PRIVACY POLICY
Ortego & Urech, PLLC is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, or others inside or outside the firm). It has been and always remains the policy of the firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which imposes a duty to preserve and protect confidential information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel.
This Privacy Statement (the “Statement”) is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection policies generally, and to advise our clients, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may apply to them.
This Statement also addresses parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s websites, our apps, our social media sites, as well as email messages that we send to you that contain a link to this Statement (collectively, the “Internet Services”). This Statement describes how the firm collects, processes, and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The firm collects Personal Information in the course of providing legal services to clients and in the course of educating visitors to this website about the legal services offered by the firm. We may also collect Personal Information about you when you interact with us on social media sites and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Information as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Information where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes:
to contact you and respond to your requests and inquiries
to personalize your visit and use of our Internet Services and to assist you while you use those services
to carry out, monitor, and analyze our businesses and website operations
to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the firm, and otherwise to communicate with you, and administer the matters you instruct us on
to contact you (unless you tell us you prefer us not to) regarding legal or law firm developments that may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive publications or details of events or seminars that we consider may be of interest to you, you may do so by clicking on the unsubscribe link in electronic marketing communications
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other Internet Services. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Statement and in our applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm. We do not sell Personal Information to third parties.
Cookie Policy
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Links to Third Party Websites
We have included links on this website for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these websites may differ from our own.
Children
In order to respect the privacy of minors, we do not knowingly collect, maintain or process Personal Information submitted online via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent we will collect Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in the Statement, we will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
State/Federal Law & Accompanying Rights
Please understand that you may have additional rights originating from State laws based on where you live. These State-based rights may augment, strengthen, or otherwise somehow compliment any privacy rights you have inherently or under Federal law. Our policy is to comply fully with the privacy policies of every jurisdiction in which we operate. Accordingly, you are free to use our Contact information to reach us at any time to assert any State rights.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Statement at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our Internet Services, we will post it on this website and relevant Internet Services.
Contact Us
If you have any questions pertaining to Privacy Information, feel free to contact us:
24285 Katy Fwy., Suite 300
Katy, Tx. 77494
P: 281-712-7350
F: 866-349-7516