La. R.S. 51:3074, Protection of Personal Information and Breach Notification
reasonable security procedures · destruction of retained personal information · breach notification · service-provider data
Source reviewed 2026-07-31Privacy and data-use notice
Privacy Policy
This policy explains how Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation collects, uses, discloses, protects, and retains personal information through steelyourcase.com, consultation scheduling, intake, communications, and legal services. The firm is based at 2000 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200B, Gretna, Louisiana 70056. This policy is written for U.S. users and for people abroad, including people in Poland and the European Economic Area, who contact the firm about U.S. legal services.
Direct answer
What information does the firm collect and why?
The firm collects information a person submits, information needed to evaluate or provide legal services, basic technical and security information generated through use of the site, and records from service providers used for scheduling, communication, payment, file handling, or operations. The information is used to route inquiries, conduct conflict review, schedule and provide consultations, evaluate and perform engagements, communicate, bill, maintain records, comply with law and professional duties, protect systems and people, and improve the site. The firm does not sell personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
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Who controls the information covered by this policy
Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation, at 2000 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200B, Gretna, Louisiana 70056, is the controller or responsible business for personal information it determines how and why to process through the website, intake, consultation, and firm operations. Questions may be sent to matthew@steelyourcase.com.
This policy does not control the independent practices of courts, agencies, consulates, payment processors, scheduling providers, email or file providers, social networks, linked websites, or another lawyer or organization. Their notices may also apply.
Information the firm may collect
Information provided directly may include names, contact information, language, location, identity and immigration information, family and relationship information, employment and organizational records, financial and payment information, court and agency records, criminal history, health or disability information, victim or safety information, consultation details, documents, messages, and other facts submitted for legal review.
Technical information may include IP address, browser and device data, pages requested, referring page, approximate region, security logs, form activity, cookie or local-storage identifiers, and information needed to prevent abuse and operate the site. The implementation should collect only what is reasonably needed for the stated purpose.
Legal matters can involve sensitive, special-category, and criminal-offense information
Immigration, family, humanitarian, criminal, employment, health, religious, racial or ethnic, political, biometric, sexual-life, financial, and safety information may be necessary to evaluate or provide legal services. The firm processes such information when the person requests legal services, when necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, to comply with professional or legal duties, to protect vital interests, with consent where required, or under another lawful basis.
Do not submit sensitive information through a public field unless the form requests it and the channel is appropriate. Use a safe device when abuse, trafficking, detention, employer control, family conflict, or surveillance creates risk.
Purposes and lawful bases for processing
The firm may process information to respond to a request, take steps at the person’s request before entering an engagement, perform a contract for legal services, conduct conflict checks, schedule and provide consultations, communicate, investigate facts, prepare legal work, bill and collect payment, maintain professional records, comply with court and agency duties, prevent fraud or security incidents, enforce terms, and protect legal rights.
For EEA and UK users, lawful bases may include consent, steps requested before a contract, performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations, protection of vital interests, and the firm’s legitimate interests in operating and securing the practice and providing requested U.S. legal services, balanced against the person’s rights. The basis depends on the data and purpose.
When information may be disclosed
Information may be disclosed to the person, authorized representatives, co-counsel, interpreters, experts, investigators, vendors, courts, agencies, consulates, law-enforcement bodies, opposing parties, insurers, auditors, payment or scheduling providers, file and communication providers, and others when authorized, necessary for the requested service, required by law or professional duty, or reasonably necessary to protect rights and safety.
Service providers should receive only the access reasonably needed and be subject to appropriate confidentiality, security, and contractual controls. The firm does not sell personal information and does not disclose it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Prospective-client confidentiality is important, but contact does not automatically create privilege or representation
The firm treats prospective-client and consultation information according to applicable professional obligations, conflict rules, and law. Visiting the site, submitting a form, scheduling or paying before a consultation occurs, or sending an unsolicited document does not by itself create ongoing representation. An accepted consultation may create limited professional duties within that review, but responsibility for the broader matter begins only when expressly accepted.
Do not send information about another person’s confidential matter, an adverse party, a deadline, or a matter the firm has not accepted when disclosure could create risk. The firm may be required to limit review or preserve information for conflict, legal, security, or professional reasons.
Security measures reduce risk but cannot eliminate it
The firm uses administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information and the practice. Measures may include access controls, authentication, encryption where supported, secure providers, backups, logging, device and account protections, staff procedures, and incident response.
No website, email system, cloud service, telephone, postal service, or storage method is completely secure. Users should protect devices and accounts, use secure networks, avoid shared passwords, and notify the firm of suspected exposure.
Information is retained according to purpose, law, professional duties, and risk
The firm may retain inquiry and conflict-check records even when representation is not accepted so that it can document contact, protect confidentiality and conflicts, prevent fraud, and comply with professional duties. Consultation, client, billing, trust, litigation, and closed-file records use different retention periods.
Information is deleted, anonymized, returned, or archived when reasonably appropriate, subject to legal holds, court and agency obligations, limitation periods, tax and accounting rules, professional responsibilities, security backups, and the need to establish or defend legal claims.
International users and transfers to the United States
The firm is located in the United States, and information submitted from Poland, the EEA, the United Kingdom, or another country will ordinarily be processed in the United States. U.S. privacy law may differ from the law where the person lives.
When applicable law requires transfer safeguards, the firm and relevant providers may use contractual protections, adequacy mechanisms, consent, necessity for requested legal services or legal claims, or another lawful transfer mechanism. A person should not submit information if the person cannot lawfully transfer it or lacks authority to provide it.
Privacy rights and requests
Depending on location and applicable law, a person may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, withdrawal of consent, or information about processing and disclosures. Requests may be sent to matthew@steelyourcase.com. Identity, authority, exceptions, privilege, professional duties, legal claims, and retention obligations must be verified before a request is completed.
EEA and UK users may also have the right to complain to the data-protection authority where they live or work or where an alleged infringement occurred. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing already lawful before withdrawal and does not require deletion when another lawful basis or retention duty applies.
Cookies, local storage, analytics, and embedded services
The site may use strictly necessary cookies or storage for security, preferences, routing, forms, and basic functionality. Analytics or other nonessential technologies should be enabled only when implemented and disclosed accurately, with consent controls where required.
The firm does not authorize this policy to claim a cookie, analytics, advertising, chat, scheduling, payment, or embedded provider that is not actually present. The implementation record must identify active providers before publication.
Children, policy changes, and contact
The public website is not directed to children for independent use. Information concerning a child may be processed when a parent, guardian, child, representative, court, agency, or other authorized person requests legal services or when law permits the child to seek help directly. Safety and confidentiality controls are applied according to the matter.
The policy may be updated when services, providers, law, or practices change. The published version should display an effective date and material-change notice when appropriate. Privacy questions may be sent to matthew@steelyourcase.com or mailed to 2000 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200B, Gretna, Louisiana 70056.
Questions people actually ask
Frequently asked questions
Does the firm sell personal information?
No. The firm does not sell personal information and does not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Is information submitted before engagement confidential?
The firm applies applicable prospective-client and professional confidentiality rules, but submission does not automatically create an attorney-client relationship or privilege. Users should disclose only what is reasonably necessary through an appropriate channel.
Where is information from Poland or the EEA processed?
The firm is in the United States, so information submitted for U.S. legal services will ordinarily be processed in the United States and may also be processed by service providers in other disclosed locations under applicable safeguards.
Can a person request deletion?
A request may be made, but legal, professional, conflict, billing, security, litigation, and record-retention duties may require the firm to retain some information.
Does the site use advertising trackers?
The policy does not authorize behavioral advertising. The final implementation must disclose every active nonessential technology and obtain consent where required.
Authority and current-source review
Official sources supporting this page
These links identify primary or official materials used to control material legal and procedural statements. They are not a substitute for advice about a particular matter.
Protecting Personal Information: A Guide for Business
data minimization · security · retention · service providers
Source reviewed 2026-07-31Data Protection in the EU
GDPR principles · data subject rights · international processing
Source reviewed 2026-07-31Regulation (EU) 2016/679, General Data Protection Regulation
lawful bases · special categories · rights · transfers and controller obligations
Source reviewed 2026-07-31The next useful move
Contact Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation about personal information
Send a request to matthew@steelyourcase.com with the person’s name, contact information, relationship to the data, the request, and enough information to verify identity and locate the relevant record. Do not include passwords or unnecessary sensitive documents.
Important legal and service limitations
Contacting Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation, submitting an intake form, scheduling or paying for a consultation, sending documents, calling, texting, chatting, or emailing does not by itself create ongoing representation. A consultation that the firm accepts and conducts is limited to the scheduled review unless a written agreement states otherwise. Responsibility for filing, appearing, monitoring, or protecting a deadline begins only after conflict review and a written engagement agreement that expressly accepts that responsibility.
The website, email, voicemail, and public intake systems are not emergency filing systems and do not preserve a court, agency, appeal, detention, surrender, departure, or statutory deadline.