Cooper, Whitney,Cochran &
Francois
PRIVACY PROTECTION POLICY
Our law firm understands your concerns
as a client for privacy and the need to ensure the privacy of all your
information. Your privacy is important to us and maintaining your trust and
confidence is a high priority. Lawyers have been and continue to be bound by
professional standards of confidentiality. The purpose of this notice is to
explain our Privacy Policy with regard to personal information about you that we
obtain and how we keep that information secure.
NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION WE
COLLECT
We collect nonpublic personal
information about you that is provided to us by you or obtained by us with your
authorization or consent.
WE DO NOT DISCLOSE ANY PERSONAL
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR CLIENTS OR FORMER CLIENTS TO ANYONE, EXCEPT AS PERMITTED
BY LAW AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE ETHICS RULES.
We do not disclose any nonpublic
personal information about current or former clients obtained in the course of
representation of those clients, except as expressly or impliedly authorized by
those clients to enable us to effectuate the purpose of our representation or as
required or permitted by law or applicable provisions of codes of professional
responsibility or ethical rules governing our conduct as lawyers. Our policy
specifically means that we protect the confidentiality of our clients’ Social
Security numbers, prohibit unlawful disclosure of our clients’ Social Security
numbers and limit access to our clients’ social security numbers in the same
manner as we do all other nonpublic personal information. We safeguard the data,
computer files and documents containing your personal information and destroy,
erase or make unreadable such data, computer files and documents prior to
disposal.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
We retain records relating to
professional services that we provide so that we are better able to assist you
with your professional needs and to comply with professional guidelines or
requirements of law. In order to guard your nonpublic personal information, we
maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with our
professional standards.