LAST UPDATED: January 1, 2022

TERMS OF USE.

RHEMA LAW GROUP®, A Professional Corporation and its attorneys, employees and/or affiliates (“RHEMA”, “we”, “our” “us”) is a professional law corporation.  This website www.rhemalaw.com (“Website”) and all contents hereof, including links and corresponding pages, are for informational purposes only and are subject to the disclaimers and terms below, with which you agree to by the use of this Website. Rhema Law Group ® is a registered trademark of Rhema Law Group, P.C. Any of unauthorized use of the Rhema Law Group® mark without express permission is strictly prohibited.

1. NOT LEGAL ADVICE.   Nothing contained in this Website is intended to be nor shall it be deemed to be legal advice, counsel, or services. Legal matters always depend on facts and circumstances specific to a person or entity and therefore any information or comments made on this Website or informational and/or the personal opinions of a person at the firm and should never be used as legal advice.
2. NO ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP.  Use of this Website does not create any attorney-client, fiduciary, or advisory relationship between RHEMA or any person or entity.
3. NOT SOLICITATION.   Nothing in this Website is a solicitation or advertisement of any kind for legal services or for any other purpose.
4. NO JURISDICTION. By way of this Website, RHEMA expressly disclaims submitting itself to the jurisdiction, venue, or choice of governing law in or of any state of the United States or other jurisdiction. Any dispute with respect to or arising from this Website or use thereof shall solely be governed by the laws of the State of California , without regard to its laws relating to choice of laws, and the forum to resolve any such dispute or disagreement shall be a court within the County of Orange, California, and no other forum whatsoever.
5. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER.   RHEMA hereby expressly disclaims (a) any warranty (whether express or implied), guaranty, representation, promise, assurance, or other statement that the Website is accurate, complete, timely, current, or reliable in any respect; (b) any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement; and (c) suitability, reliability, or applicability of all or any part of this Website. RHEMA also hereby expressly disclaims (d) that it can or will enter into an attorney-client relationship or enter into any other relationship or assume any duty (fiduciary or otherwise) with or on behalf of any person; (e) that the cases or comments discussed in this Website are comparable or applicable to any case or other legal matter involving any person; and (e) that any user or other person will obtain any particular result or outcome in any case or other legal matter.
6. COMMUNICATIONS TO RHEMA. We further advise every user that You should not communicate anything (including any confidential or sensitive information, documents, photographs, graphic depictions, financial information, data, or files) to RHEMA through this Website. RHEMA does not and cannot warrant that anything so communicated will be or remain confidential. Moreover, any such communication through the web site or by electronic mail (email), regular mail, or other means of delivery shall not create an attorney-client relationship between RHEMA and any other person or entity, and such communication shall not create a fiduciary duty or other obligation on the part of RHEMA to preserve, safeguard, or return anything so communicated, unless expressly agreed to in writing by us.  See also our PRIVACY POLICY.

• CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE.  Our Website is subject to change without notice and RHEMA disclaims any obligation to amend, correct or otherwise change the Website in anyway or at any time.

PRIVACY POLICY.

RHEMA also want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose any information we may collect from you. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect online and offline:

• through our website, www.rhemalaw.com, and related sites (“Website”);
• through social media properties (“Our Social Media”);
• through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy (“Emails”);
• through SharePoint sites made available to our clients and third parties (“SharePoint Sites”);
• through services we provide to our clients (“Client Services”); and
• through any other offline business interactions, you may have with us (“Offline Interactions).

Collectively, we refer to the Website, Our Social Media, Emails, SharePoint Sites, Client Services and Offline Interactions as the “Services.”

1.  PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT.

We may collect personal information from or about you in order to provide, enhance, and offer our Sites and Services. This section describes the categories of personal information we may collect. We and our service providers may collect the following categories of Personal Information about you:

• Identifiers, which includes, but is not limited to your: name; address (including billing and shipping address); telephone number; email address; fax number; social media user name; job title and employer;
• Commercial information, which includes payment or financial information;
• Information relating to Internet activity or other electronic network activity, which includes operating system type and version; web server type and version; database type and version; cookie information; device information; browsing activities, and platform or mobile application use data; referring domain; destination domain and destination path; communication preferences
• Professional information, such as your company, employer or organizational affiliation for your clients or partners;
• Geolocation data, which includes geographic information derived from your IP address or MAC address; latitudinal and longitudinal data;
• Audio, electronic, or visual information, which includes screen sharing views; any data in any files uploaded, emailed or otherwise provided by clients;
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date), and other; and
• Other information, including the contents of your communications with us, whether via email, social media, telephone or otherwise., and inferences we may make from other personal information we collect.

We collect personal information from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from You, for example, if you email us, or fill out a form, or sign up for a newsletter, request Services, call or office, or communicate with us through one of our Websites to receive information about our Services;
• Publicly available databases;
• Partner organizations;
• Entities to which we provide Client Services, which may include your employer;
• Social media platforms; and
• Third Parties that contract with us or interact with us in connection with the Services we provide.

We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the requested Services to you. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may use personal information collected in connection with our Services or Sites, including:

• To operate or provide our Services and/or support to our Sites;
• To fulfill requests for consultation or more information;
• To protect against criminal activity, claims and other liabilities;
• To send clients’ information regarding RHEMA Services or RHEMA News;
• To protect the security and integrity of our Services, content, and our business;
• To meet our contractual requirements;
• To comply with applicable legal or regulatory requirements and our policies;
• To communicate with our clients; and
• For any other lawful purpose for which the information is collected.

We may engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or because we have a legitimate interest.

• Providing Client Services.
  • To validate authorized signatories when concluding agreements and transactions.
  • To contact individuals (including employees of institutional clients) in connection with providing Client Services.
  • To respond to inquiries and fulfill requests from our clients, administer their file(s), provide legal services and manage our relationships.

3. SHARING OF INFORMATION

To the extent permitted by applicable law, RHEMA may share and disclose information, including personal information, as set forth below:

• Clients. We may share personal information with our clients and their service providers and other platforms that may assist those clients.
• Affiliates and Agents. We may share personal information with our affiliates or any business partners or agents acting on our behalf.
• Service Providers. We may share personal information with our service providers, agents, vendors and other third parties we use to support and advertise RHEMA Services and our business. We share personal information with such third parties to provide services to us. A listing of our service providers, if any, that may receive access to and process personal information of our clients, may be requested from us directly by emailing us at info@rhemalaw.com.
• Advertising and Marketing. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may share personal information with third parties for marketing, advertising, promotions, contests, or other similar purposes.
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures. We may share, disclose or transfer personal information to a buyer, investor, new affiliate, or other successor in the event RHEMA, or any affiliate, portion, group or business unit thereof, undergoes a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, consolidation, reorganization, divestiture, liquidation or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale or other transfer of all or a portion of any assets of RHEMA or any affiliates or during steps in contemplation of such activities (e.g., negotiations and due diligence).
• Law Enforcement and National Security. We may share personal information with legal, governmental, or judicial authorities, as instructed or required by those authorities or applicable laws, or to comply with any law or directive, judicial or administrative order, legal process or investigation, warrant, subpoena, government request, regulatory request, law enforcement or national security investigation, or as otherwise required or authorized by law.
• Protection of Rights, Property or Safety. We may also share personal information if, in our sole discretion, we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of any person, or to protect against fraud or other illegal activity.

RHEMA may also disclose personal information for other purposes or to other third parties when an individual has consented to or requested such disclosure, or where a client has obtained permission from such individual, or where such disclosure is otherwise legally permitted for legitimate business purposes, and, for client data, with such client’s authorization or otherwise in accordance with RHEMA’s agreement with such client and pursuant to applicable law.

4. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate and improve the RHEMA Services, as well as to simplify our interaction with you. A “cookie” is a unique numeric code that we transfer to your computer so that we can keep track of your interests and/or preferences and recognize you as a return visitor to the websites. We may use cookies, log files, pixel tags, web bugs, web beacons, clear GIFs, Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 and Flash or other similar technologies to collect information about the ways you interact with and use the RHEMA Services, to support and enhance features and functionality, to monitor performance, to personalize content and experiences, for marketing and analytics, and for other lawful purposes. We may also engage third party service providers to provide advertisements and promotions on our behalf, or authorize third parties to advertise and market Services via the RHEMA Services.

We may use the following types of cookies and similar technologies:

• Strictly necessary cookies required for the operation of the RHEMA Services. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas.
• Analytical/performance cookies that collect information about how you use the RHEMA Services. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website. This helps us to improve the way our website works. These cookies are sometimes placed by third party providers of web traffic analysis services.
• Functionality cookies that remember choices you make and recognize you when you return. This enables us to personalize our content, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies that collect information about your browsing habits such as the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests, and, if we enable advertising, to make advertising more relevant to you, as well as to limit the number of times you see an ad. These cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks. They remember the other websites that you visit and this information is shared with third-party organizations, for example, advertisers.

Most internet browsers accept cookies by default. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to reject all or some cookies. The help and support area on your internet browser should have instructions on how to block or delete cookies. Some web browsers (including some mobile web browsers) provide settings that allow you to control or reject cookies or to alert you to when a cookie is placed on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Although you are not required to accept cookies, if you block or reject them, you may not have access to all of the features available through the RHEMA Services.

For more information, visit the help page for your web browser or see http://www.allaboutcookies.org or visit www.youronlinechoices.com which has further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.

We may use third party analytics such as Google Analytics or similar analytics services. For information on how Google processes and collects your information regarding Google Analytics and how you can opt-out, please see https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We may use third-party advertisers to serve or track advertisements on or relating to the RHEMA Services. These third parties may use cookies and other tracking and analytical technologies to, among other things, record which ads your browser has loaded and which pages you were viewing when ads were delivered or accessed. Information so collected is subject to the privacy policies of those third parties, which you should carefully review. We have limited or no control over third party use of cookies.

5. CHOICES AND OPT-OUT

To the extent required by applicable law, or in our discretion otherwise, you can limit certain uses of personal information. Where consent is the basis of processing, you may at any time withdraw the consent you provided for the processing of your personal information for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy by contacting us as set forth below, provided that we are not required by applicable law or professional standards to retain such information.

If you would like to stop receiving newsletters or other marketing or promotional messages, notifications, or updates, you may do so by following the unsubscribe instructions that appear in these e-mail communications, by going to our unsubscribe page  or by emailing us at info@rhemalaw.com to opt-out of direct marketing. Please be advised that you may not be able to opt-out of receiving certain service or transactional messages from us, including legal notices.

Please note that if you do not provide consent, if you withdraw your consent or object to processing, or if you choose not to provide certain personal information, we may be unable to provide some or all of the services to you.

6. THIRD PARTY SITES

RHEMA may provide links to other websites, mobile applications, resources , or Internet locations over which RHEMA does not have control (“External Web Sites”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by RHEMA of those External Web Sites. RHEMA is providing these links to you only as a convenience. We have no control over and are not responsible for External Web Sites, their content, or any goods or services available through the External Web Sites. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the External Web Sites., and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any External Web Sites with which you choose to interact.

7. DATA SECURITY

We implement technical and organizational security measures designed to secure and protect personal information. Please note, however, we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with the storage and transmission of personal information.

8. REGION SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES

Our legal bases for processing personal information are:

• To comply with legal obligations;
• To perform contracts;
• To pursue our legitimate interests, including:
  • engaging in commerce,
  • offering the RHEMA Services,
  • preventing fraud,
  • correcting and addressing technical, service or security problems, o ensuring information and network security,
  • direct marketing and advertising, and
  • complying with industry practices.
• Your consent (for example, when you sign up to our mailing list).

Data Retention

We retain personal information pursuant to our records retention program, for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy, unless a longer period is permitted or required under applicable law or is needed to resolve disputes or protect our legal rights, in accordance with the principles set forth in Article 5(1) of the GDPR. We may retain anonymized, aggregated data indefinitely, to the extent permitted under applicable law.

The criteria used to determine the period for which personal information about you will be stored varies depending on the legal basis under which we process such personal information:

Automated Decisions

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may collect data in an automated manner and make automated decisions, including using machine learning algorithms, about individual users of the RHEMA Services in order to provide or optimize the RHEMA Services offered and/or delivered, for security or analytics purposes, and for any other lawful purpose. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may use automated decisions, for example, to display advertisements and offers based on the individual’s preferences.

Data Subject Rights

Individuals from the EEA whose personal information we process subject to the GDPR have certain rights as required by law, including the right of access, erasure and data portability, as well as the right to rectification, to restrict processing, to withdraw consent, and to object to processing as follows.

• Access: Individuals have the right to know if we are processing personal information about them and, if so, to access and obtain a copy of personal information about them, as well as information relating to the processing of that data.

• Rectification: Individuals have the right to have us correct or update any personal information about them that is inaccurate or incomplete without undue delay.
• Restriction: Individuals have the right to restrict or limit the ways in which we process personal information about them where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by them, where data has been obtained by us unlawfully, where the individual has objected to our processing of the data (see right of objection below) and we are considering whether to cease processing, or where we no longer need to process the personal information.
• Objection: Individuals have the right to object to our processing of their personal information where we are relying on legitimate interests as our legal basis and their rights override our legitimate interests in processing their personal information. Individuals also have the right to object to our processing of their personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent as the basis for processing personal information, individuals have the right to withdraw their consent.
• Erasure: Individuals have the right to request deletion or erasure of their personal information in a number of circumstances where required by law. These include where we no longer require the personal information for the purposes for which it was collected, the individual has withdrawn consent or, where we are relying on legitimate interests as a legal basis, and the individual’s rights override our legitimate interests.
• Portability: Individuals have the right to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you in a structured machine-readable format and to have it transmitted to another controller. This right only occurs where we are relying on your consent or performance of a contract as our legal basis and the processing is carried out automatically.
• Make a Complaint: Individuals also have the right to make a complaint about our personal information handling practices to their local data protection authority.

To assert one of your legal rights described herein, or if you have questions about this Section or our data handling practices, please contact us at info@rhemalaw.com and provide sufficient details so that we can respond appropriately. We will process any requests in accordance with applicable law and within a reasonable period of time. We may need to verify the identity of the individual submitting a request before we can address such request. If the request relates to data our clients collect and process through the RHEMA Sites and Services, we will refer the request to that client and will support them in responding to the request. For RHEMA clients, certain information may be reviewed, corrected and updated by logging into the RHEMA Sites and Services account and editing the profile information.

Compelled Disclosures. RHEMA may be required to disclose Personal Data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Privacy Shield and Data Protection Contact. Unless otherwise specified, the data controller of personal information uploaded to the RHEMA Services is the RHEMA client for whom such Services are provided and RHEMA is the processor of such data for such client. In certain cases, RHEMA may also be the controller of aggregated, anonymous or pseudonymous data relating to the RHEMA Services. Our Privacy Shield and Data Protection Contact for the personal information collected in connection with the RHEMA Services is info@rhemalaw.com .

8.2. California Privacy Rights and other Territory Rights.

To help you further understand what we do with the above categories of personal information, we have provided you with a matrix detailing the sources, purposes, and any sharing related to each category.

We do not sell personal information, or otherwise provide personal information to third parties, other than service providers receiving information to perform services for us on our behalf.  We disclose the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

• Identifiers;
• Commercial information;
• Information relating to Internet activity or other electronic network activity;
• Educational information;
• Professional information;
• Geolocation data;
• Audio, electronic, or visual information;
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law; and
• Other information.

Your Rights Under California Law

If you are a California resident, subject to applicable law, you have the following rights under California law with respect to your personal information:

• Right to Know. You have the right to request what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and/or sell, as applicable.
• Right to Delete. You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information that is collected or maintained by us.
• Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of the privacy rights described above.

You may also authorize someone to exercise the above rights on your behalf. In order to authorize another person to exercise your rights under California law, with respect to your personal information, you must (i) provide written permission to the person acting on your behalf, and (2) you must verify your identity directly with RHEMA by contacting us through one of the methods identified in this Privacy Policy.

The above rights are subject to our being able to reasonably verify your identity and authority to make these requests. These rights are also subject to various exclusions and exceptions under applicable laws.

If you are a California resident and wish to seek to exercise these rights, please reach us at info@rhemalaw.com .

10. QUESTIONS, COMPLAINTS AND DISPUTES

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or our collection, use, sharing or storage of information about you, you can contact us by email at info@rhemalaw.com

11. PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

RHEMA may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion to reflect changes to our information and privacy practices. RHEMA will post any updated Privacy Policy on this page or in the RHEMA Services, or with any notice to individual users if required by applicable law. RHEMA encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. The date of last revision is shown at the “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page.