Overview of Our Use of Cookies

We take your privacy seriously at ICA – Laws Legal Institute and we’re committed to transparency about the way we collect, use, and protect your information. This Cookie Policy describes how our website (https://icalaws.com/) makes use of cookies and similar technologies to facilitate your web browsing experience, support our legal research network, and communicate with you segmented, more relevant information about our programs and events. We believe in establishing trust with our community of law faculty scholars, mentors, and institutional collaborators, and transparency about the way we use your data is central to that effort.

Cookies Defined

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (e.g., computer, tablet, smartphone) when visiting a site. Cookies are commonly used by websites for many purposes: to make sites work effectively, to enhance site performance, to provide useful information to site owners, and more. Cookies can be “session” cookies (deleted when you close your browser) or “persistent” cookies (remain on your hard drive for a specified time or until you delete them). At ICA – Laws Legal Institute, cookies help us make it easy for users of our site to seamlessly access our legal research materials, authenticate secure sign-in procedures, and understand how our visitors interact with our materials in order to develop and improve our offerings.

Purpose and Use of Cookies

The cookies utilized by our website allow us to, among other things:

• Authenticate the functioning and security of our website.
• Personalize your experience using our site to recognize and remember preferences and settings specific to you.
• Evaluate visitors’ use of our site so that we can enhance the programs, events, and resources we make available through our website.
• Identify whether site visitors need to be registered or authenticated to use the legal research features of our site and enable them to participate in our research collaborations.
• Notify visitors of information pertinent to the programs, events, and opportunities we provide on our website.

We only gather the information we deem necessary to effectively meet the needs and support the work of our community of legal scholars, advisers and mentors, and institutional collaborators. We limit our use of tracking mechanisms to the minimum needed for enabling the workings of our sites.

Categories of Cookies That We Use

To clarify our policy, cookies used on our website are organized into the following categories:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are indispensable for the successful and secure operation of our website. They allow us to detect logins, handle website accounts, and grant access to restricted content by those who may wish to register or who are already registered participants in our legal products and programs. Without such cookies, our website functionalities cannot work.
• Performance And Analytics Cookies. These cookies track how website users utilize our website by capturing anonymous usage data, such as pages visited, the path taken through our website, and how long that individual spends with particular content. We utilize an analytics tool, Google Analytics, which may set its own cookies for these purposes. The data generated helps us enhance the functionality of the website and provide you with relevant content that we believe may be of interest.
• Functionality Cookies. These cookies recall your selections-such as language preference and pages viewed previously-so that we can offer you a more convenient experience when navigating our content.
• Third Party Cookies. Occasionally, we will use third parties’ content or tools (e.g., online video hosting and playing services, event registration services). These third parties may set their own cookies according to their privacy policies. This type of integration will be reviewed by us to ensure compliance with our own policies.

Our Use of Analytics Data

ICA – Laws Legal Institute uses analytics cookies to obtain aggregated, non-personally-identifying information on our website. Collected information includes the number of visitors, number of page views, duration and frequency of site visits, and geographic areas viewed (for example, city or region). This information is only used internally to improve the structure of our website, target our learning materials to provide the most relevant resources for those who visit our site, and to measure the success of communications we make in our outreach. We do not use this information to personally identify individual visitors of our websites, and we do not sell or otherwise permit third-party advertisers to use such data.

Your Choice to Manage or Disable Cookies

The goal of empowering our site visitors to manage their online activity is at the heart of ICAL, and we have introduced our cookie policy with that in mind. When you access our website http://icalaws.com/ for the first time, you will be greeted with a notification screen letting you know that ICAL uses cookies. You are free to accept or decline any non-essential cookies at any time via our cookie preference tool on our website. Cookies can also be managed and disabled through your web browser settings. Deleting strictly necessary cookies may affect website features and functionality or your ability to log on, register for events, or access secure areas of our site like member-only sections.

Third-Party Cookies and Embedded Content

We may use embedded content or tools, such as video, interactive event schedules, or social media feeds, provided by a trusted third-party service provider. Those third-party services that appear on our site may place cookies or may otherwise collect information according to their own privacy and cookie policies. We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of any third-party platforms you visit from our site. Although we employ trusted providers to supply these services, ICA – Laws Legal Institute shall have no responsibility or liability for the cookie practices or other actions of such third-party websites or services.

Cookies Retention, Security, and Access

With certain exceptions, we retain cookie data only as long as is necessary to allow you to use the relevant cookies for the purpose for which they were obtained, or to meet other contractual or legal requirements. Our persistent cookies expire after a maximum of 12 months and our session cookies are deleted when you close your web browser. All information that is stored by the cookies is held securely. We actively implement best practice security measures to ensure the ongoing security of all data we hold. We regularly review our administrative, physical, and technical procedures and controls to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and safety of your information.

Personal Data Operates Separately from Cookies

Cookies themselves do not store personal data, such as your name or contact information. However, any information you provide in connection with certain features (such as event registrations, subscriptions to our mailing list, and applications) may be linked with cookies to enable secure authentication or store preferences that have been set. All of the personal data that is processed in connection with cookies is processed in accordance with our general Privacy Policy and applicable U.S. data protection laws. We do not use cookies to gather sensitive personal data from users without their consent.

Your Rights and Options

As a registered user of our website, you have the right to:

• Find out about the type of cookies we use and why we use them
• Set or update your cookies preferences at any time
• Withdraw consent for non-essential cookies without hindering your access to public areas of the site
• Request the deletion of cookie data collected, where such an option exists

If you have any questions about your rights relating to your data or a request you wish to make to us, please use the details below to contact our program coordination team:
email: [email protected]
phone: (738) 735-7211

Children and Our Use of Cookies

ICA – Laws Legal Institute’s website and services are made available to adult legal scholars, mentors, academic partners, and research organizations. We do not knowingly permit provision of personal information from children under the age of 13, nor do we set cookies for the purpose of tracking children. If you have any reason to believe that a child has provided us with personal information, please let us know via [email protected] so that we can take efforts to address it.

Policy Changes

We follow best practice and will update this Cookie Policy from time to time in light of developments in law and technology, changes to how we use cookies, or for any other reason. The up-to-date version of our Cookie Policy will always be available on our website. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy regularly for updates so you are fully informed about how we protect your privacy. Material changes will be notified to you via a notice on our website or via an email sent to our registered users.

Additional Contact Information

If there are any questions, comments, or other requests related to our services concerning cookies, or this Cookie Policy generally, we encourage individuals to contact our program coordination team. Our contact details are:

ICA – Laws Legal Institute
6789 Sepulveda Blvd Ste 61. Los Angeles, CA 90045
Phone: (738) 735-7211
Email: [email protected]

If you have questions regarding participation, attendance at upcoming legal events, and/or partnership opportunities, please navigate to https://icalaws.com/ or join our mailing list on our site to stay updated.

Conclusion: Our Promise on Use of Personal Data

Your trust in the ICA – Laws Legal Institute community is vital to ICA – Laws’ goal: the ongoing development of legal research, innovation, and education in U.S. law. We take our obligations to you seriously and handle matters relating to your privacy, data protection, and technology responsibly. The ICA Cookie Policy is integral to that approach, reflecting our commitment to transparency, respect for choices, and the creation of a trusted online environment for legal scholars, mentees, and collaborators using our resources. Thank you for supporting the ICA – Laws Legal Institute.