Indexed from official State Bar of California records · Identity verification · Updated regularly

Privacy Policy

Effective July 23, 2026. This policy explains how the California Attorney Registry (the "Registry") at californiaattorneyregistry.com collects, uses, and discloses personal information, and the rights California residents have over it.

1. Information the Registry collects

Attorney public-record information

Name, bar number, admission date, license status, and the locality and contact fields the State Bar of California publishes as public records. This information is published because it is a public record, not because the attorney provided it.

Attorney account information

When an attorney claims a profile: the email address and/or mobile number used for one-time-passcode verification, identity evidence submitted for review, session data, and any profile content the attorney supplies (headline, biography, firm, addresses, media, professional history).

Consumer messages

When you message an attorney through the Registry: your name, your reply-to email address, your message, and technical metadata (a hashed IP digest and user-agent) retained to prevent abuse.

Usage information

Pages viewed, referring source, approximate location derived from IP address, device and browser characteristics, and interaction events, collected through Google Analytics 4 and server logs.

2. Attorney email addresses are not published

The Registry does not publish attorney email addresses in public profiles. Consumer messages are transmitted through the Registry's relay to the address on the official record, and the sender never receives that address. This is a deliberate design choice to reduce harvesting and unsolicited commercial email directed at licensees.

3. How the Registry uses information

  • to publish and maintain the attorney registry;
  • to verify that a person claiming a profile controls the identity on the official record, and to review submitted evidence for fraud;
  • to transmit consumer messages to the attorney of record;
  • to report engagement statistics to the claimed attorney about their own profile (views, call clicks, messages received);
  • to operate, secure, debug, and improve the Registry, and to measure aggregate traffic;
  • to send transactional messages (verification codes, receipts, service notices) and, where permitted, service-related updates;
  • to comply with law and enforce the Terms of Use.

4. No sale or sharing of personal information

The Registry does not sell personal information, and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act. The Registry does not sell or rent consumer contact details to attorneys, and does not operate a paid-lead product.

5. Mobile information and text (SMS) consent

The Registry sends two kinds of text message, and you consent to them separately. Service messages are one-time verification codes when you claim or sign in, and notices about activity on your own account. Promotional messages are occasional news about the registry, sent only to attorneys who tick a second, optional box. A mobile number is used for texting only when you actively select a text-capable number already on your official State Bar record and tick the consent box shown with it; that action is your opt-in, and the exact wording you agreed to is stored with it. Consent to receive texts is never a condition of using the Registry — email and an automated voice call are always offered instead — and agreeing to promotional messages is never a condition of receiving verification codes. Replying STOP ends all messages.

No mobile information — including your mobile number and your opt-in or consent to receive text messages — is shared with, sold, or rented to any third party or affiliate for their marketing or promotional purposes. Mobile numbers are disclosed only to the Registry's SMS delivery provider, acting under contract solely to transmit the verification code you requested, and are not used for any independent purpose. Text-messaging originator opt-in data and consent are not shared with any third parties. No mobile information is shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

You can stop verification texts at any time by replying STOP, and can still verify by email instead; reply HELP for assistance. Standard message and data rates from your carrier may apply. The full SMS program terms — message types, frequency, and opt-out — are in the Terms of Use.

6. Case files filed by members of the public

If you file a legal matter with the Registry, we collect what you write, the practice area and county you select, approximate timing, your name, your email address, and a phone number if you give one. Your email address becomes your sign-in; there is no password.

  • What you write is not confidential and not privileged.Filing creates no attorney-client relationship. We say this on the form itself, above the box, because it is the most important thing to understand before writing.
  • Nothing is visible to anyone unless you ask for review. A case file with no review request is readable only by you and by the Registry staff who operate the service.
  • If you do ask for review, verified California attorneys may see a redacted summary: the practice area, county, approximate timing, what you hope for, and your description with email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, government identifiers and links automatically removed. They do not see your name, your email address, your phone number, or your file number. That automatic removal is best-effort and cannot catch everything a person might write, which is another reason not to include details you would not want read.
  • Your contact details are released to one attorney only, and only when you accept that attorney’s proposal. That is your action, not ours. Until then no attorney has them.
  • Deletion is real. You can delete a case file permanently from your case file page at any time; the record and everything written in it are removed. We keep an operational log that a file existed and what was done with it, containing none of what you wrote.
  • Never sold. Case files are not sold, rented, or shared with anyone for their own marketing, and access to them is not a paid feature for attorneys.

7. Who information is disclosed to

Personal information is disclosed to service providers who process it on the Registry's behalf under contract and for no independent purpose: hosting and content delivery, database and storage, transactional email delivery, SMS delivery for one-time passcodes, payment processing for memberships, and analytics. Attorney-directed messages are disclosed to the attorney addressed. Information may also be disclosed where required by law, to respond to lawful process, or to protect rights and safety.

8. Cookies and analytics

The Registry uses a limited set of cookies and similar technologies for essential session functions and for analytics. You can block or delete cookies in your browser; essential functions such as maintaining an attorney session may stop working. The Registry honors Global Privacy Control signals where transmitted.

9. Retention

Public-record attorney information is retained for as long as it remains part of the registry. Claim and identity-verification evidence is retained only as long as needed to verify the claim, to investigate suspected fraud, and to meet legal obligations. Relayed consumer messages and their abuse-prevention metadata are retained on a limited schedule. Analytics data is retained per the analytics provider's configured retention window.

10. Security

The Registry uses access controls, encryption in transit, restricted service-role database access, and review workflows for uploaded evidence. No system is perfectly secure, and the Registry cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Your California privacy rights

California residents may request to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of recipients; to delete personal information; to correct inaccurate personal information; and to opt out of sale or sharing (the Registry does neither). You will not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

To exercise a right, email info@californiaattorneyregistry.com from the address associated with the information, or include enough detail to locate the record. The Registry will verify the request before acting on it, and may decline where verification fails or where an exception applies — including that public-record license information published by the State Bar of California remains part of the registry and is not deleted on request. An authorized agent may submit a request with proof of authorization.

12. Attorneys: corrections and suppression

An attorney may claim their profile to correct and control attorney-supplied content. Errors that originate in the official State Bar record should be corrected with the State Bar; the Registry reflects the corrected record on the next synchronization. Requests to suppress a profile are reviewed against the Registry's obligation to present an accurate index of public records.

13. Children

The Registry is intended for adults and is not directed to children. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

14. Changes

This policy may be updated; material changes will be reflected in the effective date above.

15. Governing terms and disputes

This policy is part of, and incorporated into, the Terms of Use. Your use of the Registry, and any dispute relating to this policy or your personal information, is governed by those terms — including the disclaimers, limitation of liability, and the binding individual arbitration agreement and class-action and jury-trial waivers in Section 16 of the Terms of Use. This policy does not create any rights or remedies beyond those in the Terms of Use or required by applicable law.

16. Contact

Privacy questions and rights requests: info@californiaattorneyregistry.com.

Legal information, not legal advice.