Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. (“Porzio”) is a law firm that provides counselling and representation to its clients. Porzio has also created subsidiaries that provide services complementary to, but distinct from, our legal services.
Porzio and its subsidiaries, Porzio Life Sciences, Porzio Compliance Services, and Porzio Governmental Affairs, as well as Porzio, Bromberg & Newman (PR), LLC (collectively “Porzio”) recognize and respect the privacy rights of individuals regarding their personal data. This Policy explains the types of personal data or personal information (used interchangeably herein unless otherwise expressly noted) that Porzio may collect from you and how we use it. It also explains the policies and practices we have developed to safeguard personal data and to comply with applicable data protection laws. Please read this Policy carefully to understand what personal data we collect, how we collect it, how we use it, who we may disclose it to, and how you can manage it.
If you have any questions about this Policy or wish to access or correct personal data that Porzio may have collected from you, please contact us at: Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, PC, 100 Southgate Parkway, Morristown, NJ 07962, Attn: Steven P. Benenson or at spbenenson@pbnlaw.com and include the words “Privacy Inquiry” in your communication.
DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We may collect, use, store and disclose different categories of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
Direct interactions. You may give us your personal data by filling out forms or other materials or by corresponding with us by mail, phone, e-mail, social media, or otherwise. This includes, for example, personal data you provide us when you:
Automated interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We may collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
Third parties (or publicly available sources). We may receive categories of personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We use your personal data, and may share your personal data (see below on sharing of personal data) to:
We also use your personal data for data analysis, to better understand how our products and services impact you, to track and respond to concerns, for fraud prevention and to enhance our services and products. For those visiting this site that provide personal data from within the European Economic Area, please see the “Supplemental European Privacy Notice” below for additional information.
MARKETING
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain types of use of your information concerning marketing and advertising. We use personal information you share with us to promote our services and products to you if:
HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
HOW WE SECURE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We have put in place reasonable security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. Employees are subject to a duty of confidentiality and non-employees only process your personal data as per our instructions.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach in accordance with governing law or other applicable duties or contractual obligations.
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
“Cookies” are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device in order to identify your web browser and the activities of your computer or mobile device when using this website. Cookies are used to personalize your experience, to assist you in using the website (such as saving time by not having to re-enter your name each time you use the website), and to allow us to statistically monitor how you are using the website to help us improve our products and services.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
We collect various types of personal data and information about you, as described throughout this Privacy Policy. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides consumers (i.e., California residents) with specific rights, subject to some limitations, regarding their personal information. All terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section of the Privacy Policy.
Categories of personal information collected: The personal information that Porzio collects or has collected from California consumers in the preceding twelve months may fall under the following categories of information that are included within the scope of the CCPA:
Personal information does not include publicly available information from government records, de-identified or aggregated information, and information otherwise specifically excluded from the CCPA's scope. We obtain the personal information outlined above in the manner described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, including, for example:
As described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
We will use the personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy, and we will not use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing consumers with notice. We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose as described in this Privacy Policy. Porzio does not sell the personal information of individuals.
The rights of California residents under the CCPA include:
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please email spbenenson@pbnlaw.com with the words "California Privacy Rights" in the subject line. Alternatively, please write to us at the following address: Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, PC, 100 Southgate Parkway, Morristown, NJ 07962, Attn: Steven P. Benenson. We will provide you with a form to complete that will ask you for certain information to confirm your identity. The information collected will only be used to respond to your request and for record-keeping purposes to demonstrate compliance with the CCPA. Porzio will respond to a verified request pursuant to the 45-day timeframe established in the CCPA.
If the consumer prefers, he or she may designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on the consumer's behalf.
CHILDREN
While in some instances we may collect personal data about children with the consent of a parent or guardian, we do not otherwise knowingly solicit data from, or market to, children.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This Policy does not address, and Porzio is not responsible for, the terms of use, information or privacy practices of any other websites or online services not owned or operated by Porzio, including any such sites or services to which our website links. The inclusion of a link on the Porzio website does not imply our endorsement of the linked site or service.
SUPPLEMENTAL EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (“EEA”)/UNITED KINGDOM (“UK”) PRIVACY NOTICE
European Union (“EU”) Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “EU GDPR”) and the Retained Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“UK GDPR”) require Porzio as the data controller to provide additional and different information about its data processing practices to data subjects in the EEA or the UK. If you are a data subject within the EEA or the UK, this Supplemental EEA/UK Privacy Notice applies to you in addition to the provisions above.
1. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to so. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:
We may also rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data in certain circumstances, like sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
2. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
3. ONWARD TRANSFERS
We may transfer your personal data outside the EEA or the UK. To ensure a degree of protection similar to that within the EEA or the UK, we will only transfer your personal data:
4. YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
Under certain circumstances, visitors from within the EEA or the UK have the following data protection rights:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email spbenenson@pbnlaw.com. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to comply with your request if it is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
For advice or to make a complaint, you can also contact the applicable Supervisory Authority within the EEA at this link https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en or the Information Commissioner's Office within the UK at this link https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
Porzio may update this Policy from time to time. Please check this Policy periodically for changes. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Last revised and effective date: May 5, 2022