Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Information You Provide to Us

When you register for an account, we collect essential account information such as your name, email address, and password. We also collect the user-generated content you submit, which encompasses the reviews, ratings, comments, and responses you post on the platform. Furthermore, if you seek a "Verified Client" badge, you may submit verification documents like retainer agreements or invoices. These documents are used solely for internal verification purposes and are never published. Finally, we retain any communications and information you provide when contacting our support team.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we automatically collect certain usage details. This includes data regarding your visits, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and the specific resources you access. We also collect device information, which encompasses your computer and internet connection details like your IP address, operating system, and browser type. To facilitate this data collection and enhance your user experience, we employ cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies that monitor activity on our Services and store certain preferences.

1.3 Information from Third Parties

To provide a comprehensive platform, we aggregate publicly available information about legal professionals. We collect data from state bar associations and other public records to construct initial lawyer profiles, which may include names, practice areas, bar admission status, and disciplinary histories.

2. How We Use Your Information

We utilize the information we collect about you for several key purposes. Primarily, we use this information to present our Services to you effectively and to facilitate the secure creation and management of your account. The data is essential for processing and displaying user reviews and ratings transparently. We actively monitor and analyze usage trends to improve our platform's performance and user experience. The information is also critical for detecting, preventing, and addressing technical issues, fraud, or abuse. We may use your contact details to notify you about important changes to our Services or any new features we offer.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We are committed to maintaining your trust and do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may freely disclose aggregated information about our users, and data that does not identify any individual, without restriction. However, we only disclose personal information under specific circumstances outlined in this policy.

Public Disclosures: By the nature of our platform, user-generated content such as reviews and ratings is visible to the public. Lawyer profile information, including data sourced from public records, is displayed publicly.

Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted contractors, service providers, and other third parties who support our business operations. This includes hosting providers, database managers like Supabase, and email delivery services. These providers are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

Legal and Enforcement Disclosures: We may disclose your information if required to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to government or regulatory requests. In the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, user information may be among the assets transferred.

4. Data Security

We have implemented robust measures designed to secure your personal information against accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Despite our diligent efforts to protect your personal information, the transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information transmitted to our Services. Any transmission of personal information is conducted at your own risk.

5. Your Choices and Rights

You can review and update your personal information at any time by logging into the Services and navigating to your account profile page. You also have the ability to set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent, though this may affect the functionality of certain parts of the site. Depending on your state of residence, such as California or Virginia, you may possess additional rights regarding your personal information, including the right to access, delete, or opt-out of certain data processing activities. Please contact us directly to exercise these specific state rights.

6. Children's Privacy

Our Services are strictly not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, you are prohibited from using or providing any information on this platform. If we become aware that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verified parental consent, we will promptly delete that information from our records.

7. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy periodically. It is our policy to post any changes we make on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a prominent notice on the Services home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is clearly identified at the top of the document.

8. Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at: general@lawyercheck.dev