ALBRIGHT, YEE & SCHMIT, APC

PRIVACY POLICY

www.ayslaw.com

Effective Date: March 16, 2026 | Last Updated: August 22, 2016

1. Introduction

Albright, Yee & Schmit, APC (“the Firm,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard information when you visit our website at www.ayslaw.com (the “Site”), contact us, or engage our legal services.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through our Site, by email, by telephone, through in-person consultations, and through any other means by which you provide personal information to us. By using our Site or providing personal information to us, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide Directly

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide, including:

• Name, address, email address, and telephone number
• Information submitted through our Contact Us page or inquiry forms
• Information provided during attorney-client intake, consultations, and the course of legal representation
• Payment and billing information
• Employment-related information, if you apply for a position with the Firm
• Any other information you choose to provide to us 

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our Site, certain information may be collected automatically, including:

• IP address and approximate geographic location
• Browser type, operating system, and device information
• Pages viewed, links clicked, and date/time of your visit
• Referring website or search terms used to reach our Site
• Information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies (see Section 7 below)

2.3 Information from Third Parties

We may receive personal information about you from third parties, including referral sources, marketing partners, opposing counsel, courts, government agencies, and publicly available sources, in connection with our legal services. 

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you
• To provide legal services, including client intake, case evaluation, and representation
• To process payments and manage billing
• To operate, maintain, and improve our Site
• To comply with legal and ethical obligations, including conflict checks and regulatory requirements
• To protect our rights, your rights, or the rights of third parties
• To send periodic communications regarding our services, legal developments, or Firm news, where you have consented or where otherwise permitted by law
• For internal administrative and record-keeping purposes

All commercial email communications include an option to unsubscribe, as required by the CAN-SPAM Act.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share your information in the following circumstances:

• Service Providers: With third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT support, web hosting via Squarespace, payment processing, cloud storage), subject to contractual obligations to protect your information.
• Legal Obligations: When required by law, subpoena, court order, or government regulation, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others.
• Professional Obligations: As required to comply with the California Rules of Professional Conduct and applicable bar rules.
• With Your Consent: When you have given us explicit authorization to share your information with a third party.
• Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of the Firm’s assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Attorney-Client Privilege: Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to waive, limit, or modify any protections afforded by the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, or any other applicable professional or legal privilege. Information you share with us in the course of seeking or receiving legal representation is protected to the fullest extent permitted by law.

5. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include:

• Encryption of sensitive information transmitted online (SSL/TLS)
• Access controls limiting information access to authorized personnel on a need-to-know basis
• Secure storage of physical records
• Multi-factor authentication
• Encrypted email

No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, to comply with our legal and ethical obligations (including client file retention requirements under the California Rules of Professional Conduct), to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. The specific retention period depends on the nature of the information and the purpose for which it was collected. Client files are retained for a minimum of 7 years following the conclusion of the matter.

7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

7.1 What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website to store information about your browsing activity. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve your experience on our Site and to analyze usage patterns.

7.2 Types of Cookies We Use

• Essential Cookies: Necessary for the operation of our Site, such as session management and security features.
• Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to collect aggregate, anonymized data about how visitors use our Site, including pages visited, time on site, and traffic sources. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect this information. You can learn more about Google’s data practices at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
• Squarespace Cookies: Our Site is hosted on Squarespace, which may set cookies for performance monitoring, analytics, and other platform functions.

Third parties, including Google, may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Site.

7.3 Managing Cookies

You may control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain features of our Site. You may also opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

7.4 Do Not Track Signals

Our Site does not respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals transmitted by your browser. 

8. Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, “CCPA”), provides you with certain rights regarding your personal information. Please note that information collected in the course of providing legal services may be exempt from certain CCPA requirements under the attorney-client privilege.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, personal information that is not subject to the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine—including information collected through our Site, contact forms, marketing communications, prospective client inquiries prior to engagement, and vendor or employment-related data—remains fully subject to CCPA rights and obligations as described in this section.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information, as defined by the CCPA:

• Identifiers (name, address, email, phone number, IP address)
• Professional or employment-related information
• Internet or electronic network activity information (browsing history, search history, interactions with our Site)
• Commercial information (billing records, payment history)
• Geolocation data

Sensitive Personal Information

In the course of providing legal services or processing employment applications, we may collect certain categories of sensitive personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA, including:

• Government-issued identification numbers (e.g., Social Security number, driver’s license number, or passport number)
• Financial account information (e.g., account numbers provided for billing or payment purposes)
• Racial or ethnic origin, citizenship, or immigration status (where relevant to legal representation)

We use sensitive personal information only for purposes authorized by the CCPA/CPRA, including to provide the legal services you have requested, to comply with legal obligations, and for other purposes permitted by law. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes beyond those authorized by the CCPA/CPRA.

Your CCPA Rights

Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to:

• Right to Know: Request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which information is collected, our business purpose for collection, and the categories of third parties with whom we share information.
• Right to Delete: Request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., information necessary to complete a transaction, comply with legal obligations, or exercise legal claims).
• Right to Correct: Request correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Opt-Out: We do not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If this practice changes, we will update this policy and provide opt-out mechanisms.
• Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Direct us to limit our use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to purposes authorized by the CCPA/CPRA, such as providing the services you have requested.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

How to Submit a Request

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at:

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone:(213) 833-1700
• Mail: 707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 3600, Los Angeles, California 90017

We will verify your identity before processing your request and respond within forty-five (45) days, as required by law. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, subject to identity verification.

9. Third-Party Links

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites (e.g., the Better Business Bureau). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party site you visit.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not directed to individuals under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 18, we will take steps to delete such information promptly. If you believe we have collected information from a minor, please contact us immediately.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Effective Date” and “Last Updated” date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Albright, Yee & Schmit, APC

707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 3600

Los Angeles, California 90017

Tel.: (213) 833-1700

Fax: (213) 833-1710

Email: [email protected]

This Privacy Policy is provided for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to information collected online from users of this website. In this policy, you can learn what kind of information we collect, when and how we might use that information, how we protect the information, and the choices you have with respect to your personal information.

Our law firm partners with FindLaw, an Internet Brands business. To learn more about the Internet Brands privacy policy and the data that might be collected, please visit: Internet Brands Privacy Statement.

What personal information is collected through this website and how is it used?

We collect information about our users in three ways: directly from the user, from our Web server logs and through cookies. We use the information primarily to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. We don’t share any of the information you provide with others, unless we say so in this Privacy Policy, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

User-supplied information

If you fill out the “contact” form on this website, we will ask you to provide some personal information (such as e-mail address, name, phone number and state). We only require that you provide an e-mail address on the contact form. Further, if chat is available through this site, you may be asked to provide information if you participate in an online chat. Please do not submit any confidential, proprietary or sensitive personally identifiable information (e.g. Social Security Number; date of birth; driver’s license number; or credit card, bank account or other financial information) (collectively, “Sensitive Information”). If you submit any Sensitive Information, you do so at your own risk and we will not be liable to you or responsible for consequences of your submission.

Information that you provide to us through the contact form or an online chat will be used so that we may respond to your inquiry. We may also use information you provide to us to communicate with you in the future. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you may opt out (unsubscribe) as described below.

Web server logs

When you visit our website, we may track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our sites. The servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include:

• your unique Internet protocol address;
• the name of your unique Internet service provider;
• the town/city, county/state and country from which you access our website;
• the kind of browser or computer you use;
• the number of links you click within the site;
• the date and time of your visit;
• the web page from which you arrived to our site;
• the pages you viewed on the site; and
• certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website(s).

The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use and improve the user’s experience.

Cookies

In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, our websites and applications may use cookies and similar technologies to store and help track information about you. Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to help remind us who you are and to help you navigate our sites during your visits. Cookies also can tell us where visitors go on a website and allow us to save preferences for you so you won’t have to re-enter them each time you visit. The use of cookies is relatively standard. Most Internet browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can use your browser to either notify you when you receive a cookie or to disable cookies.

If you wish to disable cookies from this site, you can do so using your browser. You should understand that some features of many sites may not function properly if you don’t accept cookies. For more information about using browsers to manage cookies, please see All About Cookies. You can also refuse to accept Flash cookies from this website using Adobe’s Flash management tools. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings.

By visiting this website, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Privhttps://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies/acy Statement.

Third-party Services

We may use services hosted by third parties, including Adobe Site Catalyst, to assist in providing our services and to help us understand the use of our site by our visitors. These services may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including your IP address or cookies. If these third-party services collect information, they do so anonymously and in the aggregate to provide information helpful to us such as website trends, without identifying individual visitors.

In addition, we may use services provided by third parties to display relevant content, products, services and advertising to you. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect or receive information from this website and elsewhere on the internet. They may then use that information to provide measurement services so we can understand your interests and retarget advertisements based on your previous visits to this website. Please keep in mind that we do not share your personal information with any third-party advertiser, ad server or ad network.

You may be able to opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by some third parties by visiting https://optout.aboutads.info. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings. You can visit this page to opt out of AdRoll’s and their partners’ targeted advertising. Please see “Cookies” in the section above for more information on how you can control the use of cookies on your computer.

California Do Not Track

Our web services do not alter, change, or respond upon receiving Do Not Track (DNT) requests or signals in browsers. As described in more detail above, we track user activity using web server logs, cookies and similar technologies. Information collected in web server logs helps us analyze website usage and improve the user’s experience. Cookies allow us to offer you a customized experience and present relevant advertising to you.

How is personal information protected?

We take certain appropriate security measures to help protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.

Who has access to the information?

We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other user data to others, and we will not make your personal information available to any unaffiliated parties, except as follows:

• to agents, website vendors and/or contractors who may use it on our behalf or in connection with their relationship with us;
• if we are unable to assist with your matter, but know an unaffiliated attorney or firm that may be able to help you, we may refer you and share information you provided us with that party; and
• as required by law, in a matter of public safety or policy, as needed in connection with the transfer of our business assets (for example, if we are acquired by another firm or if we are liquidated during bankruptcy proceedings), or if we believe in good faith that sharing the data is necessary to protect our rights or property.

How can I correct, amend or delete my personal information and/or opt out of future communications?

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. Contact us via the phone number, contact form or mailing address on our website at any time to:

• see what data we have about you, if any;
• change/correct any data we have about you;
• ask us to delete any data we have about you; and/or
• opt out of future communications from us.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us via the phone number, contact form or mailing address listed on this website. If our information practices change in a significant way, we will post the policy changes here.

Effective September 14, 2015.