Privacy Statement

Effective Date: May 28, 2026

Your privacy is a priority for Blank Rome LLP ( “Blank Rome,” “we,” “us” or “our”) and we want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you (“Personal Information”).

This Privacy Statement describes our practices with Personal Information that we (or our service providers) collect from or about you through your interactions with us, including from your visits to our websites that link to this Privacy Statement (collectively, the “Site”).

Please note that this Privacy Statement does not address our practices with respect to the information we may collect and process about our California employees or job applicants, which is instead governed by separate notices.

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT CAREFULLY. When you provide us with your information, including when you visit or use our Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Statement, and consent to our collection, use, disclosure, retention and other processing of your information as described in this Privacy Statement.

1. Information We Collect

a. Personal Information

Blank Rome collects Personal Information about you, which may include:

• Identifiers: name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, email address, client ID/number, login ID and password.
• Categories Listed in the California Customer Records Statute: telephone number, employment, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other payment information.
• Characteristics of Protected Classifications: gender.
• Commercial Information: details of your transactions with us, records of services obtained or considered.
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: IP address, operating system type, browser type, device type, access times and dates, Internet Service Provider, default search preference, browsing data (e.g., directing URLs), search queries, your interactions with our Site, approximate geographic location (e.g., country, city, state), screen resolutions, whether you are accessing the Site from a mobile device or desktop, other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information.
• Geolocation Data: approximate geographic location based on IP address or your address.
• Audio, Electronic, Visual or Similar Information: If you post a photograph on social media and tag us or if you post a comment on our social media pages, we will collect the photograph or content of that message. Please note that if you choose to post photographs on social media and tag us or post a comment on any of our social media pages, any information you post will be visible to any other visitors to that social media page. We are not responsible for any Personal Information you include in such posts or for any use of such information by any other visitor to the social media page.
• Professional or Employment-Related Information: Job title, job function, company.
• Miscellaneous: Any information you may provide when you contact us.

This information is collected and stored electronically when you:

• Register an account with us
• Use our services, including when you pay for the services received
• Access and use the Site
• Subscribe to our newsletters and/or blogs
• Sign up to receive alumni communications
• Apply for the Blank Rome Scholars Program
• Register for an event
• Contact us.

Where permitted by applicable law, we may combine your Personal Information with other information we have collected from you. We may also combine your Personal Information with information we receive about you from other sources, such as our service providers, website analytics and digital advertising partners, social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn and X), subject to your registration and privacy settings with such third-party social media platforms, and publicly available information.

b. Information Collected Automatically

In addition, information about your device’s hardware and software is automatically collected by Blank Rome when you use the Site. This information may include:

• IP address
• Operating system type
• Browser type
• Device type
• Access times and dates
• Internet Service Provider
• Default search preference
• Browsing data (e.g., directing URLs)
• Search queries
• Approximate geographic location (e.g., country, city, state)
• Screen resolutions
• Whether you are accessing the Site from a mobile device or desktop
• Other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information.

We may also collect information regarding traffic patterns and your interaction with our Site. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including for the operation and improvement of the Site, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain the quality of the Site, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site, and better understand how users use the Site and their preferences.

We may also receive similar data from our website analytics and digital advertising partners and from social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn), subject to your registration and privacy settings with such third-party social media platforms, and may share this data with such third parties.

c. Cookies and Other Information Collection Tools

Cookies

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.

We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.

The types of cookies Blank Rome may use on the Site include:

• Necessary Cookies. These cookies are required to enable the basic features of the Site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences.
• Functional Cookies. These cookies help perform certain functionalities like remember your preferences and settings to enhance your browsing experience.
• Performance/Analytics Cookies. These cookies are used to understand how Site visitors interact with the Site. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
• Advertisement Cookies. These cookies are used to provide Site visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages they visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of our ad campaigns. We may share the information collected through the advertisement cookies with others, such as our website analytics and digital advertising partners.

We may also use third-party cookies, like Google Analytics, for example, which sets cookies on the Site to help analyze how visitors use the Site. You can visit https://www.google.com/settings/ads to learn more about Google’s use of cookies. If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google Analytics, you may use Google Analytics’ opt-out browser add-on designed for this purpose. Please note that information collected via third-party cookies may be shared with our website analytics and digital advertising partners.

Cookies help us improve the Site by providing us with information about which parts of the Site are most popular, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site, and helping us to detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools, such as pixels/web beacons, to help improve your experience with the Site.

Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit https://allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site. You may also manage your cookie preferences by clicking here.

Pixels / Web Beacons

A pixel or web beacons is an HTML code snippet embedded in a website or email that collects information about user behaviors and interactions with the website or email.

We may utilize pixels/web beacons both on certain aspects of the Site and in HTML-formatted email messages to you. Pixels/web beacons may be used for the purpose of, among other things, measuring the success of our marketing campaigns, compiling statistics about Site usage and tracking the activities of users of the Site and email recipients. For instance, we may use pixels from Google and LinkedIn on the Site to enable us to create targeted advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our advertisements. For additional information on interest-based advertising, please see Section 2 (Interest-Based Advertising). Please note that information collected via pixels/web beacons may be shared with our website analytics and digital advertising vendors. You may opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information for advertising managing your preferences here.

2. Interest Based Advertising

We may collect information about your online activities on our Site to provide you with advertising about services tailored to your individual interests. We also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party websites on which our advertisements are served.

You may see certain advertisements on other websites because we work with advertising partners (including advertising networks) to engage in remarketing and retargeting activities. Our advertising partners allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. These partners track your online activities over time and across websites, including our Site, by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of third-party cookies and pixels/web beacons, including the pixels/web beacons that we may utilize on the Site and in our HTML-formatted email messages to you. They use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information our advertising partners may collect includes data about your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. For example, we utilize certain of our advertising partners’ targeted advertising services to show you our advertisements on other websites based on your prior visits to our Site and other online activity.

Provided that a company participates in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers choices about whether to receive targeted advertising, you may opt out of interest-based advertising generally through the Network Advertising Initiative website or by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (web-based advertising) or http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices (for mobile advertising). To learn more, please visit the websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance at www.networkadvertising.org/choices. You may also opt-out of interest-based advertising by managing your preferences here. Opting-out does not mean that you will stop receiving advertisements from us. It means that you still stop receiving advertisements from us that have been targeted to you based on your visits and browsing activity across websites over time.

3. How Information is Used

We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:

• to provide the Site to you and to improve the Site;
• to create and manage your account with us;
• to provide, operate, improve, and personalize the services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• to personalize our advertising and marketing communications;
• to send you our newsletters and blog posts;
• to complete and fulfill your payment, for example, to process your payments through our third-party payment processor, communicate with you regarding your payment, and provide you with related customer service;
• to enable you to register for and attend our events;
• for security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site;
• to respond to your inquiries and communicate with you;
• For our other business purposes, such as data analytics, accounting, auditing and reporting, improving our services, identifying Site usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns;
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce this Privacy Policy; (v) to protect our operations; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

4. Disclosure of Information

We may disclose your information:

• With Third Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We share your Personal Information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site or assist us in providing functionality on the Site, provide data analytics on the Site, send out email updates, process payments.
• Through Tracking Technologies. We may share information collected through tracking technologies set on the Site with our website analytics and digital advertising partners, including but not limited to the cookies and pixels/web beacons we may utilize on the Site and in our HTML-formatted email messages to you as described above.
• For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose Personal Information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental or law enforcement request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share Personal Information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain. 
• Changes of Control. We reserve the right to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

5. Links to External Websites and Online Services

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and online services. Any access to and use of such third-party websites and online services is not governed by this Privacy Statement, but is instead governed by the privacy policies/statements of those third-party websites and online services, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites and online services.

6. Social Media

Some aspects of the Site may allow you to interface with social media, such as LinkedIn and X. We will attempt to identify these aspects of the Site to you, for example, by identifying them with the applicable third-party logos or trade names. By using these interfaces, you will allow us to access information about you from those other online services, including information and other content that you submit to those online services. If you interface with the Site through your social media account, we may contact you or enable you to share your experience and content via your social media account, which information may be publicly viewed by other users of those services. For a description on how such social media services and other third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, and applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify your privacy settings with that service or platform.

7. Your Rights and Choices

a. Updating Your Contact Information

You may update your contact information by contacting us at privacyoffice@blankrome.com.

b. Opt-out

You may choose to stop receiving our marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in such emails or contacting us at privacyoffice@blankrome.com.

8. Data Security and Retention

Blank Rome uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the unauthorized access to, use, disclosure, alteration or acquisition of Personal Information. However, please note that no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulation.

9. Do Not Track

Our Site does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.

10. Children

We do not knowingly collect or maintain Personal Information from any person under the age of 16. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of 16.

11. Nevada Residents

Under Nevada law, Blank Rome does not sell your Personal Information. However, if you are a Nevada resident, you may submit a request that we not sell any Personal Information we have collected about you by contacting us at privacyoffice@blankrome.com.

12. California Residents

CCPA

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, and its implementing regulations (“CCPA”) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. The below describes such rights and how you may exercise such rights, and our information practices, including the categories of Personal Information we collect, use, retain, disclose, sell or share, and how and why we collect, disclose, sell or share such information.

CCPA Rights

Right to Know

You have the right to request that we disclose what Personal Information we collect, use, disclose, sell or share. Specifically, you may request that we disclose to you the following:

• The categories of Personal Information we have collected about you.
• The categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected.
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing Personal Information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we disclose Personal Information.
• The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

You may also request that we disclose to you:

• The categories of Personal Information that we have sold or shared about you and the categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was sold or shared, by category or categories of Personal Information for each third party to whom the Personal Information was sold or shared.
• The categories of Personal Information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed for a business purpose.

Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete any Personal Information about you which we have collected from you. If it is necessary for us to maintain your Personal Information for certain purposes, we are not required to comply with your deletion request. If we determine that we will not delete your Personal Information when you request us to do so, we will inform you and tell you why we are not deleting it. 

Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

You have the right to direct a business that sells or shares Personal Information about you to third parties not to sell or share your Personal Information. We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary consideration. However, we do use tracking technologies such as cookies and pixels/web beacons for analytics and targeted advertising purposes. The collection of data through certain tracking technologies for analytics and targeted advertising purposes may be considered a “sale” and is considered “sharing” under the CCPA. To opt-out of having your information sold and shared with third-party website analytics and digital advertising partners for this purpose, visit “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information”.

The CCPA requires businesses to process opt-out preference signals (“OOPS”), such as global privacy control (“GPC”) signals, which are signals sent by a platform, technology or mechanism, enabled by individuals on their devices or browsers, that communicate the individual’s choice to opt-out of the sale and/or sharing of Personal Information. To use an OOPS/GPC, you can download an internet browser or a plugin to use on your current internet browser and follow the settings to enable the OOPS/GPC (for example, https://globalprivacycontrol.org/). We have configured the settings of our consent management platform to receive and process GPC signals on our Site.

Blank Rome does not have actual knowledge that it sells or shares Personal Information about minors under the age of 16.

Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information

You have the right to request a business that maintains inaccurate Personal Information about you to correct that inaccurate Personal Information, taking into account the nature of the Personal Information and the purposes of the processing of the Personal Information.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

You have the right to direct a business that collects sensitive Personal Information about you to limit its use of your sensitive Personal Information (1) to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services; (2) for certain business purposes; and (3) as authorized by the implementing regulations of the CCPA. Blank Rome does not collect your sensitive Personal Information.

No Discrimination

You have the right not to be discriminated against because you exercised any of your aforementioned rights.

How to Submit a Request

To exercise the rights to know, delete and correct described above, you must submit a verifiable request to us. You can do so by calling us at 1-833-BROPTOUT (833-267-7868), completing the form at our CCPA data online request portal or emailing us at privacyoffice@blankrome.com.

To submit a verifiable request, you will be asked to provide certain information to help us verify your identity. The information we ask you to provide to initiate a request may differ depending upon the type of request, the type, sensitivity and value of the Personal Information that is the subject of the request, and the risk of harm to you that may occur as a result of unauthorized access or deletion, among other factors.

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by providing the agent with signed written permission to do so.

If we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request, we will not be able to comply with your request. We will inform you if we cannot verify your identity or authority. We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. 

How We Collect, Use, Disclose, Sell and Share Personal Information

Please see Section 1 (Information We Collect) for the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Statement. Each of the categories are disclosed for a business or commercial purpose as described above in Section 3 (How Information is Used) to the third parties listed in Section 4 (Disclosure of Information).

Blank Rome collects the Personal Information described in Section 1 (Information We Collect) from or through the following categories of sources:

• You, directly and indirectly, including when register an account with us, use our services, including when you pay for the services received, access and use the Site, subscribe to our newsletters and/or blogs, sign up to receive alumni communications, apply for the Blank Rome Scholars Program, register for an event or contact us;
• Service providers;
• Website analytics and digital advertising partners;
• Third-party social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn and X), subject to your registration and privacy settings with such social media platforms; and
• Publicly available information.

As noted in Section 8 (Data Security and Retention), we will retain the Personal Information described above for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulations.

The following categories of Personal Information were sold or shared in the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Statement:

• Identifiers: unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address.   
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: IP address, operating system type, browser type, device type, access times and dates, Internet Service Provider, default search preference, browsing data (e.g., directing URLs), search queries, your interactions with our Site, approximate geographic location (e.g., country, city, state), screen resolutions, whether you are accessing the Site from a mobile device or desktop, other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information.
• Geolocation Data: approximate geographic location based on IP address or your address.

Such information is sold to or shared with our third-party website analytics and digital advertising partners.

We share or sell such information:

• to provide the Site to you and to improve the Site;
• to provide, operate, improve, and personalize the services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• to personalize our advertising and marketing communications;
• for security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site;
• For our other business purposes, such as data analytics, accounting, auditing and reporting, improving our services, identifying Site usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns;
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce this Privacy Policy; (v) to protect our operations; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Shine the Light

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as California’s “Shine the Light” law, if you are a California resident, you have a right to prevent your personal information from being disclosed to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you would like to exercise this right, please opt out of the advertising cookies by clicking here.

13. Questions / Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact us as follows:

Blank Rome LLP
c/o Privacy Officer
One Logan Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Email: privacyoffice@blankrome.com
Toll Free: 1-833-BROPTOUT (833-276-7868)

14. Notification of Changes

Any changes to our Privacy Statement will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Statement frequently as it may change.