Privacy Notice of Canada Legal Guidance
1. About Us
This website (www.canadalegalguidance.com) (this “Website”) is operated by H. Khajeei Professional Law Corporation dba SK Legal (“SK Legal”) located at 108 Waterfront Court SW, Calgary, Alberta.
In this Privacy Notice, “we”, “us” or “our” means Canada Legal Guidance, a division of SK Legal, aimed at providing legal guidance or legal information to individuals or corporations in respect of a variety of legal issues so as to quickly equip such individuals or corporations in understanding the best next steps to take which may include, but is not limited to, engaging a lawyer to further assist with the issue. References in this Website to “you” or “your” means the person accessing or using this Website or scheduling or attending any appointment and includes any persons, natural, incorporated or otherwise, that any person accessing or using this Website or scheduling or attending any appointment may represent.
2. Effective Date and Scope
This Privacy Notice is effective as of January 1, 2025. This Privacy Notice governs our practices with respect to personal information we collect through this Website and otherwise in connection with any appointment scheduled through this Website (each an “Appointment”). No changes to this Privacy Notice are valid or have any effect unless agreed by us in writing. We reserve the right to vary the terms of this Privacy Notice from time to time. Our new terms will be displayed on this Website and by continuing to use and access this Website following such changes, you agree to be bound by any variation made by us. It is your responsibility to check these terms and conditions from time to time to verify such variations.
3. What personal information do we collect?
Personal information is information that identifies you or could be combined by us with
other information to identify you. This information might include your e-mail
address, your address, your phone number, your image, certain information provided to us in connection with your scheduling of an Appointment and other similar information when associated with you. Personal information may also be information containing details as to how you have used this Website, if we can associate that personal information with you.
We collect personal information from you when you use this Website or use our web form to schedule an Appointment or ask a question or submit personal information to us via email or social media. Further, we also collect personal information during any Appointment held between us as well.
4. How do we use your personal information?
We use your information to manage our services and operations. We may use your personal information to contact you, to respond to your inquiries, and to otherwise correspond with you in accordance with applicable laws. We may contact you to request a testimonial or otherwise publicize our relationship, whether on our website, social media or other media, however we will not publicize any such relationship without your express permission.
In addition, if we determine that your issue requires additional support from a lawyer, we may, with your consent, refer your file to such law firms, lawyers or other legal professionals who we may identify to you in advance. You will be required to sign an engagement agreement with such other persons in order to have them provide additional support to you in respect of your issue.
5. Personalized experience and web analytics
We may also automatically collect information when you visit this Website in order to personalize your experience. For example, we collect information about what site referred you to this Website, your browser type, operating system type and version, language, and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. We may also collect information about how you browse through this Website, including logging the pages you visit and the amount of time you spend on certain pages. We may use this information for technical purposes to ensure that our pages load correctly in your browser, as well as to personalize your web experience to you. We may also use this information to improve this Website and to make it more user friendly.
6. Children and Minors
This Website and the services offered through this Website are not directed to persons under the age of 18 years. We will not knowingly collect personal information about a person under the age of 18.
7. Do we disclose your personal information to others?
We may share information with any employees, contractors or service providers of SK Legal that are engaged to help fulfill requests that you make on this Website including to attend the Appointments. We use third-party software, including apps offered by Google, to manage information, which may include your personal information. The relevant third party’s terms of use, privacy policy, permissions, notices and choices may be different from ours. We do not use any apps or services that we believe will unreasonably compromise the security of your personal information. We may also share your personal information on an as-needed basis with independent lawyers who may be a valuable resource to you should additional support be required in respect of your matter. Please also see Section 4 above.
8. Law Enforcement requests
We will disclose personal information without your knowledge or consent if we receive an order, subpoena, warrant or other legal requirement issued by a court, tribunal, regulator or other person with jurisdiction to compel disclosure of your personal information.
9. Storage outside of Canada
Your personal information may be used or stored by us or our service outside of Canada. If your personal information is used or stored outside of Canada, it will also be subject to the laws of the country in which it is used or stored.
10. How do we protect your personal information
We take administrative, technical and physical measures to safeguard your personal information against unauthorized access, unauthorized disclosure, theft and misuse. This includes limiting access to your information to authorized staff and volunteers only. Although we take precautions against possible breaches of our security systems, no institution can fully eliminate the risks of unauthorized access to your personal information and no website is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss or breaches of our security systems will never occur. Accordingly, you should not transmit personal information to us using this Website if you consider that information to be sensitive or are not prepared to accept the inherent risks of transmitting information of such a nature through the internet.
11. Links to third-party websites and social network plug-ins
You may be able to access third-party websites through links available on this Website. You may also connect to social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. These links are provided for your convenience. We do not have any control over those third-party websites and we do not provide any guarantee that the privacy practices of the hosts of those websites meet our standards. Your use of such third-party websites is at your own risk and will be governed by the privacy policies of those websites and not by this Privacy Notice.
Do not transmit personal information using those websites without reading the privacy policies governing those websites. You may create links between our website and social networking sites. If you do so, we may be able to publish updates about our services to your social network account through the links that you establish. You may terminate those links at any time by modifying your social network account.
If you are logged into a social networking site when visiting our page, your visit to this Website may be personalized based on your social networking profile. For more information, please refer to your social networking site’s privacy policy, which governs your use of these social plug-in features.