Effective Date: August 26, 2026
Last Updated: August 26, 2026
Adam L. Hood, P.A. (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates https://adamhoodlaw.com/ (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and protect it, and the choices you have. By using the Site or communicating with us, you agree to the practices described here.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide to us directly. This may include your name, mailing address, email address, mobile phone number, and any details you share through contact forms, intake questionnaires, client portals, scheduling tools, email, phone calls, or text messages.
Information collected automatically. When you visit the Site we may collect your IP address, browser type, device identifiers, operating system, screen and device characteristics, referring URLs, pages and links you interact with, approximate location derived from IP address, and the dates and times of your visits. We collect this through cookies, tags, and server logs, including through the analytics and security tools listed in Section 5.
Security and access logs. Our website firewall records IP addresses, request details, login attempts, and blocked or suspicious activity in order to protect the Site.
Information from third parties. We may receive information from service providers that support our operations, such as our practice management, payment processing, email delivery, analytics, and messaging vendors.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
• Respond to your inquiries and provide the services you request
• Communicate with you about your matter, appointments, documents, invoices, and account
• Send text messages you have consented to receive (see Section 4)
• Process payments and maintain billing records
• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site
• Comply with our legal, ethical, and professional obligations
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for targeted or behavioral advertising. We do not operate advertising pixels or tracking tags on this Site, and we do not build or contribute to advertising audiences. We share personal information only in these circumstances:
• Service providers. With vendors who perform services on our behalf — such as practice management software, website hosting, form processing, email delivery, payment processors, website security, and messaging platforms — and only to the extent needed to perform those services.
• Analytics. The analytics tools described in Section 5 receive information about your device and your general activity on the Site so that we can understand how the Site is used. They do not receive the contents of your form submissions.
• With your direction or consent. When you ask us to share information with a third party.
• Legal and professional obligations. When required by law, court order, subpoena, or applicable rules of professional conduct, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our clients, our firm, or others.
• Business transfers. In connection with a merger, sale, or reorganization of the firm, subject to applicable confidentiality obligations.
Mobile Information and Text Messaging Data
No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service, is permitted. All other use case categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Your mobile phone number, opt-in status, and consent records are used solely to deliver the messaging services described in Section 4.
This carve-out is absolute and overrides anything else in this Policy. We do not transmit your phone number, your opt-in status, or the contents of your form submissions to the analytics tools listed in Section 5, and we do not use them for any advertising or marketing purpose.
4. Text Messaging (SMS/MMS)
If you provide your mobile number and consent to receive text messages, we may send you messages relating to your matter, appointments, document requests, billing, and similar service communications.
• Consent is voluntary. You are not required to agree to receive text messages as a condition of retaining our services or purchasing anything from us.
• Message frequency varies depending on your matter and your interactions with us.
• Message and data rates may apply. Check with your mobile carrier for details.
• To opt out, reply STOP to any message at any time. You will receive one final message confirming your opt-out, after which we will stop sending texts to that number. Opting out of texts does not opt you out of other communications, such as phone calls or email.
• For help, reply HELP or contact us at (850) 215-9147 or [email protected].
• Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
We retain records of your consent and opt-out requests as required by applicable law and carrier rules.
5. Cookies and Analytics Technologies
The Site is built on WordPress and uses cookies, tags, and similar technologies. We group them as follows.
Strictly necessary. WordPress session and preference cookies, and cookies set by our website security and firewall service (Wordfence) to identify and block malicious traffic. These are required for the Site to function securely and cannot be switched off.
Forms and email delivery. Our forms are operated by Gravity Forms, which stores your submissions in our website database, and messages are delivered through Gravity SMTP and our email delivery provider, Google. Form and delivery records may include your IP address, submission timestamp, and message metadata.
Analytics. We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (managed through Google Site Kit) to understand how visitors find and use the Site. These set cookies and assign a pseudonymous identifier to your browser. We do not link this data to any Google advertising product, and we do not use it to build advertising audiences. You can opt out across all sites using Google’s browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, and learn more at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Search and content. Yoast SEO generates structured data and sitemaps for search engines. It does not track individual visitors.
No advertising technologies. This Site does not use advertising pixels, retargeting tags, or conversion-tracking tools from any advertising network.
Your controls
• Use our cookie banner to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can reopen it at any time from the “Cookie Preferences” link in our footer.
• Most browsers let you block or delete cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may break parts of the Site.
• We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, and browser Do Not Track signals where technically feasible, as a request to disable non-essential analytics.
A note about sensitive pages
Because we are a law firm, the pages you visit could suggest the kind of legal problem you may have. We do not run advertising or retargeting technology on this Site, and we have configured our analytics tools not to receive the contents of form submissions. If you would prefer that no analytics technology observe your visit at all, decline non-essential cookies before browsing, or contact us by telephone at (850) 215-9147 instead of using this Site.
6. Data Security
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Please note that email and text message are not secure channels. Do not transmit sensitive or confidential information through them unless we have agreed otherwise.
Confidentiality of client and prospective client information. Information you share with us in connection with seeking legal services is handled in accordance with our confidentiality obligations under the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, including Rules 4-1.6 and 4-1.18. Those obligations may be broader than this Policy; where they are, they control. Sending us information does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship, and may not make that information privileged. See our Terms of Use (https://adamhoodlaw.com/terms).
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as needed to provide services, comply with our legal and professional obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Client files and trust accounting records are retained in accordance with the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, including the record-retention requirements of Chapter 5. Records of text messaging consent and opt-out requests are retained as required by applicable law and carrier rules.
8. Your Choices and Rights
You may:
• Update or correct information you have given us by contacting us
• Opt out of text messages by replying STOP
• Unsubscribe from marketing email using the link in those messages
• Request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, subject to our legal and professional retention obligations
• Decline non-essential analytics cookies in our banner, or send a Global Privacy Control signal
• Request deletion of a form submission you sent us, if we have not accepted your matter
Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under state privacy laws. To exercise any right, contact us using the details in Section 12. We will respond within the time required by applicable law and will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf; we may ask for proof of that authorization.
9. Children’s Privacy
The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.
10. Third-Party Websites
The Site may link to third-party sites. We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices, and this Policy does not apply to them. Review their policies before providing information.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The revised version will be posted here with a new “Last Updated” date. Continued use of the Site after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.
12. Contact Us
Adam L. Hood, P.A.
626 Magnolia Avenue
Panama City, Florida 32401
Phone: (850) 215-9147
Email: [email protected]
Responsible for the content of this Site: Adam L. Hood, Adam L. Hood, P.A..
Bona fide office location: Panama City, Bay County, Florida.
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