Privacy Policy

Introduction

Protecting individual privacy on the Internet is important to Dalton & Associates, P.A. (“Dalton Law”). We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy.

This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.dalton.law (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect on this Website and any subdomains of our Website, unless stated otherwise, regardless of the medium in which it is accessed (e.g. via web browser or mobile browser).

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information you provide to or that is collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from the Website.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies or practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see below, Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be your acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information on the Website. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected], or at the contact information listed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.  

Information We Collect About You

We may collect different types of information from you when you use or navigate our Website:

• Personal Information: When you use and navigate the Website, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, work or educational history, gender, and other information that may be used to identify you or contact you (collectively, “Personal Information”) from you only when you provide such Personal Information to us voluntarily.
• Website Usage Information: When you use and navigate our Website, we may collect additional information from you that may not by itself reasonably identify you as the source (collectively, “Usage Information”). Usage information may include information regarding your internet connection, your computer, your IP address, the type of Internet browser you are using, etc.

How We Collect Information

We collect information:

• Directly From You. We collect Personal Information from you when you fill out forms on our Website or Contact Us via email. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Through Your Use of the Website. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include Personal Information. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests
• Speed up your searches
• Recognize when you return to our Website

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Dalton Law, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying server integrity).

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you
• To provide you with information, or services that you request from us
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us
• To make improvements to our Website
• To keep our Website secure
• To notify you about changes to our Website
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information
• For any other purpose with your consent

How We Disclose Information

Dalton Law will not disclose Personal Information about you to unaffiliated third parties unless Dalton Law: (i) has reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the rights of Dalton Law or persons or property that could be harmed by such activities; or (ii) believes in good faith that the law requires such disclosure.

We may share your Personal Information and/or Usage Information with law enforcement or other government officials if it relates to a criminal investigation or alleged criminal activity. We may also disclose your Personal Information and/or Usage Information if required or permitted to do so by law, or for fraud protection and credit risk reduction purposes. We may also disclose your information to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or legal process.

If we become involved in evaluating or conducting a reorganization of our firm or a combination with another firm, we may disclose and/or transfer your Personal Information as part of the transaction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note some parts of our Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to service internet-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website (https://optout.networkadvertising.org).

Security of Personal Information

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of the Personal Information transmitted through our Website. We will notify you, as required by law, if we discover a security breach involving your Personal Information (as defined by the applicable state and federal laws and other applicable rules) processed by us.

Dalton Law cannot be responsible for disclosures of your Personal Information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties and encourages you to exercise prudence in selecting the information you send via the Internet, including via email. Please do not send confidential or sensitive information to us through our Website or via email until you speak with one of our attorneys or receive authorization to do so.

Your State Privacy Rights

State and international consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. To learn more about European privacy rights, see the Individuals in the European Economic Area section below. To learn more about California privacy rights, see the California Residents Privacy Rights section below.

Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their Personal Information
• Access and delete certain Personal Information
• Data Portability
• Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales

Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with the rights to:

• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, considering the information’s nature processing purpose.
• Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at [email protected] or at the contact information listed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

Individuals in the European Economic Area

Under the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), individuals in the European Economic Area have additional privacy rights:

• Right to Be Informed. Individuals have the right to transparency regarding our collection of personal data.
• Right of Access. Individuals have the right to know exactly what information is held about them and how it is processed.
• Right of Rectification. Individuals will be entitled to have personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to Erasure. Also known as “the right to be forgotten,” this refers to an individual’s right to having their personal data deleted or removed without the need for a specific reason as to why they wish to discontinue.
• Right to Restrict Processing. An individual’s right to block or suppress processing of their personal data.
• Right to Data Portability. This allows individuals to retain and reuse their personal data for their own purpose.
• Right to Object. In certain circumstances, individuals are entitled to object to their personal data being used.
• Rights of Automated Decision Making and Profiling. The GDPR has put in place safeguards to protect individuals against the risk that a potentially damaging decision is made without human intervention.

To exercise the above rights, please email us at [email protected] or at the contact information listed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. We will consider and process your request within a reasonable period. Please be aware, under certain circumstances, the GDPR may limit your exercise of these rights.

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The following section concerns visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California. If that does not apply to you, please skip to Changes to Our Privacy Policy, below.

California Residents Privacy Rights

For visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers,” or “you/your”) and use our Services, the following serves as Dalton Law’s Privacy Notice for California Residents (“Notice”) and applies to your use our Services. This Notice is provided to Comply with the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2018 and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA” and “CPRA”, respectively) and any terms defined in the CCPA/CPRA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.

Scope

This Notice applies to the Personal Information we collect, both online and offline, about California consumers, including Personal Information that we collect:

• From users of our website, including the services available via our Website;
• About clients and individuals who use or inquire about our legal and related services that we make available;
• About individuals who attend events hosted or sponsored by us, reply to our email or communications, visit our offices, or otherwise communicate or engage with us; or
• About individuals from clients and others related to the services we provide.

This California Notice does not address or apply to:

• Our handling of Personal Information that is exempt under Section 1798.145 of the CCPA;
• Personal Information we collect about employees, contractors, or job applicants or other individuals who are not California residents; or
• Personal Information we collect about individuals acting in their capacity as representatives (“B2B contacts”) of our clients, prospective clients, vendors and other businesses that we conduct business with, to the extent we use their Personal Information only in the context of conducting our business relationship with the respective business where the residence of the individual is not known or known to be outside of California.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked to, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“Personal Information”).

Personal Information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA/CPRA’s scope, like:
  • Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”) or clinical trial data;
  • Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (“FIPA”), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

We collect different types of information from users, and we use and/or disclose this information for different business purposes. The chart below identifies the Personal Information we may collect and for what business purpose the information is collected. Within the last 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of Personal Information either directly or indirectly from you:

Category of Personal Information	Specific Personal Information that may be collected	Purpose of Collecting the personal information
A. Identifiers	Name, mailing address, email address, gender, and telephone number; financial payment information; IP address	To uniquely identify an individual in support of business activities
B. Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records Statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))	Name, signature, Social Security number, address, telephone number, driver’s license or state identification card number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number or any other financial information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories	To uniquely identify an individual in support of business activities
C. Protected classification characteristic under California or Federal law	Age (40 years or older), national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, veteran or military status.	To identify and evaluate candidates for employment and for workforce management purposes.
D. Commercial information.	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies	In connection with our provision of legal services and business operations.
E. Internet or other similar network activity	Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.	To allow access to our Website and optimize our Website and in connection with our provision of legal services and business operations.
F. Geolocation Data	Physical location or movements	To manage our workforce and systems and detect security incidents and malicious activity.
G. Professional or employment-related information	Current or past job history or performance evaluations	To identify and evaluate candidates for employment and for workforce management purposes.
H. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	To identify and evaluate candidates for employment and for workforce management purposes.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information
• To provide you with information or services that you request from us
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or governmental regulations
• To evaluate or conduct a reorganization or combination of our firm with another firm
• For any other purpose allowed by law

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose and have disclosed, in the past 12 months, Personal Information to third parties, service providers, and contractors for business purposes as set forth above and in this Privacy Policy, including to support our workforce management (including payroll vendors and human resources SaaS providers), website operations and security (including internet service providers, web hosting companies, and monitoring and detection services), and to support our operations (document vendors and legal support vendors), or as otherwise required by law. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold Personal Information. We do not share your Personal Information as defined under Cal. Civ. Cd. 1798.140(ah).

Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes stated in this Notice, unless otherwise extending the retention period is required or permitted by law or subject to our retention policies as may be in place from time to time. The data storage period may vary with scenario or service. The standards we use to determine the retention period are as follows:

• The time required to retain personal data to fulfill business purposes, including providing services.
• Maintaining corresponding transaction/business records.
• Controlling and improving the performance and quality of our Website.
• Handling possible user queries or complaints and locating problems.
• Whether the user agrees to longer retention periods.
• Whether the law, contracts, and other equivalencies have special requirements for data retention.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA and CPRA provide consumers with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes CCPA/CPRA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

• Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

The only sensitive Personal Information we affirmatively collect from you is necessary to perform the services you requested.  We also may periodically receive unsolicited information from you that includes sensitive Personal Information; we make no further use or disclosure of that unsolicited information.  If you have questions about sensitive Personal Information, please see Exercising Limitation, Access, Rectification, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights to contact us.

• Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

• • The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that Personal Information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.
  • The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
  • If we disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, a list of the disclosures made identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

• Correct/Rectify Personal Information

You have the right to rectify (correct, update, or modify) the Personal Information we collect about you. After making such a request, we will take commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate Personal Information within 45 days of receiving the request. In the event an extension is needed, we may take an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary. In this case, we will provide you a notice of extension within the first 45-day period.

• Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

• • Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
  • Help ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights or exercise another right provided for by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, specifically if you previously provided informed consent and deleting that information may seriously impair or render impossible the research’s achievement.
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of Personal Information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

• Exercising Limitation, Access, Rectification, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the limitation, access, rectification, data portability and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to [email protected] or at the contact information listed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

• Response Timing and Format

We will try our best to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the receipt of the verifiable consumer request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another and should allow you to further transmit information if you desire.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive or unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

• Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights. Based solely on the exercise of your CCPA/CPRA rights, we will not:

• • Deny you services
  • Charge you different prices or rates for services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties
  • Provide you a different level or quality of services
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for services or a different level or quality of services

Changes to this Notice

We reserve the right to amend this CCPA/CPRA Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this CCPA/CPRA Policy, we will notify you through a notice on our website homepage.

Contact Us

To ask questions or comment about this Notice and our Privacy Policy, please email us at [email protected] or at the contact information listed at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

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Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website homepage. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comments about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: [email protected], (302) 652-2050, or by mail addressed to: Dalton & Associates, P.A., ATTN: Privacy Policy, 1106 West 10th Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19806.

Last Revised: October 27, 2025

We partner with Internet Brands, who might also collect data as part of our marketing efforts. To learn more about the Internet Brands privacy policy and the data that might be collected, please visit: Internet Brands Privacy Statement.