Privacy Policy

Liechty Law Effective Date: September 14, 2026 Last Updated: September 14, 2026

Liechty Law (“Liechty Law,” “the Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is an immigration law firm. We understand that the people who visit this website are often sharing information about their immigration status, their family, and their legal problems — information that can carry real consequences if it is mishandled. We take that seriously.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through www.liechtylaw.com (the “Site”), how we use it, who we share it with, and what choices you have. Please read it together with our Terms of Use and Disclaimer.

1. Important: Using This Site Does Not Create an Attorney-Client Relationship

Submitting a contact form, sending an email, calling our office, or otherwise communicating through this Site does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Liechty Law.

An attorney-client relationship is formed only when we have completed a conflicts check and you and the Firm have both signed a written engagement agreement.

Because of this, please do not send us confidential, sensitive, or time-sensitive information through this Site until we have confirmed in writing that we represent you. Information you send before an engagement agreement is signed may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege, and we may not be able to treat it as confidential if we already represent someone with interests adverse to yours.

We do, however, treat information from prospective clients with the care required by the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct, including the duties we owe to prospective clients. We will not use or reveal information learned during an initial consultation except as those Rules permit.

Nothing on this Site is legal advice. Immigration law changes frequently, and the outcome of any matter depends on its specific facts.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Give Us Directly

When you complete our contact form, request a consultation, email us, or call us, we may collect:

Your first and last name
Your email address
Your telephone number
Your consent preference for text messages
The contents of your message, including any facts you choose to share about your immigration matter
Any other information you volunteer during a consultation or in correspondence

If you retain the Firm, we will collect substantially more information as part of your representation. That information is governed by our engagement agreement and by our professional duty of confidentiality — not by this Policy. This Policy addresses information collected through the Site.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, our web servers and any analytics tools we use may automatically collect:

Your IP address and approximate general location derived from it
Browser type, language setting, and operating system
Device type and screen size
The pages you view, the time and date of your visit, and how long you stay
The referring website or search term that brought you here

2.3 Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site uses cookies and similar technologies. These fall into a few categories:

Strictly necessary cookies, which make the Site function — for example, keeping a form working across pages or maintaining security. These cannot be switched off.
Analytics cookies, which help us understand how visitors use the Site so we can improve it.
Advertising cookies, which may be set by advertising platforms if we run online advertising, and which may be used to show you our ads on other websites.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking all cookies may cause parts of the Site to stop working correctly.

Note for the Firm — remove this box before publishing. Confirm with your web developer which of the following are actually installed on the WordPress site, then delete any that are not in use from Sections 2.3, 4, and 5: Google Analytics, Google Ads / Google Tag Manager, Meta (Facebook) Pixel, Microsoft Clarity or other session-recording tools, Elementor forms, Google Fonts (which loads from Google’s servers and transmits visitor IP addresses), and any live-chat or call-tracking widget. A privacy policy that describes tracking you do not use is inaccurate; one that omits tracking you do use is a bigger problem.

2.4 Do Not Track

Some browsers transmit a “Do Not Track” signal. There is no common industry standard for interpreting these signals, and the Site does not currently respond to them. We do honor recognized opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC) where we are required to do so by applicable law.

3. Sensitive Information

Immigration matters involve categories of information that the law treats as especially sensitive. Depending on what you choose to tell us, this may include:

Citizenship, immigration, or removal status
Alien Registration Number (A-Number), USCIS receipt numbers, visa or passport details
National origin, racial or ethnic origin
Date and place of birth
Marital and family relationship information, including information about your spouse, children, or petitioner
Arrest, charge, or conviction history
Health information, where relevant to a waiver or medical ground of inadmissibility
Financial information relevant to an affidavit of support
In some matters, information about experiences of abuse, persecution, or trafficking

We ask you not to include this information in a website contact form. Tell us that you have an immigration matter and how to reach you; we will arrange a secure way to discuss the details.

Where we do collect this information, we handle it under the heightened protections described in Sections 7 through 9, we use it only to evaluate and handle your matter, and — for visitors covered by California law — we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes beyond those permitted without offering you the right to limit that use.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use information collected through the Site to:

Respond to your inquiry and answer your questions
Run a conflicts check and evaluate whether we can represent you
Schedule and conduct consultations, and process consultation fees
Communicate with you about your inquiry or your matter, by email, telephone, or text message if you have consented
Operate, secure, maintain, and improve the Site
Understand which pages and services visitors find useful
Market our legal services, consistent with the advertising rules that govern attorneys
Comply with our legal, ethical, regulatory, and recordkeeping obligations
Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

We do not use information collected through the Site to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you.

5. How We Share Information — and What We Never Do

We do not sell your personal information. We never have, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising in exchange for money or other valuable consideration.

We do not provide the information we collect to outside third parties for direct or indirect mass email marketing.

Mobile telephone numbers and text-message consent are never shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes. This includes all consent information, and it applies regardless of any other provision of this Policy.

We share information only in these limited circumstances:

Service providers. Vendors who help us operate the Firm and the Site — website hosting, email, practice management and case management software, document storage, telephone and text messaging providers, payment processing, and analytics. They may use your information only to perform services for us and are bound by confidentiality obligations.
With your direction or consent. For example, filing a petition with USCIS, corresponding with a consulate or the National Visa Center, or communicating with a family member, employer, or prior counsel you have asked us to contact.
Professional advisors. Our accountants, insurers, and outside counsel, subject to confidentiality.
Legal and ethical compliance. As described in Section 6.
Business transition. If the Firm merges, is acquired, or dissolves, client files and Site data may transfer as part of that transition, subject to the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct governing client files and client notice.

6. Government, Immigration Enforcement, and Law Enforcement Requests

We know this section matters to our clients, so we want to be direct about it.

We do not voluntarily provide client or prospective client information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), or any other immigration enforcement or law enforcement agency.

Information you share with us in the course of seeking or receiving legal representation is protected by the attorney-client privilege and by our ethical duty of confidentiality. Those protections belong to you, not to us, and we will not waive them on your behalf.

If we receive a subpoena, court order, warrant, or other legal demand for information about you, then to the extent the law and our ethical obligations permit, we will:

Review the demand and assert the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, and any other applicable objection or protection;
Notify you promptly, so that you have an opportunity to object or seek a protective order — unless we are legally prohibited from telling you; and
Produce information only to the extent we are legally compelled to do so after those protections have been asserted, and only the narrow information actually required.

Of course, when you retain us for a matter, we necessarily submit information to USCIS, the Department of State, the immigration courts, or other agencies as part of your applications and filings. That is the purpose of the representation, and we do it at your direction and with your review.

7. Text Messages

If you check the consent box on our contact form or otherwise opt in, we may send you text messages about your inquiry, your matter, appointment reminders, and — where you have agreed — information about our services.

Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply.
Reply STOP to any message to opt out. Reply HELP for assistance, or call us at 248-532-0303.
Opting out of text messages does not opt you out of email or telephone contact about your matter.
As stated above, your mobile number and your consent are not shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.

8. How We Protect Your Information

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These include encryption of sensitive information in transit, access controls limiting information to personnel who need it, and secure disposal of records at the end of their retention period.

We also owe an independent professional duty to make reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to information relating to the representation of a client.

That said: no method of transmission over the internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. Email and web forms in particular are not secure channels. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and we encourage you to use the secure channels we offer once we are engaged rather than ordinary email for sensitive documents.

9. How Long We Keep Information

Inquiries that do not become matters: we retain contact form submissions and consultation notes for the period required by our conflicts-checking and professional responsibility obligations, and then dispose of them securely.
Client files: retained in accordance with the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct, our engagement agreement, and applicable law.
Site analytics data: retained for the period set in the applicable analytics tool, typically no longer than 26 months.

We keep information longer where a legal hold, an open matter, a malpractice claim period, or a statutory or regulatory requirement demands it.

10. Your Privacy Rights

10.1 Everyone

Regardless of where you live, you may contact us to ask what information we hold about you, to correct it, or to ask us to delete information that we are not required to retain. Our ability to act on these requests is limited by our professional obligations — we cannot, for example, delete a client file we are ethically required to preserve.

10.2 California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

Know what categories of personal information we have collected, the sources, the business purpose, and the categories of third parties to whom it was disclosed
Access the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you
Delete personal information, subject to exceptions
Correct inaccurate personal information
Limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information
Opt out of sale or sharing — although, as stated in Section 5, we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined
Non-discrimination for exercising any of these rights

To exercise these rights, contact us using Section 13. We will verify your identity before responding. You may use an authorized agent, with written permission and verification.

10.3 Other U.S. States

Residents of states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws — including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and others as those laws take effect — may have comparable rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, and opt-out, along with a right to appeal a denied request. Contact us and we will respond as the applicable law requires.

10.4 European Economic Area and United Kingdom (GDPR)

Because we handle consular processing, fiancé visas, and family petitions, people located outside the United States — including in the EEA and the UK — regularly contact us. If you are in one of those jurisdictions, the following applies.

Controller. Liechty Law is the controller of personal data collected through this Site.

Legal bases. We process personal data on the basis of: your consent (which you may withdraw at any time); performance of a contract or steps taken at your request before entering one; compliance with a legal obligation; and our legitimate interests in operating, securing, and marketing the Firm, where those interests are not overridden by your rights.

Where we process special category data under Article 9 — such as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, or health data relevant to a waiver — or criminal offence data under Article 10, we rely on your explicit consent and on the necessity of the processing for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims under Article 9(2)(f).

Your rights. You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection to processing, including objection to direct marketing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.

International transfer. Liechty Law is located in the United States, and personal data you provide will be transferred to and processed in the United States. The United States has not received an adequacy decision of general application, and U.S. law may afford protections different from those in your jurisdiction. Where required, we rely on your explicit consent to the transfer, on the necessity of the transfer for the performance of a contract with you, or on the necessity of the transfer for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.

11. Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the Site.

We recognize that some immigration matters — including petitions for minor children and humanitarian relief for young people — necessarily involve information about minors. We collect that information from the parent, guardian, or adult client who provides it in the course of a matter, not from the child through this website.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through the Site, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Third-Party Websites

The Site may link to other websites — government pages such as USCIS or the Department of State, bar associations, or community organizations. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. Review the privacy policy of any site you visit.

13. Contact Us

Questions about this Policy, or requests to exercise your privacy rights:

Liechty Law [STREET ADDRESS] [CITY], Michigan [ZIP] Telephone: 248-532-0303 Email: [PRIVACY EMAIL ADDRESS]

Please write “Privacy Request” in the subject line. We respond as promptly as applicable law requires.

This Policy is available in Spanish upon request. Esta política está disponible en español si la solicita.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes in our practices or in the law. We will post the revised Policy here and update the “Last Updated” date above. Material changes will be highlighted on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Policy.

15. Attorney Advertising

This Site may constitute attorney advertising under applicable rules. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.