Terms of Use

Effective December 9, 2017

These Terms of Use are an agreement between Capital City Law (“us, “we”, or “Capital City Law”) and all users of this site (“you” or “visitor”) and governs your use of capitalcitylawnc.com (hereinafter, “Website”) and its associated content including text, images, downloadable files, and digital information stored within regardless of form including information accessible on subdomains of the website (collectively, its “Content”), and email correspondence with Capital City Law (“Email”). By accessing this Website or its Content you agree to all terms contained herein. Your continued access and use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the Terms of Use in effect at the time of your access and use.

1. No Attorney-Client Relationship

Your use of this Website does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Capital City Law. This limitation includes information submitted through our online contact and consultation request forms. If you need immediate legal assistance, we strongly recommend that you contact our office (or the office of another attorney) by phone to arrange for a meeting.

2. Legal Services Offered

Capital City Law maintains this Website to inform you and other potential clients of the legal service we offer. Our attorneys are licensed in the State of North Carolina and Commonwealth of Virginia. Therefore, any offers to provide legal services are restricted, as necessary, to those jurisdictions.

3. Submissions through Website Forms, Email Correspondence

A. Presumption of Confidentiality

All data submitted through its online forms, by email, or otherwise, are treated as confidential but subject to the following limitations: (1) prospective clients should be aware that our duties of confidentiality and the attorney-client privilege may not arise until a representation agreement is reached between you and Capital City Law, and (2) we will run an immediate conflict check, and update that conflict check throughout the course of relationship (whether an attorney-client relationship exists, or not) when you provide us with additional information on your matter through the Website or Email.

B. Data Encryption

Capital City Law may communicate with you by email, and utilizes a third-party email provider to ensure emails are encrypted at all times while stored on our web server and that any outgoing emails containing Private Personal Information are delivered to you in an encrypted fashion. However, we cannot force your email provider to send Private Personal Information to us in an encrypted fashion. Therefore, Capital City Law expressly disclaims responsibility for any material transported by unencrypted methods to our Website or Email.

C. Other Client Records

Capital City Law maintains records of all Website, Email, and Client communications for a period of six (6) years, or longer. All communications and digital records are encrypted while in transit and at rest. Client record-keeping is addressed in our Standard Terms of Representation, which is provided with your representation agreement at the time legal services are agreed upon.

4. Website Environment

Our Website, and its associated content, is hosted on a third-party server. All information contained herein remains the sole property of Capital City Law, with the following exception:

You are the owner of all information you submit through our Public Website Access or Secure Client Portal. At any time, you may request that we remove any information you have submitted or modified through our website. We reserve the right to keep a copy of such information for archival purposes and to comply with our ethical obligations as attorneys.

5. Intellectual Property – Copyright

Capital City Law claims copyright protection on all of the content provided in this website. The content from this website may not be reproduced, copied and/or redistributed in any form without the express permission of Capital City Law. Furthermore, the content from this website cannot be modified nor can it be used for commercial purposes.

6. Limitation of Liability – No Warranties

Any articles for general knowledge published on this website contain basic information on legal matters and are not meant to provide advice regarding a specific legal problem you may have. We remind you not to rely on this general information without first communicating with us or other legal representation regarding your specific legal situation. Our full disclaimer is available at: https://capitalcitylawnc.com/website/disclaimer.

CAPITAL CITY LAW ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE. WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE. AS STATED ABOVE, THIS WEBSITE PERTAINS TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA ONLY.

THE GENERAL INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. CAPITAL CITY LAW RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD, AND DELETE THE CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE.

7. Privacy Policy – Public Website Access

These privacy terms apply to your interactions with the Website, accessible at the following domain: capitalcitylawnc.com. This policy explains what information we gather, how that information may be used and who we may share it with (no one), how you may change the information you have shared with us, and how we will notify you of any changes to this policy.

A. Direct Information Collection (Via Website Forms)

We are the sole owners of any information submitted through the secure forms provided on our public website. These forms may request certain information about you, including your name, address, email, or phone number. Our Website does not knowingly collect, maintain, or seek the information of minors under thirteen (13) years of age. The services offered on this Website are not directed toward minor children. Information submitted via website forms is encrypted before transmission to our server, and remains encrypted while stored on our server.

Any and all information you submit through the Secure Client Portal is maintained as confidential property of Capital City Law. This information is encrypted at all times, both in transit and in storage (i.e. from your computer to our server). You are the owner of all information you submit through the Secure Client Portal. At any time, you may request that we remove any and all information you have submitted or modified through our website. However, we reserve the right to keep a copy of such information for archival purposes and to comply with our legal and ethical obligations.

B. Indirect Information Collection (Google Analytics)

This website uses a third-party analytics monitoring, Google Analytics, to track our website visitors and improve our content delivery. Information on your computer’s operating system, web browser, IP address, and any previous visits to our Website is recorded.

Google Analytics uses cookies to track your activity on our website, which allows us to collect important data about how our website is used. Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies – this means that these cookies can be read only by the Google Analytics software residing on our Website. Any data gathered from cookies is used only for statistical analysis related to your browsing behavior on our Website. You may opt out of this process by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. More information on Google Analytics and Google’s Privacy Policy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

8. Changes to These Policies

We reserve the right to modify this policy as circumstances require. You may find the most recent version of this policy, along with its effective date, at https://capitalcitylawnc.com/terms-of-use. An archive of previous versions of this policy can be found at https://capitalcitylawnc.com/terms-of-use/archive.