Privacy Policy
How WYEA handles information.
Effective August 11, 2026 · Whittle and Ye Engineering Associates LLC, Newport Beach, California
This page covers two things: what this website collects, and how the WYEA platform (the software we run for client law firms) treats the information that passes through it, including accounts a firm connects to it such as Dropbox.
This website
The website itself keeps almost nothing. There is no advertising, no analytics script following you between sites, and nothing is sold or shared for marketing.
- The contact form stores what you type (name, firm, email, message) so we can reply, and sends it to us by email. The form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that you are a person and not a script.
- The Brief, our email publication, keeps the email addresses of people who asked to receive it. Every issue includes a way to stop receiving it, and stopping removes you from the list.
- Hosting is on Cloudflare, which processes visitor IP addresses as part of serving the site and defending it, as every host does.
The WYEA platform
The platform is software we build and operate for law firms. A firm's matters, documents, and client information belong to the firm; we process them only to run the firm's own workspace, on the firm's instructions. We do not use a firm's content to train AI models, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone except the service providers needed to run that firm's own system.
Each firm's system runs in its own isolated environment. One firm's information is never visible to another firm.
Connected accounts, including Dropbox
A firm can connect accounts it already uses, for example Dropbox, where its documents live, so the platform can work with documents in place. When someone at a firm connects Dropbox:
- They approve the connection themselves, on Dropbox's own consent screen, signed in to their own Dropbox account. We never see or ask for their Dropbox password.
- The connection lets the platform read account and file information, read document contents, save documents back, and read sharing settings: the things a document workspace needs. It is used for nothing else.
- The firm's Dropbox remains the system of record. The platform reads documents and files finished work back into it; it does not maintain a competing copy of the firm's library. Where the platform retains a copy of specific document versions, it does so to preserve the evidence behind work the firm has already relied on, for that firm alone.
- The credential Dropbox issues us for the connection is stored encrypted, and is never shown to anyone, including the person who connected.
- A connection can be removed at any time, either inside the platform or from the security settings of the person's own Dropbox account. Removing it stops the platform's access.
Service providers
We use a small number of infrastructure providers to run our systems: cloud hosting, email delivery, payment processing where a firm has turned billing on. Each receives only what it needs to do its job. We do not sell personal information, and we have not sold it in the preceding twelve months.
California rights
We are a California company and our clients are California firms. If California privacy law gives you rights over information we hold: access, correction, deletion. Write to us and we will honor them. Note that for a firm's matter content, your request usually belongs with the firm: they are the ones who decide what their system keeps.
Questions
Write to contact@wyea.ai. A person reads it, usually one of the two of us.
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will change this page and its effective date, and tell affected clients directly.