Privacy and confidentiality
How Marchmont Vale Law protects enquiry details, conducts conflict screening and keeps to state bar professional responsibility standards.
Effective date: September 13, 2026
What the contact form collects
The contact form collects a name, an email address, an optional telephone number, who the matter concerns, how soon it is needed, an optional state or jurisdiction, the service selected, the preferred way to reply and the message itself. Names of other parties given in the message are used to run a conflict-of-interest check.
It is a general enquiry form and not a secure channel. Social security numbers, account details, scanned identity documents and anything held in confidence for somebody else should not be sent through it; Marchmont Vale Law arranges a secure route for documents once conflicts have cleared. Sending the form does not create an attorney-client relationship, which begins only when a written engagement letter is signed.
What the subscribe form collects
The subscribe form collects an email address and nothing else. No name, no telephone number and no postal address is asked for.
An address given to the subscribe form is used to send occasional notes from the firm and for nothing else.
Why the information is collected
Contact details are collected in order to screen for conflicts and answer the enquiry that was sent. Subscribe addresses are collected in order to send the notes that were asked for.
Neither form is used to track a visitor across other websites, and neither is used to build a profile of a visitor.
Who else receives the information
A message sent from this site passes through the hosting provider that serves these pages and the email service that delivers it. Each provider receives only the information needed to deliver the page or message.
No advertising network, analytics service or social platform receives anything submitted through either form.
How long it is kept
Contact messages are kept only while the enquiry is active and for the limited period needed to answer follow-up questions. A record that state bar rules or the law require the firm to retain, such as a conflict-check entry, is kept for that period and no longer.
A subscribe address is kept until the subscriber asks for it to be removed.
Security, and its limits
Pages and forms on this site are served over an encrypted connection, and access to received messages is limited to the firm’s attorneys and paralegal staff, who are bound by professional confidentiality duties.
No transmission over the internet and no stored record can be guaranteed absolutely secure. That is a limit of the medium, and stating otherwise would be false.
Choices a visitor has
Completing either form is a choice. Nothing on this site is hidden behind an email address, and no page requires one to be read.
A subscriber can stop the notes at any time, and doing so does not affect an engagement already under way.
Asking for removal
A request to delete a contact message or a subscribe address goes through the contact form, or by reply to any note the firm has sent.
The firm confirms the removal directly rather than leaving the request unanswered. Where a record must be retained to meet a regulatory obligation, the firm says so instead of deleting it quietly.
Contacting the firm about privacy
Privacy questions go to the same email address as every other enquiry, which is on the contact page and in the footer of every page here.
This notice is revised whenever the firm changes what it collects, how long it keeps it or who it is shared with, and the effective date above moves with it.