Kaneko Law (“Kaneko,” “we,” “our” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and the data you share with us. This Privacy Policy describes how Kaneko Law may collect, use and share information, particularly in association with the operation of our website (www.erikakaneko.com), Kaneko Law-operated pages on social media sites and any HTML-formatted emails or communications that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Kaneko Law Digital Services”).
1. Covered Persons. The personal data covered by this Privacy Policy concerns the following categories of persons:
Staff of Kaneko Law;
Kaneko Law clients, as well as prospective and former clients and their affiliated entities (including their respective employees, agents, consultants, directors, officers, temporary, casual workers and direct and indirect shareholders, beneficial owners and the person(s) controlling them);
Opponents, counterparties and prospective opponents and counterparties of clients and their affiliated entities (including their respective employees, agents, consultants, directors, officers, temporary, casual workers and direct and indirect shareholders, beneficial owners and the person(s) controlling them);
Professional and personal contacts of Kaneko Law staff;
Suppliers (including their employees, agents, consultants, directors, officers, temporary, casual workers and direct and indirect shareholders, beneficial owners and the person(s) controlling them);
Advisors, consultants, witnesses, other professionals and professional experts (including their respective employees, agents, consultants, directors, officers, temporary, casual workers and direct and indirect shareholders, beneficial owners and the person(s) controlling them);
Other persons involved in providing legal services; and
Dependents, associates and correspondents of the above persons affected by the data transfer.
2. Use of Information. We may use the information you provide us for a number of different purposes. Specifically, we may use the information to respond to any requests you have submitted. Likewise, we may use your contact information to send you Kaneko Law memoranda, announcements, news, invitations or other information about Kaneko Law events and services that we believe may be of interest to you.
Other potential uses of this data include:
To comply with the law or in response to a subpoena, court order, law enforcement or government request or other legal process;
To produce relevant documents or information in connection with litigation, arbitration, mediation, adjudication, government or internal investigation or other legal or administrative proceedings;
To protect the interests, rights, safety or property of Kaneko Law, our clients, users of this website or others;
In connection with internal organizational matters;
To combat fraud or other criminal activity;
To work with carefully selected vendors that perform services on our behalf
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
As otherwise required or permitted by law.
We do not sell or share personal information with third parties for marketing/promotional purposes.
3. Personal Information. We do not collect any personal information about you unless you affirmatively provide it to us. For example, certain portions of our website, such as the “Contact” page, allow you to provide certain personal information on a voluntary basis, including your name, e-mail address, company information and other contact information. Likewise, your contact information may be added to email lists for our client alert emails and other resources when you provide your contact information to our staff.
4. Legal Basis. We rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal information:
Performance of a contract – To the extent you are a client of Kaneko Law or wish to become one, we may need to collect and use your personal information to perform the services for which you have contracted with us. For example, we may use your personal information to respond to requests you make via our website and provide you with such services.
Consent – Some of the personal information collected by Kaneko Law is provided by you voluntarily, for example when you sign up to join a mailing list or register for an event, and is therefore collected and used with your permission. To withdraw your consent to such use, you can contact us at info@erikakaneko.com
Legitimate interests – We may use your personal information for our legitimate interests, such as to improve our products and services, and the content on the Kaneko Law Digital Services. We may also use your contact information to keep you and others who have provided us with their contact information up-to-date on recent legal developments of interest. If you wish us to stop using your contact information in this manner, you can contact us at info@erikakaneko.com
5. Securing Your Information. We use reasonable administrative, technical and physical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use. This may include, when required or appropriate and feasible, obtaining written assurances from third parties that may access your data that they will protect the data with safeguards designed to provide a level of protection equivalent to that adopted by Kaneko Law.
However, no system of transmission or storage of data can be 100% secure. As such, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. Moreover, we are not responsible for the security of information you transmit to us over networks that we do not control, including the Internet.
6. Retention of Your Information. We retain the information we collect no longer than as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect the information and to comply with our legal obligations.
7. Analytics. This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device;
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; and
Your IP address.
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks;
Internal links;
Pages visited;
Scrolling;
Searches; and
Timestamps.
I share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
8. Cookies. This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
9. Website Visitors. This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device;
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website;
Web pages you view while on this website; and
Your IP address.
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
10. Marketing Email. We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
11. Fonts. This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device;
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it; and
Your IP address.
12. Scheduling. When you schedule an appointment by booking on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:
Name;
Email address;
Phone number;
Details relating to your appointment (for example, who referred you); and
Files you uploaded.
We share this information with Squarespace, our scheduling service provider, so that they can provide online booking services to us.
13. European Union Rights. If you are a resident of the European Union, you may have certain rights regarding information that we have collected and that is related to you. In particular, you may have the right to:
Access and correct the personal information Kaneko Law has about you;
Object to the processing of your personal information; or
Request that your personal data be erased.
If you wish to exercise those rights, please contact us at info@erikakaneko.com
Likewise, if you are a resident of the European Union, you have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority if you believe that your personal information has been collected or used in violation of relevant privacy requirements. You may file such complaint with the Data Protection Authority in the country in which you are located. Alternatively, you may contact the Data Protection Authority (GBA) of Belgium online at https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/citizen, by telephone at +32 (0)2 274 48 00, or at their physical address: Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels.
14. United Kingdom Rights. If you are located in the UK, you may contact the Office of the Information Commissioner in the United Kingdom at www.ico.org.uk, by telephone on +44 (0)303 123 1113 or by writing to this address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF United Kingdom.
15. California Privacy Rights. If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:
Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose to you the Personal Information we collect, use or disclose, and information about our data practices;
Right to Request Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information that we have collected from you;
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.
To exercise your “right to know” or your “right to request deletion,” please contact us at info@erikakaneko.com
Please note that to protect your information and the integrity of our services, we may need to verify your identity before processing your request. In some cases we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity, such as a government issued ID. We are also prohibited by California law from disclosing certain information we may have under any circumstances. To the extent Kaneko Law is a “service provider” with respect to any information that may be covered by your request, we will forward your request to the business on whose behalf we are working.
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you may exercise these rights yourself or you may designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf.
16. Attorney-Client Relationships. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect, use or share in the course of our attorney- client relationships, or information which is protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other, similar protections.
17. Data Controller. The data controller for Kaneko Law Digital Services is:
Kaneko LLC, 43 W 43rd Street, Suite 219, New York, NY 10036