Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to Boulay Law Firm, LLC. This Privacy Statement explains how our office handles information, including how our office collects, uses, shares and otherwise processes your personal data in connection with your relationship with our office, as a client of our office, acting for a client or being generally interested in our services and our publications in accordance with applicable data privacy laws, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Should you have any questions about this privacy statement you can contact us at the address mentioned below.
We may supplement this privacy statement. Those supplemental notices should be read together with this privacy statement.
Boulay law Firm, LLC, is a limited liability corporation. The office is in Lowell, Massachusetts. You can contact us by first class mail at Boulay Law Firm, LLC, 9 Central Street, Suite 300, Lowell, Massachusetts.
PERSONAL DATA
The term “Personal Data” as used in this Privacy Statement shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); and identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his/her physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity. Personal Data does not include data from which you can no longer be identified such as anonymized aggregate data.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUTYOU, HOW DO WE COLLECT IT AND WHAT D WE USE IT FOR?
The kinds of Personal Data we may collect include your contact details (such as address, email address, telephone number) and information such as your job title which we will request from you. In addition, we collect the Personal data you choose to provide to us, e.g., if you contact us by letter, telephone, email or any other means of electronic or personal communication. We will process your Personal data if and to the extent applicable law provides a lawful basis for us to do so. We will therefore process your Personal Data only:
1)If you have consent to us doing so;
2) If we need it to perform the contract, we have entered into with you; if we need it to comply with a legal obligation; or
3) If we (or a third party) have a legitimate interest which is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Such a legitimate interest will be the providing of legal services by us, administrative or operational processes within Boulay Law Firm, LLC and direct marketing.
We will use your personal data to deliver legal services to you and /or the institution you work for or for whom you act. We may also use your Personal Data to inform you about our services, new legal developments in the jurisdiction we act, and our marketing events.
Please note that we may use or disclose Personal data if we are required by law to do so or if we reasonably believed that use or disclosure is necessary to protect our right and/or to comply with judicial or regulatory proceedings a court order or other legal process.
WHAT WE MAY NEED FROM YOU
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights.) This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
ACCURACY OF INFORMATION
It is important the Personal Data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please let us know if your Personal Data changes during your relationship with us.
WHAT IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDED THE PERSONAL DATA WE REQUEST?
It is in your sole discretion to provide Personal Data to us. If you do not provide us with all or some of the Personal Data we request, we may not be able to accept an engagement from you, to provide all or some of our legal services, to enter into a contract wit you or to send you the requested (marketing ) information.
CHANGE OF PURPOSE, ANONYMIZATION
We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason which is compatible with the original purpose. We may disclose your Personal Data or any information you submitted if we have a good faith belief that disclosure of sch information is reasonably necessary to (1) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (ii)enforce any applicable terms of service including investigation of potential violations thereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues, or (iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Boulay Law Firm, LLC, our uses, yourself or the public. We also may be required to disclose an individual’s Persona Data in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we need to use or disclose your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose we will notify, unless such notice is prohibited.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case it is no longer Personal Data.
WITH WHOM WILL WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION?
When using your Personal Data for the purposes and on the legal basis described above we may share your Personal Data with other law firms and services providers we work with. We may also have to share your Personal Data with regulators, public institutions, courts or other third parties.
YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR INFORMATION
You have the rights as an individual which you can exercise under certain circumstances in relation to your Personal Data that we hold. These rights are to:
Request access to your Personal Data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”) and request certain information in relation to its processing;
Request rectification of your Personal Data;
Request the erasure of you Personal Data;
Request the restriction of processing of your Personal Data;
Object to the processing of your Personal Data.
Please send a letter with any request to Boulay Law Firm, LLC, 9 Central Street, Suite #300 Lowell, MA 01852.
RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT
In case you have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data, you have the right to fully or partly withdraw your consent. Once this office receives notice that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purposes to which you original consented unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for further processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms of for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. In case we processed your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time, in which case we will no longer process your Personal Data for marketing purposes.
HOW LONG WE WILL RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION
We WILL ONLY RETAIN YOUR Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements
To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will 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.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your Persona Data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case it is no longer Personal Data.
Upon expiration of the applicable retention period, we will securely destroy your Personal Data in accordance with applicable law and regulation.
FEES
You will in general not have to pay a fee to exercise any of your individual rights mentioned in this Privacy Statement. However, we reserve the right to charge and may charge a reasonable fee if your request to exercise your individual rights is manifestly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Statement at any time, and we will make an updated copy of such Privacy Statement available on our website.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Please direct any concerns via fist class mail to Boulay Law Firm, LLC, 9 Central Street, Lowell, MA 01852, Attn: Office Administrator
We partner with Thomson Reuters, who might also collect data as part of our marketing efforts. To learn more about the Thomson Reuters privacy policy and the data that might be collected, please visit: Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement.