Privacy Policy

Last modified: February 1, 2023

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Michael Lees Professional Corporation o/a Fraction Law ("Company" or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it by complying with this policy.

 

This policy describes:

• How we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our clients, customers and website users ("you").

• Describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you: a) visit the website www.fractionlaw.com ("Website"), whether directly or by using any other link to that address, b) engage Fraction Law for legal services, or c) buy any other product or service from Fraction Law.

• Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

 

Privacy laws in Canada generally define "personal information" as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. Personal information does not include business contact information, including your name, title, or business contact information.

 

This policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about you:

• On this Website.

• In email, text, other electronic messages, or by any other means between you and this Website or Fraction Law, its lawyers or representatives during the course of your engagement or other commercial relationship with us.

 

The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. If you follow a link to a third-party website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

 

This policy DOES NOT apply to information that:

• You provide to or is collected by any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or engage or otherwise interact with Fraction Law. By accessing or using this Website, executing an engagement letter with Fraction Law, entering into a contract for any other product or service with Fraction Law, or otherwise providing us with personal information, as may be applicable, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this policy. This policy may change from time to time and your continued use of this Website or engagement or other relationship with Fraction Law after we make changes indicates that you accept and consent to those changes, and it is your responsibility to check for updates.

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:

• Personal information, that you provide us with, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, billing and account information, and any other identifier we may use to contact you or other information we use in performing services under your engagement with us ("personal information").

 

• Non-personal information, that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identifiable individual, such as demographic information, or statistical or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.

 

• Technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, or information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

 

• Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, or any phone number used to call our customer service number.

 

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We use different methods to collect your information, including through:

• Direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by filling in forms or corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise.

• User contributions. You may also provide information for us to publish or display on public Website areas or transmit to other Website users or third parties.

• Automated technologies or interactions, as you navigate through our Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies.

• Third parties or publicly available sources, for example, our business partners.

 

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect directly from you may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website or elsewhere or through your engagement or interaction with Fraction Law.  

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

• Details of transactions or interactions with Fraction Law.  You may be required to provide financial information before contracting with Fraction Law.

 

Information We Collect Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

 

The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings that are used for browser cookies.

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

 

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected, or any other purpose for which you provide it.

• To provide you with notices about your subscription if any, including expiration and renewal notices.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing and collection or to comply with legal requirements.

• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it or otherwise.

• To improve our Website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.

• To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• For any other purpose related to Fraction Law’s business.

• We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you, as permitted by law. By submitting personal information to us, you hereby consent to us contacting you periodically about Fraction Law content, products, and services.   We provide an opportunity for any user to unsubscribe from our mailing list or opt-out of contact for marketing purposes on an ongoing basis by e-mailing info@fractionlaw.com.

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

• In accordance with applicable law, to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Fraction Law’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Fraction Law about our customers and users is among the assets transferred.

• To advertisers and advertising networks that require the information to select and serve relevant advertisements to you and others. We do not disclose data about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers target a specific audience. We may make use of the personal information we have collected from you to enable us to display our advertisers' advertisement to that target audience.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use located on the Website and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Fraction Law, our customers, or others.

 

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may transfer personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.

We may process, store, and transfer your personal information in and to a foreign country, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as Canadian law. In these circumstances, the governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of that country may be able to obtain access to your personal information through the laws of the foreign country. Whenever we engage a service provider, we require that its privacy and security standards adhere to this policy and applicable Canadian privacy legislation.

 

DATA SECURITY

The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

 

DATA RETENTION

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.

 

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@fractionlaw.com.

 

ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you.  To update your personal info, contact us at info@fractionlaw.com.

 

WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT

Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at info@fractionlaw.com.  Please note that if you withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.

 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on the Website, which will always have the current version posted. We include the date the privacy policy was last revised at the top of the page. You agree to the terms of any changes from the time they are posted to the Website, and are responsible for ensuring you are knowledgeable of the current version of our privacy policy. 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION AND CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE

We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us at: info@fractionlaw.com.

We will respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information, our compliance with this policy, and with applicable privacy laws.