Criminal Law in the United States

Privacy Policy

Kalco Law LLC Privacy Policy

Kalco Law LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) is committed to preserving and respecting the privacy of all visitors (“you”, “your”) to our website, “Criminal Law in United States.” We understand that users or legal clients use our web pages and contact us regarding sensitive, personal issues. Therefore, we are dedicated to only collecting information from you that is necessary for us to assist you, ensuring such information is kept securely, confidentially, and consistent with all applicable laws. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website, contact us or utilize our resources.

By (a) visiting our website, or (b) contacting us to schedule a complementary initial consultation, you agree that you have read this Privacy Policy fully and understand its terms and conditions. If you do not consent to the terms set forth below, you must not proceed or else cease all use of our site immediately. We encourage that you read this Policy in its entirety before using our site or conducting business with us.

About Kalco Law LLC and Our Privacy Commitment

Kalco Law LLC is a United States-based criminal defence law firm that provides clients throughout the country with knowledgeable advice, resources and proven legal representation. Our “Criminal Law in the United States” website is a valuable, accessible resource for people who want to understand US criminal law, procedure and their rights under the law. Lead attorney Clarice Tan and the rest of our legal team are committed to providing strong legal defence advocacy along with maximum transparency and empowerment for our clients. We find that taking care to protect our client’s and visitors’ privacy is vital to building trust between our defence lawyers and those we work with, and it is a necessary component to creating a safe, informative environment for all site and potential customers.

Applying This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs all data collected by Kalco Law LLC via the “Criminal Law in the United States” website, and directly communicated to Kalco Law, LLC via communications such as a telephone call, email, or a visit to its office at 1300 Clay St Ste 80 Oakland CA 94612. This policy covers data practices related to the provision of legal services, free consultations, education content, and responses to user requests. This policy is not applicable to third party websites or services that are linked with this site. We advise you to examine any privacy policies that are presented by linked websites or companies for the manner in which your information will be handled.

Privacy Policy Definitions

  • Personal Information is information that identifies or could reasonably be used to identify a specific individual such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, case information, or other personal identifiers.
  • Non-Personal Information is data aggregated or, in some cases, anonymized data that does not specifically identify you such as information about the use of the site.
  • Processing is any operation performed on personal data including but not limited to, collection, storage, use, disclosure, and destruction.
  • User or You means anyone who visits this website or a client or customer of Kalco Law LLC who communicates with Kalco Law LLC seeking information or services.

Types of Information We Collect

Kalco Law LLC gathers information to be able to provide efficient legal representation, communicate with you, and use our website effectively. This information may include:

  • Information you voluntarily submit to us, including:
    • Your name, street address, phone number, and email address when you reach out to us for a consultation or sign up to receive additional information;
    • Information relating to your legal issue when you contact us for advice or services;
    • Numbers and information relating to payments to us if you are obtaining paid services from us.
  • Automatically collected activity information:
    • Your IP address, browser type, device name, and relevant data on how you use our website;
    • Cookies and other types of tracking tools that allow us to improve your online experience with our website and analyze site performance.
  • Content provided by third parties:
    • Information provided to us by other law firms, courts, or other partners with your permission or as necessary for representation in your case.

Use of Your Information

We use information about you in a number of ways, but always with respect for your privacy and interests. Specific uses include:

  • To communicate with you in response to inquiries and to schedule free initial consultations
  • To provide legal advice, represent or update you about a particular matter
  • To send you legal education materials, legal news and other content, if you have signed-up for our communications
  • For internal business operations purposes such as records, billing, professional requirements, compliance with ethics rules, internal reporting, and similar purposes
  • To enhance our Web site usability, security and experience
  • To perform research and analysis for better understanding of audience needs (we use aggregated information that cannot be used to identify individual audience members whenever possible)

We do not use personally-identifying information for marketing other products or services that are not related to the purpose for which we collected the information and we do not sell, lease, or trade your information to third parties for promotional purposes.

Legal Grounds for Processing Personal Information

Kalco Law LLC uses personal information only where we have a lawful basis to do so. Depending on the context, we may rely on the following legal bases:

  • Consent: Where you provide us with information voluntarily (e.g., when you request that we contact you to arrange a consultation), by which you consent to our use of that information in accordance with this policy.
  • Contract: Where you engage us as your representative during the course of a legal matter, we need to process your information to enable us to perform our obligations under that contract.
  • Legal requirement: We may process certain information to comply with laws, court orders, government policies or to respond to requests from statutory authorities.
  • Legitimate interests: Where it is in our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and those interests are not overridden by your privacy rights, we may use your information to help us achieve our business objectives such as delivering and improving our services, ensuring the security of our websites and systems, or protecting our legal rights.

Sharing Your Information

Kalco Law LLC takes the confidentiality and protection of your information seriously. We do not sell, lease or trade your personal information. Information may only be shared in the following situations:

  • With your full permission (e.g., you give us permission to refer you to another lawyer or an expert from out-of-state who is needed on a particular case);
  • To service providers and vendors that help us run our business and deliver services (e.g., IT support, secure data storage) pursuant to separate confidentiality agreements;
  • Where required by law or the order of a court of competent jurisdiction or when otherwise necessary to fulfill our own legal, regulatory and contractual obligations; and
  • When necessary to protect our rights or safety, our clients’ rights or safety, or the rights or safety of any person or entity, where permitted by law.

In all situations noted above, to the extent practicable, third-parties are required to have confidentiality and data protections requirements at least as restrictive as those we are subject to.

Attorney-Client Confidentiality and Privilege

As a law firm, Kalco Law LLC is legally required to follow stringent attorney-client privilege rules and ethical obligations of confidentiality. Anything you provide us to help you with legal advice or opinions or in the context of representation is protected by law, and we make every effort to comply with your privacy. Staff and attorneys at Kalco Law are trained to deal with strictly sensitive material in a client-safe, confidential manner and will not release your information without your express permission or when required to do so to meet a legal or ethical obligation.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Our Site uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure functionality and analyze site usage in order to improve our services. Cookies, which are files saved on your device, help us identify repeat visitors, count traffic, identify user preferences and track use trends. You can set your own browser to decline use of cookies or to indicate when they are being used. However, doing so may limit certain features or functionality. We do not use cookies for advertising or cross-site tracking.

For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Links and Third-Party Interactions

You may find links to third-party websites, legal research, or other media on our website. Kalco Law LLC is not responsible for the privacy and security practices of such external sites. We encourage you to review those privacy policies before providing any personal information to such entities. Unless needed in the course of our representation, or specifically authorized by you, we do not provide personally identifying information to third parties.

Information Security

We put a lot of stock in keeping your information safe here at Kalco Law LLC. We use physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect your data from unauthorized access, accidental loss or improper use, such as encrypted messaging, secure server storage, periodic security audits, and limited access to client files. Our staff engages in regular training on the handling of client data. As much as we try to keep your data safe, no system is perfect. We ask users to be vigilant and to notify us of any suspected security breach immediately.

Data Retention and Deletion

We will retain your personal information for as long as required to fulfil the purposes for which we are processing it or as needed to comply with legal or ethical obligations or to resolve disputes. This means:

  • Client records are retained in line with applicable laws governing the provision of legal services
  • Information given to us in a consultation (or by nonclients responding to a query) may be retained for a period in-line with reasonable needs to follow-up matters or meet legal obligations
  • We may also retain certain non-identifiable aggregated data for research, analytical or other purposes

You may ask us to delete your personal information at any time – subject to legal or contractual implications. To make such a request you may contact us using the details set out in this policy.

Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction and the applicable law you may have one or more rights in relation to your personal information, including:

  • Right of access to information and to obtain copies.
  • Right of rectification or updating of inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Right of erasure or blocking of information, subject to legal restrictions.
  • Right of objection to all or some of the processing operations such as direct communications through traditional or electronic channels or data analysis purposes.
  • Right to withdraw consent at any time, if the processing is based on consent.

Children’s Privacy

Our website and other products and services are not for the use of any individual under age 18, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18 in any way. If you are a parent or guardian and you are reporting the information that was submitted by a child under this age, please immediately contact us so that we may take the steps to remove the information from our files.

International Users

Kalco Law LLC concentrates its practice on the representation of clients based in the United States, but our site is accessible throughout the world. To the extent that you are from another jurisdiction and access this site, you understand that your data may be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States, where laws of privacy may be different than those in your jurisdiction. We apply the same high standards for protection of that data, regardless of where it originates.

Privacy Policy Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If we make changes, we will post the revised policy on this website, and update the effective date. You should review this page regularly to stay informed about our commitment to privacy. Your continued use of our website or on-line services following any changes will be deemed to have been accepted by you.

Contact Us

If you should have any questions, comments, or requests pertaining to this Privacy Policy or any of our data collection or use practices, you may contact Kalco Law LLC at the postal address or telephone number set out below, and/or submit an email at the above-stated e-mail address:

Address:1300 Clay St Ste 80, Oakland CA 94612
Telephone:(510) 314-5625
E-mail:[email protected]

We will make every reasonable effort to respond to your inquiry or complaint regarding this Privacy Policy in a timely manner.

Complaint Resolution and Governing Law

Kalco Law LLC aims to resolve all privacy issues in a timely and appropriate manner. If you think that your privacy rights have been breached by us, or if you have a query or complaint about the way we have handled your personal data, please contact us directly by using the contact details provided here and we will investigate your query or complaint and respond to you directly as soon as we can. If you are dissatisfied with our resolution of your complaint then you may have the right to refer your complaint to the supervisory authority or data protection authority in your jurisdiction.

CCPA Additional Privacy Rights Under California Law

If you are a California resident, then you have additional rights under California state law.

In accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), you have the right to:

  • Request to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
  • Request to delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions;
  • Request to opt out of sale of your personal information (note: Kalco Law LLC does not sell personal information)
  • Not be discriminated against for the exercise of these rights.

If you would like to exercise your California privacy rights, please contact us at [email protected] or (510) 314-5625.

Analytics

In order to enhance our site and gain a better understanding of our audience, we may employ the use of trusted third party analytics services. Such services may use non-personal data to collect certain information regarding your use of the site through cookies and/or other similar technologies. Those services provide us with aggregate data that help us to optimize content, track technical concerns, and make enhancements to the user experience. In these circumstances we do not use any personally identifiable data. You may disable your ability to have analytics administrators track user activity on the site by selecting appropriate preferences in your browser settings or by utilizing available opt-out mechanisms.

Data Transfers and Storage Security

All information gathered by Kalco Law LLC is stored and processed in a secured data center located in the United States. We use measures to protect your data while your data is being transferred and while it is stored on our server. These include encryption, access controls and ongoing security assessments. If we need to transfer data to third party data processors, we will do so under contracts which impose rigorous data protection and security requirements on those parties. We do not make international transfers of your data except to provide legal services or as required by applicable law.

Record Retention and Legal Obligations

Kalco Law LLC is a law firm, and as such it must comply with legal record keeping requirements. We maintain case files, correspondence and related documentation subject to applicable statutory or professional retention period requirements. Upon expiration of the applicable retention period, we securely delete or anonymize records. If you would like to know how long we keep your information, please feel free to contact us.

Consent

Your use of our website, submission of information via any of your contact forms or your engagement of our legal services constitutes your consent to our collection, use and processing of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. In the event you do not agree to our policy and practices you are requested to not use our website or provide us any personal information. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us.

Changes to Your Personal Information

If you feel any information that we have in our possession relating to you is inaccurate, incomplete, or not up to date, please do not hesitate to contact us immediately at [email protected] or at (510) 314-5625. We will consider your request and make such changes we deem appropriate to the information we hold in order that it comply with the law.

Breach Notification

In the event of any compromise that affects your personally identifiable information, including in the unlikely event of a data breach, Kalco Law LLC will take appropriate efforts to contain and investigate any incidents. We will inform affected individuals and appropriate authorities, as necessary, about the nature of the incident, the impacted data and protective steps you can take. Otherwise, we are committed to being transparent and taking prompt action in response to information security events.

Accessibility of Privacy Policy Disclosures

Ensuring that our Privacy Policy is easily accessible and clearly written is a priority for us. Our Privacy Policy was created for and by real people. If you need this policy in another format because of a disability or if you have questions about the policy, please contact us at [email protected] or (510) 314-5625. Ensuring that all people have access to information regarding privacy rights and data practices is important to us.

Applicable Law

This Agreement, along with any disputes that may arise from or relate to it, shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California, as well as the relevant laws of the United States of America. Furthermore, it is agreed that the courts situated in Oakland, California, shall possess exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes that arise from or relate to privacy or data protection in connection with this website or its services.

Changing Your Preferences

You may control how we contact you, and request to stop receiving nonessential email or updates at any time. You can do this by following instructions contained in our email messages, or by contacting us directly. We respect your choices, and promptly will act on your instructions where, and as required and permitted by law.

Contact Kalco Law LLC

Kalco Law LLC remains committed to providing you with professional guidance and maintaining your privacy when you retain us. Whether you’re receiving a complimentary first consultation, or simply browsing our web pages, we handle your information with the utmost respect. If you have questions about your legal rights, our privacy policy, or how we can help you in your criminal law matter in the United States, please contact us using the following:

Address:1300 Clay St Ste 80 Oakland CA 94612 USA
Telephone:(510) 314-5625
Email:[email protected]

We welcome your contact in confidence with knowledgeable support on your criminal law matter.