Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 6, 2026

1. Introduction

LeBeau Forensic Toxicology Consulting, LLC (“LFTC,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) provides forensic toxicology consulting, expert witness, and training services. This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Information we collect from visitors to www.lebeau-toxicology.com (the “Site”), how and why we use it, how we share and protect it, how long we keep it, and the choices available to you.

Please read this Policy before using the Site or submitting information through it. By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described here.

If you have questions about this Policy or our practices, contact us at marc@lebeau-toxicology.com.

2. About Us

The Site is operated by LeBeau Forensic Toxicology Consulting, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of Missouri with its principal place of business in O’Fallon, Missouri.

3. Scope of This Policy

This Policy applies only to the Site and to inquiries you send us through it.

It does not apply to information we receive or generate in the course of a professional engagement, including case materials, laboratory records, discovery productions, and medical, toxicological, or other personal information concerning parties, decedents, patients, or other individuals. That information is governed by our engagement agreements, applicable protective orders and court rules, the rules of the tribunal in which a matter is pending, and our professional and ethical obligations as a forensic toxicologist. Nothing in this Policy creates, modifies, or limits those obligations.

4. Key Terms

• “Site” means www.lebeau-toxicology.com and any web pages or online features we own and operate.
• “You” or “your” means any person who visits the Site.
• “Services” means the consulting, expert witness, and training services we offer, and the informational features of the Site.
• “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, or can reasonably be linked to an individual — for example a name, employer or firm name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, the contents of a message you send us, and technical identifiers such as an IP address.

5. Information We Collect

(A) Information You Provide

The Site has a contact form and lists our telephone number and email address. When you contact us, we collect:

• your name;
• your email address;
• your telephone number;
• your firm, agency, or organization, if you provide it;
• the service category you select; and
• the contents of your message and any subsequent correspondence.

We collect only what we need to respond to your inquiry and, where appropriate, to evaluate and conduct a professional engagement. We do not collect payment card or bank account information through the Site. Invoicing for professional engagements is handled separately, outside the Site.

Providing this information is voluntary, but we cannot respond to an inquiry without a means of contacting you.

(B) Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, our hosting provider and the services described in Section 6 may automatically collect:

• your IP address;
• your browser type and version, and your operating system;
• the pages you view on the Site, the time and date of your visit, and the page that referred you; and
• an approximate geographic location derived from your IP address.

In some jurisdictions, including the European Union and the United Kingdom, some of this information is treated as personal data.

6. Cookies and Analytics

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your device. Cookies can contain a unique identifier, and information collected through cookies can in some circumstances be associated with you.

The Site uses:

• Strictly necessary cookies, which are required for the Site and its contact form to function.
• Google Analytics, which we use to understand how visitors find and use the Site. Google Analytics sets cookies and receives your IP address. You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your activity by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies, or to alert you when a cookie is being set. If you refuse strictly necessary cookies, parts of the Site may not function properly.

We do not use the Site for advertising, remarketing, or behavioral ad targeting, and we do not permit third parties to collect information through the Site for those purposes.

7. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• respond to your inquiry and correspond with you;
• evaluate whether we can accept an engagement, including checking for conflicts of interest;
• provide and administer our Services;
• maintain business records, including records required by our professional obligations;
• operate, secure, and improve the Site; and
• comply with legal obligations.

We do not use information collected through the Site to send marketing or promotional email.

8. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your Personal Information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We share information only as follows:

• Service providers. Companies that operate the Site and our business systems on our behalf — website hosting, email, form processing, document storage, analytics, and professional advisors such as accountants and attorneys. These providers may use your information only to perform services for us, and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.
• In connection with an engagement. If your inquiry becomes a professional engagement, information about the engagement may be disclosed as the engagement requires — for example in expert disclosures, reports, or testimony — subject to Section 3.
• Legal requirements. To comply with a subpoena, court order, law, or legal or regulatory process; to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, including for billing and collection; or where we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of LFTC, our clients, or others.
• Business transfer. In connection with a sale, merger, or other transfer of our business or assets.

Service providers maintain their own privacy policies governing information we share with them, and we encourage you to review them.

9. Inquiries About Potential Engagements

Please read this section before using the contact form.

• An inquiry submitted through the Site does not create a consulting, expert witness, or other professional engagement, and does not make you a client. An engagement begins only when we and you have signed a written engagement agreement.
• Information you send through the Site or by unencrypted email is not confidential and is not privileged. It is not protected by the attorney work product doctrine or by any consulting-expert privilege.
• Please do not send case-specific information, party names, protected health information, discovery materials, or laboratory records with an initial inquiry. Describe the nature of the matter in general terms, and we will tell you how to transmit materials securely if an engagement proceeds.
• Because we may be approached by more than one party in the same matter, unsolicited detail about a matter can create a conflict of interest that prevents us from accepting any engagement in it. Sending such information before we have confirmed our availability may foreclose our ability to work on that matter for anyone.

10. Data Retention

We retain inquiry correspondence for as long as needed to respond to you and, after that, for the period necessary to perform conflict-of-interest checks in future matters. Records relating to a professional engagement are retained as required by the engagement agreement, applicable court rules and protective orders, and applicable law and professional standards.

Server logs and analytics data are retained for 14 months and then deleted or aggregated.

We delete information we no longer need for these purposes.

11. Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect the information we hold. However, no transmission over the Internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information you transmit to or from the Site. Please see Section 9 regarding sensitive material.

If we experience a breach of security involving personal information as defined by applicable law, we will provide notice as required by that law, including Mo. Rev. Stat. § 407.1500.

12. Children’s Privacy

The Site and our Services are intended for adults and are directed to legal, medical, and forensic science professionals. They are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, contact us at marc@lebeau-toxicology.com and we will delete it in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

13. Your Choices and Rights

You may ask us to:

• provide a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you;
• correct Personal Information that is inaccurate or out of date; or
• delete Personal Information we no longer need.

Email marc@lebeau-toxicology.com with your request, and we will respond within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity before acting. We may decline a deletion request to the extent we are required to retain the information — for example records subject to a protective order, a litigation hold, a conflicts-checking obligation, or a legal retention requirement — and we will tell you if that is the case.

We honor these requests regardless of where you live.

14. Visitors Outside the United States

We are located in the United States, and the information we collect through the Site is stored and processed in the United States. If you access the Site from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where data protection law differs from that of your own jurisdiction. The Site is directed to a United States audience.

If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom and believe we hold personal data about you, contact us at marc@lebeau-toxicology.com. We will respond to access, correction, erasure, restriction, objection, and portability requests as described in Section 13, and you may lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.

15. Third-Party Links

The Site links to third-party websites, including the websites of professional and standards-development organizations and a LinkedIn profile. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices. Once you leave the Site, this Policy no longer applies.

16. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date above and post the revised Policy on this page. If the changes are material, we will take reasonable steps to notify you, which may include email if we have your address. Your continued use of the Site after a change takes effect indicates your acceptance of the revised Policy.

17. Governing Law

This Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard to its conflict-of-laws provisions.

18. Contact Us

LeBeau Forensic Toxicology Consulting, LLC

1001 Boardwalk Springs Place #111

O’Fallon, MO 63368

marc@lebeau-toxicology.com

314-312-1284