Our Cookie Policy Explained
Here at Haslaws, Your Trusted Legal Advisors, we take your privacy and security very seriously. This Cookie Policy sets out how and why we use cookies and similar technologies on https://haslaws.com/. It’s intended to give you clear information about the cookies we use on our public website and mobile app, the data they collect, your choices, and how you can manage them. By accessing and using any part of our website, you are accepting the practices described in this Cookie Policy. We encourage you to read this Cookie Policy carefully to ensure you understand how cookies affect your privacy and how Haslaws protects your privacy when using various online services.
Definition of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, cell phone, or other device when visiting its site. These cookies are increasingly being used to improve site functionality, enhance user experience, and provide website operators with information. For example, cookies can help websites remember information such as your preferences, provide secure access, and compile statistics regarding a site’s visitors. Two common types of cookies are session cookies, which are removed from a device once the user closes the browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on a device for a specific period or until deleted.
Reason Haslaws Utilizes Cookies
At Haslaws, ensuring a seamless legal service extends to your time with us online. We use cookies for a number of key reasons:
- to ensure that the site is secure and runs properly
- to remember your preferences, including language settings and form inputs, making it easier for you to return in the future
- to analyse how people are using our website so that we can look at ways to improve our content and services
- to enable a secure single sign-on to client portals or document sharing areas where that’s a service you are provided with
- for marketing and communications purposes – for example, to give you information about other materials or services we think you might find interesting
Cookies help us improve the quality of your experience with us and make it easier for you to use our online services.
Categories of Cookies We Employ
We utilize the following categories of cookies on our website to provide you with an enhanced user experience, facilitate our business, and meet our legitimate business needs. The primary types of cookies we use include:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These enable you to browse the website and use key features such as access to secure areas. We use strictly necessary cookies to provide you with features you have requested.
- Performance Cookies: These collect information about how visitors use our website and related content – for example, which pages visitors go to most often and whether visitors get error messages on web pages. Performance cookies help us improve the functionality of our website and related content.
- Functionality Cookies: These allow us to recognize you and remember your preferences, such as your region and language, and to offer additional features and enhanced personalization to improve your experience with us.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: From time to time, we may use cookies to show advertisements with respect to obtaining legal updates or other service offerings on relevant third-party sites, as well as our own. We use these cookies to provide you with targeted ads, to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, and to avoid showing you ads we believe you have seen previously. We want our communications with you to be useful and meaningful.
We may update our use of cookies from time to time in an effort to keep current with technological changes and client needs.
Third Party Cookies
We may use cookies on this Site that we set (first-party cookies). In addition, third parties who provide certain content on the Site or who provide us with web measurement and analytics services may place cookies on your device when you view our Site (third-party cookies). For example, we may use Google Analytics, which uses cookies to track certain information about your behavior on the site so we can evaluate mission trends and use our website and service offerings more effectively. Similar tracking cookies may be included with social media sharing actions like “liking” or “sharing,” or other embedded content, such as those from LinkedIn. We do not control these third-party cookies and the use of cookies by the third parties is governed by the individual third party’s privacy policy. Read those for additional details on how your information may be collected or used.
The Use of Information Collected via Cookies
The data we collect using cookies is used to enable us to improve the Haslaws website in the following ways:
- Website Functionality: It enables us to discover how you arrive at and use our website, and then to make changes to improve its usability.
- Personalization: Cookies allow us to offer you personal content that relates to your interests or legal needs, as well as remember your preferences.
- Security: Some cookies are strictly necessary to enable you to log in to the client-only section of our site and/or submit information to us via forms on our website.
- Marketing: For example, we deploy performance and targeting metrics that help us determine how effective our communications are and ensure you receive timely information from us about our legal services.
Rest assured that the data we collect using cookies is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy, and we utilize it only under appropriate data protection laws. We do not deploy cookies to collect data that could directly identify you unless you voluntarily provide that through specific engagement on our website.
Making Choices About Cookies
You have full control of how cookies are used on your machine. The majority of web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to prevent this. You may also be able to delete cookies that have already been set and give your browser a warning before accepting a new cookie. Please note that if you choose to disable certain cookies, the functionality of other areas of the Haslaws website (e.g., secure client areas, some personalized services, etc.) may be limited.
You can manage your cookie preferences by:
- Consulting the help section in your web browser for instructions on how to remove or not accept cookies.
- Using third party opt-out tools such as Google Analytics’ opt-out browser add-on.
- Checking out our Cookie Consent Banner that is displayed when you first visit our website to set any preferences.
If you require further assistance please email our team at [email protected] or call (212) 329-1417.
Your Privacy and Data Protection
At Haslaws, we understand the need to protect and respect your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. We will act in line with any relevant data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The cookies we use are designed to improve your privacy rights while offering useful information to enhance our services.
Any information collected via cookies is processed in accordance with our fully formed Privacy Policy, which outlines how we obtain, use, store, and protect your personal data. We will not sell or rent your data to third parties, and we use Dropbox in a secure manner that protects the data from being accessed or disclosed by unauthorized third party processors.
Duration of Cookies
Cookies may be stored by us on your computer for different lengths of time depending on what they do:
- Session Cookies are stored temporarily in your computer’s memory and are deleted once you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies are stored on your computer for a predefined period of time or until you manually delete them. This time period will vary depending on the particular cookie and is set out in our detailed Cookie Table, which is available upon request.
We regularly review the length of time that we store such cookies on your computer and will ensure that such period is appropriate, necessary, and commensurate with the purpose for which they are stored. You may contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions about any of the cookies and how long they are stored.
Terms of Cookies and Notification of our Changes
We reserve the right to update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect legal changes, our activities, or technical developments. In the case of material changes, we will notify you by updating the effective date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, via a prominent notice on the site.
We recommend that you check this policy periodically in order to keep up to date on how we use cookies and to protect your information. The continued use of Haslaws website upon any posted changes is your agreement to the new policy.
Cookies FAQS
- Q: Are Cookies harmful to my machine?
A: No. Cookies aren’t software, and can’t contain viruses, install malware, or otherwise harm your system. They are simply plain text files used to store information about users of the machine. - Q: Do Cookies mean Haslaws knows who I am?
A: No, cookies won’t directly identify you. Cookies can track anonymous data like which websites you visit and your preferences, unless you tell us who you are by giving us more information (like filling out an online form). - Q: Is it possible to use the Haslaws website without using cookies?
A: Yes, most of our website can be used without cookies, but the ability to log into some areas of the website may be affected if your browser is set so that cookies can’t be used. - Q: Who can I contact if I have questions about Cookies or my Privacy settings?
A: Contact [email protected] or +1 (212) 329-1417. Many members of our staff are knowledgeable about and happy to answer your privacy questions and address your concerns.
Contact Haslaws In Reference to This Policy
Your trust and privacy are important to us and we are committed to full disclosure of our use of cookies and other data. Should you have questions, comments, or suggestions regarding this Cookie Policy, or should you wish to receive a copy of the complete Privacy Policy, please contact:
Haslaws
100 Park Ave Fl 31,
New York, NY 10017,
Phone: (212) 329-1417,
Email: [email protected],
Website: https://haslaws.com/
We welcome all inquiries from our clients and site visitors, and invite you to contact us for all questions, or to schedule a consultation with leading legal experts and advisors. At Haslaws, your happiness and privacy are always our priority.