Privacy Policy

This policy explains what happens to personal data collected through techlawg.com. It covers visitors to the site, people who send an enquiry, people who submit a question to Founder Desk, and subscribers to the Founder Legal Brief.

The free tools on this site are covered too, and the answer there is short: the Policy Checker and the Launch Checklist Generator run entirely inside your browser. Text you paste into them is never transmitted to us, never uploaded anywhere, and never stored.

Who is responsible

TECHLAWG is the controller of personal data collected through this website. You can reach us at contact@techlawg.com about anything in this policy, including a request to exercise your rights.

What we collect, and why

Enquiries. When you use the contact form we collect your name, email address and anything you choose to tell us: company, website, what you are building, what you need help with, jurisdictions, timeline and budget. We use it to reply to you and, if you go on to engage us, to carry out that work. The basis for this is that you have asked us to take steps before entering into a contract, and our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries.

Founder Desk questions. We collect your question, optionally what you are building and where your users are, and your email address if you give one. We use it to answer, and to publish an edited, anonymised version so other people with the same problem find the answer. The basis is your consent, given when you submit the question. If you do not want your question published, tell us when you send it.

The Founder Legal Brief. We collect your email address and use it to send the newsletter. The basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

Server logs. Our host records standard technical data on every request, including IP address, browser and device type, the page requested and the referring page. This is used to keep the site available and secure. The basis is our legitimate interest in operating a secure website.

We do not build profiles, we do not make automated decisions about you, we do not use your data to train AI models, and we do not sell or share personal data for advertising.

Who else sees it

Personal data is shared only with the providers that operate this site:

• Hostinger — website hosting and server logs (EU / global).
• Formspree — delivery of contact and question form submissions (United States).
• Google Fonts — serving the typefaces used on the site (United States).

Where a matter you engage us on requires jurisdiction-specific legal advice, we may involve appropriately admitted external or partner counsel. We will tell you before that happens.

We may also disclose personal data where we are legally required to, or to establish or defend legal claims.

International transfers

Some of the providers above are located outside the UK and EEA, principally in the United States. Where personal data is transferred internationally it is done under an approved mechanism, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or an applicable adequacy decision, together with the provider's own safeguards.

How long we keep it

• Enquiries — 24 months from our last contact.
• Engagement records — six years after the matter closes, to meet professional and record-keeping obligations.
• Newsletter — until you unsubscribe.
• Published Founder Desk questions — indefinitely once published in anonymised form, since the answer stays useful. The identifying details are removed before publication.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS, access to enquiry data is limited to those who need it, and the providers we use are chosen partly on their security posture. No system is immune from risk, and we do not claim otherwise. If a breach affects your rights we will notify you and the relevant authority as required.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• ask what personal data we hold about you and get a copy
• have inaccurate data corrected
• have data deleted
• restrict or object to how we use it, including direct marketing
• receive it in a portable format
• withdraw consent at any time, without affecting what we did before you withdrew it

If you are in California or another US state with comparable law, you may also request disclosure of the categories of data collected and shared, request deletion, correct inaccurate data, and opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal data as those terms are defined, so there is nothing to opt out of. You will never be treated differently for exercising a right.

To exercise any right, email contact@techlawg.com. We may need to confirm your identity before we act, and we will respond within one month, or within 45 days where US state law applies. If we need longer we will tell you why.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data you can complain to your data protection authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office; in the EU it is the authority for the country where you live.

Children

This site is intended for people running or building a business, and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, email us and we will delete it.

Cookies

See the Cookie Policy for what this site sets and how to control it.

Changes

If this policy changes we update the date at the top. Where a change materially affects how we use data you have already given us, we will tell subscribers and enquirers directly.