Privacy Policy

Introduction

Tooke Law, LLC ("Company" or "We") and its affiliates are committed to ensuring that you understand how we collect, use, share, and process your Personal Information. This Privacy Notice outlines our practices regarding Personal Information that we collect both online and offline, including through the services we provide, our main website (www.tookelaw.com), and other websites, mobile applications, and digital communications (like email) that display or link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, "Services").

 

By using the Services or submitting your Personal Information to us, you acknowledge and agree to the collection and use of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Notice, please refrain from using the Services.

 

As a law firm, we process information relating to individuals during our legal representation of clients. Please note that this Privacy Notice does not apply to information that you provide to Tooke Law within the context of an attorney-client relationship or information that is protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine, or any other applicable legal protection. While we routinely process personal information during our legal representation of clients, such processing is performed on behalf of and at the direction of our clients, subject to our client agreements and professional responsibilities. The information we collect and process in this context is governed by our client agreements and professional obligations and is not covered by this Privacy Notice.

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1. Personal Information We Collect 

 

The types of Personal Information we gather about you vary depending on the nature of your interaction with us. The following section outlines the categories of Personal Information that we may have collected over the past 12 months and the sources from which this information was obtained.

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a) Information You Voluntarily Provide to Tooke Law. We collect Personal Information that you choose to share with us when engaging with our services. This may occur in various situations, such as when you contact us (including instances where you reach out on behalf of your employer to secure our legal services), request client alerts, timely updates, event invitations, newsletters, or other informational materials, sign up for a webinar or event, complete a form, participate in a survey, submit a message through our sites, request to be contacted by us, or otherwise interact with us.

 

The categories of Personal Information that we may collect directly from you include: 

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• Identifiers, including your name, physical address, email address, phone number, signature, government-issued identification numbers, and account credentials (e.g., username) when accessing or using a Tooke Law online service, or other similar identifiers.

• Demographic Information, which may include Sensitive Personal Information or details about protected classifications, such as your age, gender, race, or national origin.

• Professional and Educational Information, including your current or past employers, job title, or other details about the organization you are affiliated with. You may also share information about your professional qualifications or education, such as your bar information, degrees, fields of study, educational institutions attended, professional memberships, qualifications, and certifications.

• Health Information, including accessibility requirements and dietary restrictions.

• User-Generated Content, such as comments or other material you post on our social media pages, blogs, or other forums within our Services.

• Preferences, including your stated interests and communication preferences, such as the frequency at which you wish to receive our newsletters or other communications.

• Sensitive Personal Information, such as social security numbers, driver's license numbers, account log-in details (e.g., financial account or credit card numbers in combination with any required access codes or passwords), precise geolocation information, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, content of postal mail, email, and text messages (unless we are the intended recipient), genetic data, and biometric information that uniquely identifies you or information concerning your health, sex life, or sexual orientation.

• Any other information you opt to provide.

 

b) Information We May Generate or Collect Automatically. When you interact with us and our Services, we may automatically generate or collect certain types of Personal Information. The categories of Personal Information we collect in this context may include:

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• Identifiers, such as information that uniquely identifies you or the device you use to interact with our Services, including your name, e-mail address, username, cookie identifiers, mobile advertising identifiers, and other unique identifiers.

• Device Information, including details about the device you use to interact with our Services, such as your IP address, device type, operating system and version, MAC address, user settings, or browser type.

• Commercial information, such as records of services you obtained from us, including on behalf of an organization with which you are affiliated.

• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including your browsing history, search history, and information about your interactions with us and our Services, such as pages visited before, during, and after using our Services, information about the links you click, the types of content you interact with, the frequency and duration of your activities, and other information about how you use our Services.

• Geolocation Information, such as the region or general location from which your computer or device is accessing the internet.

• Audio and Visual Information, such as your voice and likeness captured in photographs, videos, or audio recordings if you attend our events, visit our offices, or leave us a voicemail.

• Inferences drawn from other Personal Information we collect about you that may relate to your preferences or other matters.

 

We and our service providers or third parties engaged on our behalf may employ cookies, pixel tags, or similar tracking technologies ("Collection Technologies") to gather the information described above when you use, access, or otherwise interact with our Services. Below, we have outlined how we use Collection Technologies and the choices available to you.

 

• Cookies. Cookies are small text files placed in device browsers that store preferences and enhance your experience.

• Web Beacons, Clear GIFs, Pixel Tags, and Scripts. These Collection Technologies are small transparent image files or lines of code that record your interactions with our Services. For example, they may allow us to record that a user has visited a particular web page or clicked on a specific feature. We may also include these types of Collection Technologies in e-mails to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.

• Social Media Platforms. Our Services may contain social media buttons, including widgets such as the "share this" button or other interactive functions. These features may collect personal information such as your IP address and the page you are visiting on our Services. Your interactions with and on these platforms are governed by the privacy policy of the social media platform or network providing the button or other functionality.

 

Our use of Collection Technologies generally falls into the following categories. Please note that these are the main ways of classifying cookies, although there may be other cookies that do not fit neatly into these categories or may qualify for multiple categories.

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• Strictly Necessary: Cookies that are essential for our websites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.

• Functional: Enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization based on your interaction with the website. For example, they may allow websites to remember your site preferences and choices, including username, region, and language.

• Analytics and Performance: These cookies are specifically used for gathering data on how visitors use a website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they encounter error messages on web pages. Some examples of performance cookies are cookies that count page visits, idle time by a user on a page, bounce rates, and load speeds.

• Advertising and Targeting: Specifically designed to gather information from your device to display advertisements to you based on relevant topics that interest you.

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c) Information We Collect from Other Sources. We may gather Personal Information from various sources, including our clients, employees, or business partners, as well as from business contact databases and enrichment services. Additionally, we may receive information about you from social media platforms when you interact with us on those platforms or access our social media content. We may also collect information about you from publicly available sources, such as public social media profiles, publications, and other websites or materials accessible through search engines.

 

The categories of information we may collect from these other sources include:

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• Identifiers, such as your name, telephone number, postal or e-mail address, and social media identifiers.

• Professional and Educational Information, which may include details about your occupation and professional activities, such as professional licenses held, employers, business contact information, or information about your education, including your degrees, fields of study, institutions attended, languages, professional memberships, qualifications, and certifications.

• User-Generated Content that you post or make available online, such as your social media posts or publications.

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2. How We Use Personal Information

 

We employ Personal Information for a range of objectives, such as conducting our business operations and delivering the finest products, services, and experiences to you. We value transparency, so we have outlined below the various ways in which we utilize Personal Information.

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• To grant you access to the Services: This includes operating, troubleshooting, and enhancing our websites, mobile applications, and other digital properties, as well as providing the legal and other services we offer.

• To respond to or inform you: We use your Personal Information when you contact us with a comment, request, or question; sign up for an event or webinar; send you legal updates and mailings, in compliance with applicable law; request legal services; or otherwise to send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and other administrative messages.

• To reach out to you and expand/maintain our contact list: We may use your Personal Information to send you newsletters, legal updates, marketing communications, and other information or materials that may be relevant to your interests.

• To tailor your experiences with us: We use your Personal Information to keep track of your interests and preferences and to facilitate interactions and introductions.

• For research and analytical purposes: We analyze how you interact with our Services, the methods you use to access our Services, and use this information to make enhancements to our Services.

• For marketing and advertising purposes: We use Personal Information to market, provide, and evaluate the effectiveness of our events, promotional campaigns, publications, podcasts, and other offerings.

• For our business operations: This includes operating and improving our business and Services, internal administration, data analysis, billing, detecting, preventing, and responding to actual or potential fraud, illegal activities, or intellectual property infringement, and for any other business purpose permitted by law.

• For legal, fraud prevention, and safety purposes: We may use Personal Information to defend or protect us, you, our clients, or third parties from harm or fraudulent activities, in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity, or in legal proceedings; maintain the security of our clients, employees, and property; respond to court orders, lawsuits, subpoenas, and government requests; address legal and regulatory compliance; and notify you of any other legal or safety issues.

• For purposes that you have otherwise consented to: This includes at the time the Personal Information is collected.

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3. Disclosure and Sharing of Personal Information

 

We may share the Personal Information we gather with the third parties mentioned below. Rest assured, we never disclose your Personal Information in exchange for monetary gain.

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• Affiliated Companies. We may share your personal information with our, subsidiaries and affiliates to fulfill purposes aligned with this Privacy Notice.

• Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your Personal Information with third parties that assist us in operating the Services or provide services on our behalf (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, payment processing, email delivery, marketing, ad measurement services, and database management services). These third parties are only permitted to use your Personal Information as directed or authorized by us and are strictly prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.

• Business Associates. We may share your name and contact information with our business associates, such as partners who co-sponsor events you attend or publications you subscribe to.

• Advertising and Analytics Partners. As previously mentioned, we may use Personal Information to support our: (1) advertising and marketing initiatives, including serving interest-based advertisements across the Internet; tracking and categorizing your activity, interests, and device(s) used over time on our websites and applications, as well as on third-party websites and mobile applications; and (2) research and analytics efforts, including gaining a better understanding of your use of our websites and applications to enhance those technologies and optimize your experience and interactions. To achieve this, we may share Personal Information with certain third-party advertising or analytics providers (collectively, "Analytics and Advertising Partners") through our use of Collection Technologies. These Analytics and Advertising Partners employ Collection Technologies on our digital properties to gather and store information about you and your use of the Services.

• Social Media Platforms and Networks. This includes platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, when you choose to use certain features or tools available on our Services that allow you to connect to a social media account or share content on social media.

• Professional Consultants. We may disclose your Personal Information to professional consultants, such as lawyers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services they provide to us.

• For Compliance, Fraud Prevention, and Safety Purposes. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes outlined above in Section 2 (How We Use Personal Information).

• Business Transactions. We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.

• With Your Consent or At Your Direction. We may disclose your Personal Information in situations where we have your consent or instruction to do so.

 

We may share anonymous, de-identified, or aggregate information that cannot reasonably identify you with others for any purpose, as permitted by applicable law. Please be aware that any Personal Information you post to a profile, blog, comment section, or forum on our Services or social media pages may be accessible to other users of those forums or, in some cases, made publicly available.

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4. Retention of Personal Information.

 

We keep your Personal Information for the duration necessary to accomplish the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is mandated or allowed by law. It's important to note that in many cases, we are obligated to retain all or part of your Personal Information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, protect against fraudulent, deceptive, or illegal activity, or for another one of our business purposes.

 

5. Your Privacy Choices and Rights.
 

You may have various rights and choices related to your Personal Information, as outlined below. Keep in mind that some of these rights may differ based on your state of residence.

a) Privacy Rights. Depending on your state of residence, you may be entitled to certain data rights, such as:

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• Accessing Your Personal Information, which allows you to: (1) confirm whether we are processing your Personal Information; (2) verify the categories of your Personal Information that we handle; and (3) receive a copy of your Personal Information in a portable format.

• Correcting Your Personal Information. In some instances, we may offer self-service tools that enable you to make these corrections.

• Deleting Your Personal Information.

• Opting-Out of Your Personal Information Being Used for Specific Purposes, such as: (1) targeted advertising; (2) the "sale" of your Personal Information; and (3) certain profiling activities that have legal or similarly significant consequences for you.

 

b) Controlling Communication Preferences. If you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can inform us by using the contact information provided in the How to Contact Us section below. Our digital marketing communications may include unsubscribe or opt-out options that allow you to adjust your communications preferences. Even if you opt-out of marketing communications, we may still reach out to you with non-promotional messages, such as those related to ongoing business relations or administrative matters.

 

c) Adjusting Cookie and Other Collection Technologies Preferences. When you first visit our website, you will see a banner that offers you a choice about whether to accept or reject cookies or Collection Technologies of different types, except for those cookies that are essential for a particular service. To change your choices, click here.

 

You can also manage how web browser cookies are handled by your device through your browser settings. Some devices allow you to control this through your device settings. Choosing not to receive cookies at any time may result in websites not functioning properly and certain services being unavailable. Each browser and device is different, so check the settings menu of the browser or device to learn how to change your settings and cookie preferences.

Note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile applications. However, you may opt-out of personalized advertisements on some mobile applications by following the instructions for Android, iOS, and others.

The online advertising industry also provides websites where you can opt out of receiving targeted ads from data partners and other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can access these and learn more about targeted advertising and consumer choice and privacy by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative and the Digital Advertising Alliance.

To the extent our use of Collection Technologies is deemed to be a "sale"/ "share" under California law, you can opt-out of these tracking technologies by submitting a request via Your Privacy Choices, available at the bottom of our website. Please note, some features of our websites may not be available to you if you opt-out of the use of these tracking technologies.

d) Geolocation Data. If you have previously consented to sharing geolocation information with our Services, you can stop the collection of this information at any time by changing the preferences on your browser or mobile device settings.

e) Push Notifications/Alerts. If you have allowed one of our mobile applications to send you push notifications or alerts, you can deactivate these messages at any time in the notification settings on your mobile device.

 

6. Security Practices.

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We have implemented a range of administrative, physical, and technical security measures designed to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Despite our efforts to protect your Personal Information using commercially acceptable means, no method of transmitting data over the Internet is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we do not accept responsibility for unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or loss of Personal Information.

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7. International Data Transfers.

 

Any information we process may be transferred, processed, and stored in various locations worldwide, including, but not limited to, the United States or other countries, which may have data protection laws that differ from the laws in your country of residence. We make every effort to safeguard your information in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws.

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When transferring personal information originating from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and/or the United Kingdom to a country that has not been recognized as providing an adequate level of protection under applicable data protection laws, we may employ safeguards such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses to facilitate such transfer.

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If you would like more information about the safeguards we use for international transfers of your personal information, please reach out to us using the contact methods listed below.

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8. Children.

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Our Services are not designed for or targeted towards individuals under the age of 16. We do not intentionally gather Personal Information directly from children under the age of 16 without obtaining parental consent. In the event that we discover a child under the age of 16 has provided us with Personal Information, we will promptly remove the information from our records.
 

9. Third-Party Websites and Services.

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Our Services may contain links to Internet sites, content, or videos (embedded or direct links) operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the sites, content, or videos accessible via those links, and we have not assessed the privacy practices of those third parties. We strongly advise you to review the privacy practices of any third-party sites you decide to access.
 

10. Modifications to this Privacy Notice.

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We may periodically update this Privacy Notice and will revise the date at the top of this document to indicate when such update took place. If we make any substantial changes to the way we collect, use, and/or share the Personal Information that you have provided, we will make every effort to provide you with notice before such changes take effect, such as by posting prominent notice on the Tooke Law website.
 

11. Governing Law.

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This Privacy Notice is governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana. Any legal action arising out of or relating to this Privacy Notice shall be filed exclusively in state courts located in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, or the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. By using our Services, you thereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating any such action.

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12. How to Contact Us.

 

We welcome your inquiries and comments. Please note, however, that if you are not a client, we may not be able to treat the information you send us as confidential or privileged.

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If you have questions about our information practices, please contact us using the following methods:

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Telephone: 1.318.202.9057
Email: info@tookelaw.com

13. Information for California Residents – California Privacy Rights.

 

California law requires us to disclose the following information with respect to our information practices. If you are a California resident, this section applies to you in addition to the rest of the Privacy Notice.

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a) Categories of Personal Information Collected and Sources. The “Personal Information We Collect” section identifies the categories of Personal Information we may have collected in the preceding 12 months, and the sources from which we obtain such information.

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b) Purposes for Collection. We collect and use Personal Information for the business or commercial purposes described in the “How We Use Personal Information” section above.

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c) Categories of Personal Information Disclosed and Categories of Recipients. We may have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information in the preceding 12 months for our business or commercial purposes, to the categories of recipients listed below. Agreement and Changes to the Privacy Policy.

 

For more details on how your Personal Information is disclosed, please see the “How We Disclose Personal Information” section, which provides additional information about our disclosure of Personal Information to Affiliates, Service Providers, Business Partners, Advertising or Analytics Providers, and the Social Media Platforms and Networks we use.

 

We may also disclose any of the above categories of Personal Information: (1) for legal, fraud prevention, or safety purposes; (2) to our Professional Advisors; (3) as a result of a Business Transfer; or (4) based on your consent or instruction, all four of which are also described in the “How We Disclose Personal Information” section above.

 

d) California Privacy Rights. Subject to certain limitations, California residents have the following rights regarding their Personal Information.

 

• Request to Know. You have a right to request that we disclose what Personal Information we have collected about you, including the categories of Personal Information, the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information, and the specific pieces of Personal Information that we have collected about you.

• Request to Delete. You have a right to request that we delete Personal Information that we have collected about you, subject to certain exceptions.

• Request to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information. You have a right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information that we may maintain about you.

• Request to Opt-Out of the “Selling” or “Sharing” of Your Personal Information. Our use of Collection Technologies may be considered a “sale”/ “sharing” under California law. You can opt-out of being tracked by these technologies by clicking the “Your Privacy Choices” link at the bottom of our website and selecting your preferences, or by broadcasting an Opt-Out Preference Signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC) (on the browsers and/or browser extensions that support such a signal). Please note that even after opting out, your use of our websites may still be tracked by Nelson Mullins or our Service Providers.

• Right to No Discrimination. You have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your privacy rights.

 

e) Exercising Your California Privacy Rights. How to Submit a Request to Know, Request to Delete, or Request to Correct. You may submit a Request to Know or a Request to Delete by: (1) contacting us at 1.318.202.9057 or by (2) emailing us at info@tookelaw.com.

 

Contact 

 

For questions, comments or inquiries regarding the collection, processing and storage of your Personal Information by us, please contact us via e-mail or phone at:

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info@tookelaw.com 

+1 318.955.9730