Privacy
What this site collects, and what I do with it
Written to be read rather than skimmed past. If anything here is unclear, email me and I will answer in plain terms.
Effective 12 October 2026 · The Law Offices of Jeffrey C. Squire
The short version
- I do not sell your information. I do not rent it, trade it, or hand it to anyone for their own marketing.
- I only contact people who contacted me first, and current or former clients. I do not buy lists, cold-email, or cold-call. If you have never written to me, you will never hear from me.
- The contact form and the scheduler collect what you type into them, and that goes to my inbox and my calendar.
- This site uses Google Analytics, which sets cookies and tells me how many people visited and which page they came from — not who they are.
- You can ask me to delete what I hold about you. If I am not required to keep it, I will.
1Who this is
This website is operated by Jeffrey C. Squire, an attorney licensed in California (State Bar No. 233854), practising as The Law Offices of Jeffrey C. Squire in Santa Barbara, California. The practice is fully remote — by telephone and video — and serves clients throughout California only.
Questions about this policy, or about information I hold: jeffrey@squireesquire.com.
2What you give me on purpose
Some information arrives because you typed it in and pressed a button. That is the information I actually care about, and the only information that identifies you.
The contact form
Your name, email address, telephone number if you give one, the kind of matter you are asking about, and whatever you write in the message box. This is sent to my email so I can reply to you.
The scheduler
Booking a consultation opens Calendly, which is a separate company. What you enter there — your name, your email address, your answers to any questions on the booking form, and the time you pick — is held by Calendly and passed to me and to my calendar. Calendly's own privacy policy governs what they do with it, and it is worth reading if you are concerned: calendly.com/privacy.
Email and telephone
If you email me or leave a voicemail, I have what you sent and the fact that you sent it. My email runs on Google Workspace.
Please do not send me confidential or time-sensitive information before we have a signed engagement agreement. Writing to me or booking a call does not by itself create an attorney–client relationship. I do treat what a prospective client tells me as confidential, and I am required to — but until an engagement agreement is signed by both of us, I may not be able to act on what you send, and there are circumstances in which a conflict would prevent me from taking the matter at all.
3What is collected automatically
Like nearly every website, this one collects some information simply because a browser asked for a page. None of it tells me your name.
| What | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| Server logs | My web host records the usual: IP address, the page requested, the time, and which browser asked. Standard for every site on the internet and used for security and troubleshooting. |
| Google Analytics cookies ( _ga,
_ga_…) |
So I can see how many people visited, which pages they read, and roughly where in the world they were. Visitors are counted, not identified. |
| A record of how you arrived, stored in your own browser | If you reach this site from a search advertisement, the campaign name and Google's click identifier are saved in your browser's local storage for up to 90 days, so that if you come back later and send an enquiry I can tell which advertisement paid for it. It holds no name, email or telephone number, it stays on your device, and clearing your browser data erases it. |
| Google Ads conversion measurement | When an enquiry is sent, Google is told that an enquiry happened and which advertisement it followed. Your name, email address and telephone number are not sent to Google. I have deliberately switched off the feature that would do that (Google calls it "enhanced conversions"). |
4Google Analytics, specifically
This site uses Google Analytics 4, a service provided by Google LLC. Google Analytics uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — to understand how visitors use the site. The information generated about your use of this website is transmitted to and stored by Google.
Alongside page views, it counts a handful of on-page actions: how far down a page you scrolled, clicks on links that lead off this site (the scheduler, for instance), file downloads, and the fact that a form was started or submitted. What you typed into that form is not sent to Google — only that a submission happened.
I use it to answer one question: which pages people read, and where they came from. I do not use it to build profiles of individuals, and I have turned off the settings that would share this site's analytics data with Google for Google's own product development, benchmarking or advertising purposes.
How Google uses information from sites that use its services is described here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
If you would rather not be counted at all, Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every site, not just this one: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Nothing on this site stops working if you do.
5What I use it for
- To answer your enquiry, and to arrange and hold a consultation.
- To provide legal services if you become a client, and to keep the file a lawyer is required to keep.
- To understand which parts of the site are useful and which advertisements are worth paying for.
- To meet obligations the State Bar of California and the law impose on me.
6What I do not do
This is the part most privacy policies bury, so here it is plainly.
- I do not sell your information. Not to data brokers, not to lead aggregators, not to other lawyers, not to anyone, for money or anything else of value.
- I do not disclose it to third parties for their own marketing.
- I do not send unsolicited marketing. I contact people who contacted me first, and current and former clients. That is the whole list. I do not buy or rent contact lists, and I do not run cold outreach of any kind.
- I do not run social-media advertising pixels on this site. No Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or LinkedIn tracking code is installed. If that ever changes, this page will say so before it does.
- I do not record telephone calls, and I have declined Google's call-recording features for exactly that reason.
7Who else necessarily sees something
Running a website and a law practice means a handful of companies handle data on my behalf. They are service providers, not recipients free to do as they like with it.
- My web host — stores the site and its server logs.
- Google Workspace — my email and calendar, so every message you send me passes through it.
- Google Analytics and Google Ads — as described above.
- Calendly — only if you book a consultation, and only what you enter there.
Separately, I may disclose information where the law requires it — a court order, a subpoena, or a State Bar inquiry — and where the rules of professional conduct permit or require it. Those rules are narrow, and attorney–client privilege and my duty of confidentiality come first.
8How long I keep it
Enquiries that do not become matters are kept while I may still reasonably need them to identify a conflict of interest, and then deleted.
Client files are kept for the period California rules and prudence require, which is longer — and for original estate planning documents, considerably longer. Analytics data expires on Google's own schedule, currently 14 months.
9Your choices
- Ask me what I hold about you, and I will tell you.
- Ask me to correct or delete it. If I am not required to keep it — and a client file I generally am — I will delete it.
- Opt out of analytics using the browser add-on linked above, or by blocking cookies.
- Ask me not to contact you again, and I will not.
Email jeffrey@squireesquire.com for any of these. There is no form to fill in and no account to create.
California residents
The California Consumer Privacy Act imposes detailed obligations on businesses above certain thresholds of revenue and data volume. A solo law practice of this size falls below all of them, so those obligations do not formally apply here. I have written this policy to do the substantive thing anyway: tell you what is collected, confirm that it is not sold or shared, and honour requests to see or delete it. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, I have no objection to it — there is nothing here for it to switch off, because I am not selling or sharing anything.
10Children
This site is aimed at adults making decisions about their own estates. It is not directed to anyone under 18, and I do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has sent me information, email me and I will delete it.
11Security, honestly stated
I use reputable providers, keep software current, and the site is served over an encrypted connection. No website or email system is perfectly secure, and I would rather say so than imply otherwise. That is one more reason not to send sensitive details through a web form before we have an engagement agreement and a sensible way to exchange documents.
12Changes to this policy
If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it and the effective date at the top moves. Material changes will be described rather than quietly folded in.