Privacy Policy

Effective: August 31, 2026

This policy explains what information Founders Law LLP ("Founders Law," "we," "us," or "our") collects when you visit founderslaw.com, what we do with it, and how to reach us about it.

We have tried to keep this short and readable. If something here is unclear, email contact@founderslaw.com and we will explain it.

1. What this policy covers

This policy covers information collected through this website.

It does not cover information we hold about you as a client. If Founders Law represents you, information you share with us in that capacity is governed by your engagement agreement, the attorney-client privilege, and the professional obligations we owe you under the applicable rules of professional conduct. Those protections are broader than this policy, and nothing here reduces them.

2. Information you give us

We collect information you choose to send us:

• Contact form. Your name, email address, and whatever you write in the message field, along with the practice area you select.
• Newsletter. Your email address, and your name if you provide it.
• Email and phone. Anything you send us directly at contact@founderslaw.com, careers@founderslaw.com, or by phone.

We do not ask for sensitive personal information through this site, and we would prefer you not send it. See section 5.

3. Information collected automatically

Like most websites, this site and the services that host it generate basic technical records when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages you viewed, and the site you came from. We use this to keep the site running, secure, and reasonably fast, and to understand in general terms which content people find useful.

We do not use this information to build a profile of you, and we do not sell it.

Cookies are a separate matter, covered in section 4, including how to switch off the ones that are optional.

4. Cookies and similar technologies

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. We use as few as we can, and we do not use any of them to advertise to you.

What we set. With analytics switched off, this site sets no cookies at all. When analytics is on, these are the only ones:

• fl-consent (Founders Law). Remembers your cookie choices so we do not ask again on every page. Six months.
• fl-region (Founders Law). Records which privacy rules apply to your visit, worked out from your IP address, so we show you the right controls. It holds a country or state label, never your IP address itself, and expires when you close your browser.
• _ga and _ga_* (Google Analytics). Count visits and keep session state, so we can see in aggregate which pages people find useful. Two years.

Signing in to the content editor at /admin sets session cookies for that tool. That applies to firm staff, never to visitors.

How we ask you. What happens depends on where you are, which we work out from your IP address:

• In the EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Quebec, and Brazil, we set no analytics cookies unless you tell us it is all right. On your first visit you will see a banner, with accepting and rejecting given equal prominence.
• Everywhere else, including the United States, analytics runs by default, disclosed here, and you can switch it off whenever you like.

Whenever analytics is on, Cookie settings at the bottom of every page opens the same controls, and switching something off is as easy as switching it on. Location by IP address is approximate, so if we have guessed wrong about you, that link is how you set it right.

We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles, and we do not let anyone else use them on this site to build one.

5. If you contact us before we represent you

Please read this section before you send us anything through the site.

Contacting us does not make you a client, and it does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. Information you send before we have a signed engagement agreement may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege. We may already represent someone whose interests are adverse to yours, and unsolicited detail from you can create complications for both of us.

At the same time, where you consult us in good faith about the possibility of hiring us, we handle what you share consistent with the duties we owe prospective clients under the applicable rules of professional conduct, whether or not we end up representing you.

The practical version: send us enough to start the conversation. Hold the sensitive details until we confirm we can take the matter.

6. How we use information

We use the information described above to:

• Respond to your message or inquiry
• Evaluate whether we are able to take on a matter, including running the conflicts checks we are professionally required to run
• Send our newsletter, if you asked for it
• Consider your application, if you contacted us about a role
• Operate, secure, maintain, and improve the site
• Understand in aggregate how the site is used, unless you have switched that off (see section 4)
• Comply with our legal and professional obligations

We do not use your information for automated decision-making, and we do not use it to serve you advertising.

7. Our email list

If you subscribe to our newsletter, here is exactly what happens.

We add the email address you gave us to our list. Subscribing is a single step: when you submit the form, you are subscribed.

We do not rent, sell, trade, or share our subscriber list with anyone. Not with vendors for their own use, not with other firms, not with anyone else. The list exists so we can send you our writing, and that is all it is used for.

Every email we send includes a one-click unsubscribe link and our physical mailing address, as required by law.

You can unsubscribe at any time, from any email, or by writing to contact@founderslaw.com.

When you unsubscribe, we keep your email address on a suppression list. This is not so we can contact you again. It is the mechanism that makes sure we do not, because we need a record of the addresses that have opted out in order to honor the opt-out.

8. Who we share information with

We share information in three situations, and no others:

• Service providers. We use vendors to host the site, deliver email, measure site usage, and run firm operations. They may process information on our behalf, only to provide those services to us, and they are not permitted to use it for their own purposes. Analytics, described in section 4, is the one of these you can switch off yourself.
• Legal and professional requirements. We may disclose information where we are required to by law, court order, or subpoena, or where necessary to comply with our professional obligations or to establish or defend a legal claim.
• A change to the firm. If Founders Law reorganizes, merges, or transfers part of its practice, information may transfer as part of that, subject to the same protections and to our professional obligations.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

9. How long we keep information

We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose it was collected, and as long as our professional and legal obligations require.

In practice, inquiries we did not take on are kept long enough to run future conflicts checks accurately, which is a professional requirement rather than a marketing choice. Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe, and then on the suppression list as described above. Cookies expire on their own schedule, which is set out in section 4.

10. Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect the information we hold. No website or transmission method is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. This is another reason to hold sensitive material until we have a secure channel in place.

11. Your choices

You can:

• Unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time, using the link in any email.
• Change your cookie choices whenever you like, using Cookie settings at the bottom of any page.
• Tell us with a browser signal instead. We honor Global Privacy Control automatically, wherever you are. See section 13.
• Ask what we have. Email contact@founderslaw.com and we will tell you what website information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct or delete it. We will do so where we are able. Some information we are professionally or legally required to retain, including records needed to run conflicts checks, and we will tell you if that applies.

We extend these choices to anyone who asks, regardless of where you live.

12. If you are outside the United States

Section 4 explains that visitors in the EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Quebec, and Brazil are asked before we set any optional cookie. This section covers the rest of what those rules entitle you to.

Where your information goes. We are a US law firm. This site, and the services that run it, are hosted in the United States, so information described in this policy is transferred to and processed there. Where that means moving personal data out of the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, we rely on the transfer protections our vendors provide for that purpose, including the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

Why we are permitted to process it. For optional cookies, your consent, which you give through the banner and can withdraw at any time. For everything else described here, whichever of these fits: our legitimate interest in operating the firm and this website, taking steps you asked for before entering into a contract, or complying with a legal or professional obligation.

Your rights. You can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct or erase it, ask us to restrict or object to how we use it, ask for it in a portable form, and withdraw any consent you have given. Withdrawing consent does not undo what was done while it was in force.

Email contact@founderslaw.com and we will answer within the time the applicable law allows. Some records we are professionally required to keep, including what we need to run accurate conflicts checks, and where that is why we cannot erase something, we will say so.

If you are unhappy with our answer, you can complain to the supervisory authority where you live or work. We would rather you came to us first, so we have a chance to put it right.

13. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

These are two different signals, and we treat them differently.

Global Privacy Control. We honor it. If your browser or an extension sends a GPC signal, we read it as an instruction to switch analytics off and to opt you out of any sale or sharing of personal information, and we act on it automatically without asking anything further of you. California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Texas, among others, treat GPC as a legally binding opt-out. We apply it for everyone, wherever you are.

Do Not Track. We do not respond to browser Do Not Track headers, because there is still no common standard for how a site should interpret one. GPC is the signal that works.

14. Children

This site is meant for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent us information, email contact@founderslaw.com and we will delete it.

15. Links to other sites

This site may link to sites we do not operate. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. Please read their policies before providing information to them.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the revised version here with a new effective date. If a change is significant and affects people on our newsletter list, we will note it in an email.

17. Contact us

Questions, requests, or concerns about privacy:

Founders Law LLP
2626 N Halsted St, Suite 1
Chicago, IL 60614
contact@founderslaw.com
312.508.3287