Columbus Bar Foundation Website Disclaimer

The Columbus Bar Foundation is pleased to provide the information on this website as a service to its members and the general public. The Columbus Bar Foundationn is dedicated to improving the administration of law and justice through community service, the public understanding of the law, and promoting the integrity and continuing education of the profession.

While the information on this site is about legal issues, it is not intended as legal advice or as a substitute for the advice and counsel of a licensed attorney. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the law and our dependence on information provided by outside sources, The Columbus Bar Foundation does not and can not warranty or guarantee the accuracy or availability of the content on this site or on any other site to which this site links. Moreover, these links to other third party sites are provided exclusively for convenience and are not and should not be interpreted as an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party site.

Users of this site are hereby notified that the Columbus Bar Foundation assumes no liability to any party for any damages arising in any way out of the availability, use, reliance on or inability to use the Columbus Bar Foundation website or any information provided by or through the Columbus Bar Foundation website. Further, use of the site by any person shall constitute agreement by that person to hold harmless the Columbus Bar Foundation for any claim attributable to errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in, or destructive properties of any information provided by or through, the Columbus Bar Foundation website.

You may download, use and copy the materials found on the Columbus Bar Foundation website for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies of the material that you make must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site that pertain to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right found or described herein.

Remember, this site is provided solely as a service to the members of the Columbus Bar Foundation and the general public to promote the understanding of the law. The law differs from state to state and sometimes within states, procedurally, from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. If you have a legal issue that needs attention, there is no substitute for a licensed attorney. Please, contact an attorney in your area. If you are an Ohio resident, and do not have an attorney, consider using the Columbus Bar Association's Attorney Referral Service.

Columbus Bar Foundation Website Privacy Policy

On this web site the Columbus Bar Foundation ("CBF") collects limited non-personally-identifiable information, as well as such personally-identifiable information as our web site users ("you") choose to give us. The privacy policy posted on our web site at the time you provide information to us is the one which is in effect; the policy may change from time to time. We currently use information as follows:

1. Non-personally-identifiable information: We log the IP address associated with your computer at the time of your visit to monitor the traffic to various areas of our web site and to help us diagnose any problems with our server. We may use session cookies (not stored after you exit our site) or persistent cookies (stored after you exit) to track session ID, to control colors, to store login information or other information regarding your preferences or use of our site, and to enable the shopping cart feature.



2. Personally-identifiable information:


1. Our site uses session cookies (not stored) to maintain user session identity.



2. If you use the "email this to a friend" feature, we do not capture your email address or the e-mail address of the "friend"/recipient.



3. The detailed information requested on the membership application form may be made available to the public and thus there is no expectation of privacy regarding such information. NOTE: This also should be stated on the on-line application form page itself.



4. Those portions of our site which use encryption (as indicated by a closed lock symbol or the equivalent on your browser) collect sensitive information such as credit card numbers. We use such information, which is kept separate from other information we collect, only for the purposes related to the transaction for which you supply the information. We do not disclose such information to others for unrelated purposes.



5. If you provide information to us off-line (e.g. postal mail or fax), this privacy policy does not apply, even if you use a form you downloaded from this web site.


3. Unencrypted information generally. Please note that unencrypted information transmitted over the Internet is not secure and could be captured by third parties.



4. Correction of information. If you determine that information you have supplied to us via this web site is incorrect, you may submit the corrected information to us in the same way you submitted the incorrect information or send an e-mail to webmaster@cbalaw.org.



5. External Links. The CBF web site contains links to other external web sites that do not fall under the COLUMBUSBARFOUNDATION.ORG domain. The CBF privacy policies do not apply to such external web sites.

Questions? Contact us at webmaster@cbalaw.org