Cookie Policy

Welcome to our Cookie Policy

At Ventus Legal, transparency, user trust, and data privacy are fundamentally critical to everything we do to achieve our mission of making legal knowledge accessible. As you consume legal content, news, and insight in an industry delivering complex information, we want to make sure that your online experience is not only enriching but also secure and honoring of your right to individual privacy. This Cookie Policy sets out how and why we put cookies and similar technologies on the Ventus Legal website. The purpose of this Policy is to help educate you about the types of cookies we use, why we use them, and how they improve the user experience, as well as your rights and controls in relation to our use of them. When engaging with a range of legal professionals – whether you are a law student, starting out in your career, working for a business, or trying to stay up-to-date on legal issues out there – knowing our approach to cookies can help you make informed choices and feel confident in our handling of your data.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or other device when you visit a website. They are commonly used to make websites function efficiently, remember your settings, and provide us with useful information about the website. Cookies may be placed by the website owner (first-party cookies) or by third party providers of content or services on the website (third-party cookies). Cookies cannot read information that is stored on your device, nor can cookies transfer viruses to you. Cookies can, however, store information from web pages like your preferences, ID session, and URL requests in order to enhance your experience with your device.

Why does Ventus Legal use cookies?

At Ventus Legal we use cookies to help provide a rich and tailored experience for our users. We use cookies to:

  • Improve the user experience by remembering our users’ preferences and settings while they are browsing the site
  • Allow users access to secure areas of the site
  • Gain information about site traffic and usage activity in order to assess content quality and on-site navigability
  • Provide users with information about legal news and alerts relevant to our users’ interests
  • Assist in newsletter subscription processes and user authentication
  • Evaluate the efficacy of our communications and outreach efforts

The use of cookies enriches the usability, security, and value of resources we provide to our varied community.

What cookies do we use?

To present you with a functional and dynamic website, Ventus Legal stores several types of cookies:

  • Required Cookies: These cookies are essential for the website’s fundamental functionality and enable core features such as page navigation, secure logins, and access to restricted areas of the site. Without these cookies, our website might not perform correctly.
  • Site Analytics Cookies: These cookies record interaction within our site, such as pages visited, amount of time spent on each page, and what functions are used most often. This information allows us to better understand which parts of our site are gaining the most attention and where a user’s experience can be improved. All data is aggregated and remains anonymous.
  • Functionality Cookies: Functionality cookies remember your preferences, such as language or region, so we can tailor the additional services we offer you on our site.
  • Analytic Cookies: Analytic cookies give us information about the aggregate performance of our website and its users, such as number of visitors, duration of visit, and exit pages. This information is extremely valuable as we seek to optimize the value to you of our content and services.
  • Third Party Cookies: If we use third-party apps or plugins sourced from providers not listed above (e.g., social media sharing tools, video-embedded features, or analytic tools), those providers sometimes save their own cookies in your web browser for purposes of functionality. We vet all these vendors to the extent possible against our own requirements for privacy and data security.

How do cookies enhance your experience?

Cookies help us deliver a better, more secure, and more personalised experience on Ventus Legal. For instance, cookies help us remember your login status so you can view subscriber-only legal updates without having to sign in each time. Cookies also help us remember your preferred practice areas so that you see the most relevant articles and resources first. Analytical cookies tell us which specific guides or news sections our readers find useful to help us prioritise our editorial and resources programming. In short, cookies help us make sure every visit to Ventus Legal is a bit quicker, more intuitive, and more rewarding.

How can you manage and control your cookie preferences?

Here at Ventus Legal, we believe that you should have meaningful control of your online privacy. You may see a cookie consent notice, or pop-up, when you first arrive at the Ventus Legal website. This will be a choice about which cookies to allow. You can change your choice online at any time through your tool in our cookie consent tool or in your browser settings. Most web browsers provide the ability to block or delete cookies either entirely or on a per-domain basis, but the complete deactivation of some cookies – particularly those that are necessary for the website to work properly amongst other tasks – may affect website functionality or your overall website experience. We recommend that you check your browser support pages or our website help pages for instructions on how to manage cookies.

Third-party cookies and other 3rd party services

To further optimize our site’s functionality and its ability to serve you, Ventus Legal may work with trusted third-party service providers. These may include analytics companies (like Google Analytics), social media platforms, or embedded content providers. Third-party cookies are set by these third-party organisations and are subject to the privacy policies of those organisations. We generally recommend that you review the privacy policy of any third-party service provider.

We only engage with partners that we believe are similarly committed to protecting users’ privacy and data. However, Ventus Legal does not control the use of third-party cookies once they have been placed on your device. If you do not wish to receive cookies from third-parties, please disable them through cookie settings or your browser settings on your devices. If you have any questions about specific third-party services used on our site, please feel free to get in touch with us.

How long do cookies persist?

A cookie that is set by Ventus Legal may be considered a session cookie or a persistent cookie. A session cookie is temporary and erased from your device when you close your browser. It is used primarily to ensure the integrity of the session state and the security of navigation. A persistent cookie remains on your device for a specified period of time, or until you delete it, so that we can recognize your device and remember your preferences and settings on future visits.

The retention period of each type of cookie set by Ventus Legal will vary based on the purpose of the cookie. For instance, an authentication cookie will expire after several hours, but preferences or analytics cookies may last several months. We continually review the cookies we use and periodically update their retention periods in order to comply with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

How we protect your data and privacy

Ventus Legal takes your privacy seriously and is committed to protecting your personal information from the initial contact through your entire experience with our site. We only use cookies in accordance with applicable law in force and industry standards including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as applicable. All data collected using cookies are protected and are used for legitimate purposes only; we never share or sell your data to unauthorized third parties.

Privacy is important to us, and we conduct regular audits of services that involve cookies or partnerships that involve cookies on our site to ensure that your data is safe and you can continue to place your trust in our application. For more information, please review our Privacy Policy.

Exercising your rights in relation to cookies and personal data

If you are a Ventus Legal user, you may have rights related to your information and how cookies are used. Depending on your location, you may have the right to:

  • Access data we hold about you
  • Request correction of, or deletion of, your data
  • Object to, or limit, how we process your data
  • Opt-out of non-essential cookies any time

For more information about your rights or to access or correct information we hold on you, please reach out to us at [email protected] or by mail at 1500 John F Kennedy Blvd Ste 1400, Philadelphia PA 19102. We will reply quickly and thoughtfully to all privacy related questions.

Children’s privacy and cookies

Ventus Legal is intended for adults and professionals; we do not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 16 and have no intention of using cookies in order to track or redirect children. If you believe a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information, or if a cookie has been set despite this policy, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will rectify the problem.

Updates to this cookie policy

As digital technology, as well as privacy and security expectations, change, Ventus Legal may revise this Cookie Policy because of changes made by us, technology vendors, or third parties or changes in applicable law. We encourage you to review this page regularly so that you can stay up to date on how we use cookies and how we protect your information. We will notify you of any material changes through prominent notices on the Site. Your continued use of Ventus Legal is deemed acceptance of the most recent Cookie Policy.

Contact us with any questions about cookies, privacy or your data

We appreciate your feedback, and we are happy to provide you with any information you may need about our cookie policy and your privacy. If you require further details, would like to discuss this policy further, or have any other data rights requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us through the following channels:

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Phone: 445 953 2076
  • Mail: 1500 John F Kennedy Blvd Ste 1400, Philadelphia PA 19102

Every member of the Ventus Legal team is here to help you every step of the way when navigating through our trusted legal resources. For additional ways to reach us, please visit our Contact Ventus Legal page.

Trusted. Transparent. Empowered

Here at Ventus Legal we understand trusting relationships are essential to empowering people, professionals, and students with legal knowledge. Our cookie usage policies enable us to respect your privacy while providing you a responsive, user-friendly experience. By gaining an understanding of how cookies work and the choices you have, you can feel comfortable leveraging our experience, resources, and community outreach. We encourage you to read our articles and subscribe to our newsletter for recent developments on the law and in-demand practice areas, and join us in the effort to make legal information available to everyone in a secure and transparent way.