Privacy Notice

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Privacy Notice

Effective Date: January 1, 2024

1. Introduction

Welcome to Global Link Law, LLC (“Global Link Law”, “we”, “us”, “our”), a Pennsylvania-based legal and consulting firm. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our clients’ and website visitors’ information. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, www.globallinklaw.com (“website”), or interact with us.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We collect personal data including, but not limited to, your name, address, email address, phone number, job title, company or organization name and any other relevant details through our website, direct interactions, email communications, or during the provision of our legal, consulting or educational services. We also utilize telephone recordings and AI generated notes and other logs of your correspondence or communication with us.

In the case of a point of contact with a prospective client (“business contact”) we also collect information (name, address, contact details, company name and title) during events.  In addition to obtaining information directly from business contacts, we may collect information from multiple sources, including business cards, correspondence, and/or publicly available sources such as internet search engines, business directories or social media platforms.

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you.

3. How Your Personal Data Is Collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through direct interactions, automated technologies or interactions, and third parties or publicly available sources.

4. Use of Information

Your information is utilized to provide and improve our legal and consulting services, for communication purposes, compliance with legal obligations, for marketing purposes, to respond to protect against fraud, intellectual property infringement or violation of law and to manage our infrastructure and business operations.

5. Disclosure of Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to outside parties, except as necessary to provide our services or as required by law. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential and secure.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to access, correction, erasure, restriction of processing, and data portability.  You may contact us following the contact information below to request to exercise these rights.  We will obtain your consent in situations where applicable laws require us to do so.

You can request that we stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us using the contact information below.  Please note that even if you exercise this right because you do not want to receive marketing messages, we may still send you service-related messages.

7. International Data Subjects

As we cater to clients globally, we comply with international data protection regulations, including GDPR for clients in the European Economic Area (EEA).  For those residing outside the United States, including the EEA, we process your personal data for purposes described above when permissible by law.  Where we process your personal data for this purpose, our legitimate interest is to carry out our business activities in furtherance of the well-being of our clients. We will obtain your consent when no statutory basis for processing your persona data exists and when the processing of your personal data is necessary.  You have the right to withdraw your consent to processing of personal data at any time.  You also have the following rights:  the right to request access to your personal data we hold, the right to request we erase or restrict the processing of your personal data and the right to receive personal data about you that we store and transmit to another.  To exercise these rights, you may contact us via the “Contact Information” section below.  You may also contact the supervisory authority in your country of residence if you would like to make a complaint.  Due to the global nature of the services to which we provide, please be aware that we process and store personal data in the United States. This means we may transfer your personal data to an external third party outside the EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it.  Our policies and practices have been designed to ensure compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

8. Retaining Your Personal Data

We ensure that proper procedures are in place to manage your personal data and to remove and/or archive it when necessary. We will protect your personal data and delete it once our retention period to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations and/or protects our rights has lapsed.

9. Data Security

We implement a variety of appropriate measures to help maintain the safety and security of your personal data. Our measures include physical, technical, legal, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal data.

10. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party sites. These external sites are governed by their own privacy policies, for which we hold no responsibility.  External third-party providers include IT systems support and hosting service providers; document and records management providers; translators; and similar third-party vendors and outsourced service providers that assist us in carrying out business activities; external professional advisors and partners, such as accountants, actuaries, auditors, experts, consultants, lawyers; banks and financial institutions that service our accounts; our regulators and other governmental or public authorities where necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation; law enforcement agencies, courts, regulators, government authorities or other similar third parties where necessary for the prevention or detection of crime or to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation; or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of a third party; debt collection and subrogation agencies; selected third parties in connection with any sale, transfer or disposal of our business; your employer or a company acting on your employer’s behalf to monitor, audit or otherwise administer the services and fulfil contractual obligations in relation to the services.

11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and including the effective date.

12. Changes to Your Personal Data

If you have a change to your personal data, you may contact us using the contact information below to notify us of this change.

13. Contact Information

You may contact us using the information below:

Global Link Law, LLC

502 West 7th Street

Suite 100 Erie, PA 16502

privacy@globallinklaw.com

+1 (215) 770-6828

Cookie Policy

Global Link Law and its third-party providers collect information relating to the use of the Global Link Law website and services.  This information may include your IP address, internet service provider, operating system, user language, browser type, presence of “flash” plugins, screen resolution, connection type, and information that identifies cookies. Cookies are small files of data cached or stored on your computer by websites you visit. We may use cookies or similar technologies to monitor aggregated information to improve the website or services and to collect information for advertising and other purposes.  We use analytics services provided by third parties to help understand how visitors use the website and services. These analytic services use various technologies to collect and store information such as how often users visit the website and how they interact with the website, as well as what pages they visit, including what other sites they used prior to coming to the website.  We also collect data about your use of the website and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes.

Global Link Law uses Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the website and for analytics and marketing purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use the website, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

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