Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Jones Law Firm, PC (“Chad Jones Law”, “Chad Jones”, “CJL”, “us”, “we”, “the Firm”, or “our”) operates the https://chadjoneslaw.com website (the “Service”) and all subdomains.
We respect your personal privacy. We have never sold client data to third parties for any reason.
Personal Data means data about an individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession.)
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (i.e., the duration of a page visit.)
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers in order to (for example) make their websites or services work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Data Controller means a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed.
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any person (other than an employee of the Data Controller) who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
We may use the services of various Service Providers to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject is any individual who is the subject of Personal Data.
The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
We may use your Personal Data to respond to your requests, contact you with newsletters, or inform you of marketing-related events that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any or all of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or by contacting us to be removed from any email or text/SMS message we send.
By providing a telephone number and submitting this form, you consent to being contacted by SMS text message. Message and data rates may apply. You can reply STOP to opt out of further messaging.
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Persons contacting the Firm through the Internet or e-mail submission form provided through this Service should not send confidential or sensitive information. The Firm does not currently collect personal identifying information through our website except for such information that your ISP automatically provides to our web server, such information that you send to us in an e-mail message, and such information that you submit to us in a web form, web chat, voice call, or text message. The Firm will use personal identifying information for our own proper purposes, but we will not sell or share information to third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.
E-mail sent to us may not be secure. If you choose to send us an e-mail message, we may retain the content of the e-mail, your phone number, your e-mail address and our response, and it becomes the property of the Firm.
SMS Consent and general communication consent: By contacting us through our Service, whether by chat, form submission, phone call, and or e-mail, you expressly consent to receiving phone calls, mail, e-mail, text messages, and/or SMS messages from the Firm, including, but not limited to, our staff, employees, attorneys, and partners. By contacting us through our Service, you consent to waive any claim you may have pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Your consent to receive phone calls, mail, texts, SMS messages, and e-mail messages from the Firm will continue indefinitely unless and until you provide written notice identifying your name, phone number, and e-mail instructing the Firm not to contact you by one or all of these methods. Further, by contacting us and providing your information, you agree that we may attempt to contact you anytime, day or night, in order to respond to your inquiry; however, we will not message you between 9PM and 8AM Central Time, unless we are responding to a direct inquiry from you to us.
Further, as to SMS consent and text messages only, if you would like to opt out of receiving any text message from the firm, simply respond to the text message you received with the word “STOP,” and you will be removed from receiving future text messages from the Firm. Currently, the Firm does not send text messages for any purpose other than to correspond with our clients who have signed a client agreement with the firm that expressly consents to receiving text messages from the Firm, or in response to an inquiry from a potential client. If you are a potential client who has submitted an inquiry to our firm, thereby giving the Firm your SMS consent and otherwise agreeing to our privacy and text message policy, we will only reach out to see if we can assist with your inquiry, and we will not send you marketing texts in the future unrelated to your inquiry.
Your SMS consent applies only to contacting our Firm and is not transferable, shared, or sold to any other third party or affiliate.
The Firm does not send text messages (SMS messages) for any purpose other than to correspond with Firm clients who have signed a client agreement with the Firm that expressly consents to receiving text messages from the Firm, or in response to an inquiry from a potential client.
If you are a potential client who has submitted an inquiry to our Firm, thereby giving the Firm your SMS consent and otherwise agreeing to our privacy and text message policy, we will only reach out to see if we can assist with your inquiry.
If you would like to opt out of receiving any text message from the Firm, simply respond to the text message you received with the word “STOP,” and you will be removed from receiving future text messages from the Firm.
Material on this Service may be considered advertising under the rules of the Supreme Court of Texas. The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision that should not be based solely on advertising.
You may reproduce materials available on this Service for your own personal use and for non-commercial distribution. All copies must include our copyright notice.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies, such as beacons, tags, and scripts, are also used to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may be unable to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
By using our Service, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
To the extent that the professional responsibility rules of any jurisdiction require us to designate a principal office or an attorney responsible for this Service, Jones Law Firm, PC designates Chad E. Jones and its office located at 2811 S Earl Rudder Fwy, College Station, Texas 77845.
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
We may disclose your information to (1) comply with applicable laws, (2) respond to governmental inquiries, (3) comply with valid legal process, (4) protect our rights or property, or (5) facilitate your request for a free case evaluation. By registering and using this Site, you acknowledge that the processing of your information for the purposes described above may involve the transfer of such information from within the United States of America (USA) to countries outside the USA whose data protection regulation may not be as stringent as that within the USA.
We use Google Analytics and Meta Pixel remarketing codes to log when users view specific pages or take specific actions on a website. This allows us to provide targeted advertising in the future. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertising from us in the future, you can opt out using the DoubleClick opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page: networkadvertising.org
Our law firm gathers, stores, and electronically transmits medical records (Protected Health Information), and our clients’ protected health information is subject to electronic disclosure.
Texas and Federal Law prohibit any electronic disclosure of a client’s protected health information to any person without a separate authorization from the client for each disclosure. This authorization may be made in written or electronic form or in oral form if it is documented in writing by our law firm.
The authorization for electronic disclosure of protected health information described above is not required if the disclosure is made: to another covered entity, as that term is defined by Section 181.001, or to a covered entity, as that term is defined by Section 602.001, Insurance Code, for the purpose of: treatment; payment; health care operations; performing an insurance or health maintenance organization function described by Section 602.053, Insurance Code; or as otherwise authorized or required by state or federal law. In other words, no further release is necessary for electronic disclosure to other healthcare providers, insurance companies, governmental agencies, or defense lawyers representing adverse parties.
The security of your data is important to us. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page↗️.
We use Intuit’s Mailchimp to send out emails about marketing tips and upcoming events. Every email has an unsubscribe link so you can opt-out at any time. Read Intuit’s Privacy Policy↗️ for more information.
We use OptinMonster as our data capture service to manage customer inquiries. All form submissions are sent through OptinMonster to our CRM and email service provider. Each user can opt out of communications at any time through their account settings. Read OptinMonster’s Privacy Policy↗️ for more information.
We use Ngage Live Chat to connect directly with clients and make it easier to schedule meetings with the Firm. Read Privacy Policy of Lawyerist↗️ for more information.
Our blog uses Jetpack for the blog comments and Akismet for spam protection. Automattic is the organization behind WordPress CMS and Akismet plugin. Read Jetpack’s Privacy Policy and Automattic’s Privacy Policy↗️ for more information.
On our blog, we embed YouTube videos that we have created within our content. Read YouTube’s Privacy Policy↗️ for more information.
We use Zoom products and services for communications and collaboration with external parties. Read Zoom’s Privacy Policy ↗️ for more information.
Our Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.
If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
