Clivio Law Professional Corporation (“Clivio Law”) operates the website cliviolaw.com, which provides legal services and related/ancillary services to existing and prospective clients. If you choose to use our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy and terms of use. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Clivio Law understands the importance of protecting the personal information of its clients and website users. Our privacy policy is in keeping with privacy legislation and with the standards of our regulatory body, the Law Society of Ontario.
Please note that this Privacy Policy applies to Clivio Law only, it does not apply to any third party websites to which we may link.
Information Collected
Clivio Law collects, uses and discloses personal information to provide you with the services you have requested. Clivio Law only uses your personal information for the original purpose for which it was given. Providing us with your personal information is always your choice. However, your decision not to provide certain information may limit or prohibit our ability to provide you with our services.
Cookies
Our Website uses “cookies” and other tracking technologies. Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including choosing whether or not to accept them, and removing them. Cookies will expire after a set amount of time.
You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, and you may choose to block cookies with your browser. If you choose to refuse or block our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our services.
Third-Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this Website, our third-party advertisers may place or recognise a unique “cookie” on your browser.
How We Use Your Information
Clivio Law may share your personal information as discussed below for storage, retention or transactional legal and administrative work, but Clivio Law will not sell it to advertisers or other unaffiliated third parties. Clivio Law uses certain trusted third parties (for example, providers of customer support and IT services) for the business purposes of helping us provide and secure our services. These third parties will access your information to perform tasks on our behalf for the handling of your information per our instructions. Clivio Law may disclose information to third parties in cases where Clivio Law has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury or interference with our rights, property, our clients or anyone who could be harmed by such activities.
Clivio Law may also use your non-identifying personal information such as region, gender, interests, goals, habits, etc. for our own marketing purposes.
Clivio Law may permit certain trusted third parties to track usage, analyse data such as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the referring Website (if any) and other parameters in the URL. This data is collected in order to better understand our Website usage, and enhance the performance of services to maintain and operate the Website and certain features on the Website. Clivio Law may use third parties to host the Website; operate various features available on the Website; send emails; analyse data; provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders.
Clivio Law uses non-identifying and aggregate information to better design the website and for business and administrative purposes.
Information Security
Clivio Law is committed to protecting the information we receive from you. Clivio Law maintains procedures to safeguard and secure the information and data stored in our system. While no computer system is completely secure, Clivio Law believes the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
File Retention
In accordance with the Law Society of Ontario Rules, Clivio Law is required to must retain physical and electronic file records, including but not limited to copies of documents, application packages as well as accounting and administrative records for up to ten years.
Storage and Use of Electronic Data:
You acknowledge that there are risks associated with any form of electronic communication and storage. Clivio Law has taken a number of steps as set out to minimize the potential for data leaks.
Email Communications
We will frequently communicate with you by email. It is up to you to provide us with an email address you consider sufficiently secure to receive confidential and/or privileged communications from us.
Our emails to you may include confidential and/or privileged information. By forwarding our emails to other people, you may be at risk of waiving privilege or disclosing confidential information. Copying other people on emails you send us may also waive privilege or disclose confidential information. Please plan accordingly in terms of how you use the information you send us and receive from us by email.
Children’s Privacy and Parental Controls
Clivio Law does not solicit any personal information from children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to take the necessary actions.
Disclaimer to Security
By using our services and hence agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you consent that no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure. Clivio Law cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you provide to us and you transmit such information to us at your own risk.
Changes to this policy
Clivio Law reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. Your continued use of our services and this website indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted. We advise you to review this page periodically for any changes.
Contact Information
Note on language – this Privacy Policy was originally prepared in English. In the event of a conflict between the English version and any other version of this Policy, the English version will be considered correct.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@cliviolaw.com.