Privacy Policy | Anita Joshi Law

Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Any personal information provided to us will be treated with care and will be safeguarded in accordance with applicable privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) and this policy. This policy applies to all Personal Information that we collect, use and disclose in the course of business.

Personal Information

Personal information means any information about an identifiable individual, but in general does not include business contact information of any employee of an organization.

How We Obtain Your Consent

To the extent possible, we will obtain consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. By engaging us or by providing your personal information to us, including via our website, by e-mail, over the phone, or by physical or other means, you provide your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this policy. If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this policy, please do not provide any personal information to Anita Joshi Law. If circumstances warrant, we may obtain your express consent to collect, use and disclose your personal information.

You may withdraw consent at any time to the continued use and disclosure of personal information previously collected, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by contacting our Privacy Officer as set out below. Please note that refusing or withdrawing consent may preclude us from providing our services.

If you provide us with the personal information of another individual, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to do so, including that you have obtained the necessary consent of the other person for us to collect, use and/or disclose their Personal Information.

Collection of Personal Information

We collect any information you enter in our website or provided to us in any other way, which may include your name, home address, home/mobile telephone number, personal email address and other contact information. We also collect information as described under “Website Privacy and Cookies” below.

Purpose of Collection of Personal Information

In general, we collect, use and disclose Personal Information for the following purposes:

to provide you with legal services and to communicate with you about our services;
to identify conflicts of interest;
to fulfill our legal and professional obligations;
for record-keeping purposes and to bill for our services;
to protect against fraud, illegal activities or error;
to maintain our knowledge management system and to manage our business;
as permitted or required by law or for purposes for which you have otherwise provided your consent;
to contact you about current or future services and products or legal developments that may be of interest to you, and to assess your future needs;
for security purposes; and
as further set out under “Website Privacy and Cookies” below.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We may disclose personal information from time to time as follows:

to third parties when it is necessary to do so to provide legal services to you – for example when we engage or retain an expert, consultant or another law firm or lawyer to act or assist us on your behalf.
to our professional advisers (including our accountants) and our third-party service providers which may be located inside or outside of Canada, including website hosting providers, data processing providers or billing software providers. Our website is currently hosted through the Wix.com platform and your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications.
to other third parties where you consent, or where such disclosure is required or permitted by law.

Storage and Safeguarding of Your Personal Information

We use standard safeguards of the legal profession to protect the security of personal information in our possession, including physical, organizational and technological measures. Examples of such measures include restricted access to offices, training of personnel, limiting access to information on a “need to know” basis and using internal passwords, industry recognized security software and firewalls to prevent unauthorized access. We may store, handle and process your personal information at our office, on our computers and storage devices or on servers located inside or outside of Canada. We use only leading and reputable technology services providers for e-mail, cloud storage (where used) or to host or process data (for example, Microsoft and Wix.com).

Website Privacy and Cookies

As is the case with most websites, this website will track and record IP addresses and uses cookies technology. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored on a site visitors’ browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site. Our website and Wix.com use cookies for important reasons such as:

To provide a great experience for our website’s visitors;
To identify registered members (users who registered to use our website);
To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of our website platform; and
To ensure our website platform is secured and safe to use.

Cookies are a common technology and most web browsers automatically accept cookies by default. If you do not wish to accept cookies, refer to your browser’s settings or online help for further instruction and information on setting and clearing cookie preferences. However, due to their core role of enhancing/enabling usability or website processes, disabling cookies may prevent users from using certain websites.

Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to other websites that we do not own or operate. We do not manage and are not responsible for the content or privacy or cookies practices of other websites. The linked websites have separate and independent privacy statements, notices and terms of use which we recommend you read carefully.

Retention of and Access to Personal Information

We will retain information, including personal information, for as long as it is needed for the purposes for which it was collected.

You can ask to view your personal information by writing to the Privacy Officer as indicated below. You can request that corrections be made where you can show that the information we possess is inaccurate. Under certain circumstances, you may not be permitted access; for example, where the disclosure of your records would cause security, legal or confidentiality concerns.

Changes to This Policy

This policy may be changed from time to time at our discretion without any prior notice to any person. The collection, use and disclosure of your personal information by us will be governed by this policy, as amended, from time to time.

Privacy Officer

For any questions regarding this policy, or any questions about our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer by email: anita@anitajoshilaw.com, or by telephone: 416-844-4111.