RATTIKIN & RATTIKIN, L.L.P.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
4936 Collinwood Ave., Suite 200
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Telephone No. 817.737.7701
Facsimile No. 817.737.7201
RATTIKIN & RATTIKIN, L.L.P.
Privacy Notice
This notice is given in accordance with the provisions of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Title V, Subtitle A, (Public Law 106-102) and the Federal Trade Commission regulations set forth in 16 CFR 313 pertaining to privacy of Consumer Financial Information.
RATTIKIN & RATTIKIN, L.L.P. is committed to keeping Nonpublic Personal Information that we collect confidential and secure. This notice is to inform you of our policies regarding Nonpublic Personal Information.
1. PURPOSE
Our top priority is to provide you, our customer, with outstanding products and services. To achieve this goal RATTIKIN & RATTIKIN, L.L.P must collect, maintain and use certain personal and financial information about you and your activities with us. We recognize and respect your privacy concerns and expectations about how we use this information. We want you to know about our privacy policies and practices.
2. COLLECTION AND USE OF CUSTOMER INFORMATION
We collect, retain and utilize information about you to operate our business and to make products, services and other opportunities available to you. Much of the information we collect is nonpublic personal information.
Federal Law and Regulations define Nonpublic Personal Information as:
(i) Personally identifiable information; and
(ii) Any list, description, or other grouping of consumers (and publicly available information pertaining to them) that is derived using any personally identifiable financial information that is not publicly available.
Under Federal Law and Regulations Nonpublic Personal Information does not include:
(i) Publicly available information, [except any list, description, or other grouping of consumers (and publicly available information pertaining to them) that is derived using any personally identifiable financial information that is not publicly available: or
(ii) Any list, description, or other grouping of consumers (and publicly available information pertaining to them) that is derived without using any personally identifiable financial information that is not publicly available.
We collect Nonpublic Personal Information about you from the following sources:
- Information we receive from you by telephone, fax, e-mail, online questionnaires or other forms;
- Information about your transaction with us, our affiliates, or others;
- Information we receive from public records. This may include information contained in federal, state and local records such as recorded liens on your property, real estate taxes and assessments, tax liens, etc.
- Information we received from a consumer reporting agency; and
- We will collect information about you whenever you interact with us online, either by receiving or storing information you provide or through the use of identifiers called “cookies”. A cookie is a small marker left on your computer which can only be read by us and helps us better respond to your inquiries and service your account each time you visit our website.
We do not disclose any Nonpublic Personal Information about our customers or former customers to anyone, except as permitted or required by law.
We restrict access to Nonpublic Personal Information about you to our attorneys and employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your Nonpublic Personal Information.
3. MAINTENANCE OF ACCURATE INFORMATION
We have established procedures to correct inaccurate information in a timely manner. If you have any reason to believe that our record of your personal information is incorrect, please call us (Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Central time) at the following number:
RATTIKIN & RATTIKIN, L.L.P
(817) 737-7701
We will investigate the situation and, when appropriate, update our records accordingly.
4. PROTECTION OF INFORMATION
We maintain appropriate procedures to protect the security of your information. Our employees receive training and understand the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy. We restrict access to your personal and account information to those employees with a business reason for accessing such information.
While this policy does not apply to business accounts, we do respect the privacy of our business/commercial customers and take appropriate steps to protect their information.
The Customer Privacy Statement may be amended at any time and notice of any changes will be given to customers as required by applicable law.
We do not knowingly collect, maintain or use personal information from our websites about children under 13 years of age. Our website is not designed to attract children. A person must be at least 18 years of age to open an account online.
5. ONLINE COMMUNICATION
If you make an inquiry about any of our products, a cookie will be used while you are transacting business on our website. We use cookies when you enter customized information such as your zip code, as these cookies enable our computers to recognize you and facilitate the use of the website. Cookies are commonly used on websites and do not harm your computer. You can decide if and how your computer will accept a cookie by configuring your preferences or options in your browser. If you decide not to accept our cookies, it may affect the convenience of utilizing our online services.