Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Dated as of July 1, 2001.

Introduction

Smith, Buss & Jacobs, LLP posts this privacy policy to notify you of our current privacy practices. As attorneys, we recognize and take seriously our professional obligation to keep information about current, former and potential clients confidential and secure.

Information We Collect

In the course of providing legal services to you, or generally when you write to us or use our web site, Smith, Buss & Jacobs may intentionally or inadvertently collect nonpublic personal information about you. At certain times, and with your authorization, we may collect information about you from third parties such as accountants, financial advisors, insurance agents, banking institutions, and other advisors. Examples of nonpublic personal information are financial and investment information and other nonpublic information that you provide to us in order to obtain a financial product or service, such as tax advice, from us. Nonpublic information can include the fact that an individual is or has been a client.

We Do Not Share Information

Smith, Buss & Jacobs does not sell or otherwise share its clients' or former clients' nonpublic personal information with third parties except as required by law. Accordingly, you do not need to take any proactive action to prevent disclosure.

Under a new federal law, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, we are permitted to disclose nonpublic personal information in certain circumstances. However, even if federal law permits us to disclose your nonpublic personal information, we will not disclose such information unless we are permitted to do so under the Code of Professional Responsibility of the State of New York or similar codes of other applicable jurisdictions.

Protecting the Confidentiality of Nonpublic Personal Information

We value your trust and handle information about you with care. It is our policy to restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you. To protect your nonpublic personal information, Smith, Buss & Jacobs maintains strict physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards.

Privacy on Our Web Site

We do not use cookies on our web site to collect information on or from our users. However, when you view a page on our web site, www.sbjlaw.com, our web server automatically logs certain information such as the name of your internet service provider, the IP address of the computer you are using, the type of browser software and operating system that you use, the date and time you access our website, the website address, if any, from which you linked directly to our website, the website address, if any, to which you travel from our website, and other similar traffic-related information. We may also aggregate information relating to your and other visitors' traffic patterns. We use the foregoing information only to help us improve the website and the services that we provide through the website. We do not use such data in any way to create or maintain a personal profile of you or collect personal information from you.

We do, however, reserve the right to disclose relevant data about use of our web site to any third party if we believe that we are required to do so for any or all of the following reasons: (a) by law; (b) to comply with legal processes or governmental requests; (c) to prevent, investigate or prosecute criminal offences or attacks on the technical integrity of our web site or our network; and/or (d) to protect the rights, property, or safety of Smith, Buss & Jacobs LLP, the users of the web site, or the public.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or if you feel that we have not handled information about you properly, please contact us at (914) 476-0600 or info@sbjlaw.com so that we may address your inquiry or issue.

Updates

Smith, Buss & Jacobs, LLP reserves the right to update and revise this Privacy Policy at any time. You can determine if this Privacy Policy has been revised by referring to the "Last Updated" date on our web site at www.sbjlaw.com, by emailing us at info@sbjlaw.com, or by calling us at (914) 476-0600 ext. 101.