Overview of Our Policy on Cookies
At Law Offices of Shakespear N. Feyissa PSC, our philosophy is to respect your privacy and make it easy for you to enjoy a seamless and trusted online experience. This Cookie Policy describes how we use cookies and similar technologies by or through our website, the types of cookies used on our website, the manner in which these cookies impact your online environment, and also explains how you can manage your online cookie preferences. As a Seattle-based law firm that prides itself on providing result-oriented, aggressive, and successful legal representation, we appreciate the trust you have placed in us-not just for our expertise in legal matters but also for the value we place on protecting your personal information and privacy as you engage with our online portals and website experience.
What Is a Cookie?
Cookies (or HTTP cookies) are small files created by your computer’s, tablet’s, or smartphone’s web browser and stored on your hard drive when you visit a site. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of a site. Cookies can be used to remember your personal settings on that site, navigate between pages, and collect statistical data in relation to an individual’s use of our sites or those of others, so we can better focus enhancements to our services. Some cookies are strictly necessary to enable you to navigate our website and use its features. Certain cookies also enable us to personalize your experience or must do so for analytics or advertising purposes.
The Purpose for Using Cookies
The Law Offices of Shakespear N. Feyissa PSC uses cookies for the following purposes:
- To provide secure and reliable performance for our website.
- To ensure a better website experience by allowing us to more easily recall your preferences and prior visits to our site.
- To offer anonymous analytics and performance metrics that reveal how well visitors and clients are utilizing our site, allowing us to fine-tune its performance and usage.
- To aid in providing relevant information on our legal services and help improve your experience by providing information from which you might benefit.
In the use of cookies, we continue to look for avenues in which to provide a reliable, informative, and secure web experience for our clients and site visitors looking for web content regarding advocacy for personal injury, civil rights, criminal defense, and more.
Categories of Cookies We Place
Our website uses different types of cookies. The key ones are:
- Required Cookies: These are absolutely essential for the website to operate and for you to use the website-cookies that allow you to access secure areas of the website or submit forms (like when you contact us for a free initial consultation).
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies help us analyze how our visitors use the website by monitoring things like the most visited pages, average duration of page visits, error messages, etc. This data is used by us (and frequently through third parties like Google Analytics) to allow us to research ways to improve the performance and usability of our website.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow us to recall the settings and preferences you make on our website (such as language or region). This provides a better and more convenient browsing experience for you.
- Advertising/Third Party Cookies: We rarely use marketing cookies and other advertising technology-however, we do sometimes use these kinds of cookies to provide you with relevant information about our services. These can be used to track your general browsing history so that we understand your site usage patterns. We also have pages on our website with many links to third party content (e.g., embedded maps, search engines, or videos) that may also have their own cookies.
How We Use Analytics and Other Tracking Tools
To help us improve our website through ongoing evaluation and to deliver the best experience we can to our visitors, we use analytics tools-principally Google Analytics-which gather non-identifiable, aggregate information about things like:
- Pages viewed and the amount of time spent on each
- Where visitors come from to get to our website (e.g. search engine or link from another site)
- What devices and browsers are being used to access the site
It is through that type of information we can identify trends, fix technical issues, and make sure our site meets the needs of people who seek legal advice in Seattle and elsewhere. We do not and cannot use analytics data to personally identify individual visitors.
How We Manage Cookies and Similar Technologies
Your privacy is important to us. When you first visit our website, a cookie banner or notice will be displayed, allowing you to either accept or refuse strictly necessary cookies. You may at any time change your preference by adjusting your browser settings or revisiting our cookies consent tool (if one is available on our website).
Most major web browsers will allow you to:
- See what cookies are on your machine
- Delete them individually or in bulk
- Stop them from being delivered from the websites you view
- Set preferences to accept or reject cookies (e.g. only those from sites you are visiting)
To find out more about cookies and how to manage them, please check out the help menu on your browser of choice. Please bear in mind that disabling some cookies may affect how our website functions and the user experience.
First-Party vs. Third-Party Cookies
Our site uses first-party and, in some cases, third-party cookies:
- First-party cookies are those directly set by the Law Offices of Shakespear N. Feyissa PSC. They’re mostly there to remember your preferences and/or enable essential site functions.
- Third-party cookies are those set by service providers or third parties we directly partner with (analytics or embedded video services, for instance). Those third parties may be able to collect information about your browsing activities across time and websites; for instance, if we use a Google map showing our Seattle office or an embedded Vimeo video that tells you more about our services, Google or Vimeo will have the ability to set their own cookie. We carefully vet third party providers and require them to meet our data protection standards, but do check their own privacy policies for further information.
Duration of Cookies
Cookies fall into two categories depending on how long they stay on your device:
- Session cookies are temporary files saved on your device only while you’re using your browser. For actions that require login, the cookie is deleted upon closing your browser; it’s made to allow you to perform actions on a site within the same session.
- Persistent cookies aren’t deleted so quickly, but get a pre-defined expiration date from the server. With persistent cookies, we can remember who came back and make the next visit easier and more personalized, by saving preferences or actions.
We implement cookies for as long as their purpose requires it. We consider both functionality and privacy and set the expiration dates for our cookies as follows: analytic and preference cookies expire from one day to up to 12 months. Cookies can be deleted from your device at any time in your browser settings.
Further Information on the Protection of Personal Data
We respect your privacy at the Law Offices of Shakespear N. Feyissa PSC. While cookies help our website to deliver a better experience, we would like to make clear that we make every effort to legally use any personal information that is collected through the use of cookies in a manner that is compliant with applicable privacy laws such as the Washington State Consumer Protection Act and, when relevant, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We do not sell any personal data nor do we use cookies to create personal profiles for ad delivery purposes. Information that is captured through the use of cookies on our website is only used to accomplish improvements of our website functionality and service delivery as well as security.
Cookies and Your Rights
Website visitors enjoy certain rights with regard to information collected through cookies. Depending on your location and applicable law, these rights may include the right to:
- Access information about the types of cookies used and their purposes
- Withdraw consent for use of non-essential cookies at any time
- Request deletion or correction of personal information collected via cookies
- Object to specific types of data processing
If you have questions or want to exercise your rights, please contact us using the information listed below.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Legal Matters
We are committed to full compliance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws, including U.S. Federal and Washington state laws. We review our cookie policy regularly to ensure that our use of cookies complies with evolving legal requirements and best practices. If we make material changes to our use of cookies or this cookie policy, we will inform visitors to our sites by means of a notice on our website and/or via this web page.
Third-Party Service Providers and Embedded Material
Our website may contain links to third party websites, or may also embed content (such as maps, legal content, or videos) hosted by third party providers. These third-party content providers or service providers operate independently and may set their own cookies when you interact with their content. We recommend that you carefully review the privacy and cookie policy of any provider whose content appears on our website to determine how content you interact with outside our direct control might use your information.
Who to Contact Concerning Our Use of Cookies and Other Privacy Matters
Any Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, how we use cookies, what cookies you might encounter on our website, how we protect your privacy, or anything else, let us know:
Law Offices Of Shakespear N. Feyissa
300 Lenora Street #349
Seattle WA 98121
Telephone: (206) 292-1246 or (206) 380-9309
Fax: 206-783-5853
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
We will respond to your concerns in a timely and transparent manner. Whether our communications are to you as a current or prospective client, your privacy and confidence is our utmost concern. For additional ways to reach us, please visit our Contact Us page.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in our business practices, technology, or legal obligations. The effective date of the most current version will be posted at the top of this page. You should periodically review this Policy to ensure you are informed about how we use cookies and otherwise protect your privacy. Any material changes will be posted prominently on our website where users can access them.
Additional Resources and Assistance
For a fuller account of our general principles of privacy, and other data protection matters, please refer to our Privacy Policy, available on this site. If you would like help with configuring your cookies settings, or more information regarding your rights in respect of the websites that you visit, we are certainly available to help you. Get in touch using the contacts above and we will assist you in a timely fashion.
The Law Offices of Shakespear N. Feyissa PSC considers it vital that every part of its work is done ethically, from the representation of clients in aggressive litigation to privacy concerns on the internet.