Privacy Policy

Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Alabama Law Report collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Alabama Law Report’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Alabama Law Report’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Alabama Law Report may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Alabama Law Report also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Alabama Law Report only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Alabama Law Report’s websites choose to interact with Alabama Law Report in ways that require Alabama Law Report to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Alabama Law Report gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at WordPress.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Alabama Law Report – by purchasing access to the Akismet comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Alabama Law Report collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Alabama Law Report. Alabama Law Report does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics
Alabama Law Report may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Alabama Law Report may monitor the most popular blogs on the WordPress.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Alabama Law Report may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Alabama Law Report does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Alabama Law Report discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Alabama Law Report’s behalf or to provide services available at Alabama Law Report’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Alabama Law Report’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Alabama Law Report will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Alabama Law Report discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Alabama Law Report believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Alabama Law Report, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Alabama Law Report website and have supplied your email address, Alabama Law Report may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Alabama Law Report and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Alabama Law Report takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Alabama Law Report uses cookies to help Alabama Law Report identify and track visitors, their usage of Alabama Law Report website, and their website access preferences. Alabama Law Report visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Alabama Law Report’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Alabama Law Report’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers
If Alabama Law Report, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Alabama Law Report goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Alabama Law Report may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Alabama Law Report and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments
Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Alabama Law Report may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Alabama Law Report’s sole discretion. Alabama Law Report encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.