What this website collects.

What we collect, and when

If you fill in the contact form, we receive and store the first name, last name, email address, phone number, and message you type, together with the page you submitted from, any campaign tags in the link you arrived through, and a record of the consent choices shown to you at the time.

If you do not fill in the form, we do not collect anything that identifies you. There is no account to create and nothing to log in to.

Your IP address is read when you submit the form, purely to limit how many submissions can come from one address in a minute. It is held briefly in memory to do that and is not written to your record.

We do not take payment on this website, so no card or bank details are collected here.

Why we collect it

To answer you. A form submission is an inquiry, and the information exists so a person at the firm can reply and, if it becomes a matter, open a file.

Because you contacted us, we may also send you occasional email updates. You can unsubscribe from those at any time using the link in any such email, and unsubscribing does not affect anything else. We only send marketing text messages to people who ticked the box asking for them, and that box is never ticked for you in advance. Reply STOP to any of them to end them.

Who else handles it

We use a small number of service providers to run the site. They process information on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.

• Supabase stores form submissions.
• Vercel hosts the site and keeps standard server logs.
• Resend delivers the notification email that tells us you wrote in.
• Google reCAPTCHA checks that a submission came from a person rather than a script. Google receives information about your interaction with the page in order to do this, under its own privacy policy and terms.
• Google Analytics records anonymous usage of the public site, such as which pages are read and roughly where readers are. It is not used to identify you and it does not run on our staging addresses.

Advertising and social media tools

We use advertising and measurement tools provided by social media and video platforms, so that we can show our advertising to people who are likely to find it useful and understand whether it worked. These tools may set cookies or similar identifiers in your browser and may tell the platform that you visited this site or a particular page on it. Some of them can match that activity to an account you already hold with that platform.

They do not receive anything you type into the contact form. We use them for our own advertising only, and we do not sell or otherwise hand over your information to them for their own purposes.

If you would rather not be measured this way, the controls that work best are the ones in your own browser and in your account settings on those platforms: blocking third-party cookies, using private browsing, or turning off ad personalization where the platform offers it.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it with advertisers for their own use. We do not add you to anyone else’s mailing list.

Booking a call takes you somewhere else

Scheduling happens on our practice management system at app.dogwoodos.ai, which is a separate application run by this firm. What you enter there is covered by the privacy notice published on that application.

How long we keep it

If your inquiry does not become a matter, we keep it only as long as it is useful to have a record of the conversation. If it does become a matter, the file is kept for as long as our professional obligations require, which is generally years rather than months.

Questions about your information

If you have a question about anything you have sent us, or about how it is being handled, write to info@dogwoodestateplanning.com or call (205) 469-8715 and ask.

Something important about contacting us

Sending this form does not make you a client and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Until an engagement agreement is signed, what you send us is not confidential and is not protected by attorney-client privilege. Please keep first messages general, and do not send anything sensitive until we have told you the firm is able to act for you. The full position is set out in our terms of use.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. We do not make changes retroactive to information already collected.