Privacy Policy
Personal information is defined in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) ("PIPEDA") as information that can identify an individual and information about an identifiable individual.
Our firm may receive your personal information in the course of providing services to you under the Retainer. We will try to collect personal information directly from the person to whom the information pertains where practical and we will collect personal information from other sources when necessary. By engaging our firm to provide services, we consider an individual to have given our firm consent to the collection, use, and distribution of the individual’s personal information. Once this consent has been obtained by our firm, we will continue to collect, use, and disclose personal information for the purpose of providing the agreed upon services without obtaining further written or verbal consent to do so. We may also collect, use, or disclose personal information about an individual without that individual’s consent as permitted under PIPEDA.
Our firm maintains the strictest confidence with respect to any client’s or former client’s information. Accordingly, confidential client information will not, without client consent, be disclosed to any individuals outside of our firm except as required by law and except as required to be disclosed as part of the court process involved in the Retainer.
We protect against unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal, or destruction of personal information in the possession of Davies and we retain client personal information for a reasonable time period as required by our Rules of Professional Conduct and the terms of our professional liability insurance policy. When no longer required, client personal information will be disposed of in a secured manner.
Individuals have the right to ask, in writing, for access to their own personal information in the custody or under the control of our firm as specified under PIPEDA. We will respond to requests as accurately and completely as reasonably possible in the time allowed by PIPEDA. We are entitled to refuse access in certain situations and would advise you if such situations existed upon your request for access to your personal information. PIPEDA also allows individuals to request in writing that Davies correct errors or omissions and we will correct any factual error or omissions and inform you where we feel it is appropriate.