Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Sari Law Firm (“we,” “us,” “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you visit sarilaw.us (the “Site”) or otherwise interact with our firm online.

We are a California professional law corporation located in Irvine, California. We take your privacy seriously and have designed our site, intake forms, and internal workflows to collect only what we need to evaluate your matter and respond to you.

We may not qualify as a “business” subject to the CCPA/CPRA in all circumstances. The CCPA/CPRA applies to for-profit businesses that meet at least one of the following thresholds: (i) gross annual revenues exceeding $26,625,000; (ii) annual buying, selling, receiving, or sharing of personal information of 100,000 or more California residents or households; or (iii) deriving 50% or more of annual revenue from selling or sharing California residents’ personal information. We do not currently meet any of those thresholds. However, we provide the privacy disclosures and request mechanisms below as a matter of transparency and good practice, and we will honor applicable California privacy rights where required by law.

Who This Policy Applies To

This policy applies to:

• Visitors who browse sarilaw.us without contacting us
• Prospective clients who submit contact forms, case-evaluation forms, or questionnaires
• Existing clients who interact with us through this Site
• Anyone whose data we receive in connection with a matter (e.g., opposing parties, witnesses, or persons named in client documents)

It does not govern communications shared with us during the attorney-client relationship through other channels, those communications are protected by attorney-client privilege and our duties under the California Rules of Professional Conduct.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide Directly

When you fill out a contact form, case-evaluation form, or questionnaire on our Site, we collect:

• Name, email, and phone number
• Subject and brief description of your matter
• Any documents, descriptions, or facts you choose to share
• For practice-specific questionnaires (Trademark, Copyright, LLC, DBA, Corporation, Nonprofit), additional fields relevant to that matter type

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, our hosting provider and analytics tooling collect:

• IP address and approximate location (city/region only)
• Browser type, device type, and operating system
• Pages visited, time on page, and referring URL
• Anonymized session identifiers via cookies (see “Cookies” below)

Information from Third Parties

We may receive limited information from:

• Email service providers when you reply to our messages
• Social platforms when you click our profile links (the platform may log the referral)
• Court records, government databases, and public sources during conflict-of-interest checks

Prospective Clients and Attorney-Client Relationship

Submitting a form, sending us a message, or contacting us through the Site does not, by itself, create an attorney-client relationship. However, communications from a person seeking legal services may be protected as prospective-client information under applicable professional rules. Until we confirm in writing that we represent you, please provide only the information reasonably necessary for us to evaluate your inquiry and run a conflict check.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Respond to your inquiry and evaluate whether we can help with your matter
• Run conflict-of-interest checks before we accept a new engagement
• Send transactional emails (confirmations, scheduling, status updates)
• Improve the Site’s performance and usability
• Comply with legal obligations, court orders, and our duties as California attorneys

We do not use your information for behavioral advertising, ad retargeting, or any third-party marketing purpose.

Sensitive Personal Information

We do not ask you to submit Social Security numbers, complete financial account numbers, medical records, immigration records, government identification documents, passwords, or other highly sensitive information through a general contact form unless we specifically request it for a lawful and necessary purpose.

Because legal inquiries may involve sensitive facts, the documents, descriptions, or facts you choose to submit may include sensitive personal information. We use and disclose sensitive personal information only to evaluate or handle your inquiry or matter, run conflict checks, communicate with you, secure our systems, comply with legal and professional obligations, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you, for behavioral advertising, or for third-party marketing.

How We Share Information

Service Providers

We use trusted third-party tools to operate our practice. These providers process data on our behalf under written agreements that restrict their use of the data:

• Resend, transactional email delivery. Receives contact form submissions (name, email, phone, message) to deliver notification emails to our inbox
• Google Analytics (GA4), anonymized website analytics. Collects IP address, pages visited, session data, and device type (subject to Google’s privacy policy)
• Google Ads, conversion tracking. Receives anonymized signals when a contact form is submitted, used to measure ad performance
• Google Workspace, email hosting. Contact form notifications are delivered to and stored in our Google Workspace inbox
• Netlify, site hosting and edge delivery. Processes all web traffic including IP addresses
• YouTube/Google, embedded video player on the Media section (subject to YouTube’s privacy policy)

Legal Disclosures

We will disclose information if required to do so by law, court order, or subpoena, or by our duties under the California Rules of Professional Conduct and the California Business and Professions Code.

Business Transfers

If our firm is acquired, merged, or dissolved, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. You will be notified before any change in privacy practices.

With Your Consent

We will share your information for any other purpose only with your direct consent.

We do not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA.

Cookies and Cookie Policy

We use a small number of cookies and similar technologies on this Site. As a business serving California residents, we provide the following cookie disclosures in accordance with applicable law and good practice.

Types of Cookies We Use

• Strictly necessary cookies, required for the Site to function (e.g., session management, security tokens, banner dismissal). These cannot be disabled without impairing Site functionality.
• Analytics cookies, set by Google Analytics (GA4) to collect anonymized aggregate data on page visits, session duration, and form completion rates. No personally identifiable information is included.
• Advertising/conversion cookies, set by Google Ads to measure whether a contact form submission followed an ad click. These cookies receive anonymized conversion signals only. No behavioral profiles are built for retargeting.
• Third-party media cookies, set by YouTube/Google when you watch an embedded video on the Site. These are governed by Google’s Privacy Policy.

Your Cookie Choices

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse, delete, or be notified before cookies are set. Disabling analytics or advertising cookies will not prevent you from using the Site. You may also opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals where required.

Do Not Track

Our Site does not currently respond to Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals because there is no uniform industry standard for DNT compliance. We will revisit this if a standard is adopted.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the CCPA/CPRA (honored as a matter of good practice even where thresholds may not apply to us):

• Right to know, request a copy of the personal information we have collected about you in the prior 12 months, including categories, sources, purposes, and third parties with whom it was shared
• Right to delete, request that we delete personal information we hold about you, subject to exceptions (e.g., active legal matters, fee records, conflict files, legal obligation)
• Right to correct, request correction of inaccurate personal information
• Right to opt out of sale or sharing, we do not sell or share personal information for behavioral advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of; we honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals as a matter of practice
• Right to limit use of sensitive personal information, you may direct us to limit our use of your sensitive personal information to what is necessary to perform the services you requested or as otherwise permitted by law
• Right of non-discrimination, we will not deny services, charge different rates, or provide different service quality because you exercise any of these rights

How to Submit a Request

Email info@sarilaw.uswith the subject line “Privacy Rights Request” and specify which right you are exercising. We will respond within 45 days. If we need more time (up to 45 additional days), we will notify you in writing within the initial 45-day window. You may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf; we may require written proof of authorization and verify your identity before processing.

No Financial Incentive Programs

We do not offer any financial incentives, price differences, or service differences in exchange for the collection, retention, sale, or sharing of personal information. We have no financial incentive programs to disclose.

California “Shine the Light” Disclosure (Civil Code § 1798.83)

California Civil Code § 1798.83 allows California residents to request information about the personal information we share with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share your personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. No disclosure under § 1798.83 is required, but we make this statement for transparency.

Retention

We retain personal information for as long as needed for the purpose for which we collected it, or as required by law and our professional obligations:

• Unaccepted inquiries, typically 12 months
• Engaged matters, duration of the matter plus seven years (California Bar record-retention guidance)
• Conflict-check files, indefinitely (required to run accurate future conflict checks)
• Analytics aggregates, anonymized and retained indefinitely

Security

We use industry-standard safeguards:

• All data transit is TLS-encrypted
• Form submissions are delivered via encrypted email and stored securely
• No payment-card data is ever stored on our systems

No security measure is perfect. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you in accordance with California Civil Code § 1798.82.

Children’s Privacy

This Site is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect, sell, or share personal information from anyone under 13 or, where applicable under California law, under 16. If you believe we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, contact us at info@sarilaw.us and we will delete it promptly.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when the most recent revision took effect. Material changes will be highlighted on this page for at least 30 days.

Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests, or complaints:

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can also contact the California Attorney General’s Office at oag.ca.gov.