Privacy Statement

Last Updated: 02/02/2026

This Privacy Statement (the “Statement”) describes the personal information Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. (“Schwabe,” “us,” “our,” and “we”) processes, including when you visit our website, located at http://www.schwabe.com/ (the “Site”), attend Schwabe events, receive Schwabe communications, or request information about our services. This Statement addresses specific disclosure requirements from privacy laws and also serves as our ‘notice at collection.’

This Statement is distinct from, or where applicable, supplemental to, our practices related to the collection or use of materials we collect in the provision of our services to clients. This Statement may be supplemented by additional disclosures we provide.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. We may revise this Statement at any time to enhance transparency. We may also update the Statement, as necessary or as useful, in response to (a) changes in applicable laws, regulations, or standards (b) changes to our processing of personal information or (c) changes to our business operations. For example, we may modify the Statement if a new applicable law requires additional notices or if we intend to collect new categories of personal information. We will post any revised Statement here and provide a “Last Updated” date at the top of this Statement. In some cases, we might provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to the homepage our Site).

We encourage you to review this Statement regularly to stay informed about our processing of personal information, your rights, and your choices. To learn more about your privacy rights and the privacy choices we provide, please see Section 5, <<Your Rights and Control of Your Personal Information>>.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND PROCESS

Schwabe collects information about you in a number of ways. We collect information directly from you, such as when you subscribe to our mailing list or register for our events. We collect information automatically from you, for example through the use of Cookies and Similar Technology when you visit the Site or when you engage with Schwabe’s emails. Schwabe may collect information about you from others, such as those our network and from public sources. We may also make inferences about you, such as the events and topics that may interest you in the future. This information includes:

Identifiers, including your name, email address, and phone number.
Demographic information, such as your general geographic location or other demographic information, such as your gender or veteran status, you may share from time to time.
Professional and education information, such as your current employer, job title, and educational background.
Commercial information, including information about your business activities in publications.
Financial account information, such as the credit card information you provide for billing purposes.
Your preferences, interests, and affiliations, such as those indicated when you attend our events or express interest in certain types of content. For example, we may infer you are interested in a particular area of law based on your participation in certain Schwabe events.
Communications, such as when you send us email or engage with us on social media platforms.
Audio and visual information, including voicemail recordings and photographs taken at our events.
Device information, such as the information we may collect about your browser, operating system, or your connection, including your IP Address, using Cookies and Similar Technology.
Internet and Electronic Network Activity, and Interactions, such as the information we automatically collect about your interactions with our Site or engagement with our emails using Cookies and Similar Technology. Such information may include:
Unique online identifiers, such as those used by cookies and similar technology,
The date and time of your visit to our Site and the duration of such visit,
Information about your traffic patterns and clickstreams, including content you viewed; and
The website from which you linked to the Site.

To learn more about information automatically collected on the Site, please see Cookies and Similar Technology section below.

Depending on our interactions, we may collect, process, or disclose personal information that qualifies as “sensitive” under certain privacy laws. We only collect such sensitive information as necessary to conduct business or for other legitimate purposes. For example, we collect financial account information to facilitate payments for our services, and if you choose to share it, we may collect sensitive health information, such as information about your disability status or dietary needs, to ensure your full participation in our event.

Schwabe may process de-identified personal information. Data is in this state cannot be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual. Unless allowed under applicable law, we will maintain such information in a de-identified state and will not try to re-identify the individual.

2. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use your information to provide and market our services, as well as operate our business. For example, we use your information to:

Respond to your information requests, such as to complete your registration to a Schwabe event for which you’ve RSVP’d.
Notify you about changes to Schwabe, our services, or to provide required notices.
Market our services, including via email and social media platforms.
Contact you to about upcoming events, blog posts, webinars, or to share other content.
Send you legal and industry ‎updates and other information about our services.
Understand our connections and generate insights about our network and the industries we serve.
Tailor your experiences and interactions with Schwabe.
Facilitate billing and process payments.
Ensure that our Site functions appropriately, as well as diagnose and repair problems with the Site.
Improve the Site, Schwabe, our services, and our marketing.
To aggregate and de-identify your information to analyze use patterns of our services and Site or gain other insights about our business.
Consider you for employment with Schwabe, and
Comply with law and regulations, or meet other legal, ethical, or professional requirements.

For these purposes, we combine information we collect from different contexts and/or sources to provide you a more seamless and personalized experience, to make informed business decisions, and for other legitimate business purposes.

Please note that Schwabe’s existing ‎and former clients and other contacts will also be added to Schwabe’s mailing list in other ways ‎as well and will receive marketing communications from Schwabe even if they have not ‎subscribed to our mailing list via this website.‎

3. WHEN WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We transfer your information to others for legitimate business purposes, as required to conduct business, and to comply with law. For example, we may share your information as follows:

(a) Consent

We share or provide access to your information with your consent, at your direction, or to complete any transaction or request you have authorized. For example,

If you attend a Schwabe continuing legal education event, we may share information about your participation in the event with your bar association if you’d like us to do so.
If you wish to make payments online, we may share your invoice and related information with a payment vendor for billing purposes.

(b) Service Providers and other Third Parties

We share your information with third parties, such as our vendors, suppliers, or other professional services firms that provide us with services or work on our behalf for the purposes described herein. This may include our cloud service providers, accountants, auditors, or support staffing services. In such cases, these companies must abide by our requirements and are not allowed to use personal information they receive from us for any other purpose beyond providing us with their respective services.

In order to provide our services, we may share your information with others, including expert witnesses, opposing counsel, courts, mediators, regulators, other legal professionals, law enforcement, and other authorities.

Third parties may collect your information on the Site, as described below in Cookies and Similar Technology. We do not sell your information. Though our use of certain third-party cookies as described in Cookies and Similar Technology may constitute ‘sharing’ of personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration. You may opt-out as described below.

(c) Merger, Acquisition, or Sale

We might transfer your information to a third party (whether affiliated or not), in the event of a sale or transfer of assets ‎or other disposition of all or any portion of our business. In this event, we will, if allowed, use ‎reasonable efforts to notify you when your information is transferred to any third party under this paragraph by ‎posting such notice on the Site and/or by contacting you via the information you have provided us, if any.‎

(d) Required by Law, Legal Protection

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Statement, we might disclose your information to any third party, without your consent and without notice to you, if we believe we are legally or ethically obligated to do so; if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect, establish, or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or if we believe disclosure is necessary to otherwise protect our rights, property, and safety, and those of others.

(e) Business and Marketing Affiliates

We may share your information with business and marketing affiliates, including those we collaborate with to host events, offer continuing legal education, or otherwise do business with as part of providing our services.

4. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY

We use a variety of technologies to gather information about your interactions with the Site and our communications. For example, we use cookies, small files placed on your hard drive or device memory, on the Site to collect information about its use, such as page views. Cookies frequently use a unique, random number to remember information about you, identify you, and to facilitate Site navigation and internet sessions. We also use web beacons, which are embedded into digital content to collect information that helps us understand your engagement with our content, such as whether you have viewed a particular email message and when.

We also hire others, such as security vendors, analytics service providers, and advertising companies, to gather information on our behalf using cookies and similar technology on our Site and in some of Schwabe’s content and communications. We use the information collected by these third parties for the purposes described herein. While the technology enable us to gather aggregated information and insights about our marketing efforts or other operations, some may also allow third parties to collect or receive certain information over time about your online activities from and across different sites and services. You can opt out of certain types of data processing by a third party by visiting the links provided below.

Cookie(s) Provider	Schwabe’s Use / Purpose of cookie information	To learn about Cookie Provider’s Use of cookie information	How to Opt-Out
Google	We use Google Analytics to get information about Site traffic and Google Ads for advertising purposes.	Go here to learn how Google processes your data collected using cookies, here to opt-out of Google Analytics, here to learn about YouTube’s approach to privacy, and here for the Google Privacy Checkup.	Opt-out
Canva	Content hosting and analytics	Canva Privacy Policy	You can opt out of Canva collecting more data about you from third-party providers to tailor your experience and messages we send you here. privacy@canva.com.
Vimeo	Content hosting and analytics	Vimeo Privacy Policy	privacy@vimeo.com or Vimeo Privacy Request Web Form
Bam.nr-data.net	Server management data	New Relic Privacy Policy
Vuture	Email marketing	Vuture privacy policy
New Relic	Server management	New Relic Privacy Policy

5. YOUR RIGHTS AND CONTROL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Privacy laws provide individuals with specific rights regarding their personal information. ‎Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following ‎rights and choices regarding your information.

The right to be informed or to know. You may have the right to be informed of how we process your information. For example, you may have the right to be informed or to know:
- The categories of personal information we collect and process about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collect and process about you.
- The purposes for collecting or processing that personal information.
- The categories of personal information shared or disclosed to third parties, the categories of those third parties, as well as the purposes of such sharing or disclosure.
The right to access. You may have the right to access or view the personal information we process about you.
The right of data portability. You may have the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format.
The right to correct. You may have the right to request that we correct any of your personal information.
The right to delete. You may have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collect from you or process, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will delete (and notify any relevant third parties to delete) your personal information, unless an exception applies.
You may have the right to know whether your personal information is used for “profiling,” utilizing automated decision-making in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Schwabe does not engage in such profiling or uses of automated decision-making technology.
The right to opt-out, opt-in, or control certain uses of personal information. You may have the right to limit our use of your personal information or opt out of the processing of your personal information for certain purposes. For example, you may have the right to opt-out of targeted advertising.
The right to not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.
The right to appeal our response to your privacy inquiry or report privacy concerns to your state Attorney General or other privacy authority. To appeal our response, please email privacy@schwabe.com and include ‘appeal’ in the subject line. We will approve or deny the appeal within 45 days after receiving the request and notify you in writing of our decision and the reasons for the decision.
The right to know if your data is sold or shared. We do not sell your personal information. We may “share” your personal information with third parties for personalized advertising and analytics purposes when we enable such third parties to collect information on our Site using Cookies and Similar Technology. Such third parties may use the information they collect on our Site to show you personalized ads on other websites and services. Please see Cookies and Similar Technology to learn more about this processing and your choices.
As described above, we do not sell personal information. However, our use of third-party cookies on our Site may constitute a ‘sharing’ of personal information under certain privacy laws.

You can exercise your rights and make choices about Schwabe’s collection and use of your information. For example, you can:

Contact us. If you have questions about our use of your information or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at privacy@schwabe.com.
Use browser or other controls when you visit the Site. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can disable the acceptance of certain cookies at any time by changing the preferences in your browser. Please refer to your browser for information on how to disable and control cookies. Privacy controls may also be available on your device, as part of the operating system. Using such controls may also limit the information collected when you visit the Site. Please see relevant documentation or review the privacy settings available to you on your device. If you choose to disable cookies on your browser or change your privacy settings, you might not be able to use some features of the Site.
Unsubscribe. With each marketing communication, you will be given the opportunity to opt-out of receiving ‎future marketing notices. You may also opt-out of receiving future marketing notices by ‎contacting us at privacy@schwabe.com. If you request that we not contact you for ‎marketing purposes (either by using the unsubscribe mechanism or by sending us an email), we ‎reserve the right to contact you for non-marketing purposes relating to your use of the Site or our ‎ongoing business relationship.
Update your Cookie Preferences. You can update your cookie preferences at any time on our Site. To access our cookie control mechanism, select the cookie symbol on the bottom of our website.
Use Global Privacy Controls. Our website respects the Global Privacy Control. If the signal is detected, cookies will not be used for advertising, performance, functional, and analytics purposes on our site. To learn more about the Global Privacy Control, please visit https: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
Other Online Ad Controls. The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) offers a Consumer Opt-out page, where Internet users can opt out of receiving online advertising from NAI members who use HTTP cookies on computer browsers. The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) enables publishers to use its Advertising Option Icon, also known as the “Ad Choices” icon, to offer users privacy options when they encounter advertising on a page and how they interact with that advertising. If you see the Ad Choices Icon on a page, you can click on the icon to learn what data is being gathered and how it’s being used, and, in some cases, opt out of being included in this data collection and usage process. For more information about the Ad Choices Icon, please see the DAA’s web page.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable ‎request related to your personal information. The number of times you can make a verifiable request to exercise your rights may be subject to certain restrictions. Your privacy request must:‎

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information, or an authorized representative. Where possible, we will attempt to verify your identity by only using personally identifiable information we have previously collected from you, such as an e-mail address. DO NOT SEND US SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION, such as a social security number or copy of photo id, in your initial request to exercise any available right(s) related to your personal information.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

We will confirm receipt of any request to exercise your rights and respond to a verifiable request promptly. If we require more than third (30) days to respond to your request, we will inform you of the reason in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

6. SECURING YOUR INFORMATION

We use appropriate physical, electronic, and organizational measures to assist ‎in protecting against the loss, misuse, and unauthorized alteration of your information that is under our control. ‎Unfortunately, no data storage system, or system of transmitting data over the Internet, can be ‎guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of our network, the ‎means by which personal information is ‎transmitted between your computer and our network, or any personal information provided to us or to any third party through or in ‎connection with the Site.‎

7. RETENTION AND STORAGE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We consider the following factors when determining how long we retain and store your information:

Our legal and contractual obligations,
Our professional and ethical responsibilities,
The purpose for which your information was collected or processed,
Your requests to delete the information,
Retention periods in applicable laws and regulation, and
Our legitimate business purposes. We may retain your data to the extent it is necessary to prevent fraudulent activity, to protect ourselves against liability, and to allow us to enforce our contractual or other rights and to pursue available remedies and limit any damages we might sustain.

Schwabe stores personal information in the United States and other jurisdictions where do business.

8. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES

This Privacy Statement applies only to the information Schwabe collects and processes. The Site, our content, or our communications could contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”), products, and services that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for and have not reviewed the privacy practices of the Linked Sites, or the owners or operators of the Linked Sites, products, or services. We shall not be responsible or liable in any way as a result of your use of any Linked Site and/or purchase and/or use of any linked products or services.

9. INTENDED USERS OF THE SITE

The Site is intended for adults only. We do not knowingly process information from children. If you’re a parent or guardian of a child and become aware that your child has provided personal information to us, contact privacy@schwabe.com. If we learn that we’ve collected a child’s personal information, we will process such information in accordance with applicable law.

10. CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, our processing of your information, or your privacy rights, please contact us at:

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
Privacy & Client Relations Department
1211 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 1900
Portland, Oregon 97204
503-222-9981
privacy@schwabe.com