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- Please do not send information to us that you consider confidential without first obtaining:
- a written statement from us that we represent you (a "retention letter"). or
- permission from one of the firm's attorney's to provide confidential information to us relating to a particular matter.
- The information in our website is not guaranteed to be correct, complete, or up-to-date. Case matters described are examples of experience that Crowell & Moring LLP lawyers have gained during and/or prior to their tenure with the firm. This website should not be relied upon or construed as legal advice. You should not act or elect not to act based upon this information without seeking professional counsel.
- Crowell & Moring LLP has its principal office in Washington, D.C. and maintains offices in California, New York, London, and Brussels. We do not wish to represent anyone as a result of their viewing of this website in any state in which this website may not comply with all applicable laws and ethical rules, or to represent anyone with respect to legal matters related to the laws of any state or country in which our lawyers are not admitted to practice law.
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Privacy Notice
Crowell & Moring LLP respects your privacy. This privacy notice describes how and why we process your personal data when you visit our website and make us of its subscription and contact features.
What personal data do we collect about you?
You do not need to disclose any personal information in order to view this website. However, if you choose to subscribe to any newsletter, or request further information from any section of this site, we may need your contact details, such as name, organization, email, and country, to be able to process your request.
When visiting our website, we also collect personal data by means of cookies. For more information about the cookies we use, please refer to our cookie notice below.
How do we use your personal data?
Your contact details are processed for the purpose of:
- Sending you newsletters based on your consent.
- Answering your requests for information.
With whom do we share your personal data?
Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm. Any information that you provide voluntarily will be used to process your request in Crowell & Moring LLP's offices in the United States or in Europe (U.K. and Belgium). Your personal data may also be incidentally accessed by third party IT providers relied upon by Crowell & Moring LLP for maintenance and operation of the website.
When personal data is transferred to a country outside of the EU, Crowell & Moring LLP shall ensure that appropriate safeguards are put in place. For transfers to Crowell & Moring LLP’s offices in the U.S., Crowell & Moring LLP has put in place a data transfer agreement based on the EU standard contractual clauses.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We keep your personal data as long as necessary to achieve the purpose for which the personal data were collected taking into account any statutory retention or limitation periods.
What are your rights?If you have requested that we add you to one or more of our distribution lists, you can update your information or request to be removed from the distribution list(s) at any time by using the link included in each of our emails or by emailing us at DataPrivacy@crowell.com.
You have a right to a copy of the personal information which we hold about you, and you have a right to have that information amended if it is inaccurate. Under the conditions provided for by applicable legislation, you may ask us to delete your personal data, restrict the processing of your personal data, transmit your personal data to you so that you can transfer them to another organization. For questions about our privacy and data security practices, contact us at DataPrivacy@crowell.com.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.
Cookie Notice
A "cookie" is a very small data file comprised of text and/or numbers that downloads on your computer hard drive (via your web browser) when you visit a website. Cookies notify a web server that you are returning to a specific web page on it, and they contain information about your web browsing that can save you time, such as by remembering your preferences, or they can track certain web browsing data (such as which site pages are more important in terms of traffic or which web browsers are preferred by site visitors) that can aid websites in enhancing the user/visitor experience. Cookies cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses, and they can be controlled by end users through their browser settings (see below).
Crowell & Moring uses the following cookies:
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- ASP.NET_SessionId: This cookie is essential to the operation of Crowell.com's web forms and logins, particularly on the administration side of the website. For most Crowell.com visitors, these cookies are not actively used for anything; and the cookies are temporary and are deleted when a visitor's web browser is closed. For more on ASP.NET Session IDs cookies, please visit the Microsoft Website.
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Controlling Cookies
Should you be adverse to the collection of cookies by Crowell.com or any other website, there are actions you can take with your personal Web browser settings.
Web browser settings can be adjusted to perform one or more of the following actions: delete all cookies, block all cookies, allow all cookies, block third-party cookies, clear all cookies when you close the browser, open a 'private' browsing session, install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality as it pertains to cookies.
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