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Online Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 4, 2026

Lawbamba.com (“Lawbamba,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates an online directory that helps people find and compare attorneys, and lets attorneys claim and manage their own listings. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through lawbamba.com and its related features (collectively, the “Site”), how we use and share it, and the choices available to you. It applies to visitors searching for an attorney, registered users, attorneys with a claimed profile, and anyone who submits a case description, question, or review through the Site.

On this page

  1. Information We Collect
  2. Information Collected Automatically
  3. Attorney Data From Other Sources
  4. How We Use Information
  5. How We Share Information
  6. Cookies, Analytics & Advertising
  7. Your Choices & Privacy Rights
  8. Data Retention
  9. Security
  10. Not Legal Advice; No Confidentiality
  11. Children’s Privacy
  12. Third-Party Links
  13. Changes to This Policy
  14. Contact Us

1. Information We Collect

Accounts & sign-in

If you register for a Lawbamba account, we collect your email address and a securely hashed password (we never store your password in plain text). If you sign in with Google or Facebook instead, we receive your name, email address, profile photo, and a unique identifier for that account from the provider — we do not receive your password on those providers.

Your profile, favorites & saved searches

Registered users can save favorite attorney listings and saved searches to their account, and add optional profile details through “My Lawbamba.” This information is tied to your account and used to power those features (e.g., showing your saved attorneys when you log back in).

Case description ("Get matched with an attorney" / case-intake widget)

This is the most sensitive information the Site collects. When you use the case-intake widget on an attorney profile, near-me, state, or home page to describe your legal situation, we collect your name, email address, phone number (optional), ZIP/city/state, the practice area you selected, and the free-text description you write. That description can include details about arrests or criminal charges, immigration status, injuries or medical information, family or custody matters, or other sensitive facts about your situation — only include what you’re comfortable sharing. We also log the submitting IP address and the page you submitted from, which we use to detect spam and abuse.

Depending on how you submit it, your case description is either (a) sent to the specific attorney whose profile you were viewing, after a brief admin review, or (b) matched against attorneys who serve your issue and location, subject to admin review before anything is sent. We do not sell this information, and we do not use it for purposes unrelated to connecting you with an attorney and improving that matching process.

Attorney claim & profile management

If you claim an attorney profile, we collect the information you submit to verify and manage that listing — your name, firm name, phone number, street address, a professional bio, and a profile photo — and we associate it with the attorney record you claimed. Claiming a profile is a paid subscription; payment card details are entered directly into Stripe, our payment processor, and are never transmitted to or stored on Lawbamba’s own servers. We retain the billing identifiers Stripe returns to us (such as a customer ID, subscription ID, and invoice/payment status) so we can manage your subscription, show you billing history, and process refunds or cancellations.

Reviews

If you submit a review of an attorney, we collect the name and email address you provide along with your review text. Reviews are held for moderation and are not visible on the Site until approved; your email address is never published. If your review is approved, we may notify the reviewed attorney (at the professional email address associated with their listing) that a new review is available, unless that attorney has opted out of these notifications.

Q&A

Our Q&A feature lets you post legal questions and answers. Questions, answers, your display name, and any votes you cast are public by design — anyone visiting the Site can read them. Please do not include information in a public question that you want kept private; see Section 10.

Contact form & correspondence

If you email us or use our contact form, we collect whatever information you include (typically your name, email address, and message) so we can respond.

2. Information Collected Automatically

Like most websites, our servers automatically log technical information when you visit, including your IP address, browser and device type, referring page, pages viewed, and timestamps. We use this information for security, fraud and spam prevention (including on the case-intake and review forms), and to understand aggregate site usage. This log data does not, by itself, identify you by name.

3. Attorney Data We Obtain From Other Sources

Most attorney listings on the Site are not submitted by the attorney directly. We build and maintain the directory using the Avvo attorney-search API, which supplies attorney names, firm names, contact details, addresses, photos, and ratings from Avvo’s public directory. We separately display rating and review information sourced from publicly available Google Business Profile listings and Yelp, matched to the correct business listing before it is shown. If you are an attorney and want to correct, update, or remove this information, you can claim your profile (see above) or contact us at contactus@lawbamba.com.

We may also email attorneys whose listings we’ve compiled this way, at an address sourced the same way, to let them know their profile exists and can be claimed. Every such email includes a one-click opt-out, and honoring it permanently suppresses further outreach to that listing.

4. How We Use Information

  • To operate the Site: creating and securing your account, showing search results, and displaying claimed profiles, reviews, and Q&A content.
  • To connect consumers with attorneys: routing case-intake submissions to the attorney(s) you selected or that match your stated issue and location, after admin review.
  • To process payments: billing and managing attorney-claim subscriptions through Stripe.
  • To moderate user-submitted content: reviewing case descriptions, reviews, and Q&A posts for spam, abuse, or policy violations before they reach an attorney or go public.
  • To send transactional email: claim status and payment receipts, review-approval notices, lead notifications, and account-related messages.
  • To maintain security: detecting and preventing fraud, spam, and abuse (including through reCAPTCHA and IP-based rate limiting on public forms).
  • To improve the Site: understanding aggregate usage patterns and fixing problems.

We do not use your case description, review, or Q&A content to train third-party AI models, and we do not sell it to data brokers.

5. How We Share Information

  • Attorneys you contact. If you submit a case-intake request, your contact details and case description are shared with the specific attorney(s) it is routed to, once approved.
  • Attorneys’ practice-management software. If an attorney your request is routed to has connected practice-management software to Lawbamba (for example, Clio Grow), the same details are also delivered into that attorney’s account with that provider. That copy is then held by the attorney and the provider under their own terms and privacy policies. See our Clio integration page.
  • Service providers. We use Stripe to process payments (Stripe receives your payment details directly and acts as an independent processor), Google and Facebook for optional sign-in, Google reCAPTCHA for spam/bot protection on our public forms, and an email delivery mailbox to send transactional and outreach email. These providers only receive the information needed to perform their function for us.
  • Advertising. Unclaimed attorney profile pages may show contextual search ads served by Google AdSense, keyed to the practice area, city, and state shown on that page — not to your name or contact details. See Section 6 for more on how this works and your controls.
  • Legal requirements. We may disclose information if required by law, subpoena, or valid legal process, or in a good-faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Lawbamba, our users, or the public.
  • Business transfers. If Lawbamba is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, information you’ve provided may transfer as part of that transaction, subject to this Policy (or its successor).

We do not sell personal information for money. Some state privacy laws define “sale” or “share” broadly enough to cover certain advertising cookies — see Section 7 for how to opt out of that if you’re a California resident or otherwise covered by such a law.

6. Cookies, Analytics & Advertising

We use first-party cookies to keep you signed in and remember basic preferences. We use Google reCAPTCHA on our case-intake, review, and Q&A forms to block automated spam; Google’s handling of the data reCAPTCHA collects is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. Unclaimed attorney profile pages may load Google AdSense search ads, which can set third-party cookies used to serve and measure ads. You can control cookies through your browser settings, and you can manage Google’s ad personalization at adssettings.google.com. Blocking cookies may affect features like staying signed in.

7. Your Choices & Privacy Rights

Your account. If you have a Lawbamba account, you can review and correct your saved profile information from “My Lawbamba.” If you have a claimed attorney profile, you can edit your listing directly, or manage or cancel your subscription, from your claim dashboard.

Outreach emails. Every claim-invitation email we send includes a one-click unsubscribe link that permanently opts that listing out of future outreach.

Deleting your information. To request deletion or a copy of the personal information we hold about you, email contactus@lawbamba.com from the email address associated with your submission or account. We’ll verify the request comes from you before acting on it, and will respond within the time required by applicable law. We may keep limited records where retention is required for legal, security, or accounting reasons, as described in Section 8.

State privacy rights (e.g., California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and similar laws). Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information we’ve collected about you, request its deletion or correction, and opt out of “sale” or “sharing” as those laws define them (which can include certain advertising cookies, see Section 6). We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in Section 13; we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling the request.

8. Data Retention

We keep account information for as long as your account is active, and case-intake, review, and Q&A submissions for as long as needed to fulfill the purpose they were collected for and to meet our legal, security, and dispute-resolution obligations, after which we delete or anonymize them. Attorney directory data sourced from Avvo, Google, or Yelp is refreshed periodically and retained as part of the directory unless the attorney requests removal or claims and updates their profile.

When an attorney connects practice-management software, we keep the encrypted access tokens only while the connection is active and delete them as soon as it is disconnected. Delivery records (which lead went where, and whether it was delivered) don’t contain the inquiry text, and are deleted within 30 days of a verified deletion request.

9. Security

We use industry-standard safeguards to protect the information we collect, including encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS), hashed passwords, and access limited to personnel who need it to do their jobs. Payment card data is handled entirely by Stripe under its own PCI-compliant infrastructure and never touches our servers. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work to protect your information and will notify affected users as required by law in the event of a breach involving your personal information. More detail is in our Security Policy.

Submitting a case description, a Q&A question, a review, or any other content through the Site does not create an attorney–client relationship with Lawbamba or with any attorney listed on the Site, and is not protected by attorney–client privilege or treated as confidential, unless and until you separately retain an attorney and they confirm that relationship with you directly. Content you post in Q&A is public. Do not include information you consider confidential or privileged in anything you submit through the Site. If you are an attorney using the Site, you remain solely responsible for complying with the rules of professional conduct in your jurisdiction, including in how you respond to inquiries you receive through Lawbamba.

11. Children’s Privacy

The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us at contactus@lawbamba.com and we will delete it.

The Site may link to or display information from third-party websites (for example, an attorney’s own website, or Google/Yelp listings). This Policy does not apply to those third-party sites, and we encourage you to review their privacy practices separately.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we’ll update the “Last updated” date above. Continued use of the Site after a change becomes effective means you accept the updated Policy.

14. Contact Us

Questions, correction requests, or privacy rights requests can be sent to contactus@lawbamba.com.

This Privacy Policy works together with our Terms of Use, which governs your use of the Site more broadly.