Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
• In our blogging products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews visitors use its website. From time to time, Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress.com blogs. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews websites choose to interact with Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a in ways that require Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.  Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews – by purchasing access to the Akismet comment spam prevention service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews behalf or to provide services available at Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews website and have supplied your email address, Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews uses cookies to help Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews identify and track visitors, their usage of Automattic website, and their website access preferences.Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews websites, with the drawback that certain features of Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews sole discretion. Stephen K. Andrews, P.C. d/b/a Bleecker Brodey & Andrews encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.