Privacy Notice

Kitsinian Law Firm, APC · Last updated August 16, 2026

This Privacy Notice describes how Kitsinian Law Firm, APC ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects the information you provide through landfillclaim.com, our contact forms, and our text messaging services. It applies solely to information collected by this website. Effective August 16, 2026. Last updated August 16, 2026.

Notice at Collection. When you submit the case review form on this site, we collect identifiers (name, phone, email, and the address affected by the landfill), your language preference, which landfill is nearest that address, the health-related information you choose to share such as the symptoms you select, and anything you write in the optional message box. We collect this information for one purpose: to evaluate your potential claim, to contact you about it, to run a conflicts check, and to provide legal services. We do not sell your personal information, and nothing you type into the form is passed to any advertiser. Our content pages do load advertising measurement tags from Google and Meta, which California law may treat as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising; you can turn those off with the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link, and we honor Global Privacy Control. We retain this information for as long as needed to evaluate or handle your matter and to satisfy our legal and ethical recordkeeping obligations.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with this site, we may collect the following categories:

Identifiers: your name, phone number, email address, and, if you provide it, contact information for other members of your household.
Contact and residence information: the address affected by the landfill, and, if you speak with our intake team, your residence history at that address, approximate dates of residence, and whether you own or rent.
Language preference: the language in which you prefer we communicate with you.
Health-related information you provide: the symptoms you select or describe and whether you or a household member sought medical treatment.
Commercial or claim-related information: which landfill is nearest your address, and, if you speak with our intake team, household size, household members and their birth years, odor complaints filed with a regulatory agency or with the landfill operator, and any other details you choose to tell us about your situation.
Internet and device activity: IP address, browser type, pages viewed on this site, and the referring page or advertising campaign that brought you here.
Consent record: if you check the text messaging consent box, the date and time, the page address where you gave consent, your browser's user agent string, and a version identifier for the exact consent language shown to you.
Inferences: conclusions we draw for the sole purpose of evaluating your potential claim.

Sensitive Personal Information

The health-related information you provide is sensitive personal information under California law. We use it only to evaluate and handle your potential claim and to provide legal services. We do not use or disclose it to infer characteristics about you, and we do not use it for advertising of any kind.

Sources of the Information

We obtain information directly from you when you complete a form, call us, write to us, or send us a text message. We obtain technical information automatically from your browser when you visit the site. Only after you become a client, and with your knowledge, may we obtain information from public records and from third parties such as health care providers or property records, where that is necessary to handle your matter.

How We Use Information

We use the information you provide to evaluate your potential claim, run a conflicts check, communicate with you about your inquiry, schedule appointments, send appointment reminders, send secure links for e-signing documents, provide legal services, satisfy our legal and ethical recordkeeping obligations, and maintain the security of the site. We use text messaging only for customer care purposes related to your inquiry or your matter. Advertising measurement happens only on the site's content pages, and never with the information you type into the form.

Disclosure to Third Parties

We do not sell your information. We may disclose your information to the following categories of recipients:

the firm's attorneys and staff working on your matter;
service providers that support our operations under contractual confidentiality obligations, including case management and client relationship systems, electronic signature platforms, secure document storage, and email and text messaging providers;
co-counsel or referred counsel, when you have consented to that referral; and
where required by law, subpoena, court order, or other valid legal process.

Text Messaging

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties, excluding aggregators and providers of the text message services.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information for money or other valuable consideration, and nothing you type into the intake form is passed to any advertiser or ad network. The form's contents are submitted directly to the firm's own server; the advertising tags described below never receive them.

Our content pages do load advertising measurement tags from Google (Google Analytics and Google Ads conversion tracking) and Meta (the Facebook pixel), to measure how our advertising performs. California law may treat that transmission of browser identifiers as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising. You have the right to opt out, and we give you two ways to do it:

The site's opt-out link. The "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link appears in the footer of the landing page. Clicking it stores your opt-out preference in your browser's local storage and reloads the page. From that point on, and for as long as that preference remains stored, the Google and Meta tags do not load on that device and browser. Because the preference lives in the browser itself, it is specific to that device and browser, and it is lost if you clear site data or use a different device or browser.
Global Privacy Control. We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal and other browser-based opt-out preference signals. If your browser or an extension sends GPC, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of sale and sharing, and the Google and Meta tags do not load, without your having to do anything else.

Opting out of advertising measurement has no effect on the evaluation of your case, on your ability to submit the form, or on the services we provide. We will not discriminate against you for exercising this right.

Browser Signals and Do Not Track

This site honors the Global Privacy Control signal and other browser-based opt-out preference signals, as described above. There is currently no uniform industry standard for browser "Do Not Track" signals, and for that reason this site does not respond differently to a "Do Not Track" header. If you want to opt out of advertising tracking, use the site's opt-out link or turn on Global Privacy Control, which we do honor.

Advertising, Analytics, and Cross-Site Tracking

When you have not opted out, the Google and Meta tags described above may set cookies and collect usage information. These third parties may collect personally identifiable information about a visitor's online activities over time and across different websites when you visit this site. We do not control that collection beyond our opt-out mechanism, and we are not aware of other third parties conducting that kind of tracking through this site.

In addition to our opt-out link, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on and adjust ad personalization in your Google and Meta account settings.

Embedded map. The impacted communities section embeds a Google Maps frame so you can see where the two landfills sit. Loading that frame contacts Google and Google may set cookies, the same as visiting Google Maps directly. The map is functional rather than advertising: it receives no information you type into the intake form. If you would rather not load it, you can leave that section of the page unscrolled, since the frame is set to load only when it comes into view.

Data Retention

Intake information from people who do not become clients of the firm is retained for as long as needed to evaluate the inquiry, document the conflicts check, and satisfy our legal and ethical recordkeeping obligations, and is then deleted under the firm's retention schedule. Client files are retained for the period required by the California Rules of Professional Conduct and by the firm's file retention policy. Text messaging consent records are retained for as long as needed to demonstrate consent and its revocation. You may request information about our retention schedule by writing to the address at the end of this notice.

Your California Privacy Rights

You may stop text messages at any time by replying "STOP" to any message you receive from us. Subject to applicable legal and ethical retention requirements for client and prospective client records, California residents may also request to:

know what personal information we have collected about you, from what sources, for what purposes, and to whom we have disclosed it;
obtain a copy of that information;
correct inaccurate personal information;
delete personal information we hold about you;
opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; and
limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information.

We will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising these rights. To make a request, email landfillclaim@kitsinianlaw.com or call (888) 480-5858. We may need to verify your identity before responding, and to do that we may ask you to confirm information already in our records, such as the phone number or address you gave us. An authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf by providing written authorization signed by you or a power of attorney; we may contact you directly to confirm that authorization. We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days; if we need more time, we will tell you and may take up to 45 additional days.

Minors

This site is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 16. Claims on behalf of a minor must be brought by the minor's parent or legal guardian, who is the person providing the minor's information through this site. If you believe a child submitted personal information to us on their own, write to us and we will delete it.

Data Security

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the information we collect, including encryption in transit (this site uses TLS for data submitted through it), access controls that limit access to personnel who need it, and written confidentiality obligations with our service providers. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

No Attorney-Client Relationship

Submitting information through this site does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send confidential or privileged material until an attorney-client relationship has been established in writing.

Changes to This Notice

If we change this Privacy Notice, we will post the revised version on this page and update the "Last updated" date. Material changes will be identified at the top of this page for at least 30 days.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Notice, contact us at landfillclaim@kitsinianlaw.com or (888) 480-5858. Kitsinian Law Firm, APC, 16501 Ventura Blvd., Suite 506, Encino, CA 91436.

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