An Overview of Our Cookie Policy
As Your Trusted Legal Resource, ABN & Associates wants you to know how we collect, use, and protect information. By providing this Cookie Policy, we aim to clarify what cookies are, how we use them on abnandassociates.com, and how you can control how they operate. Whether you’re an individual researching your legal rights, a legal professional seeking up-to-date resources, or a business owner navigating compliance issues, it’s your right to understand how we use your data when you visit abnandassociates.com.
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small pieces of text that get sent to your computer (either PC, smartphone, tablet, etc.) from the website you choose to visit. These files allow web services to remember your preferences, recognize your device on subsequent visits, and ensure that your browsing experience is more seamless and easy. Cookies are utilized in many aspects of all websites on the internet and are critical in the proper functioning of all websites, including legal resource websites such as ABN & Associates.
Why We Utilise Cookies
ABN & Associates uses cookies for a number of reasons – all designed to enhance your experience and to help our site function optimally. Cookies allow us to:
- Retain preference settings, such as language or accessibility options
- Gather usage data about how visitors use the site (which is used to help us improve the content, organization, and navigation of the site)
- Provide security and monitor our site for fraudulent or suspicious activity
- Deliver relevant content and resources based on your individual interests
- Facilitate newsletter registration and consent management activities
Cookies allow us to better meet the needs of the spectrum of users of our site – from lawyers to activists to everyday people who just want great quality resources they can count on, delivered in a user-friendly, secure setting.
Types of Cookies We Collect and Use
- Strictly necessary cookies: These enable you to move around our website and use its features. Without these cookies, certain services could not be provided, and our site would not function as well as it should.
- Performance cookies: These collect information about how our visitors use our website, such as which page the visitor goes to most often or if they get error messages. This information is used to improve how our website functions.
- Functionality cookies: These store your choices (such as user name, language, or region) in order to provide enhanced and more personal features.
- Analytical and/or customization cookies using trusted third parties: We use trusted third parties to analyze our visitors’ online behavior and assess the type of content preferred, so that we can improve our website and make sure that our resources are available, useful, and easy to navigate.
- Third-party cookies: On some areas of the website (e.g., article extracts, such as legal news feeds or shared links from social media) we may embed content from other websites and applications. Some of these third parties may set their own non-functional cookies.
Cookies Utilised and Their Reasons for Collecting Them
Cookies allow us to provide a seamless and simple experience for you, our user. For instance, if you sign up for our complimentary legal newsletter, cookies will remember your information so you do not need to re-input it every time you want to access our resources. Analytics cookies help our network of legal professionals, writers, editors, and researchers understand which legal topics keep our subscribers informed on current events so we can publish informative articles and guides. Functional cookies ensure that our resources are optimized to be displayed properly for you according to your device settings, making the knowledge of the law accessible to everyone, even if they have no technical training.
Managing Your Cookie Settings
We respect your rights to control your personal information. We provide a banner when you first visit abnandassociates.com that may ask you to accept or tailor your cookie settings. You can click accept to get all cookies, refuse all cookies except essential ones, or customize which categories you want enabled. You can also change your mind anytime, as it’s possible to change your browser settings in order to deny or delete cookies. Doing so may limit the functionality and performance of our website, such as your ability to access certain content or areas of the site like secure content.
How to Disable or Erase Cookies
Most web browsers allow you to manage cookie settings through the browser menu. You may:
- Adjust the browser settings on your device to block cookies
- Delete cookies stored on your device
- Set your browser so that it will notify you when cookies are being sent
Different browsers use different cookie management methods, so please check your browser’s online help for specific instructions. For more detailed instructions, have a look at the support pages for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. Please note that if you configure your browser to disable cookies, this action may prevent certain features on abnandassociates.com from displaying and/or functioning as intended in your web browser (for example, newsletter sign up forms or content personalization).
Third-Party Cookies and Services
ABN & Associates sometimes use third-party services that add value to the legal tools available on our site. For instance, we may include videos, news feeds about the law, or social sharing tools from legal industry partners. Such third parties may place their own cookies on your machine. We investigate and review all providers of such services before including them as a provider, to ensure they adhere to industry-leading standards of privacy, but because these are third parties, we do not control their cookies or the way in which they use their cookies. We advise you to become informed about the privacy policy of any third-party services you use through our site.
Duration for Storing Cookies
The duration that a cookie stays stored on your device may depend on its type:
- Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies will remain on your device for a specified period of time or until you manually delete them. For instance, some cookies that store your preferences for newsletters may stay on your device for up to 12 months.
We periodically review the length of time we retain cookies to ensure that they are not kept longer than necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
Privacy and Data Protection Assurance
ABN & Associates respects your privacy at all stages of your use of our website. Cookies are not used to store confidential personal information or track activity outside the usage of abnandassociates.com. All information from cookies is handled in compliance with applicable U.S. privacy laws and is used for purposes of enhancing our services and your experience. We do not sell or otherwise disclose any cookie information to third parties.
Cookies Utilisation in our Legal Resources
As an elite legal resource portal, ABN & Associates understands that privacy is a significant concern for many of our visitors. In fact, we know that many search our site for guidance on private legal issues, whether it be family law, criminal cases, or business law compliance. For this reason, the architecture of our cookie implementation is created with deference to confidentiality, and analysis is presented to us in general terms, not individual activity, so that your experience on ABN & Associates as Your Trusted Legal Resource™ is never compromised.
Cookies: What have we changed?
We are committed to continuous openness and ethical legal compliance. We periodically review our Cookie Policy to reflect changes in applicable laws, techniques or technology, or in the features available on our site. If we decide that our Cookie Policy needs to be changed, we reissue a clear notice on our website and, when appropriate, ask you and/or seek your renewed consent for changes. You should regularly review this page so that you are aware of how we use cookies to enhance your browsing experience.
FAQs: Answers to Common Questions about our Cookies Policy
- Does the cookie hold my personal legal data? No. The cookie holds no sensitive legal or personal data. It does not hold case information, discussion, or anything of a personal legal nature.
- Can I use the site without cookies? Essential cookies are needed to run the basic functions of the site. You can disable non-essential cookies, but some functionality might not work as intended.
- Do you use the cookie for advertising purposes? ABN & Associates does not use cookies for advertising or retargeting. Our use of cookies is geared towards improving the experience of the site and providing legal resources.
- How do I revoke my consent? You can adjust your cookie preferences at any time from the browser setting or by revisiting our cookie consent banner.
Your Rights
As a visitor to abnandassociates.com, you have the right to:
- Request information regarding the cookies we set
- Decline or withdraw consent for non-required cookies
- Request deletion of data collected by cookies (subject to legal exceptions)
We honor these rights and will work with you to manage your preferences regarding your data. Please review the information regarding your rights found here. Our Privacy Policy contains detailed information on how we use all data, including personal data.
Contact Us for Further Clarification
If you have any questions regarding our Cookie Policy, or if you need help with managing your preferences, please contact our office. We are ABN & Associates and we are here to help you as Your Trusted Legal Resource.
Address:
1200 5th Ave Ste 21, Seattle WA 98101
Phone: (253) 925-1999
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://abnandassociates.com/
We welcome your feedback and always strive to make your experience on our Website secure, transparent, and empowering.
Connecting with us via Cookie Policy
We encourage all site visitors to sign up for our free newsletter that helps keep you current with the latest legal updates and professional resources: cookie setting changes will allow you even more freedom with your privacy, all while maintaining full access to free content. Engage with other legal and business professionals, as well as informed citizens, right here in the community of ABN & Associates, yet rest assured: knowledge is power and your trust, our greatest reward.