Privacy Policy

Information

The Law Office of Robert S. Ward (“firm”) is a U.S. law firm based in Martinsville, Virginia. We may collect personal information from any of our offices or locations.

The Law Office of Robert S. Ward respects your privacy and is committed to using responsible practices in processing your personal information. Our Privacy Policy and its associated Privacy Notices explain how we process personal information. You should review this Policy and those Privacy Notices specific to you each time you visit our website as we may update it from time to time without notice to you.

 

Scope of Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy applies to any personal information we collect and any you provide to us as related to the following services:

  • Our website including the contact forms and the privacy rights form on the website;
  • Our marketing, educational and event mailings activities;
  • Our business contacts and communications; and
  • Our legal services that we provide to you.


Acceptance of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is important and affects your legal rights, so please read it carefully. By accessing or using our website and the associated pages and forms therein, lawofficeofrobertward.com, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy and the terms incorporated herein by reference. By submitting your personal data to or our collecting any personal data from lawofficeofrobertward.com, you accept and expressly consent and agree to our practices surrounding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Further, any personal information you provide us for the purposes listed above will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT AND AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU CANNOT, AND WE DO NOT AUTHORIZE YOU TO, ACCESS, BROWSE, OR USE lawofficeofrobertward.com or our legal services.

Our processing of personal information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number, will be undertaken consistent with the requirements of applicable privacy laws.


Please note that any communications that you may have with us do not establish an attorney-client relationship. Any information sent to The Law Office of Robert S. Ward before establishing an attorney-client relationship will not be held in confidence and may be used for the benefit of the firm’s other clients or future clients. Accordingly, unless and until we formally establish an attorney-client relationship, do NOT send, or otherwise communicate to us any information you would want to be maintained in confidence, whether through this website, through any email address posted on this website, or otherwise.

 

Information Security 

Any information you send to us electronically, while using our website or our legal services or otherwise interacting with us, may not be secure during its transmission. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us. Please be aware, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Any information you transmit to us through any means is sent at your own risk.

 

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you.

A. Information We Collect Directly

1. Sources of Personal Information We Collect Directly

We may collect information, which may be personal information, as otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent:

  • In relation to a business association between you and The Law Office of Robert S. Ward or one or more of its personnel;
  • From third parties involved in legal proceedings in which you are named or otherwise associated;
  • From legal and regulatory agencies and entities;
  • From conversations, mail, email, faxes, voice mail and texts sent to our personnel;
  • From social media services;
  • From the device(s) you use as a visitor to our website;
  • From the device(s) you use to connect to our networks;
  • Via our website, www.lawofficeofrobertward.com;
  • By your acceptance of an invitation to and/or attendance of a firm event; and
  • By feedback that you have provided to us regarding a firm event or publication.


B. How we use your information

We do not engage in automated decision making. We may use information (including information that has been de-identified and/or aggregated) to understand who uses our website and how we can deliver a better user experience. We use information, including personal information, to provide the legal and other services, improve or develop new services, and to advertise our services. Specifically, such use may include:

  • Providing you with the products, services, and information you request.
  • Corresponding with you.
  • Providing, maintaining, administering, or expanding our services, performing business analyses, and for other internal purposes.
  • Combining information received from third parties with information that we have from or about you and using the combined information for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
  • Fulfilling our legal obligations, such as preventing, detecting, and investigating security incidents, fraud, and potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
  • Fulfilling our ethical and professional obligations.
  • Fulfilling your privacy requests and other inquiries.
  • Enforcing our Privacy Policy and other agreements.


C. SMS Communications & Mobile Data


The Law Office of Robert Ward strictly protects the privacy of our clients. We do not sell, rent, or share personal information, including mobile phone numbers and SMS consent data, with third parties, affiliates, or partners for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will be kept strictly confidential and will not be shared with any third parties.


By opting in to receive SMS messages from Law Office of Robert S. Ward, you agree to receive customer care messages and account notification messages.


Message frequency: Message frequency may vary. On average, 1-2 messages per month. Message and data rates: Message and data rates may apply. 

Opt out: Reply STOP to unsubscribe at any time

Help: Reply HELP for assistance.

Privacy policy:  https://lawofficeofrobertward.com/privacy-policy


Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of purchase or services.

 


We store the Personal Information which we collect on encrypted servers and computers located in the United States where data protection and privacy regulations may differ from those in other parts of the world or where you reside.


If you have provided us personal information via our website, we will retain it while we have an ongoing business relationship with you.


For your convenience, our website may contain links to other website whose information and privacy practices are probably different than ours. If you choose to use these links, you will leave our website, and will then be subject to the privacy and information practices of those website. We do not control and are not responsible for any of their content or their privacy policies, if any. We do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you choose to access any of the other website listed on our website, you should understand that you do so at your own risk.

Any personal information you choose to share on our social media account pages will be visible to persons visiting those internet-based services. Please be aware that the privacy of any personal information you share on those services is governed by the privacy policies of those social media services and not by the The Law Office of Robert S. Ward Privacy Policy or any other The Law Office of Robert S. Ward Privacy Notices.

We reserve the right to remove comments or postings from any of our social media accounts which we find to be offensive or illegal, unrelated to the intended subject matter or promoting the services or products of other businesses or entities.

 

Our website is not targeted to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from any child visiting our website. If we become aware that such data has been collected, we will delete it.

Personal information from children under the age of 16 is generally obtained through parental consent. We will not knowingly collect personal information from a child without the parent contacting us and providing consent in a verifiable form. Additionally, a child’s parent or guardian may also request that the personal information of their child be deleted from our records by emailing us at privacy@lawofficeofrobertward.com completing the form here or calling us at (276) 403-0259. Information that you provide to us on behalf of a minor child will be treated as personal information. By providing personal information on behalf of another person, regardless of age, you represent and warrant that you have authority to do so and agree to go through the verification process in the case of providing personal information of a child.

For individuals under the age of 18 or parents or guardians of individuals living in Mexico, please see the Child Consent section of our Privacy Notice for Mexican Data Subjects appended to this Policy.

 

If you are a resident of another state with similar privacy rights to Virginia, such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Oregon, Texas or Florida, we will honor the privacy rights in the same manner as for Virginia residents.


We will make every effort to review this Policy no less than once a year and update it whenever we have substantive changes. If such changes are made, we will update the Policy effective date. Any amended Privacy Policy supersedes all previous versions. In the event of a conflict between a translated version of our Privacy Policy and the English version, the English version will control.

 

If you have any questions, comments or wish to exercise your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, or our SMS communications, please contact us through the consumer contact method provided on this website.


Data Sharing and Protection

Your data will not be transferred to external organizations.

We maintain safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of your data.


SMS Terms

You may opt out of SMS communications at any time

To stop receiving messages, follow the opt-out instructions provided in the messaging campaign, or contact us directly by emailing to
robert@lawofficeofrobertward.com or call us at (276) 403-0259.


Your data will not be transferred to external organizations.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. You may contact us at privacy@lawofficeofrobertward.com or by mail at P.O. Box 8, Martinsville, VA 24114, to manage your personal information or make inquiries regarding your data.

To opt out of marketing communications, you can: email us with the subject line "OPT-OUT" at privacy@lawofficeofrobertward.com

Reply to any marketing email with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE”

Text "STOP" to +12764030259 for SMS communications.