Privacy Policy

The website and the www.sosharpe.com domain (hereinafter “Website”) are owned by the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC, a North Carolina limited liability company (hereinafter “we” “us”). You, as a visitor and/or user of the website, agree to the following Privacy Policy, and your use of the site constitutes your acceptance to be bound by the terms. Your use of the website, and any information that you contribute or provide to us is subject to this Privacy Policy, with an effective state above.

The following Privacy Policy informs you of how we collect and process your personal data, including that which you provide by voluntarily “opting in” to receive a free resource, subscribing to our list or newsletter, purchasing a product or service, or contacting us via our Website, as well as that which we may collect automatically from you based upon your activity on our Website.

We may update these terms from time to time and will provide notice via email of any material changes made to this Privacy Policy. We will not provide notice of any minor updates, and acknowledge it is your responsibility to read any updated version(s), and that you agree to be bound by the most updated versions of this Policy.

Personal Information We Collect

The Website provides several opportunities for you, the user, to voluntarily provide us with your personal information in exchange for a free resource, to be added to or email or subscriber list, or to contact us. If you elect to “opt-in” and provide us with your personal information for any of these purposes, we will collect the information you provide, which may include your name, email address, phone number, and the text of any message you send us. We will also process personal information in the form of comments you make or share on our articles, social media pages, or any other online forum currently available, or made available in the future. You understand that your decision to provide any information to us in this manner is voluntary, and constitutes your clear consent to allow us to collect, process, and retain it.

If you elect to fill out the “contact us” portion of our Website, provide us with any other communication data, or make a purchase, including but not limited to that provided via email, social media messaging or posts, or text messages, we may collect information including your name, email address, phone number, information you share with that social media platform, as well as the text of any message you send electronically. This data will be processed based on our legitimate interest in communicating with you, and to answer any questions or concerns you have. We may also retain your data to keep a record of the communication.

If you become a customer, we will collect additional information in order to carry out and complete the purchase and sale of the goods or services you have requested, including but not limited to your name, email address, billing address, credit card or payment information, social security number, and any other information necessary in order to complete the purchase of the product or service you elect to buy. We will collect and process this data in order to fulfill our contractual obligation to complete your order and will not retain the information any longer than necessary. We use third party data processors to take and complete payment, and we will not retain nor have access to your payment information.

If you are on our email list due to your consent to be added, or our legitimate interest in engaging in direct marketing, we may also use your data to send you targeted social media advertisements or upload your information into our social media accounts to create look-a-like audiences. To ensure compliance with the CAN-SPAM act, all emails from us will clearly state the sender of the email, as well as provide instructions on how to unsubscribe from our list, or contact us with any questions or concerns.

We may also collect information though Automatic Data Collection Technology. We may use or send standard “cookies” to identify your browser from time to time. We do not include any personally identifiable information in cookies, and will not employ any other mechanisms (other than those discussed above) to capture data on our website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). You can accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Website may not work properly or at all. The Website does not respond to Do Not Track signals sent by your browser. For information about cookies, please review our Cookie Policy.

We may also collect data about how you use the Website, your browsing actions or patterns, computer equipment, IP address, internet connection, and other similar choices you make, including via Google Analytics and Facebook Pixels, in order to obtain statistical data, improve our website and offerings, and ensure you receive information relevant to you. If we utilize this technology, we will use them in compliance with all policies of these third-party companies. We may receive personal data from third parties including Google, social media platforms, search engines, Paypal, Square, Bill.com and other third-party payment processing companies.

Lawful Grounds for Processing: In order to ensure compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) we confirm we have lawful grounds for processing the information we collect from you. If you provide your personal information via our “contact us” page or send us any other form of electronic communication, we will process your data based upon our legitimate interest to respond to user or customer inquiries. If you elect to receive communication from us by “opting in” and provide us with your name and email address in exchange for a free resource or training, we will process your data for the purpose it was collected based on your affirmative consent to do so, and may periodically send you additional email marketing based upon our legitimate interest in marketing to those that have shown an interest in our products or services. We may also give you the option to be added to our email list, in order to receive our newsletter, information about our products and services, and other information we believe may be of interest to you based upon your decision to opt-in to one or more of our free resources, and will obtain your consent to do so. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us and requesting your information be edited, updated, or deleted. We do not collect any sensitive data, nor any information regarding criminal offenses or convictions.

How and Why It’s Collected

We collect your personal information when you voluntarily, directly provide it to us to receive a free or paid resource, product, or service, or when you fill out a form or send an email to contact us, and we do so in order to provide you with the resource you have indicated you’d like to receive. We may also track your future interactions with our content, and use your personal information to keep you informed about the products and services you have elected to receive, as well as any linked or similar products or services we think you may be interested in. The information will be collected by us following your choice to manually enter it in, and click to be added to our list. No such information will be collected without your taking action to be added to our list, or in exchange for a free resource.

We may also receive data from third parties like Google Analytics, Facebook, Instagram, and other advertising platforms, providers of technical or payment services as needed, and other similar third parties. We do our best to only utilize third parties who have been deemed GDPR-compliant, and whom we have either completed a data processing agreement with, or have reviewed and confirmed their policies regarding data processing to ensure compliance.

How We Use Your Information You Provide

You have the right to know and understand how your information is used. We will use the personally identifiable information you voluntarily give us in order to carry out the service or product you requested, including free resources, trainings, newsletters, periodic promotional emails, and to notify you about any changes to our policies or services.  We may also use your personal information to form “look-a-like” audiences in our digital marketing campaigns, which includes uploading your information into our social media advertising campaign.

If you purchase something from us, we will use your billing address and credit card information to complete your desired purchase or purchases only, and will not store or share any such information. By providing this information to us, you understand and agree that we may use and store such information to send emails, bill credit cards in exchange for programs or products purchased, or utilize comments for marketing purposes.

If you make a purchase from us, we may also use your personal information to send necessary updates to our products or services you have purchased, or to keep you informed of any necessary information relating to our products or services.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information: Additional non-identifying information that is collected may be used to provide an overview of how people are accessing and using the Website; it is not used for any additional purposes, and the Website does not use any such data to make automated decisions. We may also record some or all information to help create a better user experience. We may use information such as your IP address to help diagnose technical problems with servers or our website, and to determine which portions of our website receive the most traffic, to understand which content is the most useful to our visitors. Your IP address will not personally identify you, and may be used in such limited purposes as outlined above, in order to improve user experience.

How Information is Stored and Shared

You have the right to know what information is stored (and not stored) and how it is processed. Your information is stored through a data management system, and it is important to us to take appropriate measures to ensure your information is kept confidential. You understand that there are limited purposes where we will share your confidential information, including with those who are providing technical support for our website, or those who are members of our team, including legal and accounting. Any parties who will have access to your information will keep such information confidential and will never share with any unrelated parties to the best of our abilities.

Please be aware we may disclose information provided if we are required to do so by law, or if there is an honest, good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to protect the rights of the Website, that any portion of our policies are being violated, to prevent or mitigate a belief that a crime is being or may be committed, or to protect the safety or rights of our other uses.

This information may also be shared as a result of the sale of the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC, or any part of the company, as well as with any joint venture partners or affiliate marketers, should we deem it necessary to share such information. In addition, your information may be shared with any third-party businesses owned by the parties which own the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC for which we have a good faith belief you would have interest in knowing about or obtaining goods or services. We will always take all reasonable measures to protect and safeguard your information.

We require all such third parties to treat your personal information in accordance with the law, and only allow them to process or use your personal information for the specific purposes for which such transfer is authorized.

This Website, and the servers and parties which made this Website available on a global scale, are located within and operate within the United States. The internet laws of the United States and Georgia govern any and all matters relating to this Website, including content, as well as the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as they apply to residents of the European Union.

Any information you choose to provide through this Website, including subscribing to a newsletter, opting-in to receive free, or purchasing something will be transferred to the United States for processing. That information may then be transferred within the United States or back out of the United States to other countries outside of your country of residence, depending on the type of information, and how it is stored by us. If transferred to another country, it may not have data protection laws that are as comprehensive or protective as those in your country of residence; however, our collection, storage, and use of your Personal Information will at all times be governed by this Privacy Policy. By visiting our Website, you acknowledge this information, and by submitting any personal information onto our Website, you hereby authorize this transfer and processing of information.

By collecting and using your personal data, we are acting as a data controller, meaning we determine what information is collected, how long it is stored, and what the Personal Information will be used for. We utilize a third-party company to act as a data processor, which stores information such as names and email addresses that make up our email list. To the best of our ability, we have researched and concluded that all third-party data processors we use have advised us they are compliant with the General Data Protection Regulations as well.

Information Protection & Security

We use commercially reasonable methods to safeguard your personal data, including that which you provide to use, and that which we collect automatically, by using reasonable online security measures, and sharing your data with reputable third-party vendors that are compliant with generally accepted security and safety measures. We utilize a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on our Website in order to assist in the secure transfer of information; however, it can never be guaranteed. Should we become aware that a data breach has occurred, we will timely notify the necessary parties with as much information as we have available.

While we do our best to protect the information we collect and prevent any misuse, unauthorized access, or disclosure, you understand that we cannot be responsible should an unauthorized third party obtain access to our information without our consent. Should our website be tampered with, you understand that your Personal Information may be accessed by these unauthorized parties. You agree that we are not responsible for any such actions, and acknowledge you will hold us harmless should your information become intercepted in this way without our knowledge, permission, or consent, which includes a release of any and all claims related to use of such information by such an unauthorized party.

We have determined it is not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer, as our core activities do not consist of processing operations that require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects nor do we process sensitive categories of data on a large scale.

Data Retention

We will retain the minimum amount of Personal Information required of yours, including name, email address, and behavior tracking, as long as you elect to remain on our mailing list, and any additional Personal Information as long as it is needed in order to fulfill the purpose for which it was initially collected, such as completing a purchase. We will also retain and use collected information as necessary in order to comply with any legal obligations, resolve any disputes, or as otherwise reasonably determined. If at any point you elect to be removed from our database,  your information will be deleted, and no longer retained.

Your Rights to Control Your Information

You have the right to update, edit, or delete your information from our database. You may “unsubscribe” from our list at any time, by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any email we send you from our list. Should you wish to request access to information that we have about you, correct or edit any information, or unsubscribe from our email list, and/or remove or delete your information from our database, you also have the option to do so at any time, free of charge, by reaching out to us at:

Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC

37 Church Street

Suite 2800

Waynesville, NC 28786

(828) 220-4292

martha@sosharpe.com

Right of Access, Right to Rectification Right to Restriction of Processing, Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request information about how your data is being used, request a copy of the data we have, correct or edit data you initially provided us, restrict how we process your data in certain circumstances, and receive your personal data in order to use it elsewhere. Please contact us at the above email address for more information.

Right to be Forgotten: You have the right to withdraw your consent to give us your Personal Information by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email we send to you. Once unsubscribed, we will remove you from our list, and you should not receive any further emails from us, absent a technical glitch.

Third Party Links – Not Included Under This Policy

We may provide links to other websites on our Website, from time to time. Unless otherwise stated, this Privacy Policy only covers information that we collect from you on our website, which is expressly controlled by us. You understand that should you click on a link and be taken to another website, this Privacy Policy does not attach, and we have no control, responsibility, or liability for content, activities, or policies of any other company, website, or individual. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third parties, and that you understand you will need to review the privacy policy of each individual website to confirm their specific policies.

Children

You must be 18 years old or older to gain access to our Website and must have the requisite mental capacity to agree to this Privacy Policy.  This Website is not intended for those under 18, and we do not knowingly collect or request any information from or market to children under the age of 18.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a minor under 18, we will delete this information, and/or attempt to obtain parental consent. If you have any reason to believe we may have unknowingly collected data from a minor, please let us know by sending us an email at the information above.

Please read and review this Privacy Policy carefully. If you have any questions regarding this policy, your rights herein, or would like to review, update, or remove your information from our database, please contact us.

FOR CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

If you are a California Consumer, please refer to our Privacy Notice for California Consumers below.

Effective Date: September 1, 2021

 The Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC ( “One Sharpe Lawyer”, “we,” “us,” or “our”) provides this Privacy Notice for California Consumers (the “California Privacy Notice”) to supplement the information contained in the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC Privacy Policy. This California Privacy Notice sets forth our privacy practices as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

 Subject to the foregoing, the California Privacy Notice applies only to individuals residing in the State of California who are considered “Consumers” under the CCPA and from whom we collect “Personal Information” as described in the CCPA (“Consumers”).

Information We Collect

 We may collect Personal Information from you in a variety of different situations, including, but not limited to on our website, your mobile device, through email, through the mail, and/or over the telephone. More specifically, the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC may collect the following categories of Personal Information from its Consumers, which will depend on the particular Business Purpose (described in How We Use Personal Information below) for which we collect it:

Category

Examples of Personal Information We May Collect

A. Identifiers.

A real name, postal address, Internet Protocol address, email address unique personal identifier, and online identifier.

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).

A name, address, telephone number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

None

D. Commercial information.

Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

E. Biometric information.

None

F. Internet or other similar network activity.

Information on a visitor’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

G. Geolocation data.

Information on a visitor’s location as determined by analytics services.

H. Sensory data.

None

I. Professional or employment-related information.

None

J. Education information, as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

None

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.

None

 Personal information does not include deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

The Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC obtains the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:

·       Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or information you provide to us when you interact with us.

·       Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our website or from information your computer or mobile device transmits when interacting with our website or mobile applications, among other things.

·       Third parties. For example, we may receive information about you from our affiliates or other third parties we work with to provide you our products and services.

How We Use Personal Information

 We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect from you or about you to do one or more of the following:

 ·       To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask us a question, schedule a consultation, purchase products or services, or inquire about our products or services, we will use that Personal Information to respond to your inquiry.

·       To contact you and to inform you about products or services you may be interested in.

·       To provide, support, personalize, and develop our website, products, and services.

·       To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.

·       To process your requests and prevent transactional fraud.

·       To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.

·       If you provide your information in the context of an employment application or your employment, we will use your information to serve those purposes.

·       To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests.

·       To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.

·       For research, analysis, and business development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.

·       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 or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA or subsequently agreed to by you.

·       To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC about our Consumers is among the assets transferred.

How We Share Personal Information

 We may disclose your Personal Information to a third party for a business purpose, including to our service providers.

 We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

·       Service providers.

·       Third parties with whom you direct us to share your personal information

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

 In the preceding twelve (12) months, We have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Category A: Identifiers.

Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.

Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.

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

·       Service providers.

·       Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold Personal Information.

Your Consumer Rights and Choices

 The CCPA provides Consumers with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

 Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

 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 (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:

·       The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.

·       The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.

·       Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that Personal Information.

·       The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.

·       The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you.

·       If we disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, a list disclosing the disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights

 You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.

 In accordance with the CCPA, we may deny your deletion request under certain circumstances, and will inform you of the basis for the denial, which may include, but is not limited to, if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

·       Complete the transaction or service for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.

·       Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

·       Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.

·       Comply with a legal obligation.

·       Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us at:

Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC

37 Church Street

Suite 2800

Waynesville, NC 28786

(828) 220-4292

martha@sosharpe.com

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 only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

·       Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative.

·       Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot fully verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you.

 Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.

 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 endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to an additional forty-five [45] 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 preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.

 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.

 Other California Privacy Rights

 California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

 Sharing Personal Information

 Your personal information may be shared as a result of the sale of the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC, or any part of the company, as well as with any joint venture partners or affiliate marketers, should we deem it necessary to share such information. In addition, your information may be shared with any third-party businesses owned by the parties which own the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC for which we have a good faith belief you would have interest in knowing about or obtaining goods or services. We will always take all reasonable measures to protect and safeguard your information.

We require all such third parties to treat your personal information in accordance with the law, and only allow them to process or use your personal information for the specific purposes for which such transfer is authorized.

 Changes to Our CCPA Privacy Notice

 We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s Effective Date above. Your continued use of our Site or interaction with us through other methods following the posting of changes and/or our directing you to the updated CCPA Privacy Notice constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

 Contact Information

 If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which the Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC collects and uses your information described above, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Law Office of Martha Sharpe Bradley, PLLC

37 Church Street

Suite 2800

Waynesville, NC 28786

(828) 220-4292

martha@sosharpe.com