Our Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Two Worlds Firm (“2WF,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website at www.2wf.org (the “Site”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Site.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Site.
  • Through any mobile and desktop applications you may download from this Site.
  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party; or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or on the Site.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see “Changes to Our Privacy Policy”). Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

2. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including:

2.1 Personal Information You Provide Voluntarily. We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:

  • Fill out contact forms to request a consultation or information.
  • Subscribe to our newsletter or blog updates.
  • Register for webinars or events.
  • Submit a DMCA notice or other legal inquiry.
  • Pay for services or invoices through our client portal.
  • Correspond with us via email or live chat.

This information may include:

  • Contact Data: Name, email address, phone number, mailing address.
  • Professional/Business Data: Company name, job title, industry.
  • Case/Inquiry Data: Descriptions of your legal matter, details about potential infringement, uploaded documents or images (e.g., registration certificates).
  • Financial Data: Billing address, payment card information (processed securely by our third-party payment processors; we do not store full card numbers).
  • Communications: Copies of your correspondence with us.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically. As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Usage Details: Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data (general, not precise), logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
  • Device Information: Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. For more information, see Section 6 (“Cookies and Tracking Technologies”).

2.3 Information from Third Parties. We may receive limited information about you from third parties, such as:

  • Business Partners: Referral sources or co-counsel.
  • Public Sources: Information from copyright or trademark office databases, court records, or professional networking sites like LinkedIn.
  • Analytics Providers: Google Analytics and similar services.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To Provide Our Site and Services: To present our Site and its contents to you, and to provide the information, resources, or legal services you request from us.
  • To Communicate with You: To respond to your inquiries, send you information about services you request, send administrative information (e.g., updates to our terms), and provide customer support.
  • To Send Marketing Communications: To send you our newsletter, legal updates, announcements about new services, and information about events or webinars, if you have opted in to receive them. You can opt-out at any time (see “Your Rights and Choices”).
  • To Evaluate Potential Legal Matters: To conduct conflict checks and to preliminarily assess your potential legal needs during a consultation.
  • To Process Payments: To process and collect payments for our services through our third-party payment processors.
  • To Improve Our Site and Services: To understand how our Site is used, troubleshoot problems, customize your experience, and improve our content, services, and marketing.
  • To Ensure Security: To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, services, databases, and other technology assets.
  • To Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests (e.g., responding to court orders or subpoenas).
  • To Enforce Our Rights: To enforce our Terms of Service, protect our operations or rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our clients, you, or others.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about our users without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third parties who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, email delivery, marketing assistance, and legal research services. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information.
  • For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation (e.g., a court order); (b) protect and defend our rights or property; (c) prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site; (d) protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public; or (e) protect against legal liability.
  • In a Business Transfer: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be transferred as part of that deal.
  • With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.

5. Data Security

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology and processed by PCI-compliant processors.

However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our Site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities.

  • Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site.
  • Web Beacons: Pages of our Site may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics.

We use cookies and other tracking technologies for:

  • Essential Operation: To enable the Site to function properly.
  • Performance/Analytics: To understand how visitors use our Site (via Google Analytics). This helps us improve the Site.
  • Functionality: To recognize you when you return to our Site and remember your preferences.
  • Advertising: We may use cookies to deliver content relevant to your interests on our Site and third-party sites.

7. Your Rights and Choices

You have certain rights regarding your personal information:

  • Marketing Communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any marketing email. We may still send you transactional or administrative messages (e.g., confirmation emails, billing notices).
  • Access and Updates: You can review and change certain personal information by logging into your client portal (if applicable) or by contacting us. We may not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may also not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
  • Do Not Track: Our Site does not currently respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals.
  • California Privacy Rights: California residents have specific privacy rights under the CCPA/CPRA. For details, see Section 10 (“Notice for California Residents”).

8. Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Site. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16, we will delete that information.

9. International Data Transfers

Our Site is operated from the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using our Site or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer, processing, and storage.

10. Notice for California Residents

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), provides you with specific rights regarding your personal information.

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.
  • 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.
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: We do not “sell” or “share” your personal information as defined under the CCPA/CPRA.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

To exercise your CCPA/CPRA rights, please submit a verifiable request to us by emailing or calling us. We will need to verify your identity before processing your request.

11. Attorney-Client Privilege & Confidentiality

Information you provide to us after forming an attorney-client relationship is protected by attorney-client privilege and our duty of confidentiality, to the fullest extent provided by law. Communications and information exchanged before the formal establishment of an attorney-client relationship may not be privileged or confidential. Please refer to our Terms of Service for more details.

12. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

13. Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, or to exercise your privacy rights, contact us at out Contact us page.