MindGeekLitigation.com Privacy Notice

MindGeekLitigation.com is operated by Brown Rudnick LLP (“Brown Rudnick,” also referred to in this notice as “the firm”, “we”, “us” and “our”). 

Brown Rudnick is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy notice (together with any other documents referred to in it) sets out how we look after your personal data when you submit information through or visit the website at www.mindgeeklitigation.com (the “Website”), and tells you about your privacy rights and how certain laws may apply to you. If you have any queries about this notice or how we use your personal information, please contact us at mindgeeklitigation@brownrudnick.com.

Your privacy is important to us. To protect your privacy and help you to make informed choices, we provide this notice explaining our information practices, how you can choose how we use your data, and your rights in relation to your data. In brief, we will only use your information:

• to enable us to deliver our website services to you;
• where you have consented to us doing so;
• where it is in our legitimate interests to do so and such interests are not overridden by your personal data rights.

This is explained in more detail below.

Please note that if you visit our main Brown Rudnick LLP website at www.brownrudnick.com, the applicable privacy policy is available at https://brownrudnick.com/privacy-policy/

1. About us.

Brown Rudnick LLP is a limited liability partnership authorized and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Paris Bar, and registered in England & Wales with company number OC3000611 ("BR-UK").

It is affiliated with Brown Rudnick LLP a limited liability partnership organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (U.S.A.) ("BR-US"). BR-UK and BR-US are data controllers, and BR-UK is registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under registration number ZA073920. 

The offices of BR-UK and BR-US are set out below:

2. What personal data do we collect?

We collect different information depending on how you use the site and how you interact with us. 'Personal data' means any data which can be associated with you as an individual, either directly or indirectly.

The personal data we collect via the site (including through the contact form) may include:

• Identity information, such as your name.
• Contact data, such as email and telephone details.
• Information relating to your legal issues.
• Technical data, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the site.
• Usage data, which includes information about how you use the site, and any communications we may receive from you.

3. How do we collect personal data?

Different personal data is collected in different ways.

a) Personal data you provide to us

When you submit information through the form on the Website, you will provide us with your identity, contact information, and IP address. This data is collected via direct solicitation. We do not embed tracking codes in our regular daily email correspondence.

You will also provide us with personal data when you correspond with us.

b) Personal data we collect automatically As you use the site, we will collect certain technical data including your browser type, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, and your usage habits, patterns and preferences. We collect this data using cookies, beacons and similar technologies. We use Google Analytics to help us analyze user habits while visiting our site. The data gathered from cookies may be transmitted to Google servers in the United States. We employ IP address anonymization to ensure that there is no direct reporting of individual user IPs as part of this process. The information will be used by Google only for the purpose of evaluating website use, creating website activity reports, and other services relating to website activity and internet usage on behalf of Brown Rudnick. The IP address that your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

We use the following cookies:

You can remove cookies from your computer through the settings on your browser, but be aware that this may impact your ability to make use of some features on this and other web sites. Management of cookie settings varies from one browser to another. The "Help" menu of your web browser will provide full instructions. For your convenience, you can follow these links for details on how to manage cookies in each of the major web browsers:

• • Chrome (http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647)
• • Internet Explorer (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/278835)
• • Firefox (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored)
• • Opera (http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/)
• • Safari (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042)
• • Safari for iPad and iPhone (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677)

4. How and why do we use personal data?

We will only use your information where:

a) You have given us permission to do so. If you submit personal data through the form on the Website, we may contact you to respond to your message.  We treat any information you send to us as strictly private and confidential.

b) We have a legitimate interest (reasonable business purpose) for doing so. We will use your information for our legitimate business and operational reasons (including relating to the safety of our offices for our employees and guests) where our doing so will not unduly affect your rights.

We may use your identity, contact and usage information to keep our records up to date.

We may use your technical information to:

• provide and make improvements to the site, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data, and troubleshooting;
• ensure that the site is secure;
• analyze how users interact with the site; and
• address any issues you may experience with the site.

We may also use any or all of the information above to administer and manage our business in general. If you feel that your interests and fundamental rights outweigh our business purposes, and that we should therefore stop processing your data, please let us know.

c) We need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.  In certain circumstances, we may need to retain or use your data to comply with regulations and/or the law. This includes ensuring we do not have any conflicts of interest or any other regulatory restrictions which would prevent us from providing you with advice.

d) We need to process the data for reasons of substantial public interest, or for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, in each case on the basis of applicable law.

5. How do we share personal data?

Personal information collected via this site is shared between BR-UK and BR-US.

We may share your information with our trusted third-party service providers (including information technology providers such as website and mailing list hosts). When we share your information with our service providers, we will ensure that your data is kept secure and used only in accordance with this notice.

On rare occasions, we may share personal data when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, regulation or legal request (including a court order or government inquiry); to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements; in the context of a firm reorganization or restructuring exercise; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the firm, our employees, our users, or others.

6. How do we protect your information?

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.  For instance:

• Our site uses a 256-bit SSL security certificate which is an industry standard in safeguarding information that is transmitted via internet.
• Only certain staff members are granted access to this personal information
• If we do store hard copies of your personal information, this information is kept in secure locations and can only be accessed by authorized staff members

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

7. Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://brownrudnick.com/privacy-policy/#california.

8. Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy notice and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Brown Rudnick LLP

One Financial Center
Boston, MA 02111
c/o James Darsigny
mindgeeklitigation@brownrudnick.com

or by phone on the following number:
001.617.856.8126

This privacy policy was last updated July, 28th, 2021.