Who we are
This website is operated by Grisham Franceschina Attorneys-at-Law, PLLC, doing business as GFA LAW, PLLC, 4970 E. Business 190, Temple, Texas 76501. Questions about this policy can be sent to intake@gfalaw.us or to the address above.
Information you give us
When you request a case review, apply for the 1791 Scholarship, make a payment, or email or call us, you give us information such as your name, contact details and the facts of your situation. We use it to review your request, respond to you, and, if you become a client, to represent you. Information about a legal matter is kept confidential, but please share only basic facts until we confirm that we can help. Contacting the firm or submitting a form does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Those forms and payments are handled by outside services that protect the information on their own systems:
- Case review forms are hosted by MyCase, the firm's practice management system.
- Payments are processed by LawPay. We do not receive or store your full card or bank account number.
- Scholarship applications are collected through Google Forms.
- Merch orders are placed and paid for on Etsy, under Etsy's own policies.
Free tools on this site
Our free tools, such as the Deadline Checker, Case Review Finder and Records Request Builder, run in your web browser. What you type into them is not sent to the firm. Some tools remember whether you chose Texas or Maryland by saving that setting in your own browser, and you can clear it by clearing your browser's site data. If a tool sends you to one of our case review forms, the form you submit is handled as described above.
Daily Game leaderboard
If you choose to join the Daily Game leaderboard, we store the display name you enter, a random player number created by your browser, and your daily game results and streaks in a Google Sheet that GFA LAW controls. Your display name and streak are shown publicly on the leaderboard. Do not use your full name or anything private unless you want it to be public. We do not collect your email or contact details for the leaderboard. We may hide or remove any entry at any time. Playing the Daily Game without joining the leaderboard sends nothing to the firm except the anonymous analytics described below.
Information collected automatically
- Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site, such as which pages are viewed, how visitors found us, the general region and type of device, and clicks on buttons like "Call" or "Request a Case Review." Google Analytics uses cookies or similar technology. We do not use it to identify you, and we do not send it the contents of any form. You can opt out with Google's opt-out browser add-on or by blocking cookies in your browser. Learn more in how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
- Hosting. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like most web hosts, GitHub may record technical information such as your IP address when you request a page, for security and to run the service.
- Fonts. Pages load typefaces from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address and browser information when the fonts are requested.
- Videos. Our videos page shows preview images served by YouTube, and the video player loads only when you press play. Videos play through YouTube's privacy-enhanced service, and YouTube's policies apply to that video.
How we use and share information
We use information to respond to you, provide legal services, run and improve this website, and meet our legal and professional obligations. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We share information only with the service providers described above, when you ask us to, or when the law or our professional duties require it.
Links to other sites
This site links to other websites, such as news coverage, court sites, our social media accounts and the Department of Justice. Their privacy practices are their own, and this policy does not cover them.
Security and retention
The site is served only over an encrypted connection. We keep client and prospective client information as long as needed for the purposes above and as required by our professional obligations. No method of sending information over the internet is completely secure, so please do not send sensitive documents by ordinary email unless we ask you to.
Children
This site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them through the site.
Your choices
You can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, subject to our legal and professional duties to keep certain records. Send your request to intake@gfalaw.us.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and update the effective date.