Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 29, 2026
The Mundaca Law Firm, LLC (“Mundaca Law,” “the Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information we collect from visitors, prospective clients, clients, scholarship applicants, and others who interact with our website, communications, and services.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit our website, contact us, schedule a consultation, submit information through a form, communicate with us, apply for a scholarship, or otherwise interact with the Firm.
By using our website or submitting information to us, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
1. Important Notice About Legal Communications
By contacting Mundaca Law through this website, by phone, by email, by text message, through a contact form, by voicemail, or through any scheduling tool does not automatically create an attorney-client relationship.
Please do not submit confidential, highly sensitive, or time-sensitive information through the website unless and until the Firm has agreed to represent you or has specifically requested such information. Any attorney-client relationship is created only through a written engagement agreement signed or otherwise accepted by both you and the Firm.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy limits the Firm’s professional obligations to protect client confidences, attorney-client privileged communications, or information protected by applicable rules of professional conduct.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through our website, and from third parties when appropriate for legal, business, operational, or compliance purposes.
Information You Provide to Us
When you contact us, schedule a consultation, submit an inquiry, apply for a scholarship, or communicate with the Firm, we may collect information such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Mailing address
- State or location
- Area of legal need, such as employment law, business law, corporate matters, or crisis management
- Information about your employment, business, salary, dispute, deadline, or legal concern
- Documents, facts, messages, or descriptions you choose to provide
- Payment or billing-related information, when applicable
- Scholarship application information, including school information, academic records, contact details, and other materials submitted as part of an application
- Any other information you voluntarily provide to us
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages visited
- Time spent on the website
- Referring website or search engine
- General location information derived from your device or IP address
- Website interaction data
- Cookie, pixel, analytics, and advertising-related data
Information From Third Parties
We may receive information from third parties, including:
- Referral sources
- Co-counsel, opposing counsel, courts, agencies, investigators, consultants, or professional advisors
- Public records and publicly available sources
- Business partners, vendors, or service providers
- Online platforms, analytics providers, advertising platforms, or scheduling tools
- Payment processors or client-management platforms, when applicable
3. Sensitive Information
As Mundaca Law provides employment law, business law, litigation, and crisis management services, information submitted to us may include sensitive information. This may include employment history, salary information, workplace allegations, disability-related information, pregnancy or breastfeeding-related information, immigration or citizenship-related facts, financial information, business disputes, confidential business information, or other sensitive details relevant to a legal matter.
We collect and use sensitive information only as reasonably necessary to evaluate inquiries, conduct conflict checks, provide legal services, communicate with you, comply with legal or professional obligations, or for another purpose permitted by law.
You should avoid submitting highly sensitive information through a website form unless necessary for your inquiry or specifically requested by the Firm.
4. How We Use Information
We may use personal information for the following purposes:
- To respond to inquiries and consultation requests
- To evaluate whether the Firm may be able to assist you
- To conduct conflict checks
- To schedule consultations or meetings
- To provide legal services to clients
- To communicate with prospective clients, clients, vendors, courts, agencies, and other parties
- To manage client relationships and legal matters
- To process payments, invoices, retainers, or billing-related matters
- To administer scholarship applications
- To improve our website, marketing, communications, and client intake process
- To analyze website performance and user experience
- To deliver relevant content, advertising, or remarketing, where permitted by law
- To maintain website security and prevent fraud, misuse, or unauthorized access
- To comply with legal, regulatory, ethical, and professional obligations
- To enforce our rights, protect our interests, and respond to legal process
5. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, advertising tools, and similar technologies. These technologies help us understand website traffic, improve website performance, measure marketing campaigns, remember preferences, protect the website from misuse, and deliver relevant information to visitors.
These tools may include, but are not limited to:
- Website analytics tools
- Google Analytics
- Google Ads or similar advertising tools
- Meta/Facebook advertising tools or pixels
- CAPTCHA or anti-spam tools
- Scheduling, form, or website-security tools
These technologies may collect information such as your IP address, device information, browser type, pages visited, referral source, and interactions with our website.
You may be able to limit or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect how the website functions. Some advertising or analytics providers may also offer separate opt-out tools.
Where legally required, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before using certain cookies, advertising pixels, or tracking technologies.
6. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging personal information for money. We may share information when necessary or appropriate for legal, operational, business, professional, or compliance purposes.
We may share information with:
Service Providers
We may share information with vendors that help us operate the Firm, including website providers, hosting providers, intake platforms, scheduling tools, payment processors, email platforms, marketing vendors, analytics providers, IT providers, cybersecurity providers, document-management providers, and other professional service providers.
Legal and Professional Purposes
We may share information with attorneys, co-counsel, courts, agencies, mediators, arbitrators, consultants, experts, investigators, accountants, insurers, or other parties when necessary to evaluate, pursue, defend, or manage a legal matter.
Compliance and Legal Obligations
We may disclose information when required or permitted by law, court order, subpoena, professional obligation, regulatory requirement, or legal process.
Business Operations
If the Firm undergoes a business transition, restructuring, merger, transfer, or similar event, information may be transferred as part of that process, subject to applicable law and professional obligations.
Advertising and Analytics Partners
If we use online advertising or analytics tools, limited website interaction data may be shared with advertising or analytics partners to measure campaign performance, improve our website, or deliver relevant content. Where applicable, you may have the right to opt out of certain targeted advertising or sharing.
7. Text Messages, Calls, and Mobile Information
If you provide your phone number, we may contact you by phone or text message regarding your inquiry, consultation, legal matter, appointment, or related communications. Message and data rates may apply.
If the Firm uses text messaging for appointment reminders, intake follow-up, or other communications, you may opt out of non-essential text messages by replying “STOP” or by contacting us directly.
We do not sell mobile phone numbers. We do not share mobile opt-in information or text messaging consent with third parties for their independent marketing or promotional purposes. We may share such information with service providers only as necessary to deliver Firm-related communications.
8. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or misuse.
However, no website, email system, contact form, text message, or online transmission is completely secure. You should use caution when submitting information online. If your matter is urgent or highly sensitive, please call the Firm directly.
If we become aware of a security incident affecting personal information, we will take steps as required by applicable law and professional obligations.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, provide legal services, manage client relationships, conduct conflict checks, comply with legal and professional obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, maintain business records, and protect the Firm’s rights.
Even if the Firm does not represent you, we may retain limited information about your inquiry to document communications, conduct conflict checks, comply with professional obligations, and manage risk.
10. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we maintain about you
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Request a copy of certain personal information
- Opt out of certain targeted advertising, sales, or sharing of personal information, where applicable
- Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable
- Appeal a decision regarding a privacy request, where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
These rights are not absolute and may be limited by legal, ethical, professional, evidentiary, conflict-check, litigation, client-file, or recordkeeping obligations.
To submit a privacy request, please contact us using the information listed in the “Contact Us” section below. We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights available under applicable law.
11. Marketing Communications
If you sign up for updates, newsletters, webinars, events, or other communications, we may use your contact information to send you Firm-related content.
You may opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us directly. Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you non-marketing communications related to consultations, legal services, billing, appointments, or other necessary matters.
12. Third-Party Websites and Tools
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, scheduling tools, payment processors, social media pages, or other services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of those third parties.
Your use of third-party websites or tools is subject to their own privacy policies and terms.
13. CAPTCHA and Anti-Spam Tools
Our website may use CAPTCHA or similar tools to protect against spam, fraud, and automated misuse. These tools may collect certain device, browser, or interaction information to determine whether a visitor is human.
14. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate consent. If you believe a child has submitted personal information to us, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.
15. State-Specific Privacy Rights
Residents of certain states may have additional privacy rights under applicable law. The availability and scope of these rights may depend on the state, the nature of the information, the relationship between you and the Firm, and whether a legal exemption applies.
The Firm will respond to applicable privacy requests in accordance with governing law, professional obligations, and any relevant exemptions for legal services, privileged information, litigation records, client files, conflict-check information, or attorney work product.
16. Do Not Track and Preference Signals
Some browsers or devices may transmit “Do Not Track” or similar signals. Because there is no uniform standard for responding to all such signals, our website may not respond to every browser-based signal.
Where required by applicable law, we will honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals in the manner required.
17. International Visitors
Mundaca Law is based in the United States, and our website is intended for use by individuals located in the United States. If you access our website from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location.
18. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date above. Changes become effective when posted unless otherwise stated.
Your continued use of the website after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means you acknowledge the revised policy.
19. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to submit a privacy request, you may contact Mundaca Law at:
The Mundaca Law Firm, LLC
1997 Annapolis Exchange Parkway, Suite 300
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: (202) 474-8500
Website: www.mundacalaw.com
You may also contact us through the contact form available on our website.