Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes the online and offline information practices of Health Plan Legal Counsel PLLC (“HPLC,” “we,” or “us”).
We are committed to the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy is intended to describe the information we collect, how it may be used, and with whom it may be shared. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or services or when conducting business with us. Using our website means that you are accepting the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information Collected
HPLC collects the information you enter through our website, which may include your name, email address, phone number, the reason for making contact, and answers to any other questions that may be found in our “contact us” forms. If you choose to contact us via web e-mail by completing one of the contact forms on our website, your message is automatically forwarded to an HPLC employee. We retain the information you provide us in a secure database. While communications from you to us do not create an attorney-client relationship, HPLC will treat requests for legal representation or advice as confidential to the extent possible and in accordance with the privilege that attaches to communications with an attorney seeking legal representation and/or advice.
How We Collect Your Personal Information
HPLC may collect your personal information through several sources, all proportionate for our specific business purposes. These sources include: (a) from you, when you provide us with personal information, such as contact information, through contacting us by mail, email, form on our website, or other means; (b) from you, in connection with engaging HPLC for our services, including legal services, and certain specific business services, and continued to provide to us in connection with our providing such services to you; (c) third-parties, including service providers of data analytics and internet service, advertising and social networks, and operating systems, automatically via use of cookies upon accessing our Site; and (d) other third-parties including law firms, government entities, financial institutions and other organizations related to the purpose of your contact with us.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information only as reasonably necessary, and in proportionate to our specific business purposes, which may include (a) performing the specific business purpose(s) for which you provided consent for us to use your personal information; (b) responding to requests by you for information or notifying you of services we provide and to provide you with other information you may find of interest; (c) performing business purposes on behalf of HPLC including, without limitation, accounting, administrative, reporting, ongoing operations or maintenance and other processes necessary to provide services to you or comply with our legal obligations; (d) understanding which of HPLC’s services in which you are interested; and (e) preventing, investigating, detecting, or addressing security incidents and to resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal acts.
Sharing Your Personal Information
HPLC does not share, and treats as confidential, your communications with us about potential representation or to seek legal advice with third parties except, in limited cases: (a) with service providers that may assist us with sending emails or tracking communications in response to people who contact us; (b) with other law firms or vendors we may have partnered with for your matter or a related matter; (c) other third-parties when necessary to comply with the law. These service providers, law firms, and other third-parties may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to sell, share, or use the information for any other purposes. HPLC does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration.
We Protect Your Personal Information
We have put in place reasonable security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized illegal access, including through technological, administrative, organizational, and physical means.
How Long We Retain Your Personal Information
We retain your personal information as long as necessary to fulfil the reasonable and proportionate business purposes for which we collected your information, including to comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements, and as long as necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, and to protect the rights, property, and safety of our website’s users, our clients, and other third parties. If you have questions regarding how long we keep specific elements of your personal information, please contact us or send an email to info@healthplanlegalcounsel.com.
By submitting your contact information when communicating with us about potential representation or to seek legal advice, you agree that HPLC may contact you using the information you submit. If you provide your phone number, you consent to receive marketing calls and text messages from HPLC regarding your inquiry. You may opt out of marketing text messages and calls at any time. If you would prefer not to receive mailings, please request removal by sending a message to info@healthplanlegalcounsel.com.