Federal law requires professionals—including attorneys—who provide advisory services on personal matters to inform their clients of their policies governing private client information. Sharon L. Preston, P.C. has always protected our clients' privacy. In particular, Sharon L. Preston, P.C. strictly adheres to professional standards regarding client confidentiality. These professional standards include the attorney-client privilege, and the confidentiality requirements of the ethics rules applicable in the particular jurisdiction involved, including the duty of confidentiality set forth in those rules.

Our Policy on Gathering Information:

When providing you with legal services, we may obtain significant personal information, including:

• Personal contact information, including your name, residential and business mailing addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, Alien Number ("A" Number), and Social Security number.

• Information from your interaction with Sharon L. Preston, P.C., including correspondence by mail or e-mail, facsimile transmissions, telephone conversations, and personal meetings.

• Any other information you share with our firm in order to help us represent your legal interests more effectively.

Our Policy on Disclosing Your Information:

We do not disclose information relating to our representation of you except as authorized by you, as required by law, as permitted by the applicable rules of professional conduct governing lawyers, or as otherwise reasonably necessary. We may disclose such personal information when reasonably necessary, such as when a party fits one or more of the following criteria:

• To whom you authorize us to give your information.

• To whom we are permitted under the applicable rules of professional conduct governing lawyers.

• To whom we are required by applicable law.

We retain records relating to the advisory services we provide in order to comply with professional guidelines and to better serve your legal needs. In order to protect information relating to our representation of you, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with our professional standards.

Our Policy on Legal Advice

Information on the Sharon L. Preston, P.C. website is not legal advice and communication through this website does not create an attorney-client relationship. Because messages conveyed are not intended to be legal advice, they are not a substitute for obtaining advice from a qualified lawyer.

Links for other websites are provided for your convenience. We do not maintain the material on those websites and cannot be held responsible, nor is there any implied endorsement or sponsorship of those links by Sharon L. Preston, P.C. If you want to create a link to our website, please contact us to obtain written approval.

Our Security

By visiting our website, you are permitting us to access general information about the Web browser used, time and date of site access, operating system you are using, websites that linked to our site and your Internet Protocol address. Although we protect personally identifiable information and will not sell it to third parties, we do not guarantee that our security precautions will protect against any misuse or alteration of your information. Additionally, data obtained from your visits to this site may be used for internal marketing purposes or as may be legally required.

We may use data obtained from forms on various pages of our site that shows how you use our site. Web browsers automatically accept these "cookies" by default, but you have the option to delete these temporary Internet files.

  COPYRIGHT AND REPRODUCTION NOTICE:

Copyright © 2005 Sharon Preston, P.C., All rights reserved.

Reproduction of part or all of the contents of this site in any form is prohibited other than for individual use only and may not be recopied and shared with a third party. The permission to recopy by an individual does not allow for incorporation of material or any part of it in any work or publication, whether in hard copy, electronic, or any other form.

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