JDS LAW OFFICE

www.jdslawoffice.com

PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: June 16, 2025 | Last Updated: June 16, 2025

JDS Law Office (“Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard personal information when you visit our website at www.jdslawoffice.com (the “Site”) or otherwise interact with us. This Policy is designed to comply with applicable privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), and the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) for individuals in the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy.

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:

• Submit a contact form or inquiry on the Site

• Request a consultation or legal services

• Correspond with us via email or telephone

• Enter into an engagement agreement with our Firm

The types of personal information collected may include your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and any information you include in your message or inquiry.

When you visit the Site, we and our third-party service providers may automatically collect certain technical information, including:

• IP address and approximate geographic location

• Browser type and version

• Operating system

• Pages visited and time spent on each page

• Referring URLs and exit pages

• Device identifiers and usage data

This information is collected through cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies. Please see Section 7 (Cookies and Tracking Technologies) for more information.

We may receive information about you from third-party sources, such as analytics providers, advertising partners, or publicly available databases, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

We use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:

• To respond to your inquiries and provide requested information about our legal services

• To establish and manage an attorney-client relationship, where applicable

• To process payments and maintain billing records

• To communicate with you about your matter or our services

• To comply with our legal and ethical obligations as attorneys

• To improve the functionality and content of our Site

• To analyze usage trends and monitor Site performance

• To detect, prevent, and address security or technical issues

• To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and court orders

For individuals in the EEA, we process personal data under the following legal bases:

• Contractual necessity — to perform services you have requested or entered into a contract for

• Legal obligation — to comply with applicable laws and professional regulations

• Legitimate interests — to operate and improve our Site, prevent fraud, and communicate with prospective clients

• Consent — where you have provided explicit consent, such as for optional marketing communications (you may withdraw consent at any time)

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

• Service Providers: We may share information with trusted third-party vendors who assist us in operating the Site and conducting our business (e.g., IT services, payment processors, cloud hosting providers), subject to confidentiality obligations.

• Legal and Ethical Obligations: We may disclose information as required by law, court order, subpoena, or government authority, or as necessary to comply with our professional responsibilities under applicable rules of professional conduct.

• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

• With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when you have given us explicit consent to do so.

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the CCPA and CPRA with respect to your personal information:

You have the right to request that we disclose: (i) the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you; (ii) the categories of sources from which we collected the information; (iii) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the information; and (iv) the categories of third parties with whom we share the information.

You have the right to request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions permitted by law (e.g., information necessary to complete a transaction, comply with a legal obligation, or detect security incidents).

You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If this practice changes, we will provide a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” mechanism on the Site.

To the extent we collect sensitive personal information (as defined under the CPRA), you have the right to limit its use to purposes specified by law.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights. We will not deny services, charge different prices, or provide a different level of service based on your exercise of these rights.

To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the information in Section 11. We will verify your identity before processing your request and respond within 45 days, with an option to extend by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have the following rights under the GDPR with respect to your personal data:

• Right of Access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

• Right to Rectification: You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.

• Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You may request deletion of your personal data, subject to certain legal exceptions.

• Right to Restriction of Processing: You may request that we restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances.

• Right to Data Portability: You may request that we provide your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format for transfer to another controller.

• Right to Object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.

• Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

• Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To exercise any GDPR rights, please contact us at the information listed in Section 11. We will respond to verified requests within 30 days, extendable by two additional months in complex cases.

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to provide legal services, comply with our legal and professional obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and applicable law. When information is no longer needed, we securely delete or anonymize it.

Attorney-client records are retained in accordance with applicable state bar rules and professional responsibility requirements, which may require retention for a minimum number of years following the conclusion of a matter.

Our Site may use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your experience, analyze usage, and support Site functionality. Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser.

• Essential Cookies: Necessary for the Site to function properly.

• Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our Site (e.g., Google Analytics).

• Preference Cookies: Remember your settings and preferences.

You may control cookies through your browser settings or opt out of certain analytics tracking. Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the Site. For EEA users, we obtain consent before setting non-essential cookies where required by law.

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

In the event of a data breach that affects your rights and freedoms, we will notify affected individuals and applicable regulatory authorities as required by law.

JDS Law Office is based in the United States. If you are located outside the United States, including in the EEA, please be aware that your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where required by the GDPR, we take appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal data, which may include standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

Our Site is not directed to individuals under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take prompt steps to delete it. If you believe we have collected information from a minor, please contact us immediately.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your privacy rights, or have concerns about our data practices, please contact us:

JDS Law Office

Website: www.jdslawoffice.com

We will respond to your request within the timeframes required under applicable law.

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we make material changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Policy. Your continued use of the Site following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Policy. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.

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