Privacy Policy

The L.A. Office is committed to protecting your privacy online. We intend to follow these policies relating to personal information collected about you on our site.

When you use The L.A. Office website ("Site") we may ask you for information about your gender, age, occupation, residential and email address and other personal information that identifies you or allows us, as well as other third parties to contact you ("Personal Information.) You might also be asked to provide Personal Information when entering a contest, participating in a survey, adding your name as a reference on the Site, or referencing other products or services on the Site. When possible, we will give you a chance to make sure that your Personal Information is correct and up to date.

We offer services on the Site that may require third parties to use your personal information. Those third Party partners are asked to comply with this Privacy Policy as well. If you receive an informational or promotional communication from us or from our Partners, you will have an opportunity to respond and tell ask not to be contacted in the future.

You may have opportunities to receive information about events, products or services that we or other companies may offer. We will give you the choice about whether to receive this kind of communication. If you opt to receive it, we will also tell you how to stop the delivery of informational or promotional mail from us, or from other companies referred by us, by following the instructions on the email delivering the information. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Our Site is not directed at nor does it solicit use by children 13 years old or younger.

We may disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process, such as a subpoena, served on us or our affiliates; (b) protect and defend our rights or property or those of our users, and (c) act as immediately necessary in order to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. If a particular item offered for auction appears to violate the copyrights or trademarks of a third party, we may offer that third party access to Personal Information in order to resolve a legitimate legal claim.

If at any time you believe that we have violated these Policies, please notify us by e-mail at http://www.laoffice.com/contact_us.asp and we will investigate and try to remedy the problem.

Frequently Asked Questions about our Privacy Statement


How do we collect Personal Information?
Personal Information is collected by requesting it from you. Generally this occurs when you register at our Site, request a service or information, fill out a survey, purchase a product, or enter an online contest or sweepstakes.

What about Cookies?
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their customers. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a Web site's functionality if you do so.

How do you use Personal Information?
Usually, we use your Personal Information to operate the site and to deliver services on it. We may also use Personal Information to allow other companies to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you.

Do you share my Personal Information other companies?
We will share your information with companies who need it to handle you specific requests for information and/or products and services on the site and deliver any information, products or services you have ordered. This would apply to prize providers for contests and sweepstakes on the site. We may share general information obtained on the site about our users as a whole, information that does not personally identify you, but helps us improve the site or provide information about the site to third parties.

What about the Privacy of children?
The safety and privacy of children under 18 on the Internet is essential. We do not believe that any portion of our site is primarily directed at children.

Do you collect other forms of information about your users?
In addition to the use of Personal Information to operate our site, we may also gather anonymous information, which may be used by us or shared with third parties. This is information which does not personally identify you, but which may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the services we offer. For example, we might use this anonymous information to inform our advertisers how many users visited a particular advertisement, and for how long, so they can measure whether the advertisement was effective. This information may also be used to generate advertising rates.

How do I correct or change Personal Information that I have given to you?
You can visit www.laoffice.com/contact_us.asp and notify us that you wish to update or edit your user information. Arrangements can be made for a user to determine what personal information we have stored about that user. However, we will need to verify the user's identity before we confirm what information we have.

Is my Personal Information protected from the public?
Personal Information collected by us is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public. In most instances, such as in the case of credit card numbers, the Personal Information is encrypted before you conduct your transaction (i.e. request for information, products or services).