DeShaw Law Firm
Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq., P.C.
Effective August 4, 2026 | Last Updated August 4, 2026
1. Scope of This Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how DeShaw Law Firm (Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq., P.C.) collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information through www.deshawlaw.com and in the course of responding to inquiries from prospective clients.
This Policy applies to website visitors, individuals who submit an inquiry or case evaluation request, individuals who call or text our office, and individuals who correspond with us by email.
2. This Policy Does Not Govern Client Confidential Information
Important. If you are a client of DeShaw Law, information in your case file is not governed by this Policy. It is protected by the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine, and the rules of professional conduct applicable to lawyers in Oregon and Washington, which impose confidentiality obligations that are stricter than this Policy and stricter than any privacy statute described here.
Nothing in this Policy authorizes, or should be read to authorize, the disclosure of privileged or confidential client information. Where this Policy and our professional confidentiality obligations differ, our professional obligations control.
3. Information We Collect
Information You Provide to Us
- Identifying information, such as your name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number.
- Information about a potential legal matter, which you may choose to provide when you contact us. This can include a description of an incident, injuries, medical treatment, insurance, employment, or financial losses.
- Information contained in documents, records, photographs, or correspondence you send to us.
- Any other information you voluntarily submit through a web form, by email, by telephone, or by text message.
Please do not send us detailed or sensitive information about a potential matter before we have agreed in writing to represent you. Information you send before an attorney-client relationship is formed may not be protected as confidential, and a conflict of interest may prevent us from receiving it.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, our servers and service providers may automatically collect your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, pages viewed, and the date and time of your visit. This information is collected through cookies, pixels, and similar technologies that track internet and website usage.
Information From Other Sources
We may receive information about you from a person who refers you to us, from another law firm, from a court or public record, from an insurer, or from a health care provider pursuant to an authorization you have signed.
4. How We Use Information
- To respond to your inquiry and evaluate a potential legal matter;
- To perform the conflict-of-interest check that professional rules require before we may accept a matter;
- To provide legal services to clients and to administer client files;
- To communicate with you about your matter by telephone, email, mail, or text message;
- To operate, secure, maintain, and improve our website;
- To send firm updates or informational materials, where you have asked to receive them; and
- To comply with legal, regulatory, and professional obligations.
5. What We Do Not Do With Your Information
We consider the following commitments to be central to how this firm operates:
- We do not sell your personal information. We have not ever sold personal information in the history of our law firm (including in the preceding twelve months), and do not intend to do so at any time in the future.
- We do not sell, rent, or trade inquiries as sales leads. Information you send us about a potential case is not provided to lead generators, marketing companies, or other law firms for the purpose of soliciting you.
- We do not use your information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- We do not share your mobile number or your text messaging consent with any third party. See Section 7.
6. How We Share Information
We disclose personal information only as follows:
- Service providers. Vendors who host our telephone system, website, provide email and messaging services, maintain our case management system, or provide administrative support, in each case under contractual obligations of confidentiality and only for the purpose of providing services to us.
- Co-counsel and referral counsel. Where we associate another law firm on a matter, or where we refer a matter to another firm, we share information only as necessary and only in accordance with our professional obligations. For clients, this requires your informed consent as provided by the applicable rules of professional conduct.
- Experts and litigation support. Retained experts, investigators, court reporters, medical illustrators, and similar professionals engaged on a matter that may need to contact you.
- As required in the representation. Opposing counsel, courts, mediators, and insurers, to the extent disclosure is required or authorized in the course of pursuing your legal matter.
- Legal compliance. Where required by law, subpoena, or court order, subject to any applicable privilege, which we will assert where it applies.
7. Text Messaging (SMS)
Your mobile telephone number and your consent to receive text messages from Dr. Aaron DeShaw, Esq., P.C. will not be sold, rented, or shared with any third party for that third party’s own purposes, including marketing purposes. This exclusion applies notwithstanding any other provision of this Policy. We share your mobile number only with the telecommunications carriers and messaging platform providers who deliver messages on our behalf, or client management platform, and only for that purpose.
For full details of our messaging program, including how to obtain help and how to stop messages, see our Text Message (SMS) Notice.
8. Health-Related Information
Because our practice concerns personal injury, brain injury, and wrongful death, information you send us may describe your physical or mental health, your treatment, or your diagnoses.
Washington law provides separate protections for consumer health data. If you are a Washington resident, please see our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, which is separately linked from our homepage and which describes the categories of consumer health data we collect, the purposes for which we collect it, the sources of that data, the categories of third parties with whom it is shared, and how you may exercise your rights.
DeShaw Law Firm is not a covered entity under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). Medical records we obtain in the course of a representation are handled as confidential client information under Section 2 of this Policy.
9. Cookies, Analytics, and Opt-Out Signals
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies for site functionality and to understand how visitors use the site. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, although some portions of the site may not function properly if you do.
We honor browser-based universal opt-out preference signals, including the Global Privacy Control, where the law requires us to do so. If you transmit such a signal, we will treat it as a request to opt out of the sale of personal information and of targeted advertising, to the extent those activities occur.
10. Retention
We retain client files for the period required by the rules of professional conduct, applicable court rules, and our file retention policy, which in some circumstances requires retention for many years after a matter concludes. Information from inquiries that do not become matters is retained for the period necessary to maintain our conflict-of-interest records, and then destroyed.
11. Security
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Email and text message are not secure channels and should not be used to transmit sensitive information.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you reside, you may have some or all of the following rights with respect to personal information we hold about you:
- To confirm whether we process your personal information and to obtain a copy of it;
- To correct inaccuracies in your personal information;
- To request deletion of your personal information;
- To obtain a list of the specific third parties to which we have disclosed your personal information; and
- To opt out of the sale of personal information, targeted advertising, and certain profiling.
These rights are subject to important exceptions. We may be unable to delete or restrict information that we are required to retain by the rules of professional conduct, by a litigation hold, by a court order, or by our obligations to a client.
To exercise a right, contact us using the information in Section 16. We will respond within the period required by applicable law, generally forty-five days, and may extend that period where permitted. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. If we decline your request, you may appeal by writing to us at the same address, and we will respond to the appeal in writing.
13. Children
Our website is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the website. Where a minor is a client or a claimant in a matter we handle, information about that minor is treated as confidential client information under Section 2.
14. Third-Party Websites
Our website may link to websites operated by others. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and this Policy does not apply to them.
15. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of this Policy indicates when it was last revised. Material changes will be posted on this page. Where the law requires your consent before we use previously collected information for a new purpose, we will obtain that consent.