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# Privacy policy

What this website collects, where it goes, who else sees it, and what you can ask us to do about it.

Last updated September 23, 2026

This Policy takes effect on September 23, 2026, and replaces any earlier version.

Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc. (“Briefcase,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) publishes the website at [https://nextbriefcase.com](https://nextbriefcase.com/). This Privacy Policy describes what that site collects, where it goes, who else sees it, and what you can ask us to do about it. It also covers any other site or service that links to this Policy (together, the “Services”).

The public site publishes company information and accepts waitlist and contact submissions. Submitting a public form creates a contact record rather than a user account. Restricted areas require authentication. We collect what you submit, information used to authenticate you, request records, and information about your use of the site as described below. Optional browser measurement is enabled by default. You can turn it off through Privacy preferences in the site footer.

By accessing or using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.

**Note:** This Policy is intended to address requirements under U.S. law, including federal and state privacy, email, and SMS rules. It is not legal advice.

## 1. What We Collect

### 1(a). What you type into a form

Two kinds of form appear on this site, and using either one is your choice.

**The waitlist forms** (individual, founder, business, attorney, and investor) collect:

- Your email address. Required on every waitlist form.
- Your first name, required on every lane except the individual one, and your last name, which is optional.
- Your organization and your role or focus. Both optional.
- Whatever you write in the open message box. Optional, and kept word for word.
- Which lane you chose, recorded with the submission.

**The newsroom and partnership forms** (media, speaking, brand assets, and partnership) collect your first name, your email address, and a message, all three required, plus your last name and organization if you give them. The message is kept word for word.

Every form also carries a required agreement checkbox. Beside the submit control you agree to our [Terms of use](https://nextbriefcase.com/legal/terms) and to this Policy. Your acceptance is recorded with your record, with the date you gave it and the version of the Terms you accepted. Beside it, and not as a second tick, is a statement that Briefcase will email you about the product and about access. Section 6 covers that email and how to stop it.

The public waitlist and contact forms do not ask for a phone number, a mailing address, a date of birth, a payment method, a government identifier, or a password.

We do not intentionally collect highly sensitive personal information (such as government ID numbers, financial account numbers, or health-related information) through our public-facing website forms. Please do not submit such information through these forms unless we specifically request it, and please do not send the facts of a legal matter through them.

If you sign in to a restricted area, we collect the email address you provide or the verified email address associated with your Google account. We process access credentials you submit to sign in and collect the method, date, and time of the sign-in. We do not receive your Google account password.

### 1(b). What is collected automatically

- **Records of requests.** Delivering a page requires the network address the request comes from, and every browser sends a user agent string describing itself. We keep records of requests made to this site. Those records generally carry the network address the request came from, the browser user agent string, the page or file requested, the country that network address resolves to, and the date and time. Section 3 says what we use them for, and section 10 how long we keep them.
- **The checks on a submission.** When you submit a form, the checks in section 5 receive the network address your request came from and your browser user agent string.
- **Site activity.** When optional analytics is enabled, we collect browser and session identifiers, pages viewed, time spent actively reading, interactions with links, forms, search and demonstrations, referral sources and campaign information, and approximate country, region and city. For restricted publications, activity may be associated with the identity used to sign in. We also record whether a form submission was accepted and delivered to our systems. These operational records are separate from optional browser measurement.

### 1(c). What we receive from anyone else

What we receive is the result of the checks in section 5: an assessment of the submission from the reCAPTCHA check, and, for some submissions, the result of the automated screening described there. If you sign in with Google, we receive the verified email address and identity information Google provides for authentication. We use the check results to decide whether to accept a submission, and section 10 says how long we keep them. We do not buy lists, and we do not add purchased data to what you send us.

## 2. Where a Submission Goes

We deliver accepted submissions to our own customer relationship management system. That system is Briefcase infrastructure rather than a third-party marketing platform, and it runs in an environment we operate with our cloud infrastructure provider, which also hosts this site. When a public form submission is accepted, we first store a complete private recovery copy with that provider and then deliver it to the system. We use that copy to complete delivery after an interruption. We generally remove it after delivery, subject to section 10. The same recovery process applies to contact inquiries.

A submission travels in this order:

1. The fields you filled in are checked.
2. The submission goes through the checks in section 5.
3. An accepted submission is stored as the private recovery copy described above before delivery begins.
4. Your email address is looked up in our system to see whether a record for you already exists. This is the point at which delivery to the customer relationship system begins.
5. A person record is created or updated with your name and your email address. A waitlist submission also records the audience segments your lane implies (the waitlist itself, and then the attorney network, an investor inquiry, or a founder or business lead), the date you joined, and, on the attorney lane, that you are a lawyer.
6. What you wrote is filed beside that person record. A waitlist submission becomes a note carrying the source, the audience, your organization, your role, your acceptance of the Terms and this Policy with its date and the version accepted, and your message exactly as you wrote it. A newsroom or partnership submission becomes an inquiry record carrying the channel you chose, its status in the queue, your organization, your message, and the same acceptance.

That record is what we work from.

## 3. How We Use It

- To answer you, and to follow up on what you asked for.
- To run the waitlist: to organize it, to keep it accurate, and to decide who we contact and when.
- To send you email about the product and about access, which is what section 6 describes.
- To keep a record that you accepted the Terms and this Policy, when you accepted them, and which version you accepted.
- To operate the site, to keep it secure and available, to troubleshoot problems with it, and to refuse automated abuse.
- To understand how the site is used, improve its content and forms, measure campaign and submission outcomes, and assess interest in restricted publications.
- To comply with legal obligations, regulatory requirements, and lawful requests.
- For any other purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection, or with your consent.

## 4. Cookies, Storage, and Analytics

### 4(a). Essential storage and optional analytics

We use essential cookies and browser storage to support sign-in and remember your privacy choices. Optional analytics is enabled by default unless you have opted out. When analytics is enabled, we store a random browser identifier and session information to recognize visits and understand activity on this site. The browser identifier generally lasts for up to 12 months; sessions end after a period of inactivity. Clearing browser storage may remove these settings and identifiers, including a saved opt-out.

If you sign in to a restricted area, we set cookies needed to authenticate you and keep you signed in. The cookie that keeps you signed in holds your email address and expires on its own. We do not use these cookies to track you across other sites. Blocking them prevents sign-in.

Briefcase operates the analytics system in its own cloud account. We use this information ourselves and do not provide it to outside analytics vendors or advertising networks. Our infrastructure provider hosts and processes it on our behalf. This is separate from the submission checks and authentication services described in this Policy.

You can turn optional analytics off or on through Privacy preferences in the site footer. Turning it off leaves browsing and forms available. Opting out stops subsequent browser measurement; it does not by itself delete previously collected records. Section 12 explains how to request deletion. Request, authentication and submission records used to operate and secure the site continue independently of that choice.

### 4(b). Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

We do not sell or share personal information for targeted advertising, as section 8(a) explains. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals do not automatically turn off our first-party analytics. You can turn optional analytics off through Privacy preferences in the site footer.

### 4(c). Tracking across other sites

We do not track you across other sites, and nothing we load does it for us. reCAPTCHA is a Google service, so once its script runs Google is in a position to recognize a browser across other sites that use the same service. What Google does with what it receives is governed by Google's own policies rather than by this one. We do not receive information of that kind back, and apart from reCAPTCHA this site does not load third-party scripts.

## 5. Checks on a Submission

A submission is checked before it is accepted. This section describes those checks.

### 5(a). The reCAPTCHA check

The forms on our Services are protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise, a service provided by Google.

**In your browser.** When you use a form, Google's script collects hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sends it to Google so the submission can be assessed. No visible challenge is shown.

**On our server.** When you submit a form, we ask Google to assess the submission. That request carries information from your browser, **the network address your request came from, and your browser user agent string**. Google answers with an assessment of the submission. We use it to decide whether to accept the submission, and a submission we cannot assess is refused rather than accepted unchecked.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google [Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy) and [Terms of Service](https://policies.google.com/terms) apply.

### 5(b). Automated screening

Some submissions are screened by an automated service before they are accepted, and what you wrote in the message box is part of what is screened. That screening takes place in the United States. A person reviews anything the screening is unsure about. Section 10 says how long the result is kept.

## 6. Email

Joining the waitlist or sending an inquiry means Briefcase will email you about the product and about access. That is stated beside the submit control on every form, as a plain statement of what happens rather than as a separate consent, and there is no checkbox for it. The one tick a form requires is your agreement to the Terms and this Policy, described in section 1(a).

This website does not send email itself. After a waitlist submission is delivered, our system may send an automated welcome or access message. Other email you receive comes from Briefcase separately.

To stop receiving it, write to either address in section 18 and say so. We may still reply to a question you asked us, and we may still send a message the law requires. The CAN-SPAM Act governs commercial email in the United States, including the requirement that a commercial message identify itself, offer a way to opt out, and carry a physical postal address. Ours is in section 18.

## 7. Text Messages

This section describes Briefcase messaging programs generally. It does not describe this website: no form here asks for a phone number, this site sends no text messages, and nothing you do here enrolls you in a messaging program.

### 7(a). SMS use and consent

- We send SMS/text messages only when you have provided a mobile number and given consent or made a clear request to communicate via text (for example, by checking a box or selecting SMS as your preferred contact method).

- SMS/text messages may be used for:

  - Responding to customer inquiries.
  - Providing updates or confirmations regarding your account, inquiries, or appointments.
  - Sending security alerts or important service notifications.

Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply, depending on your mobile carrier. Participation is not required to access our core services.

### 7(b). SMS opt-out

You may opt out of SMS/text messages at any time by replying “STOP” (or as otherwise instructed in the message). After you opt out, we may send a final confirmatory message to acknowledge your request. You can also contact us using the information in section 18 to help manage your communication preferences.

### 7(c). Third parties that help provide the messaging service

We will not share your opt-in to an SMS short code campaign with a third party for purposes unrelated to supporting you in connection with that campaign. We may share your Personal Data with third parties that help us provide the messaging service, including, but not limited to, platform providers, phone companies, and other vendors who assist us in the delivery of text messages.

## 8. Who Else Sees It

- **Google.** The reCAPTCHA check in section 5(a), and identity authentication when you choose to sign in with Google.
- **An automated screening service.** The screening in section 5(b), which takes place in the United States.
- **Our cloud infrastructure provider.** Hosting, in the United States, for this site, our first-party analytics, and the systems behind our customer relationship management system.
- **Service providers.** Others that help us operate the Services, for that purpose and under contract with us.
- **Affiliates and Subsidiaries:** We may disclose Personal Data to our affiliates or subsidiaries; if we do, their use and disclosure of it remains subject to this Policy.
- **Business Transfers:** In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
- **Legal and Safety:** To comply with applicable law, legal process, or governmental requests; to enforce our terms and policies; and to protect the rights, property, or safety of Briefcase, our users, or others.
- **With Your Consent:** When you direct us or otherwise consent to sharing.

**Exclusion for Text Messaging Data:** Notwithstanding the categories above, all of them exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; that information is not shared with any third party, except as necessary to provide the messaging service on our behalf as described in section 7(c).

### 8(a). Selling and sharing

We do not sell your Personal Data. One definition of that word governs everywhere it appears in this Policy, and it is the broader one that several state privacy laws use: a sale is a disclosure to another party for money or for other valuable consideration. We do neither. We do not rent or lease your Personal Data, and we do not disclose it to anyone for their own marketing purposes.

Some state laws treat “sharing” Personal Data for cross-context behavioral advertising as a separate choice you can make. We do not share your Personal Data for cross-context behavioral advertising. We run no advertising tag and no retargeting pixel on this site, and we belong to no ad network.

Because we neither sell nor share Personal Data, this site carries no “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link. There is nothing behind such a link for us to switch off.

## 9. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the information we collect. Those include encryption of traffic between your browser and this site, automated measures against abuse of the site and its forms, and controls on who can reach the systems that hold what you send us.

Those automated measures can refuse a request. If a request of yours is refused and you are a person rather than a script, write to support\@nextbriefcase.com.

No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

## 10. How Long We Keep It

A record submitted through this site is kept indefinitely. It stays in our customer relationship management system until someone removes it, and a waitlist entry does not expire on its own if you never become a customer. We hold it for the purposes in section 3, and a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation, or an open dispute, can require us to keep part of it even after you ask us to delete it.

A recovery copy of a public form submission is kept until delivery is complete. We may keep it longer when an interruption requires review, or when a legal, accounting, reporting, or open-dispute obligation requires it.

The result of the checks in section 5 is kept with the record it relates to. We also keep operational records of submissions that were declined and of submissions that failed to go through. Those records generally carry the email address given, the form it came from, and the result of those checks. We keep them for the purposes in section 3, for as long as those purposes require, and the same legal, accounting, reporting, and dispute obligations can require us to keep them longer.

The records of requests described in section 1(b) are kept indefinitely. We hold them for the purposes in section 3. We do not sell them, and we do not use them for advertising.

To have your record deleted, ask us. Section 12 says how.

We generally keep detailed site-activity and submission-outcome events for up to 12 months and aggregate analytics for up to 25 months. These periods support content improvement and comparisons over time. Legal, accounting, reporting or open-dispute obligations may require longer retention. The request records and customer relationship records described above have separate retention periods.

## 11. Age

Our Terms of Use require you to be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live, to use the Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data here from anyone under 18, and if we learn that a record came from someone under 18, we take reasonable steps to delete it.

Federal children's privacy law sets a separate, lower threshold at 13. The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from a child under 13. If we learn that we have, we take reasonable steps to delete it. The two numbers do different work: 18 is who may use the Services at all, and 13 is where that federal rule attaches. Anyone under 18 is outside both.

The forms do not ask your age, and there is no age gate on the site. If you believe we hold information about a person under 18, contact us using section 18 and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

## 12. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live in the United States, state privacy law may give you rights over the information we hold about you. Those rights may include:

- **Knowing** what we hold, where it came from, why we have it, and who else has seen it. Section 13 answers that in advance, for everyone.
- **Getting a copy** of the information we hold about you.
- **Correcting** something we hold that is wrong.
- **Deleting** it, subject to the exceptions the law allows.
- **Opting out** of the sale of Personal Data, of sharing it for cross-context behavioral advertising, of targeted advertising, and of profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects. We do none of those, as section 8(a) explains, so there is nothing here to switch off.

To make a request, write to privacy\@nextbriefcase.com or support\@nextbriefcase.com. Tell us which form you used and roughly when, if you remember.

Making a request costs nothing, and we do not treat you differently for making one.

You can also, without asking us:

- Change optional analytics through Privacy preferences.
- Block or clear cookies and browser storage in your browser.
- Decline to fill in any form.

### 12(a). How we check it is you

A record submitted through a public form carries one identifier we can match a request against, and it is the email address you typed into that form. Send the request from that address and we treat it as yours.

If you write from a different address, we will ask for one message from the address on the record, or, if you no longer have that address, for the lane you used and roughly when you used it, so we can match you to a record without guessing. If we cannot match you to a record, we tell you so and tell you why rather than leave you without an answer.

One limit is worth stating plainly. Because the email address is the identifier that record carries, we cannot be certain that the person writing from an address is the person who typed it into the form. We check what the record lets us check, and no more. If you have reason to think someone else controls an address you used here, tell us and we will not act on a request that arrives from it.

### 12(b). How long we take

We answer a request within 60 days of receiving it.

### 12(c). Nevada

Nevada law lets any consumer tell the operator of a website not to sell information collected about them, whatever the size of the operator. Our designated request address for that is privacy\@nextbriefcase.com. We do not sell information as Nevada defines the word, which is an exchange for money. A request sent to that address is answered within 60 days.

## 13. Categories, Sources, Purposes, and Recipients

The same facts stated once, by category.

- **Categories collected.** Identifiers: your name and email address, including the address you sign in with, the sign-in method and time, access credentials you submit, and the authentication cookies needed to keep you signed in, plus random browser and session identifiers when optional analytics is enabled. Professional information: your organization and your role or focus. Internet or network activity: the network address your request comes from, your browser user agent string, the page or file requested, approximate country, region and city, site and restricted-publication activity, referral and campaign information, submission outcomes, and dates and times. And anything you choose to write in a message box.
- **Categories not collected.** No government identifiers, no financial account or payment information, no health information, no precise geolocation, no biometric data, no Google account passwords, no racial or ethnic origin, no religious belief, no union membership, no sexual orientation, and no contents of your mail or messages beyond what you type into our own forms.
- **Sources.** You, through a form or a sign-in. Your browser and network connection, automatically. The checks in section 5, for their results.
- **Why we have it.** Section 3.
- **Who receives it.** The recipients and the situations listed in section 8.
- **How long we keep it.** Section 10.
- **Sold or shared.** Neither, on the single definition in section 8(a). That includes the Personal Data of anyone under 16.

### 13(a). California “Shine the Light” law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of Personal Data (if any) we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared Personal Data in the immediately preceding calendar year.

As stated in this Policy, we do not disclose Personal Data to third parties for their independent direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, write to us using the contact information in section 18.

## 14. Other Sites We Link To

The Services link to third-party websites, services, and content we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to them. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, and we encourage you to read their policies before giving them information.

## 15. Where the Services Run

The Services are hosted in the United States and are intended for people located in the United States. If you use them from outside the United States, your information is transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, where our servers and our records are. By using the Services, you consent to that transfer and to the handling described in this Policy.

## 16. Changes to This Policy

When this Policy changes, the revised text is published on this page and the “Last updated” date and the effective date at the top change with it. Those dates are the signal to watch. We run no notification list for policy changes and send no email about them. Your continued use of the Services after a change means you accept the updated Policy.

## 17. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy and any disputes related thereto shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding arising under or relating to this Privacy Policy shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in or serving Nashville, Tennessee, and you hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

## 18. Contact Us

Questions about this Policy, our privacy practices, or a privacy request go to privacy\@nextbriefcase.com. If you already write to support\@nextbriefcase.com, that reaches us too.

Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc.\
217 6th Ave N\
STE 43009\
Nashville, TN 37219\
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Phone: [+1 (629) 206-4202](tel:+16292064202)\
Email: privacy\@nextbriefcase.com\
Support: support\@nextbriefcase.com