Privacy

What This Site Collects

This site uses Google Analytics to measure visits in aggregate — which pages are viewed, roughly how a visitor arrived, and general location and device type. Google Analytics sets cookies and loads a script from Google's servers to do this. Beyond that and the inquiry form below, this site sets no other cookies and loads no other scripts, fonts, images, or embeds from any third party.

If You Use the Inquiry Form

What you type is sent to ADG and stored in ADG's internal client and matter management system. The web server records that a submission arrived and, to limit abuse, a one-way hash of the originating network address — not the address itself. Nothing is sold, shared, or used for advertising.

Retention

Inquiries that do not become engagements are kept while they might reasonably lead to one, and then deleted. Where an inquiry becomes an engagement, the client file is retained for at least seven years after the engagement ends. That period is set to meet or exceed every retention period that can apply to ADG's records: the IRS generally requires business records supporting a tax return to be kept at least three years, and employment-tax records at least four; Texas requires records supporting a state tax filing to be kept at least four years, and the general Texas limitations period for a contract claim is four years (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.004); and professional recordkeeping standards that can apply to psychological or evaluation records call for at least seven years after an engagement ends, or five years past a minor's eighteenth birthday, whichever is longer. Where a client's home state or a specific professional obligation requires a longer period, ADG applies that period instead.

Your Choices

If your browser sends a recognized opt-out signal such as Global Privacy Control, this site honors it automatically and Google Analytics does not load at all. You can also turn analytics off directly, on this device:

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Texas residents have rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act to access, correct, delete, and obtain a portable copy of the personal data ADG holds about them, and to opt out of its sale, targeted advertising, and certain profiling. ADG does not sell personal data and does not use it for targeted advertising. Visitors from other states may have similar rights under their own state's law; rather than work out which law technically applies to a given visitor, ADG extends the same rights described here to anyone who asks, wherever they live. To exercise any of these rights — access, a copy, a correction, or deletion — write to ADG and say what you want. ADG will do so unless a legal or professional obligation requires otherwise, and will say which if that is the case.