Ruiz & Smart’s privacy policy has two important parts: (1) The privacy policy and terms of use statement for receiving text / SMS messages and (2) the privacy policy that applies to this website on the whole. Please read and understand that you are agreeing to both by continuing on this website.

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Statement for Text Numbers

Effective Date: July 12, 2024

Ruiz & Smart LLP may use a text-messaging service to communicate with clients and potential clients.

Please read these terms carefully before using our service. By using the service, you agree to comply with these terms.

Service Description

Our service allows you to receive and send text messages to and from a designated text number. These
messages may include promotional offers, alerts, and other content.

Consent to Receive Messages

By using our service, you consent to receive text messages from us. Message and data rates may apply.

You can opt out anytime by replying “STOP” to a message.

We respect your privacy and use your information only to provide the service. For details, see our Privacy Policy.

Messages may include offers, alerts, and updates.

CTIA Compliance

Our service complies with CTIA guidelines. Report concerns to us.

Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our Service or applicable laws. We will notify you of any material changes to these Terms, and your continued use of the Service after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.

Termination

We can terminate your access for violating these terms.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by Washington State laws.

Contact

For questions, contact us at 206-203-9100.

Privacy Policy that Applies to the Website in General

Who we are

Our website address is: https://ruizandsmart.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.