use Your Information.

We use information that we collect about you or your devices that you provide to us:

To present the Website and its content to you;
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us;
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
To publish our own marketing and promotional materials;
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; or
For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Your California Privacy Rights.

Shine the Light Protection

California Civil Code Section §1798.83 permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, if applicable. To make such a request, please send an email to info@sharmasmith.com. If you believe any of the information we possess about you is incorrect, please send an email to the same address listed above.

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Consumers protected by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the "CCPA") have specific rights regarding their personal information.

Access to Specific Information

You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the last 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

The categories and specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected
The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information
The categories of third parties with whom we share the personal information
The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose
We are not required to provide you with these disclosures more than twice within a 12-month period.

Right to Request Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete any Personal Information about you which we have collected from you. Upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request to delete your personal information, we will delete such information and direct our service providers to delete your information from their records, subject to certain exceptions provided in the CCPA.

Non-Discrimination

If you are covered by the CCPA, we will not discriminate against you merely because you have exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. Except as permitted by the CCPA, we will not, merely because you have exercised your rights under the CCPA, do any of the following:

Deny you goods or services;
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or by imposing penalties;
Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or
Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

To request your right to disclosure or deletion of the Personal Information we have collected about you, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing info@sharmasmith.com.

A verifiable consumer request can only be made by you, by you on behalf of your minor child, or by a person or entity registered with the California Secretary of State authorized by you to act on your behalf. In order to ensure we are able to promptly respond to your request, your request should include sufficient information that allows us to verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information (or that you are an authorized representative of such person) and a detailed description of what you are requesting. Your request should also indicate whether you would like to receive any disclosures electronically or by mail, and the applicable address for us to send the disclosures.

We will disclose and deliver the Personal Information required within 45 days of receiving your verifiable consumer request. Should we require more time (up to an additional 90 days), we will notify you of the extension and the reasons for the delay. The disclosure will cover the 12-month period preceding the receipt of your verifiable consumer request.

If requests from you are manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee to respond to your request or we may refuse to act on the request. If we choose not to take action on your request, we will notify you of the reasons behind our decision.

Children's Privacy.

Our services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from, children under the age of 13. If we receive Personal Information that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly destroy the information. We recommend that parents actively participate in their children's use of the Internet.

Data Security.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we implement reasonable measures to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to the Website, or thereafter. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer or mobile device.

Links to Other Websites.

We may provide (and permit other parties to provide) links to other websites or resources. Because you acknowledge and agree that we have no control of such websites and resources, we are not responsible for the availability of such websites or resources, and we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such websites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such Website or resource.

Contact Information, Privacy Official and Refusal to Consent.

To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, including reviewing and requesting changes to any of your collected Personal Information, contact info@sharmasmith.com.