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Privacy Statement
We recognize the importance of protecting the privacy rights and interests of visitors to this website and are committed to respecting privacy rights. We do not gather any information about you from this website aside from what you might choose to send us in an e-mail. The information that you do provide is treated as private, confidential, and privileged as a communication between an attorney and someone seeking legal advice. Your information is not shared with anyone except with your express permission. If you contact Best, Vanderlaan & Harrington by e-mail or any other medium and give us information about yourself including your e-mail address, we will hold it in strict confidence, whether or not you retain us as legal counsel. We do not and will not share this information with anyone else with our your express permission. We have appropriate security measure in place at our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that you send us through our website. If you supply us with your postal or e-mail address, or your telephone number, you will only receive the information or telephone contact that you requested at the time that you provided us with this information. We do not set any cookies. We do not gather any information about individual visitors to our website, other than what a visitor chooses to include in an e-mail to us, assuming that a visitor sends us an e-mail. For each visitor to our website, our web server recognizes, where possible, the visitor's domain name (e.g. AOL.com), but not the e-mail address or any other more specific information about that visitor. The server also gathers aggregate information about what pages in our website visitors access and for how long they visit certain pages. We use this aggregate information to improve the quality of our website. We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies. Upon written request we will provide site visitors with access to e-mails that the visitor has directed to our site. visitors can obtain this information by writing to us. We cannot give access to any other information about individual visitors because we do not possess such information. If our practices change at some time in the future we will state this change and use only data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you believe that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us, or an Illinois or cook county consumer protection office, or the Illinois State Bar Association. This is the web site of Best, Vanderlaan & Harrington. We are located at 25 East Washington Street, Illinois, 60601. You can reach us via e-mail at BVH@bestfirm.com, or by telephone at (312) 819-1100.

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