Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Your Privacy

We follow all Canadian privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

Personal information is any information that identifies you. We collect personal information, including your name, address, phone number, email, date of birth, ID numbers, employment and financial information, as well as details about your legal matter.

How Do We Collect Your Personal Information?

We collect personal information from you directly, from other sources, and from our website.

Why Do We Need Your Personal Information?

We collect and use your personal information to provide you with legal advice, represent you in your legal matter, communicate with you about your legal matter, prepare documents, send invoices and collect payment, meet our legal obligations as lawyers, and improve our services.

Who Do We Share Your Personal Information With?

We keep your personal information confidential. We only share it when necessary to help with your legal matter, when required by law, or to run our business. When we provide your personal information to third parties, they must keep your personal information confidential (unless otherwise permitted by law). We never sell your personal information to anyone.

How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?

We use physical, technological, and administrative safeguards to protect your personal information. Email is not completely secure. There’s always a risk someone could intercept messages. For very sensitive information, we can use encrypted email, secure portals, talk on the phone, or meet in person. While we take reasonable precautions, no system is 100% secure.

How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information?

We keep your personal information as long as needed to serve you and meet our legal obligations. When we no longer need your personal information, we securely destroy it.

Your Consent

We need your permission to collect and use your personal information. Usually, you give consent when you sign our engagement agreement. Sometimes your consent is implied when you voluntarily give us information.

You can withdraw your consent at any time, but this may affect our ability to help you with your legal matter.

We don’t need your consent when we are required or permitted by law to disclose your personal information, your personal information is already public, or we need to collect unpaid fees.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information

You can see what personal information we have about you and ask us to correct any information that’s wrong. You can also withdraw your consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information (with some limitations). If you’d like to do any of these, please contact our Privacy Officer (see below). We’ll respond within 30 days. We may charge a fee for detailed access requests.

We may not be able to provide access to information protected by legal privilege, information about other clients, and information that we’re legally prohibited from sharing.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We’ll post changes on our website.

Questions or Concerns?

For questions regarding this policy, contact Sandeep J. Joshi, Partner, at sjoshi@morganjoshi.com or 416.712.1597.