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LEGAL NOTICES AND TERMS OF USE 

Materials on this website have been prepared by Foundry Legal, LLC (“Foundry Legal”) for informational purposes only and do not constitute legal, tax, accounting, career, or other professional advice. Visitors should not rely upon this information for any purpose without seeking legal advice from a licensed attorney in the visitor’s state. The information contained in this website is provided only as general information that may or may not reflect the most current legal developments; the information is not promised or guaranteed to be correct or complete.  In addition, because the legal information provided at this site is general and not specific, readers should never assume that this information applies to his or her specific situation without consulting competent counsel in the state in which he or she is doing business.  Foundry Legal, LLC expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken or not taken based on any or all the contents of this website.  Foundry Legal also does not warrant that your use of this website will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects on this site will be corrected.
Transmission of the materials and information contained herein is not intended to create, and receipt thereof does not constitute formation of, an attorney-client relationship. An attorney-client relationship will not be created between you and Foundry until you have been personally contacted by a Foundry Legal attorney and the terms of such a relationship are agreed upon in writing.  If you are not currently a client of Foundry Legal, please do not give confidential client information to us.  Any information provided by persons who are not currently clients of the firm will not be considered to be confidential, privileged, or otherwise protected by an attorney-client relationship, and may be divulged by us.  Our dealings with current clients of Foundry Legal, and our treatment of any information received from such clients (including information received and displayed in our secure client portals), will be governed by applicable law, the rules of professional conduct promulgated by the State of Colorado, and rules of other jurisdictions to which our attorneys may be admitted.

 

This website contains links to other resources on the Internet. These links are provided solely to assist visitors in locating these resources.  A link to another website does not imply any relationship, affiliation, or approval of the linked resources or their contents. Foundry does not necessarily endorse and is not responsible for any third-party content that may be accessed through such website. 

Last updated:  Oct. 2020

PRIVACY POLICY

Foundry Legal, LLP (“Foundry Legal”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”). This Policy describes the types of information Foundry Legal may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.foundry.legal (the “Site”).  To the extent that any of the particular services or materials include specific privacy policies, those policies will take priority over this Policy.

This Policy describes how your information will be treated as you use the Site and services, including Foundry Legal’s practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Policy does not, however, apply to information provided to Foundry Legal offline, in the course of our attorney-client relationships or which is protected by confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, or any other similar protection. This Policy does not create an attorney-client relationship with visitors to the Site.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Site. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Site after Foundry Legal makes changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates. 

Information Foundry Legal Collects About You

You may provide, and Foundry Legal may collect, certain information by visiting or by completing various forms found on the Site, such as a contact form, completing online questionnaires, or signing up for our newsletters. You may also provide us with personal information if you communicate with us by e-mail, telephone, postal mail, or electronic file transfer services.  This includes both personal information (information that may individually identify you and/or a device that you use), information that individually does not identify you, and/or information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Site, and usage details.

This information may include your IP address, browser type, referring and exit pages, operating system, and dates/times of page views, browser type (to protect against spam or abuse of the Site), “clickstream” information, and information collected through cookies.  Foundry Legal uses reCaptcha v3, which is a product of Google and subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

We collect this information directly from you when you provide it to us and automatically as you navigate through the Site.   Also, if you provide information to a partner of Foundry Legal, such as to register for an event, that partner may provide your information to Foundry Legal pursuant to the terms of that agreement.

How We May Use Your Personal Information:

  • to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it, such as providing you with publications, information or other services that you request from Foundry Legal;
  • to invite you to, register you for, or remind you about our events;
  • to add you to mailing lists and send you marketing materials we believe may be of interest to you;
  • to process and respond to your inquiries, requests, or complaints;
  • to verify your identity, and to prevent spam and abuse on the Site;
  • to notify you of any changes to the Site or to our services that may affect you;
  • for other purposes such as administering, monitoring, and improving the Site and services, including to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business;
  • for any other purpose disclosed by Foundry Legal when you provide the information;
  • with your consent;
  • to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
  • to a purchaser or other party in the event of a sale of a merger, divestiture, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Foundry Legal’s assets;

Your Rights

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your personal information, to restrict or object to the processing of your personal information, and to the right to data portability. You may also have the right to complain to a competent supervisory authority if you feel that we are not complying with our data protection obligations. 

Foundry Legal will provide you access to your personal information so that you may review or update it. Foundry Legal will also use reasonable efforts to remove your personal information from the Site at any time upon your written request to info@foundry.legal.

We retain information that is collected through the the Site only for as long as needed for the purpose for which it was provided, or as otherwise required for our legitimate business purposes. Your information may be retained for longer periods if there are valid legal grounds for doing so, including for example, if required by law or court order, or to defend ourselves against or to pursue legal claims.

You may opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe links provided or by contacting us at info@foundry.legal.

Please email us at info@foundry.legal if you have any questions or to exercise any of the above rights. Please note that Foundry Legal may not accommodate a request if we believe it would violate any law or legal requirement or cause information to be incorrect.

Your California Privacy Rights

California law permits residents of California to request certain details about what personal information a company shares with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Foundry Legal does not share your personal information with third parties for those parties’ own direct marketing purposes; we only share your data with third parties if those parties need that information to help us provide our services. If you have questions about our sharing practices or your rights under California law, please write us at info@foundry.legal or to Foundry Legal, LLC, 3201 Blake Street, Suite A4.  Denver, CO  80216. 

Third-Party Links

The Site may contain links to websites not operated by Foundry Legal. This Policy does not apply to such third-party sites or to information collected by any third party, including through any content that may link to or be accessible from the Site. Foundry Legal is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third-party websites, including those websites that we use for services such as scheduling appointments or accepting payments. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their privacy policies.

Security

Foundry Legal has implemented measures that are appropriate to protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although Foundry Legal does its best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of all personal information transmitted to the Site.

Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Information

Foundry Legal relies on various legal bases when we process your personal information. These legal bases depend on what personal information Foundry Legal processes and for what purpose. Under the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the processing activities described in this Policy are based on: (i) consent (Article 6(1)(a)), to the extent personal information is collected by Foundry Legal with your permission when you voluntarily provide it, including, for example, information you provide when you join a Foundry Legal mailing list or when you register for an event; (ii) contract (Article 6(1)(b)), when, for example, you provide personal information via an engagement; and (iii) legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)), when, for example, Foundry Legal uses personal information to monitor and improve the Site and our services, to protect and defend our rights or those of our clients’ or other users of the Site, and to promote our business.

Disclosure of Your Information; Cross-Border Transfers

Foundry Legal may disclose aggregated information that does not identify any individual without restriction. Foundry Legal may disclose personal information we collect, or you provide, as described in this Policy:

  • to enforce or apply our terms of use, disclaimer, or other agreements; and
  • if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Foundry Legal, our clients, or others.

Foundry Legal will not provide your personal information to or share it with any third party for their own marketing purposes except with your consent or in connection with your requests. This may include, for example, publications produced by third parties or events that are held or sponsored by third parties.

Your personal information is processed in the United States, where privacy laws may be less stringent than those in other countries. By submitting your personal information to Foundry Legal, you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information in the United States.

Children’s Privacy

The Site is not intended for children under 18 years of age and Foundry Legal does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Site or on or through any of the features. If Foundry Legal learns that it has collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, it will delete that information. If you believe Foundry Legal might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@foundry.legal.

Changes to this Policy

It is Foundry Legal’s policy to post any changes we make to this Policy on this page. If Foundry Legal makes material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Site home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring Foundry Legal has an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this Policy to check for any changes. 

Contacting Foundry Legal

The data controller of this Site is: Foundry Legal, LLC, 3120 Blake Street, Denver, CO 80205.

If you have any questions about this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@foundry.legal.

COOKIE POLICY

At Foundry Legal we use a variety of technologies to help us to deliver custom visitor experiences. We use cookies to provide you with, for example, customized information from our website and its webpages (the “Site”).  By using our website you agree to the use of cookies by us as described in this Policy.

A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our Site. Non-personal information such as browser type, operating system and domain names may be collected during visitors’ use of the Site and this information may be used by us to measure the number of visitors to the Site.  A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. 

What types of cookies do we use?
We use only third-party cookies on the Site. Cookies do not contain confidential information such as your home address, telephone number or credit card details. We do not exchange cookies with any third party websites or external data suppliers. If you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our Site do not work properly.

Session cookies.  These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you close the browser. This cookie is automatically onto your browser by the server software, but it is not used by our website.

Analytical cookies – Our website uses third party cookies, such as Google Analytics cookies (third party cookies) for the following purposes:

a cookie to record the time of your first visit to website, the time of your most recent visit to the website and the time of your current visit;

a cookie to record which page(s) you visit on the website;

a cookie to record how long you stayed on the website; and

a cookie to record how you located our website (i.e. Google search, keyword, link from other page, etc.).

We only share the information obtained through the use of Google Analytics with Google. For more information on Google’s use of your information, please consult Google. The cookies we use for these purposes do not track your Internet usage after you leave our website and do not store your personal information. They will not be used in connection with any other information to identify you in any way.  

We only share the information obtained through the use of Google Analytics with Google. For more information on Google’s use of your information, please consult Google. The cookies we use for these purposes do not track your Internet usage after you leave our website and do not store your personal information. They will not be used in connection with any other information to identify you in any way. 

How to disable third party cookies
Users based in the European Union can opt out of these third party cookies. This website is not connected to us and we are not responsible for its content. We only keep cookies for the duration of your visit to our Site, except in the case of cookies which remember you for future visits or where you save your login name as referred to above.

If you wish, you can usually adjust your browser so that your computer does not accept cookies.  For example, if you use Chrome browser, see this page to see how to disable cookies. 

How you adjust your browser to stop it from accepting cookies or to notify you of them will depend on which internet browser you use.  You can follow the appropriate instructions for your specific browser.

Your consent to cookies
By using this website you consent to the use of cookies by us as described above.