PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: October 5, 2026

Levine & Associates, PC, doing business as Levine Labor Law (“Levine Labor Law,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit www.levinelaborlaw.com (the “Website”), contact us, request a consultation, enroll in our text messaging program, or otherwise interact with us online (collectively, the “Services”). It also describes the choices available to you.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Website or the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood it. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website or the Services. If you have questions, you may contact us at jackie@levinelaborlaw.com.

I. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we collect through the Website and its online forms; through email, text message, telephone, and video communications with us; and through the third-party platforms we use to deliver the Services. It does not apply to third-party websites or services that may be linked from our Website, which are governed by their own privacy policies.

Information that a client provides to us in the course of an attorney-client relationship is also protected by our professional duty of confidentiality, our engagement agreement, and applicable law, including California Business and Professions Code section 6068, subdivision (e). Where those obligations provide you greater protection than this Privacy Policy, those obligations control.

II. No Attorney-Client Relationship

Visiting the Website, submitting a form, sending us an email, or exchanging text messages with us does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. An attorney-client relationship is formed only when Levine Labor Law expressly agrees to represent you, which ordinarily occurs through a signed engagement agreement. We nonetheless treat information you share with us about a potential legal matter as confidential. Please understand that contacting us does not stop any statute of limitations or other legal deadline that may apply to your situation.

III. Personal Information We Collect

Information you provide to us. The information we collect depends on how you interact with us. It may include your name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address; information about your employment, such as your employer, job title, dates of employment, compensation, and work history; information about a potential or existing legal matter, including your description of events, documents you share with us, and the names of other people involved; your communication preferences, including your consent to receive text messages and any opt-out request; and any comments, questions, or feedback you send us.

Sensitive information. Because we represent employees in matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and related claims, you may choose to share sensitive personal information with us. This can include health, medical, or disability information; information about characteristics such as race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age; and other details relevant to your matter. We use sensitive information only to evaluate your inquiry, provide legal services, and meet our legal and professional obligations. We do not use it to infer characteristics about you for any other purpose.

Payment information. If you make a payment to us, your payment card or bank account information is collected and processed by our third-party billing and payment providers in accordance with their security standards.

Information collected automatically. When you visit the Website, our website host and its service providers may automatically collect technical information about your device and visit, such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages viewed, referring website, and the date and time of your visit. This information is collected through cookies and similar technologies, as described in Section VII.

Information from other sources. We may receive information about you from people who refer you to us, from co-counsel, from publicly available sources such as court records, and, in the course of a matter we handle, from opposing parties and their counsel, witnesses, government agencies, and other participants in the legal process.

IV. How We Use Personal Information

We use personal information to respond to your inquiries and evaluate potential legal matters, including by performing conflict-of-interest checks; to provide legal services to our clients; to schedule and manage consultations, appointments, and meetings; to send you administrative and service-related communications, including by text message where you have agreed to receive them; to send you newsletters, legal updates, and event invitations where you have agreed to receive them; to process payments and maintain accounting records; to operate, secure, maintain, and improve the Website and the Services; to comply with our legal, ethical, and professional obligations, including recordkeeping and court requirements; to protect our rights and the rights of others and to prevent fraud or misuse; and for any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or to which you consent. With your permission, we may also publish a testimonial that includes your name or other information you approve.

V. How We Disclose Personal Information

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We disclose personal information only in the circumstances described below.

Service providers. We use vendors that process personal information on our behalf, under obligations to keep it confidential and to use it only to perform services for us. Our service providers currently include Claude and Smokeball, for practice management, client communications, and billing; InfoTrack and InfoSign, for electronic signatures and related document services; Zoom, for telephone, video conferencing, and text messaging; and Squarespace, for Website hosting, online forms, and email communications. We also use providers for email, secure cloud document storage, video conferencing, and information technology support.

In the course of legal representation. When we represent you, we may disclose information to courts, arbitrators, mediators, opposing parties and their counsel, co-counsel, experts, investigators, court reporters, government agencies, and others as reasonably necessary to pursue your matter, consistent with your engagement agreement and our professional obligations.

Legal compliance and protection. We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, subpoena, court order, or the Rules of Professional Conduct, or is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Levine Labor Law, our clients, or others.

Practice transitions. If our practice is merged, reorganized, or transferred, information may be transferred as part of that transition, but only as permitted by the California Rules of Professional Conduct and other applicable law.

With your consent. We may disclose information for any other purpose with your consent or at your direction.

VI. Text Messaging and Mobile Information

If you agree to receive text messages from us, we collect your mobile telephone number, your consent, and records of the messages we exchange. Our text messaging program is described in our SMS Text Messaging Terms of Service, available at www.levinelaborlaw.com/smsterms.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. We may share mobile information with service providers that help us operate our messaging program, such as our messaging platform, solely to deliver messages and provide related support. All other categories of disclosure described in this Privacy Policy exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; that information will not be shared with any third parties.

VII. Cookies, Analytics, and Do Not Track

Our Website is hosted on Squarespace. Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for the Website to function, and it may use additional cookies to measure performance and understand how visitors use the Website. Squarespace and other third parties whose features may appear on our Website, such as embedded maps, scheduling tools, or videos, may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. We do not use cookies or similar technologies to deliver targeted advertising to you.

Most web browsers accept cookies by default. You can usually adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies, although some features of the Website may not function properly if you do. Information about the cookies Squarespace uses is available in Squarespace’s own cookie policy.

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, the Website does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals.

VIII. How Long We Keep Personal Information

We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This includes the time needed to provide legal services, maintain client files and accounting records as required by our professional obligations, perform conflict-of-interest checks, resolve disputes, and comply with applicable law. Information about inquiries that do not result in representation is kept as long as reasonably needed for conflict checking and recordkeeping. When we no longer need personal information, we delete it or de-identify it. If immediate deletion is not feasible, for example because the information is stored in backup archives, we securely store it and isolate it from further use until deletion is possible.

IX. How We Protect Personal Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we maintain. No method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Standard text messages and ordinary email are not fully secure. Please do not send highly sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, passwords, or medical records, by text message or unencrypted email. We will provide a more secure method when you need to share that type of information with us. If you are a current employee, we recommend that you avoid contacting us from a device, email account, or network provided by your employer, because your employer may be able to access those communications.

X. Your Choices and Rights

Communication preferences. You may unsubscribe from our marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in any such email or by contacting us. You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP to any message or by contacting us. Opting out of marketing communications will not stop communications we need to send about an inquiry you made or a matter in which we represent you.

Access, correction, and deletion. You may ask us to provide a copy of, correct, or delete personal information we hold about you by contacting us at jackie@levinelaborlaw.com. We will respond as required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and we may be required to retain certain information, including client files and conflict-checking records, to satisfy our legal and professional obligations.

California residents. California Civil Code section 1798.83 permits California residents to request information about a business’s disclosure of personal information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. To the extent California or any other state privacy law grants you additional rights with respect to personal information we process, we will honor those rights as required by law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.

XI. Children’s Privacy

The Website and our text messaging program are not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. If you are under 18, please do not submit information through the Website or enroll in our text messaging program without the involvement of a parent or guardian. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us through the Website, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps to delete it.

XII. Location of Our Services

Levine Labor Law is located in California, and the Website and the Services are intended for use in the United States. If you access the Website from outside the United States, your information will be processed and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those of your home jurisdiction.

XIII. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in applicable law. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. If we make material changes, we will provide additional notice, such as a prominent notice on the Website. Your continued use of the Website or the Services after an updated Privacy Policy takes effect means that you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

XIV. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to make a privacy request, please contact us by email at jackie@levinelaborlaw.com or by mail at:

Levine Labor Law

Attn: Privacy

Levine Labor Law
3070 Bristol St, Suite 540

Costa Mesa, CA 92626