Privacy
Updated September 6, 2000.
This privacy statement
discloses the privacy practices for www.counterclaim. counterclaim
agrees to notify you of:
1. What personally identifiable
information of yours or third party personal identification is collected from
you through the Web site.
2. The organization collecting the information.
3. How the information is used.
4. With whom the information may be shared.
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information.
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss,
misuse or alteration of information under counterclaim's control.
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information. If you have
questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact
our customer support department by sending an email to info@counterclaim.com.
The purpose of counterclaim
is to take advantage of Internet technology to enable attorneys, courts,
and third parties to interact in highly customized ways without forfeiting
the privacy of the end user. By registering as a member at counterclaim,
you agree to accept this Privacy Statement and are aware that our statement
may change from time to time. This statement will be available on this
page for members to read. Members will be notified on our homepage of
any change to our privacy statement. The statement below outlines our
privacy program. It is a work in progress. From time to time, as we expand
our services, we will update our privacy statement but the underlying
goal of protecting participants' privacy will remain. We also welcome
your input into these guidelines. Give us your feedback at info@counterclaim.com.
About counterclaim
All information collected
as a result of your acccout with counterclaim will be controlled by counterclaim.com,
Inc., an Oregon corporation. We do not give, sell, rent, share, or trade any
identifiable personal information regarding our members to any third party,
with the exception of third parties who are authorized by you to provide Web
site viewing and other services, and who are strictly prohibited from later
use of the information that they may have access to. We will also disclose
personal information to local, state, or federal law enforcement officials
when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
Information We Collect
On Our Online Registration Form
We require you to provide
us with your full name, social security number, bar number, birthdate, full
street address, email address and a password. We will process this information
so that we may identify you if you ever lose your password, administer your
membership, communicate news & information, provide services to you and enable
you to take advantage of other member benefits. While you are within counterclaim's
service, we automatically track certain information about your behavior. This
information includes the URL of the page you are visiting, what browser you
are using, and your IP address. We do this in order to preserve the security
of the counterclaim system. YOU CAN LOG OUT OF counterclaim AT ANY
TIME TO STOP THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION GATHERING.
Cookies
The process we use
to track you involves use of a "cookie." A cookie is a piece of text that
can be entered into the memory of your computer. Many Internet services
deliver cookies to visitors of their Web sites. Cookies store information
about your use of their service on your computer where it can only be
retrieved by the same service at a later time. Cookies are used by Internet
services to make their services much more convenient and personalized.
We use cookies to ensure security, and to save your personal information
so you don't have to reenter it each time you connect. Most cookies are
"session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the
end of a session. If you decline our cookies, you will not be allowed
to utilize the counterclaim service. If you would like more information
about cookies, you may wish to do a search on a search engine or visit
http://www.cookiecentral.com. Your personal information (email address,
mailing address, username, password) can be changed or updated by you
at any time. This can be done through the counterclaim Web site. Access
the "Member Area" and then select "Modify Account", or "Change Password".
You will then be asked to enter your current Username and Password. Once
you submit this information you will be able to change your personal information.
You can also email your requested changes to info@counterclaim.com
Our Use of Your Information
We use your email address
to verify your identity to protect against fraud and to contact you when counterclaim
needs to contact you. In addition, we use it to send you updates about your
account, new products and services and company updates. We will use your mailing
address, social security number, bar number, and birthdate to verify your
identity. We use URL information to prevent fraud. We use your IP address
to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web site and
to provide a more secure service. counterclaim will protect your information
no matter where we process or store your data by following this privacy statement.
By becoming a member you give your consent to this transfer of your personal
data. Further, we can - and you authorize us to disclose any information about
you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion,
believe necessary or appropriate.
External Links
The counterclaim Web
site contains links to other Web sites. counterclaim is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of any other Web sites. Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and
alteration of the information under our control. We use industry standard
procedures and processes to safeguard the confidentiality of your identifiable
personal information, such as firewalls, encryption, token authentication,
application proxies, monitoring technology and adaptive analysis of network
traffic to track abuse of our network and its data. On occasion, when you
submit information about yourself to counterclaim over the Internet, the
information may travel over many systems that are not under the control of
counterclaim. The Internet is not 100% secure and others may intercept
the information that you are sending. One easy and important way to protect
your personal information is to guard your account password and close your
browser window when you step away from your computer. Only pre-approved counterclaim
employees will be given access to this information. The number of counterclaim
employees who have access to this information will be kept to a minimum in
order to keep this information as confidential as possible. counterclaim
reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to deny membership to the counterclaim
service for reasons of abuse, fraud or any other reasonable cause.
Changes to the Statement
This privacy statement
may change from time to time. This statement will be available on this
page for members to read. Members will be notified on our homepage of
any change to our privacy statement. Contacting the Web Site If you have
any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site
or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact info@counterclaim.com.
