Terms & Conditions of Use & Privacy Policy

ARBITRATION NOTICE: THIS AGREEMENT SPECIFIES THAT DISPUTES RELATED TO OR ARISING FROM SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH, AND INTERACTION WITH, THIS WEBSITE WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A JURY TRIAL, A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF SERVICES & PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. By using the Site, you give your assent to the terms of this Agreement. This Privacy Notice is to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you.

Students Against Racial Discrimination is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you use this website. We may keep information for as long as we determine is reasonably necessary.

Personally Identifiable Information. As used in these terms and conditions, “Personal Information” means information that may enable the identification, directly or indirectly, and information contained in the California Customer Records Statute, California Civil Code section 1790.80. We collect and use Personal Information in a number of ways, depending on how you interact with us.

Do Not Track. Note that your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. Our website honors when it receives a “Do Not Track” request from a visitor’s browser.

Information Collection. When you interact with our website, we may collect information you voluntarily provide us, such as when you complete one of our online forms. We may use cookies and other tracking technologies on our website to collect and store certain information about usage in order to personalize our website for you, improve our website, improve our services, and to help us remember you and your preferences when you revisit our Sites. We do not sell your personal information.

Meta Pixel. We may use a tool called “Meta Pixel” to collect information about use of this site. Meta Pixel collects information such your IP address, how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, the dates and time that you visit our Sites, the pages you view, links clicked, your browser type, nonsensitive text entered, mouse movements, your geolocation based on your IP address, and what other sites you used prior to coming to this site. We do not use Meta Pixel to collect personally identifiable information. Although Meta Pixel plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Meta. Meta’s ability to use and share information collected by Meta Pixel about your visits to this site is restricted by the Meta Pixel Terms and Policies. You can prevent Meta Pixel from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties when you request or authorize it, if required by law, or if we have successfully rendered such data non-personal and anonymous. However, we will not disclose the personal information of any whistleblowers who fill out our forms.

We disclose personally identifiable individual information and the other information you provide us to lawyers or law firms with whom we are affiliated and who are interested in determining whether your submission could form the basis of a lawsuit or entitle you to relief under a pending lawsuit. Such lawyers or law firms agree to keep your information confidential and agree not to share it with any third party without your express permission.

A business subject to California Civil Code Section 1798.83 is required to disclose to its California customers, upon request, the identity of any third parties to whom it has disclosed personal information within the previous calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, along with the type of personal information disclosed. If you are a California Resident or if you have any questions or concerns regarding the specific personal information collected, the content or use of your personal information, or would like us to limit the use of or delete your personal information, please contact us at info@sard.law.

You may choose to fill out forms on this website and supply us with certain information. By contacting Students Against Racial Discrimination through our website or via email, you agree that we may review any information you transmit to us. This information is used to respond to your comments and questions about our services and this site and to determine whether you will aid our purpose to compel the University of California to adhere to both state and federal law by ending its decades-long admissions practice of discriminating against well qualified White and Asian applicants in order to race-balance incoming classes, and of often harming Black and Hispanic applicants by admitting them into academic programs for which their preparation is insufficient to compete on equal terms. Such information is not shared with any third parties unless required by law.

If you submit a form on our website or contact us through email, please understand that any attorneys cannot represent you until they know that doing so will not create a conflict of interest. Accordingly, please do not send us any information about any legal matter through any method other than our confidential forms unless and until we authorize you to do so.

These Terms of Use and Disclaimers shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the California without regard to any choice of law principles.

In the event of any dispute, controversy, or claim between us (or our respective heirs, successors, assigns, co-counsel or affiliates) arising out of, relating to, or in connection with your use of this Site, legal services arising from this Site, and/or the relationship between you and us (a “dispute”), you and we waive the right to seek remedies in court, including the right to a jury trial, and agree to submit said dispute exclusively to binding individual arbitration conducted by a single arbitrator subject to the rules of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”).

However, your agreement to submit to binding arbitration does not apply to any disputes that arise out of this website’s use of the Meta Pixel, including but not limited to those arising out of or relating to the sections of this agreement entitled “Collection of Personal Information” and “Disclosure of Personal Informati'on” with regard to information obtained via the Meta Pixel.

The arbitrator shall not have the authority to decide any claims as a class, collective, or representative action. The seat of the arbitration will be in Orange County, California unless AAA determines that this location will impose undue hardship, in which case the location will be set by AAA. The parties will share the expense of arbitration equally, except that if you represent that this would impose an undue hardship, you will initially be responsible only for a filing fee equal to the amount that would be necessary to file your claim in court. In that event, we will advance the remaining fees and expenses on your behalf and the arbitrator will determine any additional amount you can pay without sustaining undue hardship. Threshold issues of arbitrability shall be decided by the arbitrator, including the scope of this agreement and whether a controversy or claim arises out of or relates to your engagement with us.

This Site may describe organizations or Universities that are currently being investigated by private attorneys or have been subject to lawsuits or other allegations of misconduct by those entities companies. The fact that these entities are being investigated or have been subject to lawsuits or allegations of misconduct does not mean to state or imply that they have in fact committed any illegal or improper act.