The Trademark Infringement Expert Witness (TrademarkInfringement.Expert) website respects the privacy of the website users. The TrademarkInfringement.Expert website is operated as a part of Argent Leaf LLC, and represents the legal consultancy of Chris Silver Smith. We will refer to this website and its operators as “TrademarkInfringement.Expert” or “we”, herein.
TrademarkInfringement.Expert respects the privacy of its users and email list subscribers. Below is a list of the types of personal information which if you make available to us) when browsing or navigating this website will be kept confidential unless you provide permission to release it (unless required to disclose information due to a legal demand), subject to this policy:
- First and last name
- Company, residential, postal or other physical address
- Other contact information including: phone number, email address, social media accounts, and other similar information
- Title or position in a company or an organization
- Occupation
- Industry
- Personal interests
- Any other information needed to provide a service you requested
Sources for obtaining your personal information may include, but may not be limited, to:
- Posting a question or comment on the website.
- Requesting white papers, legal briefs, offered data files, or other documents
- Emails, phone calls, or other communications with us.
- Registering to attend a seminar or any event we are involved with.
- Participating in an online survey.
- Requesting inclusion in an email or other mailing list.
- Interacting with or submitting your information to any of our social media accounts.
- Connected data between the information you provide to us and third-party information sources.
- Any other business-related reason.
TrademarkInfringement.Expert provides you the opportunity to agree or decline to provide your personal information via the Internet. TrademarkInfringement.Expert will inform you of the purpose for collecting your data. We do not intend to transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent, except under the limited conditions described below entitled “Information Sharing & Disclosure” below.
If you do choose to provide TrademarkInfringement.Expert with your personal information, we may make use of that information for any permitted purpose described here.
IP Address Collection
TrademarkInfringement.Expert may collect IP (“Internet Protocol” computer internet address) address information from website visitors. The IP address may be connected through third-party data/service providers to identify geolocations of our visitors, indicating where our users are visiting the website from. This type of data is only accurate down to the level of identifying a website visitor’s city or Zipcode location. IP address in combination with a few other data elements can help to connect all website usage data for each individual users. Identifying individual and unique users allows us to understand how often visitors visit the site, and what parts of the site they visit most often. We use this information to improve the website and associated promotion activities; for client development; to assess and implement revenue options such as advertising; and, where appropriate, for opposition research in litigation and other legal matters.
This information is collected automatically and requires no action on your part. Optionally and at your own expense and effort, you may avoid providing this identifiable info, or you may obscure the data provided, such as by using third-party VPNs or proxy connections to the internet.
There is one exception to the foregoing: If your IP address is associated with any unauthorized exploits, hacking, malware, spam or other bad Internet things, that IP address or, in some cases, the entire country where that IP address is located is likely to be banned from all access to this website and other affiliated websites and may be reported to third parties such as my Internet hosting service and centralized organizations that monitor and collect information about such activity.
If you believe this has already happened to you in error, please email us and we may reconsider blocking.
Use of Cookies and Tracking User Traffic
Some pages on this site may use “cookies” — small files that the site software places on your hard drive for identification purposes. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID to track the pages visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. These files are used for customization, including ease of comment posting, the next time you visit TrademarkInfringement.Expert.
Some parts of the site may also use cookies to track user traffic patterns. This is done to understand our website usage, to improve it, measure our effectiveness, and to guage how well our promotional campaigns function. Cookies cannot read any of your private information beyond what you provide to our site and the types of information we outlined herein. Your Web browser typically will allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not, or setting either choice as a default.
If you prefer not to participate in our tracking cookies while browsing the TrademarkInfringement.Expert website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.
Email Marketing
We conduct email marketing from time to time, such as offering subscribers white papers on special topics we may produce, and newsletters containing legal news items and our commentary on those items. If you do not wish to receive our emails, fill out our Contact form and send it to us requesting that you be removed along with the email address used, and we will remove your email from our distribution list within 10 days.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Your personal information is never shared with anyone besides those who work or consult with TrademarkInfringement.Expert, and who maintain your confidentiality on the same terms as those set out here, without your permission, except under conditions listed below:
- Consenting to share your information to a third party service provider working on our behalf to serve you.
- Requiring us to provide you with a product or service.
- TrademarkInfringement.Expert will also disclose your personal information, if required to do so by law, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or in protection of the TrademarkInfringement.Expert and its interests.
Protecting the Privacy of Children
Children under 13 years old are not the target audience for TrademarkInfringement.Expert, which is about internet technology, online marketing, trademark law and IP law. TrademarkInfringement.Expert does not solicit the readership of, personal information of, or anything from children.
Links to Third-Party Sites
This site contains links to other sites, and does not share your personal information with those websites. TrademarkInfringement.Expert is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or potentially hostile code of the websites we link to from here.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
TrademarkInfringement.Expert reserves the right to change, modify or update this policy at any time without affirmative notice to you. It is possible that we may make changes to how we handle personal information collected by this website, although we do not anticipate any significant changes to what we use or how we use it as described in this policy.
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may click here to email them to us and we will respond as we deem necessary.