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Privacy Policy
The Legal News, Inc. takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

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What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how The Legal News, Inc. treats personal information that The Legal News, Inc. collects and receives, including information related to your past use of The Legal News, Inc. products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Legal News, Inc. does not own or control or to people that The Legal News, Inc. does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use
The Legal News, Inc. collects personal information when you register with The Legal News, Inc., when you use The Legal News, Inc. products or services, when you visit The Legal News, Inc. pages or the pages of certain The Legal News, Inc. partners. The Legal News, Inc. may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and other information. For some financial products and services we might also ask for your address. When you register with The Legal News, Inc. and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

The Legal News, Inc. collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of products and services that we offer.

The Legal News, Inc. automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, The Legal News, Inc. cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.

The Legal News, Inc. uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Children
When a child under age 13 attempts to register with The Legal News, Inc., we deny the child permission.

The Legal News, Inc. does not contact children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes.

The Legal News, Inc. does not ask a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
The Legal News, Inc. does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Legal News, Inc. under confidentiality agreements.These companies may use your personal information to help The Legal News, Inc. communicate with you about offers from The Legal News, Inc. and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of The Legal News, Inc.'s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

We transfer information about you if The Legal News, Inc. is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, The Legal News, Inc. will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. The Legal News, Inc. may display targeted advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.

The Legal News, Inc. does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

The Legal News, Inc. advertisers include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and software companies).

The Legal News, Inc. works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
You can edit your The Legal News, Inc. Account Information at any time.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to The Legal News, Inc. service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and The Legal News, Inc. Newsletter, that are considered part of your Legal News, Inc. account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.

To have your account deleted from our system, please contact our Webmaster by clicking here. Please be sure to include your user name and you account type and specifically request what services you would like us to delete.

Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Legal News, Inc. may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your the Legal News, Inc. account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at:

The Legal News, Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
25511 Budde Road, Suite 202
The Woodlands, TX 77380

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