PRIVACY DISCLOSURES
Advocates for the elderly and disabled, a nonprofit public interest law firm, is committed to protecting your privacy rights online. The privacy disclosures describe how we treat data collected during your visit to our site. The Advocates for the Elderly and Disabled website consists of a website owned and managed by the firm. These disclosures are website-specific to www.advocates-ca.org.
As you visit our website and conduct business with us, many different companies may be gathering information about our online behavior by tracking searches, visits, and transactions. Advocates contract with outside providers to help maintain the website, email, client portal, case management software, billing software, LawPay accounts, calendar, workspace suite, electronic newsletters, intake forms, event emails, blogs, and social media sites.
Certain pages on our website may request that you provide your personal information. We may automatically receive and record information from your browser when you visit our website. The information may include your IP address, cookie information, browser types, systems, and web address.
The outside providers may use cookies or other means to collect personal data about the visitors to our website to facilitate communication. Cookies are small data files that can be placed on a user's computer by a web server. We do not use cookies or other means to collect personal information. However, we allow outside service providers to place these cookies for tracking purposes.
www.Advocates-CA.org is an informational site that provides multiple resource links to other sites. There is the possibility that other sites to which we provided links use cookies to collect a visitor's personal information.
On each page of our website, we provide a donation link to support our mission or purchase the item using a credit card or PayPal. We use a secure server to process these transactions so your credit card number and other personal information will be encrypted and will remain confidential. We will not sell, share, or disclose the donors' names or personal information with any other entity. The information will be used only to process the donations. We use a secure platform through PayPal.
Our website also includes links where you can join our newsletter by providing your email to us. You can unsubscribe at any time if you don't wish to receive any more materials from us.
We do not provide your personal information to outside vendors for commercial purposes.
We request that all written communication be sent via email rather than through physical mail due to current COVID-19 restrictions. All clients do have a " Client Portal" and are requested to use it for all correspondence and communication with the firm.
If you have further questions or need additional answers, please send all of your questions to: Info@Advocates-CA.org. We reserve the right to update these privacy disclosures as the industry practices change and develop. Please contact us anytime for updates.