Privacy Policy

NATIONAL FILIPINO AMERICAN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION

PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is effective on March 16, 2026.

Introduction

The National Filipino American Lawyers Association (“NFALA”) (“we,” “us,” or “our”) aims to protect your privacy and information that you provide to us through our website at https://nfala.com/ (“Website”), via email, or through other means, including, registrations at in-person events, among others. 

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we may collect, use, and share your Personal Information, as well as how you may exercise your rights with respect to such information, as permitted by law. 

The Information We May Collect

Personal Information is used to refer to information that we may collect as that term may be defined under applicable law, whether automatically through cookies or other tracking technologies, your completion of online forms, or by sending us a message through the Website. 

Your Personal Information that may be collected on the Website includes but may not be limited to the following:

Name

Date of birth

Mailing address (home and/or business)

Email address

Business/personal phone numbers

Internet protocol (IP) address

Site usage (e.g., browsing history, referring/exit pages)

Computer type, operating system and platform type

Internet service provider

In addition, you may voluntarily complete an online profile that you can choose to make visible to other users of the Website.  The profile includes but may not be limited to the following information:

Name and contact information

Membership level

Region

Experience level

Bar admission(s) date(s) and state(s)

Your employer data information (e.g., type, size, functions, seniority level)

Legal practice area(s)

Law school

Undergraduate school

NFALA Committee or affinity network membership

No Collection of Children’s Personal Information

Our Website is intended only for individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years old and are legal professionals, law students, and other adults who are interested in the field of law.  We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of eighteen (18).  By using the Website, you certify that you are over the age of eighteen (18).  We reserve the right to delete any information we believe to be in violation of this Privacy Policy, without prior notice to you.

The Way We May Use or Share Personal Information

By using our Website, you are sharing Personal Information, and you acknowledge and agree that you have no expectation of privacy, confidentiality or privilege in such information, and you consent to our use and disclosure of such Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy and as permitted by law.

Specifically, we may use your Personal Information for purposes that include but are not limited to the following:

·       identifying or contacting you to respond to your request(s) for information, application for membership, registration for an event or program, purchase of merchandise or services, publishing NFALA announcements, or otherwise interacting with NFALA,

·       managing our Website and/or potential issues with security or functionality, assisting with technical issues,

·       enforcing compliance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions,

·       providing certain notices regarding NFALA, its affiliates, other bar associations, sponsors or other similar organizations, events, membership, marketing, or sharing information with a third-party (such as Google Analytics or an advertiser), as necessary,

·       improving the usability of our Website and for other business reasons, and

·       complying with our ethical, professional, regulatory, or legal obligations.

The majority of Personal Information is accessible only by the NFALA board members.  The Website also has a feature that allows you to specifically opt-in to having your  profile visible and searchable by any other registered member who may log into the Website and search for specific members by location, specialty, or other criteria.

Cookies

When you access our Website, we may collect Personal Information through a “cookie” or other tracking technologies.  A cookie is a file that a website can store on your web browser, computer or device to help users navigate a website efficiently and perform certain functions.  We may use session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) or persistent cookies (which stay on your computer for a set period of time or until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Website.  A cookie allows our Website to recognize you as a prior user, provides our Website with information regarding your use, and helps us determine the portions of our Website that are best suited for you.  For more information on cookies visit:  http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Specifically, we may collect Personal Information about users over time on our Website by using the following types of cookies or tracking technologies:

Necessary Cookies:  Necessary cookies are crucial to your experience on a website, enabling core features such as accessing secure areas of the Website and authenticating who you are, and also helping us improve security.  These cookies cannot be disabled.

Analytics Cookies Provided by Third Parties:  We may employ third-party service providers, including Google Analytics, to perform specific tasks on our behalf, such as to track user traffic patterns on the Website.  We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our Website’s information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information.  Third-Party Analytics Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.  Google may collect, for example, your first and last name, email address, browser type, operating system, IP address, domain name or Internet Service Provider.  We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third parties, including Google Analytics.  We encourage you to review their privacy policies.  Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Website is restricted by the Google Privacy Policy.

Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not.  If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our Website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence.  You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.  However, by not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this Website.

Unrelated third-party entities with whom you may have an existing relationship or account, such as Meta (e.g., Facebook, Instagram) and Google (e.g., Analytics, Ads) may use your Personal Information collected across our Website (and other websites you visit within their networks) to create a profile of your browsing history and interests, in order to deliver personalized or interest-based advertisements to you, or for any other purpose that they determine.  We have no control over these third-party tracking technologies or the subsequent collection and use of your Personal Information by these third parties.  Their activities are subject to their own respective privacy policies and terms.  We encourage you to review their privacy policies to understand how they process your Personal Information.

You can manage your preferences or request that these entities do not track you through methods available on their own websites or through your account settings with them, among others, and as applicable.

Our Website may include social media features that allow users to share NFALA communications on Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), Youtube, Instagram, and LinkedIn.  These features may collect certain Personal Information and may use cookies to enable such social media features to function properly.

Online Tracking / Do Not Track Signals

“Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals are available on your internet browser to tell operators of websites that you do not wish to have your online activity tracked.  Our Website does not respond to Do Not Track signals. 

Data Security Practices

We take steps to protect your Personal Information by implementing directly and/or through third party service providers, reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative measures.

How You Can Exercise Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Information

You can access your member profile at our Website by using your email and password.  While logged in, you may review or modify all parts of your member profile.  We use this procedure to better safeguard your Personal Information.

You can correct factual errors in your Personal Information by sending us a written request that specifies updates or removal requests.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

If you would like to access or modify your Personal Information, or discontinue our use of your Personal Information, please contact us in writing as described below in the section titled “Questions and Contact Information.”

Social Media Platforms

We maintain a presence on social media platforms like Facebook, X and LinkedIn.  Any information, communications or materials you submit to us via a social media platform is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy.  We cannot control the actions of other users of these social media platforms or the actions of the platforms themselves.  Any interaction you have with social media features on our and/or on social media platforms themselves are governed by such third parties’ terms and conditions and privacy policies.

We Operate Only in the United States

If you use the Website outside of the Unites States or are a resident of a country other than the United States that has laws and policies governing the disclosure and management of your Personal Information, you understand and agree that the information you exchange with the Website may be maintained on servers located within the United States.  We collect and process Personal Information only as described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law.  By using the Website, you understand and consent to the collection, storage, processing and transfer of your Personal Information to our facilities in the United States and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.

DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, OREGON, AND VIRGINIA RESIDENTS

DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents are afforded certain rights with respect to their Personal Information.  This section summarizes those rights and sets forth the procedures to exercise them. 

Data Access, Deletion and Portability Rights

In addition to the information rights described in this Privacy Policy (including the categories of Personal Information collected from California residents during the preceding twelve months, the sources of that information, and the purposes for which it was collected), you may request no more than twice in any twelve-month period, additional details regarding our collection and use of your Personal Information. 

Once we receive and verify a consumer request, we will disclose, as applicable and for the twelve-month period preceding the request: 

·       The categories of Personal Information that we collected from you.

·       The categories of sources of Personal Information that we collected about you.

·       Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing your Personal Information.

·       If we sold or shared your Personal Information to a third party for a business purpose:  for sales, the categories of Personal Information that each category of third-party recipient(s) purchased and/or for disclosures pursuant to a business purpose, the categories of Personal Information that each category of third-party recipient(s) obtained.

·       The categories of third parties with whom we disclose that Personal Information.

·       The specific Personal Information that we collected about you.

You may also:

·       request deletion of your Personal Information.  Upon verification of a consumer request, we will delete your Personal Information and instruct our service providers to do the same, unless retention of the information is permitted or required by law. 

·       request correction of inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you. 

·       opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information.  However, we do not sell such information. 

Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply.

The business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information is more fully explained above in the section “The Information We May Collect” and “The Way We May Use or Share Personal Information.”

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.  Except as permitted by law, we will not deny goods or services, charge different prices or rates, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services. 

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise the rights described in this section, please submit a request to us by contacting us at the information listed below in the section titled "Questions and Contact Information."  

You may submit a request for access to, or portability of, your Personal Information no more than twice within a twelve-month period.  Your verifiable consumer request must include sufficient information to enable us to reasonably confirm your identity as the individual whose Personal Information we collected and/or shared, and must describe your request with enough detail for us to properly evaluate and respond.

If your request does not meet these requirements, we will be unable to provide you with any Personal Information in our possession or under our control.  Any Personal Information submitted in connection with a request to exercise your CCPA rights will be used solely for the purpose of verifying your identity. 

DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS OF COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, OREGON, AND VIRGINIA RESIDENTS

The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CPDA), Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA), New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA), Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA), and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) grants their residents with specific rights concerning their Personal Information.  This section outlines those rights and explains how eligible individuals may exercise them.

Data Access, Correction, Deletion and Portability Rights, and the Right to Opt-Out of the Processing of Personal Information

In addition to the right to confirm whether we process your Personal Information, you may be entitled to access such information and receive it in a portable and readily usable format that enables transmission to another entity without impediment, where processing is carried out by automated means.  You may further have the right to request correction of inaccurate Personal Information, considering the nature of the information and the purposes of the processing.  You may also have the right to request deletion of Personal Information provided by or obtained about you, and to opt-out of certain processing activities.  These rights are subject to statutory limitations and exceptions. 

How to Exercise Data Access and Data Portability Rights

Requests to exercise the rights described in this section may be submitted using the contact information set forth below under “QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS.” That same contact information may also be used to appeal any decision denying your request. 

FURTHER INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, OREGON, AND VIRGINIA RESIDENTS

Within the past twelve (12) months, we may have collected the following categories of Personal Information set forth below from you directly and third parties with whom you or we have a business relationship or that are involved in legal proceedings:

Categories of Personal Information that may have been collected in the past 12 months.	Have we disclosed this category of Personal Information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months?	Have we sold this category of Personal Information in the preceding 12 months?	Category of third parties to whom Personal Information may have been disclosed to for a business purpose.	Category of third parties to whom Personal Information was sold.
Identifiers such as a first and last name, alias, postal address, IP address, email address, or other similar identifiers	Yes	No	Service providers	No
Commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, obtained or considered, or other purchasing or use histories or tendencies	No	No	Not applicable	No
Biometric Information	No	No	No	No
Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website application or advertisement	Yes	No	Not applicable	No
Your Website activity, including, but not limited to, date and time of visit to the Website, webpages visited, and Website searches	No	No	No	No
Geolocation data	No	No	No	No
Professional or employment-related information	Yes	No	No	No
Education information	Yes	No	No	No
Inferences drawn from any information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes	No	No	No	No
Sensitive Personal Information	No	No	No	No

Limitation of Liability and No Security Guarantee

We strive to protect your personal information; however, we urge you to take precautions to protect your personal information when you are on the internet.

We will maintain security measures in order to protect and safeguard your information.  Unfortunately, information transferred over the internet is not completely secure.  You acknowledge and agree that any transmission of information to our website is made at your own risk.  We will have no liability to you for any misuse or disclosure of your information.  Any such information you share with the third party will not be governed by this privacy policy, and we have no liability to you with respect to such information.

You understand that electronic communications may be accessed by unauthorized parties when communicated across the internet, network communications facilities, or other electronic means.  You understand and agree that we are not responsible for any electronic communication or any of your information which may be lost, altered, intercepted or stored without authorization during the transmission of any personal information whatsoever across networks not owned or operated by us.

Changes

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy, at any time, without notice to you.  Your continued use of the Website following the posting of a revised Privacy Policy means that you accept and agree to the changes.  You are expected to check this page from time to time so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.

Questions and Contact Information

If you would like to submit a request concerning your Personal Information, have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or need assistance regarding your Personal Information, please contact us at info@nfala.com, National Filipino American Lawyers Association 1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite #600, Washington, DC 20036.