What is the State Bar's Internet privacy policy?
by Robert V. Petershack,
WisBar Oversight Committee member
The State Bar of Wisconsin respects the privacy of visitors to WisBar and LegalExplorer, the Bar's
consumer Web site. Both sites include a privacy statement that details
the Bar's commitment to privacy. A link to these privacy statements
appears at the bottom of each homepage.
The privacy statements address the use of information that visitors
explicitly provide to the State Bar when visiting these sites (such as
information provided when ordering a book or when registering for a
seminar). Registration and order forms operate in a secure environment
using software that scrambles email transmissions from users to our
customer service representatives.
The privacy statements also address the use of "cookies"
by the State Bar. WisBar uses cookies with its banner ad management
(i.e., the display of advertisements on the site and the number of times
visitors click on a particular banner ad). LegalExplorer uses cookies to
facilitate the use of its online Lawyer Referral Service. In the future,
as the State Bar works to improve the delivery of information on WisBar,
it will use cookies to streamline the ordering and registration process
by allowing visitors to store personal data.
Information gathered by the State Bar at the WisBar and LegalExplorer
sites - whether through the use of cookies or when ordering a product or
registering for a State Bar event - is not sold or provided to third
party vendors.
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