Privacy policy

Last updated September 8, 2026

This Policy takes effect on September 8, 2026, and replaces any earlier version.

Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc. (“Briefcase,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) publishes the website at 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 site is a public record and a waitlist. There is nothing here for you to log in to, nothing to buy, and no account. What we hold about you is what you typed into a form, plus what a browser sends automatically to any website.

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 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.

No form here asks 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.

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.

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. We use those results to decide whether to accept a submission, and section 10 says how long we keep them. We do not otherwise obtain information about you from an outside source. We do not buy lists, and we do not add purchased data to what you send us.

2. Where a Submission Goes

Every accepted submission is written 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.

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. Your email address is looked up in our system to see whether a record for you already exists. This is the point at which your email address leaves this site.
4. 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.
5. 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 and how it performs.
• 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). What this site sets: nothing

This site sets no cookies of its own and writes nothing to your browser storage. There is no session cookie, no login, no preference cookie, and no consent banner, because nothing here stores anything in your browser. Nothing stops working if you block cookies.

It also loads no analytics script, no measurement tag, and no tracking pixel, and nothing here follows you from this site to another one. We measure how this site is used from our own records of requests, described in section 1(b), rather than from anything running in your browser. Apart from reCAPTCHA, described in section 5, this site does not load third-party scripts.

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

Some browsers send a “Do Not Track” header. Some browsers and extensions send a Global Privacy Control signal, which several state privacy laws treat as a valid opt-out request. This site does not respond to either signal. There is also nothing for such a signal to switch off. We neither sell nor share personal information, as section 8(a) explains, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.

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 and Terms of Service 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, and you will not generally receive an automated confirmation when you submit a form. Any 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).
• 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 and for 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.

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.

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, use the privacy request form, which files it in its own queue where the clock on it is visible, or write to privacy@nextbriefcase.com or support@nextbriefcase.com. All three reach us. 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:

• Block or clear cookies in your browser.
• Decline to fill in any form.

12(a). How we check it is you

The record we hold from a 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. 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, the country that address resolves to, and the date and time. 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 login credentials, 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. 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.