Updated June 29, 2022
Purpose
This privacy policy informs you of personal data on site users that we collect, store, process, use, and share.
We respect your privacy and aim to keep you aware of your personal data matters.
Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, use, and sharing of information as specified below.
So, please read this privacy policy carefully to understand it accurately and completely.
Identification
We are Biryuk Law Firm PLLC, a law firm established in New York City, NY, U.S.
Our website address (URL) is https://www.biryuklaw.com.
Personal Data
On this site, we collect your personal data for various reasons from various sources, including:
- Comments
- Contact/subscription forms
- Surveys
- Polls
- Quizzes
- Cookies
- Embedded/linked content
- Analytics
Below, we describe what personal data we collect from each source and why we collect this data.
Comments
When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and your browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact/Subscription Forms
If you submit a contact/subscription form entry, we collect and process your:
- name (full, first or last name or anything else you enter into the name field);
- email address;
- geolocation;
- subscription form, date and time;
- email open and click rates;
- unsubscribe; and
- other details.
If you enter any personal data into a contact/subscription form but do not submit the entry, we also collect that data from the abandoned form.
If you submit a contact/subscription form entry while being offline, we further collect that data when you get online.
To safeguard your subscription and verify your email address, we use double opt-in. This means that, after you subscribe on our site, you have to confirm your subscription by clicking a link that we email you. Until you click that link, you are not subscribed.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletter (email list) at any time. The unsubscribe link is available at the bottom of our emails.
Surveys, Polls, and Quizzes
We collect, process, and store your answers to our surveys, polls, and quizzes.
We use those survey/poll/quiz answers to provide you better materials and services.
Cookies and API Integration
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
We also apply Google Analytics, which uses cookies to measure user interactions (including first-party data) and Google signals to personalize ads. For details, please refer to the Google Analytics privacy.
Additionally, we use Meta (former Facebook) pixel and Conversions API integration to track site visitors, collect visitor data (including zero-party data), measure ad conversions, and retarget ads on Meta (including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp). For details, please refer to the Meta privacy policy.
Embedded/Linked Content
This site includes embedded or linked content (e.g., videos, maps, images, publications etc) from other websites. For example, we use YouTube video embeds. Such embedded content behaves exactly the same as if you have visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics (including ) to track traffic and apply retargeting on our site.
For details, please refer to the Google privacy policy.
With Google signals active, Google Analytics associates the visitation information it collects from our site with Google information from accounts of signed-in users who have consented to this association for the purpose of ads personalization. This Google information may include your location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google. This information is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into your cross-device behaviors.
These features are subject to the Google Analytics Advertising Features policies.
Data Retention Term
We store your personal data indefinitely. We can erase your personal data at any time at our own discretion.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Data Use Purposes
We use your personal data for communication, marketing, and client service purposes. For example, we use your personal data to email you our newsletters about our blog posts, articles, alerts, memos, news, updates, promotions, and special offers.
Data Sharing
We store your name, email address, and other personal data on our account at a third-party email service provider (MailChimp) and Meta Business Suite (including Events Manager).
This allows us to email you our newsletter and personalize our ads to you.
For details on MailChimp, please refer to its privacy policy and terms of use.
Data Storage
We may store all of your data in Meta Business Suite, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and/or another cloud. For details, please review, among others, the following terms and policies:
- Meta Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
- iCloud Terms and Conditions and Apple Privacy Policy
- Google Drive Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
- Microsoft Terms of Use and Privacy Statement
We also use a third-party service to manage administrative tasks. If you leave a comment, submit personal information via a contact form, or otherwise exchange personal details with us, it is possible that we may use this service to manage that data. For more information regarding the way this service handles its data, please visit the iThemes Privacy Policy.
Spam Detection
Your comments are checked through an automated spam detection service (Akismet). This service collects information about visitors who comment on our site. The information that Akismet collects typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and site URL (along with other information that the commenter directly provides such as the commenter’s name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Data Export
If you have left a comment on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
Data Erasure
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
Policy Updates
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. All changes we make appear on this page.
Therefore, please review this page frequently to remain up-to-date with the information we collect, store, process, use, and share as well as why and how we do this. Please review an updated policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures correctly and fully.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about your personal data or privacy, please contact us here.