Privacy Policy

Illinois Living Trust™ has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and data security. We value the privacy of our clients and website/blog site viewers.

Personal information available to Illinois Living Trust™ staff when browsing or navigating the site shall be confidential. We may collect various information you provide in completing the legal documents, paying for services, and communicating to us via email or with customer service, such as; first and last name, home, postal, or other physical address, telephone number, fax number, email address, credit card information. And additional similar details. Our servers automatically collect any information your web browsers send when visiting our Website.

Possible personal visitor information shares include, but may not be limited to, Emailing, calling, or communicating with Illinois Living Trust™ staff, posting a question or comment through the site, requesting literature, registering to attend a webinar or any event, participating in an online survey, requesting inclusion in an email or other mailing list, submitting an entry for a contest, or other promotions, logging in to the site, thus requiring a username and password, any other business-related reason.

Opting – Out
‍You can agree or decline to provide any personal information and have the right to opt out of any future email, mailings, or contact. Illinois Living Trust™ does not sell or transfer your personal information or email without your consent, except under the limited circumstances listed under Information Sharing and Disclosure below.
You can use the following opt-out procedures: You can send an email request to info@tuohylawoffices.com, send a mail request to the following postal address:
Illinois Living Trust™17W220 22nd Street, Suite 300
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
You use the opt-out link in our regular email updates.
You can call the following telephone number: (312) 559-8400.

Changing Personal Information
‍You can use the following procedures to change the personal information you previously submitted: You can send an email request to info@tuohylawoffices.com
Please send mail to the following postal address:
 Illinois Living Trust™ C/O Tuohy Law Offices, 17W220 22nd Street, Suite 300
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
You can call the following telephone number: (312) 559-8400.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
‍Your personal information is never shared outside  Illinois Living Trust™ without your permission, except under the conditions listed below:
You consent to share your information with a third-party service provider working on our behalf to serve you.
Requiring us to provide you with a product or service, including a vendor you request a product or service.
If another company purchases our website platform, another law firm assumes responsibility and controls the Tuohy Law Offices client list. In that case, we provide two weeks’ notice before the transfer to opt out.
Illinois Living Trust™ will also disclose your Personal Information if required by law or in urgent circumstances to protect personal safety, the public, or our sites.
Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities, conform to the legal edicts, or comply with the legal process served on our company.
Protect and defend the rights or property of our Website and related properties.
Identify persons who may be violating the law, the rights of third parties, or otherwise misusing our Website or its related properties.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example, through email, discussion boards, or elsewhere – that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal information for the following: to complete and deliver the legal documents you request, provide customer support, assist you in document preparation, update your profile or accounts information, provide you with your annual membership services and benefits, announce legal updates and new products, to give you from third parties that are relevant to you or us, to deliver you a regular newsletter or text updates, marketing, and other information on services and products offered by third parties or us.

Anti-Spam Policy
‍We do not send emails to people that do not have a relationship with our Website. This relationship can start in the following ways:
Is a current customer of  Illinois Living Trust™.
Contacted us for assistance or to request resources.
Opt into one of our email lists and join our electronic newsletter list.
Joined our website resources section.
Registered for annual membership and related benefits.
Or attended one of our webinars and provided an email address for future correspondence.

Cookies
Cookies exist on websites to collect and remember information. Illinois Living Trust™ uses cookies and web beacons to enable certain features of our Website, to understand and save your preferences for future visits, and compile aggregate data about user traffic and behavior to offer better experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to better understand our site visitors. You can configure your software so it does not accept cookies, though you may not be able to access certain portions or features of our Website.

The ILT website uses cookies to help optimize your browsing experience. Learn more about cookies and how you can control them below.

What are “Cookies”?

With your consent, cookies are small text files used by websites and stored on your devices that remember your registered login, help you resume where your last browsing session left off, display pages correctly, and keep track of your preferences within the Website.

A visit to a page on our Website may generate the following types of cookies:

Registration cookies – These let us know which account you are signed in with and whether or not you are allowed access to a particular service, and they help us associate any comments you post with your username.

Site performance cookies – This is how we remember your preferences for the tools found on our Website, so you don’t have to reset them each time you visit our site.

Anonymous analytics cookies – These tell us whether or not someone has visited our site in the past so we can track the number of site users and how often they visit for statistics. Note that these cookies can’t be used to identify any individual.

Advertising cookies – We use these to target our advertisement more accurately by telling us whether or not you have seen our ad and how long it has been since you have seen it. These cookies store information about what you are looking at on our site, not your personal information.

How to accept, reject or turn off cookies

You can accept or reject cookies on our Website via the pop-up cookies banner on our homepage or by emailing us at shelly@tuohy.net.

If you want to turn off cookies from all the websites you visit, you can do so via your browser’s settings. However, the websites you visit will not be able to tell whether you are signed in if cookies are turned off, which means you cannot post comments or access certain parts of the Website.

Follow the links below to learn about all of your browser’s Cookies settings:

• Cookies settings in Chrome
• Cookies settings in Firefox
• Cookies settings in Safari and iOS
• Cookies settings in Internet Explorer

How to turn off third-party advertising cookies

Other organizations add some of the advertisements you see on a website anonymously to track who has viewed their ad.

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), a leading self-regulatory association dedicated to responsible data collection and its use for digital advertising, lets you opt out of third-party advertisements.

Protecting the Privacy of Children
‍Children under 13 years old are not the target audience for our Website. Illinois Living Trust™ prohibits soliciting personal information from these children to protect their privacy.

Links to other Websites
‍This site contains links to other sites. Illinois Living Trust™ is not responsible for such websites’ privacy practices or content. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.

Domain Information Collection
‍Illinois Living Trust™ may collect domain information to analyze how visitors use this site. Illinois Living Trust™ uses this information to improve its Web-based offerings and to serve you better. This information is collected automatically and requires no action on your part.
On occasion,  Illinois Living Trust™ may use Google Analytics to evaluate the web traffic to the  Illinois Living Trust™ website. The software uses “cookies” to analyze data such as how long a visitor stays on the  Illinois Living Trust™ website, what pages are visited, and how long they act.
Assessing the data collected from you, as detailed above,  Illinois Living Trust™ strictly adheres to the Google Analytics Terms of Service and uses this anonymous data to understand better the type of person who visits our Website and what content is essential to them. This data enables us to become more familiar with which people visit our site, how often they visit, and what parts of the site they visit most often. At no time is your personally identifying information used in any data assessment, and  Illinois Living Trust™ will always be committed to keeping your anonymity safe and secure.  
If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our Web site, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You may also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function, and you may be unable to access certain information on this site.
Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
‍You can opt out of Google’s advertising tracking cookie or use a browser plugin to opt out of all Google Analytics tracking software.

Internet Security
Illinois Living Trust™ is committed to keeping your accounts and data secure.
We are all fed up with our data being pirated and sold to telemarketers and our every move online being watched, monitored, and targeted by third parties. As a valued customer of Illinois Living Trust™, we have your back and are working to protect your valuable personal data. We will work overtime to stay ahead of leading technology to continuously improve and enhance your privacy and data protection. You are trusting Illinois Living Trust™ with your data.
Generally, we follow accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted during transmission and after receiving it.
If we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and securely transmitted to us. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or looking for “HTTPS” at the beginning of the web page’s address.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. The computers/servers where we store personally identifiable information are kept securely. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
 Illinois Living Trust™ strives to protect your personal information; however, we urge you to take every precaution to protect your data on the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters, and use a password security management service.
‍Read our enhanced Security Procedures.

‍Charge Cards and Payments
Law Pay processes our credit processing system for Tuohy Law Offices and Woocommerce for Illinois Living Trust, which uses a state-of-the-art proprietary payment system for attorneys as the only complete end-to-end credit card processing system. We strongly suggest you use this secure online system to make all charge card payments to Illinois Living Trust™.
Suppose you choose to email your credit card information. In that case, we recommend you do so in two separate emails, breaking up the charge card number in the first, including the second half of the number, and the expiration date in the second.
You also can call us at 1-312-559-8400 with your charge card information.
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Terms & Conditions
Complete, updated service terms and disclaimers are on our Terms and Conditions page.
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Contacting Illinois Living Trust™
‍If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this Website, or your experiences with this Website, you can contact:
Illinois Living Trust™ c/o Tuohy Law Offices, 17W220 22nd Street Suite 300
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
Call Illinois Living Trust™ today at 1-(312) 559-8400 with any questions.

Privacy Policy Updated 6/15/23