ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF USE
Please read through these Terms of Use carefully. By
becoming a Confer Legal Ops chair, member or speaker and/or accessing or
using any of Confer Legal Ops’s public, private and/or restricted-use
Web site including but not limited to: www.conferlegalops.com (“Site“),
or by otherwise accessing any content found on the Site or services
available through the Site (“Site Services“), you are deemed to (i) have
entered into an agreement with Confer Legal Ops; (ii) have represented
that you are an adult in your country of residence and are at least 18 years
old; (iii) have represented that you have the legal authority to accept these
Terms of Use; and (iv) have agreed to be bound by the terms set out below. If
you do not agree with the Terms of Use, you are not authorized to, and may not,
use or access any of the Site.
The Site is owned and operated by Confer Legal Ops.
Confer Legal Ops reserves the right to modify the Terms of Use from time
to time without notice to you. You acknowledge and agree that it is your
responsibility to review the Terms of Use periodically and to be aware of any
modifications. Your continued use of the Site and/or Site Services,
after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgement of the modified
Terms of Use, and your agreement to abide and be bound by the modified Terms of
Use. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the Site or any products,
services, content, or other information available on or through the Site,
is to discontinue using the Site.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION
Copyright:
The contents and design of the Site and any material
electronically provided to you or otherwise supplied to you in conjunction with
your Confer Legal Ops membership and/or the Site (such contents,
design and materials being collectively referred to as the “Content“), are
protected by the United States Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, and the
copyright laws of other countries, as well as other intellectual and
proprietary laws, and are owned by Confer Legal Ops, the applicable
expert resource speakers, the applicable authors of the content and/or the
other contributors to Confer Legal Ops, including contributors to the Site.
The software which operates the Site is proprietary software and you may
not use it except as expressly allowed under these Terms of Use. You may not
copy, reverse engineer, modify or otherwise create derivative works from the
software.
Trademarks:
You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or
reproduce any trademarks (including, without limitation, the “Confer Legal
Ops®” name and logo, or other trade names found in the Content, including
those appearing on the Site) for any reason without written permission
from Confer Legal Ops or the identified owner.
Reporting Violations:
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, 17
U.S.C. 512(c)(2) (the “DMCA“), Confer Legal Ops’s designated agent for
notice of alleged copyright infringement in connection with the Site is: Alicia
Mangold, Manager, Confer Legal Ops, LLC, Email address: [email protected].
To file a notice of infringement with Confer Legal Ops, the requirements
specified in Title II of the DMCA must be fulfilled. The text of this statute
can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office web site, located at
https://www.copyright.gov. If you believe in good faith that a notice of
copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against you, the DMCA permits you
to send Confer Legal Ops a counter-notice. Please consult your legal
advisor before filing a notice or counter-notice. Also, be aware that there can
be penalties for false claims under the DMCA.
CONDUCT; USE OF CONTENT
Limited License to User
Subject to the Terms of Use and to the payment of any
applicable fees specified by Confer Legal Ops, Confer Legal Ops
grants you a limited, revocable, personal, nontransferable, non-sublicensable,
nonexclusive license to use the Content. You may retrieve and display the
Content on a computer screen, print the Content on paper, distribute copies of
the Content within your company or to other active members of the Confer
Legal Ops community and store the Content in electronic form on your
computer for your personal use. As a condition of your use of any of the Site
or Site Services, you warrant to Confer Legal Ops that you will not use
the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the Terms of
Use. Except as expressly set out above, you may not: (a) reproduce, modify,
distribute or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content, (b) reproduce
or store in or transmit to any other Web site, newsgroup, mailing list,
electronic bulletin board, server or other storage device connected to a
network, or regularly or systematically store in electronic or print form, all
or any part of the Content, (c) modify, publish, transmit, participate in the
transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute,
perform, display, or in any way exploit all or any part of the Content
(including use as part of any library, archive or similar service) without the
prior written consent of Confer Legal Ops, (d) remove the copyright or
trade mark notice from any versions or reproductions of the Content made under
these Terms of Use, (e) collect account information for the benefit of another
party, (f) use any meta tags or any other ‘hidden text’ utilizing any Confer
Legal Ops trademarks or Content without the express written consent of Confer
Legal Ops, (g) use Confer Legal Ops’s name in any way in any domain
name or URL, or (h) use software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data
gathering and extraction tools, or take any other action that may impose an
unreasonable burden or load on our networks or infrastructure. Any other use of
the Content or Site not specifically permitted above is expressly
prohibited. Requests for permission for other uses may be sent to Confer
Legal Ops, LLC, at [email protected]
Confer Legal Ops hopes and believes that the Content
will be helpful, but it should not be construed as legal, accounting, tax or
other professional advice on any subject matter. Confer Legal Ops has
endeavored to comply with legal and ethical requirements known to the Confer
Legal Ops personnel who compiled the Site, but Confer Legal Ops
is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, tax or other professional
services, and availability or use of the Content is not intended to create, and
does not create, any attorney-client, accountant-client or other professional
services relationship. Use of the Content is not an adequate substitute for
obtaining legal, accounting, tax or other professional advice from a qualified
and licensed (if applicable) provider in your jurisdiction. You agree you will
not act or refrain from acting based on any of the Content without first
seeking the services of a qualified professional.
User Content and Submissions
Subject to the rights and licenses you grant to Confer
Legal Ops under these Terms of Use, you retain all rights to the ownership,
copyrights and use of all content, media, suggestions, comments, ideas, notes,
concepts, works, designs, information or other materials provided or uploaded
by you to the Site, or otherwise voluntarily submitted to Confer
Legal Ops via the Site (collectively, your “User Submissions“). You
understand that Confer Legal Ops cannot guarantee, and will not be
subject to any obligation, whether of attribution or otherwise, regarding User
Submissions and will not be liable for any use, misuse, infringement or
disclosure of any User Submissions by any third party. You shall be solely
responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or
publishing them on the Site or otherwise.
User Grant of Licenses to Confer Legal Ops
You affirm, represent and warrant that you own or have the
necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish and disclose
your User Submissions. You own all User Submissions, and other information that
you upload to Confer Legal Ops private member platforms. Confer Legal
Ops does not claim any ownership rights in User Submissions. After posting
User Submissions, subject to the licenses granted herein, you continue to
retain any ownership rights you have to User Submissions, and you continue to
have the right to use and license User Submissions in any legally permissible
way you choose. The information that you upload to any Confer Legal Ops
private member platform needs to comply with the terms of this Agreement. At
any point, you can remove User Submissions and Confer Legal Ops only
retains any license rights set forth herein to maintain content in private
areas where you have posted it.
You hereby grant Confer Legal Ops, during the course
of your usage of the Confer Legal Ops private member platforms, a
nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, and transferable right and license to
(i) use, access, store, cache, and privately display to users of Confer
Legal Ops private member platforms User Submissions (a) for the purpose of
operating and making User Submissions available on Confer Legal Ops
private member platforms or (b) for our internal business purposes so that we
may derive metrics and analytics relating to User Submissions; and (ii)
disclose any such metrics and analytics regarding User Submissions for
marketing and business development purposes. This license will terminate at the
time you remove User Submissions from the Confer Legal Ops private
member platforms. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree that (1) User
Submissions you remove may persist for a reasonable amount of time in back-up
copies (but these copies will not be available to others) and (2) Confer
Legal Ops cannot control User Submissions that have been shared with others
that have not deleted them and that the license for that information is
perpetual.
You further acknowledge that Confer Legal Ops is
under no obligation to post, display or otherwise use any User Submission. You
further acknowledge that Confer Legal Ops has no obligation whatsoever
to pay you any royalty or other compensation from the use or display of your
User Submission or otherwise from the exercise of Confer Legal Ops’s
rights granted under these Terms of Use. You hereby agree not to instigate,
support, maintain, or authorize any action, claim, or lawsuit against Confer
Legal Ops or its owners/operators, affiliates, licensees, licensors, and/or
any other person, on the grounds that any use of a User Submission infringes
any of your rights as creator of the User Submission, including, without
limitation, trademark rights, copyrights, publicity rights, privacy rights, and
moral rights. However, Confer Legal Ops will not share information
attributable to you individually with any third parties outside the Confer
Legal Ops community without your express written consent.
You should be aware that Confer Legal Ops is not
required and may not keep back-up copies of User Submissions. Confer Legal
Ops makes no guarantee that User Submissions will be safely stored and you
should independently back-up and archive your User Submissions.
Recorded Content
Confer Legal Ops may record the audiovisual content
of Speaker workshops, conferences, Confer Legal Ops group meetings or
Peer Advisory Sessions for internal purposes or use within the Confer Legal
Ops community, or may receive such content from its Speakers, Chairs and
members for sharing within the Confer Legal Ops community. However, Confer
Legal Ops will not share recordings of you or information attributable to
you with any third parties outside the Confer Legal Ops community
without your express written consent. You agree that Confer Legal Ops
may use, distribute, publish, create derivative works from, or commercialize
aggregated, non-personally identifiable information derived from the recorded
content in order to develop statistical or educational materials for the
benefit of Confer Legal Ops’s customers and vendors. Please see our
Privacy Policy for more information on information collection and disclosure.
User Representations
You understand that, by submitting a User Submission, you
represent, acknowledge and agree that:
You have read, fully understand and agree to these Terms of
Use and appreciate the nature, extent and consequences of such Terms of Use,
including with respect to the licenses granted herein;
To the best of your knowledge, your User Submissions
represent your own original work and Confer Legal Ops’s publication
and/or use of your User Submissions will not infringe upon any other
individual’s or entity’s rights;
Confer Legal Ops does not pre-screen User Submissions
and you are solely responsible for the content of your User Submissions and the
consequences of posting or publishing them on the Site, including but
not limited to any injury, damage or liability resulting therefrom;
You understand that Confer Legal Ops is not
responsible for, and cannot control, any actions taken by other users or
members of the Confer Legal Ops community in respect of your User
Submissions, you accept responsibility for posting User Submissions where
others may view them, and you acknowledge that Confer Legal Ops
recommends that you do not submit any User Submissions that would reasonably be
considered to contain trade secrets or insider information, or that would
otherwise subject you or your company to any liability or losses;
You understand that Confer Legal Ops has no
obligation, either express or implied, to develop or use your User Submissions
and that no compensation is due to you or anyone else for any inadvertent or
intentional use of those User Submissions, related User Submissions or any
content or derivative work that is derived from your User Submissions;
Confer Legal Ops is not obligated to provide any
justification for removing or deleting any User Submissions or to reveal Confer
Legal Ops’s activities that are related to any submitted User Submissions;
Your submission of User Submissions to Confer Legal Ops
is entirely voluntary;
Confer Legal Ops may, directly or indirectly, (i) be
developing content, suggestions, ideas, notes, concepts, information or other
materials that are the same or substantially similar to the User Submissions,
or (ii) already have knowledge of such content, suggestions, ideas, notes,
concepts, information or other materials from other sources;
Except to the extent that these Terms of Use are superseded
by a separate agreement in writing executed by you and Confer Legal Ops,
you hereby irrevocably release and forever discharge Confer Legal Ops
and its affiliates and subsidiaries from any and all actions, causes of
actions, claims, damages, liabilities and demands, whether absolute or
contingent and of any nature whatsoever, which you now have or hereafter can,
shall or may have against Confer Legal Ops and its affiliates, licensees
and subsidiaries or their respective successors and assigns with respect to the
User Submissions, including without limitation concerning the direct or
indirect use, publication, commercialization or distribution the User Submissions;;
Confer Legal Ops has the right (but not the obligation) to monitor the Site and each User Submission; to alter or remove any User Submission at any time; to disclose any User Submission and the circumstances surrounding its transmission to any third party or governmental or regulatory entity in order to operate the Site properly; to protect ourselves, our sponsors and our users and visitors; and to comply with legal
obligations or governmental requests.
User Prohibitions
You are solely responsible for the content of your User
Submissions. You agree you will not:
Post, link to, publish or otherwise submit any User Submissions or materials that do not conform to these Terms of Use, including without limitation, those that:
are unlawful, obscene, hateful, defamatory, libelous,
threatening, fraudulent, abusive, pornographic, sexually explicit, harassing or
racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive;
encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal
offense, or do or could give rise to civil liability or violate any law, rule
or regulation, or are otherwise objectionable;
are intended to victimize, harass, degrade or intimidate an
individual or group of individuals on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity,
gender, race, religion or sexual orientation;
comprise non-public or insider information about companies,
or are otherwise confidential or private;
contain third party copyrighted material, or material that
is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission
from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled
to post the material and to grant to Confer Legal Ops all of the license
rights granted herein;
comprise an advertisement, solicitation, pyramid scheme,
firm offer to invest or other unsolicited commercial communication (except as
otherwise expressly permitted by Confer Legal Ops in writing); or
particular security or which otherwise have the purpose of affecting the price
or value of any security;
Disguise or attempt to disguise the true origin of any User
Submissions;
Impersonate any person or entity (including, without
limitation, Confer Legal Ops staff or other members of the Confer
Legal Ops community) or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or
entity;
Knowingly post or transmit any User Submissions that contain
software viruses, files, code or other harmful components designed to
interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the Site, the Content
or any Confer Legal Ops computer software, systems or equipment;
Collect or store other users’ personal data;
Restrict or inhibit any other user from using the Site,
Site Services, Content or Online Communities;
Upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any material that
infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual
property right, privacy right, or publicity right of any person or entity;
Upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or
unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” chain letters, or
any other potentially objectionable form of unsolicited communication,
including without limitation, via initiation or perpetuation of “SPAM,” or to
newsgroups, bulletin boards, or users that have requested that messages not be
sent to them;
Upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any material that
you do not intend to disclose to all recipients of your transmission, including
users who have access to the areas of the Site in which your User
Submission is posted;
Use the Site for any purpose or in any manner that
violates any local, state, or federal law or regulation, or any applicable laws
or regulations of any foreign government; or
Upload, post, email or otherwise transmit without
authorization any material that would reasonably be considered to contain
confidential or private information concerning any third party person or
entity, including without limitation, personal (i.e., non-business) phone
number(s) or addresses, account numbers, social security numbers, passwords or
other similar information.
Confer Legal Ops reserves the right to review, edit
and remove your User Submissions in order to ensure compliance with these Terms
of Use and our Privacy Policy. It is not possible or practicable for Confer
Legal Ops to effectively monitor User Submissions, including with respect
to infringement of third party rights. If you believe that a User Submission
infringes your legal rights, you should notify Confer Legal Ops
immediately. If notified by a user of a User Submission that allegedly does not
conform to these Terms of Use, Confer Legal Ops may investigate the
allegation and determine in good faith and in its sole discretion whether to
remove or modify the User Submission.
Confer Legal Ops neither endorses nor is responsible
for any User Submissions, or for any opinion, advice, recommendation,
information or other utterance made or displayed therein or otherwise posted on
the Site or Online Communities by third parties, whether such third
parties are visitors to the Site, members of the Confer Legal Ops
community or others. Confer Legal Ops expressly disclaims any and all
liability in connection with any User Submissions. The opinions expressed in
any User Submission reflect solely the opinions of the user submitting such
User Submission and do not reflect the opinions or views of Confer Legal Ops.
You should not rely on User Submissions in making (or refraining from making)
any specific investment, business or other decisions.
Confer Legal Ops cannot ensure that User Submissions
are in compliance with the Terms of Use. You understand that when using the Site
you will be exposed to User Submissions from a variety of sources, and that Confer
Legal Ops cannot guarantee, and is not responsible for, the accuracy,
integrity, quality, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights or
protections of or relating to such User Submissions. You further understand and
acknowledge that you may be exposed to User Submissions that are inaccurate,
offensive, indecent, objectionable, obscene, threatening, harassing or that
otherwise violate these Terms of Use, and you agree to waive, and hereby do
waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against Confer
Legal Ops with respect thereto.
ONLINE COMMUNITIES
Our Site may include discussion groups, blogs, chats
and other areas that allow uploading of Content and/or interaction between
members of the Confer Legal Ops community (each, an “Online Community“).
While Confer Legal Ops does not control or monitor the User Submissions
posted to Online Communities, it reserves the right (which it may exercise at
its sole discretion without notice) to delete, move or edit the User
Submissions and to terminate your access to and use of the Online Communities
in the event your User Submissions violate the Terms of Use, including the User
Representations above. Confer Legal Ops has no obligation to review or
monitor the Online Communities or User Submissions, and is not responsible for
such information, including any advice or suggestions made by members of the Confer
Legal Ops community, including Confer Legal Ops Chairs™ acting in
their independent contractor capacity.
Certain Online Communities have their own community
guidelines or standards which govern User Submissions and other content posted
or otherwise published in these Online Communities. Community guidelines or
standards applicable to an Online Community can be located in the area within a
Site where the Online Communities are accessed. You are responsible for
understanding and following any applicable community guidelines or standards.
Confer Legal Ops may modify the rules related to
Online Communities at any time without prior notice to you.
By submitting User Submissions to any Online Community you
agree to indemnify and hold harmless Confer Legal Ops from all claims,
costs and expenses (including legal expenses) arising out of any such User
Submissions posted or published by you that are in breach of these Terms of
Use. Your use of an Online Community is at your own initiative and risk. The
opinions expressed via User Submissions in the Online Communities reflect
solely the opinion(s) of the participants and do not reflect the opinion(s) or
view(s) of Confer Legal Ops.
THIRD PARTY TRANSACTIONS
You may use the Site to purchase products or services
from Confer Legal Ops’s third party partners. In that event, your
contract for such products will be with the third party partner and not with Confer
Legal Ops. You acknowledge and agree that Confer Legal Ops has no
responsibility or liability in connection with any such products or services.
Descriptions or images of, or references to, products or services on the Site
do not imply Confer Legal Ops’s endorsement of such products or
services.
TERM AND TERMINATION
Confer Legal Ops may, in its discretion, terminate or
suspend your access to all or part of the Site (including any right to
access and use the Content). Confer Legal Ops reserves the right to
refuse to offer access to the Site and/or Content to anyone at anytime
without notice.
The rights of termination are in addition to all other
rights or remedies of Confer Legal Ops provided in these Terms of Use or
by law.
If you terminate your account, we will have no obligation to
refund you any fees you may have paid except as may be required by applicable
law.
CHANGES TO THE SITE
Confer Legal Ops reserves the right, in its
discretion, to suspend, change, modify, add or remove portions of the Content
available on the Site at any time. Confer Legal Ops reserves the
right to add to or change the Site or cease offering the Site at
any time and without liability.
USER RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCOUNT INFORMATION
In order to access certain Site available only to
members of the Confer Legal Ops community (including Confer Legal Ops
members, chairs, speakers, Confer Legal Ops employees and certain
partners or service providers) (each, a “Member Site“), you will require a
username, password, and/or other security-related access information
(collectively, “Account Information“). You are solely responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of, and ensuring that proper security
precautions are taken with respect to your Account Information. You are also
responsible for all unauthorized access, use or misuse of the Site, Site
Services and/or Content due to your direction or lack of direction, control,
lack of care in protecting Account Information, or failure to comply with the
Terms of Use. Each registration is for a single user only; Confer Legal Ops
does not permit access through a single username and password being made
available to multiple users on a network. You may not transfer or share your
Account Information with anyone or permit others to use your Account
Information to access or use the Site. You agree to (a) immediately
notify Confer Legal Ops of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of any
Account Information or any other breach of security pertaining to the Site,
and (b) ensure that your complete registration information, including your
email address and personal contact information, is up to date. Confer Legal
Ops cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your
or any third party’s failure to comply with this section. Confer Legal Ops
reserves the right to monitor and record activity on the Site, including
access to the Content for the purposes of confirming your compliance with the
Terms of Use, and to ensure proper site operation and performance. We also
reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to the Site
without notice or further obligation to you if, in our sole discretion, we
believe you are in violation of this section or other provisions of the Terms
of Use.
CONFIDENTIALITY PLEDGE AND STANDARDS
All members of the Confer Legal Ops community
(including Confer Legal Ops members, chairs, speakers, Confer Legal
Ops employees and certain partners or service providers) who access any
Member Site agree to abide by the duties and obligations set out in Confer
Legal Ops’s Confidentiality Pledge and Standards, as may be updated by Confer
Legal Ops from time to time, the latest version of which is available at
https://www.Confer Legal Ops.com/about/confidentiality-pledge/.
PRIVACY POLICY
The information that you provide about yourself to Confer
Legal Ops will only be used in accordance with Confer Legal Ops’s
Privacy Policy Statement, as may be updated by Confer Legal Ops from
time to time, the latest version of which is available at https://www.Confer
Legal Ops.com/about/privacy-policy/.
OTHER TERMS
International Use
Although the Site may be accessible worldwide, we
make no representation that the Site or their Content are appropriate or
available for use in locations outside the United States, and accessing them
from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who
choose to access the Site from international locations do so at their
own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.
Any offer of any product, service, and/or information made in connection with
the Site is void where prohibited.
No Warranty
CONFER LEGAL OPS MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, RELATING TO THE CONTENT, THE SITE, THE SITE SERVICES, THE
SOFTWARE OR ANY PRODUCTS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE, WHICH ARE PROVIDED
“AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK,
AND YOU, AND NOT CONFER LEGAL OPS, ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ANY
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN THE EVENT OF ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE
ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE SITE OR THEIR CONTENT. CONFER LEGAL OPS
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY,
TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. CONFER LEGAL OPS DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE
ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR TIMELINESS OF THE CONTENT OR SITE SERVICES, THAT THE
FUNCTIONS OR CONTENT CONTAINED IN THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR
ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SITE OR RELATED
SYSTEMS ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES.
CONFER LEGAL OPS MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT YOUR USE OF THE CONTENT WILL
NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY
FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN SUCH CONTENT. NO VERBAL OR WRITTEN REPRESENTATIONS,
INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY CONFER LEGAL OPS OR ITS AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE OR EXPAND ANY WARRANTY.
Limitation & Disclaimer of Liability
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SECURITY, PRIVACY AND
CONFIDENTIALITY RISKS INHERENT IN ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS AND ASSOCIATED
TECHNOLOGY. YOU AGREE THAT CONFER LEGAL OPS WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR
LIABLE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, FOR ANY (a) ACCESS DELAYS OR ACCESS
INTERRUPTIONS TO THE SITE; (b) DATA NONDELIVERY, MISDELIVERY,
CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION OR OTHER MODIFICATION; (c) LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND
INCURRED AS A RESULT OF DEALINGS WITH OR THE PRESENCE OF OFF-SITE LINKS ON THE SITE;
(d) COMPUTER VIRUSES, SYSTEM FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION THAT MAY OCCUR IN
CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING DURING HYPERLINK TO OR
FROM THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE; (e) DECISIONS MADE OR ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE USER OR A
THIRD PARTY IN RELIANCE ON THE SITE OR CONTENT; OR (f) EVENTS BEYOND OUR
REASONABLE CONTROL.
YOU AGREE THAT IF YOU SUFFER ANY INJURY ARISING OUT OF ANY
USER SUBMISSION, YOU WILL SEEK RELIEF DIRECTLY FROM THE INJURING USER AND THAT CONFER
LEGAL OPS’S RESPONSIBILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO REMOVING THE INJURIOUS
POSTING OR PORTION THEREOF FROM THE SITE(S) UPON NOTICE FROM THE INJURED PARTY.
IN NO EVENT WILL ANY LIABILITY OF CONFER LEGAL OPS,
ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSEES TO YOU (AND/OR ANY THIRD PARTY) ARISING
OUT OF ANY LEGAL CLAIM (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) IN ANY WAY
CONNECTED WITH THE SITE, CONTENT, SITE SERVICES OR BREACH OF THESE TERMS
OF USE EXCEED THE AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID BY YOU TO CONFER LEGAL OPS,
DURING THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING THE CLAIM, IN RESPECT OF THE PARTICULAR
SITE SERVICE TO WHICH THE CLAIM RELATES OR BY WAY OF MEMBERSHIP DUES.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL CONFER
LEGAL OPS, ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, REPRESENTATIVES OR SUPPLIERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM THE USE OF (OR FAILURE TO USE) OR RELIANCE ON THE
SITE OR SITE SERVICES, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF CONFER LEGAL OPS HAS
BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THAT SUCH DAMAGES MAY ARISE. THE LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY SET FORTH ABOVE IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN CONFER
LEGAL OPS AND YOU. NEITHER THE SITE NOR THE CONTENT WOULD BE
PROVIDED ABSENT SUCH LIMITATIONS.
Indemnification
You agree you will indemnify and hold Confer Legal Ops,
its affiliates, licensees, licensors, content providers, service providers,
employees, agents, officers, directors, and contractors (the “Indemnified
Parties“) harmless for any losses, claims, judgments, expenses, damages, or
costs, including reasonable legal fees, resulting from any breach of the Terms
of Use by you, including (a) any use of Content other than as expressly
authorized in the Terms of Use, or (b) any use of software robots, spiders,
crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or any other action
you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our systems. You agree
that the Indemnified Parties will have no liability in connection with any such
breach or unauthorized use. You will also indemnify and hold the Indemnified
Parties harmless from and against any claims brought by third parties arising
out of your use of Site, Site Services or Content.
Force Majeure
Confer Legal Ops, its affiliates and its information
providers will not be liable or deemed to be in default for any delay or
failure in performance or interruption of the delivery of the Content or Site
Services resulting directly or indirectly from any cause or circumstance beyond
its or their reasonable control, including but not limited to failure of
electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other
interconnect problems, computer viruses, unauthorized access, theft, operator
errors, severe weather, earthquakes, fire, flood or other natural disasters,
strikes or other labor problems, wars, civil unrest, acts of terrorism or
governmental restrictions.
Changes to these Terms
Confer Legal Ops may, in its discretion, modify or
update these Terms of Use (including in relation to your use of the Site,
Site Services and/or the Content) or change the fees or charges for use of the Site.
Any changes to the Terms of Use will be effective upon the publication of
revised Terms of Use to the applicable Site(s). If you use the Site
after Confer Legal Ops has published or notified you of the changes, you
are agreeing to be bound by those changes. If you do not agree to be bound by
those changes, you should not use the Site any further after they are
published. Access to certain areas of Content may be subject to additional
terms and conditions.
Advertising, Third Party Content and other Web site
Parts of the Site may contain third party content or have
links to other website which may or may not be operated by Confer
Legal Ops. Confer Legal Ops has not reviewed all of the web site
that are linked to the Site, and Confer Legal Ops has no control
over such site. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or
participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Site,
including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other
terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings,
are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that Confer Legal Ops
shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred
as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such
advertisers on the Site. Content providers are responsible for ensuring
that material submitted for inclusion on the Site complies with
international and national law. Confer Legal Ops is not responsible for
any third party content. The Site may contain links to other Web site.
Confer Legal Ops is not responsible for the availability of these Web site
or their contents.
Non-Waiver
No delay or omission on the part of either party in
requiring performance by the other party of its obligations will operate as a
waiver of any right.
Notices
Notices to Confer Legal Ops must be given in writing
and sent to Confer Legal Ops at the following address: Confer Legal
Ops, LLC, at [email protected]. Notices to you may
be sent to the email address supplied for your account or we may broadcast
notices or messages through the Site to inform you of changes to the Site
or other matters of importance, and such broadcasts shall constitute notice to
you. Any notices or communication will be deemed delivered to the party
receiving such communication (1) on the delivery date if delivered personally
to the party; (2) two business days after deposit with a commercial overnight
carrier, with verification of receipt; (3) five business days after the mailing
date, if sent by U.S. mail, return receipt requested; (4) on the delivery date
if transmitted by confirmed facsimile; or (5) on the delivery date if
transmitted by confirmed email.
Violations
Please report any violations of these Terms of Use to Confer
Legal Ops, LLC, at [email protected].
Severability; Survival; Statute of Limitations
If any provision of these Terms of Use is invalid or
unenforceable, such will not render all the Terms of Use unenforceable or
invalid but rather the Terms of Use will be read and construed as if the
invalid or unenforceable provision(s) are not contained therein. Any cause of
action of yours with respect to these Terms must be filed in a court of
competent jurisdiction in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, within one year after the
cause of action has arisen, or such cause will be barred, invalid, and void.
Entire Agreement
Your written contract(s) with Confer Legal Ops, if
any, and any amendments, addendums, exhibits, and schedules (as applicable)
thereto, and these Terms of Use, as the latter may be amended from time-to-time
in Confer Legal Ops’s sole discretion, constitute the entire agreement
between Confer Legal Ops and you, and supersede all prior or
contemporaneous agreements, representations, warranties and understandings,
whether electronic, verbal, or written, between you and Confer Legal Ops,
with respect to the Site, Content and Site Services.
Headings
Headings in these Terms of Use are for convenience only and
have no legal meaning or effect.
Relationship Between the Parties
There is no agency, partnership, joint venture, or
employee-employer relationship between any user or Member and Confer Legal
Ops arising solely through the access or use of the Site or Site
Services.
Export Controls
You shall comply with all export laws and restrictions and
regulations of the United States Department of Commerce, the United States
Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control, or other United States
or foreign agency or authority, and not export or re-export Confer Legal Ops
Content in violation of any such restrictions, laws, or regulations. By
downloading or using the Content, you agree to the foregoing and you represent
and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or
resident of any restricted country or on any such list.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use and all disputes related to these Terms
of Use or arising hereunder shall be governed by, construed and enforced
exclusively in accordance with the laws of the State of Georgia
pertaining to contracts to be entered into and wholly to be performed therein, without
regard to its or any other states’ conflicts of law rules or public policy. The
Parties further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of Georgia courts
and that they agree to accept and will not object to any process served on them
by, through or in connection with any action, proceeding or lawsuit by a Party
hereto relating to these Terms of Use commenced in Georgia courts. The
Parties waive any objection to venue in the event either Party commences an
action, proceeding or lawsuit relating to these Terms of Use in the Georgia
Courts. The Parties further acknowledge
that these Terms of Use performed in accordance with their terms involve more
than one hundred thousand US dollars. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, the
Parties may mutually agree in writing to commence any action, proceeding or
lawsuit relating to these Terms of Use in any federal or state court of
competent jurisdiction. The Parties
hereto specifically waive any right to a jury trial with respect to any matter
arising under these Terms of Use. If any
action or proceeding is brought to enforce or interpret these Terms of Use, the
prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable attorneys’ fees in the same or
separate action and any other appropriate relief. Any cause of action by you
arising in connection with the Site, Content or Site Services must be
instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever
waived and barred.
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 27, 2024
Confer Legal Ops, LLC., and its global subsidiaries and successors (collectively “Confer Legal Ops”) is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals who visit our public, private and/or restricted-use Web Site, including but not limited to www.conferlegalops.com ( “Site“), as well as individuals who register to use our Services (as defined below) or who register to attend Confer Legal Ops events.
This Privacy Policy describes how and why Confer Legal Ops collects, uses and shares the personal information we receive or that you make available to us by using our Site, applications, services, or events and programs offered by Confer Legal Ops (collectively, the “Services”). It also describes the choices available to you regarding Confer Legal Ops’s use of your personal information, the steps you can take to access this information and, where applicable, to request that we correct or delete it. We can be contacted by using the details in the How to contact us section below.
Confer Legal Ops also provides further privacy notices based on applicable regions and with respect to other interactions with you (for example, specific services requests). Those terms are to be read in conjunction with this Privacy Policy.
Topics:
Personal information we collect
How we collect personal information
How we use personal information
How we share personal information
How long we keep personal information
International transfer of information collected
How to access and control your personal information
Communication preferences
Cookies & pixel tags
Links to other web Site
Changes to this Privacy Policy
How to contact us
Personal information we collect
Confer Legal Ops collects personal information in a variety of ways described in this Privacy Policy. The types of personal information that we collect will depend on how you interact with us, as well as your location and applicable law. In addition to any other privacy notices you might receive, Confer Legal Ops collects the following types of information:
Site users
During your visit to our Site, Confer Legal Ops collects personal information such as:
Location data: physical location (city, state, country) which you may provide to us or which can be inferred by an IP address.
Internet and electronic network activity information we collect automatically: browsing history, search history, your operating system, date and time information, online identifiers (e.g. IP address or other similar identifiers) and other technical information about your device (e.g. cookie and pixel tag information).
Inferences drawn from other personal information: profile reflecting preferences, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, abilities and aptitudes. Our processing of this personal information always includes manual (human) methods of processing.
This personal information is collected to help you navigate our Site with greater ease and it allows us to identify which types of content you are most interested in. You can read more about our use of cookies and similar technologies in the Cookie & pixel tags section.
If you would like more information from Confer Legal Ops or if you register on our Site, Confer Legal Ops collects the following personal information directly from you on a voluntary basis via forms in order to respond to your request:
Contact details: first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number.
Business information: company name, professional role, number of employees, annual revenue and executive experience.
Employees, Independent Contractors and Candidates
Employees and independent contractors have received separate privacy notices informing them of the types of information that Confer Legal Ops collects, the purposes for such collection and a link to this Privacy Policy.
Confer Legal Ops requests candidates applying for employee and independent contractor roles to provide the following personal information in order to process their application:
Additional contact details and other identifiers: in addition to the information described in the “Site Users” section above, Confer Legal Ops also requests residency and work permit status, driver’s license number, government identification numbers and/or other similar identifiers.
Protected classifications and other demographic data: age, gender, race, ethnicity and/or similar demographic information. We will use this information to comply with anti-discrimination laws and government reporting obligations, to help ensure equal employment opportunities and/or to conduct internal research on company demographics.
Background information: academic and professional qualifications, education, CV/resume, credit history and/or civil/criminal records data (utilized for background check and vetting purposes where permissible and in accordance with applicable law).
Location data: physical location (e.g. city, state, country).
Confer Legal Ops Community Members
When you become a Confer Legal Ops member (directly or through a Confer Legal Ops affiliate), independent contractor, employee, affiliate or a Confer Legal Ops alumnus (collectively referred to as “Confer Legal Ops Community Member”), Confer Legal Ops may ask you for additional personal information. Depending on your relationship with us, and in addition to any previous privacy notice you received, relevant personal information may include:
Account credentials: username, password and similar account authentication information.
Financial information: credit card, billing, bank account details and other payment information.
Commercial information: records of services purchased, obtained or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories.
Inferences drawn from other personal information: profile reflecting preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, abilities and aptitudes. Our processing of this personal information always includes manual (human) methods of processing.
How we collect personal information
Confer Legal Ops collects the personal information described above from the following sources:
Directly from you
Confer Legal Ops collects personal information about you when you provide us with your personal information. Examples include when you register with any of our Site, enter into a contract with us for Services or when you voluntarily provide personal information via online or paper submission forms, surveys, or when you subscribe to Confer Legal Ops newsletters.
Indirectly from you
When you visit our Site, Confer Legal Ops automatically receives certain internet and electronic network activity information. This personal information is automatically recorded on our server logs from your browser, including unique identifiers such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, Confer Legal Ops cookie information, and the page you request. Confer Legal Ops also collects information using analytics tools (directly or through our partners and advertisers) when you visit our Site. This information is collected to help us improve our Site and to provide relevant content. See the Cookies & pixel tags section below for a more details.
Our partners and advertisers share information with us
Confer Legal Ops may receive personal information about you from our affiliates, advertisers, data analytics providers, social networks, data brokers, partners, independent contractors and other authorized service providers who are working on our behalf pursuant to appropriate contractual terms restricting their use of personal information.
How we use personal information
Confer Legal Ops uses personal information to operate, manage and improve our Services and Site.
We may rely on various legal means or legal bases for collecting and processing personal information, including:
your consent (where necessary),
a legitimate interest,
necessity to enter into and perform contracts, and
to comply with our legal obligations.
The legal basis Confer Legal Ops is required to use in order to collect and use your personal information will depend on your interaction with us and applicable law. If you have any questions about the legal basis, you can contact Confer Legal Ops’s Privacy Team at privacy@LegalOps4All.com.
Confer Legal Ops may use the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
Fulfill your requests
When you make requests of Confer Legal Ops, we will use the information you provided to fulfill these requests. For example, if you share contact and business information to request more details about our Services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry.
Provide Services
If you are a Confer Legal Ops Community Member, your personal information (e.g. contact details, business information, account credentials and financial information) is used to administer your account. The legal basis for administrating your Confer Legal Ops account and providing related Services is necessity to perform our contractual obligations.
International Network – My Confer Legal Ops
As a part of the Confer Legal Ops Community Member experience, we enable you to connect with other Confer Legal Ops Community Members by storing your business information in a directory called “My Confer Legal Ops.” My Confer Legal Ops is made available to all Confer Legal Ops Community Members worldwide. You may update your visibility preferences at any time by navigating to your account under the My Confer Legal Ops website and select the “Edit profile” link.
We have a legitimate interest in providing Confer Legal Ops Community Members with an international network.
Operate, maintain and improve our Site
When you visit our Site, Confer Legal Ops collects the personal information you provide directly as well as indirectly via cookies and similar technologies. The personal information collected indirectly may include location data as well as internet and electronic network activity. Confer Legal Ops will record your use of our Site to operate and improve our Site, thus helping us to better understand your needs and interests. We use certain analytic/tracking cookies service providers to improve and personalize your experience (e.g. Google Analytics).
Confer Legal Ops has a legitimate interest in attracting new Members and understanding how our Site are being used. We will seek your advance permission to use cookies or similar technologies, where legally required.
Communicate with you
Depending on the circumstances, your personal information may also be used to send additional information about Confer Legal Ops’s Services, updates, promotions and events (“Communications”) unless you opt out from receiving such Communications. We will seek your advance permission to send Communications if legally required.
Confer Legal Ops sends Communications in accordance with applicable law and in furtherance of our legitimate business interest to maintain relationships, obtain referrals and to promote our range of Services and events.
Administer the Confer Legal Ops alumni program
Like a university, Confer Legal Ops’s unique business model has a legitimate interest in and relies on long-lasting relationships with its community to operate, grow and maintain accurate records. To complement and extend the Confer Legal Ops experience for Confer Legal Ops Community Members, Confer Legal Ops runs an alumni program. Confer Legal Ops may send Communications to former members, independent contractors and employees to provide information on developments and possible opportunities. You will have the right to opt-out of such Communications if you wish.
General business and legal obligations
Confer Legal Ops also collects personal information described above to conduct audits, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and conduct mergers or acquisitions.
Confer Legal Ops undertakes technical and organization measures to ensure the security of your data. Once we have received your personal data, we will use appropriate procedures to try to prevent unauthorized processing. However, we cannot warrant that the information which you provide to us will not be used by those who access and use your data in violation of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or operational safeguards. Confer Legal Ops uses data for security, fraud prevention and investigations against any party who violates this Privacy Policy or Terms of Use.
How we share personal information
Confer Legal Ops may share your personal information with affiliates for business purposes related to customer support, technical operation and/or account management.
We may also share your personal information with authorized service providers for Confer Legal Ops business purposes.
Confer Legal Ops has disclosed personal information listed in this Privacy Policy to the following categories of recipients for Confer Legal Ops business purposes:
Service providers, including customer relation management solutions (e.g. Salesforce), event management platforms (e.g. Cvent) and cloud database management services (e.g. Box.com) to assist in providing Services, organizing events, technical support and account management.
Independent contractors, including Confer Legal Ops Chairs, speakers and business partners to assist Confer Legal Ops with providing Services.
Analytic/tracking cookies service providers (e.g. Google Analytics) to assist us with technical support, measuring the effectiveness of advertisements and understanding who is visiting our Site and which parts of our Site are most visited.
These service providers will be obliged to abide by appropriate contractual terms and are not permitted to use your personal information for any purpose unrelated to providing services to Confer Legal Ops.
We may also share personal information if required by law; in the exercise of our legal rights; to effect a merger/acquisition; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding actual or suspected illegal or malicious activities; or to address actual or suspected violations of Confer Legal Ops’s Terms of Use, and Confidentiality Pledge and Standards. Confer Legal Ops will not otherwise share your personal information with other individuals or companies, except when you have otherwise authorized this information to be shared.
Confer Legal Ops does not sell personal information about you.
How long we keep personal information
Confer Legal Ops retains your personal information for the duration of the time that is consistent with the original purpose of collection. For example, we may retain your personal information while your account to use our Site or Services is active. We may also retain personal information for a period of time thereafter to:
allow for the recovery of accounts if requested by you,
analyze the data for Confer Legal Ops’s business operations,
administer the Confer Legal Ops alumni program, and/or
conduct audits, address our ongoing legal rights/obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
International transfer of information collected
Confer Legal Ops’s global headquarters and primary storage of personal information is in the United States. Depending on where you are located and applicable law, Confer Legal Ops will rely on certain legal bases to transfer your personal information across international borders such as: your consent (if required), to perform a contract with you or to fulfill Confer Legal Ops’s legitimate interest which does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.
Where necessary to comply with applicable law, Confer Legal Ops enters into data processing agreements and relies on a relevant adequacy decision or provides for appropriate safeguards by engaging in Standard Contractual Clauses with its global subsidiaries, Licensees and authorized service providers.
How to access and control your personal information
Your rights to access and control your personal information may vary depending on your location and applicable law. If you are a European, United Kingdom or Swiss resident, see the Residents of the European Union, United Kingdom and Switzerland section below for specific details.
To learn how to exercise your rights under this Privacy Policy, see the How to exercise your rights section below. In general, since Confer Legal Ops provides services around the world, we acknowledge the following core privacy rights:
Access to your personal information
You have the right to request disclosure of certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information. Any limits or exceptions under applicable law will be explained in our response to your verified request.
Deletion request rights
You have the right to request deletion of your personal information that Confer Legal Ops collected and retained. Upon receipt of your verifiable request, we may delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records to the extent required by law. There are certain exceptions where applicable law either allows or requires us to deny your deletion request. Such a denial will be explained in our response to your verifiable request.
No discriminatory treatment
When you choose to exercise your privacy rights, you will not receive any discriminatory treatment from Confer Legal Ops. This is not only a legal requirement, but it is in line with Confer Legal Ops’s operational principal of “respect for the individual.”
Residents of the European Union, United Kingdom and Switzerland
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 (UK GDPR), and the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act of June 19, 1992 (FADP), which will be replaced by the Revised Federal Data Protection Act (Revised FADP) when it becomes effective, provide certain rights.
You have the following rights, including the right to: access your personal information; correct, delete, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal information; as well as the right to data portability of your data under certain conditions. You may also request information about: the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been disclosed, the source if not collected directly from us, or the planned storage period. In addition, you can withdraw consent you may have given to Confer Legal Ops at any time.
If you have any unresolved concerns that we have not addressed satisfactorily related to how we are processing your personal information, you have the right to contact the European or United Kingdom Data Protection Authorities or the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
How to exercise your rights
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by either contacting us using the information in the How to contact us section below or by using our web form.
Only you, or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. Confer Legal Ops must be able to verify such requests through the exercise of reasonable diligence. To be verifiable your 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; and
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 verify your identity or authority to make the request. We will use personal information provided in a request solely for the purpose of verifying the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Communication preferences
You may manage your receipt of Communications via email by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of Confer Legal Ops emails. Additionally, you may opt out of Communications by filling out our web form or by emailing us at: privacy@Confer Legal Ops.com.
Confer Legal Ops may retain some of your personal information solely for the purposes of knowing your wish to not be contacted again in the future, or for other purposes that are legally permitted or required.
Cookies & pixel tags
We collect visitor information by using cookies and pixel tags.
Cookies
Cookies are files or pieces of information that may be stored on your device when you visit a Web site. This file or piece of information allows a user to move quickly and easily around our Site and is used to identify returning users. We also use cookies to track a user’s sessions, storing preferences and settings, providing interest-based advertising, determining what site features are most popular so we can develop our Site and content, and fulfilling other legitimate interests.
The use of cookies is an industry standard and commonly done on webSite. However, we do not use cookies to retrieve involuntary information about your computer.
Accordingly, if you would prefer, you can set up your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you to their presence and thereby allow you to remove them from your computer. If you reject cookies, you may have difficulty navigating parts of our website and may need to enter identifying information each time you access a password-protected page.
Pixel tag
A pixel tag, also known as a clear GIF or web beacon, is an invisible tag or tiny graphic image placed on certain pages of our website or in emails but not on your computer. When you access these pages, pixel tags generate a generic notice of that visit. They usually work in conjunction with cookies, registering when a particular computer visits a particular page. If you turn off cookies, the pixel tag will simply detect an anonymous website visit. Pixel tags help us analyze our visitors’ online behavior and measure the effectiveness of our webSite and our advertising. We work with service providers that help us track, collect and analyze this information.
Pixel tags on our Site may be used to collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the features you use, the links you click, and other actions you take in connection with the Site. This information may include your computer’s Internet protocol (IP) address, your browser type, your operating system, date and time information, and other technical information about your computer. We may also track certain information about the identity of the webSite you visit immediately before and after coming to our site. We do not otherwise track any information about your use of other webSite.
Pixel tags and cookies in our emails may be used to track your interactions with those messages, such as when you receive, open or click a link in an email message from us.
We also work with analytic/tracking cookies service providers (e.g. BlueConic, Google Analytics), who use tracking technologies to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These service providers may collect information about your visits to our webSite and your interaction with our advertising and other communications.
Links to other web Site
Our Site contain links to other third party webSite; however, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such webSite and do not make any representation as to the existence, sufficiency, accuracy or completeness of such webSite or the privacy policies of such webSite. Please see the website’s privacy policy for more information on the website owner’s data protection practices.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Confer Legal Ops may update this Privacy Policy at any time, for any reason, without notice to you other than posting the amended Privacy Policy to this Site. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary e-mail address we have on file for you or by placing a prominent notice on the applicable Site.
Confer Legal Ops endeavors to ensure that this Privacy Policy is fully compliant with all applicable laws, however, the laws throughout the world are constantly evolving and changing. To the extent any part of this Privacy Policy is not compliant with applicable law, the non-compliant part shall be deemed automatically amended to the extent necessary to permit this Privacy Policy to be compliant.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact Confer Legal Ops’s Privacy Team via email at: [email protected].