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We respect your privacy.
Our privacy commitment is based on the Personal Information Protection Act (British Columbia) (“PIPA”) and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) (“PIPEDA”).
This privacy statement adopts the definition of personal information from PIPA: “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, but does not include the name, position name or title, business telephone number, business address, business email or business fax number of an individual at a place of business.
We handle personal information in the course of providing legal services to you and on your behalf. In some cases, we handle personal information as agent for a client. This privacy statement applies to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information about our current, past and prospective clients. It does not apply to third-party personal information that we handle when we act as an agent for a client.
Our obligations as legal professionals are also subject to the Rules of Professional Conduct adopted by the Law Society of British Columbia. As lawyers we have a professional obligation to keep confidential all information we receive within a lawyer-client relationship. We are committed to protecting any personal information we hold.
Why do we collect personal information?
We collect personal information in order to provide legal services to you. In addition, we may distribute publications and offer seminars concerning legal developments, which we provide as a service to you and others in the business community.
How do we collect your personal information?
We collect personal information only by lawful and fair means, and we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for the legitimate purposes identified and for which consent has been obtained. Whenever possible, we collect your personal information directly from you or from persons you have requested to provide us with such information.
Sometimes we may obtain information about you from other sources including: government agencies or registries; accountants or other professional advisors; real estate agents; financial institutions; insurance companies; credit bureaus; and other third parties who represent that they have the right to disclose the information.
How do we use your information?
We may use your personal information for the following purposes: to provide legal services; for billing, record-keeping and other client contact and service matters; to assess new clients’ eligibility for credit; for audit and record-keeping purposes; for account collection purposes; to manage and develop our business and operations; to learn about the needs of current and potential clients, to develop or offer services and product tailored to those needs, and to communicate with those clients regarding current and future services; and to follow up on client comments and suggestions.
Disclosure of your personal information
We will only disclose your personal information for the legitimate purposes identified to you and for which consent has been obtained, or if required or authorized by law. For example, we may disclose your information: when the legal services we are providing to you require us to give your information to third parties (for example, to a lender in a real estate mortgage transaction); where it is necessary to establish or collect fees; if we engage expert witnesses on your behalf; if we retain other law firms in other jurisdictions on your behalf; if a court issues a subpoena; or if we engage a third party to provide administrative services for our benefit, in which case we shall use contractual or other means to protect the personal information that is being provided to the third party.
Consent and exceptions
We recognize the importance of obtaining consent where required by law for collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.
We may obtain your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your information either expressly for stated purposes or impliedly when the purposes are not stated expressly but are indicated by the relevant circumstances or follow logically from other expressly stated purposes. For the consent to be informed, we will make reasonable efforts to advise you of all the purposes for which the personal information is being sought, unless the purposes are plain and obvious.
We will make reasonable efforts to obtain consent for all anticipated purposes at the time of the collection of the personal information. We will obtain additional consent if we propose to use your personal information for a purpose for which express or implied consent was not initially obtained.
We will not, as a condition of the supply of a product or service, require you to consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of information beyond that required to fulfill the explicitly specified purposes.
You may withdraw or amend any consent previously given by contacting our Privacy Officer, subject to any legal or contractual restrictions and upon reasonable notice to us.
The law provides certain exceptions to the usual requirement to obtain an individual’s consent, for example: when collection and use is clearly in the interests of the individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way; in emergencies; where consent would compromise investigating a breach of contract or law; to collect a debt; to comply with rules of court relating to the production of information; and in other circumstances where permitted or required by law.
Keeping your personal information secure
We use appropriate security measures to protect against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, use or modification of personal information. Such measures will vary depending on the sensitivity, amount, format, nature and storage of the personal information and will involve, as applicable, physical, organizational and electronic security measures, including premises security, restricted file access, technological safeguards including security software and firewalls to prevent unauthorized computer access, and password and security policies.
In communicating with us, please remember that e-mail is not fully secure.
Email and cloud services
We will communicate with you by various methods of electronic communication, including email. Electronic communications are vulnerable to attack by viruses and are also vulnerable to interception. We cannot guarantee that all electronically communicated messages and documents will be virus-free or will always be received. You consent to unencrypted electronic communication, and you agree that we will not be responsible for any delays or non-delivery in electronic communications or for any damages arising from our use of electronic communications.
We use cloud services to support our provision of legal services to you. Your data may be stored in or processed by these cloud services. We cannot guarantee that your data will be entirely secure in all circumstances. In addition, some cloud service providers may store your data outside of Canada or access your data from outside Canada, and that data may be subject to disclosure under foreign laws. You consent to our use of cloud services, and you agree that we will not be responsible for any damages arising from my use of cloud services. Please let us know if you would like more information about the cloud services that we use.
Cookies and similar technologies
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Updating your information and correcting errors
Since we use your personal information to provide legal services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date. If any of your information changes, is inaccurate, or is incomplete, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.
Access to your personal information
We will respond promptly to any request by you for access to your personal information. There will be no cost for reasonable requests to such access, unless you request copies of records or your request involves significant retrieval costs. We will advise you of the cost, if any, prior to the retrieval of such records or information. We will not respond to requests for access to personal information that are frivolous, vexatious or repetitious.
In certain circumstances, we may be unable to provide access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you. Such circumstances include those in which the personal information cannot be separated from the records of others, cannot be disclosed for reasons of personal security or commercial confidentiality, or is protected by professional standards relating to confidentiality or solicitor-client privilege.
Changes to our privacy policy
We may change our privacy policy from time to time.
Questions, concerns or requests for access
If you have any questions or concerns, wish to access your personal information, or wish to change your preferences regarding our use of your information, please contact us by mail or email at:
Bruce Tattrie
Bruce Tattrie Law Corporation
6657 Laburnum Street
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
V6P 5M6