Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP (“SAM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and values your trust. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of the treatment and handling of personal information that we may learn about you from using our websites at Stubbsalderton.com and Preccelerator.com (each a “Site” and collectively the “Sites”) and/or by use of any or our services (collectively, the “Service”). “You” and “your” or similar terms refer to you as a user of the Service. If you provide personal information to us relating to other individuals, you are responsible for communicating the terms of this privacy policy to them.

If you have any questions regarding this information or our privacy practices, please contact us via the methods set out in the How to Contact Us section at the end of this Privacy Policy.

1. Agreement to Terms
2. Information We Collect
3. Cookies
4. Children’s Privacy
5. Our Use of Personal Information
6. Our Disclosure of Personal Information
7. Your Privacy Choices
8. Security and Retention
9. Additional Information for California Consumers
10. Additional Information for Residents of the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK)
11. Links to Other Websites
12. Effective Date and Changes to this Privacy Policy
13. How to Contact Us

1. Agreement to Terms

By using the Service, you consent to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, then you should immediately discontinue use of the Service without providing us with any personal information.

2. Information We Collect

SAM collects the following categories of personal information (a) directly from you, such as through forms on our Site or via email, if you apply for a job at SAM, or if you apply to participate in the Preccelerator Program; (b) in the course of our provision of legal services to you or others, including documents or communications we receive from our clients, other law firms, counterparties, and regulatory or law enforcement agencies; (c) from third parties in connection with professional services providers with whom we have jointly arranged events (e.g., webinars, presentations) or recruiters as part of the recruitment process; (d) from the device and browser that you use to access the Site(s); and (e) cookies and similar technologies.

Identifiers
We may collect your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, and signature.

Professional or Employment-related Information
We may collect the name of the company you work for or represent and your position. We may also collect your past employment history (e.g., company name, job title, office location) as part of our recruiting process.

Government Identifiers
We may collect government identifiers as part of our business acceptance procedures, our provision of legal services, or our recruiting procedures. This information may include your Social Security number and/or a copy of your passport or other government identification card.

Education Information
We may collect information such as your educational degrees, institutions attended, professional membership, qualifications, and certifications.

Financial Information
We may collect payment information, such as your bank account details or credit card information.

Device Information
We collect device information when you visit the Site(s). This includes your computer or mobile device type, browser type, unique identifiers, IP address, and geolocation information.

Internet or Electronic Network Activity Information
We may collect information concerning your interaction with the Site(s), including when you access a Site and your browsing activity on that Site (such as which pages you visit, in what order, and for how long). This may include “traffic” data or tracking information provided by the Site’s host or similar providers (e.g., Google Analytics) that may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the Site(s).

You are not required to provide all personal information identified in this Privacy Policy to use our Service or to interact with us, but certain functionality will not be available if you do not provide certain personal information. For example, if you do not provide certain personal information, we may not be able to respond to your requests.

3. Cookies

We store certain information that gets collected automatically at our end through cookies and other similar technologies on the Sites. A cookie is a small string of information that a website that you visit transfers to your browser for identification purposes. Cookies can be used to follow your activity while using a website or across websites, and that information helps companies understand your preferences and tendencies, as well as improve and personalize your website experience. Some cookies are necessary to operate a website, while others can be functional or used for analytics. Cookies on the Sites are generally divided into the following categories:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of the Sites. They include, for example, cookies that record your cookie preferences.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of users on each Site and understand how such users navigate through each Site (e.g., when and which pages are visited, in what order the pages are visited, and where a user is located). This helps improve how each Site works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.

We use Google Analytics and HubSpot for part of this process. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt-out of Google Analytics’ collection and use of data generated by your use of the Site by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To learn more about HubSpot’s cookies, please visit https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser.

• Functional Cookies: These improve the functional performance of websites and make them easier for you to use. For example, on the preccelerator.com website, we embed certain videos that are hosted on Google’s YouTube website. Google sets certain functional cookies to remember your preferences (e.g., your preferred language), to remember user input, and to detect and resolve problems with Google’s services.

You can prevent the use of certain cookies by modifying your Internet browser settings, typically under the sections “Help,” “Internet Options,” or “Settings.” If you disable or delete certain cookies in your Internet browser settings, you may still access the Sites, however, you might not be able to access or use important functions or features of the Sites.

Do-Not-Track Signals

At this time, SAM does not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “do-not-track” instructions.

4. Children’s Privacy

The Sites are not intended for users under the age of 16 and SAM does not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 16. If you are aware of, or suspect that, someone under the age of 16 is using a Site without permission, please notify us immediately by contacting us as detailed below. If you have questions or concerns about the Internet and privacy for your child, we encourage you to check out the FTC Guidelines for protecting your child’s privacy online.

5. Our Use of Personal Information

We collect and use personal information for the following purposes:

• Providing the Sites to you and providing services requested by, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our relationship with, you;
• Managing, administering, and improving our provision of legal and other services to our clients;
• Managing our relationship with you, responding to inquiries or requests, and administering surveys;
• Promoting our services, including by sending event invitations, updates, and other marketing materials;
• Analyzing use of the Sites;
• Detecting security incident and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecuting those responsible; and
• Complying with legal and regulatory obligations.

6. Our Disclosure of Personal Information

SAM may share personal information with the following third parties:

• Service providers, including information technology service providers, third parties to whom we outsource support services such as photocopying and document review, web analytics providers, and marketing providers.
• Law firms, advisors, and financial institutions, including law firms and other professional advisors that represent our clients (e.g., local counsel) or those representing counterparties or other relevant parties in matters in which we are engaged by our clients, as well as auditors, notaries, business continuity support service providers, and other legal, tax, and risk and compliance advisors.
• With third parties in connection with a change to the control or financial status of the firm, including a corporate restructuring, sale, acquisition, financing, reorganizations, bankruptcy, receivership, transfer, or assignment of assets or business merger or divestiture. Personal information and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that transaction.
• Government bodies (including tax authorities), dispute resolution organizations, law enforcement agencies, or other third parties if we consider it necessary or appropriate under applicable laws.

7. Your Privacy Choices

If you no longer want to receive our newsletter or other marketing communications, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe options in the communication itself. Please note that we may still send you non-promotional messages, such as those about our ongoing business or attorney-client relationship.

8. Security and Retention

We maintain reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information from loss, improper or unlawful access, misuse, alteration, or unintentional destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws. We have implemented various security measures to protect the information that we receive from you. Although we seek to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online. To the extent permitted under applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized access by third parties, or other causes beyond our control.

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected; as needed to address tax, compliance, employment, litigation, and other legal rights and obligation; and/or as otherwise permitted by law.

9. Additional Information for California Consumers

For individual residents of California, this section describes how we collect, use, and/or disclose the personal information of California residents, and the rights you may have under California law. These disclosures are intended to supplement this Privacy Policy with information required by California law.

To understand what categories of personal information we may have collected about you in the past 12 months, and from where we collected it, please see the section Information We Collect above.

We collect his personal information for the business purposes described in the Our Use of Personal Information section above.

We may share personal information with the third parties listed above in the section Our Disclosure of Personal Information. These third parties cannot further collect, sell, or use the personal information we share with them except as necessary to perform our purposes, as instructed by us.

In particular, the past 12 months, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information to the following third parties for our operational business purposes.

California Residents’ Rights

If you reside in California, you may have the following rights under California law:

• Notice: You have the right to notice, upon collection, of the categories of personal information collected, the purposes for which the information is collected, used, or disclosed, and the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed personal information. We provide this notice through this Privacy Policy
• Access: You have the right to access a copy of the categories and specific pieces of personal information that we have collected, used, or disclosed.
• Correction: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we hold about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information.
• Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information. We will not delete your personal information if we need it in order to provide a service you requested, to protect the security or functionality of our operations, to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or for certain other reasons.
• No Retaliation: You have the right to be free from discrimination for exercising your rights. We will not deny services, charge different prices, offer different quality of service or otherwise discriminate against you for exercising your rights under any applicable laws.

If you wish to exercise the rights described above, please contact us at with the subject line “California Privacy” so we can get your email to the right team. You can also contact us at 818-444-4500. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

We do not sell personal information and we do not engage in cross-context behavioral advertising. Similarly, we only disclose personal information, including sensitive personal information, where such disclosure is requested by you or is reasonably necessary to perform our services.

Before we will be able to process your request for access or deletion of personal information, we will need to properly verify your identity for security purposes. If we possess appropriate information about you (e.g., name, email, address), we will attempt to verify your identity using that information. If it is not reasonably possible to identify you, we may not be able to respond to your request.

To use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, we may need the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the authorized agent signed permission to submit the request on your behalf. We may also require you to verify your identity directly with us.

Please note that certain exceptions and limitations apply to the rights discussed above. For example, the rights above may be limited or inapplicable where the information is subject to an evidentiary privilege, such as the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, or other protections. Similarly, the rights described above may be limited or inapplicable to information collected and used in connection with our business relationship with other business entities and to information pertaining to hiring and employment.

10. Additional Information for Residents of the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK)

This section provides additional information for resident of the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK).

International Transfers

As a US law firm, most of our operations are conducted in the United States and in order to provide the Service, personal information will be processed in the United States, where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. We provide appropriate protections for cross-border transfers as required by applicable law for international data transfers. Where required by such laws, you may request a copy of the suitable safeguards we have in place by contacting us as detailed in the How to Contact Us section below.

Legal Bases for Processing Personal Information

Where required, we have several different legal grounds on which we collect and process your personal information for the purposes set out in the Our Use of Personal Information section above, including: (i) as may be necessary to perform a contract with you; (ii) as necessary to comply with a legal obligation; (iii) consent (where consent has been provided as appropriate under applicable law); and (iv) as necessary for our legitimate interests (such as when we act to maintain our business generally, including maintaining the safety and security of the Service).

Automated Decision-Making

We do not use automated decision-making without human intervention, including profiling, in a way that produces legal effects concerning you or that otherwise significantly affects you.

EU and UK Residents Rights

As available and except as limited under applicable law, individuals in the EU and UK have the rights below:

• Access. You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we are processing about you, which we will provide to you in electronic form.
• Rectification. You have the right to require that any incomplete or inaccurate personal information that we process about you is amended.
• Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete personal information that we process about you, unless, for example, we are required to retain such information to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.
• Restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal information where: (i) you believe such data to be inaccurate; (ii) our processing is unlawful; or (iii) we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose, but where we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not want us to delete it.
• Portability. You have the right to request that we transmit the personal information we hold with respect to you to another data controller.
• Objection. Where the legal justification for our processing of your personal information is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.
• Withdrawing Consent. If you have consented to our processing of your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information based on your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent or processing of your information based on other legal bases.

Some rights may be limited, and we may need to retain certain personal information, as required or permitted by applicable law. To inquire about or exercise the rights listed above, at any time, contact us at with the subject line “EU Privacy” so we can get you request to the right team. We will respond to you request consistent with applicable law.

If you feel that your request or concern was not satisfactorily resolved by us, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

11. Links to Other Websites

For your convenience, we may link to third-party sites and services, or otherwise display third-party content through our websites to provide increased value to our visitors. We have no control over these linked sites, each of which has separate privacy and data collection policies and practices independent from us. As such we have no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any such websites. Please note that these other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information, and we encourage you to review their policies before engaging with these third-party sites.

12. Effective Date and Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date at the top of this policy. SAM has the discretion to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes and to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect, especially before you provide information, and particularly personal information, directly to us through the Service. In the event of a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will provide a message through our website or via email informing you of the change.

13. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us at or send written correspondence to:

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Attn: Privacy Officer
15260 Ventura Blvd., 20^th Fl.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403