Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for your information

MC Law PLLC, 1441 U Street NW, Suite 102, Washington, DC 20009, USA, decides how and why your personal information is used. That makes us the controller under laws such as the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). You can reach us at info@mclaw.io.

Information we collect

• What you give us: your name, email, company, phone, and country; your messages; your address and company details on an engagement form; your answers to the questions when you order or afterward; and anything you send us about your matter.
• What we collect automatically: your IP address, your browser type, the pages you visit, the page that referred you, and a random session identifier.
• What we do not collect: card details. Nothing is charged on this site.

Please do not send confidential or sensitive information until an engagement letter is signed. Sending us a message does not create an attorney-client relationship.

How we use it, and our legal bases

Where the law asks us to state a legal basis for using your information, these are ours:

• To respond to you, run a conflicts check, prepare an engagement letter, and do the work you ask for. We rely on taking steps at your request before a contract, and on performing that contract.
• To meet our legal and professional duties, such as keeping conflicts and client records, checking identity and ownership where required, and complying with sanctions and other laws that apply to us. We rely on our legal obligations.
• To run, secure, and improve this site, including seeing which pages bring in visitors and messages. We rely on our legitimate interests.
• To send occasional insights, if you opt in. We rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time using the link in our emails or by contacting us.

We do not sell your personal information or use it for third-party advertising.

If you are outside the United States

We welcome clients outside the United States on U.S. legal matters. We are based in the United States, so information you send us is transferred to, stored in, and used in the United States, and our service providers may handle it in other countries, as described below. Those countries may not protect personal information the way yours does, and authorities there may be able to obtain access to it under their own laws.

We make these transfers because they are necessary to respond to your request, to enter into or perform the work you ask us to do, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. If your country's law requires something more for a transfer, such as specific contractual safeguards, tell us and we will address it before you send us your information.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access your personal information, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how we use it, receive a copy in a portable form, and withdraw any consent you gave. People in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland have these rights under the GDPR and similar laws, and other countries and some U.S. states provide some of them. Anyone can object to marketing at any time.

To make a request, email info@mclaw.io. We reply by email, usually within one business day, and complete requests within the time your law allows (under the GDPR, generally one month). We may need to confirm who you are first.

Some of these rights have limits. We may have to keep information to meet our professional and legal duties or to protect another client's confidentiality or privilege, and we will tell you if that applies.

You may also complain to the data protection authority where you live, though we would welcome the chance to put things right first.

The Ask Hand chatbot

No AI is used in any of our legal services. The only AI on this site is “Ask Hand,” a chatbot that points visitors to the right page.

We use third-party AI providers to run the chatbot, and we may change them at any time. What you type is sent to those providers to produce a reply. They may process and keep it, in the United States or in other countries, under their own terms. We also keep a record of questions and replies.

Information you give to an AI, including this chatbot, is not confidential and is not protected by attorney-client privilege or any duty of confidentiality. Do not enter confidential or sensitive information. Using the chatbot does not create an attorney-client relationship.

You use the chatbot at your own risk. To the fullest extent the law allows, MC Law is not responsible for how third-party AI providers handle what you send them. The Terms of Use contain the full disclaimer and release. The rights described in this policy still apply to the records we keep.

Cookies and browser storage

This site does not use advertising cookies or third-party analytics. It keeps a few things in your browser's storage: your cart, your sign-in, and a random session identifier that lets us count visits and see which page you first landed on. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes them.

Who we share it with

• Service providers that help us run the site and serve you: website hosting, email delivery, third-party AI providers (for what you type into the chatbot), and the payment page we use when we invoice you.
• People involved in your matter when the work requires it, such as courts, agencies like the USPTO, opposing counsel, and local counsel.
• Authorities and others when the law requires it.
• Anyone else, only if you ask us to.

How long we keep it

• Site analytics: deleted after about 13 months.
• Messages that do not lead to an engagement: as long as we need them to respond and to keep accurate conflicts records.
• Client files: as long as your engagement letter and our professional rules require.
• Chatbot records: as long as we need them to check that it is pointing people to the right pages.

We apply reasonable safeguards to protect your information, but no method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure.

Children

This site is meant for businesses and adults. It is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes to this policy

We post any changes here and update the date at the top of this page.