INTRODUCTION

LaFleur & Laborde is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information that includes information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the firm. LaFleur & Laborde complies with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel. This Privacy Notice tells you how we collect, use, share, and protect non-public information (NPI). We will not collect, use or share your personal information except as described in this Privacy Notice.  We do not use techniques that collect personal information without your knowledge or sell email addresses or provide any personal information submitted through our website to any third parties for marketing purposes.

LaFleur & Laborde does not use:

Facebook.com: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy

YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy 

This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time so that we can keep you updated as to our data privacy practices. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices the Privacy Notice will be updated by posting the revised version of this Notice on the LaFleur & Laborde website under the Privacy Notice link on the website homepage. The updated Privacy Notice is effective as of the date listed at the top of this document. By accessing any of our services, websites, client portals or mobile applications after this date you agree to the terms of our Privacy Notice as of the last effective date; however, we will honor the terms that were in effect when we first gathered data from you.

Throughout this notice, the terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to us while the term “you” may refer to prospective insureds of title, as well as current and former insureds, claimants, and beneficiaries. This notice is given by LaFleur & Laborde and Louisiana Lagniappe Title Company.

ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT

We treat with the utmost respect and in accordance with applicable privacy laws and professional rules of conduct non-public information (NPI) that you provide to us directly or about which we come to learn indirectly during our representation of you.  This Statement is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.

COLLECTION OF NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION

The firm collects non-public information in the course of providing legal services to clients.  We may use that information when in the legitimate interest of the firm or its clients to do so for the following purposes:

• to contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries

• to provide you access to communication and file serving platforms used by the firm with its potential clients and actual clients

• to conduct firm recruiting and selection process for attorneys and staff

• to provide you with legal services and the administer the matters in which we have been retained as your counsel

• to contact you regarding legal or law firm developments that may be of interest to you and a easy process to unsubscribe to any of those communications

• to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds

The firm's website hosting company may record your visit to our firm website.  The hosting company logs that information, including the name of each webpage accessed during that visit, the date and time of access, the data volume transferred, the operating system used by you, the referring URL, your IP address and the access requesting internet provider. We consent to the collection of that information in order to ensure website security.

If you are prospective client or client that submits information through the firm's Client Portal or Upload Portal, or other forms used by the firm, on our website or via a direct hyperlink, we may collect your name, company, email address, phone number, and other information you choose to voluntarily provide.  We collect this information in order to process and respond to your inquiries and to ensure security of the service.

CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY, AND RETENTION OF DATA

Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.

We maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of all non-public information. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.  We require consultants, suppliers and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, where applicable.

We may retain information provided by you, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Statement and in our applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.

DISCLOSURE OF NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION

We do not disclose any non-public information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in those limited circumstances when sharing that information . Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.

CHANGES

We reserve the right to change this Statement at any time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our Internet Services, the firm will post it on this website and relevant Internet Services.

CONTACT INFORMATION

The firm maintains a Privacy Program with a designated member of the firm knowledgeable in data protection to implement systems and protocols that ensure and promote compliance with privacy and data protection principles. 

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Notice or practices, please contact us at: admin@lalalawfirm.com or send your written request to: LaFleur & Laborde, 612 Andrew Higgins Blvd., Ste. 3001, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70130.