Privacy Policy

This website is published by James T. Lang, Esq., doing business as Jim Lang Waterfront Law, to provide information about Virginia waterfront, riparian, maritime, and environmental property law. This policy explains what we collect when you visit, how we use it, and the choices you have. Nothing on this site creates an attorney-client relationship, and submitting information through this site does not make us your attorneys. This site is intended for residents of the United States, and our privacy practices are governed by U.S. law.

Because this site serves only U.S. residents, we use the country associated with your Internet Protocol (IP) address to restrict access from outside the United States. This country-level check is used solely to enforce that restriction and to protect the site from abuse.

Information you give us

When you use our contact form or call us, we collect the details you choose to provide — your name, email address, phone number, and the description of your situation. We use this only to respond to you, evaluate whether we can help, and maintain our records.

Information we collect automatically

We use cookies, browser storage, server logs, and similar technologies to understand how our content is used, to maintain the security and reliability of the site, and to improve the user experience. For each visit we may record:

• A persistent visitor identifier stored in a first-party cookie on your browser for up to two years. It lets us recognize a returning browser and connect the pages viewed across separate visits into a single browsing history.
• Session details — the pages you view, the order you view them in, entry and exit pages, and how long you spend on each page.
• Device and browser information — device type (mobile, tablet, or desktop), operating system, browser, screen size, language, and time zone.
• IP address — the Internet Protocol address assigned to your device at the time of your visit, which may be stored in our logs and used by us and our service providers for security, fraud prevention, compliance, approximate geolocation, and to improve site performance and user experience.
• Approximate location — city, state or region, and country, derived from your IP address.
• How you found us — the referring website or search engine and any campaign parameters in the link you followed (for example Google advertising tags).

How contact submissions connect to browsing history

If you submit our contact form, we associate the name and email address you provide with the persistent visitor identifier described above. This means we can see the pages that browser viewed before and after your inquiry, the device used, the approximate location, and the source that brought you to the site. We do this to understand which information was useful to you, to prepare for our first conversation, and to measure which outreach actually helps Virginia waterfront owners find counsel. This information is visible only to our firm and the personnel who maintain this website. If you would rather not have your browsing history linked to your inquiry, decline analytics using the button below before you submit the form, or call us instead at 757-919-4419.

Third-party services we use

We use the following service providers in connection with this website:

• Google Analytics and Google Ads — traffic measurement and advertising conversion tracking, including recording when a visitor clicks our phone number or reaches certain pages.
• Microsoft Clarity — usage analytics and heatmaps to understand how visitors interact with the site.
• Cloudflare — content delivery, security, and spam prevention on our forms.
• Resend — delivery of the emails generated by our contact form.

These providers process data on our behalf under their own privacy terms. They may receive information described above, including IP address, device and browser details, pages viewed, and referral source, to help us secure the site, comply with legal obligations, and improve how the site performs and is experienced. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with anyone other than the service providers above and, where required, as compelled by law.

Your choices

You can decline analytics at any time. Declining deletes the persistent visitor identifier from your browser, stops all first-party visit tracking, and signals a denied consent state to the analytics and advertising services listed above. Essential functions of the site continue to work normally.

You may also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and use Google’s own opt-out tools for Google Analytics. Most browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting; because there is no common standard for honoring it, we rely on the choice you make here instead.

Your rights under U.S. privacy laws

Depending on where you live in the United States, you may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, to ask us to delete it, or to opt out of targeted advertising and the sale or sharing of personal information. These rights may apply under laws such as the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA), and other U.S. consumer privacy laws.

To make a request, email us at [email protected]. We will verify your request and respond within the time period the applicable law requires. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

Certain information may be exempt from these rights, for example when we must retain it to comply with legal or ethical obligations, to maintain our records, or to protect the rights of our clients and others.

Retention and security

Website analytics records, including visitor and session history, are retained for 24 months and then deleted. Contact form submissions and related correspondence are retained in accordance with our professional recordkeeping obligations. Data is stored with access limited to our firm and the personnel who maintain this website, and is protected in transit by encryption.

Server and security logs, which may include IP addresses and other technical information, are retained for as long as reasonably necessary for security, compliance, and operational purposes.

Children

This site is intended for adults seeking legal information. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy as our practices or the law change; the effective date above reflects the latest version. Questions about this policy can be directed to:

By phone at 757-919-4419, or by email at [email protected].