Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer recognizes the importance of personal privacy and is committed to protecting the confidentiality of your data (the “Personal Information”) gathered via the Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer website (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy outlines how we manage your Personal Information and safeguard your privacy.

Your Privacy Rights

All Canadian businesses engaged in commercial activities must comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (the “Act”) and the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information. The Act gives you rights concerning the privacy of your Personal Information. The Act makes Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer responsible for the Personal Information we collect and hold. To uphold our accountability, we have written this policy and trained all our staff about our policies and practices.

Confidentiality and Security

Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer employs all reasonable security measures to prevent unauthorized access to your Personal Information. All Personal Information collected by completing online forms on our Site is stored on a secure server in Ontario. We’ve taken these steps to protect your Personal Information:

• Premises security
• Password protection, security software, and firewalls
• Restricted file access to electronic Personal Information
• Internal password and security policies
• Procedures for the destruction of Personal Information including shredding and electronic media formatting

What Personal Information Does Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Gather?

When you fill out a “Book Your Free Consultation” form found on all pages of the Site, Personal Information that Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer gathers includes:

• Your name
• Email address
• Phone number
• A brief description of your legal issue

When you visit the Site, non-personally identifiable information that Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer collects includes:

• Browser type
• Operating system
• Domain name

This non-personally identifiable Personal Information conveys useful data to the Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Marketing Department and contributes toward a personalized experience when you visit the Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Site.

How Does Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Use My Personal Information?

We use your Personal Information to provide legal advice and services and to fulfil our own professional responsibilities when responding to your inquiries. Personal Information is also used to include you in our marketing activities where you specifically request it or provide consent to Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer. Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer will obtain the express or implied consent from you for the collection, disclosure, and use of your Personal Information. Express consent is authorization given by you to Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer either orally or in writing. Implied consent is where Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer has not received such authorization. However, circumstances allow Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer to collect, use, or disclose your Personal Information. These circumstances can include but may not be limited to:

• Collection of the information is in the individual’s best interest
• Use of the information where an emergency health or security situation exists
• Use or disclosure is for law enforcement, our legal counsel, or whereby an individual’s life, health, or safety is being threatened

If you no longer wish to receive marketing information about our services or if you would like to update inaccurate or out-of-date Personal Information, please contact Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer and we will take the necessary measures.

Access To Your Personal Information

You have the right to access, modify, correct, or remove your Personal Information. To invoke this right or if you have any questions about the gathering, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information, please contact Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer.

Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer
1 Bass Pro Mills Dr, Vaughan, ON L4K 5W4
Phone: 1 780-671-4994
Email: [email protected]

Disclosure of Your Personal Information

In rare circumstances, Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer might be forced to disclose your Personal Information, including:

• Where we are required or authorized by law to do so (e.g., in response to a court order)
• When you have consented to disclosure either expressly or by implication
• Where it is necessary to establish or collect fees
• If we hire a third party to provide administrative services (e.g., computer backup or storage)
• If we engage witnesses or other law firms on your behalf

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites

Your Personal Information may be shared with third parties (the “Service Providers”) that contribute to or participate in various aspects of Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer’s commercial activity. These include companies who provide administrative services such as computer backup or archival storage assistance. Such companies may be located throughout the world, including in countries whose policies for protecting Personal Information are not the same as Canada’s. Our service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements and other legal restrictions that prohibit them from using Personal Information we provide for any purpose other than fulfilling specific duties as Service Providers.

Cookies

“Cookies” are small text files that embed themselves on your hard drive from some of the Site’s pages. The cookies used by Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer are harmless in the sense that they cannot extract any information from your hard drive. In addition, you retain full control over cookies since you have the ability to remove them. Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer uses cookies primarily to determine site traffic, convey useful information to its Marketing Department, and to personalize your future visits to the Site.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to revise this policy or any part of it at any time. Regardless of changes to our Privacy Policy, we will continue to adhere to the Act and will never use information you submitted under our current policy in a new way without providing you an opportunity to give us your consent. This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 6, 2020.

Linked Sites

The Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Site includes links to other websites operated by other companies. Links are provided only as a convenience to Site users. By clicking on these links, you will leave the Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Site. Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer has no control over the operation of these websites and the fact they may be linked to the Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Site does not in any way render Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer liable, specifically their content, the products/services provided, or any other damages or loss that they may cause you. Any Personal Information that you transmit through these websites will be subject to their own policies for the protection of Personal Information. We suggest that you pay close attention to the privacy policies of these websites.

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We’re committed to protecting your data. Learn how we manage your Personal Information and secure your privacy in our Vaughan Personal Injury Lawyer Privacy Policy.