Text Messaging (SMS) Consent & Privacy Policy

This Text Messaging (SMS) Consent & Privacy Policy (“SMS Policy”) explains how Evans & Evans, PC (“the Firm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) sends and receives text messages with clients and prospective clients, and how we collect, use, and protect mobile phone information in connection with those messages. This SMS Policy supplements, and should be read together with, any other privacy or communications policies posted on our website.

With your consent, the Firm may use text messaging (SMS/MMS) to communicate with you about matters such as:

• Appointment and consultation reminders
• Requests for documents or information needed for your case
• Case status updates and scheduling (e.g., hearing dates, filing deadlines)
• Billing and payment reminders
• General administrative communications from our office

Text messages from the Firm are informational and administrative in nature. We do not send unsolicited marketing or advertising text messages.

By providing your mobile phone number to the Firm — whether through our website contact or intake form, in person, over the phone, or in another written or verbal exchange — and by affirmatively opting in (for example, by checking a consent box or replying to a confirmation text), you consent to receive text messages from Evans & Evans, PC at that number.



Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of retaining the Firm or of receiving any legal services. You may still engage the Firm and receive representation even if you decline text communications; we will instead communicate by phone, email, or mail.

If you provide a mobile number on behalf of someone else, you confirm that you have that person’s permission to do so.

Message frequency varies depending on the status of your matter and your communications with our office (for example, more frequent messages near a filing deadline or hearing date). Message and data rates may apply based on your mobile carrier and plan. The Firm is not responsible for any charges imposed by your wireless carrier.

You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying “STOP” to any message from our office. After you opt out, we will send one final confirmation text and then stop texting you; you may continue to receive text messages for a short period while your opt-out is processed. You may opt back in at any time by texting “START.”

For help, reply “HELP” to any message, or contact our office directly using the information in Section 8 below.



Opting out of text messages will not affect your legal representation. We will use another method (phone, email, or mail) to reach you about your matter.

We collect and use your mobile phone number solely to provide the text communications described in this SMS Policy and to otherwise administer your matter.

• We do not sell, rent, or share your mobile phone number or SMS opt-in data with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes.
• We may share mobile information with service providers who help us operate our texting and case-management systems (for example, our business texting platform), solely so they can provide that service to us, and subject to their confidentiality obligations to us.
• We may disclose information as required by law, court order, or applicable rules of professional conduct.

Your mobile information is stored and protected consistent with the safeguards described in the Firm’s general privacy and confidentiality practices..

Standard text messaging is convenient, but it is not an encrypted or fully secure communication channel. Please do not send highly sensitive information by text — including Social Security numbers, full account or routing numbers, or details you would not want disclosed if a message were intercepted or seen by someone else with access to your phone. For sensitive matters, please call our office, use our secure client portal (if applicable), or send a private email instead.



Texting with our office does not, by itself, create an attorney-client relationship where one does not already exist.

Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Message delivery may be affected by factors outside the Firm’s control, including your carrier’s network, your device settings, or connectivity issues.

If you have questions about this SMS Policy, would like to update your consent preferences, or want to opt out by a method other than replying STOP, please contact:

Evans & Evans, PC

andrew@evansevanslaw.com

(978) 548-5174/Evans & Evans, P.C., 500 Cummings Center, Suite 6500, Peabody, MA 01960

We may update this SMS Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, our texting platform, or applicable law. The “Effective Date” above reflects the date this version was last updated. Continued use of text messaging with our office after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised SMS Policy.