WEBSITE PRIVACY STATEMENT AND SUMMARY

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Hazel & Schwab is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy notice (together with any other documents referred to in it) sets out how we look after your personal data when you visit our website at www.hazelschwab.com, and tells you about your privacy rights and how certain laws may apply to you.

If you have any queries about this policy or how we use your personal information, please contact us at admin@hazelschwab.com.

Your privacy is important to us. To protect your privacy and help you to make informed choices, we provide this notice explaining our information practices, how you can choose how we use your data, and your rights in relation to your data.

In brief, we will only use your information:

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• to enable us to deliver our website services to you;

• where you have consented to us doing so;

• where it is in our legitimate interests to do so and such interests are not overridden by your personal data rights.

 

This is explained in more detail below.

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About Us

This website www.hazelschwab.com (our "site") is operated by Hazel & Schwab, Inc., P.S. ("Hazel & Schwab", also referred to in this notice as "the firm", "we", "us" and "our").

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Hazel & Schwab, Inc., P.S. is an S corporation authorized and regulated by American Bar Association, the Washington State Bar Association, and registered in Washington with company number 91-1535923.

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The office of HAZEL & SCHWAB are set out below: 

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WASHINGTON STATE

Hazel & Schwab, Inc., P.S.

1420 Summitview Avenue, Yakima, Washington, 98902

United States

Tel: +1.509.453.9181                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                        

You can contact us about any queries you have regarding this privacy notice at either our postal addresses above, or at admin@hazelschwab.com.

This privacy notice

This privacy notice describes how we collect and use information collected through your use of this site. Please read this privacy notice carefully.

This site is not intended to collect data of children under the age of 18.

What personal data do we collect via the site?

We collect different information depending on how you use the site and how you interact with us. 'Personal data' means any data which can be associated with you as an individual, either directly or indirectly.

The personal data we collect via the site (including forms and/or questionnaires accessed via the site) may include:

• • Identity information, such as your name, organization name and position.

• • Contact data, such as your address and email and telephone details.

• • Information relating to your organization, including business operations, priorities and legal issues.

• • Where necessary for public interests related to health (in particular in the case of pandemics such as Covid-19), information relating to your health, recent contacts with others, recent travel, any recent health-related requests or obligations to self-isolate or quarantine.

• • Technical data, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the site.

• • Usage data, which includes information about how you use the site, and any communications we may receive from you.

• • Marketing and communications data, including your preferences in receiving marketing and other communications from us.

Special Categories of Personal Data

Except in relation to health data collected and assessed in respect of ensuring the safety of our employees and guests as part of our response to a public health crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, our site is not intended to be used for collecting, storing or transmitting 'special categories' of personal data, such as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, health information, or criminal convictions and offences.

Where we do collect and process such personal data we do so for reasons of substantial public interest or to comply with our obligations in the field of employment and social security and social protection law, or for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, including but not limited to confirming vaccination status and identifying potential symptoms linked to COVID-19, to reduce the risk of spreading the disease in or through our offices.

How and why we use personal data

We will only use your information where:

a) Personal data you provide to us

When you sign up to one of our mailing lists, you will provide us with your identity, contact information, IP address, and your marketing and communications preferences. This data is collected via direct solicitation as well as by the use of email tracking codes embedded in our marketing emails.  We do not embed tracking codes in our regular daily email correspondence.

We may require potential visitors to our offices to complete Visitor Pre-Registration Forms and/or questionnaires that ask about vaccination status and potential symptoms of COVID-19.  If you complete these questionnaires or other questionnaires that we may invite you to fill in (such as Women in Business Hour questionnaires), we may ask you to provide information about yourself and/or your organization. Information requested in respect of the Visitor Pre-Registration Forms may include COVID- or other pandemic-related data about your health and vaccination status. Information requested in other questionnaires may include data about the ownership of the organization for which you work and its potential investors/partners. We may also ask about your and/or your organization’s business needs, priorities and concerns.

You will also provide us with personal data when you correspond with us, and if you apply for a position with the firm.

b) Personal data we collect automatically
As you use the site, we will collect certain technical data including your browser type, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, and your usage habits, patterns and preferences. We collect this data using cookies, beacons and similar technologies. We use Google Analytics to help us analyze user habits while visiting our site. The data gathered from cookies may be transmitted to Google servers in the United States. We employ IP address anonymization to ensure that there is no direct reporting of individual user IPs as part of this process. The information will be used by Google only for the purpose of evaluating website use, creating website activity reports, and other services relating to website activity and internet usage on behalf of Hazel & Schwab. The IP address that your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

We use the following cookies:

Cookie name

What it is used for

Google Analytics

website analytics and visitor tracking

Wix

website security and access control

YouTube

user viewing preferences

You can remove cookies from your computer through the settings on your browser, but be aware that this may impact your ability to make use of some features on this and other web sites. Management of cookie settings varies from one browser to another. The "Help" menu of your web browser will provide full instructions. For your convenience, you can follow these links for details on how to manage cookies in each of the major web browsers:

• • Chrome (http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647)

• • Internet Explorer (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/278835)

• • Firefox (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored)

• • Opera (http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/)

• • Safari (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042)

• • Safari for iPad and iPhone (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677)

How and why we use personal data

We will only use your information where:

a) You have given us permission to do so
If you sign up to our mailing lists, we will send you updates and marketing information that you have consented to receive. Likewise, we may need your contact, identity, technical and/or usage information to respond to a question you have asked us, to enroll you in any of our programs (including our Women in Business Hour program) or to register you for an event that you have requested to attend.

If you apply for a position with the firm, we treat any information you send to us as strictly private and confidential and will only use it in relation to the application you have submitted.

b) We have a legitimate interest (reasonable business purpose) for doing so
We will use your information for our legitimate business and operational reasons (including relating to the health and safety of our offices for our employees and guests) where our doing so will not unduly affect your rights.

We will use your identity, contact and usage information to keep our records up to date.

We will use your technical information to:

• • provide and make improvements to the site, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data, and troubleshooting;

• • ensure that the site is secure;

• • analyze how users interact with the site; and

• • address any issues you may experience with the site.

We will use the health and related data that you provide to us in our Visitor Pre-Registration Form to ensure that we are able to take extra precautions to help prevent the spread of diseases including Covid-19 and thereby to reduce the potential risk of exposure to individuals working in or visiting our offices.

We may also use any or all of the information above to administer and manage our business in general. If you feel that your interests and fundamental rights outweigh our business purposes, and that we should therefore stop processing your data, please let us know.

c) We need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
In certain circumstances, we may need to retain or use your data to comply with regulations and/or the law.  This includes ensuring we do not have any conflicts of interest or any other regulatory restrictions which would prevent us from providing you with advice.

d) We need to process the data for reasons of substantial public interest, or to comply with our obligations in the field of employment and social security and social protection law, or for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, in each case on the basis of applicable law.

We will use the health and related data that you provide to us in our Visitor Pre-Registration Form to ensure that we are able to take extra precautions to help prevent the spread of diseases including Covid-19 and thereby to reduce the potential risk of exposure to individuals working in or visiting our offices.

How we share personal data

Personal information collected via this site is shared with Hazel & Schwab.

We may share your information with our trusted third party service providers (including information technology providers such as website and mailing list hosts). When we share your information with our service providers, we will ensure that your data is kept secure and used only in accordance with this notice.

On rare occasions, we may share personal data when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, regulation or legal request (including a court order or government inquiry); to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements; in the context of a firm reorganization or restructuring exercise; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the firm, our employees, our users, or others.

International transfers

This site is hosted on servers located in the US.

You can obtain further information in this respect (including a copy of the relevant standard contractual clauses) by contacting us.

Data security

The safety of your personal data is important to us, and we use various technical and organization measures to ensure that your data is secure.

Hazel & Schwab employs encryption, data security, and intrusion prevention technologies to protect and secure all personal information in our possession. Our data environment is monitored 24/7 for malicious activity and/or anomalous behavior either of which triggers our incidence response. However, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data.

WIX: “Websites built on Wix offer around-the-clock-monitoring and use the strongest encryption standard commercially available to safeguard businesses and their clients online. Supported by anti-fraud protection, sites are also compliant with the highest Payment Card Industry Data Standards. Therefore, businesses running on the platform receive enterprise-grade security managed by experts.”

You can report a privacy violation to the U.S. government: https://www.usa.gov/privacy

 

How long we keep personal data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Third party links

This site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Please consult all third party sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, third parties.

Your rights

You have certain rights over your personal data. If the GDPR applies, you may:

• • require us to rectify the personal data we hold about you, where that data is incorrect;

• • require that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;

• • request access to the personal data that we hold about you;

• • require that, in certain circumstances, we delete the personal information we hold about you;

• • require that we provide you with the information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format; and/or

• • withdraw your consent to our using your data for marketing purposes at any time.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at admin@hazelschwab.com.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Changes to this policy or your data

We may amend or modify this privacy notice from time to time. We will post any revised notice on this site. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Washington Privacy Act

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE WASHINGTON PRIVACY ACT

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR WASHINGTON RESIDENTS (“Washington Privacy Act”) supplements Hazel & Schwab’s Website Privacy Statement and Summary. Hazel & Schwab has adopted this notice to comply with the Washington Privacy Act (“WPA”) and other Washington privacy laws. It applies only to visitors, users, clients, and other persons if they are Washington consumers, as defined in the WPA. Any terms defined in the WPA have the same meaning when used in this Washington Privacy Notice.

Please note that Hazel & Schwab has not sold and does not sell your personal information, as those terms are defined in the WPA.

Notice of information we collect
Hazel & Schwab collects personal information through our website(s), at our offices, and through the services that we provide. All of the categories of personal information that we collect about you (as set out in the table below) come from the following sources:

• • You, including through your use of our services

• • Your computer or other device, automatically, when you interact with our website(s) or applications

• • Our affiliated partnership(s)

• • Third parties, such as our clients

In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from Washington consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Your Rights Under the WPA can be found under the Washington Privacy Act at the Washington State Legislature. You can also download a copy and read it.