This policy explains areas of this Chavin Immigration Law Office website that may affect your data, beyond the personally identifiable contact details covered on the GDPR page.
We may change this policy and the GDPR page from time to time by updating this page. You may check this page from time to time to see updates. You will not be updated separately by any individual contact, as a rule.
Use of Cookies
Chavin Immigration Law Office and its website development and design vendor (“we” or “our”) use cookies to better understand the users’ experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website.
Measuring Website Usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We do not collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies in accordance with Google’s privacy policy:-
Universal Analytics
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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_ga |
This helps us count how many people visit the site by tracking if you’ve visited before |
2 years |
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_gid |
This helps us count how many people visit the site by tracking if you’ve visited before |
24 hours |
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_gat |
Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made |
10 minutes |
Google Analytics
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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_utma |
Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to the site or to a certain page |
2 years |
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_utmb |
This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on the site |
30 minutes |
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_utmc |
This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser |
When you close your browser |
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_utmz |
This tells us how you reached the site (for example from another website or a search engine) |
6 months |
Joomla
We use cookies as an essential functioning part of our Content Management System (Joomla) as follows:
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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Joomla Sessions Cookie (joomla_user_state) |
Our website is powered by the Joomla web Content Management System (CMS). By default, Joomla CMS automatically installs a cookie into your web browser as soon as you visit this website. Below, this cookie is referred to as a "session" cookie; that means, the cookie lasts only as long as your current session when using our website. |
When you close your browser |
Downloads & Media Files
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available, users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party antivirus software or similar applications. We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third-party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party antivirus software or similar applications.
External Website Links & Third Parties
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the appropriate privacy policy applicable to the relevant website being used.
Social Media Usage
While we may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.
Contact
If you have any queries in relation to the above, please do not hesitate to contact us through any of the contact methods on our site.