Privacy Policy.

McNeal Law Group PLLC (hereafter referred to as “firm,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or as the context may require) is committed to protecting privacy rights in the information age. Given the crucial nature of legal services, we are serious about ethics in how your personal information is collected and stored. If you are a client, by law you are afforded attorney-client privilege. We do not waive attorney-client privilege under any circumstances.

This Privacy Policy applies to interactions with non-clients and anonymous users (hereafter referred to as “user,” “you,” “your,” or as the context may require) offline, through our website (www.mcneal.law), as well as through our subsidiaries and affiliates.

The scope of this Privacy Policy covers both your use of our website and any other ways in which you may interact with us, such as when you speak to us on the phone or send text messages via SMS, MMS, or IM. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information.

By using our website, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you have questions or concerns about your privacy, or would like to exercise any of your rights around how data about you is used, you can let us know using the request form located here. Alternatively, you may contact us by phone at 1-888-297-8109. If you have a disability and are having trouble accessing this Privacy Policy, you may request to receive this Privacy Policy by using our request form or calling 1-888-297-8109.

1. Information We Collect

In this section of the Privacy Policy, we explain what types of Personal Information we may collect. The Personal Information collected depends on the type of interaction we have with you (such as calling, visiting our website, or using any other communication method), the types of products a user considers or purchases, and what information our users choose to share with us. It also includes the information that we may collect about people in connection with our employment recruiting activities. While this section includes all of the information that we may collect about users, we will rarely collect all of these types of information about any single person.

As used in this Privacy Policy, Personal Information means information that relates, and is capable of being linked, to a particular person. It does not include de-identified or aggregate information.

Our firm potentially collects the following categories of information about users, some of which may be collected or maintained in a manner such that it can be considered Personal Information:

Identifiers: Examples of the types of identifiers that we may collect include real names, nicknames, postal addresses, online identifiers, Internet Protocol addresses (“IP addresses”), email addresses, account numbers, Social Security numbers, driver license numbers, passport numbers, and other government identification numbers.

Other types of information: Examples of other types of information include physical characteristics or descriptions of you, telephone number, insurance policy number, education, employment, financial information including bank account, credit card, and debit card numbers, health insurance information, pre-employment skill testing results, and information collected as part of performing background checks for gun registration related services. It also includes additional information provided to us directly by you, such as when you complete a questionnaire or answer a survey.

Characteristics protected under some laws: Examples of the types of characteristics that we may collect include age, national origin, citizenship, marital status, medical information, sex, sexual orientation, and veteran or military status.

Commercial information: Examples of the types of commercial information that we may collect includes records of business and other property owned, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered from us or our partners, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

Internet information: Examples of the types of internet or other electronic network activity information that we may collect includes browsing history, search history, information about the device the user is using to access our website or applications, and information regarding a user’s interaction with us or our partners’ websites, applications, or advertisements. We may also collect information from visitors to our website such as browser settings, operating systems, referring/exit pages, and clickstream data. When we send you an email, we may also collect information, including about how you interact with that email.

Geolocation information: Our firm may collect information about where a user resides or is otherwise located.

Audio and visual information: Our firm may make audio recordings of calls with users. We may make visual recordings of users when they visit our premises or when users agree that we may take their photograph or videotape them for the purposes of rendering a service to them. We may also collect visual images of users when they are provided to us in connection with a service we are rendering, such as when they are submitted as part of a trademark order.

Professional and employment-related information: Examples of the types of professional and employment-related information we may collect includes information about professional status and affiliations, employment history, salary expectations, and employment status.

We do not collect biometric or education information that is maintained by an educational institution or party acting on an educational institution’s behalf. We also do not collect inferences about users, although as described below, we may internally create inferences based on the information that we do collect.

2. Where We Collect Information

In this section of the Privacy Policy, we explain where and how we collect data about users. We receive information about users from several categories of sources.

Users: The vast majority of the information that our firm collects comes directly or indirectly from the user that it relates to. Information that is collected directly from you is information that you provide when you complete a service agreement offline or form online, use a chat feature, speak to us on the phone, or send us a text message. We may also collect information indirectly about you when you interact with our website, through the use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Indirect collection is described in more detail in the section below called “How Our Firm Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies.”

Related Users: We may collect information about you from someone you know. For instance, if you are a shareholder in a business that is formed through us, we may be given information about you in order to complete the formation.

Service Providers: We may collect information about you from our Service Providers. As used in this Privacy Policy, Service Providers means entities that our firm has contracted with to provide us with services to help fulfill our business needs. An example of the type of information that we may receive from a Service Provider is information about whether any Legal Mail has been received as part of our Registered Agent services. Service Providers may also assist us in collecting information both directly and indirectly from you.

Professionals (including Power of Attorney and other Professionals): We may collect information about you from the independent professionals whom you may designate as your representative in your relationship with us. An example of the type of information that we may receive from these professionals includes the fact that a consultation has occurred. While we cannot control what information professionals may legally share with us, our firm does not intend to collect any information from attorneys where the collection would result in a waiver of the attorney-client privilege.

Business Partners and Affiliates: We may collect information about you from our business partners and affiliates. An example of the type of information that we may receive from business partners and affiliates is information about the product you purchased from them after you indicated an interest in an offer that we presented to you.

Publicly/Commercially Available Information: We may collect information related to you from publicly available sources of information, including government records, social media sites, and other commercially available sources of user information. Examples of the type of information we may collect from publicly available sources are whether your entity is in good standing with a Secretary of State while we render a service to you or prepare a work product.

Unrelated Parties: We may receive information related to you from people and entities with whom our firm does not have a direct relationship. An example of the type of information that we may receive from unrelated third parties is documents that we receive on your behalf in our role as your Registered Agent.

3. How We Use the Information We Collect

Our firm is a small business with extensive relationships with other businesses in the legal profession. In addition, we do use technology in the process of fulfilling our obligation to users and parties with whom we enter into agreements. In some instances, we may combine information that we have collected from multiple sources in order to fulfill these purposes. Our firm potentially uses each category of information that we collect for each of the following purposes.

If, in the future, we wish to use information about you in a manner that is not consistent with the purposes outlined below, we will seek your consent prior to the expanded use if and where we are legally required to do so.

Providing Products and Services: Our firm collects information for the purpose of providing products and services. We may also use information to respond to inquiries from users who are interested in learning more about our products and services. Examples of the types of uses of user information for these purposes include administering our website and displaying content based on user preferences.

Security: Our firm collects information for the purpose of ensuring that we maintain appropriate security over computer networks and our physical facilities. We may also collect information for the purposes of detecting fraud or other suspicious activities.

Meeting Legal Requirements: Our firm collects information in order to meet our legal obligations. These obligations may include satisfying screening requirements prior to assisting with entity formations, maintaining records as required in our role as Registered Agent, or responding to subpoenas for information.

Marketing: Our firm collects information for use in marketing to current and prospective clients. More information about how you can control the marketing you receive from us is located in the sections “How Our Firm Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies” and “How You Can Control The Information Our Firm May Have About You.”

Analytics: Our firm collects information for use in performing various types of analytics. For example, we use information to analyze how visitors interact with our website, where visitors to our website arrive from and exit to, and gaining insights into the types of users that may be interested in our products and services. We may also use information to develop inferences from the information we collect regarding user preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behaviors, and attitudes.

Operational Purposes: Our firm collects information for use for our operational purposes, and the operational purposes of our service providers and business partners. For instance, we may use information for maintaining our website and other infrastructure, training and quality assurance, for conducting surveys, to promote our brand, and to use in connection with our relationships with service providers and business partners. We may also use information collected as part of our talent acquisition activities to make employment decisions about prospective candidates.

Financial Reporting: Our firm collects information for use in various types of financial reporting and other similar internal uses. Examples of the types of financial reporting that we may use user information in connection with internal budgets and projections, calculation of compensation, and reporting to investors.

In addition to the purposes listed above, we may also use de-identified or aggregate data that is not capable of being linked to any individual user for additional purposes not listed above.

Selling of Personal Information: Our firm does not sell Personal Information to third parties and will not sell Personal Information. If, in the future, we decide to sell Personal Information, any Personal Information collected prior to updating this Privacy Policy will be treated as if a valid request to opt-out from third party sales had been submitted by the user that the information relates to.

4. How We Share Information and Who We Share It With

Our firm does not have a large staff or numerous business partnerships. Your information is not generally shared except on a need-to-know basis. Here, we explain who we share user information with and under which circumstances we may do so.

Service Providers: Our firm may share information about users with Service Providers who assist us with completing the business purposes outlined in the “How We Use the Information We Collect About Users” section. These companies are not authorized to use the information we share with them for any other purpose other than providing services to us or to you.

Professionals (including Attorneys and other Professionals): Our Firm may share user information with the independent professionals that you authorize or are involved with in your legal matters.

Business Partners and Affiliates: Our Firm may share information with business partners and affiliates in limited circumstances. These include:

• If you express interest in an offer made by a business partner, we may provide information about you in connection with the offer you have selected. If you later decide to opt-out from allowing us to share your information with business partners for their marketing purposes, you may do so by using our request form or by phone at 1-888-297-8109. To the extent that we have already shared your information prior to your decision to opt-out, you may opt out from future marketing by contacting our business partners directly.

• When you purchase a service from us that is bundled with a product offered by one of our business partners, we will share information about you with those business partners so that they can provide you with the product or services included with your purchase. These companies are not authorized to use the information we share with them about you for their own marketing purposes without first asking you directly for your permission.

Government Entities: Our firm may share information about users with government entities in order to fulfill the products purchased by our users. Certain Personal Information becomes public record when documents are filed with the federal or state government, or with a court. For example, a corporation’s name, business address, and registered agent name become public information when its articles of incorporation are filed. A Secretary of State may publish this information to its website or provide this information to third parties for a fee. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office publishes the names and addresses of trademark registrants. This Privacy Policy does not cover these or similar third-party actions.

Public Postings: Our firm may publicly share information about users, such as by displaying the information on our website or having the information published in publicly available media, in a limited number of circumstances.

• We may share information publicly when it is necessary in order to render a service that has been purchased by a user. For example, in some states, fictitious business names, including the name and address of the business owner, must be published in a newspaper.

• We may display personal testimonials of satisfied clients received through email surveys on our website or other marketing.

• When clients leave us reviews either on our website, or on other publicly available websites, we may display these reviews on our website.

• Our website includes areas where users may interact with each other, including a question and answer section. Any information that is provided in these areas of our website may be publicly available. You should use caution when deciding whether to disclose your Personal Information in these areas of the site. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

• When we collect publicly available information, we may share that information on our website.

Registered Agent Requests: If you designate a person or company other than us to serve as the registered agent for your business entity, we may provide your name and contact information to that party, if the designee requests.

Required by Law: Our firm may disclose user information as required by law, such as in response to a subpoena, a lawful request by a public authority, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a legal request.

Related Parties: Our firm may disclose user information with businesses controlling, controlled by, or under common control with us. If our firm is merged, acquired, or sold, we may disclose or transfer user data in connection with the associated transactions to the new law firm or attorney.

In addition to the circumstances listed above, we may also share de-identified or aggregate data that is not capable of being linked to any individual user with additional entities not listed above.

5. How Our Firm Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies

This section expands on how we use internet technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users.

Cookies: Our firm may use the standard cookie feature of major browser applications and third-party service providers, including Google Analytics features, or employ internally developed cookies and tracking codes, that allow us to store a small piece of data on a visitor’s computer, or any other device a visitor uses to access our website, about his or her visit to the website or use of other plug-ins exchanging information with us. We also use similar technologies, such as JavaScripts or ETags, to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” directory.

You may also control which cookies are placed on your browser when you visit our website through certain browser add-ons such as NoScript and others. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such order forms, will be limited.

Web Beacons: We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. web beacons), that help us track referrals from our partners and affiliates and better manage content on our website. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

3rd Party Tracking: The use of tracking technologies by our service providers, technology partners or other 3rd party assets (such as social media links) on the site is not covered by our Privacy Policy. These 3rd parties may use cookies, clear gifs, images, and scripts to help them better manage their content on our site. We do not have access or control over these technologies.

6. Third Party Links

Third-Party Websites: Our firm may maintain links to other websites and other websites may maintain links to our website. This Privacy Policy applies only to www.mcneal.law and not to other websites accessible from our website or that you use to access our website, each of which may have privacy policies materially different from this Privacy Policy. If you visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites.

Social Media Widgets: Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook “like” button and widgets, such as the “Share this” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

7. How You Can Control The Information We May Have About You

This section describes how you can access and control information that we may have about you. It applies to all users worldwide, including individuals who have purchased from our website or who believe that information about them may have been provided to us by a third party. By using this website, you ultimately agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States of America, State of New York, and relative court of competent jurisdiction located in New York County, New York.

Confirmation of Possession of Information Related to You: Upon a verified request, and subject to the privacy interests of others and technical limitations, we will provide you with information about whether we hold any information related to you. At our sole discretion, unless otherwise required by law, we may in some instances correct or delete information upon a verified request. Please note, however, that in certain circumstances we may be required by law to retain your Personal Information, or may need to retain your Personal Information.

If you would like to submit a request about your data, you may do so by completing the form located here, or by calling us at 1-888-297-8109. After you submit the request, you will be asked to verify your identity by providing additional information .

User and Authorized Contact Access to Order Information: Our firm will give you, or anyone listed as an authorized contact for your account, information about your order. This may include information about the nature and status of your order, information you provided to process your order, payment information, and contact information. If you want someone to have access to your order, you must list him or her as an authorized contact or they may not obtain information. You can confirm who is listed as an authorized contact for your account, add new authorized contacts, or remove authorized contacts by clicking first on “My Account”, and then on “Account Information”. We may send a confirmation email to your authorized contact(s), alerting them that they have been added as an authorized contact. For some products, we may provide information about your order to other individuals named in the order, such as executors named in a last will.

User Access to and Ability to Update Personal Information through MyAccount: You may visit your personal account profile at any time by clicking on the “My Account” link. Through My Account, you may: (i) review and update basic information about you; (ii) complete pending orders; and (iii) begin new orders.

Opting Out of Email: We send promotional emails and newsletters from time to time to users who have provided us with their email address or whose email addresses we have obtained through other sources. You can opt-out of promotional communications by using the “Unsubscribe” link and following the unsubscribe instructions. We may also send service-related or transactional communications, which are not promotional. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications. If you do not wish to receive service-related communications, you may terminate your account by contacting us here or 1-888-297-8109.

Data Retention: At minimum, we will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you services, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may maintain some or all of this data in its archives even after it has been removed from the Site.

8. Information Processed On Behalf of Third Parties

In some instances, we may process Personal Information on behalf of third party affiliates. We acknowledge that in these instances, you have the right to access your Personal Information. Where we have no direct relationship with the individuals whose Personal Information it processes, individuals seeking access, or seeking to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data, should direct their inquiry to the third party affiliate (the data controller).

9. How Secure Is Personal Information We Collect?

Our Commitment to Data Security: We take every measure available to us to secure our servers, connections, and databases. For example, we use the latest SSL encryption available at our website and we encrypt devices used for messaging. We have implemented physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. Credit card and Personal Information are transmitted by secure servers (TLS). Documents are delivered to you via USPS or similar delivery services such as UPS, or electronically, including through online storage platforms or email with optional PGP encryption. Unfortunately, no data transmission is guaranteed to be 100% secure and we therefore cannot guarantee the security of information you transmit to or from our website or through the use of our services, and you provide this information at your own risk. ACCORDINGLY, WE DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR THE THEFT, LOSS, OR INTERCEPTION OF, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR DAMAGE TO, YOUR DATA OR COMMUNICATIONS BY USING OUR WEBSITE AND OUR SERVICES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND ASSUME THESE RISKS.

IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR PRIVACY HAS BEEN BREACHED PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY AT 1-888-297-8109.

Enforcement: We periodically review this Privacy Policy and our compliance with it to verify that both are accurate. We encourage you to contact us with any concerns, and we will investigate and attempt to resolve any complaints and disputes about our privacy practices.

10. Changes To This Policy

We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes, a notice will be posted on this page along with the updated Privacy Policy prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information on our privacy practices.

URL: https://mcneal.law/privacy-policy/

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us by submitting your question through our request form, located here, or by mail.

Mailing Address

McNeal Law Group PLLC
Attn: Privacy Officer
347 5th Avenue, Suite 1402-170
New York, New York 10016
United States of America