Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Gordon Law PLLC website.  Our law firm’s physical address is 2021 Guadalupe Street, Suite #260, Austin, Texas 78705.  The firm can be reached via email by using the contact form, or by telephone at (512) 200-9333. 

Client Confidentiality. 

In this website’s content (e.g., articles and blog posts), some names, dates, facts, locations, events, and other identifying features have been changed to protect the confidentiality, identity, and privacy rights of clients and other relevant parties.

Information Collected.

For each visitor to this website, the Web server automatically recognizes no information regarding your name, domain name(s) or e-mail address(es). It may identify your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

The law firm collects the e-mail addresses of those who post messages to the blog, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with the business via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages website visitors access or visit, information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey information and/or site registrations. The information collected is used to improve the content of this website.

With respect to cookies: this website sets cookies to customize the welcome greeting you receive as a visitor.

If you use social media buttons on the Website (e.g. Facebook “like” or a Twitter “tweet” button), you will be providing certain information about yourself with the social media sites. For example, this shared information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address and other information about you based upon the content you marked or shared using the social media button, as well as any comments you made about the content when using social media.

SMS Consent Communications

The information (Phone Numbers) obtained as part of the SMS consent process will not be shared with third parties or any affiliates for marketing purposes.
Types of SMS Communications
If you have consented to receive text messages from Gordon Law PLLC, you may receive messages related to the following (provide specific examples):

  • Appointment reminders
  • Follow-up messages
  • Billing inquiries
  • Promotions or offers (if applicable)

Example: Hello, this is a friendly reminder of your upcoming appointment with Gordon Law PLLC at our
office on [Date] at [Time]. You can reply STOP to opt out of SMS messaging from Gordon Law PLLC at
any time.

SMS Notifications

Our SMS notifications are designed to:
Remind you of your scheduled visits. Inform you of upcoming services, payment reminders, and other
essential notifications related to Gordon Law PLLC.

Opt-In and Consent

By providing your phone number and opting into our SMS notifications, you confirm that you are the
owner or authorized user of the phone number provided. You consent to receive recurring automated
text messages (SMS, MMS) from us regarding your scheduled visits, service updates, offers, and other
important notifications. Consent is not required to make any purchase from us. Message frequency may
vary, but you can generally expect to receive between 1-5 messages per week.
You may opt-in to receive SMS messages from Gordon Law PLLC in the following ways:

  • Verbally, during a conversation
  • By submitting an online form
  • By filling out a paper form
    Opt-Out Instructions
  • Your consent to receive automated texts is entirely voluntary. You may opt-out at any time.
  • To stop receiving messages, reply “STOP,” “END,” “CANCEL,” “UNSUBSCRIBE,” or “QUIT” to any
    SMS message from us.
  • You may also email us at info@glawtx.com with your opt-out request.
  • After you opt out, you will receive a final confirmation message, and no further messages will be
    sent to your number unless you re-enroll.

Help and Support

If you are experiencing issues with our SMS notifications or need assistance, you can:

  • Reply with the keyword “HELP” to any message.
  • Email us directly at info@glawtx.com.

Message and Data Rates

Standard message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and from you to us. Please consult your mobile service provider for details regarding your text plan or data rates.

Marketing.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from Gordon Law, PLLC or the law firm in the future, please let us know by sending an e-mail using the contact form on this website or send your request by postal mail to the address listed above.

If you supply our law firm with your postal address online, you may receive periodic mailings with information on new products and services or upcoming events.

If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by calling the phone number listed above. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the list.

Privacy Policy Changes.

From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this privacy notice. If information practices change at some time in the future, our business will post the policy changes to this website to notify you of these changes and we will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at this website periodically.

Other Issues.

Website visitors may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us through the Internet lawyer contact form linked to above.

Upon request, we provide site visitors with access to a description of information we maintain about them. Website visitors can access this information by writing to the Internet law firm at the above address.

If you feel that this website is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above address or phone number.

California Privacy Rights.

If you are a California resident Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83 permits you to request certain information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To request this information, please send an email using this website’s contact form or write us at the following address:

Gordon Law PLLC

2021 Guadalupe Street, Suite #260

Austin, Texas 78705.

European Union Privacy Rights.

If you reside in the European Union, you may have certain privacy rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), to the extent the GDPR does not conflict with the laws of Texas and United States. Even if we do not have a legal obligation to do so, we may respond to your requests made per the GDPR. However, voluntary responses are not a waiver of our legal rights and obligations under the laws of Texas and United States or the arbitration provisions found within our website’s Terms of Use.

Small Or Medium-Sized Enterprise Status.

We are a small or medium-sized enterprise (“SME”). This means that because of the size of our business, to the extent (if any) the GDPR governs our relationship with you, some of GDPR’s obligations do not apply because we are an SME.

How To Make A Request.

To make a GDPR request, please send an email using our website’s contact form or write us at the following address:

Gordon Law PLLC

2021 Guadalupe Street, Suite #260

Austin, Texas 78705.

United States

We will respond within thirty (30) days of receipt of your request.

Requests To Access Personal Data.

If we grant your request to access personal data, we will: (1) confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data; (2) provide you with a copy of any of your personal data that we possess; and (3) provide you with information about how we process such data (e.g. purposes, categories, recipients, etc.).

Requests To Delete Data.

If you request that we delete your personal data that we possess, we will do so unless: (1) the data is needed to exercise the right of freedom of expression; (2) we have a legal obligation to keep the data; (3) we must keep the data for reasons of public interest; or (4) the data has been processed so that it is anonymized.

Any personal data we processed unlawfully will be deleted. If you were a minor when we collected the personal data, we will delete the data upon request.

If we believe any third parties have acquired your personal data through us, we will take reasonable steps to inform them that you have requested erasure of such data.

Objections To Processing Of Personal Data.

If your request is an objection to the processing of your personal data for directing marketing purposes, we will cease using your data for such purposes.

As a general rule, we will comply with objections to processing personal data except: (1) where it is not technically or commercially feasible to do so; or (2) we have a legal obligation that overrides your individual rights and freedoms.

Portability Requests.

If we collected personal data from you because of a contract between us or based on your consent, and we processed that data by automated means (in structured machine-readable format), you can request that data be transmitted by us to another company or organization.

We will provide such data to the recipient third party in a commonly used open format electronic file (e.g. CSV, JSON, XML, etc.).

Denied Requests.

If we reject your request, we will provide you with the reason(s) for doing so. You may then choose to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority and request a judicial remedy to the extent such a request is not in conflict with the laws of laws of Texas and United States or the arbitration provisions of our website’s Terms and Conditions of Use).

Processing Fees.

As a general rule, there is no fee for processing your GDPR request. However, we reserve the right to refuse your request or charge a reasonable fee for processing it if the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. For example, it would be excessive to make a repetitive second request to access your personal data one month after we provided you with the data from a prior request.