EFFECTIVE DATE: August 10, 2024

Dayzad Law Offices is committed to respecting the privacy rights of individuals whose personal data we process. We refer to our law firm as “Dayzad Law,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in this privacy notice. We wrote this privacy notice to describe the types of personal data we collect or may receive, the sources of that personal data, how we may use that information and with whom we share it. We also tell you how you can reach us to answer any questions you may have about our online privacy practices.

Dayzad Law Offices is an immigration law firm that provides human resources teams in our client organizations with complete support on all U.S. immigration topics, including expatriate services and mobility management. Our firm also represents individual clients. Our attorneys help individuals obtain legal immigration status through many lawful pathways including employment, investment, asylum, and relatives in the United States. We also represent family members whose sponsor has died, as well as those who have been abused by a spouse.

1. Sources of Personal Data That We Process.

1. Dayzad Law receives personal data from five sources:

1. Visitors to our website at http://www.dayzadlaw.com (the “Site”);

2. Users of our social media platforms which, as of the date of this Privacy Notice, are LinkedIn, Yelp, Google, Avvo, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter;

3. Prospective clients of our firm, whom we may communicate with by email, text message, telephone, virtual meetings, or face-to-face meetings;

4. Our individual clients, who provide personal data to us about themselves and their family members;

5. Representatives of our business clients, who provide personal data:

1. About themselves in connection with establishing and maintaining our client relationship with their businesses;

2. About the past, current, and prospective workers of their businesses and their family members in connection with our firm’s immigration legal services; and

6. Representatives of our service providers and business partners in connection with our business relationships with these businesses.

2. In providing our immigration legal services, we are retained by adults 18 years and older. We do not market or provide services to minors. Also, except when working with a parent or guardian of a child, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under age 13. We may collect personal information from a minor when working with a parent or guardian to assist the minor in applying for immigration benefits.  However, if you believe that we have inadvertently gathered personal information about a minor, please contact us using the contact information in Section 14 below for us to delete it.

3. Please note that we do not collect personal information when we post embedded YouTube videos on our Site.  However, YouTube may collect personal information.  For more information on YouTube’s privacy practices, see its privacy policy here.

2. Personal Data That We Collect or Receive and How We Use It.

1. Personal Data Collected from Website Visitors.

1. Our web hosting company collects some personal data (IP addresses) from Site visitors automatically.  Also, we may collect certain non-personal analytics data by automated means when you visit the Site, such as how many users visited the Site and the pages accessed. By collecting this data, we learn how to best tailor our Site’s content to our visitors. We collect this data through “cookies” and IP addresses. See Section 3 for our cookie policy.

2. Log files are web server files (containing information such as domain name or IP address, URL, http response code, or the date and duration of your visit) that are automatically created when an Internet user visits a website. An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our Site, our web hosting company’s servers log your IP address. In addition to other data, this information helps us understand which features are of interest to our Site visitors. Log files also help detect disruptions that may interfere with the provision of our Site.

2. Personal Data Collected from Social Media Users. If you post information to one of our social media properties or send us a message, we will have access to your username, information on your profile on the social media platform, and whatever personal data you include in your communications.

3. Personal Data Collected from Prospective Clients. We collect personal data from prospective clients about themselves and their family members to communicate with them, provide marketing information, and to obtain information to explore the possibility of providing them legal services.

4. Personal Data Collected from Individual Clients. We collect personal data from clients about themselves and their family members needed to provide legal services to them, communicate with them, provide marketing information, and to maintain and manage our relationship with them. This information may include information to market our services. Information needed for our legal services includes contact information, immigration and citizenship history, passport information, visa information, other immigration-related documents, asylum related information, family relationships and history, information about family members, citizenship history, educational status and history, employment status and history, medical information and history, personal accomplishments, languages spoken and English fluency, and history and documentation of arrests, charges, and/or convictions for criminal offenses.  In special cases, such as investors, persons with extraordinary abilities, and asylum cases, we may collect personal information related to these special aspects of our client’s immigration cases.

5. Personal Data Collected and Received from Business Clients.

1. Account Related Information. We may collect, and you may provide us, personal data from past, present, and prospective business clients’ representatives.  This personal information includes “business card data” – name, title, company name, postal address, and email address.  We may also collect biographical information from these persons. We may also receive biographical information representatives provide to us. Personal information of this kind helps us to create and maintain customer accounts. We also provide marketing communications to these representatives. Finally, we may also collect payment information for customers to pay for services and products.  If a payment card is used, card data is collected by our payment card gateway service and not retained electronically by Dayzad Law Offices.  We may also collect payment card information non-electronically and destroy it after processing the payment.

2. Personal Data of Workers, Family Members. We collect immigration-related information about workers of business clients, their family members. Such information includes contact information, immigration and citizenship history, passport information, visa information, other immigration-related documents, asylum related information, family relationships and history, information about family members, citizenship history, educational status and history, employment status and history, medical information and history, personal accomplishments, investment activities, languages spoken and English fluency, and history and documentation of arrests, charges, and/or convictions for criminal offenses. 

6. Personal Data Collected from Service Providers and Business Partners Representatives. We may collect, and you may provide us, business card data and biographical information from representatives of past, present, and prospective service providers and business partners. We use this information to create and maintain our relationships with these service providers and business partners.

7. Data Minimization. We collect and process personal data that is adequate, relevant, and not excessive for purposes of providing our services.

3. Cookie Policy.

1. Like many companies, we may use “cookies” on our Site. Cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. We may use cookies to tell us useful information about you and your preferences when using the Site.

2. Our Site makes use of first and third party cookies as described below.

1. First party cookies.  First party cookies are created, managed and used by the Site for managing the Site and understanding Site users’ preferences.  For instance, cookies help users maintain logged in status across the Site’s pages, compiling analytics about page views and the number of unique users, and regulating Site availability for all users.

2. Third party cookies.  Third party cookies are cookies created, managed, used by third parties whose content is loaded by your browser per instructions from the Site.  Third party cookies on the Site store users’ content and privacy choices.  We embed YouTube videos on our Site, and YouTube’s cookies track analytics and user choices.  For instance, they count video views, record user preferences, and manage playback interface choices such as the version of the YouTube player.

3. You can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, refusing cookies may interfere with the full functionality of the Site and limit the user experience.

4. Google Analytics Information.

1. Our web hosting service uses a web analytics service, Google Analytics, to collect IP addresses and the non-personal analytics information described in Section 2(a)(i).  For more information about Google Analytics and privacy, please visit:  https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.  

2. You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting information from your computer by clicking on the following link.  Clicking the link sets an opt-out cookie that prevents future collection of your information when you visit this Site:

    https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

3. For more information on terms of use and privacy regarding Google Analytics, please visit https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ or https://policies.google.com/?hl=en-US.

4. Our Roles in Collecting or Receiving Personal Data. If we collect personal data directly from you, our role is that of a data “controller,” an entity that determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. If we receive personal data from a business, our role is that of a data “processor.” As a processor receiving personal information from a business client, we process personal data only on our client’s documented instructions (with some exceptions under the law) or as required for the provision of immigration legal services. If you are a representative of a vendor or business partner and we received your personal data from your employer, our role is that of processor and we will process your personal data only on your employer’s documented instructions, subject to certain exceptions under the law.

5. Personal Data That We Share.

1. As a law firm, we have a professional responsibility to maintain the confidences of our clients.

2. We may disclose your personal information to our service providers that help us provide our legal services to our clients, such as cloud service providers, or that assist with support functions such as marketing and payment card processing. These service providers are authorized to use personal data only as necessary to perform services on our behalf subject to certain exceptions such as to comply with law or legal process. We will require any such service providers to manage your personal data with privacy and security safeguards consistent with this privacy policy, consistent with our professional responsibility to maintain client confidences.

3. From time to time, we may be required to respond to a subpoena, court order, search warrant, administrative or judicial process, requests by law enforcement agencies, or other requests that we must respond to under applicable law. We may disclose your personal data in response to any of these legal requirements.

4. Also, consistent with our professional responsibilities, we may disclose your personal data when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity, to resolve disputes between you and our firm, or if disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of any person.

6. How We Protect Personal Data.

1. As a general matter, we maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of personal data that we process. In addition, we provide ongoing training to our employees to maintain appropriate standards of conduct with regard to the protection of personal data.

2. Also, our firm uses a secure immigration web portal. The portal allows clients to share files with us, access files from us, and communicate with our lawyers and staff. Our immigration portal is available to all clients.  It is a secure place to upload and transmit documents to our office, complete questionnaires, view important documents from our office, track the progress of your case, view upcoming expiration dates and priority date information, and more.  We encourage all clients to use the immigration portal for a more secure way to provide and receive documents.  Instructions for using the portal features are available in the Welcome Message on the portal home page.  Please contact our office if you need help accessing your immigration portal.

7. Links to Other Websites. Our Site may provide links to other websites for your convenience. These websites operate independently from Dayzad Law Offices, P.C. Linked sites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. To the extent any linked websites you visit are not owned or controlled by Dayzad Law Offices, P.C., we are not responsible for these sites’ content, any use of these sites, or the privacy practices of these sites.

8. Your Privacy Choices and Rights.

1. Privacy Choices Afforded to Individuals From Whom We Collect Personal Data.  If we collected your personal data directly, you may choose to restrict collection or use of your personal information in the following ways by contacting us using the contact information in Section 14:

1. Please contact us if you would like to access the personal data about you that we may have in your possession to review it or for portability purposes.

2. We seek to ensure that any personal data that we collect and store about you is accurate, complete, current, and reliable. Please contact us, however, if you would like to correct or update personal data about you in our possession. Please keep in mind that we may have a legal right or obligation to preserve your personal data as it currently exists.

3. If you wish to have us stop using your personal data personal data for direct marketing purposes, please contact us. Also, any email communications from us contain instructions on opting out of further email communications, although we still will send you emails necessary for us to provide our services and emails relating to billing, administration, and data protection.

2. Privacy Choices and Rights Afforded to Workers of Firm Clients.  If you are a past, current, or prospective worker of a Dayzad Law client, or a family member of such a worker, and we received your personal data from that client, you may have individual privacy rights under the privacy policies of our client and you may have additional rights under applicable data protection laws that our client must afford to you. Please consult our client regarding its privacy policies and rights to which you may be entitled. Our role regarding such individuals is limited to acting as a data “processor,” for processing personal data only on our client’s documented instructions (with some exceptions under the law) or as required for the provision of immigration legal services.

3. Privacy Choices and Rights of Representatives. If you are a representative of a client, vendor, or business partner and we received your personal data from your employer, please contact your employer regarding your privacy choices and rights.

9. Notice to California Residents.

1. In 2018, the State of California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In 2020, the voters of California passed a ballot initiative that enacted the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which amends and supplements CCPA. CCPA and CPRA only apply to businesses of a certain size in terms of their annual revenues, the number of individual records they hold regarding California residents or households, or the percentage of revenue they receive from selling or sharing personal information.

2. Note that the term “personal information” as used in CCPA and CPRA is equivalent to the term “personal data” as used elsewhere in this Privacy Notice.

3. Our law firm does not meet the thresholds needed to come within the scope of CCPA and CPRA. Nevertheless, some of our business clients are bound by CCPA and CPRA and consider our firm to be a “service provider” within the meaning of CPRA. Accordingly, when these clients provide us personal information about past, current, and prospective workers and their family members (see Section 2(e)(ii) above), they enter into agreements with our firm to:

1. Limit our disclosures of personal information of their past, current, or prospective workers and their family members;

2. Require the same level of privacy protection of such personal information that CCPA and CPRA require of these business clients;

3. Give these business clients rights to take reasonable and appropriate steps to ensure that our uses of such personal information are consistent with our clients’ obligations under CCPA and CPRA;

4. Require our firm to notify these clients if our firm determines it can no longer meet its obligations under CCPA and CPRA; and

5. Grant these clients the right to take reasonable and appropriate steps to stop and remediate unauthorized uses of personal information of workers.

4. If you are a California resident and are a past, current, or prospective worker of a Dayzad Law client that is covered by CCPA or CPRA, or a family member of such a worker, you may have individual privacy rights under these California rights. If you have these rights and wish to exercise these rights, please contact the privacy contact at the client organization. As a “service provider,” our function under the California law and our agreements with these clients is limited to cooperating with our client to respond to your requests to exercise privacy rights. Because you have a direct relationship with the client, it is our client’s sole responsibility to afford you with individual rights under California law.

10. Notice to Residents of Member States of the European Economic Area.

1. Our law firm does not have offices in any member states of the European Economic Area (EEA), does not market its services to any of these countries, and does not monitor the behavior of individuals located in any of these countries.  Therefore, our law firm is not directly bound by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  Accordingly, while GDPR does not apply when individual clients and families located in EEA member states directly retaining our firm for services, these clients and their family members have privacy protection through this Privacy Notice.

2. Nonetheless, when business clients of our firm export personal data from an EEA member state to our law firm to obtain services, our clients enter into agreements with us to provide assurances that our firm is maintaining an adequate level of protection of personal data consistent with GDPR requirements.

3. If you are a resident of an EEA member state and are a past, current, or prospective worker of a Dayzad Law client that is covered by GDPR, or a family member of such a worker, you may have individual privacy rights under GDPR. If you have these rights and wish to exercise these rights, please contact the privacy contact at the client organization. As a “processor,” our function under GDPR and our agreements with these clients is limited to assisting our clients, insofar as possible, for the fulfillment of our client’s obligations to respond to your requests to exercise privacy rights. Because you have a direct relationship with the client, the data “controller,” it is our client’s sole responsibility to afford you with individual rights under GDPR.

11. Do Not Track Signals. “Do not track” settings in browser software permit users to express a preference to websites not to track their activities. At present, there is no standard way for what a website should do when receiving a “do not track” signal. Therefore, we do not currently take any action in response to a “do not track” signal. We will continue to monitor emerging standards regarding “do not track” signals and reexamine this policy from time to time.

12. Updates to Our Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically to reflect changes in data protection laws, changes in our data protection practices, and changes to our Site’s features. We will make changes by posting a revised copy of this Privacy Notice to our Site or, if we believe it necessary, by email notice to you. Your continued use of our Site or social media accounts after a revised version of this Privacy Notice appears on the Site will constitute your approval of the amended version.

13. Data Protection Questions and Complaints.  Please direct all questions or complaints about our privacy practices to our privacy officer using the contact information in Section 14.  If you have a complaint, please provide information relevant to your complaint. Our privacy officer will evaluate your complaint based on the information you provide and send you a response. We may need to ask you for additional information to evaluate your complaint. We will promptly investigate and respond to your communications about a complaint. You may have other rights under law and the right to contact the privacy regulator in your jurisdiction or country about your complaint.

14. How to Contact Us. Our firm’s privacy officer can be reached at the following contact information:

Email: info@DayzadLaw.com

Postal mail or courier: Dayzad Law Offices, P.C., Attn:  Privacy, 3731 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 810, Los Angeles, CA 90010

Phone:  +1 (213) 380-6280