Privacy Policy

1. OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT

1.1 This Privacy Policy sets out how Law and Style Media Inc. and its subsidiaries and related bodies corporate (collectively referred to in this policy as “Law and Style”, “we” or “us”) protects the privacy of your Personal Information (as defined below) and the basis on which any Personal Information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed and disclosed by us in connection with Law and Style Media’s websites, namely lawandstyle.ca, a-list.lawandstyle.ca, and PrecedentJD.com, and any other websites or mobile applications that contain a link to this privacy policy (each a “Service”). “Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual as described under Canadian privacy laws. This information may include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number and payment information. If we combine any automatically collected information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information for so long as it is identifiable to an individual.

1.2 Law and Style is committed to ensuring that your Personal Information is collected, used and disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations (as amended or replaced from time to time) protecting the privacy of Personal Information in the jurisdictions in which we operate (“Privacy Laws”). If a Law and Style website, product or service describes privacy practices applicable to specific types of information or in certain circumstances and those descriptions conflict with this Privacy Policy, those descriptions shall supersede this Privacy Policy.

1.3 Please read the following carefully to understand Law and Style’s practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it. By using our Service or by otherwise submitting your Personal Information to us, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or withdraw your consent, you should not provide us with Personal Information or should notify us that you have withdrawn your consent by contacting us using the contact information in the “How to Contact Us” section below. However, before we implement the withdrawal of consent, we may require proof of your identity. In some cases, withdrawal of your consent may mean that we will no longer be able to provide certain products or services. Where you have submitted Personal Information about another individual to us, you must have obtained all consent required by Privacy Laws to do so.

Law and Style does not knowingly collect information from people under the age of 14 without the consent of a parent or guardian, and we do not target our products and Service to children under 13.

This Privacy Policy was last revised on the date noted above. Law and Style may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Law and Style will use reasonable endeavours to notify you in advance of any modifications to the terms of this Privacy Policy (e.g. by posting the revised policy with a new effective date and by publishing the information about such modification on its web page of the Service. 

2. THE PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT FROM YOU

2.1 The Service collects Personal Information from you in two ways: directly from your input and automatically through the Service’s technologies and your use of the Services.

(a) Personal Information you give us: The types of Personal Information the Service collects directly from you may include the following:

(i) Contact information, such as name, title, organization and/or law firm, gender and date of birth, business and/or personal address, phone number and email address;

(ii) photographs;

(iii) information about your practice and experience, such as year of call, law school, area of practice, and biography;

(iv) account information, such as username and passwords;

(v) billing address; and

(vi) payment information (e.g. credit card).

(b) Information the website and the other Services collect about you: In order to provide our Service, we collect the following information from you:

(i) Internet Protocol (“IP”) address used to connect your computer to the Internet;

(ii) computer, device and connection information, such as browser type and version, operating system, mobile platform, screen resolution, language, unique device identifier (“UDID”) and other technical identifiers;

(iii) uniform resource locator (“URL”) click stream data, including date and time, title of web page, and content you viewed or searched for on a Service; and

(iv) location information for any of our location-aware Service to provide you with more relevant content for where you are in the world.

(c) Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies: The Service may also automatically collect information through the use of cookies or similar technologies, such as web beacons. To learn more about our use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy. There are a number of ways to manage cookies. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new browser cookie, and how to disable existing browser cookies. However, if you block cookies, you may not be able to register, login or make full use of the Service. You can also use your mobile device’s settings to manage the available privacy options.

Our HTML-formatted emails may contain a web beacon or tracking pixel to tell us whether our emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links or advertisements within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting to users, to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them and to inform our advertisers in aggregate how many users have clicked on their advertisements. Web beacons and tracking pixels will be deleted when you delete the email. Emails in plain text rather than HTML will not include web beacons or tracking pixels.

(d) Credit Card Information: We do not collect, process, or store any of your payment information. We use a third-party payment processor to manage all of the payments that take place through our website, and any of our Services that you purchase are facilitated through this third-party. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using a certified technology that the third-party processor has elected to use as part of their system.

3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

3.1 Law and Style (and third party data processors who may be acting on our behalf) may use your Personal Information described above for the following purposes:

(a) to present the Service and its respective contents to you;

(b) to administer and operate the Service, including processing payments;

(c) to improve the contents of our Service, including to customize the content, advertising and/or layout of websites;

(d) conduct analytics to improve and enhance our Service;

(e) to personalize the Service and to select content to be communicated to you or to use features on the Service such as sharing content with a friend or colleague;

(f) to contact you, including through e-mail, in respect of your use of the Service or for other marketing purposes (subject to any applicable laws or regulations);

(g) to offer new products, services or programs to you, including through emails, promotions or contests (subject to any applicable laws or regulations);

(h) to prevent and detect security threats, fraud or other malicious activity;

(i) in any other way we may describe when you provide us with the Personal Information;

(j) to the extent we have a legal obligation, right or duty under the applicable law to use or disclose your information (including for crime and fraud prevention, resolving disputes, enforcing our agreements or other related purposes);

(k) to anonymize and aggregate the Personal Information for any purposes, provided that such information is no longer Personal Information under Privacy Laws; and

(l) for any other purpose with your consent.

Law and Style will only retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which your Personal Information was collected and as otherwise required under the applicable law.

4. HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

4.1 Law and Style may share your Personal Information that it collects from you or that you provide to Law and Style with selected third parties for the following purposes:

(a) to operate and provide the Service or any other purposes as set out in paragraph 3.1 above; and

(b) to enforce or apply any agreements between us and you, or to investigate potential breaches of such agreements.

4.2 Law and Style may share your Personal Information with, without limitation:

(a) business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance, or their assistance with, of any contract we enter into with them or you; and

(b) companies that provide statistical analysis services to us.

4.3 If we provide your information to service providers, Law and Style will ensure that such third parties who have received Personal Information from us will maintain a comparable level of protection of the Personal Information as set out in this Privacy Policy by using contractual or other means. We do not authorize service providers to disclose your Personal Information to unauthorized parties or to use your Personal Information for their direct marketing purposes. If you would like more information about our service providers, please contact us using the contact information in the “How to Contact Us” section below.

4.4 Law and Style may also disclose Personal Information: (i) to comply with any applicable laws, regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders or subpoenas, including those outside your country of residence; (ii) to enforce or apply any agreements between us and you; (iii) to protect Law and Style’s rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of other users of the Service or others (e.g., for fraud protection etc.); (iv) or to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain (iv) to resolve any disputes.

4.5 In the event that a third party proposes to acquire all or some of our business and/or assets, we may disclose your Personal Information to that third party in connection with their proposed or actual acquisition. In the event that we become insolvent or we are in any similar situation, we may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties as part of a business or asset sale carried out where such disclosure is lawful and compliant with the applicable laws.

4.6 If we otherwise intend to disclose your Personal Information to a third party, we will identify that third party and the purpose for the disclosure and obtain your consent.

5. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF DATA

5.1 Law and Style may transfer your Personal Information to our affiliates in order to provide the Service. We may transfer your Personal Information to third parties located in Canada or the United States of America or other countries in connection with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Other jurisdictions may have different data protection rules than Canada.  While your Personal Information is outside of Canada, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is located.  Those laws may require disclosure of your Personal Information to authorities in that country. For written information about our policies and practices regarding service providers outside of Canada, contact our Privacy Information Officer at the email address below in the section “How to Contact Us”.

By submitting your Personal Information, you consent to the transfer, disclosure, storage and/or processing of your Personal Information outside of your jurisdiction.

6. INFORMATION SECURITY

Law and Style has in place security measures to store all Personal Information collected and received securely. We use appropriate technical, organizational, contractual, administrative and physical measures to protect your Personal Information  that we hold against accidental and unlawful damage, deletion, misuse, copying, loss, theft and unauthorized access, use or alteration. 

Despite the measure outlined above, no method of information transmission or information storage is 100% secure or error-free, so we unfortunately cannot guarantee absolute security.  If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any information that you provided to us has been compromised), please contact us immediately using the contact information in the “How to Contact Us” section below.

7. YOUR RIGHTS

7.1 You have the right to, at any time, ask us not to process or share your Personal Information for marketing-related purposes (even where you have previously given consent). Law and Style will inform you (before collecting your Personal Information) if it intends to use your Personal Information for such purposes or if Law and Style intends to disclose your Personal Information to any third party for such purposes (subject to obtaining your prior consent).

7.2 You have the right to access details of your Personal Information that we hold about you by written request and we will provide you with any such Personal information to the extent required by Privacy Laws. You may also challenge the accuracy and completeness of your Personal Information in our records and request correction or rectification of such Personal Information, if the Applicable Laws allows you to do so. If you successfully demonstrate that your personal information in our records is inaccurate or incomplete, we will amend the personal information as required. We may require that you provide sufficient identification to fulfill your request to access or correct your personal information.  Any such identifying information will be used only for this purpose.

7.3 You may choose to no longer receive communications from us. You may unsubscribe to any email from us using the instructions in the email you receive; this will not stop us from sending emails about your account or transactions with us or other information required for your use of the Service.

7.4 You also have the right to change your mind about consenting to the use, disclosure and transfer of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy by contacting us in the “How to Contact Us” section below. If you withdraw your consent for Law and Style to process your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Law and Style may not be able to provide you with our entire Service.

7.5 You may make a complaint about our privacy practices. We will consider any complaints we receive and respond to your complaint within a reasonable period of time and as required by Applicable Laws. You also may lodge a complaint about the treatment of your Personal Information with the supervisory authority located in your jurisdiction, if the Applicable Laws allow you to do so.

7.6 You can exercise your rights as described in this Privacy Policy or under Applicable Laws above by contacting us as set out in the “How to Contact Us” section below. 

8. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not extend to any websites or products or services provided by third parties.  We do not assume responsibility for the privacy practices of such third parties, and we encourage you to review all third party privacy policies prior to using third party websites or products or services.

9. HOW TO CONTACT US

9.1 Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices are welcomed and should be addressed to:

Melissa Kluger, Privacy Officer
Law and Style Media Inc.
2 Berkeley Street, Suite 205.
Toronto, ON M5A 4J5 or
privacy@precedentmagazine.com