1. The Horse Law Privacy Policy

1.1 Horse.Law (“Horse Law”, “we”, “us”, and “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy details how we collect, process, store, transfer and use your information when you access Horse Law, and how that information may be used. This Privacy Policy does not govern third-party services or products including off-site activities including any products or websites displayed on our website.

1.2 By accessing or using Horse Law, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy, so please ensure that you have read and understand it so that you can make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.

1.3 We may modify this privacy policy from time to time and so you should review this page frequently. If we determine that a revision is material, as determined by our sole discretion, we will notify you.

2. Information We Collect and How We Use It

2.1 Personal Information. We collect Personal Information about you when you voluntarily submit information directly to us by filling in forms on Horse Law or other forms correspondence. This includes, but is not limited to, information provided when you register to use our website, subscribe to Horse Law services, credentials including passwords and similar security information used for authentication and account access, and payment data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases (“Personal Information”). All Personal Information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate. Further, you must notify us of any changes to your Personal Information. If you choose not to provide Personal Information, we may not be able to provide services to you.

2.2 In addition, we may share your Personal Information with certain third parties, including:

• Business partners, vendors, suppliers, and subcontractors who perform services on our behalf (these companies are authorized to use your Personal Information only as necessary to provide these services to us);

• Analytics and search engine providers that improve and optimize Horse Law;

• Payment processors for the purpose of fulfilling relevant payment transactions;

• In response to lawful requests by any competent law enforcement body, regulatory body, government agency, court, or third party when required by law or regulation, or to comply with legal processes, government requests, or to exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.

2.3 Horse Law may anonymize and aggregate any of the Personal Information collected so that it does not identify you. We may use such anonymized information for a variety of purposes including: testing our IT systems, research, data analysis, improving our services and developing new products and features. We may also share such anonymized information with others.

2.4 Certain information will be automatically collected when you visit Horse Law on our server logs. This includes your IP address, which browser you use, your operating system, ISP, platform type, device type, mobile device identifiers, country, language preferences, search terms, links you click, and other statistics related to your usage of Horse Law. This information does not specifically identify you.

2.5 We may also collect technical information such as web storage data, data stored in application data caches and data provided by web pixels, cookies and anonymous identifiers. This information shall be used to primarily to maintain the security and operation of Horse Law and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. We retain and may use this information and data to examine and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users.

2.6 Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. We may also use tools, including third-party tools, to collect analytics data. Some of this information is collected using cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons, session replay scripts, and similar technologies. We may also work with third party partners to employ tracking technologies. Horse Law may save one or more cookies onto your web browser.

2.7 Cookies are small files that a website transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser. Cookies enable the website to recognize your browser and to capture and remember certain information. Cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. Cookies may do things like allow you to navigate faster through the site, remember your preferences, passwords, and generally improve the user experience. You can turn off the ability to receive cookies by adjusting your browser settings — please note that if you do so, this may affect the functionality of Horse Law and the information you can access through it. Horse Law utilizes cookies to compile aggregate data about website traffic and interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and content in the future. We may use third-party companies, such as Google Analytics, to assist us in understanding our visitors.

2.7 Note that when clicking links to third party websites, cookies or pixels may be transmitted to your computer’s web browser. Horse Law does not share any information that would readily identify you with these third parties however, these third parties may have access to information about your device (such as IP or MAC address). We do not have access to, or control over, the technologies that these third parties may use to collect information about your interests. Further, the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Other than as discussed in this document, we have no control over these third parties. Horse Law has no control over and is not responsible for any cookies, pixels or data storage on your computer originating from these third parties.

2.8 We may use information collected when you visit us for the following business purposes:

• Provide you with Horse Law products and services, and to process transactions.

• Respond to your requests or provide information requested by you.

• Send administrative or account-related information to you.

• Manage your account and provide support or other services, such as product updates, fixes and product and service recommendations.

• Obtain and understand your feedback and user experience.

• Better understand our customers and the way the use and interact with Horse Law.

• Provide a personalized experience and implement the requested preferences.

• Improve service reliability or improve features and functionality.

• Enhance security reliability or improve features and functionality.

• Provide you with marketing and promotional communications if it is in accordance with the law.

• Determine the effectiveness of marketing and promotional campaigns.

• Post testimonials with your prior consent.

• Interact with you on third-party social networks (subject to that social network’s terms of use).

• Administer product downloads and to confirm your compliance with our licensing and other terms of use.

• Communicate with you about our events.

• Provide quality control and staff training.

2.9 Security. Horse Law implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the information we collect and store. Unfortunately, no security measures are 100% foolproof, and as such no network or system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure against destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to information we collect and store. If you believe your information may not be secure for any reason, please contact us immediately at horselaw@gis1.com.

3. Your Privacy Rights

3.1 Updating Your Information. If you would like to update personal information that you have provided to us, email horselaw@gis1.com.

3.2 Marketing Communications. You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications from Horse Law by clicking “unsubscribe” in any marketing email communications we send you, or by sending an email to horselaw@gis1.com.

3.3 Additional Rights under the GDPR: If you reside in certain territories, you may have the right to exercise certain privacy rights available to you under applicable laws. We will process your request in accordance with the GDPR. We may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions that you began prior to requesting any deletion. The rights provided by the GDPR include:

• Right not to provide consent or to withdraw consent: We may seek to rely on your consent in order to process certain Personal Information. Where we do so, you have the right not to provide your consent or to withdraw your consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

• Right of access: You may have the right to access the Personal Information that we hold about you.

• Right of erasure: In certain circumstances, you may have the right to the erasure of Personal Information that we hold about you (for example if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was originally collected).

• Right to object to processing: You may have the right to request that Horse Law stop processing your Personal Information and/or to stop sending you marketing communications.

• Right to correct: You may have the right to require us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Information.

• Right to restrict processing: You may have the right to request that we restrict processing of your personal information in certain circumstances (for example, where you believe the Personal Information we hold about you is not accurate or lawfully held).

3.4 If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact horselaw@gis1.com so that we may consider your request under applicable law. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request. We will respond to its request for the removal of data within thirty (30) days. We will delete, amend or block access to any Personal Information that we are storing only if we receive a written request to do so from our customer who is responsible for such Personal Information; unless we have a legal right to retain such Personal Information. Further, Horse Law reserves the right to retain a copy of such data for archiving purposes, or to defend our rights in litigation.  

3.5 Additional California Privacy Rights. If you reside in California, you may have the right to exercise certain rights made available to you under applicable laws. These rights include:

• California Civil Code Section 1798.83: Once a year, customers that are California residents may, upon request, the identity of any third parties to whom we have disclosed Personal Information within the previous calendar year, along with the type of Personal Information disclosed, for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Please note that under California law, we are only required to respond to a customer request once during any calendar year.

• California Business and Professions Code Section 22581: California residents under age 18 who are registered users of online sites, services, or applications may request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted. Such requests should include a detailed description of the specific content or information to be removed. Please be aware such a request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

3.6 If you are a California resident and would like to make either type of request described above, please contact us at horselaw@gis1.com.  

4. Our Policy Towards Children

4.1 Horse Law is not directed to minors under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information or data or market to minors. By using Horse Law you represent that you are at least 18 years of age. Upon learning that we have collected personally identifiable information of such a person, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information from our files as soon as practicably possible.

4.2 Please contact us at horselaw@gis1.com if you believe we have any information from or about a minor under the age of 18.

5. How to Contact Us

5.1 If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at horselaw@gis1.com.