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 2026-08-23Privacy and data-use notice
Privacy Policy
This policy explains how Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation handles personal information in connection with steelyourcase.com and information a person chooses to send when contacting, scheduling with, or engaging the firm. The verified website implementation described here was substantively reviewed on August 23, 2026. The firm is located at 2000 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200B, Gretna, Louisiana 70056.
Direct answer
What information does the current website process?
On an ordinary visit, Cloudflare processes technical and security traffic needed to deliver and protect the site. The current production website uses Metricool’s JavaScript visit tracker for aggregate audience measurement. According to Metricool, the tracker records the page viewed and derives country from the connection IP, does not set cookies or assign a persistent visitor identifier, and does not store the visitor’s IP address. The site does not operate a site-hosted intake form, advertising pixel, public AI or chat tool, embedded payment system, or site-authored browser storage. If a person chooses to email, call, or follow the Proton Calendar booking link, the information that person provides is processed for that communication, scheduling, conflict review, consultation, or legal-service purpose. The firm does not sell personal information or use website data for cross-site targeted advertising.
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Who is responsible for information covered by this policy
Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation, at 2000 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 200B, Gretna, Louisiana 70056, is responsible for personal information for which the firm determines the purposes and means of processing. Privacy questions may be sent to [email protected].
This notice describes the verified public website and the firm’s own handling of information. Independent services, courts, agencies, consulates, communication providers, and linked websites may have their own privacy notices and legal obligations.
Information processed during a website visit or chosen interaction
For ordinary website traffic, Cloudflare may process technical and security information associated with delivering and protecting the site, including IP addresses, traffic-routing data, system or request information, and other information about traffic to and from the site. Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation is also active and injects a small decode script that helps protect displayed email addresses from automated harvesting.
The current production site does not contain a site-hosted contact or intake form. A person who chooses to email or telephone the firm decides what information to provide. A person who follows the external Proton Calendar booking link leaves steelyourcase.com and, on Proton’s booking page, provides the information required for the appointment, including name and email address. If a person later seeks legal services, the firm may receive matter facts, documents, identifiers, financial information, family or employment information, court or agency records, and other information relevant to the requested legal work.
Legal communications can contain sensitive information
Immigration and other legal matters can involve identity, immigration history, family relationships, employment, finances, criminal history, health or disability, religion, race or ethnicity, political activity, victim or safety information, and other highly sensitive facts. The amount and type of information needed depend on the matter and stage of representation.
Because the current public website has no intake form, visitors should not treat the website itself as a secure document-submission portal. In a first email, call, or booking request, provide only what is reasonably necessary to identify the matter and any known deadline. The firm can give instructions for more sensitive material when appropriate.
Why information is processed
Website technical data is processed to deliver pages, maintain availability, protect the site, resist abuse, troubleshoot network or security problems, and measure aggregate website visits through the Metricool tracker described below. Information a person voluntarily provides may be used to respond, schedule, conduct conflict review, prepare for or provide a consultation, evaluate a possible engagement, communicate, perform accepted legal work, maintain appropriate professional records, comply with legal or professional duties, and protect the rights and security of the firm and others.
Where a law requires a specific legal basis for processing, the applicable basis depends on the information, the person’s request, the legal-service relationship, professional obligations, and the governing law. This policy does not claim that a particular privacy statute applies when its jurisdictional or statutory requirements are not met.
Current site-level providers and other disclosures
Cloudflare currently provides the site’s edge delivery and security functions. Metricool provides cookie-free audience measurement for page visits. Metricool states that its tracker records the page viewed and country derived from the connection IP, does not set cookies or assign persistent visitor identifiers, and does not store the visitor’s IP address. Proton Calendar is used only after a visitor chooses the external scheduling link, and Proton Mail is the verified mail provider for the firm’s domain. These services process information according to their roles and their own terms and privacy notices.
Information connected with an actual inquiry or accepted legal matter may also be disclosed to authorized representatives, co-counsel, interpreters, experts, investigators, courts, agencies, consulates, opposing parties, vendors, or others when authorized, reasonably necessary for the requested or accepted service, required by law or professional duty, or necessary to protect rights and safety. Those matter-specific disclosures are not ordinary website-tracking activity. The firm does not sell personal information or disclose website data for cross-site targeted advertising.
Contact does not automatically create representation or privilege
The firm applies applicable professional duties to prospective-client and consultation information. Visiting the site, clicking an email or scheduling link, sending an email, placing a call, or booking a consultation does not by itself create ongoing representation. Broader representation begins only after conflict review and a written engagement that accepts the defined work.
Do not send another person’s confidential information, an adverse party’s information, passwords, or unnecessary sensitive records before the firm has confirmed an appropriate channel and scope. A public website is not an emergency filing system and does not preserve a court, agency, appeal, detention, removal, or other legal deadline.
Security measures reduce risk but cannot eliminate it
The firm uses administrative, technical, and physical safeguards appropriate to the information and the services in use. The current public website uses Cloudflare for edge delivery and security, and the firm uses Proton services for the verified scheduling and email flows described above.
No website, email system, calendar service, telephone, device, network, cloud service, postal service, or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure. Users should protect their devices and accounts and should use the contact method and level of detail appropriate to the sensitivity of the matter.
Retention depends on the purpose, provider, professional duties, and law
The firm does not publish a single retention period for every category of information because website-security data, appointment information, inquiries, conflict records, consultation records, active client files, billing records, and closed matters can have different purposes and obligations. Information is retained only as reasonably appropriate for the purpose and subject to applicable legal, professional, accounting, security, evidentiary, and litigation-hold requirements.
This policy does not invent Cloudflare or Proton account-level retention settings that have not been independently verified. Provider-controlled records are also subject to the applicable provider’s systems, settings, and terms.
International users and cross-border processing
The firm is located in the United States and provides U.S. legal services to some people and organizations outside the United States. Website infrastructure and communication or scheduling providers may process information across jurisdictions. Privacy protections and legal requirements can differ by location.
When applicable law requires a transfer mechanism or another safeguard, the firm evaluates the requirement in light of the actual processing and provider involved. This policy does not promise a particular data location or transfer mechanism when that fact has not been verified.
Privacy rights and requests depend on applicable law
Depending on the person’s location, the type of information, and the law that actually applies, a person may have rights concerning access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, consent, or information about processing. Requests may be sent to [email protected]. The firm may need to verify identity and authority and may need to preserve information because of confidentiality, conflicts, professional duties, legal claims, security, or record-retention obligations.
The Louisiana Data Privacy Act enacted in 2026 becomes effective January 1, 2027 and applies only when its statutory conditions are met. This policy does not represent that every right under that Act, the GDPR, UK data-protection law, or another privacy statute applies to every visitor or every firm record.
Current cookies, browser storage, analytics, advertising, and embedded tools
As of the September 9, 2026 implementation review, the public production pages deploy Metricool’s JavaScript tracker for aggregate audience measurement. Metricool states that this tracker does not set cookies, store information on the visitor’s device, assign a persistent visitor identifier, or store the visitor’s IP address; it records the page viewed and derives country from the connection IP. The site does not deploy an advertising pixel, site-authored local or session storage, a public AI or chat tool, an embedded payment system, an embedded scheduling widget, or a site-hosted intake form.
Cloudflare may nevertheless set strictly necessary security or traffic-management cookies when a Cloudflare feature or challenge requires them. Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation is active. The absence of a cookie on an ordinary page load is therefore not a promise that a visitor can never receive a security cookie.
Minors, policy changes, and contact
The public website is not designed as a consumer service directed to children. Legal matters handled by the firm can nevertheless concern minors, and information about a minor may be processed when a parent, guardian, the minor where law permits, a representative, court, agency, or another authorized person provides it for a legitimate legal-service purpose.
This version reflects the verified website implementation updated September 9, 2026 to disclose the Metricool audience-measurement tracker; the underlying substantive privacy review is dated August 23, 2026. The policy may change when the website, providers, services, or applicable law changes. Privacy questions may be sent to [email protected] 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 or use website data for targeted advertising?
No. The firm does not sell personal information and the current website does not use website data for cross-site targeted advertising.
Does steelyourcase.com currently use website analytics, an advertising pixel, a contact form, or a public AI assistant?
The site uses Metricool for aggregate, cookie-free audience measurement. It does not use an advertising pixel and does not operate a site-hosted contact or intake form, public AI or chat tool, embedded payment system, or site-authored browser storage.
What happens when I use the consultation scheduling link?
The scheduling link is an outbound link to Proton Calendar, not an embedded form on steelyourcase.com. After choosing to open Proton’s booking page, an attendee selects an available time and provides the booking information Proton requires, including name and email address.
Can a person request correction or deletion of information?
A person may send a request to the firm. The response depends on the law that applies and on professional, conflict, confidentiality, billing, security, litigation, legal-hold, and record-retention obligations that may require some information to be kept.
Will this policy change if the website adds new technology?
Yes. A new form, tracker, advertising tool, public assistant, payment system, media embed, browser-storage feature, or materially different provider requires privacy review before public activation, and this notice must be updated when the change materially alters the described data flows.
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.
2026 Act 502 (SB 386), Louisiana Data Privacy Act
future Louisiana privacy framework · consumer rights · controller obligations · applicability thresholds
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Protecting Personal Information: A Guide for Business
data minimization · security · retention · service providers
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Cloudflare Privacy Policy
edge processing · end-user traffic data · IP addresses · security and network services
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Cloudflare Cookies
strictly necessary security cookies · challenge cookies · bot and traffic protection
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Email Address Obfuscation
email-address protection · injected decode script
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Use of Cookies in Metricool
website visit tracker · cookie-free audience measurement · page views · country derived from connection IP · no persistent visitor identifier
Source reviewed 2026-09-09How to connect your website or blog to Metricool
JavaScript tracker · asynchronous visit recording · page viewed · country detection · analytics timing
Source reviewed 2026-09-09How to use appointment scheduling in Proton Calendar
outbound appointment scheduling · name and email · booking details
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Proton Privacy Policy
Proton service privacy practices · mail and calendar services
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Data Protection in the EU
GDPR principles · data subject rights · international processing
Source reviewed 2026-08-23Regulation (EU) 2016/679, General Data Protection Regulation
lawful bases · special categories · rights · transfers and controller obligations
Source reviewed 2026-08-23The next useful move
Contact Steel & Associates, A Professional Law Corporation about personal information
Send a request to [email protected] with the person’s name, contact information, relationship to the information, the request, and enough detail 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.