This Privacy Policy explains how ShelfLaw (shelflaw.com) handles information when you visit our website. Last updated: November 9, 2026.
What we collect
- Messages you send: if you email us, we receive your email address and message, used only to reply.
- Technical data: browser, device type, pages visited, referring site and approximate location from your IP address, collected by our server and analytics tools.
- Cookies: small files that help the site work, measure visits and show ads.
ShelfLaw has no user accounts and does not collect settlement claims. We never sell your personal information or pass it to law firms.
Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to understand which guides are useful. It uses cookies and reports data in aggregate. Learn more at How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
Advertising and cookies
ShelfLaw may display ads from Google AdSense and other third-party vendors. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this and other sites.
You may opt out of personalized advertising at Google Ads Settings or at www.aboutads.info. Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalized ads are shown.
How we use information
- To operate and secure the website.
- To learn which topics readers need most.
- To answer questions and corrections.
- To show advertising that keeps ShelfLaw free.
Your rights
You can control cookies in your browser. Depending on where you live, including California (CCPA/CPRA) and the EU or UK (GDPR), you may request access to, correction of or deletion of personal information we hold. Contact us through our Contact page.
Children
ShelfLaw is intended for adults and does not knowingly collect information from children under 13.
Security and changes
We take reasonable steps to protect the site, though no website is completely secure. We may update this policy, and the date above shows the current version.