Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 22, 2026

This policy explains what information hardlegal.com ("Hard Legal," "we") collects when you visit, and the choices you have. The short version: this is a reading site — we don't ask you to create accounts, and we collect as little as possible.

Information you give us

If you email hello@hardlegal.com, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply and, if you send a correction, to fix the article. We don't add you to mailing lists or share your address.

Information collected automatically

Like most websites, our hosting infrastructure may log standard technical data: IP address, browser type, pages requested, and timestamps. These logs are used for security and to keep the site running, not to identify readers.

Cookies and analytics

Hard Legal may use privacy-respecting analytics to understand which articles help readers most (for example, aggregate page-view counts). Where an analytics tool sets cookies or similar identifiers, this policy will name it here, and you can block cookies entirely in your browser settings without losing access to any content on this site.

Third-party advertising (including Google AdSense)

We may display advertising served by third parties, including Google AdSense, to keep the site free. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Specifically:

• Google's use of advertising cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• You can opt out of many other third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info/choices.

Ad partners' collection and use of data is governed by their own privacy policies — for Google, see How Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Children

Hard Legal is a general-audience site about US civic processes and is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access or delete personal information a site holds about you. Since we hold essentially nothing beyond emails you've sent us, the practical version of this right is: email us and we'll delete your correspondence.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes get a note on the homepage.

Contact

Privacy questions: hello@hardlegal.com.