Thank you for using Lexyom. This privacy policy (Policy) applies to your use of the Lexyom platform (the Site). Lexyom is firmly committed to protecting the privacy of the users of the Site (together, you or Users). The Policy is intended to inform you about how we collect and use information. Please read it carefully in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions and Community Guidelines before accessing our website or submitting any information to us. If you do not agree to any part of this Policy, then you should stop accessing our Site. Our goal is to provide you with a secure online experience and to ensure that any information you submit to us is private and used/disclosed only for the purposes and in the means described below. This Policy, which may be amended from time to time, is incorporated into and is subject to Lexyom's Terms & Conditions (the Terms & Conditions). Your use of the Site and any personal information you provide on the Site remain subject to the terms of this Policy, the Terms & Conditions and the Community Guidelines.
Personal Information. When you register and set up an account, use or visit the Site, or contact
us by e-mail or other means for any reason, you will be asked for the relevant pieces of
information that specifically identify an individual, such as, but not be limited to, your name,
age, contact details (email, address and telephone number), date and place of birth, passport
information, payment information (billing and financial information which may include your
postal and email addresses) and preferences. If you are using a mobile device, we might also
collect data that identifies your mobile number, mobile device, device-specific settings and
characteristics and latitude/longitude details. We might also calculate and process data related
to the type of apps installed on a mobile device, such as the name of the app, an app description
and the category it belongs to. None of this information by itself will be able to tell us who you
are, but it can still be considered “personal” information. We may also receive information
about you when you use certain social media services.
Usage/Log information. When you use the Site, we collect usage information. This includes
information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system and
browser type, the date and time you access or use the Site, items you click on, pages you view
and the amount of time you spend on any particular page, application version, language settings
and pages that have been shown to you. We treat this information as Personal Information if we
combine it with or link it to any of the personal information mentioned above. Otherwise, it is
used in the aggregate only and is not considered by Lexyom to be subject to the restrictions in
this Policy.
Referral Service. We may offer a referral service to tell a friend about the Site. In such case, we
may ask you for your friend’s email address or any other information needed to send the
invitation and we may also ask you to invite a friend via third party services such as Facebook or
Twitter. By providing email addresses of non-users, you represent that you have the right to do
so and that such information may also be provided to the third party service that you have
designated to contact the non-user. We store and use this information to send this invitation, to
register a friend if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral service.
Your friend may contact us at [email protected] to request that we remove this information from
our database.
Location Information. If you choose to enable location-based services, we may collect your
location based on information provided by you or your mobile device, including, if available,
GPS, IP address or cell tower information.
Third Party Information. We may receive information about you from third parties (e.g.,
Facebook, Twitter, etc.) (Third Party Sites), in accordance with the policies and terms of such
Third Party Sites. This Policy governs any information we have and combine with information
from Third Party Sites.
Anonymous Data. “Anonymous Data” means data that is not associated with or linked to your
personal data; Anonymous Data does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual
persons. We collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data.
Cookies and Clear Gifs. We use "cookies" to personalize your online experience. Lexyom may
use “cookies” or clear gif information for a number of reasons related to the use of the Site,
including to, remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your
next visit of the Site; and monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors
and pages viewed. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web server that
allows us to automatically collect certain information (such as customer preferences and
history). Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are
uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a web server that issued the
cookie to you. Third party companies who sell and provide advertisements to the Site, make use
of cookies for the purpose of serving and targeting advertisements more effectively. Clear gifs
(also known as web bugs or web beacons) are small, invisible graphic images that may be used
by the Site or in emails relating to the Site to collect certain information and monitor user
activity on the Site and may be combined with your IP address or other information that we
have gathered with respect to a User’s use of the Site. If you wish to block, erase, or be warned
of cookies, please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn about these
functions. However, if a browser is set not to accept cookies or if a User rejects a cookie, some
portions of the Site may not function properly.
Online Advertising. We may also use third parties to display and target ads, provide certain
functionality (such as maps), or to place their own cookies and other tracking technologies to
collect, track and analyze usage and statistical information from Users. We are not responsible
for the information collection practices of any third parties.
Aggregated or anonymized information; any publicly available information about lawyers; information about you that is provided by third parties; or information that is posted to publicly accessible areas of the Site is not personal information and may be used publicly by Lexyom. Personal Information that you post to public areas of the Site or via your profile is not considered personal information and therefore, may become publicly available. For example, information you post in your profile or in client ratings, peer endorsements, Q&A forum, or any other interactive areas may be made publicly available and can potentially be viewed by anyone. Your posting automatically constitutes consent to share such information publicly, and you should assume that such information will be widely disseminated, including via search engines and other tools to locate information online (e.g., internet archive). For the avoidance of doubt, posting a question anonymously is not considered personal information and therefore, may become publicly available. When you post a question anonymously, this only means that your identity will not be revealed to other users on the website. We will use your email address to forward responses to your request even if you use the anonymous feature.
In order to provide the level of service we believe you expect from us, we may use your personally identifiable information for the following purposes: (i) to facilitate your use of the Site, to process your requests, to provide you with information, products and services you request, to administer and assist us with the operation of our business, and for the purpose for which the information was provided; (ii) to do all things necessary to administer the Site; (iii) to research, develop, manage, protect and improve our Site and products and include new features and services; and (iv) to analyze data, or to have a third party do so on our behalf (for example, for payment processing, data storage, customer service, email delivery, and to assist us in our marketing efforts). Lexyom, sometimes with the assistance of a third party, may use your personally identifiable information to process your payment through merchant account services, and to generate the products and services you order. Your contact data may be used to follow up with you on transactions you initiate through online services, respond to inquiries made through the Site, inform you of changes to the services, and send you additional information about Lexyom and its products and services.
If you use our Site, information may also be used to evaluate what portions of our Site are visited more often than others, determine where Users come from, where they go, and how long they stay on a particular page, or on our Site in general. We may disclose your personal information in the good faith belief that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so, or that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to comply with the law or with legal process or authorities, respond to any claims, or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Site, our Users, our employees or the public, including without limitation to protect Lexyom or our Users from fraudulent, abusive, inappropriate or unlawful use of the Site.
We may use the information we collect to send you news relevant to you or in accordance with your preferences. We may also send you advertisements from third parties. We do not disclose or make available your personally identifiable information to third parties for direct marketing purposes.
Lexyom uses third party service provides to transmit, store, encrypt, process and display uploaded documents on your behalf. Lexyom has taken measures reasonably necessary to ensure these services keep uploaded documents private and secure, but there organizations practices are ultimately beyond our control. By using the documents feature, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume the risks.
Information that we collect may be stored an processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this Policy. By using the Site, you agree that we can process and transfer your information in this manner.
Information about our Users (including personal information) may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which information and data could be transferred to third parties as one of Lexyom’s business assets. In such an event, we will attempt to notify you before your personal information is transferred, but you may not have the right to opt out of any such transfer.
You can correct certain information by logging into your account and changing the information, and
you may also delete certain information by closing your account. In addition, lawyers may change
certain information contained in their profile by claiming their profile and editing the information
contained therein.
Please note that in certain circumstances, we may not, or may not be able to, remove or change
certain information, even in the event an account is closed. For example, we may retain and
continue to display any information you provided in connection with a question, answer,
endorsement or client review.
You may, at any time, decline to share your personal information with us, in which case you will not be able to access some of the features and functionality found in the Site. You may “opt out” of receiving communications from us at the point where we request information about the visitor by emailing us at [email protected]. However, this shall not affect our ability to send you service and account related emails and to use your personal information as otherwise described in this Policy. If you register as a User, you may update, correct, or delete your profile information and preferences at any time by emailing us at [email protected]. If you request your account information be deleted from our database, we may maintain information about individual sales transactions for record- keeping and servicing.
Lexyom endeavors to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure
by putting into place reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the
information we collect. Additionally, your account information is accessible online only through the
use of a password.
No security measures are perfect or impenetrable. To protect the confidentiality of your personal
information, you must keep your password confidential and not disclose it to any other person. You
are responsible for all use of the Site by any person using your password. Please contact us
immediately by emailing us if you believe your password has been misused.
The Site may contain links to other websites or make available Third Party Sites, including ad platforms and technologies. Please be aware that this Policy will not apply to your activities or any personal information you disclose while using Third Party Sites, products or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any website or service that collects your information.
You may sign up and connect to the Site through a Third Party Site (such as Facebook) and you may
be able to publish your comments and any other activity on our Site to the Third Party Site. We are
not responsible for the sharing, posting, commenting, or other content and information-gathering
practices on any Third Party Site. Please review their terms of service and privacy policies carefully
before using their services and connecting to our Site.
By using any Third Party Site to log in to our Site, or otherwise connecting to any Third Party Site,
you allow us to access and use all information related to your account on the Third Party Site that
may be accessible to us through the Third Party Site pursuant to this Policy. To control the
information that is available to us through such Third Party Site, or to disconnect the Third Party Site
from our Site, you should check (and, if applicable, modify) the applicable settings on the Third Party
Site.
We do not tolerate spam. You are not licensed to add other Lexyom Users to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent. You may not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate the Terms and Conditions.
While this Policy states our standards for maintenance of data and we will make efforts to meet them, we are not in a position to guarantee these standards. You should not expect that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in disclosure of data. As a consequence, we disclaim any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of data.
We may change the provisions of this Policy at any time, and we will always post the most up-to-date version on our Site. However, we will not notify you personally. Therefore, make sure to check this Policy regularly.
Please contact the Lexyom team with any questions or comments about this Policy, your personal information, our third-party disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email at [email protected].