Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. Ralph Walker Designs is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards and appropriate internal controls. This privacy policy explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way Your information is used at our Site (defined below). This privacy policy is specifically addressed to parties outside of Ralph Walker Designs who (i) provide personal information to Ralph Walker Designs through the Site, or (ii) visit or use the Site.
1. Definitions
A. “You” and “Your” mean the individual or entity visiting or using the Site.
B. “We,” “Us” and “Our” means Ralph Walker Designs.
C. “Site” refers to Ralph Walker Designs’s website, www.ralphwalkerdesigns.com, and other related websites, blogs, domains, and mobile sites maintained by Ralph Walker Designs, including blogs available at www.ralphwalkerdesigns.com.
D. “Ralph Walker Designs” means Ralph Walker Designs.
E. “Non-Personal Information” is any information that is not Personally Identifiable Information.
F. “Personally Identifiable Information” is non-public information We receive from Your use of the Site that can be used, alone or in combination with other information in Our possession, to identify a particular individual. It may include information such as name, address, telephone number and other personal information You provide us.
2. Information Collected
A. Information Automatically Collected
Because of the internet communications standards, when You visit the Site We automatically receive certain information from your browser or mobile device, such as Your browser type, the operating system of Your device, the URL of the site from which You came and the URL of the site You visit when leaving the Site. We also receive Your IP address and the name of Your ISP or Your mobile carrier. Depending on Your device’s settings, We may also receive location data and other types of information sent from third-party services or GPS-enabled devices. As You use the Site, We may also collect information about such usage and Your actions on our Site, such as pages You viewed, access times, and how long You spent on a page. We may use cookies to collect such information, as described in more detail below.

We may use automatic data collection technology to record other information that identifies Your device and tracks Your behavior on the Site. We may automatically receive and record information on our server logs from Your browser, including your IP address, the pages you request, the pages You visited from our partner and affiliate websites and the products you viewed.

This information is considered Non-Personal Information we can use for any purpose, including to help Us improve the Site and to enhance Your and other users’ experience. However, we will treat as Personally Identifiable Information any item that, either alone or together with other information, we could use to identify an individual. For example, without Your permission, we will not share with third parties the link between Your IP address and Your Personally Identifiable Information, except as described in Section 6.B. (“Compliance with Legal Process”) below.

  1. Information You Provide
    You do not have to provide any Personally Identifiable Information to browse the Site. However, You may voluntarily send Us information from the Site, including Personally Identifiable Information. Accordingly, with Your consent, We may collect Personally Identifiable Information about You from the following sources:

Information You give Us through a contact page or other forms on the Site; or
Information You provide us when you sign up for an RSS (rich site summary) feed on the Site; or
Information You send Us by any medium, including texts, mail, telephone, and social media interaction; or
If You use a mobile device platform to access the Site or to communicate with Us, information transmitted from Your mobile device.

Ralph Walker Designs collects and processes certain voluntarily submitted Personally Identifiable Information for or to enhance Ralph Walker Designs’s educational, networking, marketing, social, and recruiting activities, and for other similar business purposes. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to provide You information regarding legal developments We believe may interest You. Such Personally Identifiable Information is not shared with entities outside of Ralph Walker Designs other than service providers who assist Ralph Walker Designs in carrying out these business functions.

We may also use the information You send Us, including Personally Identifiable Information You have submitted, to provide You legal services, if You are or become a client of Ralph Walker Designs, or We deal with any requests or inquiries You make.

  1. Use of Cookies
    The Site may send a “cookie” to Your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data sent to Your browser from a web server and stored on Your computer’s hard drive. A cookie cannot read data off Your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage Your system. Cookies allow us to recognize You as a user when You return to the Site using the same computer and web browser. We use cookies to identify which areas of Our site You have visited. We also may use this information to better personalize the content You see on the Site. Ralph Walker Designs does not store unencrypted Personally Identifiable Information in the cookies. We also do not link Non-Personal Information from cookies to Your Personally Identifiable Information.

To help us optimize the Site, We may allow other authorized third parties to place or recognize unique cookies on Your browser. Any information provided to third parties through cookies will not be Personally Identifiable Information, but may provide general segment information to enhance Your user experience by providing more relevant marketing. Third-party services and tools We use and which may send cookies to users of the Site, and to collect certain information from users, include:

Google Analytics: Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Site. We use the information We get from Google Analytics only to improve the Site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to You on the date You visit the Site, rather than Your name or other identifying information. You can review Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. We do not combine the information collected through Google Analytics with Personally Identifiable Information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on Your web browser to identify You as a unique user the next time You visit the Site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about Your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing You on return visits to the Site by disabling cookies on Your browser (see below).

Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to You on the date You visit the Site, rather than Your name or other identifying information. You can review Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. We do not combine the information collected through Google Analytics with Personally Identifiable Information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on Your web browser to identify You as a unique user the next time You visit the Site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about Your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing You on return visits to the Site by disabling cookies on Your browser (see below).

Google+ Platform: Google+ Platform is operated by Goolge Plus. Google+ Platform collects anonymous data (ad views, analytics, browser information, cookie data, date/time, demographic data, hardware/software type, internet service provider, interaction data, page views, and serving domains), pseudonymous data (IP Address (EU PII), Device ID (EU PII), PII (name, address, phone number, email address, login, EU- IP address, EU-unique device ID ), sensitive (financial information). Aggregate data, anonymous data, PII data and sensitive data is shared by Google Plus with 3rd parties. Google Plus’s privacy policy can be found at: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Siteimprove: We also use a tool called Siteimprove to collect information about how You arrive at the Site and about how You use the Site. Siteimprove collects no personally identifiable information related to your use of the Site. Instead, Siteimprove collects information such as what page(s) You visit and what interactions You make on a web page. You can review Siteimprove’s privacy policy at: https://siteimprove.com/privacy-policy/. We do not combine the information collected through Siteimprove with Personally Identifiable Information. Siteimprove’s ability to use and share information collected about Your visits to this Site is restricted by the Siteimprove Privacy Policy.

Besides these site analytic tools, Our blogs may use these social media tools:

Gravatar: Gravatar is operated by Automattic, Inc. and through Gravatar, it collects your internet usage across multiple sites, tracks Your email address when You post to websites, location, demographic data, and collects Your email address, when provided. Gravatar’s privacy policy can be found at: https://en.gravatar.com/site/privacy and http://automattic.com/privacy/.

LinkedIn Widgets: LinkedIn Widgets is subject to LinkedIn Corporation’s privacy policy when You reside in the United States and by Slideshare and Pulse when you reside outside the United States. LinkedIn’s privacy policy, which includes the terms of Slideshare’s and Pulse’s privacy policy, can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The data that LinkedIn may receive includes: ad views, browser information, cookie data, hardware type, software on your computer, internet service provider, interactions with data, page views, serving domains, location, device ID, name, address, phone number, email address and login. LinkedIn shares Your aggregate data with third-parties and retains Your data as long as necessary to fulfill a business need or as required by law.

Twitter Button and Twitter Syndication: Twitter Button and Twitter Syndication are subject to the privacy policy at: https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en. When You interact with a Twitter Button or widget, Twitter may receive information about You. The data that Twitter may receive includes: IP address, browser type, operating system, hardware type, internet service provider, search history, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, or cookie information. Twitter also receives log data when You click on, view or interact with links on Twitter’s website or through its services, including links to third-party applications. Twitter uses this information to customize and market content Twitter shows You, including targeting ads. Twitter also uses the data for the purposes described in its privacy policy, which include selling aggregate data to third-parties.

Facebook Connect: Facebook Connect, operated by Facebook Inc., collects anonymous data (ad views, analytics, browser information, cookie data, date/time, demographic data, hardware/software type, internet service provider, interaction data, page views, and serving domains), pseudonymous data (IP Address (EU PII), Device ID (EU PII), PII (name, address, phone number, email address, login, EU- IP address, EU-unique device ID ), sensitive (financial information). Facebook Connect’s privacy policy can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
Pintrest/Pintrest Conversion Tracker: Pintrest/Pintrest Conversion Tracker, operated by Pintrest, collects anonymous data (browser information, cookie data, date/time, demographic data, hardware/software type, page views), pseudonymous (IP Address (EU PII), location based data, device ID (EU PII))
PII (name, phone number, email address, login, EU-IP address, EU-unique device ID ) Sensitive (financial information)

The above-listed third-party services share with undisclosed third-parties the following: aggregate data, anonymous data, PII data and sensitive data. Their data rentention policy is undisclosed.

Each of the above-listed services and tools listed is governed by the privacy policy established by the respective third-party provider. We encourage You to refer to such policies, which are linked to above in the description of each service.

Some browsers may allow You to manage the storage of cookies on Your device. If supported by Your browser, You may set Your browser to refuse all cookies (or, sometimes all third-party cookies) or to alert You when a cookie is set. However, if you select these settings, You may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless You have adjusted your browser setting to refuse cookies, Our system will issue cookies. For more information about how to manage Your cookies preferences, use the ‘help’ menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of Your web browser. To opt-out of all cookies or certain advertising cookies, visit the company website for your browser.

Here are links to some browsers’ websites:

Google Chrome: www.google.com
Internet Explorer: support.microsoft.com
Mozilla Firefox: support.mozilla.org
Safari: support.apple.com
Opera: www.opera.com

  1. Do Not Track Notice.
    Your browser may provide you with the option to send a “Do Not Track” signal to websites you visit. This signal is used to request that websites not send the requesting device cookies, but websites have no obligation to respond to such signal or to modify their operation. At the current time, the Site is not programmed to recognize Do Not Track signals, so the Site will not treat You differently if we receive such signals from Your browser and We may not comply with Do Not Track settings on Your browser.
  2. Exemptions from Privacy Policy
    Our Privacy Policy does not apply to any information You may send to Ralph Walker Designs or any attorney by email or instant messaging programs (e.g., AOL, Yahoo, etc.), or through social media networks, even if You open such programs or services by clicking a link displayed on the Site (for example, on an attorney’s bio page). Email, social media, and instant messages are not recognized as secure communication forms. Please do not send any information You consider private to Us by email or instant message or through social media sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, etc.) due to the public nature of such postings.
    4. Links to Other Sites
    The Site may contain links to other websites. Ralph Walker Designs is not responsible for the actions, practices, or content of websites linked to or from the Site. You understand such websites may require you to agree to their terms of use and that We have no control over these terms. As always, You understand it is Your responsibility to verify Your legal use of a website, and use of information from the website with the corresponding website owner
    5. Use of Aggregate Data
    Ralph Walker Designs may combine Non-Personal Information You provide through the Site with information from other users to create aggregate data. Aggregate data does not (i) contain any information that could identify You, or (ii) include Your personal contact information. Ralph Walker Designs will not disclose Your Personally-Identifiable Information to any third party without Your prior permission, except as otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy. We require parties with whom We share aggregate data to agree they will not attempt by any means or use of other parties to transform such information into Personally Identifiable Information.
    6. When We May Disclose Your Information
    Except as set forth below or as specifically agreed to by You, Ralph Walker Designs will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information gathered from You on the Site.
  3. We may share Personally Identifiable information in a limited fashion to Our contractors, consultants and service providers that perform services on Our behalf, including operation of the Site technology, marketing services, and other related services. Unless You have opted-out (see Section 6.C. below) of such sharing, these contractors, consultants and service providers also may have access to Your email address to send newsletters or other information to You on Our behalf. Access to Your Personally Identifiable Information by such contractors, consultants and service providers is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor, consultant or service provider to perform its limited function for Ralph Walker Designs. We also contractually require that such contractors, consultants and service providers: (i) protect the privacy of Your Personally Identifiable Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and (ii) not use or disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us with products and services as required by law.
  4. We may share Personally Identifiable Information We collect (i) when required or advised to do so in response to a valid legal requirement, such as a state or federal law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, or court order; or (ii) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to You or others, to protect property, or assert legal rights or defend ourselves in litigation. If We are legally compelled to disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information to a third party, We will attempt to notify You unless doing so would violate the law or a court order.
  5. If You do not want Us to share Your information with Our contractors and service provider, as described above, You can direct us not to share that information by contacting us. An opt-out of information sharing will not apply to information sharing arrangements described Section 6.B.

Finally, Ralph Walker Designs may provide content and services to You through websites other than Our own. Ralph Walker Designs will not disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information to these 3rd party websites without Your consent, but know that any information You disclose on such sites is NOT subject to this Privacy Policy.
7. CAN-SPAM Compliance Notice
Ralph Walker Designs fully complies with the federal CAN-SPAM Act. You can always opt out of receipt of further email correspondence from us.
8. Transfer of Ownership
If ownership of the Site changes, whether in whole or in part, information collected through the Site about You may be transferred to the new owner so the Site and any service provided through or related to the Site can continue. In that case, Your user information would remain subject to the terms and conditions of Our then current Privacy Policy.
9. Notice to Residents of Countries outside of the United States of America
Ralph Walker Designs is headquartered in the United States of America. Personally Identifiable Information may be accessed by us or transferred to us in the United States or to Our affiliates, business partners, merchants, or service providers elsewhere in the world. By providing us with Personally Identifiable Information, You consent to this transfer. We will protect the privacy and security of Personally Identifiable Information according to Our Privacy Policy, regardless of where it is processed or stored.


  1. California Privacy Rights

Under Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California can obtain certain information from companies with whom they have an established business relationship. That information is about the Personally Identifiable Information those companies have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. The law requires companies to inform consumers about the categories of Personally Identifiable Information shared with third parties, the names and addresses of those third parties, and examples of the services or products marketed by those third parties. To request a copy of the information disclosure provided by Ralph Walker Designs under Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, please contact us via email to info@ralphwalkerdesigns.com. Please allow 60 days for a response.


  1. Children’s Privacy Protection.

Ralph Walker Designs takes special care to protect the privacy needs of children under the age of 13 and Ralph Walker Designs encourages parents to be an active participant in their child’s online activities. Ralph Walker Designs abides by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other relevant laws. The Site does not target and is not intended for children under the age of 13, and Ralph Walker Designs will not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from them. If Ralph Walker Designs discovers personal data from a child gathered through the Site, Ralph Walker Designs will eliminate that data. This Site is not intended for persons under the age of 18. If you are under 18 you must ask a parent or legal guardian for permission prior to submitting any information to this Site.


  1. Access

If You are an individual You may have certain rights under applicable data protection legislation, including the right to review and correct the personal data We hold about You. Unless you reside in California or another jurisdiction that requires us to provide the information without charge, We may charge You a fee to receive a copy of this data. For a copy of or reasonable access to your personal data please contact us.


  1. Your Acceptance of This Privacy Policy

This is Our entire Privacy Policy for the Site and it supersedes any earlier version. You agree to it every time You use the Site.

If We materially change this Privacy Policy, We will notify You by email or by posting a prominent notice on the Site before the change becomes effective. We encourage You to periodically review this page for the latest information on Our privacy practices. Your continued use of the Site or Service constitutes Your agreement to be bound by any changes to this Policy. Your only remedy, if You do not accept this Policy, is to discontinue using the Site and service.
14. Security Measures
Ralph Walker Designs provides appropriate and reasonable physical, procedural and electronic information security measures to protect the personal information submitted to it. Ralph Walker Designs, consistent with its professional obligations, exercises the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us. Ralph Walker Designs accepts and processes client information always subject to the client’s direction and control, and Ralph Walker Designs maintains reasonable and appropriate, although not infallible, security precautions. Please raise any questions, concerns or specific directions You may have regarding the privacy and security of your information with the attorney handling your matter.
15. European Union Disclosure
Personal information voluntarily submitted to Ralph Walker Designs online, via electronic communication, or otherwise, may be maintained or accessed in servers or files in the United States of America, which the European Union has not deemed to provide “adequate” privacy protection. If You do not consent to having your information processed and stored in the United States of America, please do not provide it to Ralph Walker Designs.
16. Questions About This Privacy Policy
Should You have a privacy question about the Site or software, please email Our customer service department.