Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal information Morton Family & Criminal Law, PLLC collects through this website and related contact channels, why it is collected, who receives it, and how you can make a privacy request.

People contact this firm about divorce, children, family violence, and criminal allegations. The firm has therefore set up the website conservatively, collecting only what is needed to respond to you and to check for conflicts of interest, and treating the Connecticut Data Privacy Act as if it applies.

1. Who we are

Morton Family & Criminal Law, PLLC
2837-A Main Street
Glastonbury, CT 06033
860-4-FAMILY
intake@mfclegal.com

Attorney Daniel M. Morton is responsible for the content of this website.

2. Information you give us

The contact and consultation forms

The forms ask only for the information the firm needs to contact you and to run a conflict check:

• your full legal name and any former or other names
• your phone number and email address
• the other party’s full legal name and any known former names
• the names of any children shared by the parties
• the names of parties in any related family or criminal case
• opposing counsel, if known
• the general type of matter
• any urgent court date, arraignment, or deadline, and a few words on what it is for
• how you heard about the firm (optional)

The forms deliberately do not ask you to describe what happened. Please do not send details of your situation, health information, or other sensitive facts through the website. Those are discussed after the conflict check is complete. See the Disclaimer.

Telephone calls

The firm uses RingCentral for its telephone system and its AI Receptionist. When you call, RingCentral processes your phone number and the content of the call so that the call can be answered, routed, and followed up. If a call is recorded or transcribed, you will be told at the start of the call.

3. Information collected automatically

When you visit, the website’s hosting provider receives the technical information any website receives: your IP address, browser and device type, the pages requested, and the date and time. This is used to deliver pages, keep the site secure, and diagnose problems.

The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser sends a request, including your IP address, to Google when a page loads.

The site sets one cookie, a security cookie used to detect automated traffic. Details are in the Cookie Policy.

The website does not use analytics, advertising or retargeting cookies, social-media pixels, session replay, heatmaps, or other tools that track your behavior on this site or across other sites. If the firm ever adds a tool of that kind, this policy and the Cookie Policy will be updated first, and any tool that is not strictly necessary will run only with your consent.

4. Why we use it

• to respond to your inquiry and arrange a consultation
• to check for conflicts of interest before the firm can speak with you about your matter
• to represent you, if you become a client
• to operate, secure, and maintain the website and phone system
• to meet the firm’s legal and professional obligations, including record-keeping and conflict-checking

The firm does not use your information for targeted advertising and does not build profiles about you.

5. Who receives it

The firm does not sell personal information. It shares it only with service providers that help it operate, and only for the purposes above:

• WP Engine hosts the website. Form submissions are stored in the website’s database, and server logs are kept by the host. WP Engine uses Cloudflare for security and content delivery.
• Google delivers the site’s fonts (Google Fonts).
• The firm’s email service receives a copy of each form submission so the firm is notified.
• RingCentral provides the firm’s telephone system and AI Receptionist.
• Clio Grow is used for prospective-client intake and consultation scheduling after the conflict check, and Clio Manage for case management once you are a client.

The firm may also disclose information where the law or the Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct require it, or to protect someone from imminent harm where the rules permit.

6. How long we keep it

Information is kept only as long as it is needed for the purposes above. Some information, such as the names checked for conflicts, is kept longer because the firm must be able to check for conflicts in the future and must keep certain records under its professional obligations.

7. Security

The firm uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and the website is served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. No system is perfectly secure, which is one more reason not to send sensitive details through the website.

8. Your privacy rights

Where the Connecticut Data Privacy Act or another privacy law applies, you may ask the firm to:

• confirm whether it processes your personal data, and give you access to it
• correct inaccurate personal data
• delete personal data
• give you a copy of personal data you provided, in a portable format
• stop processing your personal data for targeted advertising, sale, or profiling (the firm does none of these)

Some requests may be limited where the firm must keep information to meet its legal or professional obligations, including conflict records and client files.

How to make a request

Email intake@mfclegal.com, call 860-4-FAMILY, or write to the address above, saying what kind of request you are making. The firm may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and will respond within 45 days, or tell you within that time if it needs more time, as the law allows.

If the firm declines your request, you may appeal by contacting the firm the same way and asking for the decision to be reviewed. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of an appeal, you may contact the Connecticut Attorney General’s office.

The firm will not treat you differently for exercising these rights.

9. Children

This website is not directed to children, and the firm does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. Children’s names you provide for conflict-checking are used only for that purpose.

10. Links to other sites

This site links to courts, government agencies, and support organizations. Their privacy practices are their own.

11. Changes to this policy

The firm will update this policy when its practices or tools change. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.