TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to the website of Dempsey & Fouts. These Terms of Use and Privacy Policy govern your use of our website, online forms, and related communications, including text message communications. By using this website or submitting information through this website, you agree to these Terms.
1. No Legal Advice from Website Use
The information on this website is provided for general informational purposes only. It is not legal advice and should not be relied upon as legal advice for any specific situation.
Viewing this website, submitting a form, calling us, emailing us, or sending us a text message does not create an attorney-client relationship. An attorney-client relationship is formed only after we have completed our conflict checks and both you and the firm have signed a written engagement agreement.
2. Website Use
You agree not to use this website for any unlawful purpose or in a way that interferes with the operation, security, or availability of the website. You also agree not to submit false, misleading, abusive, or malicious information through our forms or communication channels.
3. Information Collection
Dempsey & Fouts only collects personal information through this website when you choose to provide information. Personal information can include, but is not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
Dempsey & Fouts may collect information from individual potential clients who submit a contact form. Dempsey & Fouts may collect personally identifiable information that you choose to publicly post on social media.
Dempsey & Fouts does not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow them to contact our attorneys.
4. Information Use
Dempsey & Fouts may use personally identifiable information to assist us in delivering our services, reports or information you have requested.
We use your information to
Conduct our business
Respond to your inquiries regarding attorney services
Enable you to pay your bill online
Provide you with Dempsey & Fouts services and information relevant to those services and our website
Develop new services.
5. Cookies
Dempsey & Fouts and our service providers use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us through your computer or mobile device.
This information, which includes, but is not limited to: the pages you visit on our site or mobile application, which web address you came from, the type of browser/device/hardware you are using, search terms, and IP-based geographic location, helps us recognize you, customize your website experience and make our marketing messages more relevant. This includes Dempsey & Fouts content presented on another website or mobile application.
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Dempsey & Fouts and our marketing partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers, e.g. call tracking platforms. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies to identify customer status, test segmentation, and referral source. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
6. Third Party Analytics Tools
Dempsey & Fouts utilizes third party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to collect non-personally identifiable information using cookies. Certain types of information, such as geo location, device type, online website behavior, demographic data & purchase history is collected and aggregated across the Dempsey & Fouts website for analysis and marketing initiatives.
Dempsey & Fouts employs Remarketing by way of Google Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook/Instagram Ads and LinkedIn Ads to display relevant ads to users who have previously visited the website. Dempsey & Fouts may use previous session information to display advertisements to you on the website and Google may set a cookie and serve ads to you on third party websites on the Google Display Network and Social Sites. Third parties such as Google may display ads on websites across the internet and Social Media sites may display ads on their respective websites. Aggregated user data may be utilized to create remarketing and/or retargeting lists or groups of users with similar onsite behaviors or demographics.
Dempsey & Fouts also uses Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting and Interest-Based Advertising to display advertisements to users based on their inferred interests and demographics.
Users may learn more about Google Analytics use of cookies by visiting the Google Privacy and Terms page at http://www.google.com/policies/. You may opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics by i) Turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser ii) Downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ iii) Opting out of user interest and demographic categories in the Settings for Google Ads feature to manage or opt out of Google interest based ads at: or iv) Managing cookies used for online advertising across multiple companies at the US-based Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Users may also learn more about Facebook Ads use of data and cookies by visiting the Facebook Data Policy page at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. Users may also learn more about LinkedIn Ads use of data and cookies by visiting the LinkedIn Data Policy page at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
7. Aggregate Information
The Dempsey & Fouts website may track the total number of visitors to our website, the number of visitors to each page of our site, browser type, IP addresses, External Web Sites (defined below) linked to and other aggregated data collected through our services and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
8. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
Service Providers - We may provide personal information to third-party service providers (Payment Processing, Data Storage, & SMS Text Messaging)
9. Links to Third Party Sites
This website may link to other websites. Dempsey & Fouts’ Privacy Policy does not apply to third party websites. This website may contain links to other websites who may have a different privacy policy.
10. Security
Dempsey & Fouts takes reasonable and appropriate steps to ensure the security of the information that has been provided to us. The information you provide to submit your information is protected using industry standard e-commerce security technology such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
11. Dempsey & Fouts SMS/Text Messaging Terms
By providing your mobile phone number to Dempsey & Fouts, including through our website forms, phone calls, emails, intake forms, scheduling tools, or other communications, you consent to receive text messages from us at the phone number you provide.
Text messages may include, but are not limited to:
Appointment reminders
Intake and consultation follow-up
Case status updates
Requests for documents or information
Payment or deadline reminders
Responses to questions you send us
Administrative or client-service communications
We use SMS to communicate with clients regarding their legal matters. Message frequency may vary depending on your matter, your case activity, and your interactions with us.
Message and data rates may apply. Please contact your wireless carrier for details about your text messaging plan.
For help, contact us at admin@dempseyfouts.com or (602)345-1952.
12. Consent Not Required
Your consent to receive text messages is not a condition of purchasing any services or hiring Dempsey& Fouts. You may choose to communicate with us by phone, email, mail, or other available methods instead.
13. Opt-Out Instructions
Reply STOP to unsubscribe. Reply HELP for assistance.
14. Mobile Carrier Disclaimer
Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
15. Privacy and SMS Data
We respect your privacy. Information you provide to us, including your mobile phone number and SMS consent, is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.
We do not sell, rent, or share your mobile phone number or SMS opt-in information with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.
16. Confidentiality Warning
Please do not send confidential, sensitive, or urgent information through website forms or text messages unless you are already a client and we have instructed you to do so. Text messaging may not be appropriate for highly sensitive information.
17. Intellectual Property
The content on this website, including text, graphics, logos, design elements, and other materials, is owned by or licensed to Dempsey & Fouts, unless otherwise stated. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, or use website content for commercial purposes without our written permission.
18. Disclaimer of Warranties
This website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not guarantee that the website will be error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or current at all times.
19. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Dempsey & Fouts is not liable for damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, this website or from reliance on general information provided on this website.
20. Changes to These Policies and Terms
Dempsey & Fouts may find it necessary to periodically update our policies to keep up with the ever changing nature of the internet. Because this, Dempsey & Fouts highly recommends that users of this website check periodically for updates to our policies, terms and conditions.