Privacy Policy and Disclaimer
Who is Owen | Law, PLLC.
DISCLAIMER: Owen | Law, PLLC and attorney Kenneth D. Owen is not engaged in a joint venture, partnership, or group of lawyers and operate as a solo-practitioner in the Dallas/Fort Worth region of Texas. In the event there is contracted work with another law firm the nature of that relationship may be disclosed to the potential client or the retained client by the originating law firm or Owen | Law, PLLC. The nature of the agreement shall not establish a continuing relationship or affiliation with the law firm and the contract’s expiration shall conclude and terminate the relationship.
Policy Terms
Introduction:
Owen | Law, PLLC (“Firm”) takes information privacy and protection of confidential information seriously. All services employed by the Firm is designed to protect against a breach of this important and valuable information.
All client confidential information is maintained in accordance with legal requirements set forth by the jurisdiction for protecting information on our website or retained by the firm. Applicable laws considered in the enforcement and terms of the Firm policy are but are not limited to:
Texas Privacy Act
Texas Public Information Act
Texas Rules of Professional Responsibility Governing Lawyers
All applicable federal laws governing the protection of confidential information.[1]
Privacy Provisions
Our website address is: https://www.kdolaws.com.
Comments.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
[1] This is a non-exhaustive list of applicable and regulatory law. All ABA formal opinions, jurisdictional laws, or otherwise applicable rules governing the legal profession apply to this policy wherever Owen | Law, PLLC operates.