Privacy Policy

This privacy notice explains the personal data Genovese Law processes, how Genovese Law processes it, and for what purposes. This notice applies to the interactions Genovese Law has with you and Genovese Law legal services and blogs. References to Genovese Law services in this notice include Genovese Law legal services and websites.

For French expatriates residing in the United States, please refer to our U.S. State Data Privacy Notice for additional information about the processing of your personal data, and your rights under applicable U.S. state data privacy laws. 


Personal data we collect


Genovese Law collects data from you, through our interactions with you and through our services for a variety of purposes described below, including operating effectively and providing you with the best experiences. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you sign up for Genovese Law legal services, create or modify your account with Genovese Law, register for a Genovese Law online meeting or event, upload documents to our secure client platform, or contact us for information. We get some of it by collecting data about your interactions, use, and experience with our services and communications.

We rely on a variety of legal reasons and permissions (sometimes called “legal bases”) to process data, including with your consent, a balancing of legitimate interests, necessity to enter into and perform contracts, and compliance with legal obligations, for a variety of purposes described below.

We also obtain data from third parties. We protect data obtained from third parties according to the practices described in this notice, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data. These third-party sources vary over time and include:

  • Opposing counsel(s) from which we receive document productions related to your case(s) with us.
  • Courts and officers of the courts that deliver orders and judgments related to your case(s) with us.
  • Communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to access your data on such third-party services or networks.
  • Judicial auxiliaries like notaries, bailiffs, experts, accountants and other professionals that help us process your case(s) and serve your best interests.
  • Publicly available sources, such as open public sector, academic, commercial data sets and other data sources.

You have choices when it comes to the technology you use and the data you share. When you are asked to provide personal data, you can decline. If you choose not to provide data required to operate and provide you with our services, online meetings or events, or blogs, you cannot use these services or features. Likewise, where we need to collect personal data by law or to enter into or carry out a contract with you, and you do not provide the data, we will not be able to enter into the engagement; or if this relates to an existing case(s) with you, we may have to suspend or cancel our services. We will notify you if this is the case at the time. Where providing the data is optional, and you choose not to share personal data, features like personalization that use the data will not work for you.

The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Genovese Law and the choices you make (including your privacy settings), the products and features you use, your location, and applicable law.

The data we collect can include the following:


Name and contact data. Your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.

Credentials. Passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.

Demographic data. Data about you such as your age, gender, marital status, birthplace and date of birth, nationality and preferred language.

Payment data. Data to process payments, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number) and the security code associated with your payment instrument.

Subscription data. Information about your case(s) or consulting engagement, and legal news services (blogs, podcasts, vlogs, etc.)

Interactions. Data about your use of Genovese Law services. In some cases, such as search queries, this is the data you provide in order to make use of our services. In other cases, such as error reports, this is data we generate. Other examples of interactions include:

  • Device and usage data. Data about your device and the product and features you use, including information about your hardware and software, how our services perform, as well as your settings. For example:
    • Payment and account history. Data about the fees paid or owed to us, and activities associated with your account.
    • Browse history. Data about the webpages you visit on our websites.
    • Troubleshooting and help data. Data you provide when you contact Genovese Law for assistance, such as the status of your case(s) or consulting engagement, and other details that help us help you. For example, contact or authentication data, the content of your chats and other communications with Genovese Law, data about the status of your case(s), and the information you use related to your help inquiry. When you contact us, phone conversations or chat sessions with our team members may be monitored and recorded (e.g. MS Teams or Zoom Workplace sessions)
    • Bot usage data. Interactions with bots and apps provided by third parties available through Genovese Law services.
  • Interests and favorites. Data about your interests and favorites, such as the sports teams you follow, the languages you prefer.
  • Searches and commands. Search queries and commands when you use Genovese Law services with search or interactions with a chat bot.
  • Images. Images and related information, such as picture metadata. For example, we collect a picture of yourself you provide when we open a case or engagement for you.
  • Contacts and relationships. Data about your contacts and relationships involved in your case(s) or consulting engagement.

Content. Content of your files and communications you input, upload, receive, create, and control. For example, if you upload a file using our secure Client platform, we need to collect the content of that file to display it to you and our team members. If you send us an email, we need to collect the content of that email to enable us to reply to it. Other content we collect when providing legal services to you include:

  • Communications, including audio, video, text (typed, inked, dictated, or otherwise), in a message, email, call, meeting request, or chat.
  • Photos, images, and other media or documents we store, retrieve, or otherwise process with our information systems.

Video or recordings. Recordings of online events or sessions using MS Teams or Zoom Workplace applications with Genovese Law.

Feedback and ratings. Information you provide to us and the content of messages you send to us, such as feedback, survey data, and legal service or blog reviews you write.

How we use personal data

Genovese Law uses the data we collect to provide you with dedicated, interactive legal support. In particular, we use your personal data to:

  • Provide our legal services, which include updating, securing, as well as providing information about your case(s) or consulting engagement to you and third parties directly involved. It also includes sharing data when it is required to carry out the transactions you request.
  • Improve and develop our services.
  • Personalize our services and make recommendations.

We also use the data to operate our business, which includes analyzing our performance, meeting our legal obligations, developing our workforce, and doing research.

Purposes and legal bases for processing

When we process personal data about you, we do so with your consent and/or as required to provide the legal services you use, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security and safety of our systems and our clients, or fulfill other legitimate interests of Genovese Law or third parties as described in this section and in the section of this privacy notice. Our bases for processing your personal data may vary depending on how and across what services we process your data. 

When we process personal data based on our or a third party’s legitimate interests, we consider and balance those interests against your rights and freedoms, and we will only process your personal data where the legitimate interests we have in processing are not outweighed by your interests.

When we transfer personal data from the European Economic Area, we do so based on a variety of legal mechanisms, as described in the section of this privacy notice.

More on the purposes of processing:

  • Provide our services. We use data to operate our services and provide you with rich, interactive experiences. For example, if you use our secure online document repository, we process the documents you upload to enable us to retrieve, forward, or otherwise process it in support of your case(s) or consulting engagement, at your direction as part of our legal services.
  • Transacting commerce. We use personal information data to carry out your transactions with us. For example, we process payment information to provide clients with legal services and subscriptions and use contact information to communicate with you and build your case(s) or provide personalized consulting services.
  • Legal compliance. We process data to comply with applicable laws. For example, we process contact information and credentials to help clients exercise their data protection rights.

Reasons we share personal data

We share your personal data with your consent or as necessary to provide any legal service you have requested or authorized. We will retain, access, transfer, disclose, and preserve your personal data, including your content (such as the content of the documents in support of your case or consulting engagement, when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to comply with applicable laws or respond to a valid legal process, including from courts or other government agencies.

How to access and control your personal data

You can also make choices about the collection and use of your personal data by Genovese Law. You can control your personal data that Genovese Law has obtained, and exercise your data protection rights, by contacting Genovese Law at the address in the How to contact us section or by using our web form.

You can access and control your personal data that Genovese Law has obtained with the secure portal or form(s) Genovese Law provides to you, which are described below, or by contacting Genovese Law directly at the address in the How to contact us section. For instance:

  • If Genovese Law obtained your consent to use your personal data, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
  • You can request access to, erasure of, and updates to your personal data.
  • If you’d like to port your data elsewhere, you can use tools Genovese Law provides to do so, or if none are available, you can contact Genovese Law for assistance.

You can also object to or restrict the use of your personal data by Genovese Law. You may have these rights under applicable laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but we offer them regardless of your location. In some cases, your ability to access or control your personal data will be limited, as required or permitted by applicable law.

You can access and control your personal data that Genovese Law has obtained from opposing party or during the course of a consulting engagement, and exercise your data protection rights by visiting the Genovese Law account website to access, edit, or remove the profile information and payment information in your Genovese Law account, change your password, or add security information.

If you want to access or control personal data processed by Genovese Law that is not available through the Genovese Law secure portal you use, you can always contact us at the address in the How to contact us section or by using our web form. We will respond to requests to control your personal data as required by applicable law.

Browser-based controls

When you use a browser, you can control your personal data using certain features. For example:

  • Cookie control. You can control the data stored by cookies and withdraw consent to cookies by using the browser-based cookie controls described in the Cookies section of this privacy notice.
  • Tracking protection. You can control the data third-party sites can collect about you using Tracking Protection in your browser or app. This feature will block third-party content, including cookies, from any site that is listed in a Tracking Protection List you add.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. This data often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well. Some cookies are placed by third parties acting on our behalf. We use cookies and similar technologies to store and honor your preferences and settings, enable you to sign-in, analyze how our services, and fulfill other legitimate purposes described below. Genovese Law websites also contain web beacons or other similar technologies, as described below.

Our use of cookies and similar technologies

Genovese Law uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, depending on the context or service, including:

  • Storing your preferences and settings. We use cookies to store your preferences and settings on your device, and to enhance your experiences. Saving your preferences with cookies prevents you from having to set your preferences repeatedly. We store your opt-out preference in a cookie on your device. Similarly, in scenarios where we obtain your consent to place cookies on your device, we store your choice in a cookie.
  • Sign-in and authentication. We use cookies to authenticate you. When you sign in to a website using your personal Genovese Law account, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page.
  • Storing information you provide to a website. We use cookies to remember information you share. When you provide information to Genovese Law, such as when you add documents on Genovese Law websites, we store some data in a cookie for the purpose of remembering the information.
  • Social media. Some of our websites include social media cookies, including those that enable users who are signed in to the social media service to share content via that service.
  • Feedback. Genovese Law uses cookies to enable you to provide feedback on a website.
  • Interest-based advertising. Genovese Law does not use interest-based advertising or identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that is most relevant to you.
  • Analytics. We use first- and third-party cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service and to develop other statistics about the operations of our products.
  • Performance. Genovese Law uses cookies to understand and improve how our websites perform. For example, we use cookies to gather data that helps with load balancing; this helps us keep our websites remaining and running.

Where required, we obtain your consent prior to placing or using optional cookies that are not (i) strictly necessary to provide the website; or (ii) for the purpose of facilitating communication. Please see the “How to Control Cookies” section below for more information.

Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below. This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate the primary purposes for which we typically set cookies. If you visit one of our websites, the site will set some or all of the following cookies:

  • _grow_session. Temporary cookie used by a website called "Grow" to maintain a user's session during their time on the site, meaning it automatically deletes when the user closes their browser and is primarily used to keep track of a user's activity within a single browsing session without requiring them to re-login on every page; essentially, it's a way to remember a user's login status while they are actively navigating the website.
  • grow_user_agent_id. Tracks and identifies a user's device or session tied to user activity or engagement. It is used for session management, personalization, analytics, and user retention.
  • clio_grow_support_id. Keeps track of a user's login status, so they don't have to re-authenticate every time they navigate to a new page. Allows Clio Manage, the cloud-based law practice management software used by Genovese Law, to manage user sessions and interactions with its support features.
  • __cf_bm. Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for GenoveseLaw.blog, in order to make valid reports on the use of our website.
  • segment_anonymous_id. used to anonymously track users as they interact with our websites. It helps collect data on user behavior without identifying the user personally. This cookie is used to tie together actions a user performs on our websites for purposes such as analytics and improving the user experience. It expires when the session ends, i.e., when the browser is closed, and doesn't store personal information but may associate actions with a unique anonymous ID.

Third Party Cookies

In addition to the cookies Genovese Law sets when you visit our websites, we may use cookies from third parties to enhance the services on our sites. Some third parties can also set cookies when you visit Genovese Law sites. For example:

  • Companies we hire to provide services on our behalf, such as site analytics, place cookies when you visit our sites.
  • Companies that deliver content on Genovese Law sites, such as videos or news, or ads, place cookies on their own.

These companies use the data they process in accordance with their privacy policies, which may enable these companies to collect and combine information about your activities across websites, apps, or online services.

The following types of third-party cookies may be used, depending on the context, service or product, as well as your settings and permissions:

  • Analytics cookies. We allow third parties to use analytics cookies to understand how you use our websites so we can make them better and the third parties can develop and improve their products, which they may use on websites that are not owned or operated by Genovese Law. For example, analytics cookies are used to gather information about the pages you visit and how many clicks you need to accomplish a task. These cookies are not used for advertising purposes.
  • Advertising cookies. We and third parties do not use advertising cookies.
  • Required cookies. We use required cookies to perform essential website functions. For example, to log in, save your language preferences, provide an online payment, improve performance, route traffic between web servers, detect the size of your screen, determine page load times, and measure audiences. These cookies are necessary for our websites to work.

Where required, we obtain your consent prior to placing or using optional cookies that are not (i) strictly necessary to provide the website; or (ii) for the purpose of facilitating communication.

For a list of the third parties that set cookies on our websites, including service providers acting on our behalf, please visit our third party cookie inventory. The third-party cookie inventory also includes links to those third parties’ websites or privacy notices. Please consult the third-party websites or privacy notices for more information on their privacy practices with respect to their cookies that may be set on our websites. On some of our websites, a list of third parties is available directly on the site. The third parties on these sites may not be included in the list on our third party cookie inventory.

How to control cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but provide controls that allow you to block or delete them. Please refer to your browser’s instructions.

As mentioned above, where required, we obtain your consent before placing or using optional cookies that are not (i) strictly necessary to provide the website; or (ii) for the purpose of facilitating communication. We separate these optional cookies by purpose, such as for social media purposes. You may consent to certain categories of optional cookies and not others. You also may adjust your choices by clicking “Manage cookies” in the footer of the website or through the settings made available on the website. Certain features of Genovese Law services depend on cookies. If you choose to block cookies, you cannot sign in or use some of those features, and preferences that are dependent on cookies will be lost. If you choose to delete cookies, any settings and preferences controlled by those cookies are deleted and will need to be recreated.

Our use of web beacons and analytics services

Some Genovese Law webpages contain electronic tags known as web beacons that we use to help deliver cookies on our websites and count users who have visited those websites. We also include web beacons or similar technologies in our electronic communications to determine whether you open and act on them.

Genovese Law websites sometimes contain web beacons or similar technologies from third-party analytics providers, which help us compile aggregated statistics about the effectiveness of our websites. These technologies enable the analytics providers to set or read their own cookies or other identifiers on your device, through which they can collect information about your online activities across applications, websites, or other products. However, we prohibit these analytics providers from using web beacons on our sites to collect or access information that directly identifies you (such as your name or email address). You can opt out of data collection or use by some of these analytics providers by visiting Google Analytics (which requires you to install a browser add-on).

Genovese Law account

With a Genovese Law account, you can sign into Genovese Law’ secure cloud-based portal. Personal data associated with your Genovese Law account includes credentials, name and contact data, payment data, device and usage data, your contacts, information about your activities, and your interests and favorites.

Signing into your Genovese Law account enables personalization, consistent experiences across services and devices, permits you to use cloud data storage, allows you to make payments using payment instruments stored in your Genovese Law account or its software providers, and enables other features. The data associated with your Genovese Law account, and how that data is used, depends on how you use the account.

  • Creating your Genovese Law account. When you create a personal Genovese Law account, you will be asked to provide certain personal information, and we will assign a unique ID number to identify your account and associated information.
  • Signing in to Genovese Law account. When you sign in to your Genovese Law account, we create a record of your sign-in, which includes the date and time, information about the product you signed in to, your sign-in name, the unique number assigned to your account, a unique identifier assigned to your device, your IP address, and your operating system and browser version.
  • Signing in to Genovese Law services. Signing in to your account enables you to access and use our secure cloud data storage, allows you to make payments using payment instruments stored in your Genovese Law account, and enables other enhanced features and settings. For example, when you sign in, Genovese Law makes information saved to your account available across your cases or engagements so important information and files are right where you need them. When you sign in to your account, you will stay signed in until you sign out.
  • Signing in to third-party products. If you sign in to a third-party service such as Zoom Workplace or Microsoft Teams with your Genovese Law account, you will share data with the third party in accordance with the third party’s privacy policy. The third party will also receive the version number assigned to your account (a new version number is assigned each time you change your sign-in data); and information that describes whether your account has been deactivated. If you share your profile data, the third party can display your name or user name and your profile photo (if you have added one to your profile) when you are signed in to that third-party product. If you chose to make payments to third-party merchants using your Genovese Law account, Genovese Law will pass information stored in your Genovese Law account to the third party or its vendors (e.g., payment processors) as necessary to process your payment and fulfill your order (such as name, credit card number, billing and shipping addresses, and relevant contact information). The third party can use or share the data it receives when you sign in or make a purchase according to its own practices and policies. You should carefully review the privacy notice for each third-party service you signed in to determine how it will use the data it collects.

Security of personal data

Genovese Law is committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal data you provide on computer systems that have limited access and are in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential data (such as a credit card number or password) over the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption. Genovese Law complies with applicable data protection laws, including applicable security breach notification laws.

Where we store and process personal data

Personal data collected by Genovese Law may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States, and in any other jurisdiction where Genovese Law or its service providers operate facilities such as Clio Manage, Microsoft OneDrive, or Dropbox, with major data centers in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Typically, the primary storage location is in the client’s region or in the United States, often with a backup to a data center in another region. The storage location(s) are chosen in order to operate and provide our services efficiently, improve performance, and create redundancies in order to protect the data in the event of an outage or other problem. We take steps to process the data that we collect under this privacy notice according to this notice’s provisions and the requirements of applicable law.

We may transfer personal data from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland to other countries, some of which have not yet been determined by the European Commission to have an adequate level of data protection. For example, their laws may not guarantee you the same rights, or there may not be a privacy supervisory authority there that is capable of addressing your complaints. When we engage in such transfers, we use a variety of legal mechanisms, including contracts such as the standard contractual clauses published by the European Commission under Commission Implementing Decision 2021/914, to help protect your rights and enable these protections to travel with your data. To learn more about the European Commission’s decisions on the adequacy of the protection of personal data in the countries where Genovese Law processes personal data, see this article on  the European Commission website.

Genovese Law uses Clio, a legal technology company headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, which offers law firms cloud-based software that handles various law practice management tasks including client intake, contact management, calendaring, document management, timekeeping, billing, and trust accounting. Clio states on their website that it complies with GDPR guidelines, which means it takes necessary steps to protect EU residents' data, but there is no explicit mention of specific compliance with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. However, as GDPR aligns with many principles of the DPF, it is likely that Clio's practices would largely meet the DPF requirements as well.

If you have a question or complaint related to participation by Genovese Law or its technology partners in the DPF Frameworks, we encourage you to contact us at the address in the How to contact us section or by using our web form.

Our retention of personal data

Genovese Law retains personal data for as long as necessary to provide the legal services or fulfill the advisory services you have requested, or for other legitimate purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. Because these needs can vary for different data types, the context of our interactions with you or your use of products, actual retention periods can vary significantly.

Other criteria used to determine the retention periods include:

  • Do clients provide, create, or maintain the data with the expectation we will retain it until they affirmatively remove it? Examples include documents you store in the cloud-based secure portal provided by Clio, or communications we keep on this platform. In such cases, we aim to maintain the data until the case or engagement closes, and actively delete it six months thereafter.
  • Is the personal data of a sensitive type? If so, a shortened retention time would generally be adopted.
  • Has the user provided consent for a longer retention period? If so, we will retain data in accordance with your consent.
  • Is Genovese Law subject to a legal, contractual, or similar obligation to retain or delete the data? Examples can include mandatory data retention laws in the applicable jurisdiction, government orders to preserve data relevant to an investigation, or data retained for the purposes of litigation. Conversely, if we are required by law to remove unlawful content, we will do so.

U.S. State Data Privacy

If you are a U.S. resident, we process your personal data in accordance with applicable U.S. state data privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This section of our privacy notice contains information required by the CCPA and other U.S. state data privacy laws and supplements our privacy notice.

Please note that rules implementing some of these laws have not yet been finalized. We will update our processes, disclosures, and this notice as these implementing rules are finalized, and as otherwise necessary.

Sale. We do not sell your personal data. So, we do not offer an opt-out to the sale of personal data.

Profiling.  We do not engage in “profiling” that utilizes your personal data for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.  So, we do not offer an opt-out for this type of profiling.

Share. We do not “share” your personal data, as defined under California and other applicable U.S. state laws, for personalized advertising purposes.

Rights. You have the right to (i) know what personal data we collect, use, disclose, “share”, and sell, (ii) delete your personal data, (iii) correct your personal data, (iv) restrict the use and disclosure of your sensitive data, (v) receive a copy of your personal data, and (vi) opt-out of “sharing” your personal data with third parties for personalized advertising purposes on third party sites. You may make these requests yourself or through an authorized agent. If you use an authorized agent, we shall provide your agent with detailed guidance on how to exercise your privacy rights.

If you have an additional request or questions about your rights, you may contact Genovese Law at the address in the How to contact us section or by using our web form. If you do not have an account, you may exercise your rights by contacting us as described above. To further protect your personal data, we may ask for additional information, such as your country of residence, email address, and phone number to validate your identity and request before honoring the request.

We do not use or disclose your sensitive data for purposes other than those listed below, without your consent, or as permitted or required under applicable laws. So, we do not offer an ability to limit the use of sensitive data.

If you have made a request to Genovese Law to know, delete, correct, or receive your personal information and believe your request was denied by Genovese Law, you can exercise your right to appeal the results of your request by contacting our privacy support team via our web form. If your appeal is unsuccessful and depending upon the state where you live, you may have the right to raise a concern or lodge a complaint with your state attorney general or government agency.

You have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment if you exercise your privacy rights. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Personal information processing. In the list below, we outline the categories of personal data we collect, the sources of the personal data, our purposes of processing, and the categories of third-party recipients with whom we provide the personal data. For a description of the data included in each category, please see the  Personal data we collect section. Please see our retention of personal data section for information on personal data retention criteria.

Categories of Personal Data

  • Name and contact data
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with our legal or engagement teams with whom we perform the services you requested or contracted for.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide our services; respond to client questions.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers.
  • Credentials
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with clients and users.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide our services; respond to client questions.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers.
  • Demographic data
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with clients and court filings.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide our services; respond to client questions.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers.
  • Payment data
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with clients and financial institutions.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Transact commerce; process transactions; accounting; fulfilling orders; providing our services; responding to client questions.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law’ service providers.
  • Subscription data
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with our blog, vlog, and podcast users; third-party storefronts and platforms on which our services are performed.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide, personalize, and activate our blogs, vlogs, and podcasts; client and user support; accounting
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers, and client or user-directed entities.
  • Interactions
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with clients including data Genovese Law generates through those interactions.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide and personalize our services; service improvement; client and user support.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers, and client or user-directed entities.
  • Content
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with clients and users.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide our services; client and user support.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers, and client or user-directed entities.
  • Video or recordings
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with clients and publicly available sources
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide our services; communication with client; client and user support.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers, and client or user-directed entities.
  • Feedback and ratings
    • Sources of personal data: Interactions with users
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide our products; product improvement; product development; client support; and help, secure, and troubleshoot
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers, and client or user-directed entities.

While the list above contains the primary sources and purposes of processing for each category of personal data, we also collect personal data from the sources listed in the Personal data we collect section or for Genovese Law services. Similarly, we process all categories of personal data for the purposes described in the How we use the personal data section, such as meeting our legal obligations.

Subject to your privacy settings, your consent, and depending on the services you use and your choices, we may collect, process, or disclose certain personal data that qualifies as “sensitive data” under applicable U.S. state data privacy laws. Sensitive data is a subset of personal data. In the list below, we outline the categories of sensitive data we collect, the sources of the sensitive data, our purposes of processing, and the categories of third-party recipients with whom we share the sensitive data. Please see the Personal data we collect section for more information about the sensitive data we may collect.

Categories of Sensitive Data

  • Account log-in, financial account, debit or credit card number, and the means to access the account (security or access code, password, credentials, etc.)
    • Sources of sensitive data: Interactions with clients and users.
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Provide the services and fulfill requested financial transactions.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers and payment processing providers.
  • Medical or mental health, sex life, or sexual orientation
    • Sources of sensitive data: Communications with clients
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Case-specific court documents and filings.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers, courts and process servers, parties’ counsels.
  • Contents of your mail, email, or text messages (where Genovese Law is not the intended recipient of the communication)
    • Sources of sensitive data: Users’ interactions with the products
    • Purposes of Processing (Collection and Disclosure to Third Parties): Case-specific court documents and filings.
    • Recipients: Genovese Law or its service providers, courts and process servers, parties’ counsels.

We do not use or disclose your sensitive data for purposes other than the following:

  • Perform or provide the services you reasonably expect.
  • Perform services on behalf of Genovese Law, such as maintaining accounts, providing client service, processing, or fulfilling court filings, verifying client information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytics, providing storage, and similar services.
  • Collect or process sensitive data where the collection or processing is not for inferring characteristics about the individual.
  • Any other activities in accordance with any future regulations that are issued pursuant to U.S. state data privacy laws.

De-Identified Data. In some situations, Genovese Law or its service providers may process de-identified data. Data is in this state when we are not able to link data to an individual to whom such data may relate without taking additional steps. In those instances, and unless allowed under applicable law, we will maintain such information in a de-identified state and will not try to re-identify the individual to whom the de-identified data relates.

Disclosures of personal data for business or commercial purposes. As indicated in the Do not share personal data section, we do not share personal data with third parties for commercial or advertising purposes.

Changes to this privacy notice

We update this privacy notice when necessary to provide greater transparency or in response to:

  • Feedback from client, regulators, industry, or other stakeholders.
  • Changes in our service offer.
  • Changes in our data processing activities or policies.

When we post changes to this notice, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the notice. If there are material changes to the notice, such as a change to the purposes of processing of personal data that is not consistent with the purpose for which it was originally collected, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes before they take effect or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy notice to learn how Genovese Law protects your information.

How to contact us

If you have a privacy concern, complaint, or question for the Genovese Law Data Protection Officer, please contact us by using our web form. We will respond to questions or concerns as required by law and within a period of no longer than 30 days. You can also raise a concern or lodge a complaint with a data protection authority or other privacy regulator or agency within your jurisdiction.

When Genovese Law is a controller, unless otherwise stated, our address is 40, Boulevard Victor Hugo, 06000 Nice (France), and 8950 Canby Avenue, Los Angeles 91325, (USA).

If you would like to exercise your rights under applicable U.S. state data privacy law, you may contact Genovese Law at the U.S. address listed above, use our web form, or send an email to dpo@genoveselaw.com.

Where French law applies, you can also send us specific instructions regarding the use of your personal data after your death, by using our web form.

If you have a technical or support question, please send an email to it@genoveselaw.com.

We offer various means for you to control your personal data that Genovese Law has obtained, and to exercise your data protection rights. You can do so by contacting Genovese Law on our web form, or send an email directly to dpo@genoveselaw.com for additional details.