Privacy Policy

The Short Version

This website exists to tell you about the practice and give you ways to reach Tom Conits. It uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages help people, with Google's advertising features turned off. It does not run advertising trackers, and it does not sell, rent, or trade anyone's personal information — full stop. The only information that tells us who you are is what you choose to send us when you call, text, email, or fill out the contact form. We use it to respond to you and, if you become a client, to represent you. That's the policy. The sections below spell it out.

Information You Give Us

If you contact the firm — by phone or text at (864) 777-1000, by email, or through the form on our contact page — we receive whatever you include: typically your name, phone number, email address, and a description of what happened to you. Please remember that contacting us does not by itself create an attorney–client relationship, so hold the most sensitive details for an actual conversation. See our Legal Disclaimer for what that distinction means.

Information Collected Automatically

This site is a set of static pages with one outside service: Google Analytics 4, run by Google. It shows us which pages people read and which ones lead them to tap the phone number or send the contact form, so we can improve the pages that help.

• What it records: each page you view, about how long you stay, whether you reach the bottom of the page, and the website or search engine that sent you. It also notes your browser, operating system, device type, screen size, and language. Google estimates your approximate location (country, state, and city) from your IP address. Google says Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses.
• A few actions: tapping the phone number (and which part of the page it was on), clicking a link to another website (and which link), and starting or sending the contact form. Of everything you type or choose in the form, the only thing Analytics receives is the case type selected in the list when you send it (for example, "Car accident"). Your name, phone number, email, and message never go to Analytics.
• Cookies: Analytics stores two cookies under this site's own name. The one named _ga holds a randomly assigned ID so Analytics can recognize your browser on a later visit. The other, whose name begins _ga_, keeps track of the current visit. Each lasts up to two years after your most recent visit.

We have turned off Google's advertising features for this site (Google signals and ad personalization), so these visits are not used to personalize ads, and we have turned off Google's optional data-sharing settings. Google explains how it handles this kind of data in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

To keep Analytics from counting your visits, use Google's opt-out browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or a tracker blocker that blocks Google Analytics; the site works exactly the same with Analytics blocked. Blocking cookies alone stops Analytics from recognizing a return visit, but your page views may still be counted. This site does not respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals.

Like nearly every website, the server that hosts these pages may also keep standard technical logs — IP address, browser type, pages requested, timestamps — for security and troubleshooting. We use any such logs only for those purposes.

How We Use Your Information

• To respond when you reach out — usually the same day.
• To evaluate whether we can help with your potential case.
• To represent you, if you hire the firm — at which point attorney–client confidentiality and the South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct govern, and they are far stricter than any privacy policy.
• To comply with legal and ethical obligations that apply to law practices.

We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not add you to marketing lists for contacting us.

When We Share Information

We do not sell personal information — to anyone, for any purpose. We share it only: (1) with service providers needed to operate the practice, such as our website host, Google (for the site analytics described above), phone carrier, or email provider, which process it on our behalf; (2) as needed to handle your legal matter, with your knowledge, once you are a client — for example with courts, experts, or opposing insurers; and (3) if the law genuinely requires it, such as a valid court order. If you send information about someone else, please make sure you have their permission.

Calls and Text Messages

If you call or text the office number, we will use that number to respond to you about your inquiry. We do not enroll you in automated marketing texts. Standard message and data rates from your carrier may apply to texting. If you tap the phone number on this site, Google Analytics records the tap, the page, and which part of the page it was on; it never sees your phone number, your call, or your text message.

How Long We Keep Information

Inquiries we can't help with are kept only as long as useful for conflict-checking and then disposed of. Client files are retained and destroyed according to the firm's file-retention practices and South Carolina ethical requirements. Google Analytics is set to delete its detailed, visit-by-visit records after 14 months; our standard reports keep only totals.

Security

We take reasonable measures appropriate to a small practice to protect the information we hold. No website or email system is perfectly secure, which is another reason to save the most sensitive details for a phone call or an in-person meeting — including one at your own kitchen table.

Children

This website is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. Injury cases involving minors are handled through their parents or guardians.

Links to Other Sites

Where this site links to outside resources — courts, government agencies, our BBB profile — those sites have their own privacy practices, which we don't control.

Changes to This Policy

If our practices change, this page will be updated, with a new effective date at the top, by the time the change takes effect. The October 12, 2026 update is an example: this policy and Google Analytics went live together, in the same update to the site.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about information you've sent us: call or text (864) 777-1000, or write to The Carolina Injury Lawyer, 100 Williams St, Greenville, SC 29601.