Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Last Updated: October 21, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Burton Firm, LLC uses cookies and similar technologies on thelegalcounsel.com. It describes what cookies are, why we use them, what information they may collect and how you can manage your preferences.
We use website technologies to support essential functions, maintain security, remember visitor preferences and understand how visitors interact with our content. Certain features may involve services provided by third parties.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your computer, smartphone or other device when you visit them. They allow websites to remember certain information about your browsing session, preferences or previous interactions.
Some cookies remain active only during your browsing session. Others stay on your device until they expire or you remove them through your browser settings.
Websites may also use related technologies, including tracking pixels, tags and local storage, to support website functions or collect information about website activity.
How We Use Cookies
The Burton Firm’s website uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes. These include maintaining website functionality, supporting security measures, remembering selected preferences and reviewing website traffic.
Depending on the services and features enabled, cookies may help us:
- Maintain website security and basic functionality
- Support online contact forms and interactive features
- Remember selected website preferences
- Understand which pages visitors access
- Identify technical issues affecting website performance
- Measure website traffic and referral sources
- Evaluate online advertising performance when applicable
Our website provides a cookie preferences panel that allows visitors to manage optional categories. The categories below correspond to the settings available through that panel.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies support essential website operations. They may help pages load correctly, maintain security settings, prevent automated spam submissions and support contact forms.
These cookies are required for basic website functionality and cannot be disabled through our cookie preferences panel.
For example, a security service may use cookies to distinguish ordinary website activity from automated requests. A contact form may also require temporary information to process submissions.
You can configure your browser to block or alert you about these cookies. However, disabling them may prevent certain website features from working correctly.
Performance Cookies
Performance Cookies help us understand how visitors use our website. These technologies may collect information about page visits, traffic sources and interactions with website content.
Our website may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to evaluate website activity and identify technical problems.
Depending on the services and settings in use, information collected may include:
- Pages visited and time spent on the website
- Links and website features visitors interact with
- Browser type and operating system
- Device information and screen size
- General geographic information
- Referral sources and website traffic patterns
- IP addresses or other technical identifiers
Analytics reports can help us identify commonly visited pages, review website performance and find problems that affect visitors.
The information collected depends on the analytics tools currently active and their configuration.
You can disable optional Performance Cookies through our cookie preferences panel.
Functional Cookies
Functional Cookies help websites remember choices you make while browsing. These may include display preferences, selected settings or information associated with available website features.
For example, a functional cookie may remember a preference so you do not need to select the same setting during every visit.
These cookies may be placed by our website or by third-party providers that support specific features.
If you disable Functional Cookies, some website preferences may not be saved. Certain interactive features may also behave differently.
You can manage these cookies through the Functional category in our cookie preferences panel.
Sell, Share, or Use Your Data for Targeted Advertising
Our website may use advertising and conversion measurement technologies to understand how visitors reach our website after interacting with an advertisement.
Depending on the services enabled, these technologies may collect information about advertising interactions, website activity and certain technical details associated with your browser or device.
Some advertising providers may use this information to measure campaign performance, attribute website visits to advertisements or support targeted advertising.
Under certain privacy laws, transferring personal information to advertising technology providers may qualify as selling or sharing personal information, even when no money is exchanged.
Advertising technologies are not necessarily active on every page or during every visit. Their use depends on the services enabled and your applicable privacy preferences.
You can turn off targeted advertising cookies through our cookie preferences panel, available from the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in our website footer.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
Cookies can also be classified according to the website or service responsible for placing them on your device.
First-party cookies are created by the website you are visiting. They generally support website functions, remember preferences or maintain information associated with your browsing session.
Third-party cookies are created by external services that operate through a website. Examples include analytics platforms, advertising providers, embedded content services and website security tools.
These providers may collect or process certain technical information according to their own privacy policies and service settings.
We encourage visitors to review the privacy notices of third-party services when applicable.
Cookies and Website Contact Forms
Visitors may use our website to request information about legal services, submit general inquiries or request consultations with The Burton Firm.
Online contact forms may use cookies or related technologies to support functionality, maintain security and reduce automated submissions.
Information you voluntarily submit through a form, such as your name, email address, telephone number or details about a legal matter, is handled according to our Privacy Policy.
Cookies and contact forms serve different purposes. A cookie may support the technical operation of a form, while information entered into the form may be used to respond to your inquiry.
Submitting information through our website does not automatically establish an attorney-client relationship. Please review our Terms of Use before submitting sensitive information.
How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage optional cookies at any time by selecting “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” in our website footer. This opens our cookie preferences panel, where you can turn Performance, Functional and targeted advertising cookies on or off.
The panel provides the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for essential website functions and always active.
- Performance Cookies: Optional cookies used to measure website traffic and performance.
- Functional Cookies: Optional cookies that support preferences and enhanced website features.
- Sell, Share, or Use Your Data for Targeted Advertising: Optional technologies associated with advertising data collection and targeted advertising.
To change your preferences, open the panel, adjust the available settings and select “Save preferences” to apply your choices.
You may also use “Reject All” to reject optional cookie categories or “Accept all” to allow them.
Strictly Necessary Cookies remain active because they support essential website functions.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
You can also control many cookies through your web browser’s privacy and security settings. Most browsers allow you to review stored cookies, remove existing cookies or prevent certain cookies from being saved.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- Delete cookies already stored on your device
- Block cookies from specific websites
- Restrict third-party cookies
- Clear browsing data automatically
- Adjust tracking protection settings
Browser settings vary by provider and software version. You can usually find cookie controls in the privacy or security section of your browser settings.
Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality, including contact forms and embedded features.
Removing cookies may also reset preferences you previously selected. Cookie settings are generally managed separately for each browser and device you use.
Managing Google Analytics Cookies
If Google Analytics is enabled on our website, you may have additional options for limiting the collection of analytics information.
Google offers a browser add-on that allows users to prevent their activity from being collected by Google Analytics on participating websites.
You can learn more about this option through the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
The availability and effectiveness of this tool depend on your browser, device and the analytics technologies in use.
Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
Our website may contain links to external websites or content provided through third-party services. These may include maps, videos, payment processors or other website features.
When you access external content, the provider may use its own cookies or collect technical information about your interaction.
For example, an embedded map or video may connect to an outside service when the content loads or when you interact with it.
The Burton Firm does not control the cookie settings or privacy practices of independently operated third-party websites. Their policies govern how they collect, store and use information.
Before providing personal or financial information to an outside provider, we encourage you to review its privacy policy and applicable terms.
How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and configuration.
Session cookies generally expire when a browsing session ends. Persistent cookies may remain until their designated expiration date or until you delete them.
Third-party services establish their own cookie expiration periods and data retention practices. These periods may change when service providers update their systems.
You can remove many stored cookies manually through your browser’s privacy settings.
Cookies and Personal Information
Information collected through cookies may include technical data associated with a browser or device. Some information may qualify as personal information under applicable privacy laws.
Depending on the technologies used, this information may include IP addresses, device identifiers, browsing activity and other details associated with a website visit.
The Burton Firm does not sell personal information for money. However, some advertising technologies may involve transfers that qualify as selling or sharing personal information for targeted advertising under applicable privacy laws.
You can opt out at any time by selecting “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” in our website footer. Open the cookie preferences panel, turn off the applicable advertising setting and select “Save preferences” to apply your choice.
We use website information for authorized purposes described in this policy and our broader privacy practices. Requests concerning personal information can be directed to our office using the contact information below.
For further details about how we collect, use and protect personal information, please review our Privacy Policy.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may revise this Cookie Policy when website features, analytics services, privacy practices or applicable legal requirements change.
The updated policy will be published on this website with a revised date. Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent, we will follow those requirements.
We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how cookies and similar technologies are used.
Contact The Burton Firm
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, website tracking technologies or our privacy practices, please contact The Burton Firm.
The Burton Firm, LLC
14626 Main Street, Suite 202
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Phone: (301) 901-5549
Fax: (888) 778-0475
Website: thelegalcounsel.com
Mailing Address:
The Burton Firm, LLC
P.O. Box 27
Upper Marlboro, MD 20773
Please send postal correspondence to our mailing address above.
For general inquiries, visit our Contact Us page. You may also review our Our Firm page, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for more information.