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This website is owned and operated by Gunster, Yoakley, & Stewart, PA. We respect your privacy and understand that you have a right to know why we collect your personal information and what we do with it.  This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect through our website as well as information we collect offline.

This policy describes the type of information we collect from or about you and/or that you may provide us when you visit and/or use this website or otherwise interact with us.

By accessing the website or providing us any information, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by the terms hereof, our Terms of Use, and any other terms or policies we post on our website. If there is anything you do not understand, please email any inquiry to Privacy@Gunster.com.  If at any time you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our website or provide us with any Personal Information. 

We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Policy by posting such changes or updates to our website or emailing you notice of the changes. Amendments to this Privacy Policy will be posted at this URL and will be effective when posted. You can tell if this Privacy Policy has changed by checking the last modified date that appears at the end of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the website or your provision of Personal Information to us following the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your acceptance thereof. 

YOUR SECURITY 

We strive to keep your Personal Information private and safe. We take commercially reasonable physical, electronic and administrative steps to maintain the security of Personal Information collected, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to server and systems, as well as employing industry-standard electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorized access.

Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the transmission of data over the Internet and electronic storage of data cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we will use reasonable means to ensure the security of information we collect and maintain, any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information will not be intercepted by third parties, and we will not be liable for any breach of the security of your Personal Information resulting from causes or events that are beyond our control, including, without limitation, your own act or omission, corruption of storage media, defects in third-party data security products or services, power failures, natural phenomena, riots, acts of vandalism, hacking, sabotage, or terrorism, and we are not responsible for unauthorized circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our website.

YOUR RIGHTS

Various state laws provide you with certain rights. If you are a resident of any of those states, you may have the following rights:

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS

If you believe you are a resident of any state that has passed applicable laws relating to your privacy rights, please send your request to exercise any of these rights to us at Privacy@Gunster.com.  Please note that we do not use your Personal Information for targeted advertising.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect various information that identifies you as a person (“Personal Information”) in three ways. First, we collect Personal Information that you provide to us. Second, we collect certain Automated Information that may contain Personal Information when you use our Website. Third, we collect Personal Information that others may provide to us about you as well as Personal Information about you that we may obtain through public sources.

Personal Information You Provide to Us

The Personal Information you provide to us is generally:

We collect Personal Information directly from you when you provide it to us. This typically occurs when you:

Automated Information

We also collect information, some of which may be Personal Information, through automated means when you visit our Website (“Automated Information”) such as:

Third parties may also collect information via our Website through cookies, third party plug-ins, widgets, and other technologies in order to:

We do not plant cookies that track you across other websites, and we do not use cookies for marketing or advertising purposes.

Information Obtained From Third Party Sources

We may also collect information about you from third party sources. We may obtain your Personal Information from clients or other third parties in connection with our services for such parties. We may also obtain Personal Information about you from public sources, such as online search engines, real estate records, court records, and other such public records.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT 

Most commonly we will use your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

We are committed to maintaining your trust and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share Personal Information and information collected about you. We do not share your Personal Information with any third parties except as set forth herein.

We may disclose your Personal Information to outside individuals and/or companies that help provide the services we offer and to create, operate, and maintain our website. For example, we may share your Personal Information with other companies or individuals in order to:

If we go through a business transition, including but not limited to, a merger or acquisition, your Personal Information may be shared as part of the negotiation of the transaction and will likely be among the assets transferred.

We may also disclose or share your Personal Information with other companies or individuals when legally required to do so, to cooperate with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the website, to limit our legal liability and protect our rights or to protect the rights, property or safety of users of the website or the public.

OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links or references to websites operated by third parties, or you may have come to our website using a link found in another website. This does not mean that we endorse these websites or the goods or services they provide. We do not make any representations or warranties about any website that may be linked to our website. Such other websites are independent from us, and we have no control over, or responsibility for, their information, products or activities. Our privacy practices may differ from those of these other websites. If you provide Personal Information at one of these third party websites, you are subject to the privacy policy of the operator of that website, not our Privacy Policy. Please make sure you understand the other website's privacy policy before providing such website with any Personal Information.

YOUR CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION AND OPTING OUT

There are ways by which you can control how your Personal Information is used.

Tracking 

You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please visit your specific browser’s instructions for doing this. The “Help” function on most browsers contains information on how you can set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies, or you can disable them entirely.

Promotional Emails/Newsletters

If you do not wish to receive our promotional emails or newsletters, you may click the “unsubscribe” link found in emails we send to you. Please allow up to ten (10) business days for changes to your email preferences to take effect. During that time, you may continue to receive email communications from us that were already in process. Opting out of receiving our promotional communications will not affect your receipt of service-related communications. In addition, if we have a data breach, or other such communications for which we have a legal obligation to inform you and/or to prevent fraud or harm to our website, our business, and/or third parties

Analytics

Our Website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (“Google Analytics” or “Google”). Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of our website. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will not associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage.

Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our Website are used.

You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on referenced above at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

DISCLOSURE FOR LEGAL PURPOSES 

You hereby authorize us to disclose any of your Personal Information pursuant to judicial and administrative proceedings and to law enforcement or government agencies if we are legally required to do so. You also authorize us to disclose Personal Information if we believe the disclosure is necessary or appropriate in the event of an investigation of improper or illegal conduct in connection with the website, such as fraud, misrepresentation, intellectual property infringement, or other activity that may put us at risk for liability.

CHILDREN 

We do not knowingly permit persons under 16 years of age to use the website, and we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose Personal Information from anyone under 16 years of age. If we determine upon collection of Personal Information that a user is under this age, we will not use or maintain such person’s  Personal Information without the parent/guardian's consent. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 16, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records. 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

We do not want you to send to us any confidential or proprietary information unless you have retained us as your counsel.

DELETION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may request that we delete your Personal Information from our database and the databases of any other parties with whom we shared your Personal Information by emailing us at Privacy@Gunster.com.   We will not delete your Personal Information if we have a legal or ethical obligation to maintain such information.

ASSIGNMENT 

We may freely assign this Privacy Policy or any of our rights and/or obligations hereunder to any successor.

CONTACT

If you have any questions about your privacy or security at the website, or wish to update your Personal Information, please send an email to Privacy@Gunster.com.     

DATE LAST MODIFIED: October 22, 2024

PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

The following applies to you only if you are a California resident.

Your Rights and Choices

The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) provides individuals who are California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information.

Right to Access the Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold

As a California resident, you have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request as described below, we will disclose to you:

Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information

As a California resident, you have the right to request that we delete any or all of the Personal Information that we collected about you, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and notify our service providers or contractors to delete) your Personal Information from our records, and notify all third parties to whom we have shared such Personal Information, to delete your Personal Information, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

We may also deny your deletion request to delete your Personal Information if retaining the Personal Information is necessary for us, our service providers, or our contractors to:

Right to Correct Inaccurate Information

As a California resident, you have the right to request, if we maintain inaccurate Personal Information about you, to correct such inaccurate Personal Information, taking into account the nature of the Personal Information and the purposes of the processing of the Personal Information.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

As a California resident, you shall have the right, at any time, to direct that we limit our use of your sensitive Personal Information to that use which is necessary:

If you would like to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive Personal Information, please email Privacy@Gunster.com

Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

As a California resident, you have the right, at any time, to direct that we not to sell or share your Personal Information. At this time, we do not sell or share Personal Information as those terms are defined under the CPRA.

Right to Non-Retaliation if You Exercise any of Your Rights

As a California resident, you have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your CPRA rights. Unless permitted by the CPRA, if you exercise any of your California rights, we will not:

How to Exercise Your Rights to Know and to Delete

To exercise your rights to know and/or to delete described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or request to know the Personal Information we disclose to service providers or third parties twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

We will request at least two data points of information from you in order to verify your identity, but if your request calls for the disclosure to you of sensitive Personal Information, we will request at least three data points of information.

We cannot respond to your request if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you.  We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We will confirm receipt of your verifiable consumer request within ten (10) business days and provide you with information about how we will process the request, describing our verification process and when you should expect a response. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period immediately preceding our receipt of your verifiable request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Information We Collect From California Residents

We collect Personal Information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household. Personal Information does not include:

Within the last twelve (12) months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information from California residents. Some of the categories may overlap with each other. The below also shows the categories of Personal Information that we have shared for a business and/or commercial purpose within the last twelve (12) months and the length of time we will retain this information. When we disclose Personal Information, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

CLIENT AND VENDOR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect Personal Information from and about clients, potential clients, and our vendors as outlined below. We are also bound by various ethical rules in relation to the handling and disclosure of confidential client information.

Category of Information Collected Where and how information is obtained Business Purposes Commercial Purposes Service Providers or Third Parties who have access to information or with whom information is shared Retention period

Identifiers such as a real name, postal address, unique personal or online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, telephone number

Directly from individual

From third parties

From public sources

Indirectly through online analytical tools

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To provide you with information or services that you request from us

To provide you with email alerts, newsletters, and other notices concerning our services or events or news that may be of interest to you

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

To improve our Sites and present the contents to you

For testing, research, analysis and business development

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred

To advance our commercial or economic interests

To enable or effect a commercial transaction

Operating systems and platforms

Payment processors

Email distributors

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

Personal Information described in the California Customer Records statute (Cal.Civ.Code §1798.80(e)), which includes the identifiers listed above plus: age, birthdate, signature, social security number, employment history, credit card numbers, debit card numbers, bank or any other financial information, medical information, health information

Directly from individual

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

To advance our commercial or economic interests

To enable or effect a commercial transaction

Operating systems and platforms

Payment processors

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

Directly from individual

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

To advance our commercial or economic interests

To enable or effect a commercial transaction

Operating systems and platforms

Payment processors

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

Commercial information such as records of services requested, obtained, or considered

Directly from individual

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To provide you with information or services that you request from us

To provide you with email alerts, newsletters, and other notices concerning our services or events or news that may be of interest to you

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

To improve our Sites and present the contents to you

For testing, research, analysis and business development

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred

To advance our commercial or economic interests

To enable or effect a commercial transaction

Operating systems and platforms

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

Internet or similar network activity, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding an individual’s interaction with our Sites

Indirectly through online analytical tools

To provide you with information or services that you request from us

To provide you with email alerts, newsletters, and other notices concerning our services or events or news that may be of interest to you

To improve our Sites and present the contents to you

For testing, research, analysis and business development

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred

To advance our commercial or economic interests

To enable or effect a commercial transaction

Operating systems and platforms

Analytics companies

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

Sensitive Personal Information such as social security, driver's license, state identification card, or passport number; the contents of an individual’s mail, email and text messages

Directly from individual

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To provide you with information or services that you request from us

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

We do not use sensitive Personal Information for commercial purposes

Operating systems and platforms

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

JOB APPLICANT INFORMATION

If you or someone on your behalf sends us a resume or inquiry about employment openings, we collect the following categories of Personal Information:

Category of Information collected

Where and how Information is obtained

Business Purposes

 

 

Commercial Purposes

Service Providers or Third Parties who have access to information or with whom information is shared

 

 

Retention period

Identifiers such as a real name, postal address,  Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, telephone number

Directly from individual

From third parties acting on your behalf

Indirectly through online analytical tools

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

We do not use this information for a commercial purpose

Operating systems and platforms

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

Personal Information described in the California Customer Records statute (Cal.Civ.Code §1798.80(e)), which includes the identifiers listed above plus: age, birthdate, signature, social security number, employment history, bank or any other financial information, medical information, health information

Directly from individual

From third parties acting on your behalf

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

We do not use this information for a commercial purpose

Operating systems and platforms

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

Sensitive Personal Information such as social security, driver's license, state identification card, or passport number

Directly from individual

From third parties acting on your behalf

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

We do not use sensitive Personal Information for commercial purposes

Operating systems and platforms

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

WEBSITE VISITOR INFORMATION

If you are a visitor to our Site, we collect the following categories of Personal Information:

Category of Information collected

Where and how Information is obtained

Business Purposes

 

 

Commercial Purposes

Service Providers or Third Parties who have access to information or with whom information is shared

 

 

Retention period

Identifiers such as a real name, postal address,  Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, telephone number

Directly from individual

From third parties acting on your behalf

Indirectly through online analytical tools

To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.

To provide you with information or services that you request from us

To provide you with email alerts, newsletters, and other notices concerning our services or events or news that may be of interest to you

To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections

To improve our Sites and present the contents to you

For testing, research, analysis and business development

As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others

To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations

As described to you when collecting your Personal Information

To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred

To advance our commercial or economic interests

To enable or effect a commercial transaction

Operating systems and platforms

Email distributors

Analytics companies

As long as required for business purposes or legal obligations

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your Personal Information to a third party for a business and/or commercial purpose. When we disclose Personal Information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

We disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

Sale/Sharing of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold or shared any Personal Information as those terms are defined in the CPRA

Additional Information

Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice describing what categories of Personal Information we share with third parties or corporate affiliates for those third parties or corporate affiliates' direct marketing purposes. That notice will identify the categories of information shared and will include a list of the third parties and affiliates with which it was shared, along with their names and addresses. We do not share information with any third parties or affiliates for direct marketing purposes.  

Please note the following:

Contact for More Information

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or this Notice regarding your privacy or Personal Information, please contact us at Privacy@Gunster.com.

Date last updated: October 22, 2024


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