Privacy Policy

The Law Offices of Michael T. Baker at www.mbakerlaw.com takes your privacy seriously when you access our website. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy.

This Web Site is for Information Only

In accordance with Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts rules, this web site is considered advertising. Materials on the this site are for informational purposes only. You should not construe any of them as a legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances, and you should not act upon this information without seeking professional counsel. We do not promise or warrant that the information is complete, accurate or up to date.

Publication of these materials and your receipt of them does not create an attorney-client relationship, and you should not send us detailed or confidential information about a specific matter without first contacting one of our lawyers to determine if we are able to represent you. Further, the content of other web sites/links/resources found at this web site does not indicate any endorsement of their products or services.

What other things this Privacy Policy covers:

This policy covers how www.mbakerlaw.com treats personal information that we collect and receive from you on our website, including your past use of our services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, email address, phone numbers, or other information that is not otherwise available to the public.

Our Core Privacy Principles:

1. We will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes and will only disclose your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
2. Third parties are not permitted to see the information you have provided us, without your express consent.
3. We only share your confidential information with Internal Service providers, such as credit card companies, or banks, as necessary (for payment or clearance of a legal service) to facilitate a legal transaction.
4. If law enforcement and/or government officials require personal information because of a verified investigation or suspected computer fraud, we at the Law Offices of Michael T. Baker will, in good judgment, disclose limited information. We will determine that such a release of information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of other users of our website.
5. We employ the most up-to-date safe and secure technology and privacy programs to keep your personal identification information and credit card information personal, private and secure.
6. This policy does not cover and apply to the practices of companies that www.mbakerlaw.com links to, but does not manage or control. You need to consult their privacy practices to determine how they handle your personal information.

We at the Law Offices of Michael T. Baker use information from the website for the following purposes: to fulfill your requests for appointments for our estate planning, business planning, elder law services, wills, trusts, guardianship papers, probate court services, and prenuptial agreements, to improve our website information to you, to contact you and to conduct research about our website.

Information Collection and Use:

The Law Offices of Michael T. Baker collects personal information when you register with us and when you contact us for legal services. The information we collect from our website is there to simply better serve you now and in the future.

Automatically Collected Information:

Some information is automatically received and sometimes collected from you when you visit the www.mbakerlaw.com web site. We receive and collect the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site. We use this information to monitor the usage of our website.

Also, when we send emails to you, we may be able to identify information about your email address, such as whether you can read graphic-rich HTML emails. All of the information we automatically capture provides us with the ability to enhance your search (our clients) and to determine aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns.

Information Collected via Cookies:

We use cookies to enhance the browsing experience on the www.mbakerlaw.com site. "Cookies" are small files or records that we place on your computer's hard drive to collect information about your activities on the www.mbakerlaw.com site. The cookies transmit this information back to the computers at www.mbakerlaw.com. These computers are the only computers which are authorized to read such information.

Information When You Sign Up for Emails and E-Newsletter:

When you register for email or e-newsletters, we will ask for such information as your name, address, phone numbers, email address and zip code. This is so when you sign back in, you are not anonymous with us.

After registration, we will receive and record information automatically from your computer and browser, including your IP address, cookie information, software and hardware attributes and the page you request.

Linking to third-party web sites:

When you click on links and banners on our web site that take you to third-party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, www.mbakerlaw.com cannot be responsible for the actions of any third-party web sites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statements of every site you visit, whether you are linking from our site or just browsing on your own.

Confidentiality and Security:

We limit access to your personal information to www.mbakerlaw.com employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information to provide our legal services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

We Reserve the Right:

We reserve the right to cancel your email account if you post reviews or send emails which are illegal, spam, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing upon our intellectual property rights or otherwise injurious to our third parties. Authorities (federal) will be notified to investigate and possibly prosecute, because tampering with the Internet is a federal crime.