Privacy Policy

Who this policy applies to

This policy covers The Nagel Law Firm, LLC (“the firm”, “we”, “us”) and the website at gawreck.com, including its Spanish-language pages. It does not cover any other website you may reach from a link here, and it does not cover information you give us in person, by telephone, or by email outside this website.

If you are already a client of the firm, the confidentiality of your case information is governed by the attorney–client relationship and by your engagement agreement, not by this policy.

Information you give us

This website asks you for information in three places, and nowhere else. All three send what you type to the same place, and none of them asks for anything you are not shown on screen.

1. The contact form

On the Contact page. Five fields:

• Full name — required.
• Phone number — required.
• Email address — optional.
• Type of case — required; chosen from a fixed list.
• A free-text description of your case — optional. Because this box is free text, whatever you type into it is what we receive. Please see the warning below before describing anything sensitive.

2. The “Free Case Evaluation” form on our advertising pages

The firm runs a small number of advertising landing pages, one for each area of practice. Each carries the same short form — twice on the page, at the top and at the bottom, but it is one form either way and sending it once is enough. Four fields:

• Full name — required.
• Phone number — required.
• Email address — optional.
• A free-text description of your case — optional, and the same warning applies to it as to the box on the contact form.

It also sends which page you were on — car wrecks, trucking wrecks and so on — as the type of case, so that you are not asked to re-state something the page you clicked already tells us. Apart from the two anti-spam fields described below, that is the only thing sent which you do not type yourself.

3. The case-value questionnaire

A nine-step questionnaire, also on an advertising page, which asks about the incident before asking how to reach you. It is eight steps for kinds of incident where the questions about the scene do not apply. Nothing in it is required in order to reach the firm — the telephone number below always works. It collects:

• What kind of incident it was — one choice from a fixed list of nine everyday descriptions, asked first. Your answer decides which of the later questions you are shown: the questions about the scene are skipped where they make no sense, such as an injury in a nursing home.
• Whether you were at fault — one choice from a fixed list.
• What injuries you suffered — any number of choices from a fixed list. This is health information about you, so please read the warning below before answering it.
• Where the incident happened — free text. It is meant for something like a road and a district. Because it is free text, whatever you type is what we receive: you do not need to give a street address, and please do not give one that has nothing to do with the incident.
• When the incident happened — a date. The page asks for your best guess if you are not sure of the exact day.
• Four questions about the scene — whether authorities were called, whether there is a police report, whether any citations were issued, and whether there were witnesses. Each is answered Yes, No or Not sure, and “Not sure” is a real answer: when you give it, nothing is recorded for that question at all.
• Two questions about medical care — whether you were taken by ambulance, and whether you went to hospital. Same three answers, same rule. These are about what happened after the incident, not about your treatment or your records, and the page asks you not to send either.
• Roughly what your damages are so far — one band from a fixed list.
• Photographs — optional, up to ten. See the box below, which matters. If you choose any, you are also asked, optionally, whether they show property damage, injuries, or both.
• Full name and phone number — both required, asked last — and an email address, which is optional.
• Whether you want marketing emails — a tick box, unticked by default, asked on the last step. It is the only marketing consent this website collects, leaving it unticked changes nothing about your enquiry, and no form here asks for permission to text you.

The two fields you never see

Every form described above also carries two fields that are not visible to you and that you never fill in yourself. Both are sent with the form, and both are there to tell automated spam apart from a real enquiry:

• A spam trap — an empty box positioned off the screen. Automated scripts fill in every field they find, so a submission that arrives with it completed is treated as automated. It collects nothing about you: if you never touch it, it is sent empty.
• The time the page loaded — recorded by the page in your browser and sent with your message. It is used only to compare against the time the message arrives, so that submissions completed impossibly fast can be recognised as automated. It records when the page opened, not what you did on it.

Neither field is judged in your browser. Both are simply passed along with your message, so that a mistaken spam classification can be seen and corrected rather than causing your enquiry to disappear.

Where your submission goes

When you send any of the three forms above, what you typed is transmitted over an encrypted connection to this website’s own server, which passes it straight on to Lead Docket — the intake system the firm uses to receive and track new enquiries. This website keeps no database of its own, and your submission is not sent anywhere else.

Your enquiry arrives in Lead Docket as a new item awaiting review by someone at the firm. It carries what you typed, the page you sent it from, and the date and time. Lead Docket is operated by a third-party vendor on the firm’s behalf and holds the information under its own security and retention arrangements.

If a submission cannot be delivered — a dropped connection, or a fault at our end — a diagnostic record of it, including your name and telephone number, is written to our hosting provider’s short-term server logs. That is deliberate: it means a failed enquiry can still be found and answered rather than vanishing. It is also why the pages never show you a success message for something that did not actually arrive — if sending fails, the form tells you so and shows the firm’s telephone number.

You can always reach the firm directly at 844-GA-WRECK or daniel@gawreck.com instead of using a form.

Information collected automatically

This website is a set of static pages. It runs one analytics service — Google Analytics 4 — and nothing else: no advertising or conversion pixel, no session recording, and no A/B testing tool. We do not build a profile of you, and we do not track you across other websites.

Google Analytics tells us which pages are read and roughly where readers come from, so we know which subjects are worth writing about. To do that it sets the cookies described below, and your IP address and the address of the page you are on reach Google, which processes them under its own privacy policy. It is loaded from www.googletagmanager.com.

Like every website, the server that delivers these pages records ordinary request information in order to serve them and to keep the site secure — typically the IP address making the request, the page requested, the time, and the browser’s user-agent string. The site is hosted on Vercel, so those server logs are held by Vercel under its own terms and retention schedule. [Firm to confirm: hosting provider and log-retention period]

Cookies

The only cookies this website sets are Google Analytics’ own — typically _ga and a second one whose name ends in the property id. They record a randomly generated identifier so that two visits from the same browser can be counted as one reader rather than two. They hold no name, no email address and nothing you type into a form.

We ask before setting them. The first time you visit, a bar at the foot of the page asks whether you agree. Nothing is loaded and no cookie is set until you press Accept — not the analytics script, not a request to Google, nothing. If you press Decline, none of it ever loads, the bar does not come back, and the site works exactly as it did before. Both buttons are the same size, because a choice that is only nominally a choice is not one.

Your answer is remembered in your browser’s own storage rather than in a cookie — recording a refusal of cookies by setting a cookie would be absurd, and it means your answer never travels to our server. Clearing your browser data will make the bar appear again, and you can change your mind that way at any time.

Beyond those, the site stores nothing in your browser’s local or session storage. Webfonts, images, stylesheets and scripts are all served from gawreck.com itself rather than from a third-party content-delivery network, so simply reading these pages makes no request to any other company — with the single exception described next.

The YouTube video on the home page

The home page (and its Spanish counterpart) embeds a video player from YouTube, so that the firm’s latest video can be watched without leaving the site. That player is loaded from www.youtube.com, which is operated by Google.

Loading it means that, on that page only:

• your browser contacts Google’s servers directly;
• Google receives your IP address, the address of the page you are on, and information about your browser and device; and
• Google may set and read its own cookies in your browser, including cookies used for advertising and measurement. The embed uses the standard youtube.com player rather than the youtube-nocookie.com variant, so this happens whether or not you press play.

That data is collected by Google, not by us; we cannot see it and we receive nothing back from it. It is handled under Google’s own privacy policy. If you would rather not load it, blocking third-party content for youtube.com in your browser or an extension will leave the rest of this website working normally. No other page on this site loads third-party content of any kind.

How we use what you send us

We use what you submit only to:

• respond to your enquiry and arrange a free consultation;
• check whether the firm is able to take your matter, including checking for conflicts of interest;
• keep a record of the enquiry as required for the firm’s professional obligations; and
• comply with the law.

We do not use enquiries to build marketing lists, and we do not send unsolicited marketing email or text messages to people who have only asked a question.

Who we share it with

We do not sell your information, and we do not rent, trade or otherwise disclose it for anyone else’s marketing. Beyond that, information you send may be handled by:

• the service providers the firm uses to run its practice — in particular Lead Docket, the intake system that receives every submission from this website, and the firm’s email provider. [Firm to confirm: email host, and whether to name Filevine]
• other people, only where you ask us to or where the law requires it — for example in response to a valid subpoena or court order.

How long we keep it

Enquiries that do not become matters are kept only as long as the firm needs them, and are then deleted. [Firm to state: retention period for enquiries, and for client files]

Security

This website is served over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), so what you type into the form travels encrypted. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security — which is the reason for the warning above about sending sensitive material before you are a client.

Your choices

You can ask us what information of yours we hold, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by emailing daniel@gawreck.com or calling 844-GA-WRECK. We will do so unless the firm is required to keep the information — for example where it forms part of a client file. Asking a question through this website never puts you on a mailing list, so there is nothing to unsubscribe from.

Because this site does no tracking, there is nothing for a browser “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off here. The YouTube embed described above is governed by your settings with Google.

Children

This website is intended for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. A parent or guardian who believes a child has sent us information should contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page when the site changes — for example if the firm changes the system that receives enquiries, or if any analytics or third-party service is ever added. The date at the top of this page always shows when it was last revised.

Contact us

The Nagel Law Firm, LLC
600 Peachtree Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30308
844-GA-WRECK · daniel@gawreck.com