Overview of Our Cookie Policy
Among our top priorities here at Raghavendra Law Chambers is the preservation of your privacy and transparency into how your personal data is used. As an eminent law firm in the areas of Criminal Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Divorce Law, our clients come from a broad range of places including Fresno, California and far beyond-providing services for Non-Resident Indians (NRI) with legal issues that span multiple international borders and jurisdictions. This Cookie Policy will describe when and why we use cookies on our site (https://raghavendralawchambers.com/), what data is captured by cookies, your options as it pertains to cookies, and how all this relates to our policies on confidentiality, ethics, and fairness.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are saved on the user’s device by websites visited for a variety of purposes such as running the sites optimally, remembering user preferences, and providing information and benefits to the site owners. Cookies can be session cookies that are saved on the user’s device temporarily and deleted at the end of the user’s session or persistent cookies, which remain in the device for a prescribed period of time or until they are manually deleted. Raghavendra Law Chambers uses cookies to improve our users’ experience; ensure proper functioning of our website; or gather information about how our site and services are used.
Categories of Cookies We Use
We use and set several types of cookies on our site to facilitate our activities and to allow you to have a smooth experience while navigating our site:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
We need these cookies for the website to work. These cookies provide core functionalities such as page navigation, authentication, maintaining security, and access to specific areas of the website. Without the use of these cookies, the website cannot function properly. - Performance and Analytic Cookies
This cookie gathers information about how visitors utilize our website, for example which pages are most frequently visited, whether users receive error messages, which browsing browser is utilized, and where users come from. This information is used exclusively for the benefit of enhancing website functionality and user experience. Generally, such analytics are anonymized and aggregated. - Functional Cookies
These cookies allow for customizations such as remembering your preferences or choices (such as the language you would like to see or your region) in order to provide a tailored experience on our site. For example, if you specify your preferred service category or consultation type, functional cookies will allow us to remember your selection. - Targeting and Advertising Cookies
Depending on the circumstances, such cookies can be used to show you content that is more relevant to you (be it ads or other materials) on our site and third party sites. It can also be used to inform us about the performance of our campaigns. We do not disclose personally identifiable information to third parties for their own advertising use without your explicit consent.
Use of Cookies by Us
Cookies are utilized at Raghavendra Law Chambers for several important purposes:
- To maintain the integrity and security of our website and the information contained within, including our clients’ files.
- To provide functionality such as “remember me” for easy access to password-protected areas, including the client login.
- To analyze site traffic patterns and behaviors, which aids in enhancing our services and understanding what is effective or needs improvement.
- To remember client preferences, including language and preferred contact methods, allowing us to tailor our content to better suit your relationship with us.
- To develop and promote our practices and services, including online remarketing campaigns aimed at users interested in areas such as divorce representation, criminal defense, employment law, and intellectual property law.
- To implement social sharing features or integrate with platforms like LinkedIn or Twitter, enabling visitors or law students to share information or contribute insights.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to cookies placed by Raghavendra Law Chambers, we may permit certain known and trusted third parties to place cookies on your device when you use our website. These may include:
- Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) who help us better understand the ways in which users interact with our website, its features and functionality. Such cookies collect non-personal information only and are strictly for statistical purposes.
- Marketing partners who aid in the delivery of targeted messages and ads.
- Social media sites, if you engage with and consume our content via integrated widgets on our legal blog.
We vet and approve all third party providers to whom we grant access to deploy cookies within the context of our website to ensure that their policies and rules are fully compliant with the applicable data protection laws and our privacy standards. We do not permit third parties to deploy cookies on our site to collect any personally sensitive information.
How You Can Control and Manage Cookies
You have complete discretion regarding the cookies that are placed onto your device when you first visit our website. Specifically, most web browsers provide options that permit you to accept, reject and/or delete cookies. These options are located on the privacy menus or security settings of your web browser. If you have cookies disabled or otherwise blocked from our website, or if you have deleted cookies after visiting our website, pieces of the website may not function properly. For example, you may not be able to access certain services such as secure client communications or document filing/acceptance.
For more information on how cookies work, refer to the help section on your internet browser. Cookies can be disabled or deleted by privacy preferences on browser extensions/services or other third-party websites such as Digital Advertising Alliance (the “DAA”) or Network Advertising Initiative (the “NAI”).
Cookie Consent and Your Rights
When one first visits Raghavendra Law Chambers’ website a cookie banner will appear requesting consent for the use of non-essential cookies. We will assume that you have consented to the use of cookies on our website if you remain on this website. If you would like to withdraw or change your consent, at any time in the future, you should formally update your cookie settings using appropriate functionality in your web browser or by contacting us directly.
We undertake to honour your individual privacy rights. Subject to applicable laws, you have the right:
- to receive information about us and our use of data
- to access any personal data we have collected through cookies
- to request deletion or rectification of our data
- to object to or restrict some uses of our data (for example, processing data for research purposes)
To exercise any of your rights, or request assistance with cookie settings, please contact us at [email protected].
How We Take Care of Your Information
The confidentiality and protection of personal information is a core value at Raghavendra Law Chambers. Any data obtained from cookies is securely managed in accordance with applicable legal requirements. All information collected using our website is stored securely with encryption, at the server and in transit. Secure servers and access controls are implemented to safeguard all information. We ensure that our staff members respect client privacy and comply with strict procedures for handling information, and that information collected using cookies is used only for legal business and to improve our service to clients. In accordance with applicable legal restrictions, we do not sell, trade or otherwise transfer (other than as required by law or approved by you) your personally identifiable information to any outside party. We review our policies and systems on an ongoing basis to ensure that they comply with changing legal requirements and meet client expectations.
Cookies and Legal Professional Privilege
Identifying as a law firm that takes confidentiality and legal ethics seriously, Raghavendra Law Chambers takes further steps to ensure that cookies do not subvert attorney-client privilege or confidential communication. Specifically, cookies are never used for the purposes of storing or transmitting confidential legal information. The data that is collected through the cookies is therefore limited to site usage analytics and functional purposes only. Data is then kept separate from client files or privileged material. When utilizing our services through online business forms, any submitted information is encrypted and stored accordingly to meet legal and regulatory standards.
International Clients and Cookie Compliance
Raghavendra Law Chambers caters to a global clientele and foreign clients, including Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and other clients with cross border requirements. We also acknowledge that our site visitors may require compliance with foreign laws such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or an equivalent in another country. Our cookie policies will comply with overseas privacy requirements and inform visitors of their rights where so required, and how to exercise them. If you have visited us from outside the United States and have inquiries regarding how cookies are utilized and your foreign law rights, email us at [email protected].
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may modify this Cookie Policy at any time to accommodate changes in technology, legal standards, and our business practices. Such updates will be made available on this page, which will include the date of the most recent change at the top. We recommend that you check this page from time to time so that you are always aware of what information we collect through cookies and how we use it. We will notify you of any material changes through a notice on our homepage or a communication to your email address of record to ensure that you are fully aware of how we use your information.
Contact Us
Should you have any questions, comments, or requests concerning this Cookie Policy or our data protection practices, please do not hesitate to contact us directly. Raghavendra Law Chambers’ legal counsel is happy to provide you with additional information and to assist you with any privacy-related queries. To schedule a consultation, inquire about our services, or make a request previously granted by your cookie preferences, please contact us via one of the following:
For more details or to reach out, please visit our Contact Raghavendra Law Chambers page.