privacy policy

Van Wagner & Wood

Privacy Policy

This website is operated by vanwagnerandwood.com, and this privacy policy applies to this website only.

At VanWagnerAndWood.com, we respect you and understand that you are concerned about privacy, so we've instituted policies intended to ensure that your personal information is handled safely and responsibly. We also have posted this privacy policy to let you know what kind of information is collected, how it is handled, and with whom it may be shared.

As we continue to develop our website and take advantage of technologies to improve the services we offer through the Internet, this policy likely will change. We therefore encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions about this policy, you can contact us in a number of ways: by using the Contact Us Form; by postal mail at Van Wagner & Wood, S.C., PO Box 88, Madison, WI 53701-0088; or by calling our office at 608-284-1200. If your question relates to this privacy policy or to our disclaimer, please direct your questions to Attorney Christopher T. Van Wagner or Attorney Tracey A. Wood.

If you have any questions regarding your billing or payments, click on contact our office for a contact form, or call 608-284-1200.

What Information Do We Collect?

The use of this or any of our websites determines what information is collected and how it is used.

Online Payments

Payments made on this website are handled through a third-party. We do not provide credit card information to third parties, however, the information that you provide on this website to make credit card payments is passed through a secure connection with our third-party provider and they may retain that information by law or according to the terms of their privacy information or agreements.

If you make a payment to our office, then certain information must be retained according to the law. That information includes the name of the person making the payment, and may include additional information such as the payor's address and telephone number. We do not share this information unless required to do so by law.

Contacting Us Via This Website

When you contact us through one of the forms on this website, that form is sent to the personal e-mail address of each attorney with the firm, and in that process it passes through an additional network to our server. At any point along this path, your communication can be read by any of the administrators on the servers that are linked from your computer to our computer.

You should know that e-mails can be tracked, a copy of any e-mail received by our firm can be placed in a database, and a copy of any e-mail can be placed in the database of any provider along its path from origin to destination. That database can become evidence in a legal proceeding. In any database, the information about your ISP provider's name and your computer's IP address can be associated with any e-mail you send. That database may be erased on a daily basis, or at any other time. It is our practice to erase e-mails immediately. We do not share this information. We do not sell e-mail address, nor names, nor other personal information.

If you submit a case to us for review and that submission is made on this website, the information that you submit is not confidential and cannot be privileged. That information can be read by others.

If you contact our firm for legal advice, we may collect additional information about you, including your social security number, date of birth, and address.

Your name, home address, date of birth, and arrest information is available on Wisconsin's circuit court website, and we may access that information, as well as the attorney information related to your case at that website. Additonally, we may access other sources for information to confirm your indentity, your case, and the facts of your case, as is needed.

Privileged communications include only those communications conducted in a confidential environment and means, and then have other additional constraints. Questions regarding confidentiality between a lawyer and his or her client are best answered by the lawyer.

Browsing This Website

A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a Website that is saved on your hard disk by your computer's browser. It holds information a site may need to interact with you and personalize your experirence.

There are two types of cookies: persistent cookies and session cookies. Persistent cookies can store personal information about you, but session cookies seldom do. This website does not use persistent cookies, nor does it use session cookies that store personal information about you, but it does use session cookies that expire thirty days after your visit in which the cookie was placed.

When you browse this website, a cookie is placed on your computer for the sole purpose of identifying which pages you found to be of the most interest. That cookie records the pages you access at this site, and the page at which you existed this website. That cookie may also records the numeric address of your Internet Service Provider and the IP address of your computer or your network, depending upon how your computer accesses the Internet.

For statistical purposes, information gathered about your use of this website may be shared with others, but that infofmation does not include personal data.

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