Privacy Policy

1. About This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how personal information collected when you use any services, features, applications, and websites offered by Lex Machina (“Service”) will be used by Lex Machina, the LexisNexis company that owns and administers the Service. This privacy policy may be supplemented by additional privacy terms or notices set forth on certain areas of the Service.

2. Collection of Information

The Service collects information from you in two ways: directly from your input and automatically from your use.

2.1 Information you provide

The types of personal information that the Service collects directly from you depends on how you interact with the Service and may include:

  • Contact details, such as your name and email address;
  • Usernames and passwords;
  • Comments, feedback and other information you submit to the Service; and
  • Interests and communication preferences.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

The Service also automatically collects, through its servers and the use of cookies and similar technologies, information that tells us how you use the Service and may include:

  • Internet Protocol (“IP”) address used to connect your computer to the Internet;
  • Computer, device and connection information, such as browser type and version, operating system, mobile platform and unique device identifier (“UDID”) and other technical identifiers; and
  • Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) click stream data, including date and time stamp, referring and exit URLs, search terms you used and pages you visited or searched for on the Service.

We may use and disclose information that does not reveal your identity or permit direct association with any specific individual, such as browser and device information, anonymous usage data and aggregated information, for any purpose, except where we are restricted by law. If we combine non-personal information with personal information, the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.

You can control cookies through your browser’s settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, login, or access certain parts or make full use of the Service.

3. Use of Your Information

We may use your personal information to:

  • Process and fulfill a transaction or order;
  • Provide technical, product and other support and to help keep the Service working, safe and secure;
  • Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns;
  • Provide, evaluate and improve the Service, its advertisements and promotional campaigns and our other products and services and to develop new products, services and benefits;
  • Offer you customized content and individualized personalization of the Service to make it more relevant to your interests and needs;
  • Notify you about changes or updates to the Service;
  • Provide you with special offers and other information about the Service as well as other products, events and services of ours, our affiliates, and non-affiliated third parties;
  • Invite you to participate in surveys, sweepstakes, competitions and similar promotions;
  • Identify usage trends and for data analysis, including for purposes of research, audit, reporting and paying royalties and license fees to third-party providers, such as authors and other copyright holders and content distributors, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, or in other ways to which you have expressly agreed in a customer agreement; and
  • Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

We may also match or combine the personal information that you provide with information that we obtain from other sources or that is already in our records, whether collected online or offline or by predecessor or affiliated group companies, for the purposes described above.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information with:

  • Our affiliates, trading names and divisions within the LexisNexis group of companies worldwide (for a list, visit //www.lexisnexis.com/offices) and certain RELX Group companies that provide technology, customer service and other shared services functions; and
  • Our service providers, suppliers, agents and representatives, including but not limited to, editors, payment processors, customer support, email service providers, IT service providers, mailing houses and shipping agents;

to process the information for us based on our instructions and in compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We also may share your personal information with our affiliates and with sponsors, joint venture partners and other non-affiliated third parties, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee, application host or publisher, that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, as determined by your choices and communications preferences.

If you access the Service through an institution-sponsored subscription, your personal information and certain usage data gathered through the Service may be shared with your institution for the purposes of usage analysis, subscription management and compliance, cost attribution and departmental budgeting.

We also may disclose your personal information:

  • To (i) respond to or comply with any law, regulation, subpoena, court order or other legal obligation; (ii) detect, investigate and help prevent security threats, fraud or other malicious activity; (iii) enforce and protect our rights and properties; or (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of our users, employees and others; and
  • If Lex Machina, LexisNexis, the Service or a related asset or line of business is acquired by, transferred to or merged with another company.

5. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 or target the Service to children under 13.

6. Your Choices and Communications Preferences

You can manage your communications preferences when you register with the Service, by updating your account preferences, by using the “opt-out” or unsubscribe mechanism or other means provided within the communications that you receive, or by contacting us. We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Service whenever necessary.

7. Access to and Accuracy of Your Information

The Service may allow registered users to directly access the account information they provided and make corrections or updates to that information upon login at any time. The accuracy of such information is solely the responsibility of the user.

You may also request access to and correction of other personal information about you that you have directly provided to us through the Service. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to verify your identity.

If you request to deactivate your account or delete your personal information, we will endeavor to fulfill your request in accordance with our policies but some personal information may persist in backup copies for a certain period of time and may be retained as necessary for legitimate business purposes or to comply with our legal obligations.

Access to personal information that Lex Machina may gather from public records and other sources is subject to applicable laws and LexisNexis consumer choice policies.

8. Data Security

We use a variety of administrative, physical and technical security measures intended to safeguard your personal information.

9. Cross-Border Transfer

Your personal information may be transferred to, accessed from and stored in servers and facilities located outside the country where you live as may be necessary for the purposes described in this privacy policy. When we transfer your personal information internationally, we take steps intended to ensure that the information continues to receive appropriate protections.

10. Changes

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

11. Contact

If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact:

Privacy Information Manager
Lex Machina
1010 Doyle Street, Suite 200
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA

Phone: 650-390-9500
Email: privacy@lexmachina.com

Last updated:  September 7, 2017