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JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their contents with a wider audience of professionals, journalists and associations.

This privacy statement describes how JD Supra, LLC ("JD Supra" or "we, ""we," or "our") collects, uses and shares personal data collected from visitors to our website (at www.jdsupra.com) (our"Website") which only displays publicly available content and subscribers to our services (such as our e-mail digest or author tools) (our"Services") By using our website and registering for one of our services, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Please note that if you sign up for one of our Services, you can make choices about how we collect, use and share your information through our Privacy Center in the "My Account" dashboard (available if you have logged in to your account JD Supra).

Information gathering

Registration information. When you register with JD Supra for our website and our services, both as author and subscriber, you will be asked to provide identifying information to create your JD Supra account ("Registration data"), for example yours:

• E-mail
• First name
• Surname
• Company Name
• Business industry
• Title
• Nation

Other information: We also collect other information that you may provide voluntarily. This can include content that you provide for publication. We may also receive communications with others through our website and our services (how to contact an author via our website) or communicate directly with us (for example via e-mail, feedback or other forms or social media). If you are a registered user, we will also collect your user preferences, such as the types of articles you would like to read.

Information from third parties (such as, from your employer or LinkedIn): We may also receive information about you from third-party sources. For example, your employer can give us your information, for example in relation to an article submitted by your employer for publication. If you choose to use LinkedIn to subscribe to our website and our services, we also collect information about your account and LinkedIn profile.

Your interactions with our website and our services: As with most websites, we collect certain information automatically. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), reference / exit pages, operating system, date / time and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the website and our services, improve the content and performance of our website and our services and track user movements around the site. We could also link this automatically collected data to personal information, for example, to inform authors about who read their articles. Some of this data is collected through the information sent by your web browser. We also use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. For more information on cookies and other tracking technologies that JD Supra can use on our website and our services, please visit our "Cookie Guide" page.

How do we use this information?

We use the information and data we collect primarily to provide our website and our services. More specifically, we may use your personal information for:

• Manage our website and services and publish content;
• Distribute content to the user according to their preferences and provide other notifications to the user (for example, updates on our policies and terms);
• Measure readers and use of the website and services;
• Communicate with you regarding your questions and requests;
• Authenticate users and provide the security and security of our website and our services;
• Conduct similar research and activities to improve our website and our services; is
• Respect our legal and regulatory responsibilities and enforce our rights.

How are your information shared?

• Content and other public information (such as an author profile) are shared on our website and services, including digest mail and social media feeds, and is accessible to the general public.
• If you choose to use our website and services to communicate directly with a company or an individual, such communication can be shared accordingly.
• Readers' information is provided to law firms and content authors to give them information about their readers and to help them improve their content.
• Our website may offer you the opportunity to share information via our website, for example via the "Like" button on Facebook or the "Tweet" button on Twitter. We offer this functionality to help generate interest in our website and content and to allow the user to recommend content to their contacts. We need to be aware of the fact that sharing through this feature can result in the collection of information from the applicable social media network and the possibility of being made public (for example through a search engine). Any collection of such information would be subject to the privacy policy of such third-party social network networks.
• Your information may also be shared with individuals who support our business, such as professional consultants, web hosting providers, analytics providers, and other information technology providers.
• Any judicial authority, governmental authority, ordering force or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary to fulfill a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights, the personal security rights of third parties or individuals or to detect, prevent or otherwise deal with fraud, safety or security issues.
• To our affiliated entities and in connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of our company or our business.

How we protect your information

JD Supra adopts reasonable and appropriate precautions to ensure that your information is protected from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We limit access to user information to individuals who reasonably need access to perform their job functions, such as our third party email service, customer service personnel and technical staff. Keep in mind that no Internet transmission is 100% secure or error-free. Where you use login credentials (usernames, passwords) on our website, remember that it is your responsibility to protect them. If you believe your login credentials have been compromised, please contact us at [email protected].

Information for children

Our website and our services are not intended for children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16 through our website and / or services. If you have reason to believe that a child under 16 has provided personal information to us, please contact us, and we will do our best to remove this information from our databases.

Links to other websites

Our website and our services may contain links to other websites. Operators of such other websites may collect information about you, including through cookies or other technologies. If you are using our website or our services and click on a link to another site, you will leave our website and this policy will not apply to your use and activity on those other sites. We encourage you to read the legal notice published on these sites, including their privacy policies. We are not responsible for the collection of data and the practices of use of these other sites. This policy applies only to information collected in connection with the use of our website and services and does not apply to any practices conducted offline or in connection with other websites.

Information for EU and Swiss residents

The main commercial office of JD Supra is in the United States. By subscribing to our website, you expressly consent to the processing of your information in the United States.

• Our legal basis for processing: Generally, we rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal information. For example, we rely on this legal basis if we use your personal information to manage your registration data and manage our relationships with you; to provide our website and services; understand and improve our website and our services; to report the readers' analysis to our authors; to personalize your experience on our website and services; and where necessary to protect or defend our rights or property, or to detect, prevent or otherwise deal with fraud, security, security or privacy issues. Please refer to article 6 (1) (f) of the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") In addition, there may be other situations where there are other reasons for processing, for example when the treatment is the result of legal requirements (Article 6 (1) (c) of the GDPR ) or for reasons of public interest (Article 6 (1) (e) of the GDPR). Please refer to the "Your Rights" section of this Privacy Policy immediately below for more information on how you can request that we limit or refrain from processing your personal information.
• Your rights
  • Right of access / portabilityYou can ask to review the details of the information we hold about you and how that information was used and disclosed. Note that we may ask you to verify your identification before fulfilling your request. You can also request that your personal information be provided to you in a commonly used electronic format so that you can share it with other organizations.
  • Right to correct information: You may request to make corrections to any information we hold if we believe that such a correction is necessary.
  • Right to limit our processing or cancellation of information: You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to ask us to limit the processing of your personal information or to delete your personal information. If you have consented to our use of your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time.

You can make a request to exercise any of these rights by sending us an e-mail to [email protected] or by writing to:

You can also manage your profile and subscriptions via our Privacy Center in the "My account" dashboard.

We will make all the practical efforts to respect your wishes. However, there may be times when we are unable to meet the request, for example, if the applicable law prohibits our compliance. Note that JD Supra does not use "automatic decisions" or "profiling" because these terms are defined in the GDPR.

• Time to keep your personal informationWe will retain your personal information in a form that identifies the user only for the period in which it serves the purposes for which it was originally collected as indicated in this Privacy Policy or subsequently authorized. We may continue to process your personal information for longer periods of time, but only for the time and to the extent that such processing reasonably serves the storage of public interest, journalism, literature, and art. , scientific or historical research and statistical analysis and subject to the protection of this Privacy Policy. For example, if you are an author, your personal information may continue to be published in relation to your article indefinitely. If we do not have legitimate business needs to process your personal information, we will delete it or make it anonymous, or if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been archived in the backup archives), we will store the information securely. your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until canceled.
• Next transfer to third parties: As stated in the previous section "How we share your information", JD Supra may share your information with third parties. When JD Supra discloses your personal information to third parties, we have made sure that these third parties have obtained certification under EU-U.S. or the Swiss Privacy Shield Framework and will process all personal data received from Member States of the EU / Switzerland relying on the applicable Privacy Shield Framework or which have been subject to strict contractual provisions in their contract with us to ensure an adequate level of protection data for your data.

California Privacy Rights

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, our customers residing in California have the right to request certain information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

You can make a request for this information by sending an email to [email protected] or by writing to:

Some browsers have incorporated a Do Not Track (DNT) function. These features, once activated, send a signal that you prefer that the website you are visiting does not collect and use data related to your online searches and browsing activities. Since there is not yet a common understanding on how to interpret the DNT signal, we currently do not respond to DNT signals on our site.

Access / correction / update / deletion of personal information

For non-EU / Swiss residents, if you want to know what personal information we have about you, you can send an e-mail to [email protected]. We will be in touch with you (by email or other) to verify your identity and provide the requested information. We will respond within 30 days to the request for access to the personal information of the user. 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. If you wish to correct or update your personal data, you can manage your profile and subscriptions via our Privacy Center in the "My account" dashboard. If you wish to delete your account or remove your information from our website and our services, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

Changes in our privacy policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy statement at any time. Please refer to the date at the top of this page to determine when this policy was last reviewed. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will become effective upon publication of the revised policy on the website. By continuing to use our website and our services as a result of these changes, we will assume that you have accepted these changes.

Contact JD Supra

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, about the practices of this site, about our website or services, or if you want to change the information you provide, please contact us at the privacy address @ jdsupra. com.

As with many websites, the JD Supra website (available at www.jdsupra.com) (our "Website") and our services (like our e-mail articles) (our"Services") use a standard technology called" cookies "and other similar technologies (such as pixels and web beacons), that is, small data files that are transferred to the user's computer when you use our website and services. automatically the browser every time you interact with our website and our services.

How we use cookies and other tracking technologies

We use cookies and other tracking technologies for:

1. Improve the user experience on our website and services;
2. Retains the authorization token that users receive when they access the private areas of our website. This token is specific to the user's login session and requires a valid username and password for obtaining. You need to access user profile information, subscriptions and analyzes;
3. Trace the use of the anonymous site; is
4. Allowing connectivity with social media networks to allow content sharing.

There are different types of cookies and other technologies used by our website, in particular:

• "Session cookies"- These cookies last up to your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser (such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Safari).
• "Persistent biscuits"These cookies remain on your computer or device after the browser is closed and last for a period specified in the cookie.We use persistent cookies when we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session, to remember your preferences for the next time you visit.
• "Web Beacon / Pixel"- Some of our Web pages and e-mail can also contain small electronic images known as web beacons, transparent GIFs or single-pixel GIFs, which are inserted into a web page or e-mail and usually work in conjunction with cookies to collect data, use these images to identify our users and user behavior, such as counting the number of users who visited a web page or acted on one of our digest emails.

JD Supra Cookies. We place our cookies on your computer to track certain information about you while you are using our website and our services. For example, we put a session cookie on your computer every time you visit our website. We use these cookies to allow you to access your subscription account. In addition, through these cookies we are able to collect information on how you use the website, including which browser you are using, your IP address and the URL address from which you try to visit our website and URL that you have visited (even if those URLs are not on our website). In addition, we use web beacons via e-mail to check if our e-mails are delivered and read. We also use these tools to help provide readers with tools to analyze readers to give them information about their readers and help them improve their content, so that it is more useful for our users.

Analysis / performance cookies. JD Supra also uses the following analytical tools to help us analyze the performance of our website and our services, as well as how visitors use our website and our services:

• HubSpot – For more information about the HubSpot cookies, visit legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy.
• New relic – For more information on New Relic cookies, visit www.newrelic.com/privacy.
• Google statistics – For more information on Google Analytics cookies, visit www.google.com/policies. To disable Google Analytics tracking on all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This will allow you to download and install a web browser without Google Analytics cookies.

Facebook, Twitter and other social network cookies. Our content pages allow you to share content that appears on our website and services for your social media accounts through the "Like", "Tweet" or similar buttons displayed on those pages. To implement this service, we incorporate the code that these third-party social networks provide and which we do not control. These buttons know that you have logged in to your social network account and therefore these social networks may also know that you are viewing the JD Supra website.

Checking and deleting cookies

If you want to change the way a browser uses cookies, including blocking or deleting cookies from the website and JD Supra services, you can do so by changing the settings in your web browser. To control cookies, Most browsers allow you to accept or reject all cookies, accept only certain types of cookies, or notify you whenever a site wants to save a cookie. It is also easy to delete cookies that have already been saved on your device from a browser.

The processes for checking and deleting cookies vary depending on the browser you are using. To find out how to do it with a particular browser, you can use the "Help" function of your browser or, alternatively, you can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org which explains, step by step, how to check and delete cookies in the majority of browsers.

Updates to this policy

We may update this policy on cookies and our Privacy Policy from time to time, in particular as technological changes. You can always check this page for the latest version. We may also inform you of changes to our privacy policy by email.

Contact JD Supra

If you have questions about how we use cookies and other tracking technologies, please contact us at the address: [email protected].