1. Introduction

Sims Legal Services, P.C. (“SLS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard information when you visit our website at slspc.law (the “Site”), use our AI-powered tools, submit a consultation request, or otherwise interact with our services.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

Consultation requests: When you submit a consultation form, we collect your name, email address, phone number (if provided), case type, description of your situation, and contact preference.
Email communications: When you contact us via email, we collect the content of your message and your email address.
AI Tool interactions: When you use our AI-powered tools (including the legal term explainer, severance analyzer, and other interactive features), we may process the text you submit in order to generate a response. See Section 5 for details on AI Tool data handling.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

Usage data: We may collect information about how you access and use the Site, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates and times of your visits. The Site uses privacy-focused, cookieless analytics (Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights) that collect aggregated usage and performance data and do not track you across other websites.
Cookies and similar technologies: We use essential cookies to ensure the Site functions properly. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. See Section 7 for more details.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

Respond to your consultation requests and inquiries
Provide AI-powered legal information tools and features
Improve and maintain the Site and our services
Comply with legal obligations and protect our legal rights
Communicate with you about your inquiry or potential representation

4. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. We may share information in the following limited circumstances:

Service providers: We use third-party services to operate the Site, including hosting and analytics (Vercel), content management (Sanity), email delivery of your consultation request to our office inbox (Resend), and AI processing (currently Anthropic; we may engage additional or alternative AI providers as our tools and platform expand, and will update this policy accordingly). These providers process data on our behalf and are contractually obligated to protect your information.
Legal requirements: We may disclose information when required by law, court order, or governmental regulation, or when necessary to protect our rights or the safety of others.
With your consent: We may share information when you have given us explicit permission to do so.

5. AI-Powered Tools & Data Handling

SLS is an AI-native practice and offers — and expects to expand — a range of AI-powered tools and resources, made available on this Site, through third-party platforms, and through secure access (such as legal-term explainers, document and severance analyzers, calculators, client-facing assessments, and other interactive resources, collectively “AI Tools”). AI Tools are provided for general legal information and education only. The firm’s internal use of AI in client matters — including its proprietary LitigationOS™ platform — is governed by our professional duties of confidentiality and is not described by this Site policy.

Because the law governing artificial intelligence is new, evolving, and in many respects unsettled, SLS takes a deliberately conservative and protective approach to AI Tools and the data they process. We aim to disclose more than the law currently requires, to promise no more than we can stand behind, and to update this policy as the technology, our tools, and the regulatory landscape develop.

5.1 Nature and Limits of AI Tools

AI Tools provide general information, not legal advice, and do not create an attorney-client relationship. Do not rely on any AI Tool output as a substitute for advice from a licensed attorney about your specific situation.
AI-generated output may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date. You should independently verify any information before relying on it. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SLS disclaims responsibility for actions taken in reliance on AI Tool output.
Do not submit confidential, privileged, or sensitive information through any AI Tool. Information you submit to an AI Tool is not protected by the attorney-client privilege.
AI Tools are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability.

5.2 How AI Tools Process Your Data

Text you submit to an AI Tool is sent to our server and forwarded to one or more AI providers for processing solely to generate a response. Our current AI provider is Anthropic; as our tools and platform grow, we may engage additional or alternative AI providers, and we will maintain this disclosure accordingly.
SLS does not retain, log, or use AI Tool conversations to train AI models. Each provider’s handling of data submitted through its interface is governed by that provider’s commercial terms and privacy policy; our current provider does not train its models on such inputs by default.
We may process limited technical data (such as rate-limiting and abuse-prevention signals) as necessary to operate the AI Tools securely.

5.3 Hosted Tools, Secure Access & Client Portals

SLS may make AI Tools and client-facing materials available (a) directly on this Site, (b) through third-party platforms (which may include Claude.ai and others), and (c) through secure, password-protected areas or client portals that require you to register for an account and log in.

Where a tool is hosted on a third-party platform, that platform’s privacy policy governs data collection on that platform. SLS does not receive or store what you input there unless you voluntarily share it with us.
Where SLS offers a secure account or client portal, we may collect account registration and authentication information (such as your name, email address, and login credentials) and records of your activity within the portal, and we use that information to operate and secure the service, authenticate you, deliver requested materials, and communicate with you about it. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for activity under your account, and we may suspend or terminate access to protect the security or integrity of the service.
Secure areas, and any assessments or materials delivered through them, are provided for your use only and remain subject to the limitations and disclaimers in this Section 5 and in our Disclaimer. This Section 5 will be updated as SLS introduces new AI Tools, providers, hosting arrangements, or secure-access features.

6. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include HTTPS encryption, secure server infrastructure, and access controls. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Cookies & Do Not Track

The Site uses only essential cookies necessary for the Site to function properly (such as session management). We do not use advertising cookies, analytics tracking cookies, or cross-site tracking technologies. You may configure your browser to refuse cookies, but this may affect your ability to use certain features of the Site.

Do Not Track & Global Privacy Control:Because the Site does not track visitors across third-party websites or over time for advertising purposes, it does not respond to browser “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals — there is no cross-site tracking to disable. We do not sell or share personal information, so opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC) do not change how the Site processes your information.

8. Third-Party Links

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, including AI tool platforms, legal resources, and scheduling services (such as Zoom). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

9. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), including:

The right to know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose
The right to correct inaccurate personal information
The right to request deletion of your personal information
The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information — we do not sell personal information, and we do not “share” it for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined by the CPRA
The right to limit the use of sensitive personal information
The right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights

Categories collected: In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information from Site visitors: identifiers (name, email address, phone number, IP address) and professional or employment-related information that you choose to include in a consultation request. We collect this information directly from you and from your use of the Site, for the purposes described in Section 3.

Retention: We retain consultation inquiries and related correspondence for as long as reasonably necessary to evaluate and respond to your inquiry, to comply with our professional and legal obligations (including conflict-of-interest checks and applicable records-retention rules), and to protect our legal rights. Usage data is retained only in aggregated form.

To exercise these rights, contact us at sls@slspc.law. We will verify your request and respond within the timeframes required by law.

10. Children’s Privacy

The Site is not directed to individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 18, we will take steps to delete that information promptly.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Effective date” at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Site after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us at:

Sims Legal Services, P.C.
1160 Battery St., Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94111
Email: sls@slspc.law