Privacy Policy

Welcome to our Privacy Policy page.

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary is dedicated to protecting your privacy and advancing technology that gives you the most compelling and safe online experience.

This privacy policy refers to information obtained online from users of The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary site, blogs, and social-media accounts. Our websites may contain links to other sites. The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. If you link to or under other conditions visit any other site, please review the privacy policies posted on the other site. 

This policy does not address the information gathered from other sources such as:

In this policy, you can learn what type of information we gather, when and how we might work with that information, how we protect the information, and the choices you have regarding your personal information. By using The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

1. What Personal Information Is Collected and How Is It Used?

Information about our users is gathered in three ways:

We use the information collected mainly to offer a personalized Internet experience that delivers the information, sources, and assistance that are most pertinent and useful to you. We don't share with others any of the information you provide, except when we say so in this Privacy Policy, or when we think in good faith the law requires it.

2. User-Supplied Information

You can visit our website, blogs, and social-media accounts without revealing any information about yourself. We do ask for personal information from you if you complete the contact form on our site (e.g. e-mail address, name, phone number, and state). You are not obliged to give any information.

Please do not offer confidential, proprietary, or sensitive personally identifiable information (e.g. Social Security Number, date of birth, drivers license number, credit card, bank account, or other financial data.) If you submit any sensitive information, you do so at your risk, and we will not be liable to you or answer for the results of your submission.

Information that you provide to us through the contact form will be used so that we may answer your inquiry. We may also use the information you gave to communicate with you in the future. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you may opt-out (unsubscribe).

If you send us an email message, the following applies:

If you receive an email message from The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary that markets our services, you will be provided with an automated way to unsubscribe from that communication or all marketing messages sent by email.

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary invites you to read the privacy policies of websites you link to from The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary so that you can find out how they collect, use, and share your information. The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary is not responsible for the privacy policies or other content on sites outside of The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary site.

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary collects and uses your personal information to operate The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary website and deliver the services you have requested. The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary also uses your personally identifiable information to update you on other products or services available from The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary and its affiliates. The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary shall also communicate with you via surveys to operate research about your impression of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists or other user information to others and will not make your personal data available to any unaffiliated parties, except as follows:

When reasonably practicable, The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary will attempt to respect your privacy. The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary Web site will reveal your personal information, without notice, only if obliged to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary. We will disclose your personal information to:

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary doesn't use or reveal sensitive personal information, e.g. race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit permission.

3. Web Server Logs

When you visit our site, we may track data about your visit and store it in web server logs, which are accounts of the actions on our sites. The servers automatically capture and save the data electronically. Examples of the data we may gather include:

The data we collect in web server logs helps us operate the site, provide general usage statistics, protect it and its content from inappropriate use and improve your experience.

4. Cookies and Passive Tracking

To provide a customized and personal service, our website may use cookies and similar technologies to store and help track information about you. “Cookies” are text files, small pieces of data your browser may collect from a Web server. Your browser may then collect it on your computer system based on the preferences you have set. Cookies gather data about your operating system including (but not limited to) browser type and IP address. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or transfer viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely appointed to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that distributed the cookie to you.

We use cookies to analyze the traffic on our website, help remind us who you are, and help you navigate our site.

Cookies offer a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. This allows us to save preferences for you, so you won't have to re-enter them each time you visit. We do not use this data to identify a user personally. The use of cookies is relatively standard.

Most Internet browsers are originally set up to accept cookies, but you have the choice to configure your browser to alert you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to choose whether to accept or reject it. You also have the choice to block all cookies. You should understand that you may not be able to use all of the functionality of the website if you don't accept cookies. You can opt-out of Google's use of cookies by accessing Google's Ad Settings.

By visiting this website, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies by this Privacy Statement.

5. Security of Your Personal Information

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary maintains appropriate security measures to help protect your personal data from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or alteration. However, we cannot attest that unauthorized persons will always be unable to destruct our security measures.

6. Scholarship Application Privacy Policy

To be considered for a scholarship, we ask you to submit data to us electronically. Types of personally identifiable data may consist of but are not limited to: your name, address, phone, email, and academic information.

The academic information may include your high school name and location, high school graduation date, scholarly honors, extracurricular projects, colleges applying to, accepted at, or attending, course/program pursuing, anticipated career goals, transcripts, letters of recommendation, standardized test scores, and a personal essay.

Additional kind of data may include this information about your parent(s): full name, home address, telephone, job, or employers.

You are demanded to redact (not include) any and all sensitive, confidential data (e.g., social security numbers, health-related data) that is not requested or required in the scholarship application. Please be advised we do not demand such confidential data and are not asking you submit it.

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary processes the data you provide only for the purpose for which it was gathered, which here is in consideration for awarding scholarships to the chosen applicant(s) in accordance with program framework.

All data you enter during the application process is automatically saved. Even if the application is abandoned or not submitted, the data you supply is electronically saved and stored as part of your user account and continues to be subject to this Privacy Policy.

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary may utilize the contact information you submit through the online application to confirm receipt of your application, to collect more data if there are questions regarding your application, to send you communications regarding your application status, or for notification necessary to administer this scholarship program. When you send an email or other communications electronically to us, The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary may retain these communications to process your inquiries or to respond to your request.

Submitting data into the system is at your risk. The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary can not and does not promise that technical errors or other data-related issues will not happen that could impact the site, privacy, or submittal. Our software partners and we will make all practical efforts to try to avoid this from happening or to address any situations within a practical time upon our becoming aware of them. None of the data you provide in the application or in supporting materials, including yours or your parent(s) contact data shall be distributed, sold, shared, or otherwise given to any third parties. 

7. Access and Correction

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. Contact us via the phone number, contact form, or mailing address on our site at any time to:

8. Revisions to This Privacy Policy

The Law Offices of Sean M. Cleary reserves the right to change this policy from time to time to reflect company and customer feedback. Please check the policy periodically, especially before you submit additional personal information through our website or one of our social-media accounts. All revisions to this policy will be posted on our site.

Disclaimer: Please note that the information provided on this site is not formal legal advice, also the site does not allow you to form an attorney-client relationship.