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Privacy Statement

At Adams Legal Forms and DirectLaw, Inc., we understand your concerns about the privacy of personal information. Because of this, we have established the following guidelines concerning the collection, use and security of information we collect from you.

This Privacy Statement applies to the Section of the Staples Web Site that sells Adams Legal Forms. This Privacy Statement discloses our information practices, pertaining to how we collect, use and store your personal information on our Site. “Personal Information”, refers to information which, can be used to identify an individual such as name, or email.

Information Collection and Use

We shall not sell, share, or rent this information to third parties for their promotional purpose, nor will we use your information in ways different from what is disclosed in this Statement. We collect information from our users at several different points as described below.

Registration

In order to access a legal form, a user must first complete a registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (email address).

Information Sharing

We will not disclose any of your personal information, expect when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or to protect the rights, or property of Staples, Adams, or DirectLaw. We reserve the right to release personal information to its service providers, law enforcement, or other government officials, or in response to a formal request in a civil action, court order or judicial proceeding, as we in our sole and absolute discretion, deems necessary or appropriate.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive by a web browser. It is used to determine if a user has visited the Site previously. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personal information while on our Sites. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our Sites, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our Sites. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our Service. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our Site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site.

We use another company to place cookies on your computer to collect non-personally identifiable information to compile aggregated statistics for us about visitors to our site.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personal information. The statistics program on our web server collects aggregate information on what pages consumer's access, or visit which we use for internal review and to improve our content.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We employ industry accepted standards in protecting your personal information, and use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology in transmitting your sensitive information.

All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personal Information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security, and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified, and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personal Information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.

Data Retention: We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at https://adams.zendesk.com/. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Correction/Updating Personal Information:

If a user's personal information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update , delete or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing Customer Support.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Web Site so our users' are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point, we decide to use personal information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we shall notify users' by way of an email. Users' will have a choice as to whether, or not, we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request information about the visitor.

This site gives users the following options for removing their email addresses from our database to not receive future EMAIL Newsletters. You can opt- out of receiving newsletters by selecting the “unsubscribe” button present in each email we send out.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions pertaining to any of our practices, your use of the Sites, or this Privacy Statement contact:

Privacy Officer
DirectLaw/SmartLegalforms
6231 PGA Blvd.
suite 104-170
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418