Privacy Policy

Effective October 7, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Elias Advisory, LLC ("Elias Advisory," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares information when you visit adamelias.ai (the "Site") or use the tools, assessments, chatbot, and other features offered on the Site (collectively, the "Services").

Elias Advisory, LLC is a New Jersey limited liability company providing AI training and implementation consulting to lawyers and law firms under the Elias AI brand. Elias Advisory, LLC is a consulting business, not a law firm. Use of this Site does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Elias Advisory, LLC, Adam J. Elias, or his separate law practice, and communications with us are not privileged.

1. Information We Collect

a. Information you provide directly

  • Template and community signups. If you request the free AI Use Policy template or join the free community, we collect your email address and, if you give it, your first name. We store a hashed form of your email as the record identifier so one address is recorded once.
  • Assessment responses. If you complete the AI ethics self-assessment, we collect the name, email address, firm name, practice area(s), and the answers you submit.
  • Contact form submissions. If you contact us through the Site, we collect your name, email, and the contents of your message.
  • Tool inputs. When you use the tools hosted under "The AI Chambers" (including the chatbot), the text, files, and parameters you enter are transmitted to our servers and to the third-party AI providers described below in order to generate a response.
  • Account data (optional). Certain tools let you sign in with Google to save work. If you do, we store your Google account display name, email, and the data you explicitly save.

b. Information collected automatically

  • Usage and analytics data. We use Google Analytics 4 to measure page views, navigation paths, session duration, device and browser type, approximate geographic region (derived from IP), and interactions with specific features (e.g., assessment completions, PDF downloads, consultation clicks).
  • Error and performance data. We use Sentry to capture client-side errors and performance metrics so we can diagnose issues. Sentry may collect IP address, browser environment, stack traces, and the URL where the error occurred.
  • Abuse prevention data. We use Google reCAPTCHA and Firebase App Check to distinguish humans from automated traffic. These services collect hardware and software information (device and application data) and send it to Google for analysis.
  • Rate-limiting data. To prevent abuse of AI features, we temporarily store a hashed or truncated form of your IP address alongside a per-day call counter.

2. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Operate, maintain, and improve the Site and the Services;
  • Generate responses from AI tools you invoke (by forwarding your inputs to the AI providers below);
  • Respond to assessment submissions, contact requests, and consulting or training inquiries;
  • Send you the template you requested, the community invitation, and occasional notes about new tools, articles, and training; every such email includes an unsubscribe link;
  • Send you the results of an assessment or tool output by email, if you request it;
  • Monitor and protect the Services against fraud, abuse, and security incidents;
  • Measure engagement, diagnose bugs, and develop new features; and
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not submit assessment responses, contact messages, or tool inputs for AI model training. The model providers we use for your inputs (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity) each state in their API terms, as last verified by us on October 7, 2026, that they do not train models on content submitted through their APIs; details and the exact clauses are in Section 3.

3. Third-Party AI Providers

When you use an AI-powered feature on the Site, including the chatbot, assessment report generator, and any tool in "The AI Chambers", the content of your prompt and any material you attach is routed through our server (a Firebase Cloud Function) and transmitted to one or more third-party AI providers for processing. These currently include, but are not limited to:

  • Anthropic (Claude models). Its Commercial Terms state that Anthropic "may not train models on Customer Content from Services."
  • Google (Gemini models). We use the Gemini API as a paid service. For paid services Google states it "doesn't use your prompts ... or responses to improve our products" and logs them only for a limited period to detect abuse. (Google's unpaid tier is different; we do not use it for your inputs.)
  • OpenAI (GPT models). OpenAI states that by default it does "not use your business data for training our models" and may retain API inputs and outputs for up to 30 days to identify abuse.
  • Perplexity. Its API terms state that Perplexity "shall not use ... Customer Content to train, retrain, fine-tune or otherwise improve any generative artificial intelligence models."
  • Tavily and Firecrawl (web search and page retrieval). These services receive search queries and web addresses our server generates, such as a news-topic query or the address of a statute page, not the documents you upload. Tavily's privacy policy states it may use query data to improve its responses to future queries.

We verified each of these statements against the providers' published terms on October 7, 2026, and recheck them quarterly. Each provider's handling of data is governed by its own terms and privacy policy, and providers may retain prompts for a limited period for abuse monitoring and service integrity.

Do not submit client confidences, privileged information, or any data you are ethically obligated to protect when using public-facing tools on this Site unless you have independently confirmed that doing so is consistent with your professional obligations under the Rules of Professional Conduct of your jurisdiction (including NJ RPC 1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 5.3, and 5.5) and with any applicable engagement letter or protective order.

4. Service Providers and Subprocessors

In addition to the AI providers above, we rely on vendors to operate the Services, currently including but not limited to:

  • Google / Firebase. Hosting, Cloud Functions, Firestore database, Authentication, App Check, and Analytics.
  • Sentry. Error and performance monitoring.
  • Resend. Delivery of transactional email: template delivery, contact confirmations, assessment reports, and notifications to us.
  • Unsplash. Delivery of stock imagery used with blog posts.

Each of these vendors processes information only as necessary to provide their service and under their own terms and privacy notices.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site uses cookies and equivalent browser storage for: (a) essential functions such as authentication and session state, (b) analytics through Google Analytics 4, and (c) abuse prevention through reCAPTCHA and App Check. You can disable cookies in your browser, but parts of the Site may not function correctly if you do.

6. Data Retention

  • Template and community signups are retained until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
  • Assessment submissions and contact form messages are retained until we no longer need them to respond to you or to comply with our recordkeeping obligations, and then deleted or anonymized.
  • Analytics data is retained according to the default Google Analytics 4 retention setting we have configured on our property.
  • Rate-limiting records expire automatically.
  • Error reports are retained by Sentry for its standard retention period.
  • IOLTA trust-accounting uploads. When you upload a bank statement, check image, or related file into the NJ IOLTA Trust Accounting tool in The AI Chambers, the extracted transaction text is written to our Firestore database and the original file is archived to your personal storage area in Firebase Storage so you can retrieve it for audit. Access is gated by Google sign-in and is restricted to the authenticated user who uploaded the file (matched by Firebase Auth uid). Archived files are retained for the life of your account and are deleted or anonymized on request.

7. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information we hold about you, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@adamelias.ai. We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

8. Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect information transmitted through the Site, including TLS encryption in transit, Firebase App Check, server-side rate limiting, and access controls on our backend. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Children

The Site is intended for legal professionals and other adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided information to us, contact us and we will delete it.

10. International Users

The Site is operated from the United States and relies on U.S.-based cloud infrastructure. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States.

11. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Effective" date above. Material changes will be highlighted on the Site or communicated directly where appropriate.

12. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information can be directed to:

Elias Advisory, LLC
168 Prospect Plains Road
Monroe Township, NJ 08831
Email: info@adamelias.ai