Privacy Policy

  

A. Introduction

This policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your information when you access or use our website.

The privacy of our visitors and users is very important to us, and we are committed to safeguarding it. This privacy policy applies to www.axepoint.com (the “Site”) and the information we may collect from you as a visitor of the Site, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This privacy policy applies to national and international versions of the Site and national and international Users.

This policy does not apply to information collected by us offline or through other means, including on any other website operated by AxePoint Law, its affiliates, or any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or thorough the Site.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to (i) not to use the Site; or (ii) opt-out of certain policies as will be described in this policy. Otherwise, by accessing or using the Site, you agree to the terms set forth in this privacy policy.

Key Definitions:

1. “AxePoint”, “we”, “us”, and “our” means AxePoint Law and its agents, employees, and representatives.
2. “Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person who accesses the Site or whose information is entered into any content section on the Site.
3. For purposes of this Policy, “processing” means collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, adapting, altering, using, disclosing, or otherwise making available, and deleting Personal Data provided to us through the Site.

For more information about our privacy policy or how your information is used, contact info@axepoint.com.

B. Personal Data We Collect

Users provide AxePoint with most of the Personal Data we collect. We collect the following types of data:

5. Personal Identification Information You Give Us: We collect Personal Data such as your‎ name,‎ email address,‎ username,‎ password,‎ demographic information (such as your gender and occupation), and other information you directly give us through the Site.
6. Information We Get from Others: We may collect information gathered from third-party sites or sources you accessed, such as but not limited to Instagram, Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn. Any third-party information may be combined with the information received directly from you. Some third-party sites or sources may also provide us with information from your accounts to enhance and personalize your use of our Site. You have the right to modify your privacy settings on your device, browser, or on the third-party sites and right to refuse to provide certain information or receive interest-based advertisements on those third-party sites directly on the respective third-party site.
7. Passive Information Collected: When you visit our Site, we automatically collect usage data and computer operating information such as the operating system type, cookies, web beacons, browser type,‎ browser language,‎ the Site you visited before browsing to our Site,‎ pages you viewed,‎ how long you spent on a page,‎ access times,‎ Internet protocol (IP) address, and other information about your use of and actions on our Site to customize your visit through technical means. The information that we collect automatically may include Personal Data or we may associate it with Personal Data that we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.
8. Public Content: We do not display your contributions to other users and will not use them for promotional purposes.
9. Cookies: Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our Site, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. AxePoint uses the cookies in a range of ways to improve our users’ experience on the Site.

a. Cookies are small data files containing information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a certain webpage. Cookies enable us to recognize users on our Sites and personalize webpages based on user behavior to improve user experience. Cookies enable users like you to navigate between pages efficiently while remembering your preferences. Through our use of Cookies, we can gauge whether you have visited our Site before and what searches or content is most relevant to you, custom tailoring your user experience based on past history. All Cookies are different and therefore all Cookies have different longevity periods. Some cookies only exist while your browser is open such as Session Cookies, while other cookies continue to exist after you close your browser, such as Permanent Cookies. In the next section, you will find a list of the types of Cookies we use on our Sites and the purpose of using each Cookie type.

b. Cookies used by us.

i. We use the following categories of cookies:

1. 1. 1. Strictly Necessary Cookies: help with the operational function of the Site, including cookies that keep certain webpages secure and allow for secured logins and payment services.
      2. Functionality Cookies: help with recognizing reoccurring users. These Cookies allow us to personalize our content based on your preferences.
      3. Performance/Analytical or Customization Cookies: collect information about user behavior and navigation. These cookies track your clicks and searches to help us improve the design and responsiveness of our platform and Site.

c. You have the right to choose whether or not to accept Cookies. When you first access the Site, you may receive a pop-up message informing you that the Site uses Cookies and similar technologies. This pop-up message will be accompanied by an “accept” button. Clicking “accept”, closing the message, or continuing to browse the Sites, will evidence your acceptance and agreement to use these technologies, as described in this Policy. You do not have to accept Cookies and consent can be withdrawn at any time.

d. Visit your browser to change your browser settings to refuse, restrict, or delete Cookies at any time. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Site that you access may take more time to process or may not function properly.

Under no circumstance may you disclose to us the Personal Data of another person, without first obtaining that person’s express consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that Personal Data in accordance with this policy.

Any information you submit to Axepoint Law through this website is not guaranteed to be secure. Please do not send sensitive, confidential, or privileged information through this website. We cannot guarantee the security of information submitted via this site, and such submissions do not create any obligation on the part of AxePoint Law to respond or take any action.

While we take reasonable steps to protect information once received, electronic communications over the internet are inherently vulnerable to unauthorized access. By using this website, you acknowledge and accept that any communication or material you transmit to AxePoint Law may not be treated as privileged or confidential.

 

C. How We Will Use Your Personal Data

Personal Data submitted to us through our Site will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or as provided for on the Site. AxePoint collects the Personal Data of users so that we can:

1. Improve customer service: Information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support your needs more efficiently.
2. Personalize User experience: Information is used in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site.
3. Improve our Site: Feedback you provide is used to improve our management ideas, products, and services.
4. Receive Inquiries. Information users provide about themselves when making an inquiry for legal services is used only to provide the user with a response from AxePoint regarding the potential for providing services to users. We do not share this information with outside parties.
5. Send periodic emails: We use the email address provided by users to respond to their inquiries, questions, and/or other requests. If user decides to opt-in to our mailing list, they will receive emails that may include company news, updates, or service information, etc. A user may unsubscribe from such emails at any time. If the user would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email or user may contact us via our Site.
6. Other: We may use Personal Data in other ways to fulfill any purpose for which you provide us with the Personal Data, for any other purpose with your consent, or in any other way we may describe when you provide the information, including to carry out our obligations and enforce rights that may arise from any contracts entered between you and us.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your Personal Data to any third party for their or any other third party’s direct marketing. We do not sell, trade, or rent userss Personal Data to others. If you provide consent, we will share information you provide to third party service providers for the sole use of the third-party service providers helping us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys.

Sharing Personal Data

Although AxePoint will ordinarily only share your Personal Data pursuant to your request or consent, AxePoint expressly reserve the right to release any Personal Data pursuant to the following circumstances: (a) when required by law or legal process, (b) to investigate and/or take action against illegal activity, suspected abuse, or unauthorized use of our services, and (c) to protect the property or safety of our users or others.

 

Disclosing Personal Data

We only disclose your Personal Data to our employees, officers, and insurers as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy

Choices About Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Data

When you visit or use our Site, you have choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us.

1. Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of this Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. You can also opt out of certain cookie settings upon your first visit to the website and make your cookie selection.
2. Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by us to promote services, you can opt-out by utilizing the “unsubscribe” feature at the bottom of our emails or by submitting a written request to opt-out of the emails by sending an email to info@axepoint.com. If we have already sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to us as a result of a product purchase, Software purchase, or other transactions with us.

D. How We Store and Retain Your Data

Our data retention policies and procedures are designed to ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of Personal Data in accordance with all applicable state, federal, and international laws and regulations.

AxePoint does not keep any Personal Data for longer than is necessary to carry out the purpose or purposes for which the Personal Data was collected. Users may request AxePoint to delete their Personal Data or request an accounting of all Personal Data of theirs kept by AxePoint by sending an email to info@axepoint.com. AxePoint will respond within five (5) business days to any such requests. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section D, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing Personal Data:

1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and/or
3. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

E. Security Measures

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

If a data breach occurs: If we determine that any user’s Personal Data has been accessed without authorization, AxePoint will report any confirmed or suspected situation to necessary parties immediately upon discovery, both orally and in writing, within 72 hours. If AxePoint reasonably believes a breach has or may have occurred, AxePoint will release a report to all users identifying:

1. The nature of the unauthorized access, use, or disclosure;
2. The nonpublic information accessed, used or disclosed;
3. The person(s) who accessed, used, disclosed, and/or received nonpublic information (if known);
4. What AxePoint has done or will do to mitigate any deleterious effect of the unauthorized access, use, or disclosure; and
5. What corrective action AxePoint has taken or will take to prevent future unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

In the event of a suspected breach, AxePoint will keep stakeholders informed regularly of the progress of its investigation until the uncertainty is resolved. To the extent possible, we will also facilitate the process to warn the victims of the theft so that they can protect their identity.            

 

F. International Data Transfers

The Site is hosted in the United States, and all or a portion of the Site may also be hosted on the “cloud”, or other similar distributed hosting platform. If you are accessing the Site from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws governing Personal Data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, note that you are transferring your Personal Data to a jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your home jurisdiction. By providing your Personal Data you consent to:

1. our use of your Personal Data for the uses identified in this Privacy Policy, and
2. the transfer of your Personal Data to the United States.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), if you have provided consent for the processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time, which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn. You have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of your personal information, as well as the right to restrict processing, object to processing, and under certain circumstances the right to data portability. AxePoint will be completely transparent in how we use Personal Data and users have the right to know exactly what information is held about them and how it is processed.

California Residents:

If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request free of charge information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by us to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. AxePoint does not and will not share Personal Data with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

G. Personal Data Rights for Certain Users

There are state and international laws which provide their residents and citizens with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Data. This section is to discuss those rights and your options to exercise such rights if they apply to you.

Users in the European Union, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Florida, Montana, Oregon, Kentucky, New Jersey, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Iowa, and Utah each are provided with the general rights to:

1. Right to Access: Right to request AxePoint for copies of their Personal Data. AxePoint may charge you a small fee for this service. For users residing in California, this right also includes the ability to request all Personal Data AxePoint has obtained relating to the User in the 12 months prior to the request and to have information on who the information was shared with and how it was shared, if at all.
2. Right to Rectification: Right to request that AxePoint correct any information in our possession or control which they believe is inaccurate. This also includes the right to request that AxePoint complete any information in our possession or control which they believe is incomplete.
3. Right to Erasure: Right to request that AxePoint erase their Personal Data, under certain conditions.
4. Right to Restrict or Object to Processing: Right to request that AxePoint restrict and/or object to the processing of their Personal Data for targeted advertising and sales, under certain conditions.
5. Right to Object to Profiling: Right to opt-out of any profiling through the processing of Personal Data being performed and to opt-out of any profiling being shared or sold to third parties.

6. Right to Data Portability: Users in the European Union (or locations where the General Data Protection Regulation is enforced) have the right to request that AxePoint transfer their Personal Data to another organization or directly to the particular European user, under certain conditions.

To make a request to exercise any of the above rights, you must submit the request in writing to info@axepoint.com. While we aim to provide prompt responses to all requests, AxePoint will respond within forty-five (45) days from the initial request.

If you think that the processing of your Personal Data is not in compliance with data protection laws, you have the right to make a complaint about AxePoint to the appropriate authorities. We encourage you to contact us at info@axepoint.com before raising a concern with the supervising authority, to see if we can resolve any concerns you have about our processing of your Personal Data. 

H. Children’s Online Privacy Protection

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to us. We may collect information of minors under the age of 13 with parental or guardian consent. Information of minors that is collected and stored may include name, address, email address, and phone number. The personal information will be used to provide services to the minor. Personal information of minors will not be disclosed to third parties. 

NOTICE TO PARENTS/GUARDIANS

If we learn we have collected or received information from a child under the age of 13, without verification of parental or guardian consent, we will delete that information immediately upon discovery.

I. Third-Party Services

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites or services, such as third-party integrations, co-branded services, or third party-branded services (“Third-Party Services”). AxePoint doesn’t own or control these Third-Party Services. Through your interaction with such Third-Party Services, you may be providing information directly to the Third-Party Service, AxePoint, or both. These Third-Party Services are required to have their own privacy and data collection policies. We encourage you to review those privacy policies.

While we encourage our business partners to adopt privacy policies and practices that build users’ trust and confidence in the Internet, we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third parties or any of the content of websites linked to the Site.

K. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

AxePoint keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places updates on this web page. We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing a new version directly to the Site. We may notify you of any such changes by email or by posting a notification on the Site’s home page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.