Privacy, Disclosures, and Website Terms
How FederalClaims.us handles information and how this website may be used.
This page explains how Federal Claims Advisors collects and uses information submitted through FederalClaims.us, and sets the terms for using the website, resources, guides, videos, contact forms, and related materials.
Effective April 27, 2026
FederalClaims.us is operated by Federal Claims Advisors, LLC. This website provides public education, business-recovery commentary, tariff-refund resources, intake coordination, and related information for companies affected by IEEPA tariffs, Section 122 temporary surcharges, customs issues, and federal-claims recovery questions.
This page should be read together with the disclaimers appearing throughout the site. If you use this website, submit information, request an assessment, download materials, or contact Federal Claims Advisors, you agree to the terms below.
The most important points.
No legal relationship by website use
Using this site or submitting a form does not create an attorney-client, tax-advisor, customs-broker, accounting, consulting, fiduciary, or agency relationship.
Do not submit privileged material
Use the contact form for general intake facts only. Do not submit confidential legal strategy, privileged communications, trade secrets, or unnecessary sensitive data.
We use information for intake
Information you submit may be used to respond to your request, evaluate the type of issue, identify next records to gather, and coordinate appropriate follow-up.
No guarantee of refunds
Website materials do not guarantee eligibility, recovery, refund timing, litigation success, or tax treatment.
Information we may collect.
We collect information that visitors choose to provide and limited technical information generated when visitors use the website. The information collected depends on how you interact with the site.
Contact and intake information
- Name
- Company
- Email address
- Phone number
- Country or location
- Company role
- General description of the issue
Tariff and customs information
- Importer or exporter role
- Broker name
- Estimated tariff exposure
- Approximate entry date range
- Sample entry summaries or duty statements
- Deadline concerns
- General refund-pathway information
Website and technical information
- Device and browser information
- IP address or approximate location
- Pages visited
- Referring page or search source
- Cookie or analytics identifiers
- Video or embedded-content interactions
How information may be used.
Responding to requests
We may use submitted information to respond to inquiries, schedule follow-up, identify the general issue, and determine what records may be needed next.
Assessment and coordination
We may use information to evaluate whether a matter appears to involve IEEPA refunds, ACE records, CBP protests, CIT review, Tucker Act analysis, Section 122 compliance, or related issues.
Website operations
We may use technical information to operate the site, improve navigation, prevent misuse, troubleshoot errors, understand audience interest, and improve public resources.
Public education
We may use aggregated or de-identified information to understand common questions and improve guides, checklists, videos, and educational materials.
Compliance and protection
We may use information to comply with legal obligations, protect rights, prevent fraud, enforce website terms, and respond to lawful requests.
Engagement follow-up
If a written agreement is later signed, information may be used according to that agreement and any applicable professional, legal, tax, customs, or accounting rules.
Do not send confidential or privileged information through the general website form.
The general contact form is for intake and routing only. Do not submit attorney-client privileged communications, confidential legal strategy, trade secrets, Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, tax returns, full customer lists, protected health information, passport numbers, or other sensitive material unless a secure submission process has been separately arranged.
Submitting information through this website does not make the information privileged, does not create a professional relationship, and does not obligate Federal Claims Advisors or any affiliated professional to act on your behalf.
How information may be shared.
We do not intentionally sell personal information. We may share information when needed to operate the website, respond to a request, coordinate appropriate review, comply with law, or protect rights.
Website and technology providers
Website hosting, form processing, analytics, email, cloud storage, video hosting, security tools, and similar service providers may process information as part of ordinary website operation.
Professional review
With appropriate permission or where necessary for requested follow-up, information may be shared with attorneys, customs professionals, tax advisors, accountants, brokers, or other specialists.
Legal or protective reasons
Information may be disclosed if required by law, subpoena, court order, regulatory request, professional obligation, or to protect rights, safety, security, or the integrity of the website.
Website tools may collect technical information.
Cookies and similar tools
The site may use cookies or similar technologies for site operation, analytics, security, embedded content, performance, and user experience.
Analytics
Analytics tools may help us understand page visits, traffic sources, device types, search terms, content performance, and website errors.
Embedded content
Embedded videos, maps, forms, scheduling tools, or third-party links may collect information under their own privacy notices and terms.
Access, correction, deletion, and communication choices.
Depending on where you live and the nature of the information, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, or opt-out treatment for certain uses of personal information. To make a request, use the contact page and clearly state that your message concerns a privacy request.
Access
Request a copy or summary of personal information associated with your inquiry where legally required.
Correction
Request correction of inaccurate contact or intake information.
Deletion
Request deletion of information where retention is not required for legitimate, legal, professional, or security reasons.
Opt-out
Request not to receive non-essential follow-up communications or ask about available opt-out choices.
How long information may be kept.
Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to a request, maintain records, protect rights, comply with law, support website operations, complete an engagement, or resolve disputes. If no professional relationship is formed, intake information may still be retained for a reasonable period for administrative, conflict-check, audit, security, or recordkeeping purposes.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information. No website, email system, cloud platform, or internet transmission is perfectly secure. Visitors should avoid sending sensitive information unless a secure process has been arranged.
This website is for business and professional audiences.
Children
This website is not intended for children under 13 and is not designed to collect information from children. If you believe a child submitted information, contact us through the website so it can be reviewed.
International visitors
This website is operated from the United States. If you access the site from outside the United States, you understand that information may be processed in the United States or by service providers used to operate the site.
Use of this website.
By using FederalClaims.us, you agree to use the website only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not interfere with the operation, security, integrity, or availability of the site or its resources.
Permitted use
You may read, share, print, and use website materials for internal evaluation, education, and business planning, provided you do not misrepresent them or remove attribution.
Prohibited use
You may not misuse the site, attempt unauthorized access, upload malicious code, scrape content at scale, impersonate others, or use materials for misleading or unlawful purposes.
No automated reliance
Do not rely on website materials as a substitute for qualified legal, customs, tax, accounting, brokerage, or financial advice for your specific facts.
No legal, tax, customs, accounting, investment, or financial advice.
FederalClaims.us provides public-interest education, business-recovery commentary, tariff-refund resources, workflow support, and general information. The materials are not legal advice, tax advice, customs advice, accounting advice, investment advice, financial advice, or a professional opinion on any specific company’s rights.
Every company’s rights and obligations depend on its own entries, contracts, customs records, liquidation status, protest history, court posture, tax treatment, accounting treatment, deadlines, and governing law. You should consult qualified professionals before acting on any issue that may affect legal rights, tax reporting, customs compliance, financial reporting, or recovery of funds.
No relationship is formed unless a written agreement is signed.
Website use does not create representation
Reading the website, downloading materials, watching videos, submitting a form, sending an email, or receiving a general response does not create an attorney-client, tax-advisor, customs-broker, accounting, consulting, fiduciary, agency, or other professional relationship.
Written engagement required
Any professional relationship requires a separate written agreement signed by the appropriate parties. Legal representation, if any, is separate from general website use and must be confirmed in writing.
You are responsible for deadlines, records, and professional review.
Deadlines
You are responsible for identifying and preserving liquidation dates, protest windows, court deadlines, tax deadlines, reporting deadlines, and contract deadlines.
Records
You are responsible for preserving ACE records, broker files, entry summaries, proof of payment, liquidation notices, commercial records, and accounting records.
Verification
You are responsible for verifying facts, figures, calculations, duty amounts, refund amounts, and tax/accounting treatment before using them.
Professional advice
You are responsible for obtaining qualified legal, customs, tax, accounting, brokerage, or financial advice before taking action.
No guarantee of eligibility, refund, timing, or outcome.
Federal Claims Advisors does not guarantee that any company is eligible for a refund, that any claim will be accepted, that any protest will be allowed, that any lawsuit will succeed, that any deadline is open, that any tax treatment is correct, that any refund will be paid by a particular date, or that any particular recovery pathway is available.
Website resources are educational and may not reflect all changes in law, regulation, agency guidance, court orders, administrative practice, tariff measures, or individual facts.
Ownership and use of website materials.
Unless otherwise stated, the text, layout, graphics, branding, guides, checklists, videos, and other materials on FederalClaims.us are owned by or licensed to Federal Claims Advisors. You may use them for internal education and evaluation. You may not copy, resell, rebrand, republish, or commercially exploit website materials without permission.
You may link to public pages on the website provided the link is accurate, not misleading, and does not imply endorsement, partnership, representation, or sponsorship.
External websites have their own rules.
FederalClaims.us may link to CBP, federal courts, federal statutes, regulations, YouTube, Squarespace-hosted assets, Google services, professional resources, or other third-party sites. Those third parties are not controlled by Federal Claims Advisors and may have their own privacy notices, terms, security practices, accessibility practices, and content standards.
Limitation of liability.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Federal Claims Advisors, LLC and its owners, managers, officers, contractors, contributors, affiliates, and related persons are not liable for losses, damages, claims, costs, missed deadlines, lost profits, lost refunds, tax consequences, business interruptions, or other consequences arising from use of this website, reliance on website materials, inability to access the site, third-party content, or information submitted through general website forms.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some limitations may not apply. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Governing law, updates, and contact.
Governing law
Unless a written agreement states otherwise, these website terms are governed by the laws of Colorado, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.
Updates
Federal Claims Advisors may update this Privacy Notice and Terms of Use from time to time. The effective date above identifies the current version.
Contact
Questions about this page, privacy requests, or website terms may be submitted through the contact page.
Contact Federal Claims Advisors →Questions about the website or your intake submission?
Use the contact page for general questions, privacy requests, correction requests, or follow-up regarding an assessment request. Do not submit confidential legal strategy or sensitive documents through the general form.
FederalClaims.us provides public-interest education, business-recovery commentary, claim-intake support, and related coordination resources. This website is not legal, tax, customs, accounting, investment, or financial advice. No attorney-client relationship, tax-advisor relationship, customs-broker relationship, accounting relationship, consulting relationship, fiduciary relationship, or agency relationship is formed unless and until a written agreement is signed.