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The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm recognizes the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information.

Lawyers have professional obligations regarding the confidentiality of information received from clients within a lawyer-client relationship.

Personal Information

The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm is committed to protecting personal information it holds in accordance with the applicable law.

This Privacy Policy outlines how we manage personal information and safeguard privacy.

PIPEDA

As of January 1, 2004, all Canadian organizations engaged in commercial activities must comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") and the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information incorporated by reference into PIPEDA.

These obligations extend to lawyers and law firms, including The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm.

Generally, we collect your personal information directly from you. Sometimes we may obtain information about you from other sources including, for example:

In most cases, if we collect, use, or disclose your personal information, we will obtain your consent. Sometimes we will ask for your consent in writing, but in some cases, we may accept your oral consent. Sometimes your consent may be implied through your conduct with us or the nature of our retainer.

We use your personal information to provide legal advice and services to you, to administer our client databases, to build and to maintain the firm's expertise and knowledge, and to include you in our information distribution and marketing activities.

If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive information about developments in the law or our services, you can ask us not to send any further material.

The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/ Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm does not disclose your personal information to third parties to enable them to market their products and services.

Under certain circumstances The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/ Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm may disclose your personal information. Some examples are:

• when we are required or authorized by law to do so, including, for example, if a court issues a warrant or a subpoena;

• in order to comply with the requirements of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the regulatory body that governs the practice of law in Ontario;

• when the legal services we are providing to you requires us to give your information to third parties your consent will be implied, unless you tell us otherwise;

• if we engage a third party to provide administrative services to us (like computer back-up services, archival file storage, or insurance) and the third party is bound by obligations regarding privacy which are consistent with this policy;

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 during the course of the retainer, any of your information changes, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes. We may also periodically inquire of you whether your personal information is accurate and up-to-date.

The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/ Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm takes precautions to ensure that your personal information is kept safe from loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Among the steps taken to protect your personal information are:

• deploying technological safeguards like security software and firewalls to prevent unauthorized computer access or "hacking"; and

You should be aware that e-mail is not an entirely secure medium, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.

You may ask for access to personal information we hold about you. Detailed requests which require archive or other retrieval costs may be subject to our normal professional and disbursement fees. Your rights to access your personal information are not absolute.

There are a number of situations where we may deny access. If we deny your request for access to, or refuse a request to correct personal information, we will provide a reason or reasons for doing so.

Our website contains links to other sites, which may not be governed by this Policy. On our website, like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information in order to optimize our web service. We may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information.

The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/ Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm does not use cookies nor does The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/ Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm use any electronic means to automatically collect personal information from you or your computer; however, web servers used by The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/ Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm will automatically collect IP addresses and we may view our web server IP log from time to time to prevent fraudulent acts and possible network attacks.

If you are not satisfied with our response, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada can be reached at 112 Kent Street Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1H31.800.282.1376.

The Personal Injury Law Centre of Ontario/ Berg Dye & Russell Personal Injury Law Firm reviews all of its policies on a periodic basis and procedures and we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time.