Cookie Policy

Who We Are: LEDES.org is owned and maintained by LEDES Oversight Committee. We are a volunteer-led not-for-profit organization that creates data exchange standards for the legal industry. You can reach us by using this link.  

What personal data we collect and why we collect it The only personal information we collect is to manage membership and regulate access to our “behind the login” member content. We use:

  • Google Site Kit to monitor traffic to our site.
  • Third-party Authenticator systems are used on login by members to ensure two factor authentication.  
  • Professional Memberships Pro Plus is used to organize information on our members.  Membership information is deleted after failure to renew membership in the LEDES Oversight Committee.  
  • CookieYes to record cookie preferences.  Cookie preferences are maintained for 1 year.

Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Contact Forms:  When using the “Contact LEDES” contact form, we ask you to provide your name, email address, subject and message.  This information is emailed to the LEDES Board of Directors and is also retained within the site until it is deleted.

Cookies : If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Embedded Content From Other Websites:  Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Share Your Personal Data:  We do not sell data to any external party.

How Long We Retain Your Data:  If you leave a comment or post to the Member Forum, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data:  If you are a member, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where We Send Your Data:  Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your Contact Information:  The Organization’s President functions as the LEDES Oversight Committee Data Protection Officer and can be reached using this link.

How We Protect Your Data:  Our URL has a security certificate (HTTPS), requires complex passwords and uses hCAPTCHA to ensure login security.

What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place:  In the event of a data breach, all impacted individuals will be immediately notified.

What Third Parties We Receive Data From:  At this time, we do not receive data from any third-party sources.

What Automated Decision Making and/or Profiling We Do With User Data:  The only automated decision making undertaken by this web site is via Paid Membership Pro Plus and is limited to membership renewal or cancellation as of the next renewal date. We do not profile user data outside of general (public) information provided by Site Kit.

Cookie Types

Necessary Cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.  This category only includes cookies that are necessary to ensure basic functionalities and features of the website.  These cookies do not store any personal information.  Currently LEDES.org uses 15 necessary cookies.

Functional Cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedback, and other third-party features.  Currently LEDES.org uses 0 functional cookies.

Performance Cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which help in delivering a better user experience for visitors.  Currently LEDES.org uses  2 performance cookies.

Analytical Cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website.  These cookies help provide information on metrics, the number of visitors, bounce rates, traffic source, etc.

Advertisement Cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.  Currently LEDES.org uses 0 advertisement cookies.

Other Uncategorized Cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category yet.  Currently LEDES.org uses 1 other cookie.