privacy policy

Dufour Law Firm Privacy Policy

Your privacy and trust are important to us. This Privacy Statement explains how Dufour Law Firm, LLC (“Dufour Law Firm”) maintains this Site (the “Site”) for your personal education, information, entertainment, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. You may download material displayed on the Site for non-commercial, personal use only provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Dufour Law Firm ‘s written permission.

Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, Dufour Law Firm. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

Your access to and use of the Site is also subject to the following terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that any other agreements between you and Dufour Law Firm are superseded and of no force or effect.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Site Content

Dufour Law Firm has created the following privacy statements to demonstrate our commitment to informed disclosure and to accurately communicate our use of your personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information, as used in U.S. privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own, or with other information, to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

The information you obtain at this site is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice. You should consult an attorney for advice regarding your individual situation. We invite you to contact us and welcome your calls, letters and electronic mail. Contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send any confidential information to us until such time as an attorney-client relationship has been established.

You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the written permission of Dufour Law Firm. Dufour Law Firm neither warrants nor represents that your use of any materials displayed on the Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with Dufour Law Firm.

While Dufour Law Firm uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information in the Site, Dufour Law Firm makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Dufour Law Firm assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.

Personal Information Collected

Websites, blogs, and/or apps provided by Dufour Law Firm use online forms for visitors to request information from, or a consultation with, Dufour Law Firm lawyers and/or staff. When visitors fill out one of these online contact forms, they may be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information, including name, address, email, and phone number. After filling out this form, messages are automatically forwarded to Dufour Law Firm lawyers or its representatives, and contact information is saved in a database. Websites, blogs, and/or apps provided by Dufour Law Firm also collects consumer data for its firm’s usage, including device used, referring domain and location.

When do we collect information?

We collect information when you fill out a form, visit the site, or use certain other site features.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect to improve or personalize your browsing experience, and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.

How do we protect visitor information?

We do not use vulnerability scanning, scanning to PCI standards, or SSL authentication. Any website, blog, or app we provide is provided for informational purposes only, and we never ask for personal or private information. Any information sent to us through the internet, apps, www.dufourlawfirmllc.com, or in an email is neither secure nor confidential and is sent at your own risk.

Use of Browser Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfer to visitors’ computer hard drives through their web browsers that enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize users’ browsers and capture and remember certain information.

Websites, blogs, and apps provided by Dufour Law Firm use cookies to collect certain information about visitors, even when they aren’t logged in. We may record the following:

• IP address
• URLs of websites and pages visited
• Dates and times of visits
• Computer hardware and software information
• Other available information

This site uses cookies to:

• Keep track of advertisements.
• Understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future

To disable cookies, please adjust your browser settings. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. If you turn cookies off, some features of this site may be disabled. It may make your site experience less efficient and some of our services may not function properly.

Security of information

The security of your personal information is important to us. Considering the nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing personal information, as well as the risks to individuals of varying likelihood and severity, we have implemented technical and organizational measures designed to protect the security of personal information.

However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable measures designed to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your use of and browsing in the Site are at your own risk. Neither Dufour Law Firm nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. Dufour Law Firm also assumes no responsibility for, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.

Confidentiality

Any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like, is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. If you hire Dufour Law Firm, your communications from then on will be held to an attorney-client privilege.

Third Party Disclosure

Dufour Law Firm does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer users’ personally identifiable information to third parties. If requested or agreed upon by the client, Dufour Law Firm may provide clients’ contact information and other case information to third party attorneys when cases are referred.

Third Party Links

Dufour Law Firm does not include or offer third party products or services on its website. Dufour Law Firm has not reviewed all of the Sites linked to its Site and is not responsible for the content of any off-Site pages or any other Sites linked to the Site. Your clicking on hyperlinks and visiting any other off-Site pages or other Sites is at your own risk.

How does our site handle “do not track” signals?

We honor “do not track” signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Does our site allow third party behavioral tracking?

Any website, blog, or app provided by Dufour Law Firm may allow third party behavioral tracking.

COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act)

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online by regulating the collection of personal information from children under age 13. This website does not specifically market to children under age 13.

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practice Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States. In order to be in line with Fair Information Practice Principles, we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify affected users via email within 7 business days.
We will notify affected users via phone call within 7 business days.

We also agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

Dufour Law Firm may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then-current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

Dufour Law Firm
4460 Bluebonnet Blvd., Suite C

Baton Rouge, LA 70802
United States

Phone: 225-304-0054

Fax: (225) 900-7952

Email: Layne@dufourlawfirmllc.com

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We partner with Thomson Reuters, who might also collect data as part of our marketing efforts. To learn more about the Thomson Reuters privacy policy and the data that might be collected, please visit: Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement.