Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Plant Medicine Law Group’s (“PMLG”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) Website, www.plantmedicinelaw.com, and the Privacy Policy page, which discloses what type of information we collect, how we handle such information, and how we disclose it to other people. The Privacy Policy also describes how you can exercise your rights regarding your data. By using our Website, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Use, accessible from www.plantmedicinelaw.com.

Types of Information We Collect

While using our Website, PMLG collects information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”) for various purposes to provide and improve our Website. Personal Information may include, but is not limited to email addresses, cookies, and usage data.

Email addresses

We collect personal email addresses when you subscribe to our newsletter.

Cookies and Tracking Data

We use cookies and similar technologies to track the activities on our Website. Cookies are small pieces of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier, that websites store on your device. Cookies can improve a visitor’s browsing experience because they help remember preferences and understand how people use different features. Tracking technologies, including but are not limited to beacons, tags, and scripts, are used to collect and track information to improve and perform analytics for our Website.

You can instruct your browser to not accept cookies, or to indicate when a cookie is sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.

Use of Collected Information

We use your Personal Information primarily for our own internal purposes, such as providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving our Website. Specifically, we use your email addresses that you provide to us to send out newsletters and other direct marketing materials regarding legal or law firm developments that may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive our newsletters, you may unsubscribe in our electronic marketing communications. We use the non-personal information we collect to track the use of the Website and to assist us in providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving our Website.

Sharing of Information

We strive to ensure that your Personal Information is protected and only used according to this policy. We may need to share data with unrelated parties outside of PMLG for limited circumstances. PMLG uses Mailchimp to manage our newsletter subscriptions. You can always unsubscribe via the unsubscribe function in the newsletter. To improve and optimize our Website, we may disclose data to partners who provide analytics services and functionalities we need, such as Google and others. These third parties have access to your Personal Information to perform tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use such information for any other unauthorized purposes.

PMLG may disclose your Personal Information based on a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of PMLG, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website, protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, protect against legal liability, or otherwise in accordance with applicable law.

Transfer of Information

Your Personal Information may be transferred and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, territory, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that Personal Information may be transferred to and processed in the United States.

Your agreement to this Privacy Policy, including the submission of your Personal Information, constitutes your agreement to that transfer. PMLG will take reasonable steps necessary to ensure that your Personal Information is treated securely in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place to secure your Personal Information.

Security of Data

We take the security of your Personal Information seriously. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is absolutely secured. While we will use commercially reasonable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee 100% security.

Links to Third Party Sites

Our Website may contain links to websites that are operated by a third party. You will be directed to the third party’s website if you click on the third party link. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party websites or services. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policies of sites you visit.

Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended to target or for use by anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). In order to respect the privacy of Children, PMLG does not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our Website by Children. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from Children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information. By using our Website, you confirm that you are either of legal age or have an applicable consent.

General Data Protection Regulation

Under EU data protection laws, individuals may have certain data protection rights, which may be subject to applicable limitations and/or restrictions, allows you: (i) to request access to your data; (ii) to ask us to delete your data; (iii) to rectify your data; and (iv) to ask us to restrict the processing of your data. You may also have a right to object to processing of your Personal Information where carried out for our legitimate interest or direct marketing. To exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, please send us your request using the “Contact Us” section below. Individuals may also have a right to lodge a complaint about the processing of their Personal Information with their local data protection authority. Your requests in this section will be executed where we legally can within the required statutory timeframe. Requests must be made in writing and upon provision of a valid proof of identification.

California Privacy Rights

Under California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), California residents may have certain data protection rights regarding their Personal Information. These rights, which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions, include: (i) the right to disclosure, deletion, access, and nondiscrimination; and (ii) the right to opt out of having your Personal Information shared or sold. PMLG does not sell or share your Personal Information with third-party companies for their direct marketing purposes without your consent. To exercise your rights under the CCPA, please send us your request using the “Contact Us” section below.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy at any time without advance notice. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. When changes are made, we shall post the revised Privacy Policy on our Website with an updated effective date.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: [email protected] with the subject line “My Privacy”.

Effective Date

This policy is effective as of November 4, 2020.