Privacy Policy – Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm

Introduction: We Value Your Privacy

At Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm, we value your privacy and take the protection of your personal, confidential, and sensitive information extremely seriously. As a premiere real estate law firm serving clients across the country in all issues related to the purchase and sale of real property, we understand that trust plays a pivotal role in achieving a meaningful attorney-client relationship. In order to ensure your right to privacy, we dedicate ourselves to complying with all laws surrounding this topic. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose the information you provide us via interaction with our website. It applies to information we obtain when receiving, processing, and confirming an inquiry for the services offered on our site. Whether your needs lie within residential real estate law, investment consultative advice, commercial property law, or market analysis, you can rest assured that your safety is our top priority. We will always protect your personal rights and sensitive information. Your agreement with our practices is set forth in your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

Who We Are

Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm is a national law firm established in Minneapolis, MN (with no location outside the United States). Our licensed attorneys provide legal guidance and advice regarding property investments, transactions, and management. We are known for our seasoned professionalism, our long years of experience, our standards of integrity, and our personalized legal services. We are widely recognized for our knowledge and discretion in dealing with real estate matters. Based at 600 Nicollet Mall Ste 510, Minneapolis MN 55402 USA, we can work with you nationwide in metropolitan and prime markets.

Applicability of This Policy

This privacy policy governs all personal and professional information collected from current, prospective, and former clients and visitors to our firm website (https://elite-bricks.com/), or via phone, e-mail, in-person meetings, or any other communication or transaction with our firm. The information collected under this privacy policy includes information provided or gathered from visitors to our website or to any service that we provide in person or otherwise. By using our services or visiting our website, you consent to all activities described in this privacy policy.

What We Collect

We collect information in order to provide you with high-quality legal services tailored to your real estate needs. Information that we may collect includes your:

Personal identification data, such as name, address, telephone number, postal address, e-mail address, and other contact information
Transactional data, regarding your property transactions, agreements, contracts, and financial information related to the service we provide
Legal information regarding your matters, such as relevant documents, correspondence, and other background information we need for legal representation
Website usage data, such as IP address, browser type, date and time of access, referring URL, pages viewed while on our site, and time spent on particular pages; and information collected by cookies, web beacons, Clear GIFs, or log files through your browser or otherwise
Communication data, which includes transcription of communications and recorded calls between you and any of our attorneys or professional staff
Marketing information, such as personal data you provide for marketing purposes through a registration for a newsletter or an event

How We Collect Information

We collect information through the following means to best understand and serve your legal needs:

Directly from you: by calling us at (612) 390-6980 or emailing [email protected], by communicating with us via forms on this website, or in person at our Minneapolis office location.
Through the site: by automated technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and analytics software (e.g., Google Analytics) that track your use and activities on this website.
From third parties: with your permission, we may receive information related to your matter from other legal professionals, real estate agents, title companies, or other financial or transactional institutions.
In legal proceedings: as part of your case file, we will receive court records and property documents or regulatory documents.

Use of Your Information

We use your information only for legitimate and clearly defined purposes, including:

To advise you and represent you in connection with real estate transactions, leasing, development, condominium, construction, and investments
To draft, review, and negotiate contracts, agreements, and any other legal documentation
To perform legal due diligence and market analysis
To communicate with you about the status of your file, appointments, summons, notifications, and other legal advances where you are a party to a proceeding
To obtain payments for our fees, expenses, or billings
To improve the functionalities of our website and services offered to our clients and better serve our clientele
To comply with our legal, regulatory, and ethical obligations as a law firm
To send you information about developments, news, or otherwise updating you on regular communications that may include newsletters or invitations to events where consent is received

We do not use your data to speculate or create profiles or make automated decisions on your data. We do not sell your information or data to third parties.

Legal Basis for Processing Information

Our processing of your personal data is based on one or more of the following legal grounds:

Consent – where you voluntarily submitted information or opted into communications.
Contractual need – in order to meet our business, including legal service delivery, obligations.
Legal requirements – statutory, regulatory, and/or judicial requirements.
Legitimate interests – to protect our rights, interests, and the security and operation of our business, provided that your rights and freedoms are not overriding.

As a law firm, we are also subject to confidentiality requirements (including so-called “attorney-client privilege” and “advocates professional secrecy”) and other restrictions in the rules of professional conduct that further limit our use and disclosure of Personal Data.

How We Secure Your Information

Protecting the security and confidentiality of your information is our priority. We take extensive physical, technical, and administrative security precautions, such as:

Secured office facilities that are access-controlled
Utilizing encryption for sensitive electronic records and emails
Engaging in routine cybersecurity testing and security software updates
Providing restricted access to client files to attorneys and staff on an as-needed basis
Training employees in privacy, data security, and professional duties of confidentiality
Providing for secure disposal and destruction of old records

We make commercially reasonable efforts to utilize best-in-class security precautions; however, no transmission or storage of information can ever be 100% guaranteed. To that end, we recommend that clients follow best-in-class practices for communicating electronically about sensitive information.

Confidentiality and Attorney-Client Privilege

The law practice of Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm and its lawyers are subject to strict duties of confidentiality and attorney-client privilege arising under the laws of the United States. Any and all communications sent to us in the course of seeking and/or receiving legal advice or counsel is protected from any disclosure to any third party except as may be required or permitted by applicable law, rule, or regulation. This strict professional confidentiality obligation applies to each of our staff members, contractors, and other affiliated professionals who may assist in the performance of legal services or counsel provided on your behalf. We will not use your confidential information for any marketing or other commercial purpose.

Information That We Share, Disclose, or Transfer

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. Your information may be shared only when:

You have signed a document giving us your express consent to disclose to specific third-parties. This would include documents entered into as part of a real estate transaction and referral documents to other trusted professionals.
We must do so to comply with the law, a court order, or the request of a government regulator.
We believe it is necessary to protect our rights, our property, or the safety of our firm or others.
Such disclosures are part of the sale, merger, or other restructuring of our firm (safeguards will be ensured).
A service provider performing services on behalf of our firm, as necessary to provide the services to us (i.e., IT support, document management/storage providers), is contractually bound to keep the information confidential and only uses it for this purpose.

We examine all third-party disclosures we make to ensure their privacy and security standards are no less stringent than our own.

Third Party Services and Links

Site sections and our communications may contain links to websites, services, or resources maintained by other entities (e.g., property listing sites, title companies, legal research resources, etc). These sites are not controlled by us, and are not subject to our Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the policies of third-party sites that you visit. Elite Bricks Real Estate Legal Services is not responsible for the privacy practices and/or content of third-party sites.

Your privacy is important to Elite Bricks Law Firm.

Cookies and Website Analytics

To make our site work properly and improve your online experience, we use cookies and other tracking technologies to capture information about browsing patterns, type of devices used, and how websites or pages perform. Cookies enable us to:

Remember your settings and log-in details
Understand website usage pattern and user journeys
Determine areas to enhance our website functionality

You may set your web browser to refuse cookies and/or notify you when cookies are being set. Please bear in mind that declining cookies or removing them may prevent certain aspects of functionality from working properly. We also use analytics (e.g., Google Analytics) to gather aggregated data on users in a non-identifiable, anonymous, and global form for the purposes of generating statistics. We only use this information to improve our services offered. We do not link any personal information gleaned via these stats to an identified individual. For more details, please review our Cookie Policy.

Marketing Communications

Upon your request, we may communicate newsletters, legal alerts, or event invites on behalf of Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm. You may opt in through our website, during a consultation, or by reaching out to an associate. You can unsubscribe from future communications or change your preferences at any time by following the instructions specified in our email or contacting [email protected]. We do not use your information for unsolicited marketing purposes and we will not pass along your personal contact details to unrelated third parties for unsolicited promotional marketing.

Your Rights, Opting-Out and Other Choices

In connection with your personally identifiable information, as a matter of law (to the extent applicable), you have the following rights:

Rights to Access: You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you.
Rights to Rectification: You have the right to request that we change/update/correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Rights to Erasure: You have the right to request deletion/erasure of your personally identifiable information, subject to our legal and/or ethical obligations to retain and preserve certain data.
Rights to Restrict Processing: You have the right to restrict our use/disclosure of your personal information under certain circumstances.
Rights to Object: You have the right to object to specific uses of your personal information, including marketing activities.
Rights to Withdraw Consent: You have the right, where applicable, to withdraw consent to our processing of your personal data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or at (612) 390-6980.

Information Retention

We retain information provided to us for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill our legal obligations, meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. Legal, tax, and ethical obligations may require us to retain certain information for a specific period after you, our client, no longer require it. We will securely dispose of information that is no longer needed by shredding, deleting, or making inaccessible its identifiers.

Children’s Privacy

Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under 18 years of age. Our services are generally geared towards adults and business entities involved in real estate transactions. In any event, if we become aware that we have collected information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will take reasonable measures to delete such information from our file.

International Transfers of Data

Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm only practices in the United States and will not intentionally transfer personal information to or from jurisdictions outside of the United States. When information must be temporarily transferred to a service provider or third party located outside the United States (e.g., related to an international client or a cross-border transaction), we will take reasonable precautions to ensure appropriate protection of your information when operating under attorney professional conventions and rules of law.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We review and update this Privacy Policy periodically to adapt to changes in law, technology, our business processes, or client requests. The most current version is always available on our website, https://elite-bricks.com/. Material changes will be communicated to clients by e-mail or posted notices. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to learn how we protect your information.

Contacting Us

To exercise any rights with respect to this Privacy Policy or about your personal information, or if you have additional Privacy Policy questions, please contact Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm by mail, phone, or email at:

600 Nicollet Mall Ste 510, Minneapolis MN 55402
(612) 390-6980
[email protected]
https://elite-bricks.com/

Our professional staff will respond to your request in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent with our obligations and commitments under relevant legal ethics rules. For further details, please visit our Contact Elite Bricks page.

Complaints and Dispute Resolution

If you believe your rights to privacy have been infringed or that our collection or use of your information demands further clarification, you are asked to contact us directly at [email protected] and (612) 390-6980. We will promptly review your complaint and attempt to remedy any issues. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the relevant state bar associations or regulatory authorities with your privacy concerns as well. The objective is to settle all privacy issues amicably and hopefully retain your confidence in our legal representation.

Notice to California Residents

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents may have the right to know about the collection, use, disclosure, and sale of personal information from us. These rights may include:

The right to request disclosure about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect
The right to delete your information subject to legal exceptions
The right to opt out of sale of personal information (we do not sell personal information)
The right to non-discrimination for exercising these rights

To exercise this CCPA right, please contact us at [email protected]. We will verify your identity before processing your request and respond as required by statute.

Notice to Residents of Other States

In addition to California, covered privacy rights may also be available to you under privacy laws of your state of residence such as the state privacy laws of New York, Minnesota, or others. Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm reserves the right to comply with all applicable state privacy laws governing rights of access, correction, and deletion. If you are a resident of a state with expanded privacy rights to request access, correction, and/or deletion of information, you may directly contact our law firm for that purpose using the contact information provided.

Data Breach Notification Procedures

Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm has systems and procedures in place to identify, respond to, and reduce the likelihood of a potential data breach occurring on our systems. Should the utmost happen and a data security breach does involve your personal information, we will notify affected individuals and appropriate authorities as required by federal and state law. Such notification will include a detailed description of our security breach, the type of data involved, our action steps, and what you can do to protect yourself. We publish these security policies and take any necessary actions with the intent of providing effective resolution in case of a security event.

Employee Privacy and Consultant or Contractor Privacy

All of Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm’s attorneys, staff, and contractors are subject to strict confidentiality agreements and receive training on privacy and data security. Employees have access only to personally-identifying information necessary to perform their expected job duties. Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm monitors compliance and provides for disciplinary action in the event of a failure to comply with its standards. Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm carefully vets contractors and other service providers, who are required by contract to protect confidentiality and data security.

Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm does not sell any customer information to any third parties. Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm limits public access to its premises as appropriate based upon the level of confidentiality of information located thereon.

Business Changing Hands

If Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm is acquired, merged, or sold, your information may be transferred as part of the business assets. In any such event, we will use best efforts to ensure that the information remains subject to protections in line with this Privacy Policy. We will email you notice of any material changes to our privacy practices.

Jurisdiction and Governing Law

This Privacy Policy and any disputes that may arise hereunder are expressly governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota and the applicable federal laws and regulations of the United States. By accessing or utilizing our services or website you agree to submit to jurisdiction in courts located in or serving Hennepin County, Minnesota for any actions relating to privacy rights and protections.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do you share information with other clients or law firms?
A: No. Under no circumstances do we share client information with other clients or unrelated law firms without your consent, except as may be required by law or essential to the representation.

Q: Can I get copies of documents I sent you or signed?
A: Certainly. You have the right to request and receive copies of documents relating to your case subject to legal or ethical constraints.

Q: What if I suspect there has been tampering with my information?
A: Contact us immediately at (612) 390-6980 or [email protected] so we can investigate and take action.

Contact Us: Your Privacy Questions Answered

Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm encourages your questions and comments about our privacy practices. If you have any concerns, or wish to discuss your information with us, please contact us at:

Address: 600 Nicollet Mall Ste 510, Minneapolis MN 55402
Phone: (612) 390-6980
E-mail: [email protected]

We are here to help you have a secure, private, and confidential experience with our firm.

Concluding Our Commitment

Your trust is paramount to us at Elite Bricks Real Estate Law Firm. We work hard at maintaining the highest legal standard, including privacy, security, and ethical responsibility in every interaction and aspect of our legal representation. Thank you for trusting us with your needs surrounding real estate law and transactions. Review this policy often and contact us with questions or concerns. Together, we make your legal experience a safe and successful one.