Who We Are

The Law Offices of Joseph M. Rasa, L.L.C. is committed to ensuring your privacy and retaining your trust. Your privacy is very important to us and we respect your right to keep your personal information confidential. Please read the following to learn how we handle your personal information. Our website address is: https://rasa-law.com.

Types of Information We Collect

Our firm collects nonpublic personal information about you that is provided by you, or obtained by us with your authorization, in order to represent you in connection with your case, prepare tax returns on your behalf, provide personal tax planning to you, and provide real estate settlement services to you or on your behalf.

Examples of Sources From Which We Collect Information

Client Interviews, Questionnaires, And Documents That You Provide To Us

To properly represent you in connection with your case, prepare your tax return, or provide tax consultation or real estate settlement services to you or on your behalf, our firm receives information about you in written form, by telephone, online, by mail and/or in personal interviews and consultations conducted by members of our firm.  We also collect information about you from other parties with your authorization.

Transaction Information

Transaction information is information pertaining to your transactions with our firm, and includes information necessary for the billing and payment of our fees, as well as all correspondence between you and our firm.  Transaction information also includes your payment history with our firm, your billing records, and any information obtained as a result of collection efforts taken by our firm for payment of our fees.

Parties To Whom We Disclose Information

We do not disclose any nonpublic information about our clients or former clients to our affiliates or to nonaffiliated third parties except as permitted by law, the Rules of Professional Conduct set forth in the Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jersey (“Rules of Professional Conduct”) and various advisory opinions of the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, the Committee on Attorney Advertising, and the Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law (“advisory opinions”).  Nonpublic personal information about our present and former clients may be disclosed to both our affiliates and nonaffiliated third parties as permitted by law, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and advisory opinions as follows:

1. Complying with a validly issued and enforceable subpoena or summons.
2. Initiating a complaint or responding to an inquiry made by an Ethics Committee of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey.
3. A review of our practice in conjunction with a prospective purchase, sale, or merger of all or part of our practice, provided that we take appropriate precautions (for example, through a written confidentiality agreement) so that the prospective purchaser does not disclose information obtained in the course of the review.
4. Participating in actual or threatened legal proceedings or alternative dispute resolution proceedings either initiated by or against our firm, provided we disclose only the information necessary to file, prosecute, or defend against the lawsuit, and take reasonable precautions to ensure that the information disclosed does not become a matter of public record.
5. Providing information to affiliates of the firm and nonaffiliated third parties who perform services or functions for our firm pursuant to a contractual agreement which prohibits the third party or affiliate from disclosing or using the information other than for the purposes for which the information was disclosed.
6. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
7. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

General Restrictions on Disclosure of Nonpublic Information to Affiliates and Nonaffiliated Third Parties

We are generally prohibited by the Rules of Professional Conduct from disclosing confidential client information about our clients or former clients without the client’s specific consent (see exceptions under heading “Parties to Whom we Disclose Information”).

Confidentiality and Security of Nonpublic Personal Information

We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees and other parties who must use that information to provide services to you. Their right to further disclose and use such information is limited by applicable law, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and nondisclosure agreements, where appropriate.  We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable laws and regulations to guard against disclosure of your nonpublic personal information

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.  After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about users of this Site by sending “cookies” to its users’ browsers.  We reserve the right to use cookies, Internet protocol (“IP”) addresses and other tracking technologies if needed to identify users when required to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, to protect the site and the information contained on this site, our users or clients or others, or as required by applicable law, regulation or court order.

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites.  Like many other websites, we use cookies for various reasons.  We use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor, and to help us understand which areas of the website are of greatest interest to you.  Cookies also may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences and password so you do not have to re-enter this information each time you visit our Site.  By continuing to browse our Site or use our services, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

We may use the following types of cookies:

1. Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site, apps and online services.  They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site, or make use of any of our online-based services.
2. Analytical/Performance cookies:  These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site, apps and online services when they are using it.  This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
3. Functionality cookies:  These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site, apps and online services.  This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
4. Targeting cookies:  These cookies record your visit to our website, apps and online services, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.  We use this information to make our Site, apps and online services and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.  We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

If you wish to restrict, block, or delete the cookies that are set by our Site, you can do so using your browser settings.  We may use other tracking technologies to record information such as your IP address, referring site, device type and similar information.

It is not our practice to link the information we record using cookies or other tracking technologies to any personal information you submit through the Site.  However, we may use such tracking technologies to identify a visitor when we believe it is necessary to protect the Site, our visitors, clients or other third parties, or when we believe that the law requires it.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, 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 We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

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