Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for EntityClaw

Effective Date: May 17, 2024

Welcome to EntityClaw (the “Website”), operated by us. At EntityClaw, accessible from entityclaw.com, we are dedicated to helping you build and protect your wealth with expert insights into LLC formation, corporate structures, and legal asset protection. Navigating business law and securing your enterprise’s financial future often involves sharing personal and business information. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency regarding how we collect, use, and safeguard your information. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices concerning data privacy in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and Google AdSense program policies.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services, including:

  • Personal Data: This includes information that can be used to identify you directly or indirectly. We may collect your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and any other information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit a contact form, leave comments, or engage with interactive features on our Website.
  • Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you access and use the Website. This may include your IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. 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 not be able to use some portions of our Website.

2. How We Use Your Information

EntityClaw uses the collected data for various purposes, including:

  • To provide and maintain our Website.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or services.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so.
  • To provide customer support.
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website.
  • To monitor the usage of our Website.
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
  • To send you newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you, based on your preferences.

3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under GDPR (for EU/EEA Residents)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), EntityClaw’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

We may process your Personal Data because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you.
  • You have given us permission to do so.
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights.
  • For payment processing purposes.
  • To comply with the law.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to provide the Website on our behalf, to perform Website-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Website 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.
  • For Legal Requirements: We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation; protect and defend the rights or property of EntityClaw; prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website; protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public; protect against legal liability.
  • Business Transfers: In the event that EntityClaw is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

5. Google AdSense and DoubleClick DART Cookie

EntityClaw uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements on our Website. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.

  • DoubleClick DART Cookie: Google’s use of the DoubleClick DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to EntityClaw and other sites on the Internet. This cookie is placed on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site that uses DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense ads). It uses “non-personally identifiable information” and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers, or credit card numbers.
  • Personalized Advertising: AdSense uses cookies to serve personalized ads. For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), we will obtain your explicit consent for personalized advertising through a Consent Management Platform (CMP) or similar mechanism before serving such ads.
  • Opt-Out: Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
  • Third-Party Ad Networks: Other third-party vendors and ad networks may also serve ads on EntityClaw. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. EntityClaw’s Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Please note that for users in the EEA, we employ a consent management solution to ensure that non-essential cookies, including those used by Google AdSense for personalized advertising, are only placed on your device with your explicit consent.

6. Data Retention

EntityClaw 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 Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

7. Data Security

The security of your data is important to us, but 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.

8. Your Data Rights

For Residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) – GDPR Rights:

Under GDPR, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where EntityClaw relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

For California Residents – CCPA Rights:

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents have specific rights regarding their personal information. These rights include:

  • The right to know: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell. Upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request, we will provide:
    • The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
    • The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
    • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
    • The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information.
    • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
  • The right to delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by us, subject to certain exceptions.
  • The right to opt-out of the sale of personal information: While EntityClaw does not directly “sell” personal information in the traditional sense, the sharing of certain data with third-party advertising partners (like Google AdSense) for cross-context behavioral advertising may be considered a “sale” under the CCPA’s broad definition. You have the right to direct us not to sell your personal information at any time. To exercise this right, please click on the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link typically found in our website footer, or contact us using the details below.
  • The right to non-discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA rights.

To exercise your CCPA rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us using the “Contact Us” section below. We will verify your identity before processing your request.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children have 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.

10. Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data rights, or our data practices, please contact us: