Who we are: Our website address is: https://mark-weiss.com You can contact us at J. Mark Weiss, P.S., 100 W. Harrison Street, South Tower, Suite S470, Seattle, WA 98119 (206) 622-6707 or via the contact form on our website.
How we share information: We do not sell visitors’ private personal information. We share information about visitors obtained through our website only to service providers that assist us in website and data management in the limited circumstances spelled out below.
Where we send your data: Visitor comments and submitted information may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data may also be sent to our analytics service provider.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
Contact forms. When visitors submit a contact form, we collect the visitor’s IP address and any information provided through the contact form. The visitor’s personal data (including IP address) is filtered for spam through the Akismet service. The Akismet service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ Information may also be provided to the service provider for ReCaptcha, which is Google. The Google privacy policy is available here: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en
Cookies. Pages and articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Comments. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Spam detection for comments is filtered through to the Akismet service. The Akismet service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Information you choose to make public is publicly available.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics: Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (“Google Analytics” or “Google”). Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored in your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.
Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage.
Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used.
You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on referenced above at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
For the cases in which personal data is transferred to the US, Google has self-certified pursuant to the EU-US Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework).
How long we retain your data: If you leave a comment or submit information through a contact form, the date and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up, and help verify there are no conflicts of interest.
Legal Requests: We may disclose website visitor information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
What rights you have over your data: If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How we protect your data: We use have systems in place to protect information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and we take reasonable measures to ensure the integrity of those systems, such as regular updating of our software, and monitoring for potential vulnerabilities and attacks. This includes the Wordfence service. No website is entirely secure.