Privacy policy.

The only information you provide directly to us through this website is what you choose to enter into a contact form, including:

• Your name and email address;
• Optionally, your company or affiliation;
• Optionally, the practice area you are interested in;
• The contents of your message.

When the form is submitted, our servers also receive your IP address. We do not retain the raw IP. Instead we compute a one-way salted hash of it and use that hash for short-term rate limiting (at most three submissions per ten-minute window from the same source). The hash cannot be reversed to recover the original IP.

Like any web service, our hosting and infrastructure providers maintain operational logs (request URLs, timestamps, response codes) on our behalf. We do not use those logs for marketing, profiling, or sale.

We use the information you submit to:

• Respond to your inquiry;
• Conduct a conflicts check, if relevant, before a substantive response;
• Maintain records of communications with the firm consistent with applicable rules of professional conduct;
• Operate, secure, and improve this website (including preventing abuse and spam).

We will not use the information you provide for marketing outreach unless you have separately opted in to a list (e.g., a future newsletter). We do not sell, rent, or trade your information.

We share information only as needed:

• With service providers that host this website, store form submissions, and deliver notification emails—under contractual obligations to protect the information and use it only to provide services to us.
• When legally required—to comply with a subpoena, court order, regulatory request, or other legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the firm or others.

We do not share information you submit with marketing partners or data brokers.

This website does not set tracking or advertising cookies. We do not use Google Analytics, advertising pixels, or behavioral profiling tools. Your visit to this site is not used to build a profile of you.

Our hosting platform may set strictly necessary technical cookies (for example, to route requests, balance load, or prevent abuse). These cookies do not identify you and are not used for advertising.

We retain contact-form submissions for as long as needed to respond to your inquiry and to maintain records consistent with applicable rules of professional conduct. We delete submissions on request, subject to any retention obligations imposed by law.

The hashed-IP record used for rate limiting expires automatically.

We take reasonable steps to protect the information you submit. The form is delivered over HTTPS. Submissions are stored in a managed database with access controls. We avoid collecting more information than we need.

No transmission over the internet, and no system of electronic storage, is completely secure. If you have a sensitive matter, please reach out by phone or in person rather than entrusting the substance of the matter to a web form.

Regardless of where you live, you may contact us to:

• Ask what information we hold about you that you provided through this website;
• Request correction of inaccurate information;
• Request deletion of information you have submitted (subject to legal retention obligations);
• Withdraw consent to communications you previously opted into.

We will respond within a reasonable time. If we cannot honor a request because of a legal obligation, we will tell you why.

California residents may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), including the rights to know, delete, correct, and limit certain uses of personal information.

We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under California law. To exercise a California right, contact us using the information below and identify yourself as a California resident.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or equivalent local law may apply to information we collect from you.

Our legal bases for processing are: your consent (when you voluntarily submit a contact form), our legitimate interests in operating and securing our website and responding to inquiries, and, where relevant, compliance with legal obligations.

You have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to, or port your personal data, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. To exercise these rights, contact us using the information below.

This website is not directed at children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has submitted information through this site, please contact us and we will delete it.

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes will be highlighted in an appropriate manner.

To exercise any right under this policy, or to ask a question:

• Emailhello@bellementis.com
• MailBellementis PLLC
  1725 I Street, NW, Third Floor
  Washington, DC 20006
• Phone(202) 349-3745