Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 10, 2026

The Sanders Firm, P.C. (“the Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) recognizes that privacy is a substantive legal and ethical concern, particularly for individuals seeking legal guidance in immigration matters, civil-rights matters, and cases involving governmental or institutional power. Persons contacting the Firm may be dealing with sensitive issues involving immigration status, family relationships, employment, government notices, removal risk, humanitarian protection, prior arrests or summonses, workplace harm, discrimination, retaliation, or other private matters.

This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, disclosed, stored, and safeguarded when you access or interact with the Firm’s website. It also explains the limits of confidentiality before an attorney–client relationship is formed.

This policy applies only to information collected through this website. It does not govern information exchanged after a formal attorney–client relationship has been established. Once representation begins, communications and information are governed by the applicable rules of professional conduct, attorney–client privilege, confidentiality obligations, engagement terms, and applicable law.

The prior civil-rights privacy policy correctly recognized that privacy is not merely a technical issue but a legal and ethical concern, particularly for persons challenging institutional misconduct or seeking counsel against governmental or organizational power. That principle applies with equal force to immigration matters, where individuals may be required to disclose facts involving status, family, travel, employment, safety, detention risk, and government action.

Information Submitted Through This Website

Visitors may voluntarily submit information to the Firm by completing a contact form, sending an email, calling the Firm, or otherwise initiating communication through information provided on this website. Such information may include a visitor’s name, email address, telephone number, preferred method of contact, and a brief description of the matter.

In immigration-related inquiries, visitors may also choose to provide information about immigration status, government notices, filing history, interview dates, court dates, removal concerns, family relationships, travel history, employment issues, prior arrests or summonses, humanitarian concerns, or other sensitive facts. Visitors should exercise caution before submitting such information through a general website form.

Information submitted through this website is not confidential unless and until a formal attorney–client relationship has been established through a written engagement agreement. Submission of information through the website does not create an attorney–client relationship and does not obligate the Firm to review, respond to, retain, or act upon the submission.

For that reason, visitors should not submit confidential, privileged, highly sensitive, or time-sensitive information through the website unless the Firm has specifically requested it.

Categories of Information Collected

The Firm may collect information voluntarily provided by visitors, including name, email address, telephone number, contact preferences, matter type, deadline information, and the content of any message or inquiry.

The Firm may also collect information related to the nature of the legal inquiry, including whether the matter involves family-based immigration, permanent residence, citizenship, removal defense, asylum, humanitarian relief, VAWA, U visas, T visas, employment or business immigration, waivers, appeals, motions, federal review, civil-rights concerns, discrimination, retaliation, police misconduct, public-sector employment, or related matters.

Submission of such information is voluntary. However, the Firm does not guarantee that every inquiry will be reviewed, answered, retained, or accepted for representation. The original privacy policy made this limitation clear for civil-rights matters; the same limitation should remain here because immigration inquiries may also involve urgent deadlines and sensitive facts.

Automatically Collected Technical Information

Like most websites, the Firm’s website may automatically collect certain technical information when accessed. This may include Internet Protocol addresses, browser type, device identifiers, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time and date of access, general location data derived from IP address, and interaction with website forms or pages.

This technical information may be collected through standard web technologies and used in aggregate or operational form to maintain website functionality, monitor website performance, detect security threats or misuse, reduce spam, improve user experience, and comply with legal or regulatory obligations.

The Firm does not use automatically collected technical information to personally identify visitors unless necessary for security, legal compliance, fraud prevention, investigation of misuse, or protection of the Firm’s rights and interests.

Cookies, Analytics, and Similar Technologies

The website may use cookies or similar technologies to facilitate navigation, improve functionality, collect usage data, support security tools, or assist with spam prevention. Cookies are small data files placed on a user’s device that allow a website to recognize a browser or remember certain preferences.

Visitors may configure their browsers to refuse cookies or to provide notice when cookies are being used. Disabling cookies may affect certain website functions but should not prevent general access to the site.

The Firm does not use cookies to engage in behavioral advertising or to track users across unrelated websites for commercial advertising purposes. This limitation was included in the prior privacy policy and remains appropriate for the immigration website.

Use of Collected Information

Information collected through the website may be used for limited purposes, including responding to inquiries initiated by visitors, conducting preliminary assessments of whether a matter falls within the Firm’s practice focus, communicating with prospective clients, identifying deadlines or urgent issues, maintaining website operations, monitoring website security, reducing spam or misuse, complying with legal or regulatory obligations, and protecting the Firm’s rights and interests.

For immigration inquiries, information may be used to determine whether the matter appears to involve an application, petition, interview, notice, request for evidence, notice of intent to deny, immigration-court date, removal concern, humanitarian claim, family petition, waiver issue, appeal, motion, or other immigration-related matter.

The Firm does not sell, lease, or commercially exploit personal information collected through this website. The prior policy made this limitation clear, and it should remain unchanged.

No Attorney–Client Relationship and No Privilege

Transmission of information through this website does not create an attorney–client relationship. An attorney–client relationship is established only by a written agreement executed by both the Firm and the client.

Until such a relationship exists, communications submitted through the website may not be protected by the attorney–client privilege or attorney confidentiality rules to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Firm expressly disclaims any duty of confidentiality with respect to unsolicited information submitted before the Firm has agreed in writing to provide representation.

This is especially important for immigration matters. Visitors should not assume that submitting information about immigration status, prior filings, arrests, summonses, family relationships, work history, travel, government notices, removal concerns, or humanitarian claims through a website form creates privileged or confidential protection.

Confidentiality After Representation Begins

Once a formal attorney–client relationship is established, the Firm is bound by the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, applicable statutes, ethical obligations, privilege rules, confidentiality duties, and the terms of the written engagement agreement.

This Privacy Policy does not limit, reduce, replace, or waive those obligations.

Third-Party Service Providers and Website Operations

The Firm may use third-party service providers to support website hosting, email delivery, contact forms, spam prevention, analytics, security, backups, software maintenance, and related website operations. These service providers may have limited access to information submitted through or generated by the website solely for the purpose of performing contracted services.

The Firm does not authorize third-party service providers to use collected information for independent marketing, resale, or unrelated commercial purposes. However, the Firm is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party vendors beyond reasonable contractual safeguards and the Firm’s own use of those services.

Visitors should understand that electronic communications and website submissions may pass through third-party systems before reaching the Firm.

External Websites and Links

The Firm’s website may contain links to third-party websites, including government agencies, courts, legal resources, professional organizations, or informational sources. These websites are not controlled by the Firm.

The Firm does not control, endorse, verify, or assume responsibility for the content, accuracy, security, privacy practices, or operation of external websites. Visitors access external websites at their own risk and should review the privacy policies and terms of use of those websites before submitting personal information.

This limitation is particularly important for immigration-related resources because government forms, agency instructions, policy guidance, filing fees, and procedural information may change without notice.

Data Security and Limitations

The Firm employs reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information collected through the website from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no internet-based system is completely secure. The Firm cannot and does not guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted electronically. Visitors submit information through the website at their own risk.

Visitors should not use general website forms to transmit documents or highly sensitive facts unless specifically instructed to do so by the Firm.

Retention and Deletion of Information

Information submitted through the website may be retained for a reasonable period for administrative, evaluative, conflict-checking, recordkeeping, security, or compliance purposes. The Firm reserves the right to delete, destroy, or decline to retain unsolicited or unretained communications at its discretion, subject to applicable law and professional obligations.

The Firm does not guarantee long-term retention of non-client communications. Visitors should keep their own copies of immigration notices, court documents, agency correspondence, receipts, filings, passports, identity documents, and other important materials.

Privacy Rights and Applicable Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of New York, including applicable data-security and privacy statutes, such as the New York SHIELD Act, to the extent they apply. The prior policy properly referenced New York law and the SHIELD Act as applicable privacy and data-security authority.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to create rights beyond those provided by applicable law.

Depending on a visitor’s location and the nature of the information submitted, other privacy laws may apply. The Firm will address such obligations if and when they are applicable to a specific circumstance.

Children’s Privacy

This website is intended for use by adults. The Firm does not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18 through this website. If such information is inadvertently received, the Firm will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Parents, guardians, or legal representatives should contact the Firm directly if a matter involves a minor. Immigration matters involving children may require careful legal review and should not be handled through unsupervised website submissions by minors.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

The Firm reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

Visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Contact Information

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the Firm’s privacy practices may be directed to:

The Sanders Firm, P.C.
30 Wall Street, 8th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10005

Yonkers Office
73 Market Street, Suite 376
Yonkers, N.Y. 10710

Attention: Eric Sanders, Esq.

Final Notice

Submitting information through this website does not create an attorney–client relationship. Do not submit confidential, privileged, highly sensitive, or time-sensitive information unless the Firm has agreed to review it or has specifically requested it.