ACCESSLAWYER.CA PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

This notice applies to all information collected from or submitted to Access Professional Directories Inc., the Accesslawyer.ca Web site located at www.accesslawyer.ca and any other affiliates from time to time in respect of activities that are subject to federal and provincial privacy legislation. References to Access Professional Directories Inc., “we” or “us” in this policy include Access Professional Directories Inc., Accesslawyer.ca and any other affiliates from time to time. Accesslawyer.ca shall also be referred to as “our Web site”. Our Web site contains links to other Web sites operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of such third-party web sites.

The Information We Collect

At the date of creation of this privacy & security policy, our Web site is not set up to automatically collect personally-identifiable information from visitors to our Web site. It does recognize the home server of visitors, but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell which Internet Service Provider our visitors use, but not the names, addresses or other information about our visitors that would allow us to identify the particular visitors to our Web site. The server information is used only for internal purposes.

Our Web site does track certain non-personally-identifiable information about the visits to our Web site. For example, we may compile aggregate statistics that show the numbers and frequency of visitors to our Web site and its individual pages. These aggregated statistics are used internally to improve our Web site and for product development and marketing purposes generally. The aggregated non-personal statistics may also be provided to advertisers and other third parties for certain purposes, but again, the statistics contain no personally-identifiable information and cannot be used to gather such information.

In a few areas on our Web site, we may ask you to provide personally-identifiable information that will enable us to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain information, materials and services available from our Web site; to enable us to enhance your site visit; to assist you with customer service or technical support issues; to follow up with you after your visit; or to otherwise support your customer relationship with Accesslawyer.ca. Your provision of this information and participation in the areas that require it is completely optional. You may decide not to provide the information and not to visit or access the areas that require it.

For example, we may request such information from you when you:

1. Register or sign-up to subscribe to a service.

2. Subscribe to a newsletter or ask to be added to our mailing lists for other products or services.

3. Place an order for a product or service.

4. Participate in a sweepstakes or other promotional offer.

5. Provide feedback.

In each of the instances above, we typically ask for some or all of the following information: your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address, website, contact information, legal experience and background, the type of business you are in, as well as other similar information that is needed to register or subscribe you to our services. On occasion, we may ask for additional information to enable us to provide you with access to and use of certain other information, materials and services.

How We Use Information We use your personal information only for specific purposes. The personal information you provide to us when using our Web site -- such as your personal residence, private e-mail, will be kept strictly confidential and used to support your customer relationship with our web site. It also may be used to notify you of special offers, updated information and new products and services from our web site, or offers from third parties that we think may be of interest to you. Agents or contractors of our web site who are given access to your personal information will be required to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for our web site.

We may merge your information collected at our Web site with similar data from third parties for purposes of marketing products or services to you. Regarding lawyers listing in our web site’s directory, information shared with our web site when registering, other than personal information, such as your law firm name, experience, practice areas, sub-practice areas, etc. will be posted in your profile section and available for all users and visitors of the site to see so as to help you market yourself, hence the intention of our Website.

Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique ‘cookie’ on your browser. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Other unique circumstances may arise where we are required to disclose your personal information to third parties, such as in connection with a corporate divestiture or dissolution where all or a portion of our business or assets (including our associated customer lists containing your personal information) are sold, or if disclosure is required by law or is pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations or proceedings.

You can opt-out of receiving marketing materials from our web site at any time. We may send you information about our various products and services, or other products and services we feel may be of interest to you. Only Accesslawyer.ca (or agents or contractors working on behalf of Accesslawyer.ca and under confidentiality agreements) are authorized to send you these direct mailings. If you do not want to receive such mailings, at any time you can opt-out of receiving further marketing materials from Accesslawyer.ca by emailing us at accesslawyer@gmail.com

Posting Articles
As a registered lawyer, you will have the option of posting legal articles on Our Website. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas is not protected as confidential and becomes public information. You are solely responsible and should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information in these areas.

Security
Our Website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. We do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees, agents or contractors who need the information to perform a specific job (for example our customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, To prevent unauthorized access to your personal information, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place what we are advised to be appropriate physical physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information we collect online. Transmitting information via the internet, however, is never completely secure; any information submitted may be intercepted, collected, used or disclosed by others.

How To Contact Us If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices, please write or e-mail us at the following address:

Access Professional Directories Inc.
3000 Bathurst Street, Suite 1201
Toronto, Ontario
M6B 3B4
Canada


Phone : 1-866-491-5833

Fax : 1-866-491-5833

E-mail : accesslawyer@gmail.com