Options for personal information

When you sign up for our newsletter that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different from the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices unless we have obtained your express consent.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices unless we have obtained your prior consent.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Whitten & Lublin may not be able to provide those services to you.

• Who are the recipients of your data?

  Your data will be used by authorized employees and agents of Whitten & Lublin when necessary for carrying out the above listed purposes.

• Security

  Whitten & Lublin will implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security regarding the risk incurred and protect your personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

•  What are your rights? How can you exercise them?

  Whitten & Lublin makes good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct, or delete users’ personal information.

• What are your rights?

  Under applicable privacy laws in Canada, you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data. Those rights are outlined here: Privacy Laws in Canada.

• How long will your personal data be retained?

  We will retain your personal information in a form that identifies you only for as long as doing so serves the purposes for which the information was initially collected as stated in this privacy policy, or as subsequently authorized. We may continue processing your personal information for longer periods, but only for the time and to the extent such processing reasonably serves the purposes of archiving in the public interest, journalism, literature and art, scientific or historical research and statistical analysis, and subject to the protection of this Privacy Policy. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

• Enforcement

  Whitten & Lublin periodically reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or Whitten & Lublin’ treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Whitten & Lublin and an individual.

• “Do Not Track” signals

  Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals.

• Changes to this policy
  
  Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will post any Policy changes on this page and provide notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Policy in an archive for your review.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this website or at:

Whitten & Lublin
141 Adelaide St. West,
Suite 1100 Toronto, ON, M5H 3L5