Effective Date: September 18, 2026
Last updated: September 18, 2026
Balch & Bingham LLP (“Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects and values your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes our policies and practices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of Personal Information through our websites and services that link to this Policy (our “Services”).
This policy applies only to information we collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
Children's and Minors' Data
Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
We collect and process a range of Personal Information. “Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address, or payment information (for example, account information such as name, postal address, and email address).
The types and categories of personal identifiable information we collect or process include:
Identifiers.
We also collect non-Personal Information through the Services, such as:
If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with Personal Information so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as Personal Information.
There are many types of Personal Information that we do not collect through the Services, including:
Some Personal Information may be considered sensitive Personal Information, such as social security numbers, racial or ethnic origin, union membership, genetic information, health information, or sexual orientation. We do not collect sensitive Personal Information through the Services.
We collect information in three ways:
Information You Provide Us
We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you subscribe to Content or create, upload, or post content to the Services, including reviews and media such as photos, videos, or audio recordings.
Information Collected Automatically
As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include Personal Information. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.
We may use these automatic collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites or other online services (behavior tracking).
Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a Personal Information sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by emailing privacy@balch.com. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.
For more information about the specific cookies we use, please see the Cookie List section of this Policy below, which follows the California Privacy Notice and Notice at Collection.
Information Collected from Third Parties
We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as email platform providers and analytics, security and anti-fraud services.
When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about you or your device.
These third parties include:
These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the provider responsible directly.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information, to:
The usage information we collect, whether connected to your Personal Information or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:
We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise disclose Personal Information other than as described in this Policy.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.
We may also disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also use or disclose your Personal Information:
This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.
Tracking Technologies, Promotional Offers, and Targeted Advertising
Your State Privacy Rights
Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your Personal Information, including:
Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.
To exercise any of these rights, please email privacy@balch.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request email privacy@balch.com.
Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control ("GPC") that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data "sales" as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt out of certain Personal Information sales. Residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: privacy@balch.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.
If you are a California resident, additional information applies to you. To access our supplemental California privacy statement and learn more about California residents' privacy rights, see the California Privacy Notice and Notice at Collection section below.
Occasionally, we provide links to other third-party websites for your convenience and information. These websites operate independently from our Sites and are not under our control or direction. These sites may have their own privacy notices or terms of use. We are not responsible for the content of these sites, any products or services that may be offered through these sites, or any other use of these sites. We strongly encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies and other terms and conditions of these third-party Sites upon visiting them.
We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your Personal Information from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.
The safety and security of your information also depend on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your Personal Information against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.
We keep the categories of Personal Information described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain Personal Information. At the end of the retention period, Personal Information will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.
If you are a California resident, see the California Privacy Notice and Notice at Collection section below for more information about the retention periods that apply to the Personal Information categories we collect.
Our target audience is within the United States. We may store or Process your Personal Information in the cloud, which may include locations outside the United States. However, we will not transfer or store your Personal Information in “countries of concern,” as currently designated by the U.S. government. Our headquarters is in the United States. Personal Information may also be stored on the servers of our service providers and agents.
Wherever your Personal Information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your Personal Information. These steps also may include, if applicable, implementing standard contractual clauses (e.g. the “Standard Contractual Clauses” approved by the European Commission), obtaining your consent, or other lawful means of transferring Personal Information. By using the Services, you acknowledge that your Personal Information will be stored and/or processed as set forth above. If you have any concerns about how your data is being transferred, stored, or processed, please contact us as provided in the “Contact Information” section below.
We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.
To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:
Balch & Bingham LLP
Attn: Privacy
P.O. Box 306
Birmingham, AL 35203
privacy@balch.com
To register a complaint or concern, please email privacy@balch.com.
This Privacy Notice for California Residents and Notice at Collection (the “Notice”) supplements the information contained in the Policy above and applies solely to consumers who reside in the State of California. This Notice is provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the "CCPA"). Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
We collect your personal information to support our business operations, including for the business purposes listed in the chart below. While we may collect sensitive information from employees and applicants as described below, we do not collect sensitive personal information through the Services.
We may collect the personal information categories listed in the table below, retain them for the indicated period, and use them for the stated business purposes. We do not sell the personal information we collect for monetary consideration. However, we do share certain personal information—specifically Identifiers and internet or other similar network activity—with our advertising and marketing partners for cross-context behavioral advertising (also known as targeted advertising), as indicated in the chart below.
The chart below identifies the categories of personal information we have collected from California consumers within the last 12 months, using the specific categories defined by the CCPA:
| Category | Sources of Collections | Business or Commercial Purpose | Sold or Shared | Retention Period |
|
Identifiers. |
A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Directly from you; indirectly from you as you use the Services; data analytics providers. For job applicants: recruiters; background check providers. |
Providing the Services; communicating with you; improving and optimizing the Services; marketing our legal services and events; fulfilling requests submitted through the Services; complying with legal obligations. For job applicants: assess applications; satisfy legal obligations. |
Technology service providers; data analytics providers. Advertising and marketing partners (shared for cross-context behavioral advertising / targeted advertising). For job applicants: background check providers. For employees: human recourses providers. For employees: human recourses providers. |
Length of business relationship with you, if any, plus the longer of 6 years or any applicable legal requirement. |
| Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). |
Directly from you. For job applicants: recruiters; background check providers. |
Communicate with you; protect and secure our digital and physical environments.
For job applicants: process applications; satisfy legal obligations. |
Technology service providers; data analytics providers. For job applicants: background check providers. For employees: human resources providers. |
Length of business relationship with you, if any, plus the longer of 6 years or any applicable legal requirement. |
| Protected Classification Characteristics Under California or Federal Law. Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, reproductive health decision-making, military and veteran status, or genetic information (including familial genetic information). |
Directly from you.
For job applicants: recruiters; background check providers. |
Satisfy legal obligations. |
Technology service providers. For job applicants: background check providers. For employees: human recourses providers. |
Length of business relationship with you, if any, plus the longer of 6 years or any applicable legal requirement. |
| Commercial information. Records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies | We do not collect. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. |
| Biometric information. Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | We do not collect. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. |
| Internet or Other Similar Network Activity. Activity on our websites, mobile apps, or other digital systems, such as internet browsing history, search history, system usage, electronic communications with us, postings on our social media sites. | Indirectly from you as you use the Services; data analytics providers. | Protect and secure our physical and digital environment; improve and make Services available; perform analytics. |
Technology service providers; data analytics providers. Advertising and marketing partners (shared for cross-context behavioral advertising / targeted advertising). For employees: human resources providers. |
Longer of 6 years or any applicable legal requirement. |
| Geolocation Data. Physical location or movements. | We do not collect. | Not applicable. |
Not applicable. |
Not applicable. |
| Sensory data. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | We do not collect. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. |
| Professional or employment-related information. Current or past job history or performance evaulations |
Directly from you. For job applicants: recruiters; background check providers. |
Satisfy legal obligations. For job applicants: process applications. For employees: human resources management. |
Technology service providers. For job applicants: background check providers. For employees: human recourses providers. |
Length of business relationship with you, if any, plus the longer of 6 years or any applicable legal requirement. |
| 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. |
Directly from you. For job applicants: recruiters. |
Satisfy legal obligations. For job applicants: process applications. For employees: human resources management. |
For job applicants: background check providers. For employees: human recourses providers. |
Length of business relationship with you, if any, plus the longer of 6 years or any applicable legal requirement. |
| Inferences Drawn from Other Personal Information. Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | We do not collect. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. | Not applicable. |
The chart below identifies which sensitive personal information categories we have collected from California consumers in the last 12 months:
| Category | Sources of Collections | Business or Commercial Purpose | Sold or Shared | Retention Period |
|
Government identifiers, such as Social Security number, driver's license, state identification card, or passport number. |
Directly from you. For job applicants: recruiters, background check providers
|
Process job applications; satisfy legal obligations. |
For job applicants: background check providers. |
As long as you are employed here plus 6 years, absent contrary contractual or legal requirement. If non-hired applicant, 6 years, absent contrary contractual or legal requirement. |
| Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). |
Directly from you. For job applicants: recruiters; background check providers. |
Communicate with you; protect and secure our digital and physical environments.
For job applicants: process applications; satisfy legal obligations. |
Technology service providers; data analytics providers. For job applicants: background check providers. For employees: human resources providers. |
Length of business relationship with you, if any, plus the longer of 6 years or any applicable legal requirement. |
| Complete account access credentials, such as usernames, account logins, account numbers, or card numbers combined with required access/security code or password. | We only collect if you are our employee; if so, directly from you. | Physical and digital security. | Technology service providers. | As long as you are employed here plus 6 years, absent contrary contractual or legal requirement. |
| Racial or ethnic origin. |
We typically don’t collect unless you’re our employee and voluntarily disclose; if so, directly from you. For job applicants: recruiters. |
Satisfy legal obligation; perform human resources management. | Not applicable. | As long as you are employed here plus 6 years, absent contrary contractual or legal requirement. |
| Citizenship or immigration status. | We only collect if you are our employee and voluntarily disclose; if so, directly from you. | Satisfy legal obligation; perform human resources management. | Not applicable. | As long as you are employed here plus 6 years, absent contrary contractual or legal requirement. |
| Religious or philosophical beliefs. |
We only collect if you are our employee and voluntarily disclose; if so, directly from you. |
Satisfy legal obligation; perform human resources management. | Not applicable. | As long as you are employed here plus 6 years, absent contrary contractual or legal requirement. |
| Mail, email, or text messages not directed to the Company. | We only collect if you are our employee and voluntarily disclose; if so, directly from you. | Satisfy legal obligation; perform human resources management. | Not applicable. | As long as you are employed here plus 90 days to 1 year, depending on your position. |
We do not collect: precise geolocation, union membership, genetic data, neural data, unique identifying biometric information, health information, sex life or sexual orientation information, or children’s personal information.
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
How We Use Personal Information
The above charts show how we may use and disclose specific personal information that we collect through the Services to advance the Company’s business and commercial purposes. As shown above, we use and disclose personal information to:
Use of Sensitive Personal Information
While we may hold sensitive Personal Information, that information is not collected through your use of the Services and is not subject to this Policy (see What Information Does This Policy Apply To?).
We also do not process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in section 7027(m) of the CCPA regulations promulgated by the California Privacy Protection Agency. Therefore, we do not offer consumers the option to limit the use of their sensitive personal information.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose the personal information we collect, to service providers and contractors for the business purposes described in the “How We Use Your Information” section above. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract, and meet the CCPA’s other contract requirements for engaging service providers or contractors. Separately, and as reflected in the charts above, we also share certain personal information—specifically Identifiers and internet or other similar network activity—with advertising and marketing partners (which are third parties, not service providers or contractors) for cross-context behavioral advertising (targeted advertising), as further described below.
The personal information categories we have disclosed to service providers or contractors for a business purpose over the preceding 12 months include:
We disclosed these categories to the following types of service providers and contractors:
In addition to the business-purpose disclosures described above, over the preceding 12 months we have shared the following categories of personal information with our advertising and marketing partners for cross-context behavioral advertising (targeted advertising): Identifiers, and Internet or other similar network activity. You may opt out of this sharing as described in the “Right to Opt-Out of Sales and Sharing” section above.
In addition to the business-purpose disclosures described above, over the preceding 12 months we have shared the following categories of personal information with our advertising and marketing partners for cross-context behavioral advertising (targeted advertising): Identifiers, and Internet or other similar network activity. You may opt out of this sharing as described in the “Right to Opt-Out of Sales and Sharing” section above.
If you are a California resident, the CCPA grants you the following rights regarding your personal information:
Right to Know and Data Portability
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 (the "right to know"), including the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you (a "data portability request"). You may exercise your right to know twice in any 12-month period. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you: the categories of personal information we collected about you; the categories of sources from which we collected your personal information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information; the categories of third parties with whom we disclosed your personal information; and, for data portability requests, a copy of your personal information in a portable format.
Right to Delete
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 (the "right to delete"). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will delete your personal information from our records and direct our service providers to do the same, unless an exception applies.
Right to Correct
You have the right to request correction of personal information we maintain about you that you believe is inaccurate (the "right to correct"). We may require you to provide documentation to support your claim that the information is inaccurate. Unless an exception applies, we will correct personal information that our review determines is inaccurate and direct our service providers to do the same.
Right to Limit Sensitive Personal Information Use
You have a right to ask businesses that use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes beyond the CCPA's permitted purposes to limit those actions (the "right to limit"). As we do not collect sensitive personal information through the Services, we do not currently offer this right.
Right to Opt-Out of Sales and Sharing
You have the right to request that we stop selling or sharing your personal information at any time (the "right to opt-out"), including through a user-enabled opt-out preference signal. As we do not sell or share consumers' personal information, we do not currently offer this right.
Right to Non-Discrimination
You have the right not to be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of your privacy rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, provide you a different level or quality of goods or services, or suggest that you will receive a different price or rate or a different level or quality of goods or services because you exercised any of your CCPA rights.
ADMT Rights
We do not currently use ADMT to make significant decisions about consumers, so we do not provide ADMT access, opt-out, or appeal rights.
Exercising the Rights to Know, Delete, or Correct
To exercise the right to know (including data portability), delete, or correct described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by either:
Please describe your request with sufficient detail so we can properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. You or your authorized agent may only submit a request to know twice in a 12-month period.
Verification Process and Authorized Agents
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know, delete, or correct related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent, please contact us at privacy@balch.com. We may request specific information from you or your authorized representative to confirm your or their identity before we can process your request. We cannot respond to your request if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relating to you. We will only use personal information provided in the request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing
We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. Any disclosures we provide will cover the 12-month period preceding the request's receipt date. 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 entity without hindrance. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly 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.
Opt-Out Preference Signals
Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control ("GPC") that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish your personal information to be sold or shared. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by the CCPA.
We reserve the right to update this Notice at any time. If we make any material changes, we will update the effective date and post the update Notice on our Services. We encourage you to review this Notice periodically.
If you have any questions about this Notice or need to access it in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact us at privacy@balch.com or call (205) 251-8100.