Privacy Policy
Werner Law and Planning
Thank you for your interest in Werner Law and Planning LLC (WL&P). We created this website to provide information about the firm and the legal services we offer.
Werner Law and Planning LLC respects your privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of clients and visitors to our website. This privacy policy explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our website at https://www.werner.law and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to provide and improve the website. By using the website, you agree to be bound by this privacy policy, our terms of use, our disclaimer, and all applicable laws.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using this website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, city, state, ZIP code
- Usage data
Usage Data
Usage data is collected automatically when using the website. Usage data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of this website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When you access the website by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit this website or when you access the website from a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on this website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze this website. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of this website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, this website may use cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of this website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Werner Law and Planning LLC, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
- Type: Session Cookies
- Administered by: Werner Law and Planning LLC
- Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Werner Law and Planning LLC
- Purpose: These cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
Functionality Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Werner Law and Planning LLC
- Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.
Tracking and Performance Cookies
- Type: Persistent Cookies
- Administered by: Third Parties
- Purpose: These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the website. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.
Use of Your Personal Data
Werner Law and Planning LLC may use personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain this website, including to monitor the usage of this website.
- To manage your account: To manage your registration as a user of the website. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functions of the website that are available to you as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with WL&P through the website.
- To contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to Werner Law and Planning LLC.
- To deliver targeted advertising to you: We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
- For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by WL&P about the users of this website is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve this website, products, services, marketing, and your experience.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With service providers: We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of this website, to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited this website, for payment processing, to contact you.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with Werner Law and Planning LLC.
- With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
- With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a third-party social media service, your contacts on the third-party social media service may see your name, profile, pictures, and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you, and view your profile.
- With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
We may also create personal data about you, such as records of your communications and interactions with us, including attendance at events we hold.
Retention of Your Personal Data
Werner Law and Planning LLC will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Werner Law and Planning LLC will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of this website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including personal data, is processed at Werner Law and Planning LLC's operating office and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this privacy policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.
Werner Law and Planning LLC will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy, and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If WL&P is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, WL&P may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Other Legal Requirements
Werner Law and Planning LLC may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of Werner Law and Planning LLC
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with this website
- Protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of your personal data is very important to Werner Law and Planning LLC, and we have implemented organizational and technical security measures to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control. These measures include limiting access to personal data only to staff and authorized service providers on a need-to-know basis for the purposes described in this privacy policy, as well as other administrative and technical safeguards. Please note, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The service providers we use may have access to your personal data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity on this website in accordance with their privacy policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of this website.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of this website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt out of having made your activity on the website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Email Communications and Marketing
We may use your personal data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from WL&P by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
We may use email marketing service providers to manage and send emails to you, including:
ConvertKit
Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://convertkit.com/privacy
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the website. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors (e.g., LawPay) whose use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policy.
LawPay
Their privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.lawpay.com/terms/privacy/
Behavioral Remarketing
Werner Law and Planning LLC uses remarketing services to advertise to you after you access or visit this website. We and our third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help us recognize your device and understand how you use this website so that we can improve it to reflect your interests and serve you information and advertisements that are likely to be of the most interest to you.
These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about your activity on this website in accordance with their privacy policies and to enable us to:
- Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on this website
- Show advertisements for our products and/or services to you on third-party websites or apps
- Measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns
Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit you to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving you interest-based advertising:
- The NAI's opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
- The EDAA's opt-out platform: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
- The DAA's opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/
You may opt out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See your mobile device Help system for more information.
We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available), or other online identifiers collected on this website with these third-party vendors. This allows our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver you ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their cross-device capabilities please refer to the privacy policy of each vendor listed below.
The third-party vendors we use are:
Google Ads (AdWords)
Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on — https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout — for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc. You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/516147308587266
To opt out of Facebook's interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt out of Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or opt out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
Access, Correct, or Seek Deletion of Personal Data
To access, correct, or seek deletion of certain personal data in our possession, please make your request using the contact information provided below.
Children's Privacy
This website is intended for use by adults only and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any information through this website. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Links to Other Websites
This website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Werner Law and Planning LLC. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Applicability of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is subject to the WL&P terms of use. By using this website and voluntarily providing your personal data to us, you acknowledge the processing of your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy and accept the firm’s terms of use.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time without individual notice to you, and the updated version of this policy will be effective upon posting on this website. We encourage you to review this privacy policy whenever you access this website to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
How to Contact Us
We welcome your inquiries and comments. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us:
- By email: privacy@werner.law
- By visiting this page on our website: https://www.werner.law/contact
- By phone: 202-866-7788 / 540-866-7788
- By postal mail: 646 Irving St., NW #1 Washington, DC 20010