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Patent Law Offices of Michael E. Woods

INTRODUCTION.
This privacy policy describes the types of personal information ("Personal Information") the Patent Law Offices of Michael E. Woods may collect from you on this website and the way that we use such personal information. We are pleased that you have chosen to visit our website but for your protection, please review this policy prior to any further use of this website. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO OUR LEGAL DISCLAIMERS AND PRIVACY POLICY SO PLEASE REVIEW THESE DOCUMENTS IN THEIR ENTIRETY AND DO NOT SUBMIT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OR USE ANY PORTION OF THE WEBSITE REQUIRING THE SUBMISSION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
COMMUNICATION OF PERSONAL OR PRIVATE INFORMATION.
This website facilitates your sending Personal Information or other information of your choosing to Michael E. Woods, YourPatentGuy. Any information you send is done purely on a voluntary basis. You should not send sensitive or confidential information through this website (or through the email addresses listed on this website) as such information will not necessarily be considered privileged, confidential or subject to attorney-client privilege. Sending your Personal Information or legal or confidential information does not create an attorney-client relationship. If you are currently a client of Michael E. Woods please check with us regarding the best means of communicating your confidential information to us.
USE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION AND SECURITY. Through this website, we may collect from you certain Personal Information such as, by example only, your email address and phone number. Currently, you are not required to submit any Personal Information to YourPatentGuy in order to view much of the contents on this website but we do need to collect certain Personal Information from you in order to enroll you in our newsletter subscription service and/or our teleseminar subscription service or client/member areas ("Services "). The Services allow you to subscribe to certain electronic newsletters and teleseminars, as well as to access special information and to control the types of electronic communications made available to you and the manner in which some communications are made available to you.
Any Personal Information you submit is used by us in order to respond to your information requests or to register you for certain services or events such as, by example only, the Services . We may keep your Personal Information in our records so that we may send you other information or materials that we think you may also want to receive. If at any time you would like us to remove your Personal Information from our records, please contact us at info@yourpatentguy.com. Please note that your use of the Services may be affected if we remove your Personal Information.

We do not sell, rent or distribute your Personal Information to third parties except as follows: (1) certain third parties may receive your Personal Information if we collect your Personal Information in order to register you for an event and such third party must receive your Personal Information for registration purposes; and (2) a third party operates the Service or some aspect of it (e.g., registration or auto-responder).