Privacy Policy

What this policy covers

This policy describes how information is handled in connection with this website and with correspondence sent to the practice through it. It covers the site itself and email sent to the address published on the contact page. It does not cover material exchanged inside a retained engagement, which is governed by the engagement letter, by any protective order in the matter, and by the obligations counsel is subject to.

This policy is revised when the site changes. The version published here is the current one, and continued use of the site after a revision indicates acceptance of the revised version.

What this site is, technically

The pages here are static HTML, built in advance and served as files. There is no content management system, no user accounts, no login, no comment system, and no database of visitors.

Stylesheets, scripts, images and web fonts are served from this domain rather than from third-party content networks. This site does not run advertising tags, third-party analytics tags, tag managers, session-replay scripts, conversion pixels, remarketing pixels or social media embeds, and it does not set cookies of its own. Nothing on these pages profiles a reader, follows a reader between sites, or builds an audience segment from a visit.

That is a deliberate choice on a site whose subject is, in part, the evidence that advertising and analytics tags leave behind. A page explaining what a tracking pixel records is a poor place to deploy one.

What the hosting server necessarily records

Like any web server, the host that serves these pages writes ordinary access logs. Those entries typically include the requesting IP address, the date and time, the file requested, the response status, the referring page if the browser sends one, and the browser’s user-agent string. They are a by-product of delivering a page over the internet rather than something collected for a purpose of mine.

Those logs are used for operating and securing the site — diagnosing errors, identifying abusive traffic, and confirming that pages are being delivered. They are not combined with any other information to build a profile, are not used for advertising, and are not sold, rented or disclosed for anyone’s marketing purposes. Retention is governed by the hosting provider’s ordinary log-rotation practice.

The contact form

The form on the contact page does not submit anything to this website. It assembles the text you type into a message in your own mail application, addressed to the practice, which you can read, edit or discard before sending. There is no server-side form handler, no third-party form service, and no storage of partial or abandoned entries. If you close the page without sending, nothing exists anywhere.

Because the message is composed in your mail client and sent by you, its handling from that point is the same as any other email you send, and the section below applies to it.

Email correspondence sent to the practice

Email sent to the practice is received and stored in a commercial mail service and is read by me. It is used to respond to the enquiry, to run a conflict check, and where an engagement follows, to conduct that engagement. It is not added to a mailing list, and this practice sends no marketing email.

Two cautions belong here rather than in a footnote. First, email is not a secure channel; nothing sensitive should be sent through it, and where confidential material has to move, use the method the retaining firm designates. Second, correspondence sent before a conflict check clears and before terms are agreed cannot be treated as confidential, which is why a first message should describe the parties in general terms and should contain no privileged or work-product material.

Correspondence relating to an enquiry that does not become an engagement is deleted once the enquiry is closed, except where a record has to be kept to run future conflict checks — for which the names of the parties and the date are sufficient and are all that is retained.

No sale, no sharing, no targeted advertising

Information received through this site or by email is not sold. It is not shared for cross-context behavioral advertising — the category that California law reaches whether or not money changes hands, and the one that ordinary advertising tags trigger on a great many sites. Nothing here is disclosed to advertising networks, data brokers, audience platforms or measurement vendors, because nothing here collects information for them in the first place.

Information may be disclosed to a service provider that hosts the site or the mail service that carries the correspondence, in each case to deliver the service; and it may be disclosed where disclosure is required by law, by subpoena or by court order.

Opt-out preference signals and browser settings

An opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, is a machine-readable request sent by a browser or extension asking a site not to sell or share personal information. This site honors such a signal, and there is nothing for it to change: no sale or sharing takes place, and no advertising or analytics tag is present to which a signal would apply.

Browser settings that block third-party requests, scripts or fonts will not affect the content of these pages, since everything required to render them is served from this domain.

Rights over information you have sent

You may ask what information about you is held, ask for a copy of it, ask that it be corrected, or ask that it be deleted. Requests are handled through the address published on the contact page and are answered without charge. No one is treated differently for making a request.

Two limits apply, and both are ordinary. Where information is subject to a legal hold, a protective order, or a professional obligation arising from an engagement, it cannot be deleted on request. And where a matter requires that a record be kept for conflict-checking purposes, the parties’ names and the date of contact are retained for that purpose alone.

Children, security and third-party sites

This site is written for attorneys and other professionals evaluating an expert engagement. It is not directed to children, and information about children is not knowingly collected. If a child sends a message through the form, it will be deleted on discovery.

Pages are served over an encrypted connection. Because the site collects nothing, holds no account credentials and stores no visitor data, the surface available to an attacker is small by design. That is not a claim that any system is impregnable, and email in particular should be treated as open correspondence.

This site refers to primary sources — court rules, published opinions, platform documentation and industry standards bodies. Any site reached from a reference here has its own practices, and this policy does not govern them.

Changes, and how to ask about this policy

If this policy changes materially — if, for example, a form endpoint or a measurement tool were ever added to the site — the change will be described here rather than made silently, because a privacy policy that quietly stops matching the page it describes is worse than none.

Questions about this policy, and requests concerning information held, go to the address published on the contact page.