Privacy policy

We do not sell personal data. We do not build advertising profiles. If you send a message to an attorney through this site, it goes to that attorney, and we do not keep the contents.

A message to an attorney contains your name, phone number, email address, optionally the date you were arrested, and whatever you write. All of that is passed to the attorney you addressed it to.

What we keep is deliberately less than that. We store a one-way fingerprint of your contact details rather than the details themselves, along with the date, the page you sent it from and which attorney it went to. The fingerprint cannot be turned back into your name, phone number or email. We keep it so we can count messages and bill advertisers honestly, not so we can contact you.

Your message text is not stored by us at all. Neither is the date you were arrested, beyond passing it on.

A message sent through the general contact form is forwarded and not stored in any form.

The deadline tool on the home page asks for your state and a date. It works entirely inside your browser. That date is never sent to us, never written into the address bar, and never saved on your device. Close the tab and it is gone.

We do not attach analytics events to anything you type into a form field on this site.

[Fill this in once you decide. If you add analytics, name the provider, say whether it sets cookies, whether IP addresses are anonymized, and how someone opts out. If you use none, say plainly that the site sets no analytics or advertising cookies, which is both simpler and a genuine selling point on a site like this.]

Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, including IP addresses, for security and abuse prevention. We use those to stop people flooding the contact forms.

Attorneys receive messages you address to them, and become responsible for that information under their own obligations. We do not control what they do with it and their privacy practices are their own.

We use service providers for hosting, database storage and message delivery, who process data on our instructions.

[List the actual processors once settled: hosting, database, email or webhook delivery, and analytics if any. Some jurisdictions require naming them.]

We do not sell personal information to anyone, for any purpose.

You can use this entire site without giving us anything. Reading the legal information, checking a deadline and looking up an attorney all work without a form.

[Add the rights that apply to your users and how to exercise them: access, deletion, correction, and who to write to. Depends on where you operate and where your readers are, so this needs the legal review above.]

This site is meant for adults dealing with a criminal charge and is not directed at children.

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so on this page rather than quietly editing it.