Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 24, 2025
As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to clients worldwide, Kostiv Cardinal, including its affiliated partnerships (“the firm”), operates https://kostivcardinal.com (“the Site”).
The firm is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, staff, agents, lawyers, law students, job applicants, or others inside or outside the firm). It has always been and remains the policy of the firm to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information upon lawyers and their associated personnel.
This Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is based on the privacy and data protection principles common to the countries in which the firm operates. The Site applies it in light of the firm’s overarching obligations to comply with the law, to preserve client confidentiality, and to represent the firm’s clients as effectively as possible within the bounds of the law. This Privacy Policy is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally and to advise the firm’s clients, interested law students, job applicants, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.
This Privacy Policy is also specifically addressed to parties outside the firm who provide Personal Information to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s website, the firm’s apps, the firm’s social media sites, the firm’s extranets, as well as email messages that the firm sends to you that contain a link to this Privacy Policy (“the Site”). This Privacy Policy also describes how the firm collects, processes, and discloses Personal Information in connection with the provision of legal services and the Site.
This page informs you of the firm’s policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information the firm receives from users of the Site.
The firm uses your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Confidentiality, Security, and Retention of Personal Information
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
The firm maintains reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards intended to maintain the confidentiality of Personal Information, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using other sites. The firm does not guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We require consultants, suppliers, and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, where applicable, European Union data protection laws and regulations.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Information, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy and in our applicable policies. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.
Log Data
Like many site operators, the firm collects information that your browser sends whenever you visit the Site (“Log Data”).
This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of the Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
In addition, the firm may use third-party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor, and analyze Personal Information.
Communications
The firm may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that the firm believes may be of interest to you.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Like many sites, the firm uses “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the Site.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We do not disclose any Personal Information to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other contractors acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy, and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service that you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Information to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our compliance matters.
As an international firm, we operate systems that may make data related to your matters accessible from our various offices worldwide and often transfer client data, which may include Personal Information, between our offices.
Children
To respect the privacy of minors, the Site does not knowingly collect, maintain, or process Personal Information submitted online via the Site by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent the Site collects Personal Information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in the Privacy Policy, the Site will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable laws.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.100 (California Consumer Privacy Act), California residents may have certain data protection rights regarding their Personal Information. These rights, which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions, include: (i) the right to disclosure, deletion, access, and nondiscrimination; and (ii) the right to opt out of having your Personal Information shared or sold. The Site does not sell or share your Personal Information with third-party companies for their direct marketing purposes without your consent. To exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, please send the firm your request using the “Contact Us” section below.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 24, 2025, and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
The firm reserves the right to update or change the firm’s Privacy Policy at any time, and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after the firm posts any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If the firm makes any material changes to this Privacy Policy, the firm will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
The firm maintains a Privacy Policy with a Data Protection Officer to enhance and promote compliance with privacy and data protection principles. This position serves as a point of contact for answering questions, accessing, amending, or correcting your information, and resolving issues and disputes. If you have any questions relating to the firm’s use of your Personal Information, please contact the Data Protection Officer at dataprotectionadmin@kostivcardinal.com or by mail at:
Kostiv Cardinal
ATTN: Data Protection Officer
3450 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90010