We at Rothenberg & Barnes, LLC recognize the importance of and respect your privacy. We want you to make the most of this Web site and to feel confident while doing so. The following discloses the information collection, use and disclosure practices for these Web sites: http://www.rothenbergbarnes.com and http://www.rbatl.com. This policy does not address information obtained offline from an attorney's personal contacts.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES ROTHENBERG & BARNES COLLECT?
When you visit the public area of our site, you remain anonymous. To the extent you use e-mail links via the Web site to communicate with us or anyone affiliated with us and provide us with personally identifiable information, however, you will not remain anonymous. Because it is not possible to anticipate every conceivable context in which such information might be provided to us via e-mail, we can provide you no assurance that personally identifiable information you choose to provide to us via e-mail will be maintained as private.
Rothenberg & Barnes and/or the host of its Web site use “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that are placed on a visitor's computer hard drive that allow us and/or the host of its Web site to record how many times a user or computers within a user's network of computers has visited the Web site, the number of times various pages of the Web site have been accessed and to track the user's home page customization preferences. You may disable receipt of cookies using features of your Web browser that disable or turn off cookies. With cookies disabled in your browser, the site's customization features will not function, and the home page will revert to its default content. We do not use cookies to retrieve information that is unrelated to your visit to or your interaction with the Web site.
Rothenberg & Barnes collects your Internet Protocol (IP) address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. The IP address data that we collect does not contain any personally identifiable information about you and is used to administer our site, to determine the numbers of different visitors to the site and to gather broad demographic data.
The non-personally identifiable data that we collect in these ways is accessible by certain Rothenberg & Barnes personnel as well as certain third-party Web site designers and personnel involved with the third-party service that hosts the Web site. We use all non-personally identifiable data that it collects internally and together with its Web site designer and host in order to improve the Web site. The information is used, for example, to evaluate what portions of the Web site are more popular than others, to determine from where visitors came to the site, and to determine how many times particular pages of the site were accessed in aggregate. Rothenberg & Barnes personnel may use the data to prepare reports regarding Web site activity as part of the process of maintaining and improving the site. Cookies also are used to identify prior users to the Web site in order to provide certain homepage customization preferences and create a more personal viewing experience for the user.
WHAT STEPS DOES ROTHENBERG & BARNES TAKE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY?
To the extent permitted by law, Rothenberg & Barnes will not sell, share, or otherwise disclose any of the information it collects online without your permission. Exceptions are disclosures to third parties who monitor the Web site, to parties who assist or cooperate in preparing firm mailings and to third parties with whom we may co-sponsor an event (in which case we may share attendee lists for purposes of the event). In addition, Rothenberg & Barnes does not presently collect personally identifiable information via the public area of its Web site except to the extent that such information is provided from visitors who voluntarily submit a feedback/inquiry form, register for homepage customization features, send electronic mail to us or any of its lawyers, register for events, subscribe to newsletters or submit resumes through the site. Personal information collected through this Web site is saved in our contact database where it may be combined with pre-existing contact information in the database. Rothenberg & Barnes and the host of its Web site take reasonable security precautions to maintain the privacy of the data that is collected, such as ensuring that it is accessible only to appropriate personnel and that the information is user ID and password-protected.