Privacy Policy | Collective Claim

This policy describes what actually happens when you use this website, including what happens to an inquiry you send us. It is written to match the site as built rather than a template.

In one paragraph: this site publishes legal information, serves display advertising through Google AdSense, and passes inquiries from readers to law firms that handle mass tort and related claims. If you send an inquiry we may share what you gave us with those firms. We measure readership with Google Analytics and with a first-party counter on our own server; neither identifies you by name, and neither is used to profile you as an individual reader. The detail follows.

The inquiry and contact form

What it collects. The subject of your message; your name; your email address; your telephone number; the message itself; the page you were on; and the technical data the server must record to accept a submission (IP address, time, user agent).

Where it goes. The form posts to an endpoint on our own server, which records the message and forwards it to the operator’s editorial desk at editorial@collectiveclaim.us. There is no third-party form provider, no CRM and no analytics on the form, and the endpoint stores nothing.

Who else may receive it. If your message describes a potential mass tort, product, drug, device or personal-injury claim, we may pass the details you provided to one or more law firms that handle that category of case, so that a firm can consider it. Those firms are independent of us: they decide whether to contact you and whether to take a matter. If your message is a correction, a source or a press enquiry, it goes to the editorial desk and no firm receives it.

Consent to be contacted. When you submit an inquiry you agree that we and any receiving firm may contact you about it using the details you gave, including by telephone call or text message. That consent is specific to your inquiry. You can withdraw it at any time by writing to the inquiry desk, and telling a firm directly to stop contacting you also stops it.

What it is not. Sending an inquiry does not make us your lawyer, or any receiving firm your lawyer, does not create an attorney-client relationship, and does not mean that a claim exists or that anyone will be compensated. Nothing in the form or in any reply is legal advice.

Please do not send sensitive information. Do not send medical records, Social Security or account numbers, or anything you would only tell your own lawyer. Nothing sent through the form is confidential and nothing is protected by attorney-client privilege.

Retention. The message sits in our mail system as correspondence, alongside any reply, and is deleted on request. The form endpoint keeps no copy and writes no database.

Advertising on this site is served by Google AdSense (publisher ID ca-pub-8896923982551097). Advertising is live: ad units and the scripts that request them are present on these pages. The paragraphs below describe what runs, and the advertising policy says the same there.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, and you can opt out of cookie use by some third-party vendors at aboutads.info.
Readers in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent through a consent management platform before advertising cookies are set, and can change that choice later.

The advertising cookies belong to Google and its partners, not to us. We cannot read them, and we receive only aggregate reporting. Our own pages set no cookies of their own; the cookie policy sets this out in detail, and the advertising policy explains how advertising is labelled and kept separate from editorial content.

We run two things to measure readership, and we name both.

Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-996VR99763) is loaded from googletagmanager.com. It sets cookies and records page views, an approximate location derived from your IP address, the pages you open, and your device and browser type. Google processes this data as our processor; the Google privacy policy and the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on apply to it.

Our own counter records a page view to a database on this server. It sets no cookies. It stores the path, the referring site, your browser and operating system, your device type, the language and screen size your browser reports, and an approximate city and country looked up offline from your IP address. Your IP address is used to compute a daily-rotating identifier and is then discarded: the identifier cannot be used to recognise you on a later day, or to follow you to another site. It is not sold, and it is not shared with law firms or advertisers.

Neither tool is used to build a profile of you as a named person, and no advertising network receives data from our counter. There is no tag manager, no social embed, no heatmap tool and no third-party font host. Every other asset is served from this domain.

What the server records

Server logs. Like any web server, this one records the technical details of each request: the IP address it came from, the date and time, the URL requested, the response status, the referrer if your browser sends one, and the user-agent string. These logs exist to keep the site available and secure: detecting abuse, diagnosing faults and measuring capacity. They are not combined with other data, not used to profile individual readers, and are rotated and deleted after a limited period.

Aggregate counts. We may look at total traffic volumes (pages served per day, error rates) to keep the site available. This is not tied to individuals.

Search. The search box filters a static index file inside your own browser. Your search terms are not sent to us or to a search service. Search result pages are excluded from search-engine indexing.

Email

If you email the editorial desk at editorial@collectiveclaim.us, the message is stored in our mail system (self-hosted; body and headers retained so we can read and answer it). Your address is used to reply and to follow up on a correction or an inquiry. We do not run a mailing list and we do not add readers to one. Corrections correspondence may be quoted in a correction note, but only the substance: we do not publish a sender’s address.

Your rights and choices

Access, correction and deletion. Write to us and we will tell you what we hold about you, and delete or correct it, unless we are required to keep it for a legal reason.
Opt out of sharing. You can ask us not to pass your inquiry to any law firm, or to withdraw it after we have. Email us with the details you submitted and we will action it, and we will tell you if a firm has already received it.
Opt out of advertising cookies. See the choices under Advertising above, or block cookies in your browser. The site works without them.
California and similar state privacy laws. Where a state law gives you the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, the way to exercise it is the same: tell us and we will not share your inquiry. We do not sell personal information as a data product; inquiries are shared with law firms and we may be compensated for the introduction. Tell us to stop and we will.
No automated decisions. Nothing here profiles you or decides anything about you automatically.

Children

This site is not directed at children, and the inquiry form is not for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children. Some articles describe litigation involving the abuse of minors as a matter of public record; nothing about our readers, including minors, is collected for those pages.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS only. The inquiry endpoint validates submissions on the server, rate-limits them, and delivers them by authenticated mail; it stores nothing, and its logs contain no names, addresses or message bodies. Credentials for that endpoint are held on our own server, not in the site’s code.

Changes

If this policy changes, the change is listed on the corrections policy page with its date, because a privacy change is a substantive change.

Contact

Inquiries: editorial@collectiveclaim.us Corrections and press: editorial@collectiveclaim.us

Collective Claim publishes general legal information. This article is not legal advice and does not create an attorney–client relationship. Court records and agency actions change; verify current status with the court or agency before relying on it.