Privacy Policy

Leason Ellis LLP (“our” or “us”) respects your concerns about privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the Personal Information (as defined below) we collect through this website located at domain name leasonellis.com (“Website”) and other websites, applications or digital services on or to which this Privacy Policy is linked or referenced (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy also applies to our data collection practices conducted offline. However, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the following: (i) Information collected and used for employment-related purposes; and/or (ii) Information collected during our legal representation of a client, which is carried out in accordance with our client agreements and professional responsibilities.

Throughout this document, we will define the term “Personal Information” as meaning any data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person that is processed by us as described in this Privacy Policy when such information is protected as “personal data” or “personal information” or a similar term under applicable data protection laws. All other defined terms used in this Privacy Policy will have the meanings associated with them in our Terms.

Unless we notify you otherwise, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party website or service that you may access through the Services. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and made part of our Terms of Use (the “Terms”). Please read this Privacy Policy and our Terms carefully. When you submit or provide Personal Information to us, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

OVERVIEW OF PRIVACY POLICY

In this Privacy Policy, we describe the types of Personal Information we process through our Services, how we may use the information, how long we may keep the information, with whom we may share the information, and the choices available to you regarding the use of the information and the exercise of your rights. More information about your rights and how to exercise them, is set out in the “Your Rights and Choices” section. We also tell you how to contact us about our privacy practices. Below you will find a summary of the key topics addressed in this Privacy Policy. For more detailed information on how we process your information, please click on the headings or continue to read below.

Information We Collect
How We Use the Information We Collect
Disclosure of Your Information
Retention and Protection of Personal Information
Your Rights and Choices
Age Limitations
Updates to Our Privacy Policy
Contact Us

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PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: July 1, 2026

1. Information We Collect

Depending on your interactions with our Services, the following Personal Information is collected:

Information You Provide Directly

We collect Personal Information that you provide to us. For example, we may collect Personal Information when you contact us, request that we send you newsletters, fill out a form, or otherwise communicate with us.

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

Unique Identifiers that we can use to identify you as a unique individual, such as your name, email address, and telephone number.
Professional and Educational Information related to your occupation, such as your current employers, your job title, or other information about the organization with which you are affiliated.
Any other information you choose to provide.

Information We May Collect Automatically

In addition to the information you provide, we may automatically collect and generate information from and about you when you interact with our Services. We will collect:

Device information pertaining to the device through which you interact with our Services, such as device name, IMEI or other device identifier, device OS version, country, geolocation, language, IP address, user agent, browser type and version and settings of devices.
Log information, including usage data, such as URL, redirected URL, performance timing, referrer, network type, network info, charge status, web browser info, Cookies (as described below).
Geolocation Information, such as your region, country, or general geographic location as derived from your device data (such as your IP address). (We only collect this type of geolocation information if you permit the Services to access such information by enabling the Cookies).
Other information about your use of our Services, such as the websites you visit, typing patterns (autofill) and how you interact with content offered through our Services.
Some of the device information and interaction information may be used for technical analysis necessary to ensure the functionality of our Website and to protect our Services against unauthorized access. Any further analysis of data will only take place after you have given your consent.

We and our service providers, or third parties engaged on our behalf may use cookies and similar tracking technologies, as described below, to collect information from and store information on your device when you use, access, or otherwise interact with our Services:

Web Beacons. Pages of the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that provide us analytical information about how users interact with our Website, as well as other related Website statistics (i.e. recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies (or browser cookies). Cookies are small text files placed on the hard drive of your device to store information.
(collectively, “Cookies”)
We may use several types of Cookies for different purposes:
Strictly Necessary Cookies. Strictly Necessary Cookies help make the Website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the Website. The Website cannot function properly without these Cookies.
Preference Cookies. Preference Cookies enable the Website to remember information that changes the way the Website behaves or appears, like your preferred language or the region you are located in.
Statistic Cookies. Statistic Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the Website and other websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Marketing Cookies. Marketing Cookies are used to track Website visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. We do not use Marketing Cookies on the Website.
Some Cookies may remain “unclassified” while we are in the process of classifying such Cookies.

You may set most browsers to notify you when you receive Cookies, or you may choose to block Cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please be aware that some features of the Website may not function properly or may be slower if you refuse Cookies. Unless you have adjusted your Cookie settings as described in “Your Rights and Choices” to refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

As we continually enhance our Services and introduce new features, the types of Cookies we use may change periodically. To understand our current Cookie practices and manage your preferences, please always refer to the Cookies settings or other cookies setting on your browser or device. These settings provide the most up-to-date details on the Cookies active and how you can control them.

We do not track visitors over time and across third-party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Any third-party Cookies are subject to applicable third-party privacy policies.

Financial Information

If you make payments for use of the Services, we will not collect or otherwise process your financial information, such as credit card numbers or bank account numbers, that you provide directly to third-party payment platforms. These third parties have their own privacy and data collection practices, and we are not responsible for their independent policies, which we strongly suggest you carefully review.

Links to Other Websites, Devices, Apps and Features

Our Services may enable you to connect to other websites, devices, apps and other features, which may operate independently from us and may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you carefully review. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party services. To the extent any linked website, device, app or other feature is not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for its content, use or privacy practices. We strongly advise you to check the privacy policies of all third-party sites you visit to find out how they treat your Personal Information.

Other Information We Collect

We may also collect other information about you, your devices, or your use of our Services with your consent (where required by law).

2. How We Use the Information We Collect

Provide you with our Services, such as responding to your requests, questions and instructions made and given through our Services; providing legal and other Services.
Send you newsletters, legal updates, marketing communications, and other information or material that may interest you.
Expand and maintain our list of contacts.
Understand how people use our Services, including by generating and analyzing statistics.
Operate, evaluate and improve our Services, including developing new products and services, managing our communications, analyzing our Services, conducting market research, performing internal financial processes, performing data analytics, auditing and other internal functions.
For our business purposes, including internal administration, data analysis, and billing.
Advertise, provide, and assess the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, publications, and Services.
Protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other criminal activities, claims and other liabilities; prevent spam, fraud and abuse on the Services.

Monitor use of our Services and use your information to help us monitor, improve and protect our products, content, services and websites.
Prevent or address service errors, security, or technical issues.
Investigate potential violations of our Terms, verify your identity; and provide other customer service and support purposes.

Use as we believe reasonably necessary or appropriate to comply with our legal obligations, to respond to legal process or requests for information issued by government authorities or other third parties, or to protect your, our, or others’ rights.

We may use anonymous, de-identified, or aggregated information that does not reasonably identify you for any purpose, as permitted by applicable law.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell your Personal Information. We also do not share Personal Information that reasonably identifies you with any other third party entities for their independent use except when we have your permission, are doing so at your direction, as needed to comply with our legal obligations, as permitted by applicable law, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. We do not use your personal data to train large language models or other artificial intelligence tools.

We may disclose the Personal Information we collect to the following categories of recipients in furtherance of the purposes described above:

Service Providers. We may transfer or disclose your information to carefully selected companies that provide services on our behalf, such as mailing vendors, and payment processing companies, as needed for us to enable the correct functioning of the Services. These entities are limited by contractual provisions in their ability to use your information for purposes other than providing the relevant services.
Law Enforcement, Government Authorities, or Third Parties with Legal Rights: We may share information as may be permitted or required by laws of any jurisdiction that may apply to us, as provided for under contract, or as we deem reasonably necessary to provide legal services. In these circumstances, we strive to take reasonable efforts to notify you before we disclose information that may reasonably identify you or your organization, unless prior notice is prohibited by applicable law or is not possible or reasonably practicable in the circumstances.
Other Parties as Necessary to Protect Our Services. We may disclose your information to other parties to protect our rights, property, or safety, or, in compliance with data protection laws, the rights, property, or safety of us, business partners, or our customers.

Other Parties in Connection with Transactions. We may disclose your information to a third party as part of a merger or transfer, acquisition or sale, or in the event of bankruptcy.
Other Parties with Your Consent or on Your Request. In addition to the disclosures described in this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with third parties when you separately consent to or request such sharing.

We may share anonymous, de-identified, or aggregate information that cannot reasonably identify you with others for any purpose, as permitted by applicable law.

4. Retention and Protection of Personal Information

We deploy reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to comply with applicable legal requirements and safeguard the information that we collect. This includes, when required or appropriate and feasible, obtaining written assurances from third parties that may access your Personal Information that they will protect such information with safeguards designed to provide a level of protection equivalent to those adopted by us.

However, no information system can be 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. Moreover, we are not responsible for the security of information you transmit to us over networks that we do not control, including the Internet and wireless networks.

The Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States. We may store the information we collect in the United States or in other countries where we or our service providers have facilities. We take appropriate steps to ensure that we process and retain information in accordance with the following principles:

at least for the duration for which the information is used to provide you with our Services;
as required under law, a contract, or with regard to our statutory obligations (e.g., tax laws); or
only for as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, is processed, or longer if required under any contract, by applicable law, or, in anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated form, for statistical purposes, subject to appropriate safeguards.

5. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have a different scope of data privacy rights. Certain U.S. states have unique requirements regarding the disclosure of data practices, while other states offer extra personal data rights and protections. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, the states that have specific data privacy or disclosure laws are as follows: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia. For a current guide to state-specific data privacy laws, you can review regularly updated materials available here: https://iapp.org/resources/article/us-state-privacy-legislation-tracker/ (for information purposes only). If you are a resident of any of these states, you may have additional privacy rights available to you that are not expressly outlined in this document. This list of states with specific privacy laws is constantly changing, and we may not reflect the current list of states with such laws.

Residents of the states listed above may be entitled to the rights to:

Confirm whether we process your Personal Information.
Access and delete certain Personal Information (i.e., you can ask us for a copy of the Personal Information we have collected, and you can ask us to delete certain Personal Information).
Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Be informed about third parties with which your Personal Information has been shared.
Data portability (i.e., ask us to share (port) your Personal Information with another entity).
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
Opt-out of personal data processing for: (i) sales; (ii) targeted advertising (excluding Iowa); (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).

Request the review of decisions taken exclusively based on automated processing if these decisions could affect your rights under applicable data privacy laws.

However, these rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal Personal Information of another person, where they would infringe the rights of a third party (including our rights) or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. Certain state laws may not apply to our operations. We will inform you of relevant grounds and exemptions we rely upon when responding to any request you make.

If you choose to use the Services from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative.

Depending on your relationship with us, you may exercise your rights and choices in the following ways:

Marketing Communications. If you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can let us know by contacting us using the information available in the Contact Us section below. Our digital marketing communications provide unsubscribe or opt-out mechanisms that allow you to modify your communications preferences.
Cookies. When you first visit our Website, you will see a cookie banner that allows you to accept or decline cookies, other than necessary cookies. Further, each browser has its own cookie management system, as described in the “Help” menu of your browser, where you will be provided with all necessary information about how to set your preferences. You can also set your browser to accept or reject cookies on your device, either globally, or cookie by cookie.
All Services Users. Regardless of your location or type of communication , to exercise any of the rights described above, please contact us using the information specified in the “Contact Us” section below.

In certain circumstances, we may need to verify your identity prior to effectuating your request. To verify your identity, we may request that you provide the following information:

- Full Name;

- Email address;

- Postal address;

- Phone number;

- IP address; or

- Device identifier.

Please note that we may not be able to process your request if your designated agent and/or you do not provide us with the above information.

We strive to respond to most requests within 45 days of receipt, within any such shorter period is required by law, although some responses may take longer. In certain cases, such as in connection with legal exceptions, we may deny a request, though we will provide reasons for such denial.

If, after having contacted us, you believe that your rights regarding your data have not been respected, you may file a claim with your relevant local authority.

6. Age Limitations

Our Services are not designed or directed towards children. In connection with our Services, we do not knowingly collect or maintain Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to use our Services. If you are under 18, please do not attempt to register for our Services or provide us with any Personal Information. If we learn that a person under the age of 18 has provided us with any Personal Information, we will promptly delete such Personal Information. If you believe that a child under age 18 may have provided us with Personal Information, please contact us using the information specified in the “Contact Us” section below.

7. Updates to Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes in our Personal Information practices with respect to our Services, or changes in applicable law. We may post a notice on our Services to notify you in advance of material changes to our Privacy Policy and indicate in the notice when it was most recently updated.

8. Contact Us

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us at:

Email: privacy@leasonellis.com

Phone Number: +1 (914) 288-0022

Post Address:

Leason Ellis LLP

One North Lexington Avenue, Suite 1200

White Plains, New York 10601