Mde Castro supports the privacy rights of our visitors and the lawyers in our community. The following outlines our privacy and data protection policy.

Mde Castro is focused on the audience of US- and Canada-based law firms with 15 or fewer attorneys. Mde Castro does not target an audience outside of the US and Canada and specifically does not target audiences in Europe subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Third-party sites you access via Mde Castro are not subject to this privacy policy.

Index

  • Collection and Use of Personal Information
  • User Choices
  • Use of Cookies
  • Use of Email
  • Use of Advertising
  • Affiliate Marketing Programs
  • Data Security Precautions
  • How to Report Concerns or Privacy Violations
  • Changes to this Privacy Policy
  • Collection and Use of Personal Information

When you fill out any form on this website, such as to get a white paper, subscribe to our email newsletter, or create an account in the Lab, we will collect the information you enter.

Additionally, when you visit Mde Castro we collect information about your computer and about how you use the site. This may include your computer’s IP address, information about your web browser and operating system, and if you arrived at Mde Castro by clicking on a link on another website, we may get the URL of the linking page.

We may use this information to:

  • Personalize the content and advertising you see, based on your personal characteristics or preferences.
  • Ensure our site is compatible with the technology used by most of our visitors.
  • Notify you of relevant new products and features on Mde Castro (if you opt in to receiving such information).
  • Notify you of promotions from Mde Castro (if you opt in to receiving such information).
  • Create marketing lists for future marketing on Mde Castro or third party sites.

We may also use the information for in-house research to:

  • Improve our understanding of readers’ needs.
  • Build marketing profiles.
  • Inform our strategic development.
  • Manage our relationships with advertisers.

The results of all such research and analysis will be presented as anonymous or aggregated information and will not reveal any personal facts about individual readers.

User Choices

Registration and order forms may provide you with a series of choices regarding promotional activity and other forms of communication with you.

If you want to be kept informed of Mde Castro products and offers, as well as technical or functional developments related to our website and online services, then you should select the relevant opt-in box.

If you receive an email from us, you will always be offered the option of unsubscribing or opting out of future emails.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small file that is placed on the user’s hard drive during a visit to Mde Castro. This file allows the user to move quickly and easily around our site. It is used to identify returning users.

We also use a cookie to track users’ sessions. We use this information to find out what site features are most popular so that we can develop Mde Castro using analysis of people’s usage. We also use cookies and the information we collect to show you relevant content and advertising.

You can delete cookies from your browser or hard drive at any time.

Use of Email

Mde Castro uses reputable third parties to deliver the emails we send. You will only get emails from us if you subscribe to our email newsletters or have chosen to receive information about Mde Castro products and offers. These third parties use unique identifiers and invisible images (often called “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) to determine who has opened or clicked on a message and to deliver messages formatted for the user’s device and software.

Content in these emails is provided by Mde Castro or, in some cases, by a third-party ad server.

Use of Advertising

We use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit Mde Castro. This company may use information about your visit to Mde Castro in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may use a cookie.

Affiliate Marketing Programs

We occasionally link to product and service vendors using affiliate links. These affiliate programs may use information about your visit from Mde Castro in order to track any sales or activities you perform on their site. Affiliates may use a cookie.

Data Security Precautions

Mde Castro uses a variety of data security practices to help ensure as much security as possible. There is no such thing as perfect data security, but we use SSL encryption on our website and, to the best of our knowledge, all third-party data hosting we use also employs SSL. We require that all employees with access to user data have a VPN installed on their devices, use an encrypted password manager, and activate hardware encryption for their work devices.

How to Report Concerns or Privacy Violations

Any questions, concerns, requests, or reports of Mde Castro privacy violations may be sent to:

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Due to changes in legislation and best practices or enhancements to functionality and content on Mde Castro, we may make changes to this privacy policy, so you should check here from time to time.