Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 15, 2008

Trademark Sentinel is a service of Owens Tarabichi LLP.  Owens Tarabichi is committed to protecting the privacy of customers visiting our website and purchasing our services.  Owens Tarabichi strives to maintain a safe and secure environment for customers of our online services.  Accordingly, we pay close attention to how information about our customers is used.  Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand what personal information is collected and how your personal information is used.  By using and/or visiting Owens Tarabichi’s Trademark Sentinel website, you accept and agree to this Privacy Policy, as governed by the laws of the State of California.  If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, then do not use the Trademark Sentinel website.

Information Collected

Owens Tarabichi collects the information you submit when purchasing a service or information you provide to us in other ways, such as when you communicate with us by telephone or email.  Information collected may include your name, address, phone number, details of purchases, credit card information, and other descriptive information.

We may also gather certain information automatically whenever you interact with our website.  Like many websites, we may use “cookies” (alphanumeric files transferred to your computer hard drive that enable our computers to recognize your computer) that allow us to obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our website.  Information collected may include the Internet Protocol address used to connect you to the Internet; computer information such as browser type and operating system; the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to, through, and from our website; date and time of your visit; services and information you viewed or searched for; and confirmation of when you open email from us.

Use of Information

We use the personal information collected for the purpose your provided it: to facilitate the online purchase of our services and the provision of those services.  In particular, we use the information to obtain payment (e.g., charge the provided credit card), communicate with you, and provide the service requested.  We do not sell or share information about our customers.  However, we may release information about our customers and visitors to our website when necessary to comply with laws or court orders, to enforce or apply our terms of use, or to protect our rights and property.

Security of Data Transmission

Please note that at www.trademark-sentinel.com there is a form where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction.  Any time we ask for a credit card number, we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format.  We adhere to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and use SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.  Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Owens Tarabichi cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.  Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Correcting/Updating Information

If you have provided us with personal information that you need to correct or update, you can contact us via email at privacy@trademark-sentinel.com or call us at 408-298-8205.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Owens Tarabichi reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy.  Any changes in the policy will be posted directly on the Trademark Sentinel website at www.trademark-sentinel.com/privacy.  In the event of a material change in Owens Tarabichi’s data collection and handling practices, we will inform those users who have provided an email address of such change via email and will post a prominent notice on the website for 30 days.