Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 10, 2026

Gozel Law Firm PC ("Gozel Law Firm," "we," "us," or "our") operates the GLF Case Status app (the "Service"), which helps our team and authorized clients track the status of immigration cases filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through the Service, how we use and protect it, and the choices and rights you have.

We respect your privacy and handle your information in line with this policy and with our professional and ethical obligations as a law firm.

Information we collect

We collect only the information needed to operate the Service:

• Account information — your name and email address, provided through our single sign-on system when you sign in.
• Case information — the USCIS receipt numbers you or our staff enter to track a case (which USCIS treats as Personally Identifiable Information, or PII), and any optional description or tags you add.
• Case status information — the status, dates, and descriptions we retrieve from USCIS for the receipt numbers you track.
• Technical information — basic, security-related logs such as the time of a request and any error messages, used to keep the Service running and secure.

We do not collect financial account numbers, payment card data, Social Security numbers, medical information, biometric data, precise geolocation, or your device contacts through this Service.

USCIS receipt numbers

To use the Service, you or our staff enter USCIS receipt numbers — the identifiers printed on the notices USCIS sends about a case. We collect each receipt number you choose to track. USCIS treats receipt numbers as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and so do we.

We use a receipt number for a single purpose: to look up the status of that case. We send it to USCIS through its official Case Status API and display the status information USCIS returns. We do not use receipt numbers for anything else, and we never sell them or share them for advertising.

We protect receipt numbers with the safeguards described in "How we protect your information." They travel over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS) and are stored in our access-controlled database, where only authenticated, authorized users can see them. We keep them only for the period described in "How long we keep your information," and you can ask us to delete them at any time.

How we use your information

We use your information to:

• retrieve and display case status updates for the receipt numbers you track;
• notify you when a tracked case changes status;
• operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Service; and
• meet our legal, regulatory, and professional responsibilities.

We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not sell it.

How we share your information

We share information only as described here, and only as needed to provide the Service:

• USCIS — we send the receipt numbers you track to USCIS through its official Case Status API to retrieve case status information.
• Service providers — a small number of vendors that host the Service (cloud infrastructure), secure your sign-in (our identity provider), and store your data (our database). They may process your information only to provide these services to us, under confidentiality obligations, and may not use or disclose it for their own purposes. We do not share your information with advertisers, marketers, data brokers, or other partners.
• Legal and professional reasons — as a law firm, we may process case information as part of our representation, and we may disclose information where required by law or to protect rights and safety.

Any third party that processes information on our behalf is bound by the protections in this Privacy Policy. Third parties may not use or disclose your information — including any de-identified, anonymized, or pseudonymized information — for any purpose without your active consent.

We do not sell your information

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for profit or other monetary or valuable consideration — not to data brokers, marketers, advertisers, or anyone else.

De-identified information

We may use de-identified, anonymized, or pseudonymized information — for example, to understand overall Service usage. When we do, we will not try to re-identify you.

We also require any third party that receives such information to be bound by the same restrictions, including the ban on using or disclosing it without your active consent.

Your choices and the effect of sharing

You are in control of what you put into the Service. You choose which cases to track and what optional labels to add, and you can ask us to access, correct, or delete your information — or close your account — at any time.

The benefit is a single, convenient place to follow your case status. The main limitation is that we can only show what USCIS provides. And because we are a law firm, some records may need to be kept for a required period even after you ask us to delete them.

The main risk to weigh is that an immigration case can involve more than one person — for example, a petition that names a family member — so information about a case may also relate to other people. Please keep this in mind and share only what is appropriate.

How long we keep your information

We keep your information while your account is active and your case is being tracked. After a matter concludes, we retain related records for the period required by applicable law and the rules of professional responsibility that apply to our firm — generally five (5) years — after which we delete or de-identify it.

If your account becomes dormant, we may delete tracked case data that is no longer needed. You may ask us to delete your information sooner, as described below.

Your rights and how to delete your data

You may ask us to access, correct, or permanently delete the personal information we hold about you. To make a request, email admin@gozellaw.com with the details. We will confirm and act on verified deletion requests within 30 days.

One limit applies because we are a law firm. Where the law or our professional and ethical duties require us to keep certain client records for a set period, we cannot delete those records right away.

In that case, we will delete everything we are allowed to delete, explain what we must keep and why, and delete the rest once that obligation ends.

Your California privacy rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended, gives you the rights below. We honor them whether or not the CCPA formally applies to us.

• Know — you can ask what personal information we collect, where it comes from, why we use it, and who we share it with. The sections above explain this, and you can request the specifics.
• Delete — you can ask us to delete the personal information we collected from you, subject to the limited legal and professional retention described above.
• Correct — you can ask us to fix personal information about you that is inaccurate.
• Opt out of sale or sharing — we do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of.
• Limit sensitive information — we do not collect sensitive personal information (such as Social Security, financial, biometric, or precise-location data), so there is nothing to limit.
• Non-discrimination — we will not treat you differently for exercising any of these rights.

To use any of these rights, email admin@gozellaw.com. You may make a request yourself or through an authorized agent. We will verify your identity, respond within the time the law allows, and let you make a request to know or delete up to twice a year at no charge.

How we protect your information

We use technical and organizational safeguards — including encrypted connections, access controls, and authenticated sign-in — to protect your information, and we limit access to those who need it. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to keep your data safe.

If a data breach affects your personal information, we will notify you without undue delay and explain what happened and the steps you can take.

Changes to this policy and our Terms

We may update this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service from time to time. Before a material change takes effect, we will notify you and give you a plain-language summary of what has changed.

Where a material change affects how we handle your information, we will ask you to review and agree to it — your active consent — before it applies to you. The effective date above shows when the current version took effect.

If our business changes hands

If ownership of the Service or our firm changes — for example, through a merger, acquisition, or sale — we will notify you. Any successor will be required to honor a privacy policy at least as protective as this one. If it will not, we will give you the option to securely download, transfer, or delete your information before the change takes effect.

Closing your account

You may close your account at any time by contacting admin@gozellaw.com. When you do, we will delete or de-identify your information, subject to the limited retention described above.

Contact us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your information, contact Gozel Law Firm PC at admin@gozellaw.com.