We strongly value your privacy. This statement explains what information we collect from you, the limited circumstances under which we share your information, and the steps we take to keep your information secure. This privacy statement is effective as of May 25, 2004. This privacy statement is part of our Terms/Conditions, which can be viewed in full be clicking here.

Who may use this site
If you are under 18 years old, or reside in a country other than the United States of America, you may not use this site.

Updates to Privacy Statement
If any change to our privacy policy occurs, we will post a new version of our policy on our website.

The information we collect
There are three primary instances in which we collect information from you:

• If you sign up to our free newsletter, we ask for your e-mail address
• If you submit a question for attorney review through one of our forms, we ask for your contact information (name, address, phone, e-mail, etc.) as well as a description of the incident or issue.
• If you post to our message board, we ask that you register with us and provide us with your contact information.
  

For lawyers requesting a password to learn more about the site, we request that you provide us with your contact information and the reason for your interest. For lawyers wishing to join ClassActionConnect.com, we ask that you fill out an application, which includes your contact information, experience with class actions, and the parts of the site in which you are interested in participating.

We may also collect IP addresses to help us understand how visitors use our site and to enable us to make changes to the site.

How we protect your information
We only disclose any personally identifiable information about individual users, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms/Conditions, or when we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, valid legal process, a court order, a current judicial proceeding, or to protect our rights or property.

We disclose personally identifiable individual information and the other information you provide us to lawyers or law firms who are affiliated with ClassActionConnect.com, and who are interested in determining whether your complaint or posting could form the basis of a lawsuit or entitle you to relief under a pending lawsuit. As part of the application process, those lawyers or law firm agree to keep your information confidential and agree not to share it with any third party without your express permission.

We may also provide aggregate statistical information (such as the city or state you live in) to third parties to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes. We will not, however, disclose any personally identifiable information to these parties.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through e-mail, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. We do not, however, include any personally identifiable information on our message boards unless you specifically include it in the content of your posting.

If you are an attorney submitting information through our "Attorney Sign-up" section, we will not disclose any information to any third party without your express permission.

Questions about our Privacy Policy:
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, or if you wish to update or remove your information from our database, you should contact us at privacypolicy@ClassActionConnect.com.

Links
This Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.