PRIVACY STATEMENT

Your e-mail address will only be used within ALTERNATIVE LAW and its entities. We do not sell or rent e-mail addresses to anyone outside ALTERNATIVE LAW. If you wish to be removed from our e-mail mailings, please click here and complete the form to remove your e-mail address from our list or call our Service Center at 1-800-529.1516.

ALTERNATIVE LAW'S Support Level Agreement

ALTERNATIVE LAW is committed to providing 100% availability of its Internet site(s) and email service. We have safeguards to notify us in the event of loss of Internet connectivity to the backbone and of hardware failures. Even with these safeguards in place, loss of connectivity or hardware failure can still occur. For this reason, the ALTERNATIVE LAW cannot guarantee its Internet connectivity, nor can we be responsible for lost or delayed requests, email, or content.

For questions regarding our web site being down or any related service outage, please send an email to info@alternativelaw.com

Use of Cookies and IP addresses

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Our site uses cookies to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. We also use cookies to maintain user session identity, and, in some non-member areas, to store your username and password locally for ease of access.

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future.
A unique number called an IP address identifies every computer on the Internet. Each time you connect to the Internet your machine is assigned an IP address. An IP address is a number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet.

Our site's registration forms require users to give us contact information (like name and email address), method of payment, and demographic information. We use customer contact information from the registration forms to send the user information about our association. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Information regarding method of payment is collected for member enrollment, registration and to process orders for products and services.

External Links

ALTERNATIVE LAW.COM contains links to other external web sites that do not fall under the ALTERNATIVELAW.COM domain. ALTERNATIVELAW.COM is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external web sites.

E-Commerce

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like email address) and method of payment. Contact information from the order form is used to process orders and to send information about our association. User payment information that is collected is used to check the users' qualifications and bill the user for products and services.

Surveys

Our online surveys ask respondents for contact information (like email address) and demographic information (like zip code, age). We also may use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about our association.

Contest

We run contests on some sections of our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (like email address) and demographic information. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary.

Advertising

We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company and are used for advertisement banner rotation purposes only.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, list serves and message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Although ALTERNATIVELAW.COM tries to protect your personal information when using these public forums,  ALTERNATIVELAW.COM cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. It is also not the ALTERNATIVELAW.COM'S responsibility for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords you set up and/or any account information you have disclosed.