Sokoloff Attorneys are dedicated to defending your privateness. This Privateness Coverage outlines how we deal with your private info to guard your privateness.
Privateness Laws:
Since January 1, 2004, all Canadian organizations engaged in industrial actions have been required to adjust to the Private Info Safety and Digital Paperwork Act (“PIPEDA”) and the Canadian Requirements Affiliation Mannequin Code for the Safety of Private Info included by reference into PIPEDA . These obligations lengthen to attorneys and regulation corporations, together with Sokoloff Attorneys.
As a providers agency, we’ve skilled and moral obligations to maintain confidential the data we obtain within the context of a lawyer-client and agent-client relationship.
Private Info:
Private info is outlined in PIPEDA as details about an identifiable particular person, however doesn’t embrace the title, title or enterprise tackle or phone variety of an worker of a company. In different phrases, it doesn’t embrace the data one expects to seek out on a enterprise card.
Consent to Our Assortment of Private Info:
Typically, we receive your consent to gather, use and disclose your private info. Often, if you happen to retain our agency, we assume that we’ve your implied consent to our assortment and use of your private info, nonetheless, at occasions we could ask on your specific consent, both verbally or in writing. Usually, we gather your private info straight from you in the beginning of your retainer with our agency. Typically we could receive details about you from different sources corresponding to a authorities registry or different professionals who serve you.
Use of Private Info:
We use your private info to supply authorized recommendation and providers to you, to situation invoices and to keep up our database of purchasers. As well as, if you happen to apply for a place we’ll use your private info to evaluate your candidacy.
Withdrawal of Consent:
You could withdraw your consent to our assortment, use and disclosure of your private info at any time, topic to authorized and/or contractual restrictions and upon affordable discover. Your withdrawal of consent to our assortment, use and disclosure of your private info could influence our capacity to characterize you and give you authorized recommendation.
Disclosure of Private Info:
Usually, we don’t disclose your private info to 3rd events with out your consent except permitted or required by relevant legal guidelines or court docket orders.
The next are some examples the place we could disclose your private info: such disclosure is important to gather charges or disbursements; we contract with a 3rd celebration to supply us with sure providers corresponding to archival file storage or insurance coverage. (In such circumstances, we’ll use contractual or different means to make sure the third celebration service supplier is sure by obligations relating to privateness that are in line with this coverage); or we interact skilled witnesses or different regulation corporations in your behalf.
Accuracy of Your Info:
It is necessary that the data that we’ve on file be correct and up-to-date. If, through the course of the retainer, any of your info modifications, please inform us in order that we are able to make any mandatory modifications. We may additionally ask you infrequently whether or not your private info is up-to-date.
Safeguards:
We use numerous safeguards to make sure that your private info is protected towards loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized entry, disclosure, copying or alteration. These embrace: safety of our bodily premises; our skilled obligations; safety software program and firewalls to forestall unauthorized pc entry or “hacking”; and inner passwords that limit entry to our digital recordsdata.
Entry to your Private Info:
You will have a proper to problem the accuracy and completeness of your private info and to have it amended, as applicable. You even have the precise to request entry to your private info and obtain an accounting of how that info has been used and disclosed, topic to sure exceptions prescribed by regulation. For instance, if the requested info would reveal private details about one other particular person, your request for entry could also be restricted or denied.
Web site Privateness:
Like most different industrial web sites, we could monitor site visitors patterns, website utilization and associated website info to optimize your go to to our web site. We don’t use cookies or any digital means to gather private info from you or your pc; nonetheless, our web site server will robotically gather IP addresses. We could view the IP log infrequently, for instance, to keep up the safety of our web site. We don’t hyperlink the IP addresses to different personally identifiable info.
Privateness Contacts:
When you’ve got any questions or complaints about this Coverage or the dealing with of your private info, if you happen to want to withdraw your consent to our use of your private info, or to request entry to or replace any info we’ve on file, please contact the lawyer with whom you’re dealing, or contact: [email protected]