Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on, and is effective as of, May 21, 2026

A. Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP and Smith, Gambrell & Russell International, LLP (collectively, “SGR”, "we", "us" or “our”) use personal information (as defined below) that we may collect from clients and other users of our Website when you interact with SGR, including through our website and its web pages at www.sgrlaw.com (the “Website”), as well as other matters concerning such personal information, including certain rights you have under applicable law. It also explains how to contact us if you have any questions about your personal information or other matters addressed in this Privacy Policy. Additional contractual and ethical terms relating to the handling of personal information may also apply to persons who are clients of ours.

We review our policies regularly and any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page and we will update the effective date noted above of this Privacy Policy.

Entities Covered

This Privacy Policy covers Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, a limited liability partnership established in accordance with the laws of the State of Georgia, U.S.A., which has offices in the United States, including at 1105 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, as well as Smith, Gambrell & Russell International, LLP, a limited liability partnership organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, U.S.A., which operates in the United Kingdom and is authorized and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (with SRA ID 634120). Smith, Gambrell & Russell International, LLP is a subsidiary of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. The two entities work together as a closely integrated international network but are separately constituted and separately regulated legal entities which provide legal and other client services in accordance with the relevant laws of the jurisdictions in which they respectively operate, and each of such entities is a data controller as to the personal information collected by it. In addition, because the Smith, Gambrell & Russell entities covered by this Privacy Policy are providers of legal services, any disclosures or other practices addressed in this Privacy Policy are subject to those ethical rules and guidelines to which such entities (and their legal professionals) are subject as providers of legal services.

Registered Data Controller in the UK

Smith, Gambrell & Russell International, LLP is a registered Data Controller under the terms of the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998. Details of Smith, Gambrell & Russell International, LLP’s notification to the regulator for data protection, may be found in the Information Commissioner’s Office Public Register of Data Controllers at https://ico.org.uk under registration number ZA 377800.

B. Information Collected and How We Use It

When you engage us or sign up for any of SGR’s services, including our legal services, newsletters, bulletins, seminars and other events and communications, or when you use our Website, we may collect and process your name, address, telephone number and email address and other information about you from which you can be identified (collectively, “personal information”).

We will store and use your personal information for purposes of administering and maintaining our relationship with you and providing services or information to you as instructed by you or as otherwise allowed by applicable law. We may separately contact you for the purpose of providing you with other information which we believe may be of interest to you. However, we will not initiate such contacts with you solely as a result of your having accessed our Website, unless you have affirmatively given your consent to such contacts during one of your visits to our Website. Also, where applicable under local laws, we will not use personal information for marketing purposes unless we have obtained your prior consent.

C. Legal Bases for Processing Personal Information

When processing your personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases (or other available legal grounds), depending on the circumstances:

• Legitimate Interests – We may Process your personal information where we have a legitimate interest in such processing for managing, operating or promoting our business, and that legitimate interest is not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights or freedoms.
• Consent – We may process your personal information where we have obtained your consent to the processing.
• Contractual Necessity – We may process your personal information where such processing is necessary in connection with any contract we have with you.
• Legal Requirements – We may process your personal information where such processing is required by applicable law.

D. Our Use of Website Cookies and Analytics

Generally

Only strictly necessary cookies are active on our Website as a matter of course. Strictly necessary cookies allow the Website to be accessible, and without them some parts of the Website will not work or will not work properly. They are essential for the basic functionalities of the Website to operate. Accordingly, strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent.

We do not deploy non-essential cookies or analytical tracking technologies in the operation of our Website unless you have provided us your affirmative consent to the use of non-essential cookies or analytical tracking technologies under our cookies consent process.

For more information about our use of cookies and similar tracking technologies, please see our Cookies Policy, which can be accessed here: [add link to Cookies Policy]

Google Analytics

Our Website makes use of Google Analytics, a web service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics makes use of cookies, which are text files that are being saved on your computer to allow an analysis of your usage of the Website. The data created by this process are being processed to the Google servers in the United States and will be saved at the same place. Where anonymous Internet protocol (“IP”) addresses are used to access the Website, the IP address will be transferred to the US and then have the final digits deleted. Google will use this information only as instructed by us to evaluate your usage of the Website and to file reports about the activity on the Website and to provide further services to us as the operator connected to the Website. Your IP address, as so evaluated, will never be connected to other Google data. You are free to disallow usage of your IP address in this manner by disabling cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may impair or prevent the operation of certain functions and features of the Website.

E. Disclosures to Third Parties

Your personal information will not be disclosed to third parties except for where it is necessary for fulfillment of our obligations to you or where we are obliged or permitted to do so by law (including, without limitation, through the terms of any retainer or engagement agreement we may have with you), or where we make disclosures that are otherwise consistent with the uses described in this Privacy Policy.

We may also disclose any information (including personal information) relating to you to law enforcement authorities or any regulatory or government authority in response to any request including requests in connection with the investigation of any suspected illegal activities.

We reserve the right to transfer any personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets, or merge with another organization. Should such a sale, transfer or merger occur, we will use reasonable efforts seeking to require that the transferee uses personal information you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

We will not sell, resell or lease your personal information to any third parties but we may, if required for the purpose(s) for which your personal information was collected and processed, share it with our partners and/or service providers to enable them to provide their services to us or to you, as applicable. The foregoing are in addition to the other uses described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

F. Security of Personal Information

SGR has policies and technical and organizational measures in place which are intended to safeguard and protect your personal information against unauthorized access, accidental loss, improper use, and disclosure. However, you should be aware that when data is transmitted over the public Internet it is not completely secure because of the nature of the internet and that systems and measures used to secure data are not flawless. For these reasons, although we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we do not guarantee the security of personal information transmitted to us or stored by us, and personal information that is transmitted to us by you electronically is done at your own risk.

G. Transfer and Use of Personal Information Outside the United Kingdom and European Union

Personal information provided to SGR by its clients or other persons contacting SGR is protected by certain privacy and data protection laws and regulations of the United Kingdom and the European Union. personal information provided to SGR by clients of its Munich office or other residents of Germany contacting SGR is protected by certain privacy and data protection laws and regulations of Germany and the European Union.

In order to provide clients and other residents of United Kingdom or the European Union with requested services, SGR may need to transfer the personal information of such persons to service providers or other third parties based in countries outside the U.K. or thr European Union or to our overseas affiliates, partners or offices. This does not diminish the rights of those whose personal information we have collected. Both Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP and Smith, Gambrell & Russell International, LLP take reasonable technical and organizational measures to ensure that any personal information of such persons transferred outside the U.K. or the European Union will be treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

H. Retention of Personal Information

Our policy is to retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected such personal information, including for the purposes of satisfying any professional, legal, accounting or reporting requirements to which we are subject. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the scope, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information, the purposes for which we collected and process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and any applicable legal and professional requirements.

I. Links to Other Websites

When using our Website there may be links to other websites and these are provided merely for your convenience and do not imply endorsement by us of the content or provider. Such other websites and their operators may use cookies, collect data and use the collected data in ways that are different from the way in which we use the information collected through our Website. When visiting another website from a link on our Website, you should read the other website’s privacy policy to make certain that the manner in which information is collected and used on such other website is acceptable to you.

J. Your U.S. State Privacy Rights.

U.S. state consumer privacy laws may provide residents of certain states with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.

• California residents have the additional rights set forth in more detail in Section I “Your California Privacy Rights” below, of this

• Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia residents have rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature and the processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of the processing of personal information for:
  • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
  • sales; or
  • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal information.

The meaning of “sensitive personal information” differs in each of the above states. Generally, however, sensitive personal information means information that reveals a user’s racial or ethnic background; national origin; religious beliefs; mental or physical condition or diagnosis; sexual orientation; status as transgender or nonbinary; status as a victim of crime; citizenship or immigration status; precise geolocation data; or genetic or biometric data. We do not collect any of the foregoing types of sensitive personal information without your consent.

In addition, residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia have the right to appeal any decision that we make with regard to your exercise of any of your above-noted rights.

To exercise any of the above-noted rights or to appeal any decision that we make regarding the exercise of such rights, please contact SGR as noted in Section L “Contact Information” below of this Policy.

K. Your California Privacy Rights

The following additional privacy notices for California residents (the “California Notice”) supplement the information contained in the other portions of this Policy and apply solely to individuals who reside in the State of California (“California consumer” or “you”). SGR adopts this California Notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, and their related regulations (collectively the “CCPA”) and other applicable California laws.

Overview of Consumer Rights Under the CCPA

Under the CCPA, California consumers have certain rights regarding their personal information, including:

• The right to know the categories of personal information that SGR has collected and the categories of sources from which we obtained such information.
• The right to know SGR’s business purposes for sharing personal information.
• The right to know the categories of third parties with whom SGR shared personal information.
• The right to know if we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, comprising two separate lists disclosing:
• any sales, which list identifies the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased (note that at present we do not sell personal information that we collect); and
• any disclosures for a business purpose, which list identifies the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
• The right to access the specific pieces of personal information that SGR has collected
• The right to correct personal information that SGR has collected.
• The right to delete your personal information.
• The right to not be discriminated against if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.

The provisions below of this California Notice provide further details about these and other rights and certain details about the exercise of such rights.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California consumer, household or device (collectively, "personal information"). Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, including:
• Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data; and
• Personal information covered by certain other laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:  

Note concerning sensitive personal information: Certain of the above information may be considered to be sensitive personal information under the CCPA and, to the extent such data is considered to be sensitive personal information you have the right to limit the use and disclosure of such data.

Sources of Personal Information

In addition to sources of personal information addressed elsewhere in this Policy, we obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly From You. For example, from forms you complete or services we provide or from communications with you such as when you contact SGR (whether in person, by mail, by phone, online, by electronic communication or by other means) including our customer support service.
• Indirectly From You. For example, from observing your actions on our Website or from services that you have obtained from SGR.
• From Others.
• From third party service providers. For example, if you choose to make an electronic payment directly to SGR, or through a linked website or mobile application, or through an affiliate of ours, SGR may receive personal information about you from third parties such as payment services providers, for the purposes of that payment.
• From affiliates. We may collect personal information about you from our affiliates or others acting on their behalf.
• From Public Sources. For example, we may collect information from public records.

Uses of Personal Information

In addition to uses of personal information addressed elsewhere in this Policy, we may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill the reason that you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote, request to be contacted by an affiliate, or ask a question about our services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to obtain services, we may use that information to process your payment and facilitate the services. We may also save your information to facilitate new services.
• To perform services such as customer service, services fulfillment, payment processing, financing and advertising, marketing or analytic services.
• To advance our commercial or economic interests, such as by helping you to use our services or Website.
• To verify or maintain quality or safety standards or improve or upgrade a service provided or controlled by or for us.
• To provide, support, personalize and develop our Website, and services.
• To create, maintain, customize and secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses. 
• To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers through our Website, third-party sites and by mail, email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
• To help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our Website, services, databases and other assets and business.
• For testing, research and analysis purposes, including to develop and improve our Website and services.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA or applicable law.
• To send you information relevant to your past purchases and interests, subject to compliance with applicable laws regarding direct marketing.
• To otherwise use as reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve our operational or notified purpose for collecting personal information and as compatible with the context in which we collected the information.
• To perform services on behalf of a CCPA-covered business or its service provider, such as customer service, order fulfillment, payment processing, financing and advertising, marketing, or analytic services.
• To review and audit our business interactions with you. 
• To detect or prevent security incidents or other illegal activity.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users, including California consumers, is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we require a contractual undertaking with such third party that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contractual undertaking. 

In the preceding twelve (12) months, SGR has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose: 

• Identifiers
• Personal information categories described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)
• Commercial information
• Internet or other similar network activity
• Inferences drawn from other personal information

The categories of third parties to which we may disclose personal information collected by us include the following: 

• Service providers
• Affiliates
• Recipients of data from cookies 

Sales of Personal Information

SGR does not sell personal information to third parties.  

Exercising Your CCPA Rights and Choices

The sections below describe how you may exercise your rights under the CCPA.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see “Exercising Access, Data Portability and Deletion Rights” below), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
• If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, a list disclosing the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

As allowed by the CCPA, we do not provide these access and data portability rights for business-to-business personal information.

• Deletion and Correction Request Rights.

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see “Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion and Correction Rights” below), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our (and service provider) records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you or otherwise perform our services for  you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another California consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et seq.).
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with California consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

As allowed by the CCPA, we do not provide these deletion rights for business-to-business personal information.

In addition, if you provide us with a verifiable consumer request to correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct such information in accordance with your instructions.

• Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion and Correction Rights.

To exercise the access, data portability, deletion and correction rights described above, you should submit a verifiable consumer request to us by one of the following methods:

• Emailing us at sgrcommunications@sgrlaw.com
• By postal mail at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, 1105 West Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 1000, Atlanta, GA 30309.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of a minor child for whom you are a parent or legal guardian.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a twelve (12) month period. The verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:

• Your name
• Your address
• Additional information depending upon the type of request and the sensitivity of the information involved with such request
• Describe your request with sufficient detail to enable us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to such request.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or your authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information involved with the request relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we will consider requests made through a password-protected online account that you maintain with us to be sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that online account, provided such online account functionality is then made available by us on the Website.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

• Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

If you have an online account with us, we may deliver our written response to that online account, provided that such online account functionality is then made available by us on the Website. If you do not have an online account with us, or such functionality is not available for your online account we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

If we’re unable to comply with your request, the response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with the request. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA or other applicable law, we will not as a result of you exercising any of your rights under the CCPA:

• Deny you services;
• Charge you different prices or rates for services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties;
• Provide you a different level or quality of services; or
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for services or a different level or quality of services.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information's value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Retention of Personal Information

Our policy is to retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the reason for which the personal information was collected and as necessary to process such personal information. In addition to the above, we will retain your personal information for the purposes of satisfying any professional, legal, accounting or reporting requirements to which we are subject. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the scope, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information, the purposes for which we collected and processed your personal information and whether we can reasonably achieve those purposes through other means, as well as any applicable legal and professional requirements.

Other California Privacy-Related Disclosures

Sharing Personal Information for Direct Marketing Purposes. Before sharing personal information of California consumers with third parties for direct marketing purposes we will obtain opt-in consent from the applicable California consumers or provide such California consumers with a cost-free method to opt out.

• California Tracking and Consent Under CIPA. The California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) may apply to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies on the Website. For this reason, we do not deploy non-essential cookies or analytical tracking technologies in the operation of our Website unless you have provided us your affirmative consent to the use of non-essential cookies or analytical tracking technologies under our cookies consent process. See our Cookie Policy for more information about such matters.

• California Do-Not-Track Disclosure.At this time, the Website is not set up to honor web browser do-not-track settings.  Do-not-track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user activates the do-not-track settings in browsers that offer this setting, the browser sends a message to websites or applications requesting them not to track the user. For more information about do-not-track matters, please visit allaboutdnt.org.

• Information on Marketing Disclosures. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Attn: Data Protection and Privacy Practices, 1105 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.

• Content Removal Requests for Website Users Under 18 Years Old.If you are a Website user under 18 years of age and reside in California, you may request and obtain removal of, content or information that you have posted on the Website. You may send us any such requests by one of the following methods: (i) by email (writing “Privacy Policy – Removal Request” in the subject line) at sgrcommunications@sgrlaw.com; or (ii) by writing to us at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Attn: Privacy Policy – Removal Request, 1105 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.  We will review the request and respond promptly.  You should be aware that a request to remove content or information posted by you on the Website does not ensure or require complete or comprehensive removal of such content or information from our databases.

Complaints

If you have any complaint about use of the Website, you may contact us  (i) by email (writing “Privacy Policy – Removal Request” in the subject line) at sgrcommunications@sgrlaw.com; or (ii) by writing to us at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Attn: Privacy Policy – Removal Request, 1105 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. In accordance with California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California residents may also file complaints with the Complaint Assistance Unit, Division of Consumer Services, California Department of Consumer Affairs by postal mail at 1625 North Market Road, Suite N112, Sacramento, CA 95834 or by telephone at 800-952-5210.

Changes to Our California Notice

We reserve the right to amend this California Notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this California Notice, we will post the updated California Notice on the Website and update the California Notice’s effective date and/or otherwise provider notice in accordance with Section K “Updates to Our Privacy Policy” below.  Your continued use of our Website following notice of such changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

L. Rights of U.K. and European Union Citizens

If you are a citizen of the U.K. or the European Union, you have a number of rights concerning your personal information that we hold and use, including the following:

• Right of Access – You have the right to be informed about what personal information we hold about you and to a copy of this personal information.
• Right to Rectification – You have the right to have any inaccurate personal information which we hold about you updated or corrected.
• Right to Erasure – In certain circumstances you may request that we delete the personal information that we hold on you.
• Right to Complain – You have the right to lodge a complaint regarding the processing of your personal information to an applicable governmental or supervisory authority in your country.
• Right to Withdraw Consent – Where processing of personal information is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time.
• Right to Object – Where we rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal information, you have the right to object to such use and we are required to discontinue such processing unless we can demonstrate an overriding legitimate interest in such processing.
• Right to Restriction – You have the right to request that we stop using your personal information in certain circumstances including if you believe that the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or that our use of your personal information is unlawful. If you validly exercise this right, we will store your personal information and will not carry out any other processing until the issue is resolved.

You may exercise any of the above requests in writing and addressed to Smith, Gambrell & Russell at sgrcommunications@sgrlaw.com.

In addition, all recipients of marketing communications from us are free at any time to request that we stop using your personal information for marketing purposes, by contacting our Marketing Department at sgrcommunications@sgrlaw.com.

U.K. and E.U. Data Protection Officers and Representatives

Ben Graham-Evans in our London and Southampton offices is designated as our Data Protection Officer for the U.K. and the European Union and he may be contacted by email at bgraham-evans@sgrlaw.com.

M. Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. The most recent Privacy Policy will be posted on this page.  If we make material changes to our manner of use or disclosure practices for personal information covered by this Policy, we will also provide additional notice where required by law (and which may include prompting you to affirmatively acknowledge that the Policy has changed and, if legally required, obtain your consent), before using your personal information for purposes that are materially different than those previously addressed in this Policy

The date that this Policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page.

N. Contact Information

If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy or our data protection and privacy practices, please contact us at sgrcommunications@sgrlaw.com, or by regular mail addressed to: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Attn: Data Protection and Privacy Practices, 1105 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.

Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy was last updated on, and is effective as of, May 21, 2026

This Cookies Policy explains how Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP and Smith, Gambrell & Russell International, LLP (collectively, “SGR”, "we", "us" or “our”) use “cookies” on our website and its web pages at www.sgrlaw.com (the “Website”).

Generally

Only strictly necessary cookies are active on our Website as a matter of course. Strictly necessary cookies allow the Website to be accessible, and without them some parts of the Website will not work or will not work properly. They are essential for the basic functionalities of the Website to operate. Accordingly, strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent.

We do not deploy non-essential cookies or analytical tracking technologies in the operation of our Website unless you have provided us your affirmative consent to the use of non-essential cookies or analytical tracking technologies under our cookies consent process.

We use common tracking technologies

We utilize online non-essential tracking technologies – such as cookies, web beacons, or pixels – on our Website, for which we request your consent. Cookies are commonly used, small text files that are placed on your hard drive by us or a third party when you visit the Website. Cookies store information which is then sent back to our servers or those of third parties.

As described in more detail below, we use these tracking technologies:

• to recognize new or past visitors to our Website
• to improve our Website
• to better understand the interests and uses of the Website by visitors to it

Functional and analysis cookies are used on our Website. Functional cookies enable certain parts of the Website to work properly and for your user preferences to remain known.   Certain functional cookies are considered to be strictly necessary in order for the Website to work properly.  Analysis cookies, among other things, collect information on how visitors use our Website and the content that users view most frequently.  Cookies are either “session” cookies, which are deleted when you end your browser session, or “persistent” cookies, which remain on your device until their deletion by you or the party who served the cookie.

We may link the information collected by cookies with other information we collect from you pursuant to our Privacy Policy and use the combined information consistent with such Policy. If you are located in certain states of the United States, the European Union or Canada, you have certain rights that are described in our Privacy Policy, including the right to inspect, correct and delete the data that we have about you.

Control of certain tracking tools

You can set your browser settings either to receive our cookies or use our Website without cookie functionality. Please note that if you decline use of certain cookies, some functions of the Website may be unavailable and, unfortunately, we will not be able to present certain functionality or tailored content to you.  In addition, certain cookie choices you make are browser- and device-specific.

Only strictly necessary cookies are active as a matter of course. Strictly necessary cookies allow the Website to be accessible, and without them some parts of the Website will not work or will not work properly. They are essential for the basic functionalities of the Website to operate. Accordingly, strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent.

We obtain user consent for the use of cookies that assist us with non-strictly necessary functionality, as well as user preferences and analytics, and such consent is prompted by a cookie banner or pop up when you first access the Website.  You can also disable cookies at any time through your device settings, although if certain cookies (such as essential cookies) are disabled, related parts of the Website may not work properly or have full functionality.

Disabling Cookies

If you wish, you can adjust your browser so that your computer does not accept cookies:

1. Go to the heading “Manage Cookies” and click onto the option you prefer, either stopping cookies being installed, or notifying you of them; and
2. From the list provided, click onto the program which your computer uses; if this is not shown on the list, click on the “help” heading on the bar at the top of the page, search for information on “cookies” − an explanation of how to delete cookies will appear, then follow the instructions.

Alternatively, you can adjust your browser to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer.

How you adjust your browser (to stop it accepting cookies or to notify you of them) will depend on the type of internet browser program your computer uses. You can follow the appropriate instructions for your specific browser type by clicking onto this link: http://aboutcookies.org/how-to-controlcookies/ (please note that this link will open a new window and will lead to an external website and that we are not responsible for the content of external websites).

In addition, users based in the European Union can visit http://youronlinechoices.eu/ to opt out of these third-party cookies. The foregoing website is not connected to us and we are not responsible for its content. We only keep cookies for the duration of your visit to the Website, except in the case of cookies which remember you for future visits or where you save your login name as referred to above.

Further Information About Cookies

If you wish to find out more about cookies, please click on this link: www.allaboutcookies.org (please note that this link will open a new window and will lead to an external website and that we are not responsible for the content of external websites).

Cookies do not contain confidential information such as your home address, telephone number or credit card details. If you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections or functions of our Website may be impaired or may not work properly.

Relationship to Privacy Policy

Any personal information collected through our use of cookies on the Website is subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy, which may be accessed at the following link: Privacy Policy | Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.

Changes to Our Cookie Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to how we collect, manage, update, store, maintain, process or disclose your personal information under this Policy or our related Privacy Policy, we will post the most recent Cookie Policy on this page and prompt you to acknowledge that the Policy has changed or otherwise contact you to inform you about such changes. If any such change is material, we will provide a more prominent manner of notice (which may, but need not, include, by a more detailed explanatory posting on this Website or by email or other notification of the relevant changes).

The date that this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.

Contact Information

To contact us about any of the matters addressed in this Cookie Policy, you may contact us by email at sgrcommunications@sgrlaw.com, or by regular mail addressed to: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Attn: Cookies Policy, 1105 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.

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