Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 8, 2026
The Law Office of Nino Abate PLC (“Abate Law,” “we,” “us,” or “our“) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit www.abatelaw.com (the “Site“), contact us through the Site, or interact with our automated chat assistant. It also explains the choices you have about how your information is used.
Please read this Policy carefully. By using the Site, you agree to the practices described here. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.
1. Who We Are
Abate Law is a solo law firm based in Phoenix, Arizona. Nino Abate is the owner and sole attorney and is licensed to practice law in the States of Arizona and Texas. The firm concentrates in real estate law, business law, and civil litigation, and primarily serves clients in the Greater Phoenix / Maricopa County area and in Texas.
Contact for privacy questions: Law Office of Nino Abate PLC Phoenix, Arizona Email: nino@abatelaw.com Website: https://www.abatelaw.com/contact/
2. Scope of This Policy
This Policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Site;
- Through our online contact form and email correspondence initiated through the Site;
- Through our automated AI chat assistant; and
- Through cookies, analytics, and similar technologies used on the Site.
This Policy does not apply to information you give us after you become a client under a signed engagement letter. Information you share with us in the course of an attorney-client relationship is governed by the Arizona Rules of Professional Conduct, the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, the attorney-client privilege, the work-product doctrine, and the terms of your engagement letter — not by this Policy.
This Policy also does not apply to third-party websites we link to. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and encourage you to read their policies.
3. Information We Collect
We collect information in three ways: information you provide to us directly, information collected automatically, and information from service providers.
3.1 Information You Provide to Us
- Contact form submissions. When you use the contact form on /contact/ or otherwise email us through the Site, we collect the information you choose to provide, which typically includes your name, email address, phone number, and a description of your legal matter or question.
- Chat assistant messages. When you use our AI chat assistant (see Section 8), we collect the messages you type, any contact information you share during the conversation, and a session identifier that ties messages in a single conversation together.
- Consultation requests. If you request a consultation, we collect the information needed to schedule and conduct it, such as your name, contact information, and a description of your matter.
We ask that you not submit sensitive personal information (such as Social Security numbers, financial-account numbers, or detailed medical information) through the Site or chat assistant. The Site is not designed to transmit such information securely.
3.2 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Site, certain information is collected automatically by our hosting provider, analytics tools, and security tools. This includes:
- Your IP address, approximate geographic location derived from your IP, and Internet service provider;
- Your browser type and version, operating system, device type, and screen resolution;
- The pages you visit on the Site, the date and time of each visit, the length of each visit, the page from which you arrived (referring URL), and the pages you go to next;
- Interactions with Site elements (such as links clicked and forms submitted);
- Server-log data used to monitor Site performance, prevent abuse, and diagnose issues; and
- Information collected by cookies and similar technologies (see Section 7).
3.3 Information from Third Parties
We may receive information about you from third-party services we use, such as analytics providers, email-delivery services, and our AI chat vendor. That information is typically technical or aggregated and is used to improve the Site and respond to your inquiries.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Respond to your inquiries, consultation requests, and chat messages;
- Provide information about our practice areas and how we work with clients;
- Perform conflict-of-interest checks before accepting a prospective client;
- Follow up with prospective clients who contact us;
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site;
- Analyze Site usage and performance so we can make it more useful;
- Prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms;
- Comply with applicable laws, rules of professional conduct, court orders, and lawful requests from regulators or law enforcement; and
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not use information collected through the Site or the chat assistant to train third-party artificial-intelligence models for other customers.
5. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information. We share personal information only in the limited circumstances described below.
5.1 Service Providers
We rely on carefully selected third-party service providers (“subprocessors“) to operate the Site and our practice. These providers only receive the information they need to perform their services for us and are contractually obligated to protect it. Our current subprocessors include:
| Provider | Purpose | Types of data |
|---|---|---|
| Our website hosting provider | Hosting, server logs, email delivery | IP addresses, server logs, contact-form contents, chat transcripts |
| Google LLC (Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag) | Site analytics, performance measurement | IP address (truncated), device info, page views, referrer, interaction events |
| Google LLC (Search Console) | Search-traffic diagnostics | Search queries, click data |
| Anthropic PBC | AI chat assistant responses | Chat message contents, limited technical metadata |
| Email and calendar providers | Communication, scheduling | Name, email, message contents |
We may update this list from time to time. Material changes to subprocessors will be reflected here when we revise the Policy.
5.2 Legal Compliance and Protection of Rights
We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to (i) comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process; (ii) enforce this Policy or our Terms; (iii) protect the rights, property, or safety of Abate Law, our clients, Site visitors, or others; or (iv) respond to a claim of illegal activity.
5.3 Business Transfers
If the firm is ever involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, or wind-down, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you of any such transfer that materially affects how your information is handled.
5.4 With Your Consent
We may share your information for any other purpose with your consent.
6. Attorney-Client Information Is Treated Differently
Information you share before an attorney-client relationship is formed — including information you send through the contact form or chat assistant — is not protected by the attorney-client privilege. Do not send confidential or privileged information through the Site.
An attorney-client relationship with Abate Law is formed only after (i) we complete a conflict-of-interest check and (ii) you sign a written engagement agreement with the firm. Once a relationship is formed, information you share with us as a client is handled under the Arizona and Texas Rules of Professional Conduct and the terms of your engagement, which provide stronger protection than this Policy.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Site uses cookies and similar technologies (such as pixels and local storage) to operate, secure, and analyze the Site. Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser.
We use the following categories of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies that are required for the Site to function (for example, session cookies used by our content management system and security cookies used to prevent abuse).
- Analytics cookies set by Google Analytics 4 to help us understand how visitors use the Site. These cookies typically collect your IP address (which Google truncates), device and browser information, and pages visited.
- Performance and caching cookies set by our caching plugin to speed up page loads.
Your choices about cookies. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may cause parts of the Site to stop working. You can also opt out of Google Analytics specifically by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Do Not Track. Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” signal. Because there is no agreed industry standard for how to interpret that signal, the Site does not currently respond to it. We treat Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals from California and Colorado residents as valid opt-out-of-sale requests, even though we do not sell personal information.
8. AI Chat Assistant
The Site offers an automated chat assistant (the “Chat Assistant“) that uses artificial intelligence to answer general questions and help visitors request a consultation.
What it is — and is not. The Chat Assistant is an automated software tool. It is not a lawyer, paralegal, or human staff member. It does not provide legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. No attorney-client relationship is created between you and Abate Law or Nino Abate until (i) we have completed a conflict-of-interest check and (ii) you have signed a written engagement letter.
Not confidential. Messages you send to the Chat Assistant are not protected by the attorney-client privilege. You should not send sensitive, confidential, or privileged information through the Chat Assistant.
Information we collect through the Chat Assistant. When you use the Chat Assistant we may collect: the content of the messages you type; any name, email, phone, or other contact information you share; a session identifier; technical information about your session (IP address, browser, device, approximate location); and the date and time of each message.
Third-party AI provider. The Chat Assistant is built on a large-language-model service provided by Anthropic PBC. When you send a message, its content and limited technical metadata are transmitted to Anthropic to generate a response. Anthropic acts as our service provider and, under its standard commercial terms, is contractually restricted from using your messages to train its publicly available models. Anthropic’s privacy practices are available at https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
Retention. We retain Chat Assistant transcripts and associated metadata for up to twelve (12) months from the date of the conversation, after which they are automatically deleted, unless a longer period is required to respond to your inquiry, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements.
Your choices. Using the Chat Assistant is optional. You can contact the firm directly by phone or email instead. You can ask us to delete your chat transcript at any time by emailing nino@abatelaw.com with the subject line “Chat deletion request” and the approximate date of the conversation.
Emergencies. If you have an urgent matter or a court deadline, do not rely on the Chat Assistant. Call the office directly.
9. Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes described in this Policy or as required by law, applicable rules of professional conduct, or recordkeeping obligations. Our general retention periods are:
| Category | Retention |
|---|---|
| Contact-form submissions from prospective clients who do not become clients | Up to 24 months, then deleted |
| Chat Assistant transcripts | Up to 12 months, then automatically deleted |
| Server logs and analytics data | As configured by our hosting provider and Google Analytics (typically 14 months for GA4) |
| Client files | As required by the Arizona and Texas Rules of Professional Conduct and the engagement letter — typically at least five (5) years after matter closure |
| Financial and tax records | As required by applicable tax and accounting laws |
After the applicable period, we delete or anonymize the information, unless we are legally required to keep it longer.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These include TLS/HTTPS encryption of information in transit, restricted access to our systems, strong password policies, and regular software updates.
No system is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted over the Internet or stored on any system. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please notify us immediately at nino@abatelaw.com.
11. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal information. To exercise any of these rights, email nino@abatelaw.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” We may need to verify your identity before acting on your request and may decline requests where an exception applies under law or our ethical obligations.
11.1 All Visitors
- Access and correction. You can ask us to confirm what personal information we hold about you and to correct inaccurate information.
- Deletion. You can ask us to delete personal information we hold about you. We may keep information that we are required to retain by law or professional rules, or that we need to establish or defend legal claims.
- Opt-out of marketing emails. If we ever send you marketing email, every message will include an unsubscribe link.
11.2 California Residents (CCPA / CPRA)
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, including the right to know what personal information we collect about you, the right to delete it, the right to correct it, the right to limit the use of sensitive personal information, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights.
We do not sell personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under California law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under 16, and we do not sell or share such information.
11.3 Texas Residents (TDPSA)
If you are a Texas resident, you have rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, including the right to confirm whether we process your personal data, the right to access it, the right to correct it, the right to delete it, the right to data portability, and the right to opt out of targeted advertising, sale of personal data, and profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do not engage in targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or such profiling.
Texas consumers: We do not sell your sensitive personal data. We do not sell your personal data.
11.4 Other States
Residents of other states with comprehensive privacy laws (including Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, and others) may have similar rights. We honor verified rights requests under those laws to the extent they apply to us.
11.5 How to Submit a Request
Send an email to nino@abatelaw.com with:
- Your name;
- The state you reside in;
- A clear description of your request; and
- Enough information for us to verify your identity.
We will respond within the time required by applicable law. An authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf, but we will require written authorization and may verify the request directly with you.
12. Children’s Privacy
The Site is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or under 16 in jurisdictions where that is the applicable minimum age under data-protection law). If you believe a child has submitted information through the Site, please contact us at nino@abatelaw.com and we will delete it.
13. Third-Party Links
The Site may contain links to third-party websites, services, or resources. Clicking those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control those third parties and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party site you visit.
14. International Visitors
The Site is operated from the United States and is intended for visitors in the United States, primarily Arizona and Texas. If you visit the Site from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, which may have data-protection laws that differ from those of your country. By using the Site, you consent to that transfer.
15. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, for material changes, post a notice on the Site or on this page. Your continued use of the Site after a revised Policy is posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
16. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Policy and any dispute arising out of or relating to it are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Nothing in this Policy limits any non-waivable rights you may have under the laws of the state in which you reside.
17. Attorney Advertising
This Site and this Policy may be considered “attorney advertising” under the rules of the Arizona Supreme Court and the State Bar of Texas. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Information on the Site is for general informational purposes only and is not legal advice. Viewing the Site or sending us an email or chat message does not create an attorney-client relationship.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact:
Law Office of Nino Abate PLC Phoenix, Arizona Email: nino@abatelaw.com Website: https://www.abatelaw.com/contact/
This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 8, 2026.