Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

Van Dyck Law Group is located at:

707 State Road, Suite 102
Princeton, NJ 08540

It is the policy of Van Dyck Law Group Estate Planning & Elder Law Attorneys (“Van Dyck Law Group”) to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to the domain vandyckfirm.com (hereinafter, “Van Dyck Law Group”, “us”, “we”, or “vandyckfirm.com”).

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Van Dyck Law Group collects non-personally-identifying information commonly obtained from web browsers and servers, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Van Dyck Law Group’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Van Dyck Law Group’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Van Dyck Law Group may release aggregated, non-personally-identifying information, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Van Dyck Law Group also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on vandyckfirm.com blog posts. Van Dyck Law Group only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Van Dyck Law Group’s websites choose to interact with Van Dyck Law Group in ways that require Van Dyck Law Group to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Van Dyck Law Group gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our contact form to provide information on their case and to contact them later.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites, products, or services.

Van Dyck Law Group Uses Google AdWords for Remarketing

We use remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site — for example, using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Aggregated Statistics

Van Dyck Law Group may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Van Dyck Law Group may display a generalized form of this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Van Dyck Law Group does not disclose your personally-identifying information, nor does it publicly share information on specific unique visitors.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Van Dyck Law Group uses “Cookies”. These small anonymized identifier files use similar technologies and services to those provided by others to display personalized content and advertising and to store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

Van Dyck Law Group uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of vandyckfirm.com, and their website access preferences. Van Dyck Law Group visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Van Dyck Law Group’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Van Dyck Law Group’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Van Dyck Law Group’s use of cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Anonymized data may be gathered on you and your interactions with the site every time it is used. Actions like time spent on page, clicks on certain internal links, and number of visits in a given period are captured by third-party tools, including Google Analytics.

All of this information is designed to avoid providing an identifiable signature, although specific information like your IP address, approximate location, and whether you are identifiable by a pre-existing cookie may be noted by internal systems before the identifiers are scrubbed away.

By visiting this site, you agree to the tracking of your activities on an anonymized basis.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Marketing to You, Tracking You, and Storing Contact Information

If you have elected to provide your contact information, such as through the submission of an online contact form, then your information will be stored in a secure database, kept separate from the other automatically recorded information on the site. We will use this information solely to contact you, unless you have clicked that you would like to receive promotional communications from our marketing team.

We may also use automated marketing systems that rely on anonymized user data, which is generated when you visit the site. These systems may allow us to serve ads to you on other sites, using services like Google AdSense and Meta Ads.

You can decline to be tracked anonymously by blocking cookies on our site. There are also options contained within your specific browser that allow you to decline to be tracked across sites and to have personalized advertisements sent to your based on your anonymized online browsing history.

Please review the respective privacy policies and options for limiting personalized marketing on individual platforms like Meta Ads (Facebook, Instagram) or AdSense (Google Accounts, Google Search) and viewing the privacy settings under user preferences there.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Van Dyck Law Group may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Van Dyck Law Group’s sole discretion. Van Dyck Law Group encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

California Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CCPA) Disclosures

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy of Van Dyck Law Group. (“Van Dyck Law Group Estate Planning & Elder Law Attorneys”) and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”) when you visit the Van Dyck Law Group website or subscribe to receive the Van Dyck Law Group services (collectively, our “Services”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

• Category A – Identifiers
  • Examples: Name, postal address, Internet Protocol address, email address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
    
    
• Category B – Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
  • Examples: Name, signature, Social Security number, address, telephone number, fax number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, physical illness, mental illness or disabilities.
    
    
• Category C – Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
  • Examples: Age, ethnicity, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, physical illness, mental illness or disabilities, gender, veteran status.
    
    
• Category D – Commercial information
  • Examples: Records of personal property.
    
    
• Category F – Internet or other similar network activity
  • Examples: Access history and information on your interaction with our application.
    
    
• Category I – Professional or employment-related information
  • Examples: Occupation, employer information.

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from our clients or their agents. For example, from information our clients provide to us related to the Services for which they engage us.
• Directly from you. For example, through information we ask from you when our clients or their agents complete a contact form or otherwise engage our Services.
• Directly and indirectly from you when using our Services or visiting our website. For example, usage details collected automatically in the course of your interaction with our platform or website.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided. For example, to submit this information to our clients or their agents in the form of insurance application forms or request for information.
• To provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning our Services, or updates to your insurance application process.
• To improve our Services to you.
• For testing, research, analysis and product development.
• As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients or others.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

• Category A: Identifiers.
• Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
• Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
• Category D: Commercial information.
• Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
• Category I: Professional or employment-related information.

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

• Our clients or their agents for which you have engaged in a business contract.
• Service providers.
• Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with our Services.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any personal information.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
8. Comply with a legal obligation.
9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by email at [email protected].

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer 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.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to the registered email associated with the account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you use of our Services.
• Provide you a different level or quality of Services.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice at our discretion and at any time. The date this Privacy Notice was last updated is identified at the top of this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting the Van Dyck Law Group website and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, our Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, you may contact us via our contact page vandyckfirm.com/contact-us.