Last updated: 26 August 2026
WitnessDirectory.com is an online directory that helps lawyers, law firms, attorneys and other legal professionals find and contact qualified expert witnesses and consultants in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and other countries.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personal information that we collect through our website, directory, membership services, enquiry forms, newsletters and other services.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we may share it, how long we keep it, and the rights you may have regarding your personal information.
1. Who We Are
The website is:
WitnessDirectory.com
Our business address is:
511 W 165th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
For privacy enquiries, please contact us through the contact details provided on WitnessDirectory.com.
For the purposes of applicable data-protection laws, WitnessDirectory.com may act as the controller or business responsible for personal information collected through the website, depending on the circumstances and the applicable law.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information that you provide directly to us, information about your use of our website, and information provided by third parties.
Information you provide to us
Depending on how you use WitnessDirectory.com, this may include:
- Your name
- Professional title and occupation
- Company, law firm or organisation
- Professional qualifications and credentials
- Areas of expertise and experience
- Professional biography or CV
- Professional address and location
- Telephone number
- Email address
- Website and professional social-media links
- Information contained in an expert directory listing
- Information submitted through contact or enquiry forms
- Account login information
- Membership and subscription information
- Billing and transaction information
- Information you provide when communicating with us
- Information you provide when subscribing to our newsletter or other communications
If you create an expert listing, information you choose to publish may be displayed publicly on WitnessDirectory.com so that lawyers and other prospective clients can find and contact you.
Information about enquiries
If a lawyer, law firm or other visitor uses WitnessDirectory.com to enquire about an expert, we may process the information contained in that enquiry in order to facilitate communication between the parties.
Information submitted through an enquiry may be shared with the relevant expert or other party to whom the enquiry is directed.
Information collected automatically
When you visit WitnessDirectory.com, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Approximate geographic location
- Pages visited
- Referring website
- Date and time of visits
- Website interactions
- Security and fraud-prevention information
- Information concerning errors or technical problems
We use this information to operate, secure, analyse and improve the website.
3. Public Expert Directory Information
WitnessDirectory.com is a professional directory.
Where an expert, consultant or other professional chooses to create or maintain a listing, information supplied for publication may be publicly accessible.
This may include:
- Name
- Professional photograph
- Professional qualifications
- Areas of expertise
- Professional experience
- Professional biography
- Location
- Contact details where the expert has chosen to publish them
- Website and professional links
- Documents, CVs or other professional material supplied for publication
The purpose of publishing this information is to enable lawyers, law firms and other potential clients to identify and contact appropriate experts.
Experts should therefore only submit information that they are comfortable having published publicly.
If you are an expert listed on WitnessDirectory.com and want information corrected, updated or removed, please contact us.
4. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Operate and maintain WitnessDirectory.com
- Provide directory and membership services
- Publish and manage professional listings
- Connect lawyers and legal professionals with expert witnesses
- Process enquiries and communications
- Create and administer user accounts
- Process memberships, subscriptions and payments
- Respond to questions and customer-service requests
- Send newsletters and other communications where permitted
- Improve our website, services and directory
- Understand how visitors use our website
- Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, spam and security threats
- Protect our website, users and business
- Maintain technical and security records
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
- Establish, exercise or defend legal claims
- Carry out other purposes explained to you when information is collected
We will not use personal information for materially incompatible purposes without an appropriate legal basis or, where required, your consent.
5. Legal Bases for Processing – UK and European Visitors
Where UK or European data-protection laws apply, we process personal information on one or more of the following legal bases:
- Performance of a contract – for example, providing a membership, account or service you have requested.
- Legitimate interests – for example, operating and securing our website, maintaining our professional directory, responding to enquiries and improving our services, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.
- Consent – where we ask you to consent to a particular use of your information, such as certain marketing communications or non-essential cookies.
- Legal obligation – where processing is necessary for us to comply with applicable law.
- Establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims – where applicable.
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place before withdrawal.
6. Marketing and Newsletters
If you subscribe to a WitnessDirectory.com newsletter or other marketing communication, we may use your email address to send you information about our services, directory, membership opportunities, industry news or other communications.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the relevant email or by contacting us.
We do not regard a request for an expert directory listing or other service as automatically giving us permission to send unrelated marketing communications where consent is required by law.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
WitnessDirectory.com uses cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies may be used to:
- Make the website function correctly
- Maintain login sessions
- Remember preferences
- Provide security features
- Understand website usage
- Measure website performance
- Improve the user experience
- Support analytics or other services where enabled
Some cookies are necessary for the operation and security of the website. Other cookies may require consent depending on their purpose and the law applicable to you.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where applicable, our cookie-consent mechanism.
WordPress cookies
Because WitnessDirectory.com uses WordPress, the website may use cookies associated with WordPress accounts, login sessions and website functionality.
The exact cookies used may change as the website, theme and plugins are updated.
8. Comments
If comments are enabled on parts of the website, when you submit a comment we may collect the information entered in the comment form, together with your IP address and browser information, for purposes including spam prevention and website security.
An anonymised representation of your email address may be provided to a third-party avatar service if that service is enabled on the website.
After a comment has been approved, information contained in the comment may be publicly visible.
9. Media and Uploaded Material
If you upload photographs, documents, CVs or other material to WitnessDirectory.com, you should ensure that the material does not contain information that you do not intend to disclose.
Photographs may contain embedded metadata, including location information.
Experts and other users should only upload material that they are authorised to provide and publish.
10. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services
Pages on WitnessDirectory.com may contain embedded or linked content from third parties, including videos, maps, images, social-media content or other services.
Third-party services may collect information about your interaction with their content and may use cookies or other tracking technologies according to their own privacy policies.
We do not control the privacy practices of third-party websites and services.
You should review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing it with personal information.
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11. Cloudflare and Website Security
WitnessDirectory.com uses security and performance services, including Cloudflare [confirm that this remains enabled], to help protect the website against malicious traffic, automated attacks, abuse and other security threats.
Such services may process technical information including IP addresses, browser information, request information and security-event information.
This processing is necessary to protect the website and its users and to maintain the availability and security of our services.
12. Payments
If you purchase a membership, advertising service or other paid service, payment information may be processed by our payment provider.
We do not necessarily receive or store complete payment-card information.
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Transaction and billing information may be retained as necessary for accounting, tax, fraud prevention, customer service and legal purposes.
13. Who We Share Information With
We may disclose personal information where reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Depending on how you use the website, recipients may include:
- Expert witnesses and professionals whose services are listed on the directory
- Lawyers, attorneys and law firms where an enquiry is made
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers
- Cloudflare or similar security/performance providers
- Payment processors
- Email and newsletter providers
- Analytics providers
- Spam-prevention and security services
- Website developers and technical service providers
- Professional advisers such as accountants, lawyers and insurers
- Government authorities, regulators or law-enforcement bodies where legally required
- Successors or purchasers of all or part of our business where legally permitted
We do not sell your personal information simply because you visit WitnessDirectory.com.
We will not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes unless permitted by applicable law and, where required, you have provided the necessary consent.
14. International Data Transfers
WitnessDirectory.com operates internationally and may be accessed by users and experts in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and other countries.
Our service providers may process information in countries other than the country in which you live.
Where UK or European data-protection law applies and personal information is transferred outside the UK or European Economic Area, we will use an appropriate lawful transfer mechanism where required, such as an adequacy decision or appropriate contractual safeguards.
15. How Long We Keep Personal Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing services, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, preventing abuse and complying with legal obligations.
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and why we collected it.
For example:
- Account information may be retained while your account remains active and for a reasonable period afterwards.
- Professional directory information may remain published while an expert’s listing is active.
- Transaction and accounting records may be retained for the period required by applicable law.
- Security and technical logs may be retained for a limited period appropriate to security and operational requirements.
- Marketing information may be retained until you unsubscribe or where otherwise permitted by law.
When information is no longer required, we may securely delete it, anonymise it or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with applicable law.
16. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and the law applicable to you, you may have rights including:
- The right to know what personal information we hold about you
- The right to request access to your personal information
- The right to request correction of inaccurate information
- The right to request deletion of personal information
- The right to restrict certain processing
- The right to object to certain processing
- The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- The right to data portability in certain circumstances
- The right to opt out of certain marketing communications
- The right to lodge a complaint with an applicable data-protection authority
These rights are subject to applicable legal exceptions.
17. Additional Rights for California Residents
If you are a California resident, California privacy law may provide additional rights depending on whether and to what extent those laws apply to our business.
These rights may include rights concerning:
- The categories of personal information collected
- The purposes for which personal information is used
- Access to personal information
- Correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion of personal information, subject to exceptions
- Information concerning disclosure of personal information
- Opting out of certain activities where applicable
- Non-discrimination for exercising applicable privacy rights
We do not knowingly sell personal information for monetary consideration.
[Business owner: confirm whether WitnessDirectory.com meets the applicable thresholds for the California Consumer Privacy Act/California Privacy Rights Act and whether any “sharing” for targeted advertising occurs. Do not publish a categorical CCPA statement until this has been confirmed.]
18. Australian Privacy Rights
If Australian privacy law applies to our handling of your personal information, you may have rights under the Australian Privacy Act and applicable Australian Privacy Principles.
These may include rights to request access to, or correction of, personal information we hold about you.
You may contact us first with a privacy complaint. We will investigate and respond within a reasonable period.
Where applicable, you may also have the right to complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
19. UK Data Protection Rights
If UK data-protection law applies to you, you may have rights under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
If you are dissatisfied with how we handle your personal information, you may also have the right to complain to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office.
20. Children’s Privacy
WitnessDirectory.com is a professional website intended for adults and businesses, particularly legal professionals and expert witnesses.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for the purpose of providing our professional directory services.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action.
21. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should take appropriate precautions when submitting information online and should not submit confidential or sensitive information through a general website form unless the service specifically requests it and appropriate safeguards are in place.
22. Links to Other Websites
WitnessDirectory.com contains links to external websites, including the websites of expert witnesses, law firms, organisations and other third parties.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of external websites.
You should review the privacy policy of each external website you visit.
23. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, legal requirements or business practices.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the beginning of this policy.
Where required by law, we will provide additional notice of material changes.
24. Contact Us
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, or wish to make a privacy complaint, please contact WitnessDirectory.com through the contact details provided on our website.
WitnessDirectory.com
511 W 165th St
New York, NY 10032
USA
When making a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to identify you and understand your request. We may need to verify your identity before providing access to personal information or carrying out certain requests.
We will handle privacy requests in accordance with the law applicable to you.
Important before your developer publishes this
There are 5 things I would have your developer confirm rather than guessing:
- Is 511 W 165th St actually the legal/business address of WitnessDirectory.com?
- Which payment processor is used — Stripe, PayPal, WooCommerce Payments, etc.?
- Which analytics/tracking services are currently installed — Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, etc.?
- Which email/newsletter provider is used?
- Does the site currently use Google Maps, Gravatar, reCAPTCHA, Akismet, Cloudflare Turnstile or other third-party services?
Those need to be accurately named because a privacy policy should describe the actual data processing taking place, not just list every possible service.
Also, I deliberately removed the original WordPress text about “password reset IP address”, comment cookies, and the “post ID” cookie as if they were necessarily applicable. Those are WordPress template statements and shouldn’t be presented as though WitnessDirectory.com definitely uses those functions in that way.
One further point: because WitnessDirectory.com is a US-based business serving UK/EU and Australian visitors, I would have the final version checked by a privacy lawyer before treating it as your definitive legal policy. The draft above is a much more appropriate website policy, but it isn’t a substitute for legal advice or a technical audit of the actual plugins and data flows.
511 W 165th St, New York, NY 10032