Legal Notice

Copyright 2011 © Barnes Firm, LLP. All rights reserved. Use of this site is subject to the following terms and conditions.


Barnes, LLP’s website is intended to provide information (not advice) about the firm, its lawyers and new legal developments. Visitors to this website should not act upon this information without consulting with legal counsel. Transmission and receipt of materials provided by Barnes Firm, LLP’S Web site is not intended to and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please be further advised that the act of sending e-mail to an attorney at Barnes Firm, LLP will not create an attorney-client relationship. If you are not currently a client of Barnes Firm, LLP, your e-mail will not be privileged and may be disclosed to other persons. This website is not intended to be advertising and Barnes Firm, LLP does not wish to represent anyone desiring representation based upon viewing this website in a state where this website fails to comply with all laws and ethical rules of that state. This website is meant to be informational only, consistent with our profession’s obligation to help inform not only our clients but to cultivate knowledge of the law in the public in general.


Reproduction of distribution of any material from this Web site for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Barnes Firm, LLP.

Privacy Policy

We at Barnes Firm, LLP recognize the importance of and respect your privacy. We want you to make the most of this Web site and to feel confident while doing so. The following discloses the information collection, use and disclosure practices for these Wes sites: http://www.barnesattorneys.com and http://www.atlantasdivorceattorneys.com. This policy does not address information obtained offline from an attorney’s personal contacts.


WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES BARNES FIRM, LLP COLLECT?
When you visit the public area of our site, you remain anonymous. To the extent you use e-mail links via the website to communicate with us or anyone affiliated with us and provide us with personally identifiable information, however, you will not remain anonymous. Because it is not possible to anticipate every conceivable context in which such information might be provided to us via e-mail, we can provide you no assurance that personally identifiable information you choose to provide to us via e-mail will be maintained as private. Barnes Firm, LLP and/or the host of its website uses “cookies.” Cookies are small text files that are placed on a visitor’s computer hard drive that allow us and/or the host of its website to record how many times a user or computers within a user’s network of computers has visited the website, the number of times various pages of the website have been accessed and to track the user’s home page customization preferences. You may disable receipt of cookies using features of your Web browser that disable or turn off cookies. With cookies disabled in your browser, the site’s customization features will not function, and the home page will revert to its default content. We do not use cookies to retrieve information that is unrelated to your visit to or your interaction with the website.


Barnes Firm, LLP may collect your internet protocol (IP) address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you use the internet. The IP address data that we may collect does not contain any personally identifiable information about you and is used to administer our site, to determine the numbers of different visitors to the site and to gather broad demographic data. The non-personally identifiable data that we collect in these ways is accessible by certain Barnes Firm, LLP personnel as well as certain third-party website designers and personnel involved with the third-party service that hosts the website. We us all non-personally identifiable data that it collects internally and together with its website designer and host in order to improve the website. The information is used, for example, to evaluate what portions of the website are more popular than others, to determine from where visitors came to the site, and to determine how many times particular pages of the site were accessed in aggregate. Barnes Firm, LLP personnel may use the data to prepare reports regarding website activity as part of the process of maintaining and improving the site. Cookies also are used to identify prior users to the website in order to provide certain homepage customization preferences and create a more personal viewing experience for the user.


WHAT STEPS DOES BARNES FIRM, LLP TAKE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY?
To the extent permitted by law, Barnes Firm, LLP will not sell, share, or otherwise disclose any of the information it collects online without your permission. Exceptions and disclosures to third parties who monitor the website, to parties who assist or cooperate In preparing firm mailings and to third parties with whom we may co-sponsor an event  (in which case we may share attendee lists for purposes of the event). In addition, Barnes Firm, LLP does not presently collect personally identifiable information via the public area of its website except to the extent that such information is provided from visitors who voluntarily submit a feedback/inquiry form, register for homepage customization features, send electronic mail to us or any of our lawyers, register for events, subscribe to newsletter or submit resumes through the site. Personal information collected through this website is saved in our contact database where it may be combined with pre-existing contact information in the database. Barnes Firm, LLP and the host of its website take reasonable security precautions to maintain the privacy of the data that is collected, such as insuring that it is accessible only to appropriate personnel and that the information is user ID and password-protected.