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Privacy Policy

The Law Office of Michael Meyer

Effective Date: 1/1/2026 Last Updated: 1/24/2026

1. INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE

The Law Office of Michael Meyer, together with Michael Meyer individually and any affiliated entities (collectively, “the Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our“), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and safeguard information in connection with your access to and use of https://www.michaelmeyerlaw.com and all subdomains, pages, forms, and features made available through it (the “Site“).

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and forms part of our Terms of Use. By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

1.1 What This Policy Covers. This Policy governs information collected through the Site and through inquiries made to the Firm by prospective clients and members of the public.

1.2 What This Policy Does NOT Cover. This Policy does not govern the Firm’s handling of confidential client information obtained in the course of an attorney-client relationship. Information you provide to us after a signed engagement agreement is in place is governed by the Nebraska Rules of Professional Conduct, the attorney-client privilege, the work-product doctrine, applicable USPTO rules, and your engagement agreement — all of which impose duties of confidentiality substantially stricter than this Policy. In the event of any conflict between this Policy and the Firm’s professional obligations to a client, those professional obligations control.

This Policy also does not cover the practices of any third-party website, platform, or service that you may reach through a link on the Site. See Section 11.

2. CRITICAL NOTICE — DO NOT SEND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Before a signed engagement agreement is in place, information you send to the Firm is not confidential and is not protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine.

Because the Firm practices patent and trademark law, this warning carries unusual weight:

  • Disclosing an invention to a party with no duty of confidentiality can destroy trade secret protection and may adversely affect patent rights. Public or unrestricted disclosure can trigger statutory bars and can defeat novelty in jurisdictions without a grace period.
  • Web forms and email are not secure transmission channels. They may be intercepted, misrouted, logged by intermediaries, stored on third-party servers, or retained in backups outside our control.

Accordingly, when contacting us before engagement, limit what you send to: your name, your contact information, the general field of technology or industry, the general nature of your need (for example, “utility patent” or “trademark clearance”), and a request to speak.

Do not include: technical descriptions of an invention, formulas, specifications, drawings, source code, algorithms, processes, formulations, business methods, customer lists, unpublished marks under consideration, financial data, litigation strategy, or any other confidential or proprietary information.

We will tell you when it is appropriate to transmit sensitive material and how to do so securely.

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

3.1 Information You Provide Directly

We collect information you voluntarily submit, including through the Site’s contact forms, intake forms, footer forms, and any email or telephone contact prompted by the Site. This may include:

  • Identifiers: name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address if you provide it.
  • Inquiry content: the free-text description you supply in a “How can we help?” or message field, and any other details you choose to include.
  • Communication records: the content of emails, voicemails, text messages, and correspondence you send us, and our replies.
  • Scheduling information: any information provided when arranging a consultation.

You control what you place in free-text fields. Please re-read Section 2 before doing so.

3.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, certain information is collected automatically by our hosting provider, content delivery network, and analytics and tag management technologies, including:

  • Device and connection data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, screen resolution, and language settings.
  • Usage data: pages viewed, time spent on pages, scroll depth, links and buttons clicked, files downloaded, referring and exit URLs, and the date and time of access.
  • Referral data: the search terms, advertisement, or website that brought you to the Site, where available.
  • Approximate location: general geographic region inferred from IP address. We do not collect precise GPS location through the Site.
  • Cookie and identifier data: as described in Section 4.

3.3 Information From Third Parties

We may receive information about you from:

  • Analytics and advertising providers, in aggregated or pseudonymous form;
  • Referral sources, including other attorneys, former clients, and directory or review platforms, where you have asked to be referred;
  • Publicly available sources, including USPTO databases, state business registries, court records, and company websites, when conducting conflicts checks, prior art searches, trademark clearance, or due diligence;
  • Service providers that support our practice, such as docketing, billing, and email systems.

3.4 Sensitive Information

We do not seek and ask that you not submit through the Site any government-issued identification number, financial account number, payment card number, health information, biometric data, precise geolocation, or information revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious belief, sexual orientation, immigration status, or union membership. If such information is necessary for a matter, we will collect it through a secure channel after engagement.

4. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

4.1 What We Use. The Site uses cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies. Categories include:

  • Strictly necessary — required for the Site to load, for security, and for form submission and spam prevention. These cannot be disabled through the Site.
  • Functional — remember preferences such as language or prior form entries.
  • Analytics/performance — help us understand how visitors find and use the Site so we can improve it. The Site uses Google Tag Manager, which may deploy Google Analytics and other measurement tags.
  • Advertising/targeting — may be used to measure the effectiveness of advertising and, if enabled, to show you our advertisements on other websites.

4.2 Third-Party Cookies. Some cookies are set by third parties, including Google and social media platforms whose content or links appear on the Site. Those parties collect and use data under their own privacy policies, which we do not control. See Section 11.

4.3 Your Choices. Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking cookies may cause parts of the Site to function improperly. You may also:

  • Opt out of Google Analytics via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on;
  • Adjust Google ad personalization in your Google account settings;
  • Use industry opt-out tools offered by the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative.

4.4 Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. There is no uniform industry standard for responding to browser “Do Not Track” signals, and the Site does not currently respond to them. Where required by applicable law, we honor recognized universal opt-out mechanisms, including the Global Privacy Control (GPC), as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for the browser and device from which the signal is sent.

5. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We use information for the following purposes:

  • To respond to you — to answer inquiries, provide requested information, and schedule consultations.
  • To evaluate potential engagements — to run conflicts-of-interest checks and to determine whether the Firm can and should undertake a matter.
  • To provide legal services — where an engagement agreement is in place.
  • To operate and secure the Site — including hosting, load balancing, error diagnosis, spam and abuse prevention, and fraud detection.
  • To improve the Site and our services — analyzing usage patterns, testing content, and measuring which pages and articles are useful.
  • To communicate — sending replies, administrative messages, service updates, and, where you have opted in or where otherwise permitted by law, informational or marketing communications about our services.
  • To comply with law and professional obligations — including recordkeeping, USPTO requirements, court orders, subpoenas, tax and financial rules, and the Nebraska Rules of Professional Conduct.
  • To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims — including enforcing our Terms of Use.

We do not use the content of client matters for marketing, and we do not publish client names, matters, or confidential information without express authorization.

6. LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING (EEA/UK VISITORS)

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process personal data on the following legal bases: performance of a contract (responding to your request and providing legal services); legitimate interests (operating and securing the Site, improving our services, conflicts checking, and defending legal claims), balanced against your rights; consent (for non-essential cookies and optional marketing, which you may withdraw at any time); and legal obligation (recordkeeping and compliance).

7. HOW WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION

7.1 We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information. The Firm does not sell personal information, and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended, the Nebraska Data Privacy Act, or comparable state laws. We have not done so in the preceding twelve months. We do not sell or share the personal information of minors under 16.

7.2 Service Providers. We disclose information to vendors that perform functions on our behalf under contractual confidentiality and use restrictions, including web hosting, content delivery, email delivery, form processing, analytics, document management, docketing, cloud storage, billing, and IT support. These vendors may process information only as necessary to provide their services to us.

7.3 Professional and Matter-Related Disclosures. With client authorization or as reasonably necessary to carry out a representation, we may disclose information to the USPTO or other government agencies, courts and tribunals, foreign associate counsel, co-counsel, opposing counsel, translators, search firms, draftspersons, and expert consultants.

7.4 Legal Requirements. We may disclose information where we reasonably believe disclosure is required or permitted by law, including in response to a subpoena, court order, regulatory demand, or lawful request by public authorities; to comply with the Nebraska Rules of Professional Conduct; to enforce our Terms of Use; to investigate suspected fraud or security incidents; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Firm, our clients, or others. Where a demand seeks privileged or confidential client information, we will assert all applicable protections to the extent permitted by law.

7.5 Business Transfers. In connection with a merger, dissolution, sale of assets, or transition of the practice, information may be transferred to a successor, subject to applicable professional rules governing client files and client notice.

7.6 Aggregated and De-Identified Data. We may create and use aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We will maintain and use such information in de-identified form and will not attempt to re-identify it except as permitted by law.

7.7 With Your Direction. We disclose information to any other party at your direction or with your consent.

8. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy and to satisfy legal, professional, regulatory, tax, accounting, and recordkeeping obligations.

  • Website analytics data is generally retained for the period configured in the relevant analytics platform.
  • Inquiry and intake records are retained as necessary to maintain a reliable conflicts-of-interest database. Conflicts records may be retained indefinitely, because the ability to identify past inquiries is required to avoid future conflicts.
  • Client files are retained in accordance with applicable professional responsibility rules, statutes of limitation, and the terms of the engagement agreement.

When information is no longer needed, we delete it or de-identify it using reasonable measures.

9. SECURITY

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These include access controls, encryption in transit for Site traffic, and vendor diligence.

However, no method of transmission over the internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you transmit information at your own risk. If we become aware of a security incident affecting your personal information, we will notify you and applicable regulators as required by law.

Please review Section 2 before sending anything sensitive.

10. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

10.1 Rights That May Be Available to You. Depending on where you live and whether the applicable law covers the Firm, you may have the right to:

  • Know / Access — confirm whether we process your personal information and obtain a copy;
  • Correct — request correction of inaccurate personal information;
  • Delete — request deletion of personal information we hold about you;
  • Portability — receive your personal information in a portable format;
  • Opt out — of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, and certain profiling;
  • Limit — restrict the use of sensitive personal information;
  • Withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent;
  • Non-discrimination — not be denied service or charged differently for exercising these rights;
  • Appeal — appeal our refusal to act on a request, where state law provides for appeals.

10.2 How to Exercise Your Rights. Submit a request using the contact information in Section 15, with the subject line “Privacy Request.” We will verify your identity before responding, which may require you to provide information matching what we already hold. An authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf with proof of authorization. We will respond within the period required by applicable law, generally 45 days, with an extension where permitted.

10.3 Important Limitations. These rights are subject to significant exceptions. We may decline a request in whole or in part where the information is subject to the attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine; where retention is required by the Nebraska Rules of Professional Conduct, USPTO rules, a court order, or another legal obligation; where deletion would impair our conflicts-checking obligations or our ability to defend legal claims; or where an exemption under the applicable statute applies. We will explain the basis for any denial.

10.4 Nebraska Residents. The Nebraska Data Privacy Act exempts entities that qualify as small businesses under the federal Small Business Act, and the Firm believes it so qualifies. Regardless of whether the Act applies to us, we do not sell sensitive personal data, and we will not do so without your consent. We will honor reasonable requests described in Section 10.1 as a matter of practice, subject to Section 10.3.

10.5 California Residents. To the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act applies, the categories of personal information we have collected in the preceding twelve months are identifiers, internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation data (approximate only), and professional or employment-related information contained in inquiries. Sources, purposes, and disclosure recipients are described in Sections 3, 5, and 7. We have not sold or shared personal information. California residents may also request information about disclosures for direct marketing purposes under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83; we do not make such disclosures.

10.6 EEA/UK Residents. In addition to the rights above, you may object to processing based on legitimate interests, request restriction of processing, and lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority. Where we transfer personal data outside the EEA or UK, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses.

10.7 Marketing Opt-Out. You may unsubscribe from informational or marketing email at any time using the link in the message or by contacting us. You may stop text messages by replying STOP. We will continue to send transactional and matter-related communications to clients regardless of marketing preferences, as required by our professional obligations.

11. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES

The Site contains links to third-party websites, platforms, and resources, including social media pages, review platforms, and government databases such as the USPTO. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of any third party. Clicking a link takes you outside the Site and subjects you to that party’s privacy policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any site you visit.

Social media plugins, embedded content, and links may allow the relevant platform to collect information about your visit even if you do not click them or hold an account.

12. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

The Site is hosted and operated in the United States and is directed to users in the United States. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from and be less protective than those of your jurisdiction. By using the Site or contacting us, you consent to that transfer and processing.

13. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

The Site is not directed to individuals under eighteen (18), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information to us, contact us using the information in Section 15 and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

14. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Revisions take effect when posted, with an updated “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of the Site after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain your consent. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

15. CONTACT US

Questions, requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

The Law Office of Michael Meyer 12073 S 203rd St, Gretna, Nebraska 68028

Telephone: 402-321-7532 Email: michael@michaelmeyerlaw.com

Please do not include confidential or invention-related information in your message. See Section 2.

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