| The Law Offices of O. Max Gardner
III, P.C. knows that the privacy of the personal information that we receive
about you is important to you. We understand that you trust us to protect
the confidentiality and security of that information. The information we
collect about you is used only to provide the legal and fiduciary accounting
services that you request form us. The information is not used for marketing
purposes. Although there is a federal law designed to protect the privacy
of nonpublic personal information about consumers, as attorneys, we have
been and continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality
that are even more stringent than those required by this law.
This notice informs you of our
privacy policy and describes how we treat the information that we receive
about you. Please take a moment to review the policy and feel free to contact
us if you have any questions or concerns:
UPDATED: 1 May 2004
What Types of Information Do
We Collect About You?
The Law Offices of O. Max Gardner
III, P.C. collects nonpublic personal information about you only in connection
with providing you with the legal or fiduciary accounting services (i.e.
such as the maintenance of trust accounts) that you request. The types
of nonpublic personal information that we collect varies according to the
services we perform for you, and may include:
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Information that we receive from
you that is required to perform our professional services (such as your
name, address, social security number, income, assets, liabilities, and
other financial or household information that may be needed);
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Information about your relationship
with us (such as the type of legal service we provide to you, your invoice
balances, and your payment history); and
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Information that we receive, with
your authorization, or as a result of legal action taken on your behalf,
from third parties such as attorneys, creditors, collection agents, collection
attorneys, bankruptcy Trustees, consumer credit reporting agencies, finance
companies, accountants, financial advisors, insurance agents, banking institutions
and others.
How Do We Handle Your Information?
The Law Offices of O. Max Gardner
III, P.C. does not disclose any public or nonpublic information about you
that you have provided to us to anyone outside of our firm, except as authorized
by you or required by law such as the Bankruptcy Code, the Federal Bankruptcy
Rules, or the Local Bankruptcy Rules for the Western District of North
Carolina. For example, with your consent, we may disclose personal information
to a third-party contractor, such as an appraiser or accountant, who is
assisting us in providing professional services to you. Also, in order
to provide proper services to clients we will release information to the
extent required by law, rule, or regulation. For example, Pursuant to Local
Rule 1002-1 of The Rules of Practice and Procedure of the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina, all filings
with the Bankruptcy court are public records and are made available to
the public via the internet. Therefore, some information about you would
be accessible to the public.
Do We Share Information with
Marketers?
We do not sell client information
to anyone or disclose client information to marketing companies.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
We restrict access to public and
nonpublic personal information about you that you have provided to us to
those attorneys and staff members of The Law Offices of O. Max Gardner
III, P.C. who need to know the information to provide legal or fiduciary
accounting services to you. All attorneys and employees of The Law Offices
of O. Max Gardner III, P.C. are required to maintain the confidentiality
of all nonpublic personal information about you. We maintain physical,
electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with both federal law
and our more stringent professional standards to protect the public and
nonpublic personal information that you have provided to us.
Privacy Policy Changes
The right to change this policy
is reserved by The Law Offices of O. Max Gardner III, P.C. We are sensitive
to your privacy concerns and make every effort to change and update our
privacy policy to better protect your rights.
User Supplied Information
The Law Offices of O. Max Gardner
III, P.C. through its website does not seek to collect any public or nonpublic
information from you. Since the use of the website, contact via email,
or completion of a form does not create an attorney client privilege the
information supplied by you as a user of the WEBSITE is not protected by
the same sensitive privacy policy that is used for client information.
Although the Law Offices of O. Max Gardner III, P.C. will make an attempt
to protect the privacy of any user supplied information the user should
always be aware that the Law Offices of O. Max Gardner III, P.C. cannot
warrant the security of the information submitted by you and any submission
is done at your own risk. Furthermore, the user must be aware that any
information sent via the internet is subject to being read by many people
so the user sends information at their own risk.
Resource Links
Our website contains links to
other sites that we feel may be of interest to our users. Although we have
reviewed the content of these sites we cannot be responsible for their
individual privacy polices. We urge our users to read each site's individual
privacy policy.
The Law Offices of O. Max Gardner
III, P.C.
403 South Washington Street
PO Box 1000
Shelby NC 28151-1000
704.487.0616 (voice)
704.487.0619 (fax)
http://www.maxgardnerlaw.com/
maxgardner@maxgardner.com |
