Privacy Policy

Carla M. Courtenay Law Corporation (“Carla Courtenay”) is committed to maintaining the security, confidentiality and privacy of personal information. We use our best efforts to protect the privacy of visitors to this web site.

Purposes

Carla Courtenay only gathers personal information when voluntarily submitted by you. Personal information may be collected from you in order to get your feedback on this web site and our services. Personal information may be collected from you in order to respond to your enquiries. As part of providing legal services, we collect, use and disclose personal information for purposes authorized or required by applicable privacy legislation or other law and for the following purposes:

• To provide legal advice and perform legal services;
• To establish and maintain client and supplier relationships, which may include evaluating credit standing and obtaining and providing credit information and credit reports;
• To fulfill legal duties and avoid conflicts of interest;
• To share information with third parties for the purpose of providing legal services, including data service providers, printers, registry agents, other suppliers of products and services, opposing counsel, foreign counsel, witnesses and experts;
• To manage and develop our business and operations;
• To protect this firm, yourself and others from error, negligence, fraud, or other illegal activity, which may include providing information to insurers;
• To provide information to anyone working with or for this firm as needed for the provision of our services;
• To issues invoices, process payments and collect debts owed to us;
• To comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

Sales of Personal Information

Carla Courtenay does not sell personal information to third parties.

Security of Personal Information

Carla Courtenay takes all reasonable steps to ensure the security of your personal information. Access is restricted to those involved in any request for which you have provided your personal information, or as otherwise required by the nature of our legal services, applicable law or Court Rules. We recognize our professional and legal obligations to protect the confidential information of our clients. We recognize as well our legal obligation to protect the personal information we have gathered about our clients and about other individuals during the course of our practice of law. However, confidentiality and security are not assured when information is transmitted through e mail or other electronic communication. We will not be responsible for any loss or damage as a result of a breach of security and/or confidentiality when you transmit information to us by e mail or other electronic communication or when we transmit such information by such means at your request.

Access

You are in control of any personal information you provide to us. If at any time, you would like to correct the personal information we have about you or if you would like to change your preferences for contacts from us, please advise us. In order to review any personal information we have about you or to ask us to delete that information or to stop further use of the information, please contact us. Upon request, we will furnish you with the position, name or title and contact information for an employee of Carla Courtenay who is able to answer your questions. Full access to information we have stored in the normal and ordinary course of our legal practice may require your payment of our reasonable account for retrieval costs.

Consent

We will obtain your consent to collect, use or disclose personal information except where we are required by law to do so without consent. For example, we may collect, use or disclose personal information without your knowledge or consent where we are collecting or paying a debt; or where it is reasonable to expect that obtaining consent would compromise an investigation or proceeding. Your consent may be express, implied or provided through an authorized representative. It may also be provided orally, in writing, electronically, through inaction, or otherwise. By providing personal information to us, you agree that we may collect, use and disclose such personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy and as otherwise permitted or required by law. You may withdraw consent, subject to legal or contractual restrictions, and at any time. Reasonable notice of withdrawal of consent must be given to Carla Courtenay. On such notice, we may be unable to provide services for which that information is necessary.

Cookies

Carla Courtenay does not use cookies (small pieces of data which are stored on your computer to allow your web browser to remember something about a web site.)

Links to Other Sites

We may offer links to sites that are not operated by Carla Courtenay. If you visit one of these linked sites, you should review their privacy and other policies. We are not responsible for the policies and practices of third parties.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

From time to time, it may be necessary for Carla Courtenay to change this privacy policy, so we suggest that you check here periodically. Any changes will not be retroactively applied and will not alter how we handle previously collected information.

Carla Courtenay Law Office
Barristers & Solicitors
Suite 501, 815 Hornby St.
Vancouver, BC
V6Z 2E6

Phone: (604) 682-2200
Fax: (604) 682-2246