Introduction to Our Policy on Cookies
Legal Dossier is committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about the ways that cookies and other technologies are used to improve your online experience with our website. This cookie policy explains how and why we use cookies on our website, the information we might use them to collect, and how you can best manage your preferences. As your go-to source for legal information, we believe in transparency and open lines of communication that give you the tools you need to make decisions about your data.
Cookies Defined
Cookies are small files that websites download to your device, storing information about you for future interactions-including preferences, usage activity, and browsing history. Cookies function to recall those actions and settings to better serve you when you return to that site. If used appropriately (and with permitted access), cookies can facilitate a better web browsing experience. Cookies can also be session-specific (meaning they exist only while your browser is open and are deleted when you end your session), or persistent (meaning they remain on your device for a specific duration or until deleted by the user).
Purpose of Cookies
The Legal Dossier employs cookies for the following key reasons:
- Basic Functionality: In order for the site to function properly and provide necessary features such as secure log in, navigation orientation, and content display.
- User Support: Understanding how visitors utilize our website enables us to enhance our content, usability, and overall user experience.
- Preferences and Personalization: To remember your settings and preferences, such as language choice, font size, or background display, so as to make your visits more efficient.
- Marketing, Communications and Measurement: To offer you content, news, and information relevant to your interests; to measure the effectiveness of communications efforts.
In no case do we use cookies for collecting sensitive personal information or invasive commercial practices.
Types of Cookies
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are required for basic site functionality – i.e., to enable you to navigate our sites and use their features and functions. If you disable these cookies, some site functionality will no longer be available.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies enable us to collect anonymous data regarding how users interact with our site for purposes of understanding usage patterns and enhancing functionality, content, and services. For example, we may use our stakeholders analytics vendors to track the number of times a page is visited or the pathways users follow through the site.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies remember choices you have made in order to provide you with enhanced, more personalized content or services. For example, these cookies may be used to remember your preferences relating to areas of law or your aforementioned stored articles.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: Although The Legal Dossier does not serve third-party advertising on the site, we may place cookies on your device for purposes of serving promotions to you (e.g., promoting our content, newsletters) and analyzing the effectiveness of these promotions. We do not share our cookies with third-party advertisers.
How We Use Analytics and Third-Party Cookies
In order to better serve you, The Legal Dossier uses analytics technologies such as Google Analytics to gather statistics on aggregate data regarding web traffic patterns, user actions, and content metrics. These analytics cookies tell us how many people are reading which articles, how users navigate around the site, and what areas need improvement. Any data received is anonymized and we do not receive any personally identifiable information from analytics.
Occasionally, we may embed content from third-party services (e.g., YouTube or social media feeds) in our articles. Those services will also establish cookies subject to their own privacy policies. We encourage you to view the cookie policies of any third-party services you use while visiting The Legal Dossier.
Consent and Cookies
Your privacy and control of your data is important. When you first open The Legal Dossier, you’ll receive a clear alert offering you the opportunity to accept and manage your cookie settings. If you continue to use our website, you allow us to use cookies in accordance with this policy.
You can change your cookie settings at any time by going into your browser preferences. Most browsers offer settings that allow you to block or delete cookies, or to alert you when a website is attempting to put cookies onto your device. But please bear in mind that if you do disable particular cookies, site performance and/or your user experience may be affected.
Managing Your Cookies Preferences
You have full control over the use of cookies on your device. While the directions are different depending upon your browser, some general tips follow:
- Google Chrome – Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Other Site Data
- Mozilla Firefox – Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Microsoft Edge – Settings > Site Permissions > Cookies and Site Data
- Safari – Preferences > Privacy
For mobile browsers, please consult in-application instructions. Also, third-party ad-blocker or privacy tools could assist with advanced cookie permission management. For all management methods, consult the browser’s help section.
Cookies and Data Security
Here at The Legal Dossier, one of our top priorities is to protect your data. Cookies employed by this website aim to do just that, as well. Technical and organizational precautions are adopted to prevent others from seeing or modifying your data as you traverse the online universe. Naturally, sensitive or personally identifiable data are not stored directly in any cookies, and best practices for managing such data are strictly followed.
Here at The Legal Dossier, we regularly assess our cookie management procedures to keep current with ever-changing security concerns and regulatory obligations.
Cookies and Compliance with the Law
The Legal Dossier is mindful that, as a United States-based service available to a global audience, compliance with applicable data protection laws is a priority. We work to ensure that our use of cookies complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other appropriate data privacy regulations.
Such requirements include clear consent for non-essential cookies, providing adequate information on what data we collect, and honoring the user’s right to access, edit, or delete that information. We are constantly reviewing legal updates in order to keep our Cookie Policy up-to-date and compliant. For more information, please review our Privacy Policy.
Cookies and Our Newsletter
Subscribing to the newsletter of The Legal Dossier enables you to receive news and information that is curated from across the legal profession. When you subscribe, we use cookies to remember your interaction with us to help provide you with information that is of interest. Cookies allow us to deliver timely and relevant information you are seeking. Unsubscription or a change in preference settings can be done at any time according to links provided in our emails or by contacting us.
How We Amend Our Policy on Cookies
Our commitment to transparency means that this Cookie Policy is subject to periodic review and revision to account for technology developments, regulatory activity, and the feedback we receive from customers. Any substantive changes will be prominently noted on our website. We encourage you to check this page periodically to remain up-to-date on our use of cookies on The Legal Dossier.
Questions About Cookies or Privacy? Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, or about our use of cookies on The Legal Dossier, please contact us at:
| Address | 1500 Washington Ave SE Ste 77, Minneapolis MN 55455 |
| Phone | (612) 744-7571 |
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| Website | https://thelegaldost.com/ |
A member of our staff will be able to receive your query and offer you further information about our use of cookies and other aspects of our policy concerning privacy. You may also visit our Contact Us page for more details.
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