PRIVACY POLICY 

The Law Offices of Sameer Habbas & Associates, PC (the “Firm”), is committed to respecting the privacy of clients and visitors to any of the Firm’s websites: habbaspilaw.com, laborchamp.com, or truckcrashattorneys.com (each and collectively the “Site” or “Website”). This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) applies collection, use, and disclosure of personal information collected by the Firm through our Websites (collectively further referred to as the “Website” or “Site”) and through other interactions, from individuals we interact with for a variety of purposes, including clients, prospective clients, law students, job applicants, other counsel, and vendors, specifically gathered via this Website. 

We will not use or share your personal information except as described in this Privacy Policy. 

This Policy describes what information we may collect, what circumstances we may collect it, how we may collect it, with whom we may share it, and other matters related to the information we collect from our website and through our services and activities, including your choices regarding collection and disclosure to third parties. The Firm is the data controller and collects most of its data through third party providers but does so in compliance with applicable data protection laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”). Your privacy is important to us. Please be aware that Firm personnel are required to comply with the Firm’s data privacy practices as set out in this Privacy Policy and other data privacy-related Firm policies. This Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Use and may include terms that are defined in that agreement. 

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact us via e-mail to [email protected] or via postal mail to the address listed in the “Contact Us” section of this Policy. 

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY 

This Policy is published on the Company’s Website: https://truckcrashattorneys.com/. To access it, visit the website, and click on the “Privacy Policy” hyperlink, or visit: https://truckcrashattorneys.com/privacy-policy/. 

Changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the date they are posted on the Site. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time in our sole and absolute discretion without the duty to notify you. Changes, modifications, additions, or deletions will be effective immediately on their posting to the Site. You should check this Privacy Policy periodically as its terms may change from time to time without prior notice to you. Your continued use of the Site after we post any such modifications will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy and your agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. We will also revise the “last updated” date found at the beginning of this Privacy Policy when we post changes to it. 

DISCLAIMERS  

This Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond the Firm’s control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or government regulation. This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected through the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information we may collect from you in any place other than the Site.

THIRD PARTY SITES AND SERVICES

Please be aware, certain services on our Website are provided by third parties or the Firm may receive Personal Information via a lead-generated software platform or other third party information providers. You may also visit other third-party sites through links on our Website. We are not responsible for the data policies or procedures or content of any linked websites or the storage practices of such third parties. These third parties are not bound by this policy and may have privacy policies of their own governing the use and disclosure of your Personal Information. Please read any policies of third parties before you provide Personal Information to them. 

CALIFORNIA USE ONLY 

The Site is controlled and operated by the Firm from its offices located within the State of California. The Company makes no representation that any of the materials or the services to which you have been given access are available or appropriate for use in other locations. Your use of or access to the Site should not be construed as the Firm purposefully availing itself of the benefits or privilege of doing business in any state or jurisdiction other than California. 

INFORMATION COLLECTION PRACTICES 

For the purposes of this Policy, “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, subject to certain exceptions set forth in the CCPA. We may collect and may have collected in the preceding 12 months, the following categories of Personal Information from you in the course of business, including through your use of the Website, when you contact or request information from us, when we provide services to you, or receive services from you:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, title, gender, or address.
• Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, 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 this website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
• Payment and other financial information
• Information related to legal matters that you may be involved in, in which we represent you or for which the Firm and you are considering a representation. Please note that the Firm’s receipt of information about you does not create an attorney-client relationship.
• Job Applicant data includes identification data and contact information, resumé and other data provided by you or third parties (e.g. recruiters) on our website, online recruitment portal (where applicable), or offline in connection with job openings, which may be subject to additional local requirements based on the country for which the position is advertised
• Cookie and device data includes information about your visit of our website, IP address, device identifier, browser type and version, operating system and network, location and time zone setting
• Other Personal Information including biometric, health, and geolocation data to the extent such information may be relevant to a representation.

We may also collect other information which alone cannot be used to identify you as an individual. Again, this Policy only applies to information collected via this Website and not through independent intake means or otherwise by our Firm.

HOW DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

When you provide it to us. In certain sections on our Website, we may provide online forms in which you can input Personal Information such as your name and email address in order to request information, subscribe to our publications, or for other purposes indicated on our Website. When you become a client, you may provide information to us about you and about your matter. In working on a matter for you, we may receive, learn, or infer information about you and your matter from third parties or publicly accessible sources. If you are a job applicant or vendor, we may collect and process Personal Information from you to facilitate that relationship and to communicate with you. If you are counsel for other parties, we may collect information about you from you or third parties to facilitate communications over matters and to fulfill our obligations in our representation of our clients.

When you access our Website. Our Website may gather certain information automatically and store it in log files when you use our Website. When you visit us, our Internet servers automatically collect data about your Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), which is the network address of your computer, phone, or other computing device. When you visit our Site, we may also collect “click stream” or “telemetry” data, which is data about your web browser, and the web server and content you are trying to access. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. When you request Web pages from the Website, our computers log your IP address.

We also collect click-stream data when you request pages from the Website. Click-stream data may include such information as the page served, the time, the source of the request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding page view and other such non-Personal Information. We also monitor other tracking-related information. This data helps us analyze how visitors arrive at the Website, what type of content is most popular, what type of visitors in the aggregate are interested in particular kinds of content, and the like. We use this information to update our Website and ensure that we are meeting the needs of our visitors. We may collect IP addresses and/or click-stream data for purposes of system administration, to understand how our visitors use our Website. For example, our Site may record the referring page that linked you to us (e.g., another website or a search engine); the pages you visit on this Site; the website you visit after leaving our Site; other information about the type of web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings you are using; any search terms you have entered on this Site or a referral website; and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers. This information can be combined with information you have provided to us by registering as an account, for example, which will enable us to analyze and better customize your visits. We may use telemetry data for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our servers, for traffic analysis or e-commerce analysis of our Site, to help secure our systems, to customize our services for you, or to determine which features of our Site are most or least effective or useful to you. Such information may also be used to gather demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider. We may also aggregate user information in a non-personally identifiable manner to share with advertisers, to enhance the Services, or for general business purposes.

Third Party SAAS and CRM. We utilize third party service providers, including, but not limited to, https://juvoleads.com/, https://leaddocket.com, and https://casepeer.com. These sites provide various services such as Customer Relationship Management (“CRM”) or callbacks, case screening and Software As A Service (“SAAS”) CRM solutions and communication tools. We may also utilize other third-party service providers who may send the Firm leads or opportunities for client relationships. We are not responsible for such third party’s terms of use, privacy policy, or how they collect and store Personal Information.

Cookies. Our Website may use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies. These technologies are widely used for security, to learn about and improve upon how users navigate a website, or to enable certain features. Cookies are small data files that are transferred to your hard drive when your browser settings permit the acceptance of cookies. 

The Site may use cookies (small text files stored on your computer) to help remember your settings, preferences, and selections as you surf through the Website with your web browser. Cookies may store data about your web surfing session, web pages you visit, and the products in your online shopping cart, for example. The Firm may also make use of third-party cookies provided by Google and other companies to help track your web surfing activity in order to improve the quality and flow of the Firm’s website. For your privacy, Firm and third-party cookies are designed to not store personally identifiable data. The Firm does not store Personal Information in cookies, nor transmit Personal Information to third parties via cookies. 

You are free to direct your web browser to delete cookies at any time. To learn how, consult your web browser’s user instructions. Note that if you delete your cookies, stored browsing preferences you selected previously may be forgotten and should the Firm provide a log-in function, you may be required to log in again.

Similar technologies, such as web beacons or pixel tags function through the use of small files, such as a GIF or PNG, which are opened on a page or in an email. The request for these files from a server reveals certain information, such as your browser type, IP address, and other information. To learn more about cookies and similar tracking technologies, and how they can affect your privacy, visit https://allaboutcookies.org.

By tracking how and when you use our Website, these technologies help us determine which features and content on our Website are most important to our visitors. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you can turn off cookies using your browser’s settings menu; however, this may eliminate our ability to provide you with some of the features or functionality you would otherwise experience on our Website. Most modern browsers also include a “do not track” feature that may help protect your privacy. However, because there is not yet a defined response to do-not-track requests, our Website does not respond to your browser’s do-not-track request.

In addition to the cookies used by the Firm and our service providers, some cookies are placed by third parties such as Google Analytics, as described below. By using our Website, you agree to the use of cookies for the following purposes:

• Essential Cookies: these are essential in order to enable you to move around our Website and use its features.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics (“Analytics“) is Google’s free web analytics tool that helps us understand how our visitors engage with our website. Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Analytics uses its own set of cookies to track user interactions with the Website. These cookies are used to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve their website and how people find it. A different set of cookies is used for each website, and visitors are not tracked across multiple sites. Analytics customers are obliged to notify users of their use of analytics software. To disable this type of cookie, some browsers will indicate when a cookie is being sent and allow you to decline cookies on a case-by-case basis. In addition to declining cookies, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on in your browser, which prevents Google Analytics from collecting information about your website visits. You can also opt out by clicking here.
• Functionality Cookies: these small data files that remember the choices you make on the Website. These cookies help to make your visit more personal and are deleted automatically when you close your browser or the session expires.
• You can block or disable cookies on your device at any time by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your web browser. You can also delete the cookies that are stored on your device. However, blocking, disabling, or deleting cookies may limit your ability to view all the pages of the Website You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org. 

To learn more about, or to opt-out of Google’s analytic and marketing services, visit Google Analytics Terms of Service, the Google Privacy Policy, or Google Analytics Opt-out.

Clear GIFs/Beacons/Pixels. When visiting our Site, we may also use “Clear GIFs” (aka “web beacons” or “pixel tags”) or similar technologies in our Site and/or in our communications with you. A Clear GIF is typically a one-pixel, transparent image located on a web page or in an e-mail or other type of message, which helps us to verify an individual’s viewing or receipt of a web page or message. Clear GIFs allow us to know whether you have viewed a web page prior to visiting our Site and may enable us to relate such information to other information, including your Personal Information. We use information provided from Clear GIFs and similar technologies to enable more accurate reporting, improve the effectiveness of our marketing, and make our Site better for our Users.

Site Tracking: The Firm utilizes multiple third party site tracking services, and you are encouraged to check the privacy policies and terms of use of any such site.  Currently, these are some such providers that may be utilized by the Firm from time to time:

1. Google Ads / Analytics GA4 tag – Google limits the ability of law firms to remarket with that data. The data is stored by Google.
2. Facebook Tracking Tag. 
3. https://choozle.com – DSP tracking tag (track users to the site for remarketing / ad retargeting). 
4. https://www.callrail.com – swaps phone numbers to track the sources where users come from through a javascript tag. Captures call details, landing page into, referral source info etc. Also records web forms. 
5. https://www.navistone.com/ – sends postcards to web visitors who have opted in and matched. The firm has no access to their information and we have no access to their information. Double blind. 
6. https://mailchimp.com – captures emails and IP info as well for email marketing campaigns. 
7. https://juvoleads.com/ – live chat provider that captures user meta data for referral source information and passes live chats to the Firm from human operators.

Location Information. We may collect your location information and we may use geolocation-based services in order to verify your location. For compliance reasons, some of the Services may be restricted depending on where you are located. Location information helps us connect you with a licensed retailer that services your delivery area, send you relevant content based on your location, and optimize or improve our products and services. Location data may also be collected as demographic information. 

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? 

We use Personal Information collected from you as necessary to provide the information or services you have requested (for example, to respond to your inquiry or process your subscription to a newsletter or blog). We may also utilize Personal Information to assist in creating marketing and advertising campaigns that may be informed by search behavior on the Site, who visits the Site, and to update information on our target audience. Where applicable, we may also use your information for the following purposes:

• To inform you about our services, new legal and policy developments, relevant information in the industries we serve, and our marketing events.
• For analysis to improve this website, our services, and for market research.
• To respond to you when you contact us.
• For other reasons, with your consent.

If you are a client of the Firm, we use Personal Information that you voluntarily submit to us on the website on any matter for which the firm is retained, such as identification data, contact details, and other service data that we may process in connection with the provision of services. The Firm’s work for you may also involve providing such information to third parties in order to represent your interests most effectively. This processing is necessary for us to perform our contract with you.

If you are counsel for another party on a matter in which the Firm is representing a client, your information will only be used for the purposes of fulfilling the Firm’s obligations under its representation of its client and for usual ancillary. If you are a vendor of the Firm, we use identification data, contact details, financial data, and other service data for the processing of invoices, the updating of client records, the management of our vendor relationships, and communication with you and for other purposes such as processing payments.

We may also use identification data, contact details, financial data, cookie and device data, and other service data to improve our website as we constantly monitor our online presence and ensure the security and confidentiality of your data. This use is also necessary for our legitimate interests to prevent illegal activities, including fraud, which could harm you and us.

We may also collect and process Personal Information about job applicants for screening, identifying, and evaluating candidates for positions, record-keeping related to hiring processes, analyzing the hiring process and outcomes, and conducting background checks, where and to the extent permitted by applicable law. If you are hired by the Firm, this data will be transferred to our employee records. This processing is necessary in order to take steps, at the request of the job applicant in the context of recruitment, prior to entering into a contract. In addition, job applicant data and legal compliance data may be used as necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, and corporate governance requirements. 

In the preceding 12 months, the Firm has disclosed the types of Personal Information listed above to its service providers for business purposes.

In the preceding 12 months, the Firm has not sold Personal Information.

WITH WHOM MAY WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We may share Personal Information with employees and contractors of our Firm, with third parties who provide certain services on our behalf, with selected third-party organizations with whom we may collaborate on various activities or events, or in the other circumstances noted below. For example, we may share certain Personal Information we collect with third parties such as providers of data hosting or processing services, email services, or other service providers (for example if we have a third party send notification of firm publications, news, or events we think may be of interest to you).

For clients, Personal Information collected from you is subject to this Policy and the applicable rules of professional responsibility, including confidentiality and privilege. We may disclose information about you to third parties as part of performing services in a matter. Such disclosures shall generally be with your knowledge and consent, but under certain limited circumstance may be done without pre-approval where required in the professional judgement of the attorney working on your matter.

We may also share Personal Information we possess in the event our Firm undergoes a corporate transaction, such as a merger with another firm, or in the event of a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of our Firm, or a dissolution of our Firm, provided that the receiving party agrees to treat your personal information in a manner consistent with this Policy. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may share Personal Information if we need to protect the interests of the Firm, our clients, property, or the public.

Similarly, we may share Personal Information with governmental authorities or otherwise in response to a legal request that we believe requires us to do so, for example, in connection with a criminal investigation or other legal requests from civil or administrative authorities in connection with a pending civil case or administrative investigation. Legal requests include, for example, search warrants, subpoenas, and other court orders.

We may also receive legal requests or orders from jurisdictions outside the United States, in which case by using our Website you consent for your Personal Information to be transferred to the applicable country.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES 

Our Site may contain links to other websites. If you choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility to review the privacy policies at those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their policies. 

INFORMATION SECURITY

We have implemented technical and organizational security measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control. Such measures include, for example, limiting access to personal information only to staff authorized by this Policy, as well as other administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. The Firm has reasonable security measures in place designed to prevent accidental loss of your personal information and from unauthorized access, use alteration, or disclosure of the information that we obtain from you. Such measures include, but are not limited to, access controls, monitoring, and the utilization of encryption to securely transmit sensitive information. Please keep in mind, however, that whenever you disclose personal information online there is a risk that third parties may intercept and use that information. 

The Firm strives to protect your personal information and privacy, but we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose. By using the Site, you expressly acknowledge and agree that we do not guarantee the security of any data provided to or received by us through the Services and that any personal information, general information, or other data or information received from you to us is provided to us at your own risk, which you expressly assume. 

In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, the Firm will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law. 

RIGHTS TO OPT-IN / OPT-OUT 

You have the right to “opt in” and/or “opt out” of certain uses of your personal information. For example, you may have the opportunity to elect whether you would like to receive correspondence from us for marketing purposes, and how your information may be shared with third parties.

You will have the opportunity to opt out of our promotional e-mails by clicking the “opt out” or “unsubscribe” link in the e-mail you receive. If you would like to opt out of information sharing such as emails with general information that we find relevant to our Users, please email your request to [email protected], or via postal mail to the address listed in the “Contact Us” section of this Policy. You can be removed from any of our email lists or unsubscribe from a publication by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the email, or by sending an email to [email protected]. You may access, update, or request deletion of any Personal Information we hold about you by sending a letter using the contact information listed below or emailing [email protected]. Please understand that if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us. 

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

California’s “Do Not Track” Notice. 

“Do Not Track” (“DNT”) is a preference you can set in your web browser to let the sites you visit know that you do not want them collecting information about you. Our Site does not currently respond to “Do Not Track” settings. For further details regarding DNT, visit http://donottrack.us.

 California’s “Shine the Light” Law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as California’s “Shine the Light” law, allows individual California resident customers who have provided their personal information to us in obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use to request information about our disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

Such requests must be submitted to us by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below. Within thirty (30) days of receiving an express written request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding year, along with the names and addresses of those third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve the right not to respond to requests submitted in ways other than those specified above. 

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Disclosures

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) requires us to provide additional privacy-related information to residents of California. 

The section titled “Information Collection Practices” above lists the categories of personal information we have collected about California residents in the preceding 12 months. These categories of personal information correspond with the following categories of personal information provided under the CCPA: 

– Identifiers including name, address, date of birth, age, gender, state of residence, e-mail address, telephone number, driver license or other government identification card information, User account information, and IP address;

– Commercial information including financial data (which may include your credit card or debit card number), and other information required to purchase our products and Services;

– Internet or other electronic network activity information, including click stream or telemetry data or location data about your devices, browsers, and online behavior;

– Other personal information, including content you submit; audiovisual footage and images that we capture from our security cameras inside and around our retail locations; information about products or services purchased, obtained, or considered; and

– Other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies, and inferences drawn from any of the information identified above reflecting your preferences and characteristics.

Consistent with the section titled “Information Collection Practices” above, personal information is provided directly by you (or by the devices you use) when you use our Services. The section titled “Use of Your Information” above lists the business and commercial purposes for which we collect California residents’ personal information. As described above in the section titled “Information Sharing,” we also share and/or disclose your personal information as follows:

 – Sharing your personal information for business purposes. We may share the following categories of your personal information with subsidiaries, affiliated companies, subcontractors, service providers, third parties, public or government (including enforcement) authorities, creditors, and successors for our business purposes: government-issued identification card content; cannabis purchase histories; website preferences; debit or credit card details; and, contact information such as name, phone number, and email address. As described above, examples of business purposes include sending marketing messages to you, executing payment transactions, delivering products to you, registering your accounts, analyzing your purchasing histories, and maintaining and enhancing our Services.

– Sharing your personal information for commercial or other purposes. We may share the following categories of your personal information with third parties, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies in a manner that constitutes a “sale” under California law: government-issued identification card content; cannabis purchase histories; website preferences; debit or credit card details; and, contact information such as name, phone number, and email address. This information may be shared for the purposes of sending marketing messages, executing payment transactions, registering accounts, analyzing purchasing histories, executing product deliveries to you, and maintaining and enhancing our Services. Note that for the purposes of this paragraph, “sale” refers to any exchange of value, however, while an affiliate may gain value (in the form of knowledge) from analyzing the purchasing habits of customers (therefore constituting a “sale” under California law), the Firm does not sell your personal information to others for money. 

California Residents’ Privacy Rights

Subject to certain exceptions and qualifications, as a California resident you have the right to: (i) request access to your personal information; (ii) request deletion of your personal information; (iii) request information about the personal information about you that we have “sold” (as such term is defined under California law) to third parties within the past 12 months; and (iv) opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information, as detailed above. 

– Do not sell my information. To opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information as described in this section, email your request to [email protected]. 

– Exercising other California consumer rights. Should you wish to request the exercise of your other rights as detailed above with regard to your personal information, and to the extent allowed by applicable law, please contact us as outlined in the “Contact Us” section below. Note that we may need to take certain steps before executing any rights, including verifying your identity. Please indicate in your request that you are a California resident making a “California privacy rights” inquiry. 

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

Except as part of a representation, we do not knowingly collect or store personally identifiable information about children under the age of 13, unless permitted by law. If we learn that we have collected personally identifiable information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information from our database

ACCESS NOTICE IN ALTERNATIVE FORMATS 

Individuals who need assistance accessing this Policy in an alternative format can do so by contacting the Firm as described in the Contact Us section below.

GOVERNING LAW

You agree that all claims arising out of or relating to this Policy will be governed by California law, excluding California’s conflict of laws rules and must be resolved in accordance with the “Governing Law and Arbitration” section of our Terms of Use in the County and City of Los Angeles, California. 

SEVERABILITY 

If any part of this Policy is found by a court to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the rest of the Policy will remain in effect.

CONTACT US 

If you have any questions about the Policy, our practices related to our Site, or if you would like to make a privacy-related request, please contact us at: 

Samer Habbas & Associates, PC
200 Spectrum Center Drive,
Suite 1230,
Irvine, CA 92618

Email Us: [email protected]

THIS VERSION WAS POSTED ON: November 1, 2024