Effective 15 November 2026
This policy explains how Gil Esq PLLC handles information collected through this website, gil-esq.com. It applies to the website only.
It does not govern information you provide once you become a client. Client information is protected by the attorney-client privilege and the Rules of Professional Conduct in New York and Washington, which impose obligations considerably stricter than any website policy.
Do not use the contact form, or email, to send confidential or sensitive information before we have agreed in writing to represent you.
Sending a message through this site does not create an attorney-client relationship. Information you send before an engagement exists may not be protected in the way you expect, and may prevent this firm from acting for you or for someone else in a related matter. Describe your situation in general terms and we can discuss the detail once a relationship is established.
The contact form asks for your first name, last name, email address, company name and a message. All of it is voluntary; you can email or telephone instead using the details at the end of this page.
Like most websites, this one records technical information when you visit: your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view, the page that referred you, and the date and time. This comes from the hosting provider's server logs and from analytics, described below.
This site sets no cookies of its own. It does load two Google tags on every page, and these set cookies in your browser:
G-7GENFY3MDN) — records which pages are viewed, how visitors arrive, roughly where they are, and what device and browser they use. It is used to understand which parts of the site are useful.AW-17641949907) — measures whether a visit that began with an advertisement led to an enquiry, and supports remarketing.Both are loaded through Google's gtag.js library from googletagmanager.com. Neither reads anything you type into the contact form.
You can block or delete these cookies in your browser settings, through Google's ad settings, or with Google's Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The site works normally without them.
Four third parties are involved. All are US-based.
Hosts the website and stores contact form submissions. Netlify receives the technical information in its server logs.
Google is involved in three separate ways. Google Analytics 4 measures how the site is used. Google Ads supports advertising and conversion measurement. And the site's typefaces are served from Google Fonts, which means Google receives your IP address on every page load whether or not you interact with anything, and whether or not you have blocked the first two.
Information collected by Analytics and Ads is processed by Google under its own privacy policy and may be combined with data Google holds from other sites and services.
When you submit the contact form, the information in it is sent to HubSpot so the enquiry can be managed and followed up. This happens server-side, after you press submit. HubSpot does not set cookies on this site and does not track your browsing here.
Form submissions and direct enquiries arrive in the firm's email, which is operated by Microsoft.
To respond to your enquiry and to carry out the work if an engagement follows. To understand which pages of the site are useful and how people find it. To measure advertising. To meet professional, record-keeping and legal obligations.
Gil Esq PLLC does not sell personal information for money.
Some US state privacy laws treat the use of advertising cookies as "sharing" personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, even where no money changes hands. If you would rather that did not happen, the opt-out methods above stop it.
Contact form submissions and enquiry correspondence are retained for as long as needed to respond and, where an engagement follows, for the period required by professional record-keeping obligations in New York and Washington. Analytics data is retained according to Google's own retention settings. Server logs are retained by the hosting provider under its standard terms.
You may ask what personal information the firm holds about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, subject to the professional obligations that require certain records to be kept. Write to the address at the end of this page.
Residents of California and of other states with comprehensive privacy laws have specific statutory rights, including the right to know what is collected, to request deletion, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. Exercising these rights will not change how your enquiry is treated.
The site is served over HTTPS and the services described above are operated by established providers with their own security programmes. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, which is the practical reason for the request at the top of this page not to send confidential material through the form.
This site is directed at businesses and is not intended for children. The firm does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
This policy may be updated as the site changes. The effective date below records the current version.
Questions about this policy, or requests relating to your information:
Gil Esq PLLC
Raphael Gil, Esq.
Email: raphael@gil-esq.com
Telephone: 425-610-9197
Seattle, Washington