Privacy
Last updated September 13, 2026.
The short version. When you use Get organized or the Case binder, your answers and your documents are saved in your own browser, on the device you are using, and you can delete them yourself at any time. We use Google Analytics to count how the site is used, because that is how we decide what to write next. There is no account here, so none of it is attached to a name.
The rest of this page is the detail.
What we collect
Your answers and your documents. Get organized and the Case binder save what you enter in your browser's storage, on the device you are using. There is no account and no sign-up. Two things follow from that: anyone who can unlock this device can open what you have saved, and clearing your browser's site data will erase it. If you want to keep a copy, use the print or export button in each tool first. Each tool also has a button that deletes everything it has saved on that device, and you do not need to ask us to use it.
How the site gets used. Like most websites, we use Google Analytics. It tells us how many people visited, which guides are being read, how far people get in the organizer, how many case binders get started, and which referral links on Find a lawyer get clicked. It also records the words you type into the search box. It uses cookies to tell one visit apart from another, and we have it set not to record your full IP address.
How we use it
We use the numbers to decide what to build and write next. Almost none of what we publish existed in plain language before we wrote it, and we have to choose where to go next. Knowing which guides people read, and where they stop, is how we choose. It is also how we report honestly on whether this work is reaching anyone.
We use what you send us to answer you, to thank you for a donation and send your receipt, and to keep the records a registered charity has to keep.
We do not use any of it to advertise to you, and we do not build a profile of you.
How we share it
We do not sell or trade information about the people who use this site or the people who support it.
Some companies handle information for us in the ordinary course of running the site: Google, for the analytics above; Cloudflare, which hosts the site and serves every page you open; and Give Lively, which runs our donation page. Each has its own privacy policy covering what it does with what it receives.
Your choices
You can delete what the organizer and the binder have saved, at any time, using the button in each tool.
You can stop the analytics. Google publishes a browser add-on that switches Google Analytics off everywhere you go, at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Most browsers have tracking protection that blocks it too, as do most ad and tracker blockers. Nothing on this site needs analytics to work — the organizer and the binder run exactly the same way with it blocked.
Google keeps the analytics data for 14 months and then deletes it.
Donations
Our donation page is run by Give Lively, which uses Stripe to process the payment.
When you give, Give Lively passes us your name, your email address, the amount, and anything else you chose to enter — a dedication, if you gave in honour or memory of someone. Your card number is handled by Stripe. It does not reach Give Lively and it does not reach us.
Children
This site is written for adults dealing with a family court case. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Sites we link to
Find a lawyer is a directory of other organizations, and our guides link out to courts, agencies and legal aid providers. Those are their sites, not ours. What they collect and what they do with it is covered by their own privacy policies, not this one.
Keeping information safe
There is no account and no login here, so the site holds no password of yours, and the organizer and the binder keep your case information in your browser rather than in a database we run.
What we do hold — donation records and email — we protect with safeguards sized to an organization of ours, which is what New York law asks. No system is completely secure, and we will not pretend otherwise. If information we hold were ever exposed in a way likely to cause harm, we would tell the people affected, within the time New York law sets.
Changes to this page
We update this page when what the site does changes. The date at the top is when it last changed.