PRIVACY POLICY

  • Meah Immigration Law Office, P.C., (the “Firm”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after our work with you, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). It may be updated at any time.
  • This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of visitors to meahimmigration.com. By continuing to use this website, visitors agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The personal information that we collect are used for providing and improving the user experience on meahimmigration.com. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Data controller

  • The Firm is a “data controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you.

The kind of information we hold about you

  • Meah Immigration’s website collects personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, and email addresses from visitors who choose to enter this information. Other information that is not personally information such as type of web browser visitors use. 
  • This website uses “cookies”. Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. Meahimmigration.com uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve service. 

How we will use information about you

  • For a better experience while using this website, you may need to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and email address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you in relation to you the specific purpose you have entered your information for, whether it be to receive email communications or attend an event.
    • To facilitate our services;
    • To provide the service on our behalf;
    • To perform service-related services; or
    • To assist us in analyzing how our service is used.
  • We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons: We may share your personal information with third parties where required by law. To that end, we will need to share your personal information with third-party entities in the United States, such as translation services, credentials evaluation agencies, IT support, experts in the field (for obtaining expert opinion letters needed to obtain an Immigration Benefit), and reprographics services. 
  • All our third-party service providers and other entities in the Firm’s name are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information. However, this may not apply to U.S. government authorities or agencies, over which the Firm can assert no control.
  • We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law.

How we use particularly sensitive personal information

  • We may process special categories of personal information in the following circumstances:
    • In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent.
    • Where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our Data Protection Policy (GDPR).
    • Where it is needed to obtain an Immigration Benefit.
  • Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests, including those of your employer) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.
  • We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:
    • We will use information relating to leaves of absence, which may include sickness absence or family-related leaves, as needed to comply with U.S. immigration laws, including, for example, maintenance of status and other laws.
    • We will use information about your physical or mental health, or disability status, as needed to obtain Immigration Benefits.
    • We will use information about your race, national or ethnic origin, and/or organizational affiliations as needed to obtain Immigration Benefits,
  • In limited circumstances, we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain particularly sensitive data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the information that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent.

Data Security

  • We have put in place measures to protect the security of your information. Details of these measures are available upon request.
  • All our third-party service providers and other entities in the Firm’s name are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information. However, this may not apply to U.S. government authorities or agencies, over which the Firm can assert no control.

Data retention

  • We want to inform you that whenever you visit our website, we collect information that your browser transmits. This data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Changes to this privacy notice

  • We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time.
  • If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at info@meahimmigration.com.

 

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