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Any information submitted to Kennedy, Robbins, Yarbro & Henson, LC through this website will not be confidential. The use of this website, including unsolicited e-mail, does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Kennedy, Robbins, Yarbro & Henson, LC. Nothing in this website is intended to be legal advice. Do not rely upon any information provided in this website or in any links provided herein in lieu of a consultation with an attorney. The information on this website should not be taken as a promise or indication of future results.

This website is intended as an advertisement only in Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi, and not any other state. The jurisdictions in which each of our attorneys is licensed to practice are indicated in the individual attorney biographies on this website. The ability of any attorney to engage in any activities on behalf of a client outside that attorney’s states of licensure is subject to state statutes and professional codes and court rules. Kennedy, Robbins, Yarbro & Henson, LC, does not seek, and this website is not intended to solicit, legal employment outside our attorneys’ states of licensure that would constitute the unauthorized practice of law. Kennedy, Robbins, Yarbro & Henson, LC, further does not seek to represent any person or entity based solely on that person’s or entity’s visit to this website. To the extent it is necessary in an individual reader’s jurisdiction that our firm designate a principal office and/or a single attorney responsible for this website, Kennedy, Robbins, Yarbro & Henson, LC, designates its Poplar Bluff, Missouri office as its sole and principal office and designates Scott A. Robbins as the attorney responsible for this web site.

Privacy Policy

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

The categories of personal information we collect when we are retained to provide legal advice or services will vary depending on the nature of the engagement and the services we are requested to provide.

Purposes For Which Your Information Will Be Used

First of all you should know that:

1. We do not and will not sell your personal information.

2. We will not share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.

3. We will not use your personal information to make any automated decisions affecting you.

4. We will use and process any personal information we receive to provide legal advice or services that our law firm is retained to provide, to establish, exercise or defend of any type of legal claim or dispute, to comply with any legal obligation imposed upon us by law, or in connection with pursuing our Firm’s legitimate interests. Those legitimate interests include not only the provision of legal advice and services, but also our internal administrative or operational processes.

Accordingly, we will use personal information to:

1. Provide legal advice or services;

2. Defend or prosecute a lawsuit, administrative proceeding, or any type of legal, regulatory or administrative claim, challenge or dispute which may include responding to discovery requests involving your information;

3. Negotiate, document, settle or close a deal, transaction, contract or legal dispute;

4. Manage or administer your, your employer’s or a related third party’s business and affairs, business activities or business relationship with our Firm, including processing payments, accounting, auditing, billing, collection and support services;

5. Communicate with you, your employer or a related third party about the status, developments or the outcome of an engagement.

6. Comply with any legal demands or orders issued in an administrative proceeding, by a tribunal or court of law, or to comply with a regulatory obligation imposed by a governmental or regulatory agency or official, which could include meeting various compliance, screening, or recordkeeping requirements, anti-money laundering, financial and credit checks, fraud and crime prevention requirements, and which may require manual or automated checks of your personal information against various databases and lists;

7. For internal administrative purposes such as to open a new matter as part of our new business intake, file opening and conflict resolution process as well as for processing payments, accounting, auditing, billing and collections and related support services;

8. For any other purpose necessary for the legitimate interests of our Firm;

9. To fulfill or meet the reasons you provided us the information, including to process your requests, transactions or payments and to prevent transaction fraud.

10. To respond to your inquires, process your requests concerning your personal information in our possession, to investigate and address your concerns and to monitor and improve our responses;

11. To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products, services, databases, networks, and other technical assets and business;

12. To deliver any other type of requested product or service, or to provide support for any such product or service;

13. Improve, develop, modify or support our products and services, to update and maintain client contact or email lists and for other internal purposes;

14. Respond to requests for information, or to provide information about legal services that you request;

15. Respond to lawful requests for information through court orders, subpoenas, warrants and other legal process, obligations or governmental regulations;

16. Protect the operations of our law firm, or the safety, security and privacy of our Firm, our lawyers and staff, our clients or third parties. This potentially includes sharing information with others for purposes of fraud protection, information security, and related matters;

17. For any purpose related to any of the foregoing;

Categories of Third Parties With Whom We May Share Your Personal Data

We will share personal data received as part of an engagement when necessary to provide our legal advice or services. This may require that we share your information with others parties or their lawyers involved in a transaction, deal or litigation, or with related parties and their attorneys, or when necessary with other third parties such as lay and expert witnesses, or with vendors we retain to assist us in providing our legal services, and when necessary with judges, courts, tribunals, and mediators involved in the resolution of a dispute.

We may also share your personal information with courts of law, law enforcement authorities, governmental officials or regulators, attorneys or other parties when it is reasonably necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal or equitable claim, or for purposes of an alternative dispute resolution process; to comply with a subpoena or court order, legal process, or other legal requirement or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, to prevent imminent physical harm or material financial loss, to investigate, prevent or take action concerning illegal activities, suspected fraud, threats to our Firm, any of its lawyers or our property; or as necessary in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity.

We do keep track of the domains from which people visit us. We analyze this data for trends and statistics, and then we discard it.

Business Relationships

Our website contains links to other web sites. Kennedy, Robbins, Yarbro & Henson, LC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Internet sites or services that may be accessible through our website have separate data and privacy practices independent of this website, and therefore, through this disclaimer, we deny any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. You should read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.