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Last updated: October 21, 2026

The Legal Examiner is an online publication about law, justice, and accountability. It is published by Wilde Media LLC, doing business as The Legal Examiner ("The Legal Examiner," "we," "us," or "our"), 3225 South MacDill Avenue, #129-307, Tampa, FL 33629. This page is our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimers in one document. It applies to www.legalexaminer.com, to the Legal Examiner Affiliate Network (publications on legalexaminer.com subdomains), and to our newsletters and feeds (together, the "Sites").

Much of what we publish is written by independent contributors — attorneys, law firms, legal professionals, and our editorial staff. Because it comes from many sources, we cannot guarantee its accuracy or completeness. By using the Sites you agree to what follows. If you do not agree, please do not use them.

1. Definitions

Some relationships with us are governed by additional terms, which control where they overlap with this page: paid contributors are also bound by the Contributor Guidelines & Terms; firm publications and sponsored topic guides are governed by the written agreement between the firm and us; publish.law is a separate service with its own terms.

2. Privacy & Data Use

Information we collect

How we use it

To deliver the Sites, newsletters, and member features you ask for; to respond to inquiries and route messages to the right firm or staff member; to set up, bill, and support paid accounts; to understand and improve how the Sites are used; to measure and target our own advertising; to protect the Sites and enforce these terms; and to meet legal obligations. We do not make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you.

Who we share it with

Advertising, "selling," and "sharing"

We do not sell Personal Data for money. The Meta Pixel and Google Analytics do disclose your activity on www.legalexaminer.com to Meta and Google for advertising measurement, which some state laws, including California's, treat as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can opt out by emailing privacy@legalexaminer.com with "Opt out" in the subject, or by sending a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser, which we honor: when it is present, the Meta Pixel does not load and Google's advertising cookies are disabled. Ordinary, non-advertising analytics (Plausible, our platform's own analytics, and Google Analytics measurement) continue.

Cookies

Essential cookies keep you signed in as a member and support Cloudflare security; Google Analytics sets analytics cookies; the Meta Pixel sets an advertising cookie on www.legalexaminer.com; UserWay stores your accessibility preferences; Plausible sets none. You can block or delete cookies in your browser (blocking essential cookies signs you out), install Google's Analytics opt-out add-on, and adjust ad settings in your Facebook or Instagram account.

Your rights

Anyone may unsubscribe from a newsletter using the link in the email, cancel a membership from the account page, or ask us to access, correct, or delete Personal Data by emailing privacy@legalexaminer.com; we verify requests using the email address on file and generally respond within 45 days. California residents additionally have the rights to know, delete, correct, opt out of sale or sharing (above), limit use of sensitive personal information (we do not use it for purposes that trigger this right), and not be discriminated against; an authorized agent may act for you with written permission, and you may appeal a denial by replying to our response. Residents of other U.S. states with privacy laws have similar rights. Visitors from the EEA, UK, and Switzerland: we process data on the bases of contract (accounts), our legitimate interest in measuring our own advertising (the advertising cookies and the Meta Pixel on www.legalexaminer.com, which you can object to at any time through Global Privacy Control, the cookie controls above, or privacy@legalexaminer.com; we are a U.S. publisher and do not currently show a consent banner), legitimate interests (running, securing, and improving the Sites), and legal obligation; you may access, correct, erase, restrict, port, or object, and may complain to your supervisory authority.

Retention and transfers

Member accounts: until you cancel or ask us to delete them. Form and chat submissions: as long as needed to handle the inquiry, generally up to two years. Paid-account and billing records: for the relationship plus the period tax and accounting law requires, generally seven years. Published content: indefinitely as part of the public archive unless you ask us to remove it and no legal reason requires keeping it; when we remove something, we also remove the cross-posted and syndicated copies we control, but copies already distributed through feeds, newsletters, or third-party syndication may persist. Google Analytics keeps event data for 2 months and user data for 14 months; Plausible keeps aggregated statistics only. Our publishing platform is hosted in the European Union and our newsletters are sent from Mailgun's EU region, but we are a United States company and several providers (including Google, Meta, Cloudflare, Stripe, and HubSpot) process data in the United States.

Children

The Sites are for adults. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from anyone under 18; if you believe a minor has given us information, email privacy@legalexaminer.com and we will delete it unless the law requires us to keep it.

3. Terms of Use

Eligibility and accounts

You must be 18 or older to create an account or submit anything to the Sites. Member accounts, where a site offers them, are created and accessed with your email address through a sign-in link; you are responsible for the security of that email account and for activity under your membership. Keep your information accurate and tell us at support@legalexaminer.com if you believe your membership has been used without permission. We may suspend or close accounts that violate these terms.

Content you submit

You keep ownership of what you submit. So that we can run the Sites, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, display, distribute, and promote it, including publishing it on www.legalexaminer.com and across the Affiliate Network (including cross-posting between them, with the canonical reference pointing to the original); distributing it through newsletters, RSS, open-web protocols such as ActivityPub, social media, and syndication partners; presenting it within our layouts and templates, which may include related links, sponsor information, and calls to action alongside it; adjusting formatting, metadata, images, and layout (we will not change the substance of a contributor's article without the author's agreement, except as the applicable contributor or firm agreement allows); excerpting it for promotion; and archiving it. The license continues for content already published so that archives, cross-posts, and syndicated copies remain intact, until you ask us to remove the content as described under "Retention and transfers." You represent that your content is yours or properly licensed, does not infringe anyone's rights, is not defamatory, and — if you are an attorney — complies with the professional-conduct and advertising rules that apply to you. You are responsible for claims arising from your content.

Rules of conduct

Do not use the Sites to post anything unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, obscene, or discriminatory; anything that infringes intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights; spam, unsolicited advertising, or deceptive or machine-generated content presented as fact; or malware. Do not impersonate anyone, misrepresent your credentials, scrape or bulk-copy the Sites or use our content to build a competing service without written permission (ordinary search indexing and reading are fine), or interfere with the Sites' operation or security. We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts for violations, with or without notice.

Law firms pay us to operate affiliate publications and to sponsor topic guides, and the sponsoring or operating firm is named on those pages. Firms are responsible for the content they produce, which reflects their views, not ours. Our relationship with a firm is a publishing relationship, not an endorsement, certification, or rating of the firm. We are not a lawyer referral service: we do not match you with an attorney or receive a fee from any case, and a message you send through a firm's form or chat goes to that firm because you chose to contact it.

Our content and trademarks

Except for content belonging to contributors, the Sites and everything on them — text, design, code, logos, and the "The Legal Examiner" name — are owned by Wilde Media LLC or its licensors. You may read, link to, and share links to our articles and quote brief excerpts with attribution; you may not otherwise copy, republish, or create derivative works without written permission. Contributors' articles belong to their authors; republishing them requires the author's permission.

If you believe content on the Sites infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at copyright@legalexaminer.com or by mail to Wilde Media LLC, Attn: Copyright Agent, 3225 South MacDill Avenue, #129-307, Tampa, FL 33629, including: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work; the URL of the material you claim is infringing; your address, telephone number, and email; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. We may remove the material, notify the person who posted it, and terminate repeat infringers. Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

Our articles link to other websites, and firms and contributors link to their own sites; we do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or compensation. You may stop using the Sites, cancel a membership, or unsubscribe at any time; we may suspend or terminate your access for violating these terms or creating legal or reputational risk for us. Sections on content already published, our content, DMCA, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, and governing law survive termination.

4. Disclaimers

Information, not advice

Everything on the Sites is general information. It is not legal advice, medical advice, or a substitute for an attorney who knows your situation or a doctor who has examined you. Laws differ by state and change over time, and an article is accurate only as of its publication date. For a legal question, consult an attorney licensed in your state; for a health concern, see a doctor; in an emergency, call 911. Contributors' articles reflect their own views, not necessarily ours.

Content produced by law firms

Content produced by or for a law firm — affiliate publications operated by firms, sponsored guides, firm-authored articles, firm profiles, and the contact forms, chat tools, and phone numbers that appear with them — is attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome; every case depends on its facts. Reading an article, visiting a firm's publication or profile, or sending a message through a form or chat tool does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship; generally, one exists only when you and the firm agree to the representation, usually in a signed engagement agreement. Messages you send through those tools are delivered to the firm and may not be confidential or privileged, so do not include sensitive details before the firm has agreed to represent you. Each attorney can practice only where licensed; their biographies generally list those jurisdictions, and you should ask if you are unsure.

We do not provide legal services, and we are not a lawyer referral service (see "Sponsored content and affiliate publications" above). A firm's presence on the Sites is a paid publishing relationship, not a certification, rating, or endorsement by The Legal Examiner.

Health information

Articles about injuries, medications, medical devices, and health conditions are general information drawn from public sources and the authors' experience. Do not change or stop a treatment because of something you read here; talk to your doctor.

5. Warranties, Liability, and Indemnification

The Sites and their content are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted operation. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Wilde Media LLC and its members, employees, contractors, and licensors are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from the Sites or these terms, under any theory of liability. Our total liability for all claims arising from the Sites or these terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose and one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100). Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, in which case they apply to the greatest extent permitted. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your content, your use of the Sites, or your violation of these terms or of any law or third-party right.

6. Governing Law and Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and by applicable federal law. If you have a concern or dispute, contact us first at terms@legalexaminer.com and we will try to resolve it informally. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Hillsborough County, Florida, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts. Rights that your local law does not allow you to waive are not affected. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. embargo and are not on any U.S. list of prohibited or restricted parties.

7. Changes to This Page

We may update this page as our practices or the law change. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date and, where appropriate, announced on the Sites or by email to members. Continuing to use the Sites after a change takes effect means you accept it. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect; our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. If this page is translated, the English version controls.

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