Center for Legal Perspectives and Best Practices

Cookie Policy

Introduction to Our Cookies Policy

At the Center for Legal Perspectives and Best Practices (CLPBP), your privacy is of utmost concern. To honor this, and to provide transparency and build a relationship of trust with our user community, this Cookie Policy outlines the cookies and similar technologies that CLPBP uses on the CLPBP site, what information and data we collect via these tools and technologies, and how you can manage your preferences. Our users-a specific target audience of legal practitioners, academics, students, and individuals in search of authentic legal information-should have peace of mind regarding how their information is managed by CLPBP. This policy seeks to provide that confidence in making your own judgments about visiting, using, and engaging with us online.

Definition of Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to help web pages function normally, remember site preferences and use, optimize user experience, and collect statistical usage data. Cookies themselves typically do not contain personally identifiable information, but information collected through and associated with cookies may link to information elsewhere. CLPBP uses cookies to optimize your browsing experience, personalize content based on your interests, and analyze traffic to ensure that our resources and materials are accessible and most useful.

Cookie Types Used by CLPBP

To ensure the best experience possible, CLPBP uses a variety of cookies on our site. These cookies fall into the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable navigation around the site and to allow you to log into secure areas. If these cookies are disabled, we cannot guarantee that the functionality of our site will work as intended.
  • Performance Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site, including pages viewed and error messages, so that we can improve the functionality of our site and the user experience.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember your choices (for example, language or region) to provide you with more relevant and helpful features.
  • Targeting and Advertising Cookies: From time to time, we may use these to deliver content that is more relevant to you, or to measure the effect of marketing or other resource expenditure. These cookies may be set by us, or other parties on our behalf, such as service providers. We do not disclose any personal information to advertisers for the purpose of enabling them to advertise directly to you.
  • Analytics Cookies: These also interact with Google Analytics tools to provide us with a greater understanding of aggregate usage patterns on our site and help us further enhance the content and facilities offered.

CLPBP Cookie Usage

Cookies at CLPBP help provide an intuitive, efficient, and secure website experience. Specifically, we utilize cookies to:

  • Authenticate users and preserve sessions when accessing personalized resources
  • Remember your preferences to ease navigation
  • Monitor site performance and identify functionality issues
  • Track user engagement to provide feedback on our legal articles, guides, and educational resources
  • Enable social sharing functionality and interaction with embedded material (e.g., a video or downloadable resource)
  • In some instances, assess the success of informational campaigns or resources advertised through the website

We do not use cookies to retain sensitive personal information. Also, we do not sell any information retained through a cookie to third parties.

Third Party Cookies and Partner Cookies

Some cookies on the CLPBP website are served by third-party services that provide functionality and help us measure usage. Such services may include:

  • Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) that aggregate collective statistics on site usage and web traffic, and on users’ demographics
  • Embedded content providers (such as YouTube or Vimeo) that allow embedded videos in articles or guides
  • Social media publishing tools that allow you to share articles and connect with our community

Please note that we make all reasonable efforts to select our partners carefully and to ensure that these partners adhere to strict privacy criteria. However, CLPBP encourages users to read the privacy notices of third parties mentioned on the partner’s sites for more information. CLPBP does not allow any third-parties to use cookies for their own marketing purposes while visitors are on the CLPBP website.

Managing Cookies

You retain full control over how cookies are used on your device when visiting the CLPBP website. On your initial visit to CLPBP, you are shown a cookie consent banner and can either accept or customize your cookie settings. At any point in time, you have the option to:

  • Change your preferences via the ‘Cookie Settings’ link found in the footer of all pages
  • Withdraw consent of non-essential cookies
  • Delete cookies that have already been set through your browser settings

Your browser’s help instructions provide step-by-step guidance. You should bear in mind that disabling certain cookies (in particular, strictly necessary cookies) may adversely affect the features and services offered on the CLPBP website.

Denying or Deleting Cookies through Your Browser

Most modern web browsers let you manage cookies in their settings or preferences menu. You can:

  • Block all cookies
  • Allow cookies only from certain sites
  • Delete cookies when you close your browser or manually

Instructions for how to manage cookies vary per browser. To help, we have provided links to information about cookies for the most common web browsers:

  • Google Chrome: chrome://settings/cookies
  • Mozilla Firefox: about:preferences#privacy
  • Microsoft Edge: edge://settings/content/cookies
  • Safari: Preferences > Privacy

Keep in mind that if you block all cookies, some CLPBP features may not be available to you, such as accessing personalized content or secured resources.

Cookies and Privacy

Addressing Privacy Law Requirements
CLPBP is committed to protecting your privacy and security to the extent that laws and regulations (such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and federal law) require. CLPBP does not use cookies to collect sensitive personal information or to perform profiling for advertising outside of supporting its website operations.

Cookies are used solely for the purpose of enhancing user experience, site performance, and accessibility of CLPBP’s educational resources by those authorized to access them. The options that are selected will always be remembered.

For more details about how we protect your privacy, please see our Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Cookies Policy

CLPBP may amend this Cookie Policy from time to time as required by new law, technology, or business developments. If we make any changes, we will include the new Cookie Policy on this page with a new ‘Effective Date’ shown at the top of the page. If we make a material change to our Cookie Policy, we will let you know via a prominent notice on our website or, where required by law, by e-mail.

We advise you to revisit this Cookie Policy from time to time so you are aware of which cookies we use and how your data is protected.

Contact Us

Your privacy needs and concerns regarding cookie usage are important to us. If you have any questions in relation to this Cookie Policy or your personal data, you can contact us at:

  • Address: 7770 N Palm Ave Ste 30, Fresno CA 93711
  • Phone: (559) 612-3216
  • E-mail: [email protected]

For additional information, or interaction with the CLPBP community, please visit https://clpbp.net/ and view our legal resources library. You can also reach out via our Contact Us page.

FAQs on Cookies

Q: What if I turn off all cookies?
A: You will not be able to access the website features that require you to be logged in or customize content.

Q: Does CLPBP use cookies to sell my data?
A: No. The only information we ever collect for cookies is to help you navigate and enhance your website experience, not sell or market to anyone.

Q: Can I make changes to my cookie preferences on a later visit?
A: Sure, you can make changes anytime using our ‘Cookie Settings’ link located in the footer of our website.

Q: Will cookies prevent access to CLPBP resources?
A: Strictly necessary cookies are required for basic functionality, but you can manage your cookie preferences and still maintain access to the main pages of our site without those non-essential cookies.

Ensuring Openness and Security

CLPBP’s implementation and use of cookies is governed by principles of openness, security, and trust. We take all reasonable steps required to give a proper account of how data obtained with the use of cookies is stored by CLPBP, how it is limited in access to authorized personnel only, and how it is used only for the purposes indicated in this policy. We review our data protection procedures regularly and work with established technology providers to uphold these high standards of information security. CLPBP users can be assured that all interaction with the service is protected under stringent privacy principles.

Wrapping Up

We’re pleased that you took the time to learn more about the use of cookies on the CLPBP website. We strive to create a safe, personalized, and informative experience for all users. By choosing preferences for your cookies, you have the ability to manage how your information will be used and how information about your interactions with our resources is processed. If you have concerns or questions, we have answers. We thank you for choosing CLPBP as a trusted legal education and industry resource.