Our signals are only as trustworthy as the sources behind them. This policy sets out where our data comes from, the lines we will not cross, and how we keep signals accurate and accountable. It complements our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
01Public sources only
Every signal is sourced exclusively from publicly available information, including:
- firm careers pages and job postings;
- official press releases, published insights, and POVs;
- about, practice, people, homepage, and office pages;
- public technical records, such as nameserver and MX records and site technology detections;
- conference programmes and legal industry directories;
- public discussion and mentions on platforms such as Reddit, X, and LinkedIn.
02How we collect
We crawl public pages at a respectful rate and monitor public sources on a regular refresh cycle. We collect only publicly available content: we do not access private messages, private communities, or non-public content on any platform.
03What we do not do
We do not use data brokers, purchase contact lists, or access any private, gated, or non-public information. We do not bypass authentication or paywalls to obtain data, and we do not collect tracking-pixel or de-anonymised visitor data or make "in-market right now" guesses.
04Personal data minimisation
We reference named individuals only where they have made their professional role and activity public, for example, a partner who co-authors a published article or accepts a disclosed lateral move. We do not build behavioural profiles of individual lawyers, infer private information, or process special-category data. Our legal basis is described in the Privacy Policy.
05We classify changes, not assumptions
Each change is classified as a defined signal and cites the public URL it came from, so every signal is traceable to its source. Classification, stakeholder inference, and engagement briefs are produced with the assistance of automated systems, including AI. These are interpretations and can contain errors; a confidence score is provided wherever inference is involved, and only signals that pass our editorial relevance threshold are delivered.
06Accuracy and corrections
Every signal cites its public source so you can verify it independently, and we encourage you to do so before acting. Contact emails are taken from public sources or inferred from public patterns and then validation-checked (for example, bounce-checked); we do not include phone numbers unless they are publicly disclosed. If you spot an error, flag the signal and it returns to our editorial queue for review.
07Removal requests
Individuals can object to processing or request removal of their name via our contact page or at privacy@lawfirmsignals.com. We review and action valid requests promptly.