Privacy and Cookies
Effective Date: 29 August 2012
Latham & Watkins (“Latham”) respects your privacy and is committed to collecting, maintaining and using personal information about you responsibly. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to all of your use of www.lathamcares.org (the “Site”). This Policy describes how your personal information will be treated as you use our Site and services. This Policy does not apply to information provided to us in the course of our attorney-client relationships or protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable protection. Nothing in this Policy should be construed to create an attorney-client relationship with visitors to our website or, conversely, to detract from any of the protections resulting from such relationships.
BY USING THE SITE YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. PLEASE READ IT.
Information We Collect From You and How We Use It
Like many websites, we use “cookies” on this Site. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that can be downloaded to your device when you visit a website. The cookies we use are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Although you can disable cookies on your device by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser, doing so may limit your ability to view our Site. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com.
Information You Submit To Us Through the Site
If you submit personal information to us through our Site, we will use that information for the purpose for which it was collected and for other reasonably related purposes we determine are appropriate. We may provide your information to third parties for the processing of that information solely for our benefit, but we will not provide your information to any third party for marketing purposes except in connection with information requests you make that involve third parties or in connection with events that involve presentations or sponsorship by third parties. We reserve the right to disclose personal information to regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies or as required by applicable law.
Sharing of Information
Latham & Watkins operates worldwide as a limited liability partnership (with affiliated limited liability partnerships conducting the practice in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Singapore, as affiliated partnerships conducting the practice in Hong Kong and Japan, and as an affiliated sole proprietorship in Saudi Arabia), and all personal information under its possession will be shared with the affiliated limited liability partnerships and affiliated partnerships. The entity responsible for the management and use of the shared information is Latham & Watkins LLP in the United States.
Transfer of Information Across National Borders
This website is operated on servers in various jurisdictions, including the United States. Where permitted by law and if required by applicable law, you expressly consent to the transfer of your personal information to, and the collection and processing of such personal information in the United States and other countries or territories where we or our vendors operate. In giving this consent, you acknowledge your understanding that the laws on holding, processing, using and transferring personal information in the United States may vary and be less protective of your privacy than laws of your state or country.
Children’s Privacy
We are committed to complying with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our Site and services are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we receive personal information that we discover was provided by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly destroy such information. Schools and parents should supervise their children's online activities and consider the use of other means to provide a child-friendly, online environment. Additional information is available on the Direct Marketing Association's home page at http://www.the-dma.org. If you would like to learn more about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission home page at http://www.ftc.gov.
Security
This Site is not designed to store sensitive personal information such as financial, health or educational records and you should not use our Site for that purpose. We believe the Site uses measures that are commercially reasonable to secure your personal information, but we cannot and do not assure that these measures will be sufficient to protect against all efforts to gain unauthorized access to the information.
Agreement, Changes
To the extent permitted by applicable law, by using this Site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as described above. If we decide to update our Privacy Policy, we will post these changes next to the Privacy Policy link on the front page of our Site. If there are material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. Any information collected under our old Privacy Policy will be subject to the terms of our new Privacy Policy.
Contacts
To request access to personal data relating to you which is processed by Latham, and/or if you have any queries, claims, etc. on the handling of personal information, please send e-mail to our Data Privacy Specialists. Requests for notification of the purpose for which personal information will be used and/or its disclosure, correction, addition, deletion, termination of use, erasure or termination of provision to a third party will be processed in accordance with firm procedures.
Data Controller
The data controller for this website is:
GSO USA LLC
555 West Fifth Street, 8th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90013
United States