Privacy Policy
Beaupré Legal Professional Corporation (“BLPC”, “we,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy according to all applicable legislation and our professional responsibilities.
This Privacy Policy (Policy) governs your access to and use of www.beaupreimmigration.ca (Website), as well as all communication that you may have with BLPC, whether as a visitor to the Website, potential client of BLPC, or actual client of BLPC.
This policy applies to Personal Information we collect on the Website and in email, text, online forms, or any other electronic messages between you and BLPC.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before browsing the Website or contacting BLPC. By accessing the Website, you accept and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, please do not access the Website or provide your personal information to BLPC.
Personal Information
Personal Information under Canada’s federal privacy legislation is any information about an identifiable individual, but does not include the name, title, business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization.
Why We Collect Personal Information
We collect Personal Information to provide legal information, advice, and services to our clients and potential clients. We also collect personal information to avoid conflicts of interest, to keep business records, and to maintain our precedent systems and databases.
How we Collect Personal Information
We only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for the legitimate purposes identified and for which consent has been obtained.
Information You Provide To Us: The Website allows visitors to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out the contact form on the Website, or by communicating with us at the contact information listed on the Website.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Tracking Technology: As you navigate our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies, including Google Analytics, to collect certain information about your computer equipment, browsing actions, and browsing patterns. This generally includes information about your location, your traffic pattern through our Website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and does not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings.
Cookies
Similar to other commercial websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies may include information such as the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, and time spent at our Website. Our Website allows visitors to opt out of the use of cookies.
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses, subject to our professional obligations and all applicable legislation.
We are committed to keeping your email address confidential and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as required to carry out our legal services or as required by law.
All emails that we send will be in compliance with Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, including clearly stating who the email is from and providing clear information on how to contact the sender. We do not send emails through mailing lists.
How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information for the purposes of providing legal services to our clients, maintaining our own internal business records, and identifying potential legal services that might be helpful to our clients in the future.
Disclosure of Information
We do not sell any personal information to third parties.
We may disclose personal information to our service providers and to any applicable federal or provincial government agencies for the purpose of providing our legal services and maintaining our business records.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including the Law Society of Ontario, our professional insurer, a. court of competent jurisdiction, a governmental entity, or our legal counsel, when necessary in connection with our legislative and regulatory obligations, or for the protection of our legal rights.
We may disclose your information to a financial institution solely in connection with our right to receive payment with respect to an account.
We may disclose your personal information to any third party where you consent to such disclosure in writing.
Security Measures
In accordance with our professional obligations, we use appropriate security measures to protect against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, use, or modification of personal information. Please note that we are not able to guarantee the security of electronic communication methods. We recommend that our clients password-protect sensitive documents if transmitting them to us via email.
Updating Information and Correcting Errors
Since we use your personal information to provide legal services, it is important that all personal information that you provide to us is accurate and up to date. If any of your information changes, is incomplete, or if you notice any inaccuracies, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.
Access to Personal Information
We will respond promptly to any request for access to your own personal information.
Cross Border Transfer of Personal Information
Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where our third party service providers operate (e.g., Canada, United States). Such information is subject to the law of the country in which it is stored, and may be subject to disclosure to governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of such jurisdiction, according to that jurisdiction’s laws. For example, personal information stored in the United States is subject to the USA Patriot Act.
EU GDPR Rights
If you are visiting this Website from within the European Union (EU), you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the EU, including:
- Subject to our professional obligations and any applicable Canadian legislation, we will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to stop using our existing data providers, or (c) we decide that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it;
- You have the right to request access to your data that we store and the right to request that we either correct or erase your personal data;
- You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data;
- You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data;
- To the extent that you consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the consent-based processing that occurred before your withdrawal of consent;
-You have the right to make a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the GDPR.
We require only the information that is reasonably required to provide legal services to our potential clients and clients. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a retainer agreement with us.
Privacy Policy Changes
This Privacy Policy is subject to change without notice. Please check this page each time you visit our Website for the most up-to-date version of the policy.
Questions/Concerns/Access requests
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact our Founder, Rachel Beaupré, at 647-227-2605 or rachel@beaupreimmigration.ca