The Abel Firm Terms, Conditions & Privacy Policy
Last Updated: Sep 12, 2024
Welcome to The Abel Firm website. By accessing or using this website, you agree to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions, which together with our Privacy Policy govern The Abel Firm’s relationship with you concerning this website. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use our website.
1. General Information
1.1 Company Details
The Abel Firm
San Rafael Bay Area, California
Phone: 415-461-5400
Email: info@theabelfirm.com
1.2 Legal Disclaimer
The content provided on this website is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The use of this website does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and The Abel Firm.
2.0 Website Use
2.1 License to Use
You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the website for personal, non-commercial purposes. You agree not to use the website in any way that may damage or impair the website or its availability to others.
2.2 Prohibited Uses
You are prohibited from:
- Using this website in violation of any applicable laws or regulations.
- Attempting to gain unauthorized access to the website, its server, or any other systems or networks.
- Engaging in data mining, scraping, or any similar activity to extract data from the website.
3.0 Intellectual Property Rights
3.1 Ownership
All content, design, logos, and intellectual property on this website are owned or licensed by The Abel Firm. Unauthorized use of these materials may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.
3.2 Use of Content
You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from any content on this website without prior written consent from The Abel Firm.
4.0 Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or resources that are not owned or controlled by The Abel Firm. We do not endorse or assume any responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites. Use of such websites is at your own risk.
5.0 Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Abel Firm shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or relating to the use of this website. This limitation applies to any loss, injury, or damage, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise.
6.0 No Warranties
The Abel Firm makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, reliability, or availability of the website. The website and its content are provided “as is” without any warranties of any kind, including implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
7.0 Governing Law
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. Any disputes arising from the use of this website shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in California.
8.0 Modifications to Terms and Conditions
The Abel Firm reserves the right to modify or update these terms at any time without prior notice. Any changes to these terms will be posted on this page, and your continued use of the website signifies your acceptance of the updated terms.
9.0 Contact Information
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, please contact us at:
Email: admin@theabelfirm.com
Phone: 415-461-5400
By using this website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to these terms and conditions.
Privacy Policy
1. Who we are:
Welcome to The Abel Firm. Our website address is: https://theabelfirm.com. The Abel Firm values the trust our users, clients and customers place in us when they give us access to their personal data. The Privacy Policy describes how we work to maintain that trust and protect that information.
In particular, this Privacy Policy details our collection, use and disclosure of personal and non-personal data you give to The Abel Firm when you access or use The Abel Firm’s online and/or mobile services and websites, and software provided by The Abel Firm on or in connection with such services or websites (collectively, the “Site”).
1.2 Personal Data and Non-Personal Data:
Personal data (“Personal Data”) refers to any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual, and non-personal data (“Non-Personal Data”) refers to any information that does not identify you as a specific individual. Please note that at all times, The Abel Firm will adhere to the applicable statutory definition in determining what is and is not Personal Data for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. Where this Privacy Policy refers to “information” or “your information” this may include both Personal and Non-Personal Data.
1.3 How The Abel Firm Uses Cookies:
We use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for measurement services, better targeting ads, and for marketing purposes. This takes place from the Site and when you download or install a The Abel Firm App. These cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies allow us to display The Abel Firm promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet. The Abel Firm may also share information about your behavior on the Site with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you.
1.4 What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
We may collect personal electronic data to better manage our customer relationships, to better serve you, including targeted marketing and developing products and services according to our customers’ preferences. We process your personal data only for predefined and lawful purposes. If you feel your data has been compromised through our site, please contact us immediately and we will investigate and provide solution if feasible.
1.5 Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comment form as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. 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 here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
1.6 Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
1.7 Contact forms:
When visitors insert data into our contact forms on the site, we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
1.8 Cookies:
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving 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. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
1.8.1 Analytical Purposes:
We use cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the Site. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Site.
1.8.2 Your Preferences & User Experience:
We use cookies to gather certain information about users, such as browser type, server, language preference, and country setting, in order to store user preferences on our Site to make your user experience more consistent and convenient. In addition, we use cookies to maintain your logged in state when you visit our Site repeatedly. We may also use your IP address to determine your geographic location in order to provide you with the most relevant search results.
1.8.3 Provide Measurement Services and Better Targeted Ads, & Marketing:
We use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for measurement services, better targeting ads, and for marketing purposes. This takes place from the Site. You have a right to object to the legitimate interest use of your Personal Data for the purposes of marketing. To opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting, or to avail of any other rights, please feel free to exercise your rights as detailed in section 1.8.7 of our Privacy Policy.
1.8.4 Security Purposes:
We use cookies to limit certain types of cyber attacks.
1.8.5 Testing, Usability, and Performance Improvement Purposes
We use cookies to ensure users receive a consistent user experience while we conduct A/B testing on certain aspects of our Site in order to improve our website and service as well as products or other offerings. We also use cookies to improve the performance and reliability of our Site.
1.8.6 Fraud/Spam prevention
We use cookies during fraud reviews and investigations. Some of our cookie/device tracking happens via 3rd party vendors like SiftScience, other times we use our own indexes to identify activity related to specific cookies.
1.8.7 Opt out of having cookies placed for the purposes of Google Analytics
To provide website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, Google has developed Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js).
If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox and Opera. In order to function, the opt-out add-on must be able to load and execute properly on your browser. For Internet Explorer, 3rd-party cookies must be enabled. Learn more about the opt-out and how to properly install the browser add-on here.
1.9 Embedded content from other websites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
2. How long we retain your data:
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
2.1 What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
2.2 Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
2.3 Your contact information
When you give The Abel Firm contact information (such as your name and email address) and other forms of Personal and Non-Personal Data, you agree that The Abel Firm may utilize this information for the purposes outlined in sections 4, 5 and 9, to the extent applicable. In particular, you agree that The Abel Firm may, as part of its services to you, communicate with you, or initiate communication with you on behalf of a third party, through your The Abel Firm account or through other means such as email, telephone (including mobile phone), or postal mail, including through the use of contact information that you may provide to The Abel Firm or that The Abel Firm may otherwise obtain from third-party resources.