Our cookie policy introduction
Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law is committed to transparency, privacy, and treating your personal information responsibly. As an advocate of your defense and rights, we want to ensure that your experience with our website is convenient and secure. This Cookie Policy describes what cookies are, how and why we use cookies, the types of cookies we use, your choices regarding cookies, and how it all relates to our objectives and values. We encourage you to read this policy so that you will know how cookies play a role in providing information to help you when using our legal tools and services.
What exactly are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are saved on your device (your computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. Cookies store information about your visit to the website (such as your visitor preferences or user login), and help make your web browsing experience smoother and more useful by “reminding” the website what your specific preferences are. Cookies can be deposited by the website you’re currently viewing (also known as first-party cookies), or by third-party services with whom the website has a relationship (known as third-party cookies).
How we use cookies
Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law uses cookies for a number of reasons both to ensure the smooth functioning of our website and enhance your experience on it. Some cookies enable us to learn how visitors use our website content, create a secure environment, and ensure that our core functionality is reliable, among other things. The purposes for which we use cookies include:
- Retrieving information to improve website usability
- Loading relevant criminal law educational content
- Ensuring browsing safety and security
- Tracking website traffic and usage patterns to enhance our services
- Saving visitor preferences and providing you with a more customized experience
The categories of cookies we have on our site
We have several different types of cookies on our site that are used for specific purposes. They fit into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential to the basic functioning of the website. They enable you to access key features such as page navigation, access to secure areas, password protection, and form submission. Without these cookies, elements of our website cannot function properly.
- Performance/Analytics Cookies: These cookies provide us with information about how you use our website (for example, which pages you visit most frequently and whether you get error messages for web pages). They allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve site performance. We use reputable analytics partners to securely and privately process this analytics data.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable the website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the area of the world you are in) and provide enhanced features. They allow us to personalize your experience, help maintain safety and security, and provide certain functionality.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: Although we don’t use cookies to target or serve you third-party ads, we do use targeting cookies to identify when we may wish to communicate with you about our products or services or materials we think may be of educational interest. For example, we may serve you with our content if we believe you have interest in materials related to common defense counsel practice areas such as commercial litigation, criminal law, defense of prison programs, products liability in pharmaceutical drugs, or trademark law.
- Third Party Cookies: Some elements that may appear on our website (such as legal news content, social sharing, or embedded map functions) may contain cookies delivered by other companies whose functionality is contained within another webpage or interactive feature. These web services have their own cookie policies, which you can view on their websites.
More details about the cookies used on our site
In the spirit of transparency, we are providing a summary list of the primary cookies used on the Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law website:
| Cookie | Description of Cookie |
| Session Cookies | These cookies are temporary and are removed from your device when you close your browser. We use these primarily to enable navigation on the website. |
| Persistent Cookies | A persistent cookie is stored on your device for a set period of time, or until you remove it. These are used to remember your preferences/settings in future visits. |
| Google Analytics Cookies | We use these cookies to collect anonymous information about traffic and user behavior on our website. This information is used to help us improve our legal content and resources. We use a range of Google Analytics cookies in relation to our services, including _ga, _gid, _gat. |
| Preference Cookies | Preference cookies are used to remember your selections (e.g. case study or article topics area of interest) in future visits. |
| Security Cookies | Security cookies are used to help provide a secure browsing experience; they are there to make sure you are who you say you are and your browsing session is protected. |
| Third Party Service Cookies | These are typically set by tools embedded into our website (e.g. case studies, newsletters, or social sharing). For example, when embedding a YouTube video – this will set a YouTube cookie. Video sharers include Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, reader comments, and survey services. |
We periodically review the cookies used on our website and certain elements may change as privacy restrictions and best practices evolve.
How we use your information
The data we collect via cookies is used to help us improve the quality and relevance of our services and information. We use aggregated, de-identified data to:
- Analyze statistics relating to web traffic and website usage
- Ascertain trending topics or areas from which visitors require legal information/counsel
- Improve the usability or accessibility of our criminal law articles/publications
- Enhance the security, reliability, and integrity of our website
- Track the effectiveness of our education campaigns or information dissemination
Our cookies are not used for any other purposes such as receiving, collating, or storing sensitive personal information of visitors, nor are they used to form automated decisions about visitors. Any information collected via cookies will be treated with the same respect, discretion, and confidentiality as all other client information.
Managing cookies on your devices
You may exercise complete control over the functionality of cookies. Although the vast majority of web browsers automatically accept such cookies, you can set up your unit so that such cookies are not accepted, that those which have already been placed in your computer are erased, and/or that you receive a notification whenever a cookie is created. Please be aware, however, that in such case, you may not have access to the full functionality of certain features or other resources on our website.
For further instructions with regards to how to manage cookies, please refer to the help screen of your browser or other trusted Internet sources, such as:
- Google Chrome: Settings / Privacy and Security / Cookies and other site data
- Mozilla Firefox: Preferences / Privacy & Security / Cookies and Site Data
- Microsoft Edge: Settings / Site Permissions / Cookies and site data
- Apple Safari: Preferences / Privacy / Cookies and website data
You may opt out of Google Analytics tracking by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Cookies and data privacy regulation
Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law recognizes your right to privacy and is committed to complying with all applicable data privacy and protection laws, including General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and other requirements. We endeavor to ensure that our use of cookies is lawful, transparent, fair and respects your legal rights as a website user.
We review our use of cookies on a regular basis to ensure that it reflects developments in privacy legislation, regulation, competition authority pronouncements, and best practice in data protection. If you have any questions about the cookies we use and/or your data privacy rights, please contact us in the manner described below:
Cookies and third parties, hyperlinks and other websites
Certain pages of the Site may display content or functionality, such as embedded videos, social media feeds, legal updates, or maps, that are hosted and served by third-party website providers. These third-party providers may set, use, and be able to access cookies in your browser through that content or functionality, while you view the Site. Such third party cookies are subject to the third party’s privacy and cookie policy, not Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law’s. We try to use only those third-party service providers we believe to have strong non-intrusive privacy policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any external website that you visit through a link contained on the Site. Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law is not responsible for the use of cookies by third party websites, but we will strive to inform you whenever we integrate the functionality of other websites into this Site and will help you make good decisions about your privacy while using our Site.
Contact us about our policy
Your privacy and confidence is extremely important to us. Should you have any questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Cookie Policy or your data privacy rights, please contact us, so that we can provide you with additional information, explain our policy, or help you adjust your cookie preferences.
Contact Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law:
Address: 4747 N 7th St Ste 15, Phoenix AZ 85014
Phone: (480) 253-9354
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://criminalistadouglascoutinho.com/
We promise to uphold your defense and your rights, inside the courtroom and out on the web.
Changes to our cookies policy
We may revise this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal compliance, or other technologies we deploy. If we make any material changes to it, we will notify visitors by updating the date of this policy, or in appropriate circumstances posting a prominent notice on our website. To remain apprised of the manner in which we use cookies under this policy and other aspects of our website privacy practices, we recommend that you review this policy periodically.
Consent and closing remarks
By continuing to use the Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law website, you accept that The Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law will use cookies as per this policy unless you have altered your internet browser settings to refuse cookies. We are committed to ensuring the protection of your privacy and to the extent possible ensuring that your online visit with us is secure, enlightening, and in accordance with your rights. Thank you for trusting Douglas Coutinho Criminal Law for your legal information and defence needs.