J. Aponte & Associates, LLC respects your concerns about privacy. This Online Privacy Notice applies only to personal information collected on https://www.japontelaw.com. This notice describes the types of personal information we collect on this website, how we may use that information and with whom we share it. Our Online Privacy Notice also describes the measures we take to protect the security of the information. We also tell you how you can reach us to answer any questions you may have about our online privacy practices.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
If you email us through the “Contact Us” link on this site, you may choose to provide personal information to us including your name, email address, resume or CV. You may choose to provide additional information as well. We use the information you provide to respond to and communicate with you about your questions and comments.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT BY AUTOMATED MEANS
We may collect certain information by automated means when you visit this website, including how many users visited the site and the pages accessed. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our websites to our visitors. We collect this information through “cookies” and IP addresses.
COOKIES
Like many organizations, we may use “cookies” on this website. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. We may use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify site features in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site.
Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all our website features.
LOG FILES, USAGE DATA AND IP ADDRESSES
Log files are web server files (containing information including domain name or IP address, URL, http response code, or the date and duration of your visit) that are automatically created when an Internet user visits a website. An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our website, our servers log your IP address. In combination with other data, this information helps us understand which features are of interest to our visitors and the regions of the world where these visitors are located. In addition, log files help detect disruptions that may interfere with the provision of our website.
INFORMATION WE SHARE
We do not disclose personal information about visitors to this website, except as described here. We will not sell, share, transfer, rent or distribute your information for purposes other than those disclosed here unless required by law or as authorized by you. We may share the information with certain service providers we have retained. We take steps to require that service providers protect the information consistently with this Online Privacy Notice. These service providers are authorized to use the information only as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with law or legal process. Where we have knowledge that a service provider processes your personal information in a manner contrary to this Online Privacy Notice, we will take reasonable steps to prevent or stop the processing. In addition, we may disclose information about you (1) if we are required to do so by law or legal process; (2) to law enforcement authorities or other government officials; (3) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; or (4) if this is necessary to protect the vital interests of any person.
We also reserve the right to transfer personal information about you in the event we sell, transfer or merge all or a portion of the business or assets. Should such a sale, merger or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to direct the transferee to use information that is consistent with this Online Privacy Notice.
HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We seek to ensure that any personal information that we hold about you is accurate, complete, current and otherwise reliable based on data you provide in order to provide you with access to and services via this website. We seek to collect personal information that is adequate, relevant and not excessive for these purposes.
We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of personal information.
We educate our employees and strive to maintain appropriate standards of conduct with regard to the protection of personal information.
We take steps to require that third parties who assist in our provision of services abide by all applicable privacy laws and prohibit them from using your information other than in connection with the services they have been engaged to provide.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. These websites operate independently from J. Aponte & Associates, LLC. Linked sites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. To the extent any linked websites you visit are not owned or controlled by J. Aponte & Associates, LLC, we are not responsible for the sites’ content, any use of the sites, or the privacy practices of the sites.
UPDATES TO OUR ONLINE PRIVACY NOTICE
This Online Privacy Notice may be updated periodically to reflect new site features or changes in our information practices. We will post a notice on our website to advise of any significant changes to this Online Privacy Notice and indicate in the notice when it was most recently updated.
J. Aponte & Associates, LLC’S DATA PRIVACY OFFICER
J. Aponte & Associates, LLC’s Data Privacy Officer is Julie Aponte. She can be reached at dataprivacy@japontelaw.com
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or comments about this Cookies Notice, please contact us by email at dataprivacy@japontelaw.com
You also may write to us at:
J. Aponte & Associates, LLC
550 Warrenville Rd., Suite 240
Lisle, IL 60532
(312) 762-5966
COOKIE NOTICE
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small pieces of information, normally consisting of letters and numbers, which online services provide when users visit them. Software on the user’s device (for example, via the web browser) can store cookies and send them back to the website next time they visit.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
We use cookies to ensure our websites function properly and to improve user experience. We may use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before and to help us identify site features in which you may have the greatest interest.
We use “session cookies,” which will expire when you close your browser. We also use “persistent cookies,” which have a set expiration date and will be stored on your browser, mobile device, or computer until the date is reached, or you delete your cookies.
WHAT COOKIES WE USE
Below is a list of the types of cookies used on our websites:
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
Strictly Necessary Cookies are cookies that must be present for the website to function. They cannot be
switched off in our systems as this would impact the services being provided to you. There are two types
of Strictly Necessary Cookies that J. Aponte & Associates, LLC uses:
Session Cookie
Our websites use session cookies to maintain information about each visit to our websites and enable essential functionality. This cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
Load Balancer Cookie
This sessional cookie is essential to help ensure that our websites load efficiently by distributing visits across multiple web servers. The cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
PERFORMANCE / ANALYTICAL COOKIES
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
We seek your consent to use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, to allow us to improve the quality and content of our websites
These cookies are used so J. Aponte & Associates, LLC can collect information about how people access our website for example, the number of users on a website, how long they stay on the site for, and what parts of the site they visit.
For further information about the sessional and persistent cookies used as part of Google Analytics, as well as information about how Google uses this information, please see: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
YOUR CONSENT
The first time you visit our website you will be given the opportunity to provide consent to all cookies or to disable some cookies via the pop up ‘Privacy Preference Center.’ Optional cookies are set to “off” as the default and you may slide the button to “on” to activate the cookie. If you wish to withdraw your consent at any stage, you will need to toggle ‘off’ the settings in ‘Privacy Preference Center’ as described below.
CHANGING YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES
Should you wish to change your cookie preferences, you may do so by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and click on the bottom left corner the ‘Cookies Settings’ button. You’ll be offered the list of cookies that you can activate or disable, as you wish. Most browsers will also tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, be notified when you receive a new cookie, delete existing cookies and block all cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all our website features.
UPDATES TO OUR COOKIE NOTICE
This Cookies Notice may be updated periodically without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices. We will post a notice on our applicable websites or materials to advise of any significant changes to our Cookies Notice and indicate in the notice when it was most recently updated. While this Cookies Notice is designed to comply with most data privacy laws and represents “best practices,” in certain countries additional or different procedures not inconsistent with this Cookies Notice may apply as necessary to satisfy local legal requirements.
HOW TO CONTACT US
The controllers for your personal information are J Aponte and Associates. Our Data Protection Officer is Julie Aponte, Managing Director. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice directed at any of the data controllers listed above, please contact our data protection officer by email at dataprivacy@japontelaw.com