Phonetic Designs (“Richard Horne” and “we”) respects the privacy of others. This Privacy Policy explains Richard Horne’s privacy practices with respect to the websites that link to this Privacy Policy (together with their respective pages and features, the “Site”). This Privacy Policy is also intended to provide you (together with any person helping you visit, access, register with or use any of those online or digital properties, products or services, “you” or “your”) with an overview of the following:
This privacy policy applies to information collected through the site. Carefully read this privacy policy in its entirety.
You are automatically accepting and agreeing to the most-recent version of this privacy policy, as well as Richard Horne’s Terms of Use, whenever you create, register with or log into an account on or through the site. Similarly, you are automatically accepting and agreeing to the most-recent version of this privacy policy, as well as Richard Horne’s Terms of Use, whenever you visit, access, register with, subscribe to or use the site or any services provided by Richard Horne on the site; and your continuing visit, access, registration with, subscription to or use of any of the forgoing reaffirms your acceptance and agreement in each instance.
As used herein, the term “personal information” means information that relates to an identified or an identifiable individual (e.g., your name, physical address, telephone number, email address, social security number); and the term “non-personal information” means any information other than personal information that Richard Horne may collect from you, such as anonymized data, de-identified data and/or pseudonymous data.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian may contact us at support@phonetic-designs.com, privacy@phonetic-designs.com. We will remove the information and unsubscribe the child from any of our electronic marketing lists.
Richard Horne may collect (and may have conducted during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy) personal and non-personal information about you through the Site. Depending upon your use of the Site, the categories of such information might include:
We do not knowingly request sensitive personal information, such as information relating to racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, genetic or biometric data, precise geolocation data or other similar information that may be defined as sensitive personal information under applicable law and we request that you do not send us any such information.
In general, you are not required to provide any personal information in order to consult our Site. However, you may elect to contact us by completing the form provided on the “Contact Us” page of the Site, in which case we ask you to provide your name and email address, and to submit specific questions to us. You may also elect to contact us voluntarily by telephone or e-mail. All personal data processed by us is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which they were collected.
When using the Site for mere information purposes, we may also collect the personal data that your web browser transmits to our server, including your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and data relating to your operating system and web browser. We use this data to ensure the security and successful navigation on the Site, and to compile statistical data on the use of our Site.
During the course of an engagement, or when consideration is being given to such an engagement, we may collect and process personal, financial or related data about our clients, prospective clients, their affiliates or the relevant members of their personnel. In addition, Richard Horne may assemble and maintain information relating to the legal services provided. The information that Richard Horne may assemble and maintain may be obtained from the client, generated as a result of the services provided, or received from third parties.
We may also collect personal information from you when you attend a seminar or other event provided by us, when you visit, make an inquiry or submit an application for employment to us, including through the Site or otherwise.
We may also collect information from publicly-accessible sources (such as government databases or electronic data resources), directly from a third party (such as our clients or other law firms, our service providers, or marketing partners) or from third parties with your consent.
In addition, if you or a third party sends Richard Horne a comment, message or other communication (such as, by way of example only, email, letter, fax, phone call, or voice message) about you or your activities on or through the Site, then Richard Horne may collect any personal or non-personal information provided therein or therewith.
Finally, Richard Horne might use various tracking, data aggregation and/or data analysis technologies, including, for example, the following:
Please be advised that if you choose to block, reject, disable, delete or change the management settings for any or all of the aforementioned technologies and/or other tracking, data aggregation and data analysis technologies, then certain areas of the Site might not function properly.
By visiting, accessing, registering with or using the Site, you acknowledge and agree in each instance that you are giving Richard Horne permission to monitor or otherwise track your activities on the Site, and that Richard Horne may use the aforementioned technologies and/or other tracking, data aggregation and data analysis technologies.
Richard Horne may use the personal and/or non-personal information it collects from you through the Site in a variety of ways, such as, for example, to:
Richard Horne reserves the right to use your personal and non-personal information when:
We will not sell any of your personal information to any outside organization. We only disclose your personal information to third parties as is reasonably necessary to carry out the permitted uses described in this Privacy Policy.
For example, Richard Horne may share your personal information with the following:
Richard Horne does not limit the ways in which it might use or share non-personal information – and Richard Horne reserves the unencumbered right, but not the obligation, to use or share non-personal information – because non-personal information does not identify you.
Richard Horne may retain your personal information and non-personal information for as long as it is reasonably necessary for a legitimate business purpose, such as to provide you with services. We will, for example, retain your personal information where required for us to assert or defend against legal claims until the end of the relevant retention period or until the claims in question have been settled.
Richard Horne may dispose of or delete personal information or non-personal information at any time, except as set forth in any other agreement or document executed by both you and Richard Horne concerning the same or as required by law.
The Site and/or any communications sent through or as a function of the Site might contain links to third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers and/or applications. Third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers and/or applications might also contain links to the Site.
In addition, you might have the opportunity to access the Site using your online user accounts with certain third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications, which might be subject to separate privacy policies pertaining to those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications. Richard Horne might also collect information from those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications (such as, for example, your name, gender, date of birth and personal interests, when you “like” or click links provided by or through those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers, or applications and other information available through your online account or page with those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications).
Moreover, Richard Horne might permit third parties to use their own tracking, data aggregation and/or data analysis technologies like the ones described above (e.g., third-party cookies).
You should carefully review the relevant terms of use and privacy policies associated with third party websites, networks, platforms, servers and applications.
Richard Horne has implemented appropriate technical, physical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unlawful destruction or accidental loss, damage, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, as well as other forms of unlawful processing.
To help maintain the security of your personal information, Richard Horne asks that you please notify it immediately of any unauthorized visit, access or use of the Site, or the loss or unauthorized use of your user access information for the Site (e.g., username or password).
You can exercise your privacy rights in accordance with applicable law through global privacy control. You may also contact us at support@phonetic-designs.com, privacy@phonetic-designs.com or write to us at the address set forth in Section 18 below. Any appeals based on our denial of your request to exercise a data privacy right may also be sent to the address in Section 18 below.
You have multiple privacy rights, subject to applicable law, with respect to the personal information we process about you, including the following:
Notwithstanding the above, please note that we may still need to retain personal information necessary to provide you with services and/or where we are required or authorized to do so by applicable law.
If you are a California resident, you may request that we:
You can exercise your California privacy rights in accordance with applicable law through our global privacy control or inquiry form. You may also contact us at support@phonetic-designs.com, privacy@phonetic-designs.com.
We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. If you are an authorized agent making an access or deletion request on behalf of a Californian resident, please reach out to us via the inquiry form and indicate that you are an authorized agent. We will provide you with instructions on how to submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a Californian resident.
We are headquartered in the United States of America and information is processed globally as necessary in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Personal information may thus be accessed by us or transferred to us in the United States.
By providing us with personal information, you consent to the storage or processing of your personal information in the United States and acknowledge that the personal information will be subject to the laws of the United States, including the ability of governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of the United States to obtain disclosure of your personal information.
We will protect the privacy and security of personal information according to this Privacy Policy, regardless of where it is processed or stored.
Users located in the EU, EEA, the UK and/or other countries with similar laws should refer to Section 12 of this Privacy Policy. Residents of Canada should refer to Section 13 of this Privacy Policy.
For personal information collected about you in the EU, EEA, the UK and other relevant jurisdictions where disclosure of the legal basis for processing may be required, our legal bases for processing your personal information includes:
Performance of a contract with you when we provide and maintain our Site. When we process personal information solely to provide our services to you, this information is necessary to be able to provide our services. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to provide our services to you. With respect to certain courses and/or licenses, we may be required to disclose this information to certain governmental agencies.
Our legitimate interests in protecting our Site from abuse, fraud, or security risks, or in developing, improving, or promoting our Site, including when we train our models. This may include the processing of personal information to communicate adequately with you, to respond to your requests, and to tailor our marketing and sales activities to your interests.
Your consent when we ask for your consent to process your personal information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Compliance with our legal obligations when we use your personal information to comply with applicable law or when we protect our or our affiliates’, users’, or third parties’ rights, safety, and property.
In order to comply with applicable laws and regulations, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, or to process an opt-out request.
Data Transfers. Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for transferring Personal Information outside of certain countries. We will only transfer Personal Information pursuant to a legally valid transfer mechanism.
Data Protection Officer. You can contact our data protection officer at support@phonetic-designs.com, privacy@phonetic-designs.com in matters related to Personal Information processing.
If you are a Canadian Citizen, then, pursuant to Principle 9 of the Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, you have the right to request the existence, use and disclosure of your Personal Data and be given access to that information. You are further able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate. Specifically, you are entitled to obtain free of charge, information from us regarding whether or not we have any of your Personal Data, an account of the use that has been made of that information, and an account of the third parties to which it has been disclosed. Please submit any such request (“Canada Privacy Rights Request”) to any one of the following: By mail: Phonetic Designs, 2323 Ross Ave., Ste. 600, Dallas TX, 75201, Attn. Canada Privacy Agent, with a subject line of “Your Canada Privacy Rights”. By email: support@phonetic-designs.com, privacy@phonetic-designs.com, with a subject line of “Your Canada Privacy Rights – Attn. Canada Privacy Agent”.
For each Canada Privacy Rights Request, please state “Your Canada Privacy Rights” in the email or letter subject line, and clearly state the following in the body: (a) the nature of your request; (b) that the request is related to “Your Canada Privacy Rights;” (c) your name, street address, city, state, zip code and email address; and (d) whether you prefer to receive a response to your request by mail or email. If you send a Canada Privacy Rights Request by mail, then please do so by U.S. Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested to allow for confirmation of mailing, delivery and tracking. We will not accept a Canada Rights Request via telephone or fax; and are not responsible for a Canada Privacy Rights Request that is incomplete, incorrectly labeled or incorrectly sent. Finally, as explained further above, we do not authorize third parties to collect your personal information when you use the Site, except as expressly stated in this Privacy Policy. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for, and you hereby release us from, any and all liability which may arise from, such third parties’ unauthorized collection of your personal information.
The Site supports Global Privacy Control.
We regularly review and revise our Privacy Policy. We make changes to the Privacy Policy available on this page and note that the policy has been updated. If we make material changes to how we treat your personal information, we will notify you through a notice on our home page.
If any term or condition of this Privacy Policy is deemed invalid or unenforceable by a court of law with binding authority, then the remaining terms and conditions shall not be affected, and the court shall reform the invalidated or unenforceable term or condition to the maximum extent permitted under the law and consistent with the intent of this Privacy Policy.
Please direct any questions you may have about this Privacy Policy to support@phonetic-designs.com, privacy@phonetic-designs.com with a subject line of “Privacy Policy.” The foregoing contact information may change from time-to-time by supplementation, amendment, or modification of this Privacy Policy.
Richard Horne’s corporate headquarters are located at:
2323 Ross Ave., Ste. 600
Dallas, TX 75201
This Privacy Policy was last modified on July 1, 2024.
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