Privacy Statement

McGuireWoods LLP has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. Due to the sensitive nature of the information we collect from our users, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers, we believe it is important to satisfy strict privacy requirements. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site:

Collected Information

The following section describes the information we collect from you and indicates the primary purposes why we collect each type of information from you.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is or may be used to help identify you, to track activity within our site and to gather broad demographic information. Our Web server will collect IP information.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of your session ID. We may use cookies for security purposes. Cookies expire when a user clicks the logout link.

Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (such as name and email address), firm or company affiliation, work status and other unique identifiers. The user's contact information is used to contact the user when necessary.

We will not share personally identifiable information, except in accordance with our exiting agreements with you or your firm, to comply with legal processes, to ensure site security, and for billing purposes.

McGuireWoods LLP may use the information we collect from you to optimize our Web site so that it is more beneficial to users like yourself and to us. This site may contain links to other sites. McGuireWoods LLP is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security

This Web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All user data is stored on our servers.

Registered or authorized users may request, via email or telephone, additional information about McGuireWoods LLP security practices. The requested security information will be made available to the user via email, fax or postal mail, in our discretion.

Data Access & Accuracy

McGuireWoods LLP is not responsible for inaccuracies in data provided by third parties.

Choice/Opt-Out

We require a current, valid, company email address for access to this site. We may use this email address for security purposes, including password verification and reset. We may use your email address to send account updates and and information concerning your relationship with our firm, our clients and our business partners. Your email address will not be used for advertising or commercial solicitations.

Amendments

We may amend our information practices as described in this privacy statement. We will post on our Web site's home page a notice or a link to a notice which will describe how we will amend our privacy statement. If you do not agree to our amended privacy statement, you may contact us as described in this privacy statement and we will allow you to opt out of the proposed amendments to our privacy statement with respect to the information that we have previously collected from you, or we may terminate your access to the site, at our sole discretion.

Other Provisions

Access to this site must comply with our Terms of Use, available at http://vw.mcguirewoods.com/terms.aspx.

To contact us, please see detailed contact information available at http://vw.mcguirewoods.com/contact.aspx.

Updated May 31, 2004.