Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 21, 2025

By visiting www.thelawlesslawyer.com, you are consenting to the Privacy Policy of Brionna Ned LLC, doing business as The Lawless Lawyer, which is outlined below.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to add you as a subscriber to our newsletter, to communicate with you, or to provide or make our services better. We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

  • Basic account information: We ask for basic information from you when you make a purchase, subscribe to our newsletter, or sign up for an event. For example, we require individuals who subscribe to our newsletter to provide their name and an email address — and that’s it.

  • Payment and contact information: If you purchase a digital product or other service from us, we’ll collect information to process those payments and contact you. If you buy something from us, you’ll provide additional personal and payment information like your name, credit card information, and contact information. We also keep a record of the purchases you’ve made.

  • Communications with us: You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with us about a support question, or sign up for an event. When you communicate with us via form, email, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications.

Links to other websites and services

Our website may integrate with or contain links to other third party sites and services, such as an embedded Tweet or a Vimeo or YouTube video. While we strive to keep cookies to a minimum, we are not responsible for the practices employed by third party websites or services embedded in, linked to, or linked from our website. Your interactions with any third-party website or service are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

  • Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our website. For example, we collect information about when you visit. We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better, and understand and to estimate our audience size and usage patterns. To do this, we may collect information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

  • Location information: Our system may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.

  • Information from cookies & other technologies: A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. They can help remember and autofill things like user IDs and website preferences. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We and our partners use information about you for the purposes listed below:

  • To provide our Services. For example, to deliver newsletters, provide customer service, process payments and orders, deliver services, and verify user information.

  • To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Services. For example, by monitoring and analyzing how users interact with our Services so we can create new features that we think our users will enjoy or make our Services easier to use.

  • To protect our Services, our users, and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of The Lawless Lawyer and others, which may result in us, for example, declining a transaction or terminating Services.

  • To fix problems with our Services. For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.

  • To communicate with you. For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our products, promote our services and products, or keep you up to date on The Lawless Lawyer.

how long we keep information

We keep information for as long as is legally necessary as outlined in this Privacy Policy and as required by law, when applicable. We keep basic contact information to enforce legal rights and resolve legal disputes.

We keep do not keep you financial information. That information is processed and kept third parties such as Stripe and Wave Apps. You can read the privacy policy for Stripe here and the policy for Wave Apps here.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that: (1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or (2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or (3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or (4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; or (5) You have given us your consent by signing up for a free or paid subscription.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy.

  • Subsidiaries and independent contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, independent contractors, and service providers who need the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for any personal information that we share with them.

  • Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you or your site. This includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like Stripe and Wave Apps, which process payments, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, cloud storage services, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you, registrars, registries, those that host our website (like Squarespace), assist us with our marketing efforts; those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers); those that make tools to help us run our operations (like programs that help us with task management, scheduling, word processing, email and other communications, and collaboration among our teams); and other third-party tools that help us manage operations.

  • Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.

  • To protect rights, property, and others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Lawless Lawyer, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.

  • Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that The Lawless Lawyer goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.

  • With your consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.

  • Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about how many subscribers we have, or share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.

  • Published support requests: If you send us a request for assistance (for example, via a support email or one of our other feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request (without your name or identifying information attached) in order to clarify or respond to your request, or to help us support other users.

  • Affiliate Marketing: We partner with affiliates who pay us to promote their services to you if you opt-in to receiving our emails and other communications. These affiliates cannot see your email address, but if you click the affiliate link we provide to you, they will see that and potentially be able to collect information about you and track your activity on their website. We partner with online banks, marketers, other legal service providers, HR service providers, and accountants.

We do not sell our users' data.

We aren't a data broker, we don't sell your personal information to data brokers, and we don't sell your information to other companies that want to spam you with marketing emails. We may show ads at some point but will not do so in a way that turns over personally-identifable information about you to an advertiser.

Under a new California law, the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), some personalized advertising you see online might be considered a "sale" even though we don't share information that identifies you personally, like your name or email address.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is — you guessed it — disclosed publicly.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we and our partners work to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you and communications:

  • Limit the information that you provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features or Services may not be accessible to you.

  • Set your browser to reject cookies: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

  • Unsubscribe from our newsletters: You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time, either through the unsubscribe link at the end of every newsletter. You may not opt out of Service-related communications (e.g., account verification, payment confirmation, changes/updates to our products or features, technical and security notices).

Your Rights

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data;

  • Request correction or deletion of your personal data;

  • Object to our use and processing of your personal data;

  • Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and

  • Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. The CCPA also requires us to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information we collect, as that term is defined in the law, so, here it is. In the last 12 months, we and our service providers collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:

  • Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and email address);

  • Commercial information (your billing information and purchase history, for example);

  • Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of our Services, like the actions you take as paid subscriber);

  • Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);

  • Audio, electronic, visual or similar information (such as your profile picture, if you use Gravatar);
    and

  • Inferences we make (such as likelihood of retention or attrition).

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:

  • Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you;

  • Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;

  • Opt out of any sale of personal information; and

  • Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us by submitting a Contact form.

Contacting Us About These Rights

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to or you’d like to contact us about one of the other rights, contact us by going to our site and submitting a Contact form.

When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything. For example, if you are a customer and/or newsletter subscriber, we will need you to verify the email address associated with you previously provided to access our services. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by giving us written authorization. We may still require you to verify your identity with us.

Creative Commons Sharealike License

This Privacy Policy was built using a template example from The Lever, who created their policy using a template created by Automattic, the makers of WordPress. The Automattic Privacy Policy is available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license. You can grab a copy of their Privacy Policy and other legal documents on GitHub. You’re more than welcome to copy ours or theirs, and adapt and repurpose them for your own use. Just make sure to revise the language so that your policy reflects your actual practices.