Lynch LLP
Effective date: August 8, 2026
This policy explains what happens to information collected through lynchllp.com. If anything here is unclear, email [email protected].
This policy governs information collected through lynchllp.com from visitors to the site.
Client and prospective-client information is governed by separate and stricter obligations — the duty of confidentiality under California Business and Professions Code § 6068(e), Rules of Professional Conduct 1.6, 1.9, and 1.18, the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, and your engagement agreement. Where anything in this policy differs from those obligations or from your engagement agreement, those control. Nothing here narrows any of them, and nothing here creates a right for anyone to obtain another person's client information from us.
When you leave lynchllp.com, you are subject to whatever policy that site publishes.
Using this site, emailing us, or calling us does not create an attorney-client relationship. That relationship is formed only by a written engagement agreement signed by both parties, after a conflicts check.
Until that agreement is in place, do not send us confidential, sensitive, or time-sensitive information — including unpublished invention disclosures, unfiled application drafts, trade secrets, license terms, or the details of a dispute.
Three points, because they are often confused:
Contacting us does not stop a clock. Statutory bars, the one-year grace period under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)(1), Paris Convention and PCT priority deadlines, office action response deadlines, and litigation deadlines all keep running. If you are near a deadline, email us the date and nothing else, then call.
Required by § 22575(b)(1).
Information you give us directly. The contact form at /contact asks for your name, your email address, a topic chosen from a fixed list, and a message. A telephone number is optional. If you email or call us at the addresses and numbers published on this site, we receive whatever you choose to include. If you send us a résumé, we receive whatever it contains. If you book a consultation, you enter your information on Clio Grow at lynchllp.cliogrow.com, which is not this site.
Under § 22577(a) the categories collected are: name, email address, telephone number, physical address, and any other personally identifiable information you choose to include.
Information collected automatically. Our hosting and network providers process the IP address, browser user-agent, requested URL, and timestamp of each request. We use Google Analytics to measure site usage; it records pages viewed, referring source, approximate location derived from IP address, device and browser characteristics, a randomly generated identifier stored in a first-party cookie, and a set of interaction events we defined. When you land on a page that does not exist, the site records the requested path, the referring URL, and the browser user-agent.
Required by § 22575(b)(1). Categories of third parties:
Disclosures made in the course of representing a client — to courts, tribunals, agencies, opposing counsel, and foreign associates — are governed by the obligations described in Section 1.
We do not sell personal information.
Required by § 22575(b)(5) and (b)(6).
Google Analytics sets first-party cookies containing a randomly generated identifier. Our network provider sets short-lived security cookies. The site also stores campaign parameters from your landing URL in session storage, which your browser deletes when you close the tab, and your analytics choice in local storage, which stays on your device.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. We do not respond to Do Not Track signals; DNT never became a standard and there is no agreed meaning to respond to. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, this site does not set analytics cookies or store an identifier for your browser.
Your privacy choices. The control below, linked from the footer of every page, stops this site setting analytics cookies or storing an identifier for this browser. The setting is stored in this browser only.
You can also block or delete cookies through your browser's settings, or install Google's opt-out add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, which stops Google Analytics measurement on every site you visit.
Collection across other sites. Google Analytics is a Google service, and Google is capable of collecting information about a visitor's activity across other websites that use Google services. Google's description of that practice is at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Our network provider processes request data for security purposes across the sites it protects. No other party collects information about your activity through this site.
§ 22575(b)(2) applies only where a review-and-change process is maintained.
This site holds no account or profile. There is no login and nothing to edit. If you have sent us information and want it corrected or deleted, email [email protected]. We do not operate a formal access-and-correction program.
If you are a current or former client asking for your own file, Rule of Professional Conduct 1.16(e)(1) governs.
Information provided for a patent or trademark filing is transmitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and, for international filings, to foreign associate counsel, national and regional IP offices, and WIPO. Most patent applications are published under 35 U.S.C. § 122(b)(1) after eighteen months from the earliest priority date, at which point the file becomes a permanent public record. USPTO trademark records are public by design. Once information has been filed with the USPTO, published, or recorded in an assignment, it cannot be retracted.
This site is operated from and hosted in the United States. We do not direct this website to the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, and we do not offer services to visitors there through this site.
This site is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16.
Required by § 22575(b)(3).
When we change this policy, we will post the revised policy at this address and change the effective date at the top of the page.
Lynch LLP Email: [email protected] Telephone: +1 (949) 829-2186 Attention: Privacy
Sean Lynch, Partner, is responsible for the content of this website.
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