Written from the site's own code rather than from a template: what actually happens when you load a page or send a message.

The short version

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and includes no tracking scripts. Two things do involve a third party: the web fonts, which load from Google's font service on every page, and the contact form, which sends what you type through a form-relay service. Both are described below.

What the pages themselves do

The pages are static HTML. They store nothing in your browser: no cookies, no local storage, no session storage. There is no analytics tag, no advertising pixel, no social media widget and no third-party script of any kind. This was verified against the source of every page on the site rather than assumed.

Web fonts

The stylesheet loads three typefaces from Google's font service. As a result, opening any page on this site causes your browser to request files from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com, and those requests carry your IP address and the technical details your browser sends with any request. That transfer is a consequence of the font loading and happens before you interact with anything.

Google publishes its own terms for that service. If self-hosting the fonts becomes preferable, the change would remove this transfer entirely; it is noted here as the site currently stands.

The contact form

The contact page carries a form. When you submit it, the name, email address and message you enter are transmitted to a third-party form-relay service, FormSubmit, which forwards them by email to the address configured by the operator of this site. The data therefore passes through that service before reaching a mailbox, and the service's own privacy terms apply to that step.

What is collected is only what you type, plus whatever the relay service records about the request. Do not send confidential information, documents relating to an active case, or anything privileged: this site is not a law firm, correspondence to it is not privileged, and the message travels through a third party.

Messages received are kept for as long as needed to deal with the correspondence and are not used for any marketing purpose, because no marketing is carried out.

Hosting and server logs

The site is hosted by [[HOSTING PROVIDER]]. Like almost all web servers, that provider records technical information about requests, which typically includes IP address, date and time, the page requested, the response status, and the browser's user agent string. Those logs are generated by the hosting infrastructure for operational and security purposes, and the provider's retention period applies to them.

Articles link to official sources published by courts, legislatures and agencies, and the site links to a small number of related websites. Following any such link takes you to a site with its own practices, over which this publication has no control and for which it takes no responsibility.

Children

This site is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Your requests

Because the site keeps no accounts and stores nothing in your browser, there is normally no personal data held here about a visitor who has not written in. If you have used the contact form and want to know what was retained, or want it deleted, write to [[CONTACT EMAIL]] and say so; the request will be acted on.

Depending on where you live, local law may give you rights to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal data. Those rights are honored regardless of whether the law in question applies, since the volume of data involved is small enough that there is no reason not to.

Changes to this policy

If the site adds analytics, cookies, embedded media or any other component that involves a third party, this page will be updated to say so before or at the time the component is added. It is written from the site's actual code and is meant to stay that way.