Privacy Policy – Smart Lawyer Search
Updated On: 20th December 2024
Smart Lawyer Search maintains the highest regard for its users’ privacy needs. The Privacy Policy of this website details our procedures for handling the data you provide alongside the practices of third-party advertisers including Google AdSense during visits to https://smartlawyersearch.com. The use of our website https://smartlawyersearch.com implies your acceptance of this policy’s described practices.
1. Information We Collect
The website does not collect personal details except when users submit such information manually such as getting in touch through a contact form. The website utilizes cookies to enhance its functionality along with measuring site performance while also improving user experience.
Cookies:
When visiting a website users receive small text files which store on their devices. Our platform makes use of cookies to help users keep their preferred settings plus determine the visitor interactions on our website. These cookies function for the following reasons:
- Essential Cookies: The website requires Essential Cookies to function properly to maintain session information on the system.
- Analytics Cookies: The analytics cookies operate to gather data regarding website traffic and user actions to help us enhance the website platform (such as through Google Analytics).
- Advertising Cookies: Advertising Cookies help to deliver appropriate advertisements and check advertisement performance by utilizing Google AdSense.
Information regarding cookies function can be accessed at AboutCookies.org together with cookie management options.
2. How We Use Cookies
All cookies operate for the following reasons:
- To analyze website traffic: The website uses Google Analytics to collect non-personal information about how you use the site through analytics tracking services and it tracks your page interactions along with time spent viewing content and your approximate geographical location using your internet connection information (IP address).
- To personalize ads: Through cookies, Google AdSense and other third-party ad networks create personalized ads according to what you have interacted with on the site.
3. Google AdSense and Google Ads
The website delivers advertisements through Google AdSense. Through cookies and web beacons, Google AdSense serves ads that relate to your previous website visits on our site and across the internet. Google AdSense ads show content that matches users’ specific interests by using cookies.
Google’s Use of Cookies:
Users will receive advertisements from Google through cookies based on their website browsing activities on this site and other internet websites. Google collects IP addresses and browser types together with page visit information for making targeted ad selections. Google AdSense implements a set of cookies which are more commonly known as DoubleClick Cookies.
Google Ads Privacy Practices:
The framework that guides Google privacy practice stands as the Google Privacy Policy accessible at Google Privacy Policy.
Through the Google Ad Settings page, users can activate an option that lets them opt out of personalized advertising: Google Ad Settings. You can determine which advertising content you want to view through the Google Ad Settings platform.
Third-Party Vendor Disclosure:
The website permits third-party vendors such as Google to gather specific data using cookie and web beacon technology. The information collected by third-party vendors enables them to create advertisements based on your history of website visits on our site and additional websites.
Users who want to disable third-party ad network surveillance should visit NAI Opt-Out to choose the option.
4. Your Rights and Choices
Users have the authority to determine cookie utilization on their devices.
- Managing Cookies: Your browser settings offer complete control to manage and delete cookies at any desired moment. Visit AboutCookies.org for reading detailed instructions about cookie management.
- Opt-Out of Personalized Ads: At Google Ad Settings you can take advantage of the feature that allows you to block personalized advertisements.
- GDPR Compliance: As an EU resident you hold the right to view your stored data and demand its deletion under the GDPR. We only retrieve voluntary user information but the policies mainly pertain to cookie information. For more information, see GDPR.
- CCPA Compliance: The information we collect from California residents about their data can be obtained under the provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Since we handle no personal data this privacy policy provision does not apply in its conventional form. For more details, visit CCPA.
5. Data Security
Our website does not obtain personal details but employs encryption and secure storage to protect gathered information which includes cookie data. We understand that electronic transmission along with secure storage cannot provide absolute security of your information because any method of transmission remains vulnerable to risks.
6. Children’s Privacy
The website does not welcome users under 13 years of age. The website collection practices specifically avoid acquiring personal data from children. After learning we accidentally got a child’s personal information under age 13 we immediately started to delete it.
7. Third-Party Links
Users can find links to non-operated third-party websites from our platform. Cookies data can be collected through separate privacy policies established by third-party sites that operate outside of our website domain. Please check the privacy policies of third-party websites after you leave our website.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will update the “23rd March 2025” at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we use cookies you can Contact Us.