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Dickinson Wright Privacy Statement

Dickinson Wright PLLC and Dickinson Wright LLP, as applicable (collectively, “Dickinson Wright,” “the Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), are committed to protecting the privacy of individuals who interact with our website, www.dickinsonwright.com, and our other public-facing digital properties (collectively, the “Site”). This Privacy Statement explains what personal information we collect through the Site, how we use and share it, and the choices and rights available to you.

For most of the activities described in this Statement, Dickinson Wright is the controller (or “business,” as that term is used under U.S. state privacy laws) responsible for the personal information we collect — meaning we determine why and how that information is processed. Section 16 below describes a separate circumstance: certain client portals, matter-management platforms, or other hosted services where Dickinson Wright processes personal information solely as a service provider, processor, or similar entity on behalf of a client or other organization, under that organization’s instructions. If you are interacting with one of those specific hosted services, the terms of Section 16, and any separate notice provided by the applicable organization, will govern instead of the general provisions below.

Our Trust Center provides additional information about Dickinson Wright’s security, privacy, compliance, certifications, and governance practices. The Trust Center supplements this Privacy Statement but does not replace it.

This Privacy Statement does not replace or modify any engagement letter, job-applicant or employee privacy notice, professional-responsibility obligation, litigation obligation, contractual requirement, or other agreement or notice that applies in a particular context.

  1. Personal Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of personal information through the Site:

  • Identifiers and contact information — name, postal address, email address, telephone number, online identifiers, and similar identifiers.
  • Professional and employment information — employer, title, occupation, professional interests, biography information, résumé or job-application information, and related business details.
  • Communications and submissions — information you provide through inquiries, contact forms, correspondence, event registrations, publication subscriptions, surveys, and feedback.
  • Prospective-client and matter-related information you or your representatives provide in connection with an inquiry about our services, subject to applicable engagement terms, privilege, and confidentiality obligations. Please do not send confidential, privileged, highly sensitive, or time-critical information through a general website form or unsolicited email — information submitted before an attorney-client relationship is established may not be confidential or privileged.
  • Internet, device, and network activity — IP address, device identifiers, browser type, operating system, referring and exit pages, pages viewed, dates and times of access, cookie identifiers, and similar interaction data.
  • Approximate location information derived from an IP address or similar technical information.
  • Commercial information — event registrations, subscriptions, payment-related information, and records of your interactions with us, where applicable.
  • Audio, visual, or similar information — photographs, recordings, or webinar participation when you attend a Firm event.
  • Sensitive personal information — such as government identification, health or disability information, demographic information, or precise geolocation, only where you provide it to us and it is relevant and necessary for the purpose for which it was submitted (e.g., in connection with a legal matter).
  1. Sources of Personal Information

We collect personal information:

  • Directly from you, when you contact us, submit a form, register for an event, apply for a position, or otherwise interact with the Site.
  • Automatically from your browser or device when you use the Site, through cookies and similar technologies (see Section 6).
  • From our attorneys and personnel, referral sources, event sponsors or partners, professional directories, public records, social media, and other publicly available sources.
  • From vendors and service providers that support our hosting, analytics, communications, recruiting, payment, security, and records-management functions.
  • From clients, counterparties, witnesses, advisers, courts, and other persons in connection with a legal or business matter.
  1. How We Use Personal Information

We use personal information to:

  • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site.
  • Respond to inquiries and administer registrations, applications, subscriptions, and other submissions.
  • Evaluate prospective engagements, perform conflicts checks, and administer client relationships.
  • Recruit and evaluate candidates for employment with the Firm.
  • Administer publications, subscriptions, events, webinars, surveys, and similar programs.
  • Send marketing and business-development communications, subject to your preferences (see Section 12).
  • Detect, investigate, prevent, and respond to fraud, misuse, security incidents, and other unlawful activity.
  • Comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, records-management, and professional-responsibility obligations.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims and protect the rights, safety, and property of the Firm, our clients, and others.
  1. Legal Bases for Processing (EEA, UK, and Similar Jurisdictions)

Where applicable data protection law requires a legal basis for processing, we rely on: your consent (for example, for optional marketing communications or non-essential cookies, which you may withdraw at any time); the necessity of processing to take steps at your request prior to entering into an engagement or to perform a contract; compliance with a legal obligation; and our legitimate interests in operating our business, marketing our services, maintaining security, and administering the Site — provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

  1. How We Share Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share personal information with:

  • Dickinson Wright offices, attorneys, and personnel with a business need to access it.
  • Vendors and service providers (subprocessors) that support hosting, analytics, communications, recruiting, payment, and records-management functions, under contractual confidentiality and security obligations.
  • Co-counsel, local counsel, experts, consultants, auditors, insurers, and other parties involved in a legal or business matter, as appropriate.
  • Government authorities, regulators, and courts, when required or permitted by law, or as reasonably necessary to protect our rights, safety, or property or that of others.
  • Other parties with your consent or at your direction.
  1. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and authorized vendors use cookies, pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies on the Site to provide functionality, maintain security, remember your preferences, understand how the Site is used, measure the effectiveness of our communications, and enable social-media features. Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies and provide a mechanism to manage your preferences. We honor legally valid browser-based opt-out preference signals (such as the Global Privacy Control) where required by law. You may also adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies, though doing so may affect certain Site functions.

  1. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

Dickinson Wright does not sell personal information, and we do not use personal information collected through the Site for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising for our own purposes. If we use analytics or advertising technologies on the Site, they are used to understand and improve the Site and our marketing, not to sell your information to third parties. If we receive a verifiable request to opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising, we will honor it as required by applicable law, even though we do not currently engage in these practices.

  1. Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Statement, including to comply with legal, regulatory, professional-responsibility, accounting, tax, records-management, and litigation-hold requirements. Retention periods vary depending on the nature of the information and the purpose for which it was collected — for example, information related to a prospective or actual engagement is generally retained consistent with our records-retention policies and applicable professional-conduct rules, and website-analytics information is retained for a limited period necessary for the purposes described above. When personal information is no longer needed, we securely delete, anonymize, or destroy it.

  1. Information Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, loss, or destruction. Dickinson Wright maintains ISO/IEC 27001-certified information-security processes and ISO/IEC 27701-certified privacy-information-management processes, and undergoes regular independent audits. No transmission or storage system, however, can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

  1. International Data Transfers

Dickinson Wright operates in the United States and Canada and may use vendors and service providers in other jurisdictions. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to, stored in, or accessed from countries whose data-protection laws differ from those of your home jurisdiction. Where required, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms and safeguards, which may include adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, or other lawful measures.

  1. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to: access the personal information we hold about you; correct inaccurate information; delete your information; obtain a portable copy of your information; opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or its use for targeted advertising (noting we do not currently engage in these practices); limit the use of sensitive personal information; withdraw consent; object to certain processing; and appeal a decision we make in response to your request, subject to applicable exceptions.

These rights include, without limitation, those available to residents of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and other states with comprehensive privacy laws, as well as individuals in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom.

To exercise these rights, submit a request using the privacy request portal below, call 866-829-2131, or email privacy@dickinsonwright.com. We will verify your request, respond within the time required by applicable law, and will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights. If we deny your request, you may appeal the decision using the same contact methods; we will respond to your appeal within the time required by applicable law and, where required, will explain how to submit a complaint to your state attorney general or other applicable regulator if your appeal is denied.

  1. Marketing Communications

You may opt out of marketing or subscription communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the applicable communication or by contacting us as described in Section 15. We may continue to send non-marketing communications, such as responses to your inquiries, event-administration messages, and legal, security, or service-related notices.

  1. Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for a professional audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar applicable laws. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the Site, please contact us using the information in Section 15 so we can review and take appropriate action.

  1. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Site may link to third-party websites or services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own notices, and Dickinson Wright is not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of third-party sites.

  1. Contact Us, Requests, and Complaints

Clients should direct questions to their Dickinson Wright attorney. Firm personnel should contact their office administrator. All other privacy questions, requests, or complaints may be directed to the Dickinson Wright Business Privacy Department using the privacy request portal below, by calling 866-829-2131, or by emailing privacy@dwlaw.com.

  1. When We Act as a Service Provider, Processor, or Similar Entity

Certain services we provide — such as client portals, matter-management platforms, collaboration tools, or other hosted services — involve Dickinson Wright processing personal information on behalf of a client or other organization (the “applicable organization”), rather than as the controller or business. In those cases:

  • The applicable organization determines the purposes and means of processing and is responsible for providing any required privacy notice and obtaining any required consent.
  • Dickinson Wright processes personal information only in accordance with the applicable organization’s documented instructions, our agreements, and applicable legal and professional obligations, unless applicable law requires otherwise (in which case, where legally permitted, we will inform the applicable organization before processing on that basis).
  • We do not sell or share personal information processed in this capacity, and we do not use it for our own targeted advertising or other purposes outside the applicable agreement.
  • If we receive a privacy-rights request concerning personal information processed in this capacity, we will route the request to the applicable organization and provide reasonable assistance as required by applicable law and our agreements, rather than responding to the request ourselves, unless the applicable organization authorizes us to do so or applicable law requires otherwise.
  • We require our subprocessors and vendors to protect personal information and use it only for authorized purposes.

If you are uncertain whether your interaction is governed by this Section 16 or the general provisions of this Statement, please contact us using the information in Section 15, identifying the relevant service, matter, or organization, and we will help direct you appropriately.

  1. Changes to This Statement

We may update this Statement to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will post the revised Statement and update the Last Reviewed date below. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain your consent before a material change takes effect.

Last Reviewed: July 27, 2026

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