Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 2004

Macey & Aleman knows that you care about your privacy and how personal information about you is used and shared. Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy to help you understand what types of personal information we collect from you, what we do with this information, and how we protect the privacy of that information. By visiting LemonHelpers.com, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, please do not use our website.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU DO WE GATHER?
In order to serve you better, we gather several different types of personal information about you.

Information You Give Us: The main source of our personal information about you is the information you provide us on this Website or when you communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or in person.

The types of personal information you give us include:

Your name.
Your street address.
Your e-mail address.
Your telephone and fax number(s).
Your social security number.
Your driver's license.
Your employment history.
Other information that allows us to contact you.
The identities and contact information of your spouse, family members, and dependents.
Your financial information, such as your assets, debts, and income.

Automatic Information
When you visit our website, we electronically receive and store certain types of information about you (for example, through the use of "cookies"). Cookies are electronic identifiers that automatically transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our computers to recognize you when you visit our site. You are certainly entitled to disable your cookies. However, if you disable your cookies, we may not be able to recognize you when you visit our site. Accordingly, we recommend that you leave your cookies turned on.

Other examples of automatic information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; your e-mail address; your computer and connection information, such as your browser type and version, operating system, and platform; and your clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time. During some of your visits to our site, we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect your session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouseovers), and methods you use to browse away from our pages.

Information from Other Sources
We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our information about you. Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated contact information we receive from third parties, which we use to correct our records and communicate with your more easily; search term and search result information from searches you conduct through the Web; search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links from Google); and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some of our clients.

WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
All of your personal information is stored securely on our web site, and we use it to provide various services to you, such as analyzing your financial situation, determining the appropriate legal options for you, representing you in a legal matter, co-operating with co-counsel, and communicating with you.

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Your privacy is very important to us; consequently, we take special efforts to protect the privacy of all personal information we have about you. Additionally, as a law firm, we also commit ourselves to the highest forms of ethical conduct, consistent with the rules of professional conduct in all of the states in which we are licensed to practice law.

We do not sell your personal information to others. We share your personal information with others only as described below.

Third Parties
From time to time we, we hire other individuals, including our own employees, to perform functions related to your legal matters, such as secretaries, paralegals, office workers, accountants, investigators, and other individuals. They will be provided with your personal information only to the extent necessary to assist us with your legal matters, and they may not use it for other purposes. We also share your personal information with the companies (and their personnel) who maintain, monitor and update this Website to allow us to improve our service to you.

Promotional Offers
On occasion, we may send offers to you on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give the other business your name, address or other information that would allow them to personally identify you or to contact you. If you do not want to receive such offers, please contact us.

Protection of Macey & Aleman
We will release your personal information to the extent required by law and as necessary for the legal protection of Macey & Aleman.

With Your Consent
In addition to the above disclosures of your personal information, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share such information, in which case the information will not be shared.

HOW SECURE IS THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE ABOUT ME?
Although no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we work to protect the security of your information at all times. The personal information that you provide to us electronically is protected in several ways. Your information resides on a secure server that only authorized Macey & Aleman personnel and its contractors have access to via password. We also encrypt your personal information in order to prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to us.

Furthermore, you should be aware that although we take steps to make sure our communications with you and third parties are confidential, e-mail transmissions are not secure, and there is a chance that information you provide us via e-mail, and information about you that we forward to third parties via e-mail, could be intercepted by unscrupulous individuals.

CAN I REVIEW THE PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU HAVE ABOUT ME AND CHANGE IT IF NECESSARY?
You may review all personal information we have about you at any time to ensure the accuracy of this information, and you may also update it as necessary. If, at anytime, you would like to review or update your personal information, please contact us via e-mail, by phone at 1-888-743-5787, or by mail at:

Macey & Aleman
Attn: Jeffrey J. Aleman
20 W. Kinzie, #1300
Chicago IL. 60610
(888) 743-5787

Also, please contact us as above if you ever have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy.

WILL THIS POLICY EVER CHANGE?
Due to the ever-changing nature of our business and the regulatory climate, we may be forced to change the provisions of this policy, and thus we reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time, without notice. However, we will attempt to inform visitors to our site of any changes to this policy, whether by e-mail alerts, notices on our web site, or through personal communications with you.