Website Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 9, 2020
Foundry General Counsel respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Statement (the “Statement”) describes how we look after your personal data collected by us when you visit our website (the “Site(s)”), or which we otherwise receive or collect from you in the course of our operations and client services. It also describes certain privacy rights and data protection laws that may apply to you.
It is important that you read this Statement together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Statement supplements other, more targeted notices and is not intended to override them.
This Site is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect information from children.
WHO WE ARE AND OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Who We Are. Foundry General Counsel is a nationally renowned law firm that provides legal counsel to guide our client’s business strategies. Foundry General Counsel consists of former in-house attorneys and other professionals admitted to practice law in numerous jurisdictions with offices located in Virginia, Maryland, and Illinois.
Data controllers. For the purposes of data protection under the General Data Protection Regulation and any applicable national implementing laws, regulations, secondary or other legislation (collectively, the GDPR), the legal entity overseeing the processing of your personal data is Foundry General Counsel PLLC.
Clients, prospects, candidates, providers and other individuals in the EU (or whose personal data is otherwise subject to the GDPR) should contact the data protection officer for the controller with whom they have actively engaged. If you have privacy or data protection questions in connection with the Site, please contact us.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU
Foundry General Counsel only collects personal data required to serve the purpose for which it was collected. The type of personal data we collect will depend upon the nature of your relationship with us (e.g., whether you are a client, prospect, candidate, provider, or visitor to our Site or office), the purpose for which the data is required, and our legal and regulatory obligations.
We collect this personal information in connection with services we provide to clients, from this Site and blogs, software that we use to register you for events, or software we maintain for marketing our services. We may also collect this information from you when you visit our offices or attend our events. The categories of personal data we may collect include:
Data That You Provide. Foundry General Counsel collects data from you through the Sites when you choose to share it with us. This may include when you sign up for one or more of our newsletters or our email list, register for one of our events, request information from us, or otherwise communicate with or contact us. The data we collect from you on the Site falls into the following categories:
- Contact Details: We collect your contact information, such as first and last name, email and postal address, and telephone number.
- Business Information: We collect data about your company or business, including company name, your job title, and business telephone number or mailing address.
- Marketing Preferences: We collect data concerning your preferences in receiving marketing, other targeted information from us, and your contact preferences.
- Other Communications: If you choose to send us an email message, we may retain the content of the email, including any attachments, your email address, and our response.
- to perform client services, to fulfill our contractual obligations toward you, on the basis of our legitimate interests or our clients’ legitimate interests, and to provide the best client service we can;
- to support our business processes, to fulfill our contractual obligations toward you, or, if not applicable, on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide the best client service we can, to support our business operations, administration, IT services, and network security, and to prevent fraud;
- to safeguard your personal data and our IT system with appropriate security, on the basis of your and our legitimate interest for such security;
- to exchange information, conduct due diligence, answer your questions, take steps required to enter into a contract with you, or for the purposes of our legitimate interests to protect our legal rights and a third party’s rights, or, on the basis of your consent;
- for our recruitment purposes, including in the context of a selection and recruitment procedure, to take steps prior to entering into an employment relationship or contract with you or on the basis that it is our legitimate interest to use your personal data in such a way to ensure that we can make the best recruitment decisions — we will not process any special categories of personal data except where we are able to do so under applicable legislation or with your explicit consent;
- to keep you up to date with Foundry General Counsel events, activities and news that may be of interest to you, on the basis of your consent, or for our legitimate interests to use your personal data for marketing purposes;
- to present the Site and its content in the best possible way for you and on your computer, on the basis of our legitimate interests to keep our Site updated and relevant, to develop our outreach and business operations, and to develop marketing strategy;
- for business transactions such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets on the basis of our legitimate interests to sell or expand our business operations; and/or
- to comply with legal and regulatory requirements applicable to us.
- Service providers. We have retained to perform services on our behalf or on behalf of a client in connection with specific legal services we are providing for the client.
- Public authorities. If we are required to do so by law or legal process, in response to a request from government authorities, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to prevent personal harm or financial loss.
- Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets. We reserve the right to transfer your personal data in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will require that the transferee use the personal data you have provided in a manner consistent with our privacy policy and the applicable legal framework.
- Safety. We may disclose your data to protect the security of our Sites, servers, network systems, and databases. We also may disclose your data as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of any legal document or contract related to our services, or the rights of any third party.
Last modified: 01/07/2020