Terms of Use, Privacy & Cookie Policy

TERMS

General Terms

These terms and conditions govern the use of this website and associated email, which includes any email using the domain name “cedaltonlaw.com”, and explain our privacy and cookie policies (which are collectively known as the “Terms”).  The words “You”, “Your”, and variations of this shall mean you or any person, entity or other party accessing, viewing, or otherwise using this website on your behalf or in concert with you.  The words “We”, “Us” or “Our” shall mean the Law Offices of Christopher E. Dalton, LLC.  The words “Use”, “Using” and variations of this shall mean accessing, viewing, or using this website or an associated email. 

By Your Use, You agree to and accept these Terms.  Please note that the Terms may also be amended, revised or changed at any time and once posted on this website, Your Use shall acknowledge your acceptance and agreement to the Terms as updated. 

You represent that you are at least 18 years of age.  In the event You are not at least 18 years of age You are not permitted to Use this website. 

Your Use, shall not violate any applicable law, including but not limited to federal, state, local, tribal, order of a court or regulatory agency of competent jurisdiction, international law, or any similar law.  Your Use shall not interfere with the any third party’s Use, launch a denial of service attack, send so-called spam email, hack or otherwise gain unauthorized, access to any other computer, network or similar facilities, plant or transmit any virus, worm, malware, spyware, ransom ware, spoofing or any similar or related disruptive application or coding.  Your Use shall also not engage in infringing any intellectual property rights of other parties, transmitting any content that is unlawful or wrongfully collecting or processing any personal information of another party.

Data We Collect

Data may be collected in two manners. 

The first is when You provide data directly to Us, such as Your name, telephone number, email address, or home address in the course of meeting with You or providing services to You.  This is personally identifiable information.  This is also the information We collect to provide legal services to Our clients and is used and protected in conformance with Our legal obligations.   

Personally identifiable information and other sensitive data We may collect is referred to as “Data”.  We employ encryption, secure back-ups, security applications, and intrusion prevention systems or technology to protect Your Data.  Please note that any information that is transmitted via the Internet is never completely secure, even when encrypted.  Although appropriate measures to protect against unauthorized disclosure or corruption of Data are employed, the security of Data can never be guaranteed.

We maintain Your Data while providing services to You and as long as may be needed to comport with legal, reporting, or accounting requirements.

The other manner is by Data that may be collected by Your accessing this site or emailing Us.  This may include Your IP address and information on Your web browser, operating system, and related technology systems, or usage of this website.

Your Data may be disclosed to vendors that We use to support Our services and operations, such as software vendors, provider of computer operating systems, vendors that provide webcasting such as podcasts, and webhosting companies. We may also disclose Your Data to vendors necessary to provide the services we are furnishing You. 

We may disclose Your data as permitted by law, if required by applicable law or legal action such as a subpoena or other legal process, as part of protecting legitimate privacy, property interests, rights, or safety of Us or third parties, responding to an emergency, and to enforce these Terms.

We do not use or sell Your Data for marketing purposes. 

Cookies and Related Technologies

Our website may use certain automatic data collection technologies such as cookies to collect Data referenced above.  IP addresses, location information and related Data may be considered personally identifiable information.  A cookie is a piece of technology information that is placed on your computer and We may access these as part of providing services to You.  There are three general categories of cookies that are or may be used.  These include:

Essential Cookies: where are essential to deliver website services.  Disabling these cookies may affect the functionality of the website.  You may not opt out of these essential cookies.  Therefore, please do not Use this website if You do not want or agree with the application of essential cookies.

Performance Cookies: These include usage preferences cookies, which are activated when You make certain choices on Our website and remember settings preferences, permitting Us to tailor services We provide to You, and analytical cookies, which allow Us to recognize and measure Your use of Our website, compile a record of this usage information and help Us improve and develop the way Our sites work. Our sites may use Google Analytics and other service provider cookies to help analyze how users use our site. The information generated by these cookies about the use of the website will normally be stored on a Google or other service provider server in the USA. Google and other service providers will use this information, on Our behalf, for the purpose of compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Advertising Cookies:  These normally, if employed, allow for (a) providing a customized experience via advertisements across devices on the subject website or advertisements on third party websites and apps, or (b) monitor the effectiveness of the subject website’s digital marketing campaigns.  Our practice is not to employ advertising through this website and these cookies are not intended to be present.

For additional information on cookies you may visit https://allaboutcookies.org

Opting Out

You may opt out of performance and advertising cookies through the link on the bottom of Our homepage.  You may also use Your own browser tools that may allow for further management of cookies.  You may also opt out of receiving certain advertisements by using   Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising or other similar self-regulatory programs such as the Internet Advising Bureau.  You may also choose how cookies from Google Analytics may be used through https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Third Party Policies

We utilize a website hosting service that maintains its own terms and privacy policy, and this service may access and use parts of Your Data collected via its cookies and similar technology.  You may access this third-party’s privacy policy through the following link: Privacy | Turbify

To the extent other third-party links may be employed or available through this site, including linked blogs, the practices, policies and manners of handling data may be different than Ours.  It is recommended that You visit and review the privacy policies and related policies of any such third parties, as We do not control data that may be provided to or collected by the third parties. 

Certain Rights

Subject to applicable law, You may ask to access, update, correct, port, and, where reasonably practical, delete Your Data, or withdraw Your consent to our use of Your Data. You may exercise Your rights by emailing or mailing Us at the addresses below.  

By email at: privacy@cedaltonlaw.com

Or by mail at:

Law Offices of Christopher E. Dalton, LLC

PO Box 1406

Sterling, MA 01564

Attn: Privacy

THESE TERMS WERE LAST UPDATED AS OF JUNE 10, 2024.