Privacy Policy

Padilla Law PLLC provides legal services in a variety of legal areas, including healthcare, business formation and structuring, startups, angel investors and venture capital funds, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, gaming law and fantasy sports, and international corporate.

This Privacy Policy describes how, along with our subsidiaries and affiliates  (collectively referred to as “Padilla Law”, “the firm”, “we”, “us” or “our”), Padilla Law processes Personal Information (defined below) when we provide legal services to clients, manage our business and other relationships or when you use our websites, newsletters or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy also describes the types of information we may collect from you, how we may use that information, how we protect your information, and the you choices you have regarding the collection and use of your information when visiting our website. We are committed to ensuring the privacy and integrity of the Personal Information you share with us or we otherwise collect as we provide these Services.

Throughout this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.

If you decide to give us personal information while using our website, you consent to this collection, use, transfer and other processing of that information in accordance with this notice and applicable laws. Please note that this notice and the procedures described in it may be amended or superseded from time to time.

1. Information We Collect

In most cases, we collect Personal Information directly from you. However, we may also obtain Personal Information about you from third parties or automatically when you interact with our Services.

Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from the Services if that information is necessary to provide such Services or if we are legally required to collect it.

Below is a description of the different types of Personal Information we process and the sources from which we obtain them:

• Website. When you visit this website, you may voluntarily submit data using one of the forms available for a specific purpose (“Subscription Pages”). On Subscription Pages, we may collect personal information about you including, for example, your name, address, email address, phone number, facsimile number, bar number, company name, company address, and/or title.
• Clients. If you are a client of our firm, we collect your name, contact details, payment information and any other information you provide to us or we otherwise obtain from third parties (e.g., from public bodies, from the opposing party etc.) when providing legal services to you. The type of information we collect from our clients varies depending on the matter and may include information about our clients’ employees, customers, and vendors (e.g., name, contact details), communications with our client, information provided by our client, and any other information that may be relevant for the matter, including Personal Information about criminal offenses, if applicable.
• Padilla Law business partners and vendors. We may receive contact details and payment information from business partners’ and vendors’ employees in furtherance of the relevant partner or vendor relationship.
• Events. We may collect Personal Information about you if you choose to register for an event at which a representative of our firm attends. This Personal Information may include your name, address, title, company, phone number, and email address, as well as specific information relevant to the event for which you are registering.
• Newsletters and informational programs. As part of our value-added services, we are pleased to offer a newsletter on topics of interest to our clients and others. If you sign up to receive our newsletter focusing on key legal, regulatory, and industry trends, and our invitations to informational programs and networking events, we will ask you to provide your first and last name, company, and email address.
• Communications. If you choose to contact us for any purpose, we will collect your contact details, your name, and the content, date and time of your message, as well as our reply and any follow up action we take in relation to your inquiry.
• Job applicants. If you apply for a job with us, you will be asked to enter or upload your first and last name, resume and transcripts, phone, email address, law school, graduation year, and position. You may also provide your middle name, address, country, reference(s), a cover letter, writing sample, and additional transcripts.
• Other sources. We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources, including third parties that help us update, expand, and analyze our records, identify new customers, or prevent or detect fraud. We may also receive information about you from social media platforms, for example when you interact with us on those platforms or access our social media content. The information we may receive is governed by the privacy settings, policies, and/or procedures of the relevant social media platform, and we encourage you to review them.

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Through the use of cookies and similar technologies, we may collect your device IP address, unique device ID, hardware and software type, Internet service provider, serving domain, geographical area, location data, browser type and settings data (such as screen resolution, color depth, time zone settings, browser extension and plugins) operating system, referring URLs, search history, information on actions taken or interaction with our digital assets (e.g., page views) and dates and times of actions. The types of cookies we use include:

• Google Analytics to collect information about how you use our Services. We use this information to create reports and improve our Services. The cookies help us understand the number of visitors to our website and where visitors come from. To learn more about how Google uses data when you use our Services, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To opt-out from these cookies across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Marketo Munchkin to personalize website content based on visitors’ actions and browsing history, to measure campaign effectiveness, and to improve our Services.

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through the browser settings. Be aware that, if you opt out from and do not agree to certain cookies, your experience on our Services may be diminished and some features may not work as intended depending on the cookie. To find out more about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

3. Use of Personal Information

We may use your Personal Information for the follow purposes:

• Evaluate your interest in our Services, including to contact you to ask whether you wish to receive additional information about the firm, publications prepared by our lawyers, and related materials. Unless we are permitted or required by other legal obligations, we will use any Personal Information that you provide only for the purposes for which you give your consent. In addition, we may use your personal information to respond to requests, enquiries, or complaints received from you; communicate with you about our firm and our services; and invite you to events.
• To provide legal services to our clients, including to advise clients on legal matters, represent them in the context of legal proceedings such as court proceedings, arbitration and settlement, and dealings with regulatory authorities; to conduct due diligence in the context of IPOs, mergers and acquisitions and other transactions; and to process payments and advance payments on behalf of our clients.
• For marketing purposes, including to newsletters and other communications to our clients and business contacts. We will send you communications that are relevant to you. We may also use your Personal Information to furnish biographical details to clients and to assess the effectiveness of our events, promotional campaigns, and publications.
• To manage our business relationships with customers, clients, vendors and suppliers, business partners, cooperating law firms and other contractors, including processing invoices and sending service-related communications.
• For recruitment purposes, including to evaluate job applications, invite you for a job interview and arrange for travel.
• To communicate with you, and respond to your inquiries.
• For other business purposes, such as to provide, operate and improve our products and services, perform data analyses, detect, prevent, and respond to actual or potential fraud, illegal activities, or intellectual property infringement, defend our legal rights, and comply with our legal obligations and internal policies.

5. Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade Personal Information about you. Except as set forth in this notice, we do not disclose your Personal Information to third parties except as described below:

• With Padilla Law affiliates, subsidiaries, offices and representatives around the world as needed to provide legal services.
• With third party contractors engaged by Padilla Law in the course of business (e.g., accountants, insurance companies, banks, auditors, Padilla Law’s network of external legal counsel and other professional experts, advisors and/or consultants engaged by Padilla Law).
• With government agencies, regulators or courts, as required by applicable law and/or in the context of legal proceedings. Although we are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your Personal Information, if demanded by compulsory process or otherwise required by law, we reserve the right to disclose such information without additional notice to you.
• As necessary to provide legal services to our clients, including opposing counsel.
• With partners or firm sponsors.
• With vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, including dealers, distributors, marketing and research agencies, with whom Padilla Law has a contractual relationship.
• With social networks when you use your credentials to log in to some of our services (e.g., if you use your LinkedIn credentials to visit our LinkedIn webpage).
• If you post other information to our website, that information may be displayed and viewable by other users.
• If you gave us your permission, or if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to (i) comply with laws, law enforcement requests, and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (ii) respond to your requests; or (iii) protect your, our or others’ rights, property, or safety.
• In case of merger, sale, or other asset transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy or liquidation where the business will not continue as a going concern, receivership, sale of Padilla Law assets, or transition of our products or services to another firm, then your Personal Information may be transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract.

6. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on applicable law, you may have some rights and choices with respect to your Personal Information. Those rights may be limited by local law requirements. You may exercise these rights by contacting us as specified below. 

• Marketing. We allow you to opt out of future communications at any time by notifying us that you would like to opt out of future communications.
• California Privacy Rights. If you are a Consumer receiving products or services for which we are a Business, as those terms and any other capitalized terms in this section are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (California Civil Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.199) and its implementing regulations, as amended or superseded from time to time (the “CCPA”), and is effective upon the date that the CCPA enters into operation, California law may permit you to request information regarding the:
• Categories of Personal Information (as defined by applicable California law) Collected, Sold or Disclosed by us;
• Purposes for which categories of Personal Information Collected by us are used;
• Sources of information from which we Collect and share Personal Information; and
• Specific pieces of Personal Information we have Collected about you.

In addition, if you are a Consumer you may:

• Opt-out of the Sale or Disclosure of your Personal Information, in some circumstances;
• Opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us; however, you may still receive administrative communications regarding the Services; and
• Request deletion of your Personal Information by us and our Service Providers, in some circumstances. There are a number of exceptions to fulfilling your deletion request that include, but are not limited, to when the information is necessary for us or a third party to do any of the following: provide you with services, perform a contract between us and you, protect your security and prosecute those responsible for breaching it, protect the free speech rights of you or other users, comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code Section 1546 et seq., engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interests that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, comply with a legal obligation, or make other internal and lawful uses of the information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We do not sell your personal information, or the personal information of minors under the age of 16, for money or other valuable consideration.

The CCPA also provides Consumers with the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by a Business for the exercise of these rights regarding Personal Information.

Such information may be used for the purposes for which it was collected or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law. 

We do not offer financial incentives to consumers based upon the retention or sale of a consumer’s Personal Information.

As of the date of last update and review of this Privacy Policy, we have no reason to believe that we have collected, disclosed, sold or otherwise processed the Personal Information of more than 4 million California Consumers. 

You can make requests related to your California privacy rights by calling 512-680-6622 or by email to info@padilla.law or in writing to Padilla Law PLLC, 12951 Huebner Rd., Suite 782315, San Antonio, TX 78278. Please be aware that we do not accept or process requests through other means (e.g., via fax or social media). Your request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. We will not be able to respond to your request or provide you with specific pieces of personal information if we cannot verify your identity and authority to make the request.

We will review the information provided, confirm receipt of your request under the CCPA, and may request additional information to ensure we are interacting with the correct individual. Additional information to verify your identity may be required by law before we may take action upon such a request. This additional information may vary depending on the nature of your request and/or the nature of the information about which your request relates. In some cases, we may also be required by law to obtain a signed declaration under penalty of perjury from you that you are the subject of the request being made. If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity on or from your account, we will delay taking action on your request until we can appropriately verify your identity and the request as authentic.

By law, we are not required to collect personal information that we otherwise would not collect in the ordinary course of our business, retain personal information for longer than we would otherwise retain such information in the ordinary course of our business, or reidentify or otherwise link information that is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information. If we have not requested specific additional information from you to verify your request, please do not send such information. 

We generally will aim to avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. However, if we cannot reasonably verify your identity or more information is needed for security or fraud-prevention purposes, we may consider any of the following factors, alone or in combination, in requesting additional information:

• The type, sensitivity, and value of the personal information collected and maintained about the consumer, as applicable law requires a more stringent verification process for sensitive or valuable personal information;
• The risk of harm to the consumer posed by any unauthorized access or deletion;
• The likelihood that fraudulent or malicious actors would seek the personal information;
• Whether the personal information to be provided by the consumer to verify their identity is sufficiently robust to protect against fraudulent requests or being spoofed or fabricated;
• The manner in which the business interacts with the consumer;
• Available technology for verification; and
• Other factors that may be reasonable in the circumstances, are consistent with industry practice, are recommended by California government officials, or which may be required by law or regulation following the effective date of this Privacy Policy.

 If your request is regarding household information, the same verification steps above are required before we can provide you with aggregate household information. For us to process a request for access to or deletion of specific pieces of information regarding your household, all members of the household must make the request, and we must be able to verify each household member.

In some cases, we may not have sufficient information about you or your household to be able to verify your identity or sufficiently differentiate you from another consumer or household to the degree of certainty required by law, in which case, we will not be able to act upon your request. In such cases, it may be unlikely that we would be able to identify you or your household in the future without collecting significantly more information or seeking to reidentify deidentified information. At this time, we do not intend to take such steps in response to a request made pursuant to this Privacy Policy and applicable law does not require that we do so. If, in the future, we determine a reasonable method to identify you or your household absent such steps, we will provide an update to you through this Privacy Policy and in response to any such request at that time.

Information that you submit for the purpose of allowing us to verify your identity in furtherance of a consumer-related or household-related request pursuant to California law will only be used by us, and our service providers if any, for that purpose and no other. Except where we are required by law to maintain such information for record-keeping purposes, we will take steps to delete any new personal information collected for the purpose of verification as soon as practical after processing your request.

Please also be aware that making any such request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal or deletion of Personal Information or content you may have posted, and there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow us to fulfill your request, including, for example, where fulfilling your request may infringe upon the rights and freedoms of other consumers.

We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee or take other appropriate action in response to requests from a consumer or household that are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character.

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf pursuant to applicable law. We accept documentation of your designation in the form of a valid power of attorney and/or a notarized statement. You must submit evidence of your designation of an authorized agent in writing to: Padilla Law PLLC, 12951 Huebner Rd., Suite 782315, San Antonio, TX 78278. We may require verification of your authorized agent in addition to the information for verification above for consumers and households. 

7. Changes To or Removal Of Your Personal Information

We want to be sure that the Personal Information you provide to us is as up to date as possible, and we hope you will help us in that effort. You may review, correct and update the personal information you have submitted to us, and you may withdraw your consent to our future use of your Personal Information at any time (allowing ten (10) business days for processing of your request). If you wish to review or revise the information about you that has been submitted to us, you may do so at any time by sending an email to info@padilla.law.

If you wish to unsubscribe from our newsletter, wish to remove your contact details from our lists, or request that we delete your Personal Information, you can do so by sending an email to info@padilla.law. Please help us by being as specific as possible about the types of communications, publications, or other information that you no longer wish to receive. If you choose to unsubscribe, we may retain sufficient information in our files so that we are able to honor your request in accordance with your instructions. It might take up to ten (10) business days for us to process any change, unsubscribe or delete requests. It is possible that you will receive another email communication during the change period.

8. Links to Other Websites

This website may link to websites maintained by outside organizations, including third-party social networks (such as Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and our clients. Please be aware that these third-party websites are governed by their own privacy policies. Our firm is not responsible for the content or policies maintained by these websites. Please familiarize yourself with the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit, as it will govern any information you submit through that website. 

9. Security

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards that are intended to appropriately protect Personal Information against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the Personal Information in our possession. We take reasonable steps to protect any personal information that you provide us online by employing appropriate security measures. However, because no information system can be 100% secure, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

10. Data Retention

We take measures to delete your Personal Information or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when this information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it, unless we are required by law to keep this information for a longer period.  For example, we keep client records for the length of the client relationship and for maximum 5 years after we close the matter. When determining the retention period, we take into account various criteria, such as the nature and length of our relationship with you, mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations, the type of Services requested by or provided to you, the possible re-enrolment with our Services, and the impact on our Services if we delete some information from or about you.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. If we make material changes, we may notify you via a notice posted on our website or other method. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy periodically to stay up-to-date about our privacy practices. 

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at: 

Padilla Law PLLC
12951 Huebner Rd.

Suite 782315

San Antonio, TX 78278
United States
info@padilla.law