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Align Counsel Professional Corporation ("Align Counsel", "we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information with transparency and care. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit our website at www.aligncounsel.ca (the "Site") or otherwise contact us, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, and the choices you have.
As a law firm, we are also bound by our professional obligations of client confidentiality and solicitor-client privilege, which complement this policy. We handle personal information in accordance with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) and other applicable privacy laws.
By using our Site, you accept the practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the Site.
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites or services. Those third parties have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for their practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website you visit.
"Personal information" means information about an identifiable individual. It does not include business contact information such as your name, title, or business phone number. We collect two main types:
Please do not send us confidential or time-sensitive information through the Site until we have confirmed we can act for you. Contacting us does not by itself create a solicitor-client relationship.
Our Site uses only a limited number of cookies and similar technologies. Our website is hosted through a third-party content-delivery and security provider that may set cookies necessary to deliver the Site reliably and to protect it. You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies, but parts of the Site may not work properly if you do.
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to understand how visitors interact with our Site. Google Analytics uses cookies (small files stored on your device) to collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you stay, your approximate geographic location, and how you arrived at our Site. This information is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers that may be located outside Canada, and Google may use it in accordance with its own privacy policy. We use Google Analytics only to understand and improve our Site in aggregate, not to identify you individually.
To opt out of Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout) or adjust your browser’s cookie settings. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Our Site also displays fonts provided by Google Fonts (a service of Google LLC). When a page loads, your browser requests these fonts from Google’s servers, which receive your IP address as part of that request. Google may process this information in accordance with its privacy policy, available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
We use the personal information we collect to:
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We share it only as needed to operate our firm and provide legal services, and only in limited circumstances, including:
As a law firm, we do not disclose information protected by solicitor-client privilege unless the privilege is lawfully waived or we are required by law to disclose it.
We use physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. Where we use service providers to handle personal information, we require them to provide comparable protection. No method of transmitting information over the Internet is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security, and any transmission is at your own risk.
If a breach of security safeguards creates a real risk of significant harm to you, we will notify you and report the breach to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, as required by PIPEDA.
We keep personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes we collected it, to meet our legal, accounting, and professional obligations, including the record-keeping requirements of the Law Society of Ontario, and to resolve disputes or enforce our agreements. We then delete or anonymize it.
You have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, contact our Privacy Officer using the details below. We may need to verify your identity, and some information may be subject to legal exceptions, such as information protected by solicitor-client privilege, information about another individual, or information connected to a dispute-resolution process.
We may update this policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page, update the "last updated" date above, and provide notice of material changes. Please review this policy periodically.
We welcome your questions, concerns, and requests about this policy or your personal information. Our Privacy Officer is accountable for our compliance with this policy and applicable privacy laws.
Privacy Officer: Amanda Samuels
Align Counsel Professional Corporation
2 Bloor Street East, Suite 3500
Toronto, Ontario M4W 1A8
Email: info@aligncounsel.ca
This Privacy Policy applies to the website and does not apply to any third-party websites linked from our site.