Updated March 13, 2019
At CALI and IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, we respect your privacy concerns. Please read this Notice to learn about:
- The kinds of information we collect at our sites, www.a2jauthor.org and www.a2j.org
- How we may use that information, and
- Who we may share it with.
This Notice also describes how we protect your personal information and how to contact us to learn more about our privacy practices.
Click on any topic:
- Information You Give Us
- Information Collected Automatically
- What We Do With Your Information
- What Steps We Take for the Security of Your Information
- Who We May Share Your Information With
- When Information Sharing is Required
- You May Change Your Information
- Links to Other Websites
- Privacy Policy Updates
- Questions
There are two groups of users of our products: Authors and End Users. Authors are individuals or organizations that sign up for Author accounts on www.a2jauthor.org or www.a2j.org and create A2J Guided Interviews®. End Users are consumers of A2J Guided Interviews through the A2J Viewer. They may access the A2J Viewer and the A2J Guided Interviews from our websites, www.a2jauthor.org, www.a2j.org, or from other websites that host the A2J Viewer themselves.
As Authors, we will ask you for basic information related to your creation of the A2J Guided Interviews and your affiliations with either CALI® member schools, legal services organizations, courts, governmental entities, or private companies. This could include your:
- Name
- Job Title
- Affiliated Organizations
- Email address
- Username and password
- Plan for hosting of the A2J Guided Interviews
- Personal information in messages you send us through our Contact Us tools
As End Users, we will ask you for some personal information that we need to prepare your legal forms. This could include your:
- Date of birth
- Social Security Number
- Monthly income, expenses, and property you own
- Insurance coverage
- Children’s information
- Citizenship
- Criminal record
- Arrest history
- Domestic violence history
- Gang affiliation history
- Personal history
We may also ask you for some personal information necessary to use our program, set up an account, and email us questions, including your:
- Name
- Username and password
- Personal information in messages that you send us through our Contact Us tools
Information Collected Automatically
Our website collects information that helps us serve you and lets you use certain features of the program. To do this, we may use cookies, web server logs, web beacons, and JavaScript.
Cookies: Our site may use web, HTML5, and Flash cookies, or other similar technologies. These allow us to identify your browser and remember your information, settings, and your visits to the site. We may also use other types of local storage, such as browser or plugin based local storage. Most browsers give you the option of enabling, restricting, and disabling cookies. You can control Flash cookies by visiting Adobe’s FlashPlayer Settings or Settings Manager.
Note: If you disable cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website or our web services. That is because the system needs to remember you to complete your forms and remember the information you provided before.
Our web server log may:
- Collect information about your device, operating system, browser, access domain, and other system settings
- Identify your system’s language, country, and time zone
- Record the page that referred you to our site, your device’s IP address (with the last two bytes discarded to anonymize the user), and the pages you visit at our site.
To control which servers collect information, we may place tags (web beacons) on our page. We also may send software instructions to your device that collect details of your interactions with our site, such as the kind of general information listed above.
We use an analytics service run on our own servers to learn how visitors use our site and our A2J Viewer. This service will know your IP address for generalized location information and tell us how you use our site and A2J Viewer.
Your usage information helps us to:
- Troubleshoot any problems and improve the site
- Meet our legal duties and comply with policies and procedures
- Help our Authors create better automated forms
- Know if you are a new or returning visitor.
What We Do With Your Information
The information you provide at our site may be used to:
- Manage and improve the services we provide and how we communicate with you
- Create and manage your account
- Communicate with you about your account and information at our site
- Process your form(s) and respond to your requests and questions
- E-file documents and information, if you request it
- Customize your experience with the site
- Manage and update our client databases
- Perform data analytics
- Protect against fraud
- Manage risk exposure
- Develop new services
- Meet and enforce all legal requirements, industry standards, and our own policies and terms, such as our Terms of Use
If we use your information in other ways, we will notify you when that happens.
What Steps Do We Take for the Security of Your Information
Our websites use industry-standard security measures to protect data against loss, misuse, and interception by third parties. Our security policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. However, CALI and IIT Chicago-Kent assume no liability for interception, alteration, or misuse of information transmitted over the Internet.
Who We May Share Your Information With
Service Providers
We may share your personal information with outside service providers, such as software developers we hire to debug or improve our program. These providers may only use or disclose your personal information to provide services to us or comply with legal requirements.
Researchers/Data Analysts
We may also share personal information for research, academic studies, data analysis, and reports. Information for these purposes is always aggregated. That means none of the information is linked to a particular person. For example, the data we share may be used to say how many users (not their individual names) live in Florida. We may also share how many people (again not their individual names) visited our site.
We do NOT share information from:
- Specific categories of personal information, such as names, Social Security Numbers, login, and access details.
Practice Area Group/Employers
If you get an authoring account on this site through your employer or practice group, we may disclose your personal registration information to your employer or practice group.
When Information Sharing is Required
For some site features, such as filing documents with a court, information sharing is required. If you use those features, you will get a separate notice that explains the privacy terms for those features.
If you ask us to share your information, for example, you may ask us to send a form to the court.
For legal reasons: We may share your personal information if we have good reasons to believe we need to do so to:
- Enforce our Terms of Use
- Protect our rights, operations, and users
- Comply with applicable law, regulation, or legal process, such as a court order or a subpoena
- Respond to a request from a government agency, such as law enforcement or an investigation of an illegal activity
- Prevent physical, financial or other harm, injury or loss
If our business structure changes - if we sell or transfer some or all of our business or assets, such as during a reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation, we may transfer your personal information to a third party. But that third party must agree to protect your personal information according to the terms of this Notice.
You May Change Your Information
You may change your personal information on the profile page for your account(s) at the site.
Our site lists links to other websites that are not part of our organization. We list those links to make it easier for you to get information at their sites. We do not have control over the content or privacy policies at those sites. It is a good idea to look at the Privacy Notices of those websites before you use them.
If there are privacy policy changes, we will post a notice on www.a2jauthor.org and www.a2j.org. The changes will go into effect 60 days after they are initially posted. The date of the change will appear at the top of the Privacy Notice.
Please send any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice to:
Email: webmaster@a2jauthor.org, or
Write:
CALI
A2J Author Project
565 West Adams
Chicago, IL 60661