Privacy and ADA Compliance Policy

von Briesen & Roper, s.c. is committed to ensuring the accessibility of its website for people with disabilities. New and updated web content produced by our firm will endeavor to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA.

We use SiteImprove to monitor and correct compliancy issues to ensure this website continues to meet accessibility standards as described above. For security purposes all of the email addresses on our website have a layer of security applied to prevent bots from extracting that data. Users can click on email addresses, which will open your default email program. Users will not be allowed to copy and paste email addresses.

Privacy Notice

Privacy Statement for von Briesen & Roper, s.c.

von Briesen & Roper, s.c. has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: vonbriesen.com (https://www.vonbriesen.com).

This Policy does not govern our collection and use of information and data that you may provide to us in the course of legal representation which is governed by applicable state ethical rules and guidelines.

What Personal Information Do We Gather From Those Who Visit Our Site?

When you visit our website, you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose, and information that we automatically collect as you browse our website.

Information You Voluntarily Submit

We collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in offline contacts we have with you. Information is collected from visitors to the website in the following areas:

Registration Forms - You may register for electronic newsletters and to attend seminars and/or webcasts on various areas of the website. This information will generally contain contact information and preferences regarding the event or material for which you desire to register.
Employment Applications - You may submit information related to job opportunities with us. Please note that your submission of pre-employment information may be further governed by specific provisions that appear on the Careers section of our website.
Email - On every screen of our site you have an opportunity to communicate with us by e-mail. You may also choose to provide your e-mail address to receive communications from us.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

When you browse our website, you do so anonymously. We do automatically log your IP address (the Internet address of your computer), the web pages you visit and the time of your visit, but we do not link this information to anything that could identify you personally. The only other type of information automatically provided to us is the type of computer, operating system and browser you are using. This information is provided by your browser, which we use to improve the performance of our site.

We may also place small data files, called “cookies,” in the browser file of your computer's hard drive. These cookies automatically identify your browser to our server whenever you interact with the website. We use the cookies to record website statistics. Most browsers automatically accept the cookies, but you usually can change your browser setting to prevent the acceptance of cookies. Certain web pages may not function properly if you choose not to accept cookies.

Do not attempt to communicate with us about your specific legal issue, even in an emergency, through this website. We do not monitor your communications to us through this website for these purposes and we will not respond to your communication.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Information You Voluntarily Submit

We use your personal information to process your information requests. Unless otherwise noted, this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent. We may also communicate with you, if and when necessary, in connection with your use of our website, to respond to your questions, or to send you material and information you request. We may use your information to:

Process your request for materials if you make one
Respond directly to you
Register you for a newsletter or to attend a seminar and/or webcast, if you request it
Provide you with information regarding new services and general information about our services. (NOTE: You may elect not to receive these communications, either when you initially register at our site, or at any time thereafter. See the section of this Privacy Statement called “Choice/Opt Out.”)

Information Collected and Stored Automatically.

We may use your website information to help diagnose problems with our site. We may use all information we collect to analyze statistical use patterns and demographic data (basically, where our visitors come from and what demographic characteristics they have) and to improve our site to better serve our clients. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our website. Your IP address is used to help identify you as a new or returning visitor and to gather broad demographic information. We may also prepare and keep statistical records and other data about you and other users of our site, but we do that in a way that does not identify you or any other user personally. We may hire third parties to help us collect and analyze such data, and we may share such statistical data with third parties. Again, such statistical data will not specifically identify you or any other user. We use this information to help us make our website more useful to visitors - to learn about the number of visitors to our website, what part of the website they are interested in, how long they use the website, and the types of technology our visitors use.

Disclosing Your Personal Information to Others

Except in the limited circumstances stated in this paragraph, we do not sell, rent, license, trade or otherwise disclose the personal information of our website visitors to unaffiliated third parties. We may share such information among our affiliates as necessary to provide you with the information and services you request. We may disclose information about you if and when we believe it is necessary to comply with any law, rule, court order, or subpoena, or to enforce our legal rights or the rules of this website, or to protect our business, property and operations, or in connection with a sale, acquisition, merger or other business combination of our business with a third party.

Links to Other Sites

We may create links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you. We do not endorse any other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to your use of our website. We have not reviewed the privacy policies of any websites we link to our website, and you should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what information that site may collect about you.

Security

We have taken steps to make all information received from our online visitors secure against unauthorized access and use. All information is protected by our security measures, which are periodically reviewed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children's Privacy

This website is offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older. By using this website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with the firm and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the website. If you are under 18 years old, please do not provide any personal information, even if prompted by the website to do so. If you are under 18 years old and you believe you have provided personal information to us, please ask your parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify us and we will delete all such personal information.

In order to respect the privacy of minors, the firm does not knowingly collect, maintain or process any personal information submitted online via our website by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent the firm collects personal information on minors in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy, the firm will only do so with the appropriate consent or as otherwise permitted under applicable law.

Privacy Notice for California Residents

This California Privacy Notice (“Notice”) applies to “Consumers” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as a supplement to our other privacy policies or notices. In the event of a conflict between any other policy, statement, or notice and this Notice, this Notice will prevail as to California Consumers and their rights under the California law.

This Notice covers our collection, use, disclosure, and sale of California Consumers' “Personal Information” or “PI” as defined by the CCPA, except to the extent such PI is exempt from the notice obligations of the CCPA for the twelve months preceding the Effective Date. The description of our data practices, as required by the CCPA, covers only calendar year 2021 and will be updated annually. Our practices in calendar year 2022 may differ. However, if materially different from this Notice we will provide pre-collection notice of the current practices, which may include reference to our general privacy policy or other applicable privacy notices, which will reflect current practices.

As a law firm, much of the data we collect and process is not subject to CCPA Consumer rights. Without limiting the foregoing:

Consistent with the CCPA, job applicants, current and former employees, independent contractors, and subjects of certain business-to-business communications acting solely in their capacity as representatives of another business are not considered “Consumers” for purposes of this California Privacy Notice or the rights described herein.
PI subject to an evidentiary privilege, such as the attorney-client privilege and/or attorney work product protection, is not subject to the rights available to California Consumers as described in Section II; however, we do include this PI in the general disclosures in Section I.
Publicly available information (as defined by the CCPA) is not PI under the CCPA and not included in the disclosures under Section I and is not data to which Consumers have rights as described in Section II.

Subject to certain limitations, if you are a California resident you may make the following requests with regard to your Personal Information.

Right to Know and Data Portability

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months (the "right to know"). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete), we will disclose to you:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
- sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the "right to delete"). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. We may deny your deletion request. If we deny your deletion request, we will let you know why we denied your deletion request.

Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete related to your personal information. You may also make a request to know or delete on behalf of a child if you are the parent or legal guardian behalf of the child.

You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. Your request to know or delete must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please call us to check on the status of your request at: (414) 276-1122.

We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

“Do Not Sell” Rights

We may disclose your PI for the following purposes, which are not a sale: (i) if you direct us to share PI; (ii) to comply with your requests under the CCPA; (iii) as part of a merger or asset sale; and (iv) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

We do not believe that we sell California Consumer PI as defined under the CCPA and do not offer a “do not sell my personal information” request option. Accordingly, we will not sell PI of California Consumers collected when we did not offer a “do not sell” opt-out without prior, express consent.

Based on the categories required by California law, below are the lists of Personal Information collected, where they are sourced, why they are collected, and if we disclose them, and the categories of service providers or other third parties to whom we disclose them:

Category of Personal Information	Example PI Collected	Sources of PI	Purposes for PI Collection	Categories of Recipients
Individual Identifiers (e.g., real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers)	Name, postal address, telephone number, email address	Directly from you	To provide you with the service you requested To market our services to you To meet our legal and regulatory requirements	Service providers involved in providing services and communications to you Service providers who are involved in the provision, maintenance and improvement of our website
Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e) (such as name, address, telephone number, education, employment history, credit card or debit card number)	Name, postal address, telephone number, email address	Directly from you	To provide you with the service you requested To market our services to you To meet our legal and regulatory requirements	Service providers involved in the provision, maintenance and improvement of our site and in assisting us with our marketing communications
Commercial information (e.g., information regarding products or services purchased, obtained, or considered)	Yes	Directly from you	To provide you with the service you requested To market our services to you To meet our legal and regulatory requirements	Yes, but not shared
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interactions with our website)	Yes Directly from you, your computer or other device and indirectly from our service providers	To provide you with the service you requested	To market our services to you To improve our website To customize content displayed to you Service providers involved in the provision, maintenance and improvement of our website	Third party analytics service providers
Geolocation data (approximate location only)	Yes	Directly from your IP address	To track the use of our website Service providers involved in the provision, maintenance and improvement of our website	Third party analytics service providers
Professional or employment related information	Yes	Directly from you	To market our services to you	Service providers involved in the provision, maintenance and improvement of our site and in assisting us with our marketing communications

Although the categories of information above are collected for the designated purposes, Personal Information may be otherwise used for the purposes set forth in this Policy. We do not believe we sell Personal Information as defined by applicable law.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, contact us at:

von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Attention: Webmaster

411 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 276-1122

Notice to Residents of Europe Economic Area and the U.K.

Under the GDPR, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data for the items set forth below.

Access: Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we are processing about you, which we will provide to you in electronic form.
Rectification: You have the right to require that any incomplete or inaccurate personal information that we process about you is amended.
Deletion: In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we delete personal information that we process about you.
Restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal information where: (a) you believe such information to be inaccurate, (b) our processing is unlawful but you oppose the deletion of your personal information, (c) we no longer need to process such information for a particular purpose, but where we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because we require the information in connection with legal claims, or (d) you have objected to the processing of your personal information.
Portability: You have the right to request that we transmit the personal information we hold in respect of you to another data controller, where this is (a) personal information which you have provided to us, (b) the processing is by automated means, and (c) we are processing that information on the basis of your consent or in order to perform our obligations under a contract to you.
Objection: Where the legal justification for our processing of your personal information is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.
Withdrawing Consent: If we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This includes cases where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our Webmaster. Please note that some of these rights may be limited where we have an overriding legitimate interest or legal obligation to continue to process the personal information, or where the personal information may be exempt from disclosure due to applicable law, the applicable rules of professional conduct, attorney-client privilege, legal professional privilege, other applicable privileges or protections, or professional secrecy obligations.

No Fee

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other above-listed rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

Requirements From You

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time Limit to Respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Transferring Your Information to the United States

Security

Since we are committed to your privacy and security, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. We will maintain and upgrade our security measures by implementing improved technologies as we deem reasonably necessary to maintain the foregoing procedures. However, please remember that no transmission of data over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us or from us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we use our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

Changes in our Privacy Policy

By using our website, you consent to our collection and the use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policy and procedures, we will post these changes on our website. You have the opportunity to review the privacy policy each time you use the website so that you are aware of any modifications made to these policies.

Choice/Opt-Out

We provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. You have the following options for reviewing or removing your information from our database so you will no longer receive communications from us.

You can send email to:

You can send mail to:

von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Attention: Webmaster
411 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000
Milwaukee, WI 53202

You can call: (414) 276-1122

Questions About Our Privacy Policy

If you have questions about our website and our privacy policy or disclaimer, please contact the Webmaster at or mail us at von Briesen & Roper, s.c., Attention: Webmaster, 411 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1000, Milwaukee, WI 53202.