Privacy Policy of Crash Connect
Crash Connect (“Company”, “Us”, “Our”, or “We”) operates websites, such as thecrashconnect.com (“Website”), which matches consumers to Law Firms in their area (“Law Firms” will include actual law firms or companies working on behalf of those law firms) (“Services”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy. If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We are not a law firm. We do not pre-screen or evaluate your claim. We provide your information directly to a sponsoring law firm in your geographic area so that the law firm may offer you legal assistance. This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use the Services and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy applies to information we collect:
- On this website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages, if any, between you and this Website and between you and the Company.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.
- When you interact directly with us offline or through other means.
It does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website or through any communication that you may have with one of our partners, such as a financial service provider.
Please note: Our Website and Services are intended to be accessed and used only by adults and are not offered or directed to minors. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information by anyone under the age of 18, and you should not provide us with any information regarding an individual under the age of 18.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
Personal Information Collected. We may collect personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) to use as part of our Service. This Personal Information may include, but is not limited to:
name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number; and/or
any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
Other Information Collected. We may also collect the following information (together with Personal Information, “User Information”):
information about you but individually does not identify you, such as information about your potential claim; and/or
information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
You may still access and use our Website and Services if you choose not to provide us with any of the above User Information, but some of our Website features and Services may not be available to you and may not be as accurate or complete.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, law firms that we partner with to provide you with information about their services. The information that we receive from these third parties will depend on the policies of that third party service.
Information You Provide to Us.
The User Information we collect on or through our Website or Services may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of requesting a match to specific law firms, or posting material.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website or any of our Services.
The information you will need to submit in order to receive specific information about specific law firms may be submitted on a third party service provider website, and will not be collected by the Company, unless such third party chooses to provide the information to the Company, as specified above
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
Analytics. We may enter contracts with third-party service providers to collect non-personally identifiable data on our behalf and provide us with information, reports, and analysis about the usage, general location information, and browsing patterns of users of the Website and Services. All of the data collected by these providers on our behalf is owned by us.
Use of Automatically Collected Information. The information we collect automatically is statistical data and may include Personal Information, or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
Technology. The technologies we may use for automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics, an independent web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. For more information about Google’s policies and practices, please see Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy. You may opt out of the aggregation and analysis of data collected about you on our website by Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/. Please note that if you opt out, analytics companies other than Google Analytics may continue to aggregate and analyze data collected about you on our website.
THIRD PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Some content or applications on the Website may be served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Use of Your Information. We use, store and process your information to provide and improve our Services and ensure a secure, safe and trusted experience. For example, we may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information and other services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for our Advertising Disclosure, and Privacy Notice for California Residents.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To improve the Website and Services.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
To respond to correspondence that we receive from you.
To resolve disputes.
To protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal, or harmful actions.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your User Information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. How Long We Store Your Information. We will keep your information for as long as necessary to provide you with the Services, maintain our legitimate business operations, and/or exercise, defend or establish our rights. How long we retain your personal information depends on why we collected it and how we use it, but we will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for our business purposes or for legal requirements.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED BY OUR LAW FIRM PARTNERS
If you submit a request for information from a Law Firm that you were matched with through our Services, you expressly consent to the Law Firm conducting any research necessary to provide you with the information you requested. For example, in order to provide more accurate information, Law Firms may need to obtain additional background information about you. If you do not want Law Firms to conduct the necessary research to provide the relevant information, then you should not submit such request. Because the collection and use of this information is subject to the privacy policies of the relevant Law Firms, and not this Policy, you should review those policies with care.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose User Information that we collect or you provide, as well as information that you provide to us about third parties, as described in this Policy:
To our subsidiaries and affiliates
To Law Firms.
To other service providers and third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION below.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your User Information, as well as information that you provide to us about third parties:
To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our other agreements, such as our Advertising Notice and our Privacy Notice for California Residents.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the User Information you provide to us and that we collect. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from the Company; Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services or want us to share your User Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to crashconnectusa@gmail.com
Targeted Advertising: If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to crashconnectsusa@gmail.com. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from Google by visiting https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated and from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) by visiting the NAI’s website. California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS below for more information.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You may send us an email at "crashconnectsusa@gmail.com" to request access to, correct or delete any User Information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS below for more information.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, see our PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to the Policy on this page with a notice that the Policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat User Information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address we have on file or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION
To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: crashconnectusa@gmail.com