Terms of Use/Privacy/Disclaimer

These terms of use/privacy policy (the “terms”) govern your use of the Gordon Feinblatt website http://www.gfrlaw.com (“site”) and may be modified at any time in Gordon Feinblatt’s sole discretion. The site is provided for general information only and may be modified, suspended or removed at any time. While Gordon Feinblatt tries to update and maintain the accuracy of information on the site, it may not reflect the most recent legal developments and therefore may contain errors or omissions. Website materials are never a substitute for consulting directly with respect to your specific legal needs in the applicable state. Never rely on articles or other website materials for your personal matters. You should always consult an attorney with respect to your particular situation. Gordon Feinblatt disclaims all liability for content and any action you may take or do not take in reliance on material found on this site. GORDON FEINBLATT IS LOCATED IN MARYLAND AND THE SITE IS OPERATED FROM GORDON FEINBLATT’S LOCATION IN MARYLAND. THE SITE IS DIRECTED TOWARD THOSE IN GORDON FEINBLATT’S SERVICE AREA AND NOT TO INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. BY USING THE SITE, YOU, THE USER (“YOU”) INDICATE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THE SITE IN ANY MANNER.

1. Links. The site may include links to websites owned or operated by third parties who are not affiliated with Gordon Feinblatt. These links are provided for your convenience only. Gordon Feinblatt has no control over any material posted on third party websites and does not recommend or endorse third party content, products or services. Gordon Feinblatt disclaims all liability for any injury or damages incurred resulting, directly or indirectly, from any use of or reliance on materials located on third party websites as well as any actions taken by such third parties as a result of your visit to their websites.

2. No Attorney-Client Relationship. Site visitors do not become clients of ours simply because they may have communicated with us through the site or other means or even received a response. Nothing included in the site or in any communication with us, whether by telephone, email, text message or other means, should be construed as confidential or creating an attorney-client relationship with Gordon Feinblatt. We are not your attorney unless and until we both enter into a written engagement agreement.

3. Licensure. Although the site is accessible throughout the United States as well as globally, most Gordon Feinblatt attorneys practice law primarily in the mid-Atlantic region in general and Maryland in particular. Our attorneys are only authorized to practice law in those states in which they have gained admission, subject to limited exceptions. Professional counsel in the applicable state or jurisdiction should be sought to address specific questions or situations. The site is operated from Gordon Feinblatt’s location in Maryland and the site is directed toward those in Gordon Feinblatt’s service area and not to individuals outside the United States.

4. Confidentiality. Gordon Feinblatt safeguards the confidentiality of, and does not disclose, information about existing clients or their legal matters. Please understand that any information sent to us through any means by anyone who is not an existing client is not confidential or privileged and may not be returned to you. Neither the internet nor email is secure means of transmitting material. Therefore, site visitors and existing clients should never send personal or confidential materials through the site or via email; such transmissions are at your own risk. Gordon Feinblatt disclaims any liability for disclosure, whether inadvertent or intentional, unauthorized use, and any other damages arising out of transmissions through the internet, the site, or via email.

5. Advertising; Solicitation. Nothing in this site shall be deemed a solicitation or the provision of legal advice or a legal opinion. Our site may provide information on results achieved in certain legal matters. Everyone’s particular legal situation is different. The facts and other circumstances of one matter, while similar to your situation, should not be taken to mean that similar results would be achieved in your case. Prior results achieved in one matter do not predict or guarantee a similar outcome in subsequent cases. The site may constitute a communication, solicitation or advertising under the professional rules governing attorney conduct in certain states in which some of our attorneys may be licensed to practice law. Please understand that you should never base a decision to engage us to provide you with legal services on anything contained in the site or any other advertisement.

6. Website and Content Ownership. All material found on the site is owned by Gordon Feinblatt and may be used by you only for your personal, and not any commercial, purpose. Any other use is expressly prohibited without our prior written consent in each instance.

7. Privacy Policy.
THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT GOVERN PRIVACY PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH OFFLINE ACTIVITIES.
(a) Personal Information. During your interactions with the site, Gordon Feinblatt may request personal information from you. The only personally-identifiable information we will collect and store about you is information that you decide to provide to us. We collect and store information you provide when you provide it in a message to us. Gordon Feinblatt currently does not use personal information other than to process your request, to notify you of pertinent information and for record-keeping purposes. Gordon Feinblatt does not make any visitor-provided information available to third parties, except as required to process your request or as permitted by applicable law.

(b) Call Monitoring and Recording; Fraud Prevention; Contact:
You consent to call monitoring and recording, for purposes that include but are not limited to training, quality assurance, and/or risk management, of any call between you and Gordon Feinblatt. You authorize your wireless carrier to use or disclose information about your account and your wireless device, if available, to Gordon Feinblatt or its service providers for the duration of your business relationship with Gordon Feinblatt, solely to help identify you or your wireless device and to prevent fraud. By voluntarily providing Gordon Feinblatt with your phone numbers and/or email addresses, you expressly authorize Gordon Feinblatt to communicate with you regarding your inquiry at the phone numbers (including mobile device numbers) and email addresses you provide, including through the use of automated dialing/messaging systems and/or pre-recorded voice messages.

(c) Other Information. Gordon Feinblatt may use server logs to record a visitor's Internet Protocol (IP) address and to collect general information about the visit to the site, such as the time and length of the visit, and the web pages accessed during the visit. Details of your visits to our site and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, geo-location data, weblogs and other communication data, including your IP address, the date and time you accessed or left the site and which pages you viewed. Gordon Feinblatt may use this information for site management and performance monitoring only. Gordon Feinblatt does not make any of this information available to third parties, except for service providers involved in site management.

(d) Children. The site is a general audience site which is neither designed nor intended to collect personal information from children who are under the age of 13. To ensure compliance with the provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information through the site.
(e) Security. To prevent unauthorized access to your personal data, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, Gordon Feinblatt has put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect through the site. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

(f) Cookies. Gordon Feinblatt may use cookies from time to time to allow Gordon Feinblatt to provide enhanced functionality, such as to validate passwords and user names, to aggregate site traffic data, to automate access and the data entry functions of the site such as to tailor the site to your preferences or interests, customize promotions or marketing, or identify which areas of the site are more popular.

How We Use Cookies, Pixels and other Tracking Technologies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site and estimate visits and click-throughs for specific campaigns. This helps us to provide you with an enjoyable experience when you browse our site and allows us to improve our site. These cookies expire when your browsing session ends. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. A “cookie” is a piece of text which asks permission to be placed on your device’s hard drive. Once you agree, this cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your device. They help us to improve our website. They present the content from our website in the most effective manner for you and your device. We also use cookies to aggregate user statistics and improve website functionality.

We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are needed for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to use specific portions/features of our site, such as making a payment.

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Flash Cookies. We use flash cookies on our site. Flash cookies are small pieces of information stored and accessed by Adobe Flash. If you want to disable these flash cookies, you will need to open the Adobe Settings Manager, accessible either by right-clicking flash content and clicking “Global Settings,” or by navigating directly to your storage settings through the Flash Website. There you can clear some or all your flash cookies manually through the Website Storage panel, or even turn off Flash Storage completely. However, please remember this could prevent some parts of our site from working properly.

Pixels. Additionally, our site uses pixels which are HTML code snippets that are loaded when a user visits a website or opens an email. It is useful for tracking user behavior and activity. With a tracking pixel, advertisers can get data for online marketing, web analysis or email marketing. If such data is analyzed in a particular way, the data collected through these pixels can be used for other purposes as well, for example retargeting/behavioral advertising. For example, we may deploy the Facebook Pixel on our website. The Facebook Pixel may enable Facebook to match site visitors with their Facebook User Accounts. You can find out more about how Facebook collects and uses data by clicking here. If you’d like to disable these tracking pixels, there are a number of ways in which you can prevent your data from being collected by tracking pixels, including:

Set browser and email settings to be as restrictive as possible such that external graphics are only supported after permission, and HTML emails are not supported. Appropriate firewall settings can also do this.
Some browser extensions can be used to make tracking pixels visible (e.g. PixelBlock, uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, etc.).

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page target="”_blank”"

You can opt out of specific third-party targeted advertising by visiting the settings pages of those third parties, such as:

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

How do I change my cookie settings?
Most internet browsers accept cookies by default, but you can change your browser preferences to block or restrict cookies if you do not want your web browsing activity tracked. Please note that some cookies are necessary for our site to run and, as such, cannot be declined. However, such cookies do not collect any personally identifiable information. If you choose, you may use the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) WebChoices Tool to globally opt out of third-party tracking via website cookies. There are also a variety of other tools publicly available to manage cookies and similar technologies that collect information related to your use of our site. To learn more about cookies and modifying your browser settings related to these cookies you can review guidance from the FTC.

We are not responsible for the effectiveness or compliance of third-party opt-out mechanisms or programs. Please note that if you remove your cookies or upgrade your browser after having opted out, you will need to opt out again. Your opt out is specific to the browser you are using and the device you use to access the site. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers or devices you will need to opt out on each browser or device. You can access the information on our site without enabling cookies in your browser, but disabling cookies may result in a diminished ability to take advantage of the services and related informational content on our site.

(g) Consent to Use of Artificial Intelligence; Collect/Retain/Use Chatbot Conversations.Our site may include certain functionality that utilizes artificial intelligence to interact with users, such as chatbot conversations. By using the site and any such functionality to interact with the site and exchange any information, certain information may be collected by us. This information may include information that you provide when using such functionality, including any personal information that you provide. We may retain any such collected information and use such information to assist with your requests, deliver information that we believe is relevant to you and/or your interests, and otherwise monitor/improve our site’s performance. By using such functionality on our site, you consent to such collection/retention/use by us of all information exchanged by you and between such artificial intelligence applications.

(h) Gordon Feinblatt Contact Information. If you have any questions or comments regarding these terms, please contact Gordon Feinblatt using one of the options below:

Gordon Feinblatt LLC
1001 Fleet Street, Suite 700
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410-576-4000
E-Mail: info@gfrlaw.com
Site: www.gfrlaw.com

Last Updated on 7.2024