Effective date: June 26, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Billeci Kardas Law, PLLC ("the Firm," "we," "us," or "our") handles information collected through our website at billecikardas.com (the "Website"). Please read it carefully. By using the Website, you accept the practices described here.
What this policy covers, and what it does not. This policy governs information about visitors to our Website. It does not govern information you provide to us as a client, or in the course of a legal matter, once an attorney-client relationship is formed. Client and matter information is protected by attorney-client privilege, our professional duty of confidentiality, and the terms of your written engagement with the Firm, not by this policy.
Contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship. Sending us an email or leaving a voicemail does not make you a client, and information you send before we have agreed in writing to represent you may not be treated as confidential or privileged. Please do not send us sensitive, time-sensitive, or confidential information until an attorney-client relationship has been established in writing.
If you have questions about this policy, contact us at privacy@billecikardas.com.

1. Information We Collect
Information collected automatically
When you visit the Website, certain information is collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies, including:

• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address

• Your browser type and device characteristics

• Your internet service provider's domain

• Your approximate geographic location, derived from your IP address

• The pages you view, the links you click, and the dates and times of your visits

We use this information to keep the Website running, understand how it is used, and improve it. See Section 2 (Cookies and Analytics) for details and your choices.
Information you provide directly
Our Website does not have contact forms, account sign-ups, payment features, or newsletter subscriptions. The only way you provide information directly is if you choose to email us or call the phone numbers listed on the Website. In that case, you provide whatever information you include, typically your name, email address or phone number, and the content of your message.
We do not sell your information, send marketing text messages or calls, or send marketing emails.

2. Cookies and Analytics
The Website uses cookies and similar technologies for two purposes:

• Website functionality, provided by our hosting platform, Wix. Some of these cookies are strictly necessary for the site to load and operate.

• Analytics, provided by Google Analytics and Wix analytics tools, which help us understand aggregate traffic and usage patterns.

You can control cookies in several ways:

• Browser settings. Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the Website to stop working.

• Google Analytics opt-out. You can install Google's browser add-on to prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data.

• Global Privacy Control (GPC). We honor recognized universal opt-out signals, such as GPC, sent by your browser or a browser extension.

3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information described above to:

• Operate, maintain, and secure the Website

• Understand how the Website is used and improve it

• Respond to you if you contact us by email or phone

• Protect against unauthorized access, misuse, or security threats

• Comply with our legal and professional obligations
   

4. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it for targeted advertising. We share information only as follows:

• Service providers. We share information with the vendors who help us operate the Website, principally Wix (hosting) and Google (analytics). These providers process data on our behalf and are limited to the purposes we specify.

• Legal and safety reasons. We may disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to comply with the law, respond to a valid subpoena or government request, enforce our terms, or protect the rights, property, or safety of the Firm or others. Unless prohibited by law, we will try to notify you before disclosing your information in response to such a request.

• Business transfers. If the Firm is involved in a merger, reorganization, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction. If a different privacy policy would apply to your information as a result, we will notify you first.
   

5. Artificial Intelligence and Language Models
We do not use or sell your personal data to develop or train large language models or other artificial intelligence systems.

6. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding personal data we hold about you:

• The right to know and access what personal data we have collected and how we use it

• The right to obtain a copy of your personal data in a portable format, where technically feasible

• The right to correct inaccurate personal data

• The right to delete personal data we have collected from you

• The right to opt out of the sale of personal data or its use for targeted advertising. We do not sell personal data or use it for targeted advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of; we honor Global Privacy Control signals regardless.

The specific rights available to you depend on your state of residence and on whether a given law applies to us. See Section 12 (State-Specific Disclosures).
How to exercise your rights. Email us at privacy@billecikardas.com or write to us at the address in Section 15. We will verify your identity by matching the information you provide with information we already hold, or by requesting additional information solely to confirm your identity. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, in which case we will verify both your identity and your agent's authority.
Our response. We will respond to your request within forty-five (45) days of receipt. We may extend that period once, as permitted by law, and will tell you if we do.
Appeals. If we decline your request, you may appeal by writing to us at the same address or email. We will respond to your appeal in writing within sixty (60) days and, if we deny it, explain why and tell you about any further options available to you.
No discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

7. Do Not Track and Opt-Out Signals
We honor recognized universal opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control. Because there is no common industry standard for "Do Not Track" browser signals, we do not separately respond to them at this time.

8. Data Security and Breach Notification
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, use, loss, or alteration, consistent with New York's Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (the "SHIELD Act") and the Florida Information Protection Act ("FIPA"). We also take reasonable measures to securely dispose of records containing personal information when they are no longer needed, and we review our safeguards periodically. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
If a breach of security affecting your personal information occurs, we will notify you, and any regulators, within the time and manner required by applicable law, including the SHIELD Act and FIPA.
In particular, email is not a secure channel. Please do not send confidential or sensitive information to us by email. If you believe your interaction with the Website or the Firm has been compromised, contact us immediately at privacy@billecikardas.com.

9. Data Retention
We keep information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, to operate and secure the Website, or as required by law and our professional obligations, after which we take reasonable steps to delete, destroy, or de-identify it.

10. Children's Privacy
The Website is intended for adults and is not directed to minors. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly sell or share a minor's data or use it for targeted advertising. If you believe someone under 18 has provided us with personal data, contact us at privacy@billecikardas.com and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

11. Third-Party Links
The Website may contain links to third-party websites we do not operate or control. This policy does not apply to those sites, and we are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any site you visit.

12. State-Specific Disclosures
We serve clients in New York, Connecticut, and Florida. Your rights depend on your state of residence.
Connecticut residents. Under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), you have the rights described in Section 6, including the right to access, correct, delete, and obtain a portable copy of your personal data; the right to opt out of the sale of personal data, targeted advertising, and certain profiling; and the right to appeal a denied request. We honor Global Privacy Control signals. We do not sell your personal data, use it for targeted advertising, or use or sell it to train large language models.

Florida residents. Florida's comprehensive privacy law (the Florida Digital Bill of Rights) applies only to certain very large businesses, and we are not one of them, so its specific consumer rights do not apply to us. We nonetheless protect your information under the Florida Information Protection Act (FIPA), which requires reasonable security measures, secure disposal of records, and timely breach notification, and we voluntarily extend the request process in Section 6 to you.

New York residents. New York does not currently have a comprehensive consumer privacy law granting access or deletion rights. We protect your information under the SHIELD Act, which requires reasonable data-security safeguards and breach notification, and we voluntarily extend the request process in Section 6 to you.
The scope of these rights varies by state, and certain exceptions apply.

13. International and Out-of-State Users
We operate in the United States, and our service providers (including Wix and Google) may process and store information on servers located in the United States or other jurisdictions. If you access the Website from outside these areas, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in locations whose data-protection laws may differ from those where you live.

14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. When we make significant changes, we will post a prominent notice on the Website and update the "Effective date" above. Please review this policy periodically.

15. Contact Us
Billeci Kardas Law, PLLC Attn: Privacy [2222 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Suite 6-117, Miami FL 33134]
Email: privacy@billecikardas.com