Privacy Policy

Effective: March 20, 2025

Mehok Law PC (“Mehok Law”, “we” or “our” or “us”) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the privacy practices applicable to Mehok Law, including our website at www.mehoklaw.com and other sites that are under our control if we post the Policy to the site (collectively, “Sites”). The Policy explains how personal information about you may be collected, used, maintained and, in some cases, disclosed by us. The Policy also explains the rights and choices certain individuals may have regarding their own personal information that is subject to this Policy. If we have entered into other privacy or data related agreements with you or your company and there is a conflict between the Policy and those other agreements, those other agreements will control.

Mehok Law is a California professional corporation organized in the U.S.  Our office locations and contact details are listed at www.mehoklaw.com/contact.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect and receive Personal Information, as defined below, and other information from a variety of sources and in a variety of ways, including those listed below. We may collect information from you, publicly available sources, service providers, business partners or other third parties. Personal Information means any information that enables us to identify you, directly or indirectly, by reference to any identifiers such as name, email address, identification number, location data, telephone number, online identifier or one or more factors specific to you. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Personal Information does not include information that has been deidentified, pseudonymized or anonymized. Additional exclusions for Personal Information may be provided below based on the laws applicable to your jurisdiction.

  • Legal Services and Business Administration. We collect Personal Information and other information from a variety of sources about a variety of individuals during the course of providing legal services and administering our business. For example, we collect Personal Information about individuals associated with our clients, prospective clients and their respective affiliates, including employees, representatives, customers, service providers, and other contacts.  We may collect Personal Information about other individuals while providing legal services, such as adverse parties, authors, inventors, experts and witnesses. This type of Personal Information and other information is necessarily broad and varied depending on the nature of the legal matter or operational purpose, including client conflicts, requirements for anti-money laundering, identify verification, anti-trust and other regulatory purposes.

  • Interactions with the Sites and Us. When you visit the Sites, you may choose to provide Personal Information and other information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, company name, title, billing preferences and payment information. For example, you may provide Personal Information by sending us an email, subscribing to news alerts, providing your contact details and updating your contact preferences.

  • Service Providers. We collect Personal Information and other information about individuals associated with service providers that we engage, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, company name and title.

  • Purchase and Transaction Information. We collect Personal Information and other information, including payment-related data such as a credit card number or bank account number, while processing payments for legal services and service providers.

  • Job Applications. We collect information when you apply for a job with us, including your name, email address, telephone number, and information on your resume.  You may also provide information related to necessary health-related accommodations.

  • Non-Personal Information. When you visit the Sites, we may collect non-personal information, such as the type of browser and operating system you are using, the domain name of your internet service provider, which pages you visit and how long you spend on each page, your location, and the unique number (such as IP address) assigned to your server or internet connection.

  • Social Media Sites. If any Sites are accessible through third-party social networking sites and you use such features, we may have access to certain information associated with your social media account such as your name, email address and photograph.  If you are a member of the social networking site, the social networking site may connect your visit to the Sites with your Personal Information.

  • Mobile Phone Information. By providing your mobile phone number, you consent to receive SMS messages from Mehok Law. These messages may include information about our services, updates, or promotional offers. Message and data rates may apply. You can opt out of receiving SMS communications at any time by following the instructions provided in the message or by contacting us directly. Your consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of purchase or service and does not create an attorney client relationship. We are committed to protecting your privacy, and your phone number will not be shared with third parties or affiliates without your explicit consent.

  • Other Information. We may obtain Personal Information about you from third parties, including entities that direct you to or are accessible via the Sites, and business partners.

You are not obligated to provide us with your Personal Information in all of the cases described above. However, without your Personal Information, we may not be able to fulfill the functions described above. For example, we may not be able to provide you with legal services, consider you for a job or engage you for your services. In addition, some features of the Sites, such as subscribing to news alerts, may not function without your Personal Information.

If you are under the age of majority in your home jurisdiction, please do not use or access the Sites. It is not our intention to collect or use personal information from anyone under the age of majority, and we will not knowingly do so. A child’s parent or guardian should contact us if we have inadvertently collected information about that child without the parent or guardian’s authorization, so that we may delete such information from our files.

2. USES AND PURPOSES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect Personal Information for the purposes described below.

  • To provide legal and related services and administer our business, including facilitating your requests for complimentary case evaluations; representing clients in legal matters; responding to, soliciting and assessing requests for legal services; fulfilling legal and ethical obligations, such as performing conflict checks; and processing payments and issuing invoices for services.

  • To fulfill your requests made on the Sites or other means, such as responding to your requests for information and processing your subscription to news alerts.

  • To administer, fulfill and enforce contractual obligations with service providers and others, including for insurance purposes.

  • To provide marketing materials we believe would be of interest to you, such as newsletters, upcoming events, newsletters, promotional content, or legal developments; to maintain and update your contact preferences; to add you to our databases, including subscriber and contact lists, for future marketing purposes; and other marketing efforts.

  • To recruit/evaluate job applicants and maintain personnel files, including name, contact details, information about academic and professional qualifications and experiences, your interests and the position at Mehok Law for which you are applying. We will also collect and process any additional information you provide during the recruitment process or an interview, or that we received from recruitment consultants, Mehok Law employees, background check providers or other third parties.

  • To improve the functionality, customization, personalization, security, design and/or content of the Sites, including collecting and evaluating web analytics, protecting the security and integrity of our website, users, business, partners, service providers and tech assets.

  • For compliance purposes and legal obligations, such as validating identity, complying with legal and regulatory requirements, complying with our internal policies, protecting and defending us and our affiliates against legal actions or claims, and preventing fraud.

  • To contact you for other business reasons, if necessary.

3. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your Personal Information may be shared among any of the employees of Mehok Law. Your information may also be shared with a variety of unrelated third parties as follows:

  • With persons who are involved in our clients’ legal matters during the course of our legal representation, such as opposing counsel, co-counsel, courts and government bodies and experts.

  • With our and our clients’ service providers, such as auditors, research services, translators, transcriptionists and insurers.

  • With business and marketing partners.

  • We may share or transfer your information if we enter into a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of some or all of our assets, or in preparation for any of these events.

  • We may disclose your information if we believe that the Sites are being used to commit unlawful acts; if disclosure of your information is required to comply with applicable laws or regulations or with a court or administrative order, or will help to enforce any applicable terms of use; to protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; or to protect the safety and security of the Sites or third parties.

  • With other parties with your consent.

4. WEB BROWSER COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

When you visit the Sites, we may place, or authorize third parties to place, a cookie on your computer or device. Cookies are small files of information that are stored on your computer or device. Cookies may help the Sites operate more efficiently and may improve your browsing experience with the Sites by performing functions like allowing the website to recognize you when you return. We also use cookies for personalization and analytical purposes, such as counting how many unique visitors have accessed the Sites and analyzing usage patterns on the Sites. You may delete cookies from your computer or set your browser to reject cookies. In addition, you may use the Sites’ cookie tool to set or update your preferences with respect to non-functional cookies at any time. Deleting or blocking some cookies may limit some functionalities of the Sites, such as the ability to recognize you. In addition, blocking or deleting browser cookies and using the Sites’ cookie tool may not block other types of cookies. Our web servers may collect information including the IP address of visitors to our Sites, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform. We may also use other types of tracking technologies, such as web beacons, HTML5 and Flash Local Storage. The Sites do not respond to “Do Not Track” or other automated signals on browsers. See Cookie and Adversiting Policy here.

5. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

  • Opt-Out of Marketing. If you wish to opt-out of receiving marketing solicitations from us, or from our sharing your Personal Information with third parties for their marketing purposes, please contact us at the email or postal address listed in Section 11. Even if you opt-out, we may still use and share the information we collect for non-marketing purposes.

  • Unsubscribe from Emails. Each of our marketing emails includes an automated way for you to opt out (unsubscribe) from marketing emails sent by us. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions in the email you receive.

  • Cookie Preferences. You may use the Sites’ cookie tool to set or update your preferences with respect to non-functional cookies at any time. See Cookie and Advertising Policy here.

  • European Economic Area and United Kingdom Data Subjects. If you are an individual located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or United Kingdom (“UK”) and General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) applies to our processing of your Personal Information as a data controller, you may have the following rights to the extent provided by applicable law: (a) request access to your Personal Information; (b) rectify your inaccurate Personal Information; (c) request that we restrict processing or object to the processing of your Personal Information; (d) request the transfer of your Personal Information; and (e) ask us to delete your Personal Information. These rights have important conditions and exemptions, and we reserve the right to deny or limit the response to these requests to the extent permitted by applicable law. Although as a general matter we will not charge fees to handle requests, if your requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may deny them or charge you a fee. To exercise your rights, please contact us at the email or postal address listed in Section 11.  We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to any requests, with the level and type of verification depending on the nature of your request and/or the nature of the Personal Information involved in the request. We may require you to submit additional personal or other information in order to verify your identity. We may deny or limit the response to requests where we are unable to verify your identity or we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity. If you are in the EEA or UK and are not satisfied with the way we handled your request pursuant to GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a European Union supervisory authority.

  • Notice to California Residents. If you are an individual and a California resident, and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) applies to our processing of your Personal Information as a business under the CCPA, this section provides additional information to you. This section does not apply to any matters exempted from the CCPA during the period of exemption, including (a) Personal Information we collect about employees, owners, directors, officers, contractors or job applicants and (b) Personal Information we collect while communicating or transacting with an individual who is acting on behalf of another business and the communication or transaction occurs only within a business context. If you have a disability and need information on how to access this Policy in an alternative format, please contact us at 1-833-742-0965, or email or write to us at the contact addresses listed in Section 11.

    • Categories of Personal Information: To the extent permitted by applicable law, Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available.  We collect the following categories of Personal Information listed in the CCPA, and may have collected any or all of this information in the preceding 12 months: (a) identifiers such as name, postal address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number and passport number; (b) categories described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e), such as telephone number, insurance policy number, education, employment, bank, credit card number or other financial information and medical information; (c) characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as race, national origin, age over 40, disabilities, sex, marital status and military status; (d) commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies; (e) biometric information; (f) internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet web site, application, or advertisement; (g) geolocation data; (h) audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information; (i) professional or employment-related information; and (j) education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information (as defined in 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99).

    • Sources and Use of Personal Information. We collect Personal Information from the sources listed in Section 1. We use Personal Information for the business and commercial purposes listed in Section 2.

    • Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information. We do not sell Personal Information to third parties. We may disclose Personal Information for business purposes and/or to the third parties listed in Section 3.

    • CCPA Requests. You have the right to make the following requests to the extent permitted by applicable law. These rights have important conditions and exemptions, and we reserve the right to deny or limit the response to these requests to the extent permitted by applicable law. Although as a general matter we will not charge fees to process such requests, if your requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may deny them or charge you a fee.

    • Right to Know: You may request that we disclose the following information, applicable to the 12-month period preceding the receipt of your request: (a) categories of your Personal Information we collected; (b) categories of sources of your Personal Information; (c) business or commercial purposes for collecting your Personal Information; (d) categories of third parties with whom we shared your Personal Information; and (e) specific pieces of your Personal Information we collected.  We are not required to provide this information to the same person more than twice within a 12-month period.

    • Request to Delete: You have the right to request deletion of your Personal Information we collected.

    • Instructions for Submitting CCPA Requests. You may submit CCPA requests by calling toll-free 1-844-645-6552 or emailing or writing to the contact addresses listed in Section 11.  We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to any requests, with the level and type of verification depending on the nature of your request and/or the nature of the Personal Information involved in the request. We may require you to submit additional personal or other information in order to verify your identity. You may use an authorized agent to submit your request if the agent has your legal power-of-attorney or you provide the agent signed permission, verify your identity with us, and confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request. We may deny or limit the response to requests where we are unable to verify your identity or the authorized agent’s authority or we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA privacy rights.

6. ACCESS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

We are organized in the U.S.  Any information that you provide to us, including Personal Information, may be transferred to and processed in the U.S.  If you are located outside the U.S., please be advised that the U.S. does not offer safeguards to protect Personal Information that are as stringent as some other jurisdictions in the world. For example, the European Union does not consider U.S. privacy safeguards to be adequate to protect Personal Information. When we collect Personal Information from outside of the U.S., we rely on lawful mechanisms to transfer and process that information in the U.S. Lawful mechanisms include your consent; the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; legal arrangements such as data protection clauses; and the performance of a contract. If we rely solely on your consent, and not another lawful mechanism, you have the right to withdraw your consent by contacting us at the email or postal address listed in Section 11.

7. DATA RETENTION

We will retain your information for as long as necessary to provide any services you request; for as long as you accept marketing communications from us; as necessary for the performance of legal agreements; to comply with legal obligations, including document preservation practices; to resolve disputes; during applicable statutes of limitations; in accordance with our internal document retention policy; and for other legitimate purposes. If you need additional information regarding our data retention practices, please contact us at the email or postal address listed in Section 11.

8. SECURITY

We put in place appropriate security measures to protect personal information from unlawful or unauthorized processing and accidental loss, destruction or damage. However, in relation to any personal information you submit to us online, you should keep in mind that the Sites are run on software, hardware, and networks, any component of which may, from time to time, require maintenance or experience problems or breaches of security beyond our control. While we take steps to protect your personal information and keep it secure, you also play a role in protecting your information. You must maintain the security of your online activities by not sharing your passwords and account information with any unauthorized parties, as applicable. Please also be aware that despite our best intentions and the guidelines outlined in this privacy policy, no data transmission over the Internet or encryption method can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or from our Sites, and therefore you use our Sites at your own risk.

9. OTHER WEBSITES AND LINKS

Our Sites may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only addresses the use and disclosure of your personal information collected through our Sites, if any. If you choose to visit an external website linked from a Site, you will leave our Site. While we try to link only to websites that share our standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked websites. We encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or websites. These third-party sites may connect your visit to the Sites and their sites with your Personal Information. We may also provide information at the Sites about programs and events that are sponsored by or co-sponsored by other firms or organizations. If you register for any of these events, we may have no control over the third-party sponsors’ use of your information.

In some cases, our Sites provide social media features which allow you to share Mehok Law content with your social networks and to interact with Mehok Law on various social media sites. Your use of these features may result in the collection or sharing of information about you, depending on the feature. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings on the social media sites with which you interact to make sure you understand the information that could be shared by those sites. We do not accept responsibility or liability for these policies. You may elect to not use Mehok Law’s social media features and/or adjust your personal settings and preferences to protect your privacy.

10. POLICY CHANGES

We reserve the right to revise this Policy at any time. Please review this Policy periodically for changes and at any time you provide information to us. We will post any revised versions of the Policy on the Sites. We will also notify you if we make material changes to the Policy by posting a notice on the Sites or contacting you by other methods. By continuing to access or use the Site and our services after changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the terms of the revised Policy.

11. CONTACTING US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, or wish to exercise any of your rights described in this Policy, please contact us by email at michelle.mehok@mehoklaw.com or write to us at the address below:

Mehok Law PC
9245 Twin Trails Dr., Unit 720066
San Diego, CA 92129-9998
Attn: Privacy Policy Risk Management

12. GOVERNING LAW

By choosing to visit our Sites or provide information to us, subject to applicable law, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed by the laws of the State of California and the United States of America. You also agree to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Terms of Use, or other agreements that we have with you.

 

Last updated: March 20, 2025