Disclaimer and Privacy Policy

Informational Only
The material on this website has been prepared by the Georgia Eminent Domain Law Firm, a division of the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin and Monge and Associates (“the Firm”) for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Transmission of the material on this site is not intended to create, and receipt does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. This information is not intended to substitute for obtaining legal advice from an attorney. Specific legal issues, concerns, and conditions always require the advice of appropriate legal professionals. You should not consider, and we do not intend, that any information you find here necessarily applies to your specific situation or that an attorney-client relationship is created by your use of this web site or by sending a message to the Firm or any of our attorneys.

While we have carefully attempted to provide accurate information, the law varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and is continually evolving. We cannot make any representation, and cannot assume any liability, for the content, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, or other aspect of the information here or at any other site to which links may be provided. By including a link to another site, the Firm intends no endorsement or implied association with any other site, organization, or individual.

Ethical Considerations
This website may be considered advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules. The hiring of an attorney is an important decision that should not be based solely upon advertisements. Before deciding to retain an attorney, you should speak with that attorney to ensure the attorney has the requisite knowledge and experience to handle your particular situation. Our attorneys do not wish to enter into a representation with anyone desiring representation based on viewing these materials in a state or other jurisdiction where this web site fails to comply with the laws and professional responsibility rules of that state or jurisdiction. We reserve the right to decline any representation. We may be required to decline representation if it would create a conflict of interest with our other clients.

Place of Business
The Firm has represented clients throughout the United States. Our attorneys, however, are only licensed to practice in state courts that are specifically enumerated in their individual attorney profiles. We have offices in NC, SC, and GA, and we do not hold ourselves out as being authorized to practice in other jurisdictions. We do have affiliations in particular cases with attorneys licensed to practice in other state courts throughout the United States. To the extent State Bar rules require us to designate a principal office and/or single attorney responsible for this site, the Firm designates David Needham as the attorney responsible for this site, located at 280 South Mangum Street, Suite #400 in Durham, North Carolina.

Electronic Communication
Although we welcome e-mail comments or suggestions about the website or inquiries about the Firm’s legal services, please do not include details about your legal problem or reveal any sensitive information in your message as such communication may not be secure. We cannot become your lawyers unless we know that doing so will not create a conflict of interest and we have agreed on satisfactory terms for the representation. No electronic communication to this website or to any of our attorneys shall create an attorney-client relationship; nor shall it be construed as an attorney-client or otherwise privileged or confidential communication. Statutes of limitation may apply to your claim. We encourage you to contact an attorney to review your claim as soon as possible. You cannot be considered a client until we have accepted your case and you have signed a retainer agreement with our Firm.

Case Review
Submission of any information to the Firm for the purpose of a legal case review does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Neither the review nor contact constitutes an attorney-client relationship. Representation for your claim does not commence until specifically agreed via a written Retainer Agreement between you and the Firm. Upon representation, our Firm may associate another lawyer or law firm to work on your claim.

Testimonials/Photographs
All cases are different; we cannot promise any specific results. Each case must stand on its own facts and circumstances. Any cases mentioned in this site are illustrative of the array of claims handled by the Firm involving various areas of law. These illustrations, though based upon cases handled by this office, are representative only and should not be viewed as an assurance of a particular result. All testimonials are actual statements, edited only for readability. In some cases, names have been omitted and models’ photos have been used to protect the declarant’s privacy.

PRIVACY POLICY

LAST UPDATED: 12/16/21

INTRODUCTION.

Your privacy is important to you…and to us. So we’ll protect the information you share with us.

Welcome to the family of websites and services provided by the Georgia Eminent Domain Law Firm (“Company” or “us”).  This Privacy Policy relates to the personal information that it receives and collects through its web site at https://www.ga-eminent-domain.com and other sites owned and operated by Company that refer to this Privacy Policy, and through use of our hosted or stand-alone technology platform, related technologies, software as a service, and any other services provided by Company (collectively, the “Services”).

We are a private company, established in the U.S.A., registered at 280 S Mangum St #400, Durham, NC 27701, United States (“Physical Notice Address”) with the contact email address publicrelations@farrin.com (“Email Notice Address”) and for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) we are the data processor.

This Policy covers both any public-facing website operated by Company (collectively, the “Public Site”) as well as Services provided only to registered users. As noted below, certain parts of the Privacy Policy apply only to the Public Site, and certain parts apply only to the Services.

In addition, please review our Terms of Use (our “Terms”) which governs your use of the Services. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Privacy Policy and our Terms and accept our collection, use, and disclosure of your information and data, and other activities, as described below. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services.

In addition to the Services that may be accessed without registering for an account, Company provides Services to improve law firm operations and boost revenue to customers who subscribe for such Services (“Customers”). This Privacy Policy does not impact or change any of the privacy policies, terms, and/or agreements between you and your Customers.

We encourage you to review any applicable institutional privacy policies, terms and agreements to see how your personal information may be used or disclosed by that institution.

    1. NOTICE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED AND USE.

(a) Information Collected and Stored.

We will inform you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you or provide you with the Services. Generally, this information is requested when you register for our Services or when you fill out our contact form on our Public Site, or sign up for our newsletter.

Company may receive certain information about you from Customers during the implementation and provision of Services. For example, Customers may provide basic information, manually or through provision of our integration services, when they are setting up the Service for their use.

Company uses cookies and other technologies on our Public Site and as part of the Services for user session management and to provide a better user experience, including customization of content display. A cookie is text data that a website transfers to the individual’s browser from a web server that is stored on the individual’s computer hard drive. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify individuals.

We use various methods and technologies to store or collect Usage Information (“Tracking Technologies”). A few of the Tracking Technologies used with the Services, include, without limitation, cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, browser fingerprinting, entity tags, UTM codes (i.e. a code that you can attach to a custom URL in order to track a source, medium, and campaign name), and recognition technologies that make assumptions about users and devices. We use Tracking Technologies for a variety of purposes, including:

      • Strictly Necessary. We use Tracking Technologies that we consider are strictly necessary to allow you to use and access our Services, including cookies required to prevent fraudulent activity, improve security, or allow you and our Customers to make use of Services functionality.
      • Performance Related. We use Tracking Technologies that are useful in order to assess the performance of the Services, including as part of our analytic practices or otherwise to improve the content, ads, products, or services offered through the Services.
      • Functionality Related. We use Tracking Technologies that are required to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing the Service, including identifying you when you use our Service or keeping track of your specified preferences.
      • Targeting Related. We use Tracking Technologies to deliver content, which may include ads, including those promoted by our partners, that we deem relevant to your interests on our Service and third-party services based on how you interact with our advertisements and/or content. This includes using Tracking Technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the content and ads that have been delivered to you.
      • Google Products. We use a number of third party analytics services, including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google Search, Console Google Tag Manager, and Google Optimize and Google Tag Manager, and the use of “logs” to capture any errors and correct those errors both at the system and customer level to help us understand how users engage with our Services. Like many services, these analytic tools use first-party cookies to track user interactions, as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our Service. This information is, among other reasons, used to compile reports and to help us improve our Service. In most instances the reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of being subjected to any of our analytic tools without affecting how you visit our Service – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  Further, third-parties may use Tracking Technologies in connection with our Services, which may include the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services as well as across your Devices. We do not control those Tracking Technologies and we are not responsible for them. However, you accept that you will encounter third-party Tracking Technologies in connection with use of our Services and accept that our statements under this Privacy Policy do not apply to the Tracking Technologies or practices of such third-parties.
      • Use of Crazy Egg. We use Crazy Egg in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize the Services and, in general, the experience received on our Site. Crazy Egg is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Crazy Egg uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Crazy Egg stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. We do not use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user.
      • Use of Lead Forensics. We use Lead Forensics which primarily is a tool that uses a tracking code for identifying businesses visiting our websites based on their business IP addresses. This is not the same as cookies. The Lead Forensics tracking code only provides information that is readily available in the public domain. It does not, and cannot, provide individual, personal, or sensitive data regarding who has visited our website. This information allow us to analyze the use of our website and eventually contact those companies about their experience or for sales purposes. To be able to guarantee you the best service, we transmit this data to our subsidiaries and distributors as far as necessary. Beyond this purpose, there is no transmission of personal information to third parties.
      • Use of CallRail. CallRail provides web-based phone and SMS communication services used to measure marketing campaigns and improve customer service and sales performance. CallRail collects information on callers who call CallRail numbers, including: (1) the caller’s phone number, (2) the name displayed on the Caller ID (when available), and other data third-party enabled data where caller consent has been granted (for example, customer data from CRM systems, social contacts, email inboxes, third-party data services, etc.). The data is processed and stored only for backup purposes, and it is not shared with any third-party vendors beyond CallRail.
      • Use of PPC Call Tracking. PPC Call Tracking allows us to track specific advertising campaigns and corresponding revenue generated.

(b) Location-Based Information. In connection with use of our Services we may use location-based services in order to verify your location and, if we deem appropriate, deliver relevant content and ads based on your location. We also share your location with third-parties (as set out below) as part of the location-based services we offer and for other commercial purposes. You can change the settings on your Device to prevent it from providing us with such information. This location data is collected in a form that personally identifies you and will be used by us, our Customers, and our partners and licensees to provide and improve the Services or for other commercial purposes. You should consider the risks involved in disclosing your location information and adjust your mobile and browser settings accordingly.

(c) Information Collected and Stored – Short Message Service (SMS) Messages. After you sign up for our Services (subject to your consent where required by applicable law), we may contact via SMS. In addition, we and/or our Customers may send you SMS messages that provide marketing, promotional, and/or other information. We, our third-party service providers, and Customers use a variety of technologies that automatically (or passively) store or collect certain information whenever you, we and/or our Customers send you a text message. This information will be stored or accessed using a variety of technologies that will be downloaded to your mobile device whenever you receive a message via our SMS service. Finally, we may require use of SMS messages as part of a two-part authentication process.

(d) California Do Not Track Disclosures. Various third-parties are developing or have developed signals or other mechanisms for the expression of consumer choice regarding the collection of information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services (e.g., browser do not track signals). Currently, we do not monitor or take any action with respect to these signals or other mechanisms.

    1. CHOICE.

We will inform you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you or provide you with the Services. Generally, this information is requested when you register for our Services or when you fill out our contact form on our Public Site, or sign up to request a demo (e.g. email address, physical address, phone number).

Company may receive certain information about you from Businesses during the implementation and/or provision or facilitation of Services. For example, Businesses may provide basic consumer or business related information, manually or through integration with customer information, vendor information or human resource systems, when they are setting up the Service for their use.

You may be able to log into our Services using single sign-on providers or single sign-on features of other products. These products will authenticate your identity and may share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address. Logging in also allows us to see additional information (e.g. orders placed, your last login, last IP address, etc.).

Company may also record information about how you and other individuals access our Services. This information is typically not personally identifiable and may include internet protocol (IP) addresses (or the DNS name associated with it) of the individual’s computer, the website from which the individual linked to our Services, and the browser software the individual is using to access our Services. This information is used in the aggregate to administer computer systems and to make improvements to our Services.

    1. WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION YOU SHARE.

In certain situations Company will share your personal information with Customers and other third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy.

(a) Company shares information under the following circumstances:

      • Information held in the Services may be accessed by and shared with Customers in order for such Customers to manage its offerings and programs. Our Customers may use your Information to deliver product information from third parties to you through our Services.
      • We will use your information to provide the Services, and we may provide information to companies that assist us in providing Services, such as a hosting provider or a customer service provider. These companies are authorized to use your information only as necessary to provide these Services and to assist with supporting our users.
      • We may share your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, and other legal processes or governmental requests, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
      • Company may share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, protecting and defending the rights or property of Company, its Services and its users, violations of our Terms, or as otherwise required by law.
      • In the event that Company is acquired by or merged with another company, Company may share information regarding our users with that company. Company will notify you before information about you is transferred that becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

(b) Legitimate Interests. As it is in our legitimate interests to be responsive to you and to ensure the proper functioning of our Services and provide you with a user-friendly service, we will use your personal information, and/or Usage Information:

      • to provide you with information such as to send you electronic correspondence or to provide you with promotional and marketing materials on behalf of us or third-parties, including to let you know about new products or services;
      • manage risk, or to detect, prevent, and/or remediate fraud or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities;
      • manage and protect our information technology infrastructure;
      • to improve the Services, marketing endeavors, or our Services offerings;
      • to customize your experience on the Services or to serve you specific content or ads that we deem are relevant to you;
      • to identify your Services related preferences so that you can be informed of new or additional opportunities, products, services, and promotions;
      • to improve the overall experience at the Services;
      • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
      • for internal business purposes; and
      • for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

(c) California Specific Privacy Rights. ­­

This section applies with respect to any users located in the State of California. For California residents, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended (“Consumer Privacy Act”), you may (i) elect to opt out of the sale of your “personal information” (as defined by the Consumer Privacy Act) by the Company, (ii) request that the Company and its service providers delete any of your personal information collected, (iii) request that the Company deliver to you, free of charge, any of your personal information collected over the past 12 months preceding the request, and (iv) request certain information regarding any collection, sale, and disclosure of your personal information over the past 12 months preceding the request (including the categories of personal information collected, sold, and/or disclosed for a business purpose, the categories of sources from which the information was collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the information, the categories of third parties with whom the information was shared, and the specific pieces of the information collected).

You may opt out of the sale of your personal information by emailing to the following address: publicrelations@farrin.com  DO NOT SELL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION.  Requests may be submitted and the foregoing rights may be exercised upon notice to us at, and questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy may be directed to, at our Email Notice Address with “California Privacy Rights” as the subject line or mail us a letter to us at our Physical Notice Address. You must include your full name, email address, and postal address in your request.

The Company will honor these rights to the extent required by the Consumer Privacy Act. Any requests submitted must be verified by us before we will respond, and to enable this verification we may require you to provide us information confirming your identity, which may include any username or password information, and the personal information matching that which we have in our records. You may submit requests through an authorized agent given authority through a power of attorney form or other authorization acceptable to and verified by us. The Company will not discriminate against users based on their exercise of any of the rights under the Consumer Privacy Act, provided that the Company may charge different prices to users based on the value of the data they provide.

The types of personal information collected in the last 12 months and how this information has been shared are as described in this Privacy Policy.

In addition, California Civil Code Section 1798.83, known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us a list of what personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the names and addresses of those third parties. Requests may be made only once a year and are free of charge. Under Section 1798.83, we currently do not share any personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

(d) Nevada Privacy Rights – “Do Not Sell My Personal Information”.  We may elect to share information about you with third-parties for those third-parties’ direct marketing purposes. Nevada Revised Statutes §§ 603A.300-.360 permits Nevada residents who have supplied personal information (as defined in the law) to us to, under certain circumstances, request and opt out of the sale of your personal information to third-parties for their direct marketing purposes. If this law applies to you, and you wish to make such a request, please provide sufficient information for us to determine if this applies to you, attest to the fact that you are a Nevada resident and provide a current Nevada address for our response. To make such a request, please contact us at our Email Notice Address with “Nevada Privacy Rights” as the subject line or mail us a letter at our Physical Notice Address. You must include your full name, email address, and postal address in your request.

    1. ACCESS AND CONSENT.

Upon request, Company will grant you reasonable access to personal information that it holds about you and was collected through our Public Site. Company will take reasonable steps to permit individuals to correct, amend, or delete information about them that is shown to be inaccurate or incomplete.

In addition, Company allows users to modify the level of communications that you receive related to our Services. You may obtain current information about yourself and how to modify the types of information that you receive from Company by contacting us at our Email Notice Address or at publicrelations@farrin.com.

    1. STANDARD CONTRACTUAL CLAUSES 

To the extent Company has agreements in place with any affiliates or subprocessors, each who may have access to the personal data, such agreements shall incorporate the EU Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses (“Standard Contractual Clauses”).

    1. DATA TRANSFERS.

(a) Onward Transfer. Company will not disclose any personally identifiable information to a third party who is not a Company contractor or agent (“Agent”) except as outlined above. For third parties acting as an Agent, Company will ascertain that the third party follows the Standard Contractual Clauses, is subject to the EU Data Protection Directive, or has entered into an agreement with Company that is consistent with the applicable or required principles.

In the context of an onward transfer, Company has responsibility for the processing of personal information it receives pursuant to the Standard Contractual Clauses and subsequently transfers to an Agent on its behalf. Company shall remain liable as provided under the Standard Contractual Clauses if its Agent processes such personal information in a manner inconsistent with such principles, unless Company proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

(b) Data transfer to other controllers. Principally, your personally identifiable information is forwarded to other controllers only if required for the fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or if we ourselves, or a third party, have a legitimate interest in the data transfer, or if you have given your consent. Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers when we are obliged to do so due to statutory regulations or enforceable administrative or judicial orders.

(c) Service providers (general). We involve external service providers with tasks such as sales and marketing services, contract management and processing, payment handling, programming, and data hosting. We have chosen those service providers carefully and monitor them on a regular basis, especially regarding their diligent handling of and protection of the data that they store. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the statutory provisions. Service providers may also be our affiliates.

    1. SECURITY.

Company takes reasonable technical, administrative, and physical measures to protect the security of your personal information from unauthorized use, disclosure, and alteration.

When you place orders or access your account or any personal account information, you’re utilizing a secure connection via SSL, which encrypts your personal information before it’s sent over the Internet.

Company provides information and training to all employees who have access to personally identifiable data maintained by Company, and Company employees are responsible for the internal security of such information.

Company takes all reasonable measures to ensure that such information is reliable for its intended use, and is accurate, complete, and current.

Inside the Company, data is stored in password-controlled servers with limited access.

You also have a significant role in protecting your information. No one can see or edit your personal information without knowing your user name and password, so do not share these with others.

    1. USERS OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

(a) Transfer of Your Information. Our Services are operated in the United States and intended primarily for users located in the United States. While we do market our Services to users outside the United States, we do not do so in any material manner. As such, if you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect, including personal information, will be transferred to, and processed, stored and used in the United States in order to provide the Services to you. Where GDPR applies and our processors of your personal information are located outside the European Economic Area, such transfer will only be to a recipient country that ensures an adequate level of data protection, or with your explicit consent.

(b) Additional Rights Provided to EU Individuals.

      • Access and Portability: You have the right to ask us to access the information we hold about you, including personal information, and be provided with certain information about how we use your information and who we share it with. Where you have provided your personal information to us with your consent, you have the right to ask us for a copy of this data in a structured, machine readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this data to another data controller.
      • Right to deletion: In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to delete personal information we hold about you:
      • where you believe that it is no longer necessary for us to hold your data including personal information;
      • where we are processing your personal information on the basis of legitimate interests and you object to such processing and we cannot demonstrate an overriding legitimate ground for the processing;
      • where you have provided your personal information to us with your consent and you wish to withdraw your consent and there is no other ground under which we can process your personal information; or
      • where you believe the personal information we hold about you is being unlawfully processed by us.
      • Restriction: In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal information:
      • where you believe the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate and while we verify accuracy;
      • where we want to erase your personal information as the processing is unlawful, but you want us to continue to store it;
      • where we no longer need your personal information for the purposes of our processing, but you require us to retain the data for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or
      • where you have objected to us processing your personal information based on our legitimate interests and we are considering your objection.

In addition, you can object to our processing of your Personal Information based on our legitimate interests and we will no longer process your Personal Information unless we can demonstrate an overriding legitimate ground.

To exercise any of these rights above, please contact us at our Email Notice Address.

Please note that these rights are limited, for example, where fulfilling your request would adversely affect other individuals, where there are overriding public interest reasons, or where we are required by law to retain your personal information.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at our Email Notice Address.

      • Complaints: In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how we process your Personal Information, please contact us in the first instance at our Email Notice Address and we will endeavor to deal with your request as soon as possible. This is without prejudice to your right to raise a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
    2. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY.

Company does not knowingly collect or maintain information acquired through our site from persons under 16 years of age (the “Approved Age”), and no part of the site or services is directed to persons under the Approved Age. Any user under the Approved Age should not use or access our site at any time or in any manner. If Company learns that personally identifiable information of persons less than the Approved Age has been collected from our site without verified parental consent, then Company will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

    1. DISPUTE RESOLUTION.

Any questions or concerns regarding the use or disclosure of personal information should be directed to Company pursuant to the contact information below. Company will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of personal information in accordance with the principles contained in this Policy.

All disputes arising out of or related to the Agreement shall be finally settled under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce by one arbitrator appointed in accordance with such rules. The place of arbitration shall be Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The arbitration shall be conducted in English. The arbitrator shall award to the prevailing party, if any, as determined by the arbitrators, its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, including the costs of the arbitration. Judgment on any arbitral award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.

The parties shall keep confidential: (i) the fact that any arbitration occurred; (ii) any awards awarded in the arbitration; (iii) all materials used, or created for use in the arbitration; and (iv) all other documents produced by another party in the arbitration and not otherwise in the public domain, except, with respect to each of the foregoing, to the extent that disclosure may be legally required (including to protect or pursue a legal right) or necessary to enforce or challenge an arbitration award before a court or other judicial authority.

    1. IN THE EVENT OF MERGER, SALE, OR BANKRUPTCY.

In the event that all or part of Company is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, Company may transfer or assign the personally identifiable information held by Company as part of such merger, acquisition, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of Company’s bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, Company may not be able to control how personal information is treated, transferred, or used.

    1. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically by Company, as reflected by the “last updated” date above. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes.

  1. CONTACT INFORMATION.

Company welcomes questions and comments regarding this Privacy Policy. We may be contacted at our Email Notice Address.