Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Summary

Fizer, LLC is committed to protecting the privacy of its clients and to providing safe and secure storage of all information entrusted to us. The Privacy Policy detailed here explains how we collect, use, store, share and safeguard personal and sensitive information about our clients, prospective clients and visitors to our website https://fizerllc.com/. Our policy reflects the principles of integrity, confidentiality and transparency which guide every aspect of our practice. Regardless of whether you are an individual seeking legal counsel, a company in need of litigation expertise or a professional working with our firm on behalf of a client, we look forward to protecting your privacy and data with utmost care and professionalism.

About Fizer, LLC: Our Privacy Commitment

Fizer, LLC is a leading litigation, insurance defense, and attorney-client counsel law firm representing individuals, businesses, and other law firms. Our firm has more than 30 years of experience establishing procedures and protocols to prevent the disclosure of client information in accordance with legal requirements and ethical codes. We understand that the information shared by clients with our firm, particularly in the context of a catastrophic personal injury, property damage, insurance litigation, and claims, is highly sensitive, and we take legal claims of confidentiality very seriously. We will strictly adhere to obligations of confidentiality as required by laws and rules governing our practice. This is our Privacy Policy for our use of information, whether you retain us to represent you in an official capacity, register for updates or information, or merely visit our website.

Information We Gather and Collect

Fizer, LLC collects information necessary to provide you with outstanding legal services and to satisfy the requirements of the law. The categories of information we may collect include:

  • Personally Identifiable Information: Your name, postal address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, and other information that identifies who you are.
  • Case-Related Information: Information related to your legal issue, including facts, evidence, and documents related to your case.
  • Financial Information for Fees: Billing information, related records, and where necessary, insurance or other payment information.
  • Electronic Information: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, preferences, or other usage information related to your use of the site-including pages viewed and clicked on-so that we can better facilitate improvements in function and features in our website.
  • Communications: Email correspondence, phone records, notes from consultations or meetings concerning your matter.
  • Professional Information: For our clients and cooperating counsel, we collect information such as bar number, by whom they are employed, and areas of legal practice.

We collect this information from you directly, indirectly from third parties with your consent, or as necessary to facilitate our services.

Our Use of Your Information

Fizer, LLC does not use your information except for purposes necessary for us to provide legal services, communicate with clients, or run our business. Specifically, we may use your information:

  • To determine your capacity to make use of our services and evaluate and manage your case or legal matter
  • To contact you about your case, your appointments, your invoices, and/or about the firm
  • For legal, regulatory, and ethical compliance as a law firm
  • To assess and optimize our website, our services, and the client experience using analytics and client feedback
  • To process payments and manage invoices
  • To maintain internal records in relation to quality control audits, risk management and claims prevention, litigation matters, and office administration
  • If you have joined one of our news mailing lists (with an option to completely opt out at any time), to send you newsletters, legal updates, and/or invitations to events

No Sale of Your Personal Data: Fizer does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

Legal Basis for Processing Your Information

Fizer, LLC processing of personal information is done in adherence to all relevant laws of the United States like the attorney-client privilege and confidentiality. We may process your personal information on these bases:

  • Performance of contract: Legal representation or legal services provided as agreed between you and Fizer, LLC.
  • Legal obligations: Compliance with statutory/regulatory obligations (such as anti-money laundering).
  • Legitimate interests: Business administration, improvement of business services, protection of legal position.
  • Consent: Where you have consented to such processing (such as to send communications for marketing purposes or in relation to referrals).

We will carefully balance these legitimate interests against your own rights and expectations of privacy.

How Fizer, LLC Shares your Information

Fizer, LLC maintains your privacy as our #1 priority. We only disclose your information in the following contexts:

  • With your express authorization (for example, when we refer you to a specialist or an associate attorney)
  • Within Fizer, LLC in connection with case handling, billing, and administrative functions
  • To carefully screened vendors (e.g., IT service provider, billing vendor, document management provider) who have been contractually required to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and security
  • In response to legal requirements or in response to governmental request or investigation
  • To protect your rights, our rights, or the rights of others where there is suspected fraud or imminent threat of harm

We never sell or otherwise disclose your information to third-party marketers or unrelated companies.

Our Attorney-Client Confidentiality

Fizer, LLC is a law firm subject to applicable lawyer conduct rules pertaining to the attorney-client relationship and confidentiality of client matters. Information disclosed to our firm for the purposes of seeking legal counsel or representation is protected by law from disclosure to third parties absent your consent, except in very limited circumstances otherwise required by law (e.g., an imminent or likely risk of harm). Our entire firm, including lawyers, paralegals, and administrative assistants, is trained on confidentiality and information protection obligations.

Our Data Security Practices

Fizer, LLC maintains a comprehensive information security program designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or destruction, including:

  • Encryption and password protection for all electronic records and communications
  • Physical security for paper assets and offices
  • Access controls and authentication safeguards for staff and vendors
  • Monitoring, auditing, and updating security measures on a routine basis
  • Secure destruction of data or data anonymization when no longer required
  • Cybersecurity and data privacy training programs for all staff

No system is risk-free, but we consistently assess and strengthen our security measures to help keep your sensitive information safe.

Retention & Disposal of Information

We retain personal and case-related information only for so long as it is necessary to satisfy the purposes for which it was collected, for our compliance with legal or regulation requirements, or to facilitate record retention for the purposes of dispute resolution and/or claims defense. Our usual information retention periods are as follows:

Client filesRetained for a minimum seven years after end of case, unless longer legal retention is required, or upon your directive to us otherwise
Financial/billing recordsRetained for the period necessary to comply with tax law and accounting requirements
Website analyticsRetained for up to 2 years for website analytics purposes in order to improve the service

Subsequent to those time periods, all information is disposed of securely (e.g., deleted, shredded, or otherwise anonymized) consistent with common industry practices.

Your Rights and Options

Depending on your location and/or your relationship with Fizer, LLC, you may have certain rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you. These rights include:

  • Right of access: The right to request a copy of the data we hold about you.
  • Right to rectification: The right to request a correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Right to erasure/’right to be forgotten’: The right to request deletion of your information, subject to legal and ethical requirements for such requests.
  • Right to restrict processing: The right to request us to limit the way in which we use your information, again subject to legal and ethical requirements for such requests.
  • Right to object: The right to object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
  • Right to data portability: The right to request the transmission of your data, under certain conditions, to a different provider.

If you wish to make any request in relation to these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or on (934) 732-6925, and we will comply as soon as possible and in accordance with the law.

Website Visitors: Cookies, Analytics and More

Our web site, https://fizerllc.com/, uses cookies and similar technologies in order to optimize user experience, analyze website activity, and improve our services. Cookies are data files that are placed on your device. You can manage your cookie preferences in your browser settings. Most browsers also allow you to refuse or delete cookies at any time.

We may from time-to-time utilize third-party based analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) to analyze anonymized information regarding site usage such as pages viewed, duration of visit, referring websites, etc. This information does not serve to identify any individual user of the site and is used only to optimize our website and better understand how our visitors interact with our content.

Cookies are not used for advertising/tracking by us except in connection with our own site analytics. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.

Links to Third Parties’ Websites and Services

Some of the links on our website may take you to third-party websites, legal resources, service providers, or other materials. Please note that this Privacy Policy is only applicable to Fizer, LLC and our website and we are not responsible for privacy practices or the content of such websites. Please review the privacy policies of any of these other websites if you choose to provide personal information to such website operators.

Children’s Privacy

Fizer, LLC does not knowingly collect personal information about children under age 18 without verified parental consent. Our services are not intended for children. Our clients are adults and businesses that wish to retain the company for legal representative purposes. If you believe that a child has disclosed personal information to us, please contact us immediately at [email protected] so we can take appropriate action.

International Clients and International Data Transfers

Although Fizer, LLC offers services primarily to United States clients, we acknowledge that clients and other parties conducting business with us may be located in other countries. Personal information disclosing the identity of the users of these services may be transferred to, stored, or otherwise processed in the United States. By clicking on our services website and/or otherwise using it, you agree such a transfer may take place, subject to protections required by applicable law. We undertake to ensure the international data transfers we conduct are in accordance with US laws as well as recognised and applicable international data protection standards.

Marketing Messages and Opting-Out

From time to time Fizer, LLC may send communications such as newsletters or updates about legal developments or invitations to events sponsored by Fizer, LLC to clients and other contacts who have opted in to receive them. You may elect to stop receiving these types of communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the email or by contacting us at [email protected]. We will honor your preferences promptly. We do not otherwise use your information for unsolicited marketing or provide your information to third party marketers.

Data Breach Notification Protocols & Procedures

In the rare case of a data breach which affects your personally identifiable or sensitive information, Fizer, LLC will respond quickly and candidly. Our response protocols include:

  • Prompt investigation and containment
  • Analysis of the breach in question, scope, and impact
  • Notice to individuals and government as required by applicable law
  • Steps to remediate the breach to prevent future recurrences

We take data breaches seriously and will do everything within reasonable bounds to maintain the trust you’ve placed with us by ensuring timely notification and remediation.

Modifications to Our Privacy Policy

Fizer, LLC periodically reviews and revises this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our policies, technology, legal requirements, and client needs. We will post material changes to this Privacy Policy on our website, and may also directly contact clients with updates by email or other communication methods. Our effective date of all policy revisions appears at the bottom of this document. Your continued use of any services or website after the effective date of each policy is your consent to and acceptance of the new policy.

How to Reach Fizer, LLC on Privacy Matters

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests with respect to this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices related to the Site or the Services, please reach out to us at:

Fizer, LLC
120 Broadway 70
New York, NY 10271
Phone: (934) 732-6925
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://fizerllc.com

Your privacy is important to us and we will try to help you with your privacy-related questions quickly and thoroughly, where possible. No matter what your inquiry is regarding – to comment upon our Privacy Policy, request access to your information or ask us anything else about your rights concerning your information under this Privacy Policy – you may contact us. For more details, please visit our Contact Fizer, LLC page.

Your Consent and Acknowledgment

By utilizing Fizer, LLC’s website and/or requesting legal services from, communicating with, or transacting business with Fizer, LLC, you agree that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy, and consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with the terms hereof. You may refuse or withdraw consent at any time by contacting us, in accordance with case-specific legal and contractual restrictions. We welcome you to read the Policy and contact us with questions.

Our Continuous Effort to Better Represent and Protect Your Privacy

We at Fizer, LLC recognize that better lawyering starts with an unflinching dedication to the highest standards of trust, openness, and respect for client confidentiality. That’s why our privacy policy is just as committed a principle as our legal and business excellence and integrity. To that end, we’re constantly re-investing in the most valuable resources our business has: our people. Up-to-date staff training, state-of-the-art technology, and process refinement help ensure your protected information is just that – protected – at all times in its life cycle with us.

Thank you for allowing Fizer, LLC to help with your legal needs and for trusting us with your information.

Effective Date and Version

This Privacy Policy is effective as of June 1, 2024. It replaces all prior versions. This page can be referenced for the most up-to-date information about our privacy policies. Direct questions or requests regarding past versions of this policy to [email protected].


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