This Website Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to our website (www.sheeheyvt.com) and any information-gathering tools available through our website, and any related applications connected to or with our website or otherwise made available by Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C. (the “firm,” “we,” “us,” our”) (all of the foregoing are referred to collectively as our “website”).
We are committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information collected from our website that directly or indirectly identifies individuals interacting with the website, including but not limited to name, address, email address, phone number, and IP address). This Policy is applied in light of our overarching obligations to comply with the rules of professional conduct and to preserve client confidentiality. This Policy is specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s website. This Statement describes how the firm collects, processes and discloses Personal Information via its website.
By visiting and using our website, you are accepting the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use our website.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The firm may collect Personal Information from visitors who interact with our website. When visitors submit an inquiry using the “Contact Us” form on the website, or send an email to us via links on the website, we collect the data from the form or email, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Additionally, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Finally, we may automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use the Personal Information collected from the website for the following purposes:
- to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries
- to personalize your use of the website
- to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations
- to conduct our recruiting and selection process
- to provide you with legal services if you are or become a client of the firm
- to enter into our carry our contracts of various kinds
- to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations
Cookie policy
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded onto your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things, e.g., remembering your preferences and counting the number of people looking at a website.
We may use “cookies” to help us tailor our website to better suit your needs (for example, we may use cookies to enable us to save any personal preferences indicated by you) and to provide a more effective route to various components of our website. We may also use cookies to recognize, measure and track visitors to our website, to record when a visitor has seen a policy (such as this one), generally to track usage of our website, and to store information needed by our applications to process and operate.
If you submit an inquiry through our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These cookies are not necessary to access our website and are for your convenience only, so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies.
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us. We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to our website. However, we do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information, including Personal Information, you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. No transmission over the internet is completely secure or error-free, and the information security policies, rules and technical measures utilized and maintained by us may be subject to compromise. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in this Policy and in our applicable policies.
Links to Third-Party Websites
Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from third-party 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. We have no control over third-party websites, their content, or security. Accordingly, when you access these third-party websites, it is at your own risk. We encourage you to read the associated privacy policies by such third-party websites to learn more about their data privacy management practices.
Providing Information to Third Parties
We do not disclose any Personal Information from the website to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances may include disclosures to:
- Our professional advisers, such as lawyers and accountants
- Third parties to whom we outsource certain services, such as, without limitation, IT systems or software providers, IT support service providers, document and information storage providers, and other service providers
- Third party service providers to assist us with client insight analytics, such as Google Analytics
- Other agents and contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you
- Regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters
Information Collected on our Website about Children
Our website is not directed to children under the age of 18 years. By using our website, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old.
In order to respect the privacy of minors, the firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our website by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent the firm collects Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in this Policy, the firm will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect regarding our website, the firm will post it on this website.
Contact Us
To ask questions about this Policy and our privacy practices or to register a complaint or concern, please contact it@sheeheyvt.com or by mail at Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C., PO Box 66, Burlington, VT 05402-0066.
