Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 15, 2025

Introduction

Bowditch & Dewey (“Bowditch”, “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to respecting your privacy. Our website (our “Site”) provides information regarding our firm and our practice for the convenience of the firm’s clients and other interested users. This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information that we gather when you access or use our website (the “Site”).  By using this Site, you acknowledge and consent to our practices described below.

When and how do we collect personal information?

Our Site provides information regarding our firm and our practice for the convenience of the firm’s clients and other interested users.

We only collect personal information about you when you voluntarily choose to provide it. “Personal information” is data about you or data that can be used to identify you, such as your name, address, phone number, email address, IP address, social security number, or other similar information.

For example, you may disclose personal information to us when you fill out a form on our Site (such as filling out a contact form), when submitting information by mail, telephone, or email, or when you sign up for blog updates and other marketing communications. For example, if you complete a form asking to be added to our mailing list, you will be added to our Constant Contact email subscription list.

When you interact with us through the Site or other services, we also automatically collect information about you through cookies (small text files placed on your device) or other similar technologies. Please read our Cookie Policy to learn more about how we use cookies and other similar technologies.

In addition, we do not collect sensitive information about you unless required by law. Sensitive information includes information relating to race, political and religious beliefs, sexual orientation and sexual life, criminal convictions, membership of professional or trade unions, biometric and health information, or information about your affiliation with certain organizations, such as professional associations.

What Personal Information do we Collect

We, including our service providers and other parties you authorize, access or authenticate, collect the following categories of personal information from you:

• Profile or Contact Data, including your first and last name, email address and physical address. This information is used to provide, customize and improve the Site, market our services and expertise, and to correspond with you.
• Device and IP Data, including your IP address, device ID, domain server, MAC address, type of device, operating system and browser uses to access the Site, and mobile network information (if applicable). This information is used by us and our analytics partners (including Google and Constant Contact) to provide, customize and improve the Site.
• Web Analytics, including web page interactions, referring webpage/source through which you accessed the Site, and non-identifiable request IDs. This information is also used to provide, customize and improve the Site.
• Other Identifying information that you choose to provide, including identifying information in emails or letters or other documentation you send to us. This information is used to provide, customize and improve the Site and to correspond with you.

We do not direct any of our Sites to children or individuals under the age of 18, nor do we knowingly collect, use, or store the personal information of individuals under 18.

Why do we use or process your personal information?

We only use your personal information for a legal and legitimate interest, such as:

• Legal services: We collect and process your personal information to provide you with legal services that you have specifically requested from us, to provide you with information about our hosted events, to deliver “legal updates”, or to provide you with updates about our firm.
• Marketing: To the extent that we collect and store personal information that you provide for event registration, we use the information solely in connection with the planning of the event for which you registered, to track registration, confirm attendance, and send follow-up communications after the event. We may also use this information to call to your attention similar events that might be of interest to you, or to provide you with updates about our firm.
• Newsletters: We may collect and store your personal information to subscribe you to our email newsletters, but only upon your request.
• Contract performance: We may use, process and store personal information in connection with pre-contract activities and discussions with you, and to perform a contract we have with you.
• Legal obligations: We will use, process or store personal information as necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. This includes using or processing personal information for defense of claims against us and satisfying any government reporting obligations and requests.
• Other legitimate interests: We will process your personal information for any of our other legitimate interests not described above. These include analyzing the use of our Site or services, tailoring website and news content, setting preferences in our Site or electronic mailings, improving our Site, fulfilling our obligations to our clients and others, and managing our client and vendor relationships.

How and where do we disclose personal information?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third-party affiliates such as our hosted e-mail and document management servers that assist us in operating our Site, conducting our business, or servicing you.

We operate our Site from the United States of America (U.S.) and if users provider personal information to us through the Site, we store that information in the U.S. However, we market and provide legal services in many other countries. Accordingly, we will disclose information collected through our Site, as well as other personal information, across offices and geographical boundaries, within and outside of our firm, for legal and legitimate purposes as described above.

The recipients of your personal information may be located outside of the jurisdiction where you reside. The laws of these other countries may not provide the same level of protection as the laws of your home country. By voluntarily providing us with your information, you acknowledge the disclosure of such information to these recipients. Any processing of your personal information outside of your jurisdiction will be in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our Site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

We may communicate with you via text message (SMS) for purposes related to your working relationship with Bowditch. By providing your mobile number to us and opting in to receive text messages, you consent to receive communications from us in this manner.

How do we protect your personal information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. Even so, please do not disclose any private or confidential information to us via this website. Bowditch cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet.

Third Parties

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our Site. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of such linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Bowditch may also receive your data indirectly from third-party sources that are integrated with the Site. These third parties may also collect data from our Site for their own purposes.

Below are the third parties integrated with our site. If you consent to all Cookies on our Site as provided in our Cookie Policy, you are also consenting to some cookies and data collection by third-party services that appear on our webpages.

Please see more information on the specific cookies in the privacy policies from these third parties.

• Google. We use Google Analytics to understand how users interact with our Site. We may also include YouTube video embeds for the ease of integrating video and Google Maps embeds on our office pages to allow visitors to easily get directions. By using these services, we are sharing information with Google LLC (Google) when you visit our Site. Google uses cookies in connection with its Google Analytics services by collecting information about the number of visitors to the Site, what pages visitors view on our Site and how long visitors are viewing pages on the Site. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Site is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You have the option to opt-out of Google’s use of Cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at policies.google.com/technologies/ads or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
• Constant Contact. We use Constant Contact to manage subscriptions, send marketing emails, and track click-through rates from the Constant Contact email mailings. If you complete a form on our Site to be added to our email subscription list, your contact data (name, email, subscription consent) that you provide will be stored and added to our Constant Contact account. Learn more about the data collected in Constant Contact’ Privacy Policy. You can always unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of any Constant Contact email.
• Embedded content from other websites. Articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos from YouTube, Google Maps, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long do we keep personal information?

We will keep your personal information you provide to us until we no longer expect to need it for any legal and legitimate purpose and otherwise in keeping with all applicable laws. At the appropriate time, we will take reasonable steps to destroy your personal information, except where we must retain it to satisfy legal or professional ethical obligations.

Data that is Not Personal Information

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the personal information we collect, including by removing information that makes it personally identifiable to a particular Site visitor. For example, we collect statistical information about how visitors of the Site, as a whole, use the Site. While some of this information may possibly be derived from personal information, this statistical information is not personal information and cannot be tied back to you or your web browser or device. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and disclose it with third parties for lawful business purposes, including demographic profiling, analytics, or other purposes, provided that we do not disclose such information in a manner that could identify you.

What are your rights regarding your personal information?

Depending on where you live, and subject to our obligations under applicable laws, you may have certain rights and choices regarding your personal information. For example, in addition to choices described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, you may have some or all of the following rights and choices in general:

General Regional Rights

• Access Rights: If you reside in certain U.S. states such as California, Nebraska, and Texas, you may have the right to confirmation of or access to the personal information that we process about you (these rights, and the applicable types of data and time periods, will vary depending on the laws applicable to the state or country in which you reside). You can also request access to a portable copy of your personal information. If you are an Oregon resident, you also have the right to request a list of specific third parties, other than natural persons, to whom we have disclosed your personal information.
• Erasure: You may have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we have collected about you. We may either decide to delete your personal information entirely, or we may anonymize or aggregate your personal information such that it no longer reasonably identifies you. Certain personal information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain types of information so that we can provide our services to you, we may be required to retain certain information for legal purposes, and there may be other reasons we may need to keep certain personal information under various applicable laws. In addition, if you ask us to delete your personal information, you may no longer be able to access or use some of our Services.
• Correction: You may have the right to request that we correct certain personal information we hold about you.
• Limitation of Processing: Certain laws may allow you to object to or limit the manner in which we process some of your personal information, including the ways in which we use or share it. For example, you may have these rights if the processing was undertaken without your consent in connection with our legitimate business interests (although we may not be required to cease or limit processing in cases where our interests are balanced against your privacy interests).
• Regulator Contact: You may have the right to contact or file a complaint with regulators or supervisory authorities about our processing of personal information. To do so, please contact your local data protection or consumer protection authority.
• Other: You may have the right to receive information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any. You may also have the right to not be discriminated against (as provided for in applicable law) for exercising certain of your rights.

If you believe that you have specific rights under your jurisdiction and you would like to exercise any of these rights, please submit a support request through our Site or email us at info@bowditch.com. Other than marketing opt-out and do-not-sell requests, you will be required to verify your identity before we fulfill your request. In certain jurisdictions, you may be able to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, subject to certain requirements of your applicable law. We may require that you provide the email address we have on file for you (and verify that you can access that email account) as well as an address, phone number, or other data we have on file, in order to verify your identity.

If you are a California, Nebraska, or Texas resident, you may also authorize an agent (Authorized Agent) to exercise your rights on your behalf. If an authorized agent is submitting the request on your behalf, we reserve the right to validate the agent’s authority to act on your behalf, and we may be required to take additional verification measures under applicable law.

We will work to respond to your valid request within the time period required by applicable privacy laws. We will not charge you a fee for making a valid request unless your valid request(s) is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request.

U.S. State-Specific Rights

Various states provide specific rights to residents of the state regarding their personal information, which includes allowing consumers in these states to opt out of certain sharing of their data.

We do not track users over time and across apps or websites, and our Site therefore does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

Depending on where you reside, your state may have enacted privacy laws (e.g., as of the date of this Policy, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia) that allow you to request that Bowditch:

• Disclose the sources, categories, and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, how that information is used, and with whom Bowditch shares it;
• Disclose the purpose for collecting personal information;
• Disclose the categories of third parties with whom Bowditch shares personal information;
• Delete/rectify/restrict their personal information, subject to certain exceptions (right of rectification not applicable to Iowa and Utah residents);
• Disclose, for any “sales” of personal information, the categories of personal information collected and sold and to what categories of third parties it was sold;
• Opt out of sales of your personal information (if any) or subject certain personal information to automated decision-making algorithms (not applicable to Iowa or Utah residents);
• Provide a copy of your personal information in a readily usable format that allows the information to be transmitted to others; and
• Residents in these states may not be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described above.

Residents of these states may exercise these rights by emailing us at info@bowditch.com.

Important Information for European Union and United Kingdom Users

If you are a user from the European Union or United Kingdom you should be aware that we are the controller of your personal information that you provide to us (Data Controller) under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), and such similar laws promulgated in the various EU countries. You may have certain additional rights regarding your personal information (as defined in the GDPR and UK GDPR, for instance), including the right to:

• access your information;
• rectify your information if it is incorrect or incomplete;
• have your information erased (“right to be forgotten”) if certain grounds are met;
• withdraw your consent to our processing of your information at any time, if our processing is based on consent;
• object to our processing of your information, if our processing is based on legitimate interests;
• object to our processing of your information for direct marketing purpose; and
• receive your information from us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and
• the right to transmit your information to another controller without hindrance from us (data portability).

There is no charge for any of these requests. To make a request, please contact us at info@bowditch.com. We try to respond to such requests in a timely manner, but in no event longer than one month.

If you are a resident of the European Union or United Kingdom, when we process your personal information, we will only do so in the following situations:

• We have a contractual obligation;
• You have provided your consent. However, you are able to remove your consent at any time, and you may do this by contacting us at info@bowditch.com;
• We have a legal obligation; or
• We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information. For example, we may process your personal information in order to send you marketing communications, relevant content, products or events invitations, or to communicate with you about changes to our services, and to provide, secure, and improve our services.

You should be aware that personal information that you provide to us may be transferred out of the country in which you reside to servers in a country that may not guarantee the same level of protection as the one in which you reside. Nevertheless, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely in accordance with this privacy policy, and no transfer of your personal information will take place to a third-party unless there are adequate controls in place to protect your personal information and/or you have provided contractual consent by becoming a client.

If you are a user in the European Union or United Kingdom and have a concern about our processing of personal information that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data privacy authority where you reside. For contact details of your local Data Protection Authority, please see: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.

Do Not Track

Your browser may offer you a “Do Not Track” option, which allows you to signal to operators of websites and web applications and services that you do not wish such operators to track certain of your online activities over time and across different websites. Our Site does not currently recognize “Do Not Track” initiatives. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you can visit www.allaboutdnt.com.

How can you exercise your privacy rights?

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you may: (a) email us at info@bowditch.com; (b) call us at 508-791-3511; or (c) send us a message on our Site at https://www.bowditch.com/contact-us/.

To update or correct the information you provide to us via this website for an event sponsored by us, you may contact the event coordinator directly via email or telephone. To change information that we collect through other means, please email info@bowditch.com. We allow you to opt out of future communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of all emails.

If you would like to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, or to make a complaint about a breach of data protection laws, please email us. We will investigate the complaints and will communicate the outcome of the investigation to you after the complaint is made in accordance with applicable law. You may also have the right in some locations to file a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Advertising disclaimer

The materials on this Site may constitute advertising under various state ethics rules.

We provide information on the Site for informational purposes only; it is not intended to provide any legal advice. In addition, the materials are provided “as is,” and the firm does not represent that they are complete, up-to-date, error-free, or applicable to your situation. For example, an article published on the Site or a posting on our blog may not cover all aspects of a given topic, may not reflect recent developments in the law, or may otherwise fail to give an accurate picture of how the law relates to your particular circumstance. Therefore, you should not rely on any of the materials on the Site when making decisions with legal implications. Before making such decisions, you should consult with a qualified legal professional, who can provide advice tailored to your individual situation.

You are not entering into an attorney-client relationship by using the Site

Your use of the Site does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Bowditch or any of the firm’s attorneys. If you wish to engage the firm, or if you have legal questions, please contact us directly and ask to be directed to one of the firm’s attorneys.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we make minor changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below. If we materially change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you via email and/or provide a notice on our Site home page.

How may you contact us?

If you have any questions about Bowditch & Dewey, LLP’s Privacy Policy, the personal information we hold, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

• Email us at: info@bowditch.com
• Call us: 508-791-3511

Please also refer to our Cookie Policy, which explains the use of cookies via our Site and other services.