Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP (“HLS”, the “firm,” “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “personal information” (information that directly or indirectly identifies individuals who may be clients, potential clients, staff, lawyers, law students, job applicants or others inside or outside the firm). It has always been and remains our policy to comply with the rules of professional conduct, which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and other employees of the firm.
This Privacy Policy tells you about your privacy rights, how the law protects you, and how we protect your personal information. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please check this page occasionally to ensure you are aware of and understand any changes. By accessing, browsing, or otherwise using our Website, you acknowledge and consent to our collection and use of information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
This notice does not apply to information collected, or obtained, by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link, or be accessible, from or on our website.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. KINDLY DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE IF YOU ARE UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
If you are a resident of a country within the European Union, please note that the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) became effective across the European Union on May 25, 2018. If you are a resident of California, please note that the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) became effective on January 1, 2020. Historic versions of this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions of Use can be obtained by contacting us.
We only collect the data you give us to use to respond to you or to provide you with services you ask us to provide. We do not sell or loan your data.
What type of information is collected from you?
The personal information we collect may include your name, job title, employer, company name (if self-employed), address, email address, and IP address. You may submit personal information to us when you complete a request for information or request to join our mailing list. We may also occasionally ask, on a voluntary basis, for personal information for our internal use, such as for marketing and research purposes. If you use a credit card to pay for legal services from us online through our website, your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third-party payment processors, who specialize in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions.
How is your information used?
We may use your personal information for legitimate business purposes to do the following:
Our processing of your personal information is necessary for us to, among other things, (i) comply with our legal obligations, including but not limited to, our professional/ethical obligations as lawyers (ii) defend our legal rights and claims or the rights of third parties, or (iii) use for marketing, promotion, or other types of client development. We will use your personal information for legitimate business purposes in a manner that ensures we are providing quality client service and comply with our ethical obligations. In addition, we have a legitimate interest in growing our business and protecting/establishing our reputation through marketing activities (we will, where applicable, obtain your consent to send such communications). Sometimes our processing of personal information will be necessary to perform a contract in which you may be a party.
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for, or applicable to, a relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.
Who has access to your information?
Consistent with our professional obligations, it has always been the policy of the firm to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us. We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your personal information with third parties outside of Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP for marketing purposes. The only time we transfer your personal information (such as your name and email address) to a third party is when we are using a vendor, service provider, or subcontractor to provide services to you on our behalf (for example, to process your payment, use a third-party vendor who assist in preparing firm marketing mailings, or use Google Analytics to determine usage/traffic to our website). We request that these vendors not retain your contact information for any longer than is necessary to provide the products or services to you. We will not share your information with third parties unless required by applicable laws, court orders, regulations, guidance, or professional obligations that we may be subject to, to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us, or as authorized by you.
When we use external third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we take steps to ensure that they keep your information secure and not use it for their own direct marketing purposes. We may require consultants, suppliers, and vendors to maintain data protections consistent with reasonable and appropriate obligations of data processors, including, but not limited to, and where applicable, the GDPR and the CCPA. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us.
We may also transfer your personal information to a third party (1) if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation; or (2) to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our clients and customers.
We do not collect sensitive information about you, unless such information is relevant to a professional service that we are providing you, and is reasonably necessary for us to carry out that service. If you provide unnecessary or unsolicited sensitive information to us, we will inform you that it will be deleted from our databases as soon as practicable.
“Sensitive information” includes personal information specifying medical or health conditions, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, or information specifying the sex life of the individual. Again, please do not send this to us if we do not specifically ask you for this information in relation to a professional service we are providing you.
We use third-party services and products to host our Website, provide our newsletter, and to support the services that we provide to you. To the extent that these services and products collect data on our behalf, the collection and processing of that data is covered by this Privacy Policy.
We try to only partner with products and services that we believe operate with a similar emphasis and respect for data privacy and cybersecurity.
However, this Privacy Policy does not cover any third-party websites that are available through the HLS website. We have no responsibility for how these third parties treat your information. To the extent we have access to their privacy policies, we will provide them to you upon request. For information on how a third party collects, uses, and protects personal information, please visit the specific third-party’s Privacy Policy.
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us, you can “opt out” of our marketing emails. We will not contact you for marketing purposes if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted.
You can change your marketing preferences at any time or “opt out” by contacting us. Where you opt out of receiving marketing messages by clicking on the “opt out” link in our emails, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product or service purchase, product or service experience, or other transactions.
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you wish to change your contact information, or obtain or delete the personal information we hold about you, please contact us.
We are based in the United States, so if you use our website from another country, your personal information may be transferred to the United States. By submitting your personal data, you are agreeing to this transfer, storing, and/or processing.
We have taken steps to make all information received from our online visitors as secure as possible against unauthorized access and use. 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.
In the event of a suspected personal data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator of a potential breach where we are legally required to do so. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
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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 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. To the extent the firm collects personal information on minors in the context of one of the legitimate business purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy, the firm will only do so with the appropriate consent by the child’s parent or legal guardian or as otherwise permitted under applicable United States Federal and New Jersey laws.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
The CCPA, and other California privacy laws, provide California residents (i.e., consumers) with specific rights regarding personal information. This section of the Privacy Policy describes those CCPA rights and how to exercise them. This section does not apply to publicly available information.
As a California resident, you have the right to request that HLS disclose certain information to you about its collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. Once HLS receives and confirms a verifiable consumer request from you, HLS will disclose to you, to the extent permitted by law:
You shall have the right to request that the information described above be provided to you in a portable and readily usable format, to the extent technically feasible (“data portability”).
Please note that HLS does not sell your personal information.
You have the right to request that HLS delete certain of your personal information that it collected from you, and/or is related to you, and which HLS retained, subject to certain exceptions. Upon receipt of such request, HLS will confirm your verifiable consumer request and then it will endeavor to make an initial response to any such written deletion request within forty five (45) days of receipt, or as required by applicable law.
To the extent that HLS can delete your personal information, once HLS receives and confirms your verifiable consumer request, HLS will delete your personal information, unless an exception applies (and we will request that our service providers do the same).
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to HLS by sending a letter to our Marlton address at c/o Audrey Edwards, Manager of Office Operations, Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP, 60000 Sagemore Drive, Suite 6301, Marlton, NJ 08053 or email to Edwards@hylandlevin.com.
Note that only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a twelve-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
HLS cannot respond to your request or provide you with your personal information if HLS cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. Any disclosures provided pursuant to CCPA will only cover the twelve-month period preceding the receipt of the verifiable consumer request.
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.
HLS will respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt, or notify you that HLS requires more time to respond and the reasons for the extended response time. HLS will deliver its written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
To the extent that your verifiable consumer request is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded, HLS may charge a reasonable fee to respond to such request.
HLS will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, HLS will not:
HLS acknowledges that EU residents have certain rights associated with the personal information maintained by HLS. HLS is committed to providing the protections under the GDPR to all personal data. Those rights include:
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.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where HLS relies on your consent to process your personal data.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or just have questions about these rights, please contact by using our “Contact Us” Form, by sending a letter to our office address at c/o Audrey Edwards, Manager of Office Operations, Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP, 60000 Sagemore Drive, Suite 6301, Marlton, NJ 08053 or email to Edwards@hylandlevin.com. One of our team members will respond to you within a reasonable timeframe.
HLS is not responsible for loss corruption or unauthorized acquisition and use of information covered by this Privacy Policy, or for any resulting damages, including unauthorized acquisition and use.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without advance notice. Should we modify our Privacy Policy, the firm will post it on this website and update the “Last Updated” date, and where applicable, obtain your consent.
Last Updated: December 10, 2025
