This Terms & Privacy Policy applies to your information submitted or collected by Corporate Counsel., its affiliates and subsidiaries (“CCPC”) on its website (including CCPC.me) (the “Website“). This Terms & Privacy Policy covers CCPC Website’s treatment of your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data“) and other data that we gather when you use our websites and services offered by CCPC (“Website”). By using CCPC Website, you are consenting to the terms described in our Terms & Privacy Policy.
Depending on the service, we may provide additional or different privacy statements or notices for specific interactions you have with us or to highlight how we use your personal information for specific services. Where we do this, it will be clear which statements apply to which interactions and services.
If you have any questions about this Terms & Privacy Policy or our use of your personally identifiable information, please submit a support request or contact us:
YOU UNDERSTAND THAT: – THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVICE – THAT USE OF THE WEBSITE DOES NOT ESTABLISH A LICENSEE AND CLIENT RELATIONSHIP AND – IN ORDER FOR YOU TO BECOME A CLIENT OF OUR FIRM YOU MUST SIGN A WRITTEN ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT AFTER WE HAVE CONDUCTED BACKGROUND CHECKS AND CONFLICT CHECKS. UNTIL SUCH TIME YOU ARE NOT A CLIENT.
1. Terms
The content of the CCPC website is provided to you for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice on any subject matter. No recipients of content from the CCPC website should act or refrain from acting without seeking the appropriate legal or professional advice having regard to the particular facts and circumstances at issue.
CCPC cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any information transmitted by way of Internet email or via the CCPC website and, accordingly, transmissions should not contain confidential information.
The viewing of the CCPC website, in whole or in part, and the communication with a lawyer at CCPC by way of Internet email or via the website does not constitute solicitor-client privilege between CCPC and any recipients.
CCPC cannot be responsible for the content of other sites. We expressly disclaim all liability with respect to actions taken or actions not taken based on content received from a third party website linked, directly or indirectly, to that of CCPC. The link to another site is not to be construed in any way as an endorsement of the host, the site or the information contained therein, nor is such link to be inferred as an association or affiliation with the host.
2. What Personal Data does CCPC collect?
The type of personal information we collect depends on how you are interacting with the Website and which services you are using.
In many cases, you can choose whether or not to provide us with personal information (“Personal Data”), but if you choose not to, you may not get full functionality from the services.
(a) Personal information we receive from you, the member:
· We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information. This includes when you register for the Website (for example, name, address and email address), use certain Website services, or connect your Website account to online third-party network such as Facebook, Twitter or other social networks. The information we receive from your social networks, is dependent upon your privacy settings with the social network. You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and Website before linking or connecting them to our Website. Personal Data includes:
o your contact information, such as full name and email address;
o the content, communications and other information you provide when you use the Website, including when you sign up for an account or post comments. This can include information in or about the content you provide (such as metadata);
o all communications, if any, with other users of the Website;
o information that you provide when you contact or engage platform support regarding the Website;
o device information, such as, information about your device, such as IP address, location or provider;
o usage information and browsing history, such as, information about how you navigate within our Services, your browsing history and which elements of our Services you use the most;
o location data, for Services with location-enhanced features; and
o demographic information, such as, your country, and preferred language.
(b) Use of cookies and other technology to collect data:
· Mobile data. When you use our Website on your mobile device, we may receive or collect and store unique identification numbers associated with your device (“Device ID”), mobile carrier, device type and manufacturer, phone number, and, depending on your mobile device settings, your geographical location data, including GPS coordinates (e.g. latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding the location of your mobile device. This allows us to provide you with offers from merchants in your vicinity. You can turn this feature off by adjusting your phone settings.
· Cookies and other tracking data. We may collect information using cookies, log file data, and clear gifs (also known as web beacons) to track usage information, to remember you on our Website, and to provide additional functionality. We automatically collect certain types of usage information when you use our Website and when you communicate with CCPC. When you visit our Website, we may send one or more cookies — a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets us help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the site. A cookie may also convey information to us about how you use the Website (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click, how frequently you access the Website), and allows us to track your usage of the Website. We may collect log file information from your browser or mobile device each time you access the Website. Log file information may include anonymous information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, information about your mobile device, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the Website, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information. We may employ clear gifs (also known as web beacons) which are used to anonymously track the online usage patterns of our users. In addition, we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by recipients. The information allows for more accurate reporting and improvement of the Website. We may also collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Website. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit, your actions on our websites, and other information that assists us in analyzing and improving the Website. Here are some useful resources that provide detailed information about types of cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie preferences: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers:
· Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
· To improve customer service within the website. Information collected helps us respond to your service requests and needs more efficiently and allows us to update our customer service solutions regularly.
· To personalize your user experience by providing you with custom solutions. Your information allows us to better understand how our users use our services and resources, and what more we can offer.
· To improve site functioning by using your feedback to improve services.
· To send periodic emails. We collect email information to send information to users, if they have subscribed to our mailing list. We may use the email addresses to send the customer information, to respond to inquiries, questions and other requests. If the user subscribes to our mailing list, they may receive promotional content or other content such as company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. The customer/user has the option to at any time unsubscribe from receiving future emails by using the unsubscribe feature and instructions included at the bottom of each email, or by contacting us directly. See below to learn how to opt-out of any further messages of this nature from us.
· To enforce our terms and conditions.
· We may also use your Personal Data in aggregate form as described under “How Does CCPC Website use Aggregate Data.” When we do this the data is anonymized so that you cannot be personally identified.
4. How does CCPC Website use aggregate data?
In order to provide the best service to you, CCPC Website measures and analyzes the demographics, interests and behavior of our members based on the Personal Data provided to us. We also provide aggregate information to third parties about how our members, collectively, use our service. The Website may also share aggregated user statistics in order to describe our Website to current and prospective business partners and clients, and to other third parties. This aggregated data does not identify you individually.
5. How does CCPC Website share my Personal data?
The Website considers your Personal Data an essential part of our relationship with you and a key component in delivering you a great service. We do not sell this information or provide it to third parties except as described in this Terms & Privacy Policy. There are times though when we need to share this data with certain third parties in order to operate our business. These circumstances are described below:
(a) Business transactions and related companies – As we operate the Website we may buy or sell business assets or the company, merge with other companies, reorganize or dissolve. Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets during any of these events. Consistent with this Terms & Privacy Policy, we may also share your Personal Data with our affiliates.
(b) Agents and Service Providers – Like many businesses, the Website shares personal information with agents, third party suppliers and other service providers who perform work on our behalf. We may also share statistical data with our business partners or third party suppliers.
(c) Anonymized Aggregated Data – As described above, we aggregate and anonymize data and use and disclose such information for a variety of purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose any information that could be used to identify you personally.
(d) Law and Harm; Jurisdictions – We may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues or a breach of our Terms of Use; or to protect our or any other person’s rights or property. However, nothing in this Terms & Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information. Finally, please note that in some cases, personal information that we collect may be stored or processed outside of Canada. In such cases, we continue to protect the information with appropriate safeguards, but it may be subject to the legal jurisdiction of those countries and governmental authorities in those countries.
(e) Any person you have asked us to share information with (e.g., if you upload information into a public forum it is shared publicly).
In any other circumstances, you will be prompted with a separate agreement asking for your permission to share Personal Data with a third party.
6. International Transfers
The Website is available globally and your personal information may be stored and processed outside of your home country, including in countries that may not offer the same level of protection for your personal information as your home country. We have measures in place to ensure that when your personal information is transferred internationally, it is subject to appropriate safeguards in accordance with data protection laws. Often, these include contractual safeguards. More information about these safeguards (including copies, where relevant) can be obtained by contacting us here.
7. Choices Regarding Your Information
(a) Marketing Communications. If you do not wish to receive promotional emails, you can click the “unsubscribe” button on promotional email communications. Note that you are not permitted to unsubscribe or opt-out of non-promotional messages regarding your account, such as account verification, changes or updates to features of the websites, or technical and security notices.
(b) Online Advertising. We may permit third party online advertising networks to collect information about your use of our website over time so that they may play or display contextual ads that may be relevant to your interests on our websites as well as on other websites. Typically, the information we share is provided through cookies or similar tracking technologies. The only way to completely “opt out” of the collection of any information through cookies or other tracking technology is to actively manage the settings on your browser or mobile device. Please refer to your browser’s or mobile device’s technical information for instructions on how to delete and disable cookies, and other tracking/recording tools. (To learn more about cookies, clear gifs/web beacons and related technologies, you may wish to visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org and/or the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources, at http://www.networkadvertising.org). Depending on your mobile device, you may not be able to control tracking technologies through settings.
In some cases, it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your Personal Data will be retained. We calculate retention periods for your personal information in accordance with the following criteria:
the length of time necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for;
when you cease to use our Services;
the length of time it is reasonable to keep records to demonstrate that we have fulfilled our duties and obligations;
any limitation periods within which claims might be made;
any retention periods prescribed by law or recommended by regulators, professional bodies or associations; and
the existence of any relevant proceedings.
Please submit a support request if you wish to delete your account. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we may retain your Personal Data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
9. What is not included in this Terms & Privacy Policy?
This Terms & Privacy Policy does not apply to any unsolicited information that you provide. This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Website and any unsolicited submissions. CCPC Website assumes that all unsolicited information is non-confidential and that we are free to reproduce, disclose and distribute it without limitation or attribution.
The Website may contain links to third party sites not controlled or operated by CCPC Website (the “Third Party Sites“). The policies and procedures described in this Terms & Privacy Policy do not apply to the Third Party Sites.
10. Is my Personal Data secure?
We take the security of your Personal Data and other information very seriously. We take reasonable steps to protect this data from loss, unauthorized access or misuse. However, no Internet, email or electronic transmission is ever completely secure, so we encourage you to take special care in deciding what information you send us in this way.
11. What if CCPC Website needs to update this policy?
We reserve the right to modify this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will change the “Last Revision” date above and will post the updated Policy on this page.
12. How do I update my Personal Data?
If you feel that you need to update your Personal Data for any reason, please submit a request to our customer service email. Once we receive your request we will take reasonable steps to update any Personal Data that you have submitted via our Website.
13. Amendments
We may update this Terms & Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this notice. We may notify you of significant changes to this notice by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
14. CCPC Information
Corporate Counsel
20 Great Gulf Drive, Suite 14, Vaughan, Ontario, L4K0K7
