Welcome to George C. Eyre's Law Office's web site, www.law4it.com   (the "Site" or "Website"). By using the Site, you agree to follow and be bound by the following Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.  . George C. Eyre, Law Offices   ("We" or "Us") reserve the right to modify the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, and these modifications will be effective 30 days after they are posted on this Site. You agree to review this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy periodically to be aware of these modifications, and your continued use of the Site following the posting of any modified terms will be deemed to be your conclusive acceptance of the modified terms and conditions.

I Privacy Policy:

George C. Eyre, Law Offices ("George C. Eyre" or "we" or “us”), are committed to maintaining the accuracy, privacy and security of Personal Information in accordance with applicable legislation. This Privacy Policy is a statement of principles and guidelines concerning the protection of Personal Information of our clients, service providers, visitors to this Site and other individuals ("you").

Your Consent:
By submitting personal information to us, directly or indirectly, you agree that we may collect, use and disclose said personal information as specified in the Privacy Policy. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the identified purposes at any time by contacting our Privacy Officer. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with our services or information which may be of value to you. If you provide us, directly or indirectly, with personal information of another individual, you warrant and represent that you have all necessary consents from said person to enable us to collect, use and disclose such personal information for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Personal  information collected by us is protected by the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 and we follow this Act and the 10 “fair information” principles which are set out in the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information; namely, Accountability, Identifying Purposes, Consent, Limiting Collection, Limiting Use, Disclosure, and Retention, Accuracy, Safeguards, Openness Individual Access, Challenging Compliance and any questions regarding the privacy policy can be directed to our Privacy Officer. 

Who is our Privacy Officer? (Accountability)

George C. Eyre, Law Offices is responsible for personal information under its control and has designated an individual or individuals who are accountable for the organization's compliance with the following principles.   That individual is:  George C. Eyre 36 Toronto Street, Suite 850 Toronto ON M5C 2C5

For what purpose do we collect personal information from you?

We collect, use and disclose Personal Information about you in order to provide our clients with professional legal services, to establish and manage client relationships, fulfill legal duties, avoid conflicts of interest., to share Personal Information to and from third parties for the purpose of providing legal services,  to evaluate credit ratings; to establish and maintain commercial relationships with clients, suppliers and other third parties, to issue invoices, to administer accounts, to collect and process payments, and to fulfill contractual obligations; to understand and respond to client, supplier and other third party needs and preferences,  to develop and market our legal services,  to distribute our  e-mail communications, conference information and other material to individuals on our e-mail lists; to develop and manage our knowledge-management precedent systems and databases; to detect and protect  against fraud, error, negligence, breach of contract, theft and other illegal activity, and to audit compliance with our policies and contractual obligations, to comply with, any legal or regulatory requirements or provisions; and for  other purposes to which you consent.

How do we obtain your Consent?

Consent is implied where appropriate and by you agreeing to this privacy policy.

What Personal Information do we collect?

"Personal Information" is defined in applicable privacy legislation and normally does not include business contact information such as name, title or position, business address, telephone number, facsimile number or e-mail address. The types of Personal Information that we may collect includes your name, home address, telephone number, personal e-mail address, billing and account information, information about your legal issues and other information incidental to providing legal advice and services  such as information about witnesses, family members, beneficiaries, directors, officers, employees, adverse parties, parties-in-interest, investigators, decision-makers, experts, other professional advisors and our clients' business partners, investors, shareholders, competitors and customers whom are individuals.

To Whom Do We Disclose Your Personal Information?

We may disclose your Personal Information to: service providers (which may be located outside of Canada in another country such as the U.S. where your data would be subject to the laws of the U.S. such as the Patriot Act), including an organization or individual retained by us to perform functions on our behalf, such as marketing, data processing, document management and office services; an organization or individual retained by us to evaluate your creditworthiness or to collect debts outstanding on an account; a financial institution, on a confidential basis and solely in connection with the assignment of a right to receive payment, the provision of security or other financing arrangements; or a person who, in our  judgment , is providing or seeking the information as your agent; to our insurers and to regulatory agencies such as the Law Society of Upper Canada, insurers or others in connection with regulatory or other activities relating to the obligations of us and its practice of the profession of law; and any third party or parties, where you consent to such disclosure or where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

Openness:

We through this policy makes readily available to individuals specific information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

How do we limit collection?

Limiting Use, Disclosure, and Retention: Personal information shall not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the individual or as required by the law. Personal information shall be retained only as long as necessary for fulfillment of those purposes. We retain certain information as required by relevant law. For Clients, personal information is destroyed after the period required by government regulation and as required or suggested by regulatory bodies. For clients, we retain personal information for follow-up service.
 
Accuracy & How May You Obtain Access to Your Personal Information?

 Upon request to the Privacy Officer, and with appropriate identification, you shall be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and shall be given access to that information. You shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate.

How Can you Challenge Compliance?

You can contact our Privacy Officer. You have the right to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada if you think we have violated your rights.  The Commissioner can be reached at: www.priv.gc.ca Telephone:  1-800-282-1376.

What security safeguards do we use to protect your Personal Information?

Safeguards: Personal information is protected by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information. We have taken steps that are reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that personal information in our custody or control is protected against theft, loss and unauthorized use or disclosure and to ensure that the records containing the information are protected against unauthorized copying, modification or disposal. We protect all personal information, regardless of format, against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, or modification. More sensitive information will be safeguarded by a higher level of protection. The method of protection will include organizational measures, physical measure and technical measures. We take care in the disposal or destruction of personal information. We do not store some personal information online. We use industry standard firewall, encryption and password protection systems.  Our client files are stored in locked storage lockers.  Where Personal Information is sent to a third party for processing we ensure that all Personal Information is kept secure.

Privacy and Our Website

When you access the our website, we may use a browser feature called a ‘cookie' to collect information such as the type of Internet browser and operating system you use, the domain name of the website from which you came, date and duration of the visit, number of visits, average time spent on our website, pages viewed and number of cookies accumulated. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that identifies the visitor's browser, but not necessarily the visitor, to our computers each time our website is visited. Unless a visitor specifically informs us (e.g. by registering for an event or sending us correspondence from the website), we will not know who the individual visitors are. In addition to the identified purposes described in our Privacy Policy, we may use this website information and share it with other organizations that we have a commercial relationship with to measure the use of our website, to improve the functionality and content of the website and to facilitate usage by a visitor. You can reset your browser either to notify them when they have received a cookie or refuse to accept cookies. However, if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some of the features available on our website.

Online Communications – In order to provide you with a service or information, you may voluntarily submit Personal Information to us for purposes such as asking a question, making a comment, obtaining information, reviewing or downloading a publication, subscribing to a Legal newsletter or a mail or e-mail list, participating in a seminar or other event, and participating in contests and surveys. If you are known to us as a registered user of an online service, we may combine and store Personal Information about your use of our website and the online information you have provided with certain other online and offline information we may have collected.

E-mail Communications – Occasionally, we may send marketing or promotional e-mail communications to you with information that may be useful, including information about the services of us and other third parties with whom we have a relationship. In this process, we may collect certain information such as the date/time you first opened our e-mail communications, the number of times you open our e-mail communications, the number of click-throughs per article, total click-through activity on the contents of our e-mail communications and compile generally the related statistics. We may combine and store any such information to manage and improve our e-mail communications to you. We will include instructions on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if you decide you do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional e-mails from us.

Links – Our website may contain links to other websites which are provided as a convenience only. Visitors are advised that other third party websites may have different privacy policies and practices than us, and we have no responsibility for such third party websites.

Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a change to this Privacy Policy, we will post such changes on our website and make such revised policy and changes available upon request to the our Privacy Officer. However, we will obtain the necessary consents required under applicable privacy laws if it seeks to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained unless otherwise required or permitted by law.

II Terms of Use

Your access to and use of any material on this Site constitutes your acceptance of, and is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with, the following terms and conditions which may change from time to time and it is your responsibility to check for such updates.

No Lawyer - Client Relationship
No lawyer-client, advisory, fiduciary or other relationship is created by accessing or otherwise using our Site or by communicating with a lawyer by way of e-mail or through our website.

Not Legal Advice
The material provided on this Web Site is for general information purposes only. It is not intended to provide legal advice or opinions of any kind and may not be used for professional or commercial purposes. You should not act, nor refrain from acting, based solely upon the materials provided on this website, any hypertext links or other general information without first seeking appropriate legal or other professional advice. The hypertext links, search mechanisms, portals, documents and information on this website are provided for your convenience only. These materials may have no evidentiary value and should be checked against official sources before they are used for professional or commercial purposes. It is your responsibility to determine whether these materials are admissible in a given judicial or administrative proceeding and whether there are any other evidentiary or filing requirements. Your use of these materials is at your own risk.

No Warranty
While we have made reasonable efforts to ensure that the materials contained on this website are accurate, we do not warrant or guarantee: the accuracy, currency or completeness of the materials; that the website will be available without interruption, error or omission; that defects will be corrected; or that the website and the server(s) that make it available are free from viruses or other harmful components. The website and the materials provided on the website are provided "as is" and "as available" without representations, warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.

In no event shall we  be liable for any loss, cost or damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for harm to business, loss of profits, programs or data, interruption of activities or any other pecuniary or economic loss) whether direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, exemplary, consequential or otherwise arising out of any use or misuse of, or any defects, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in this site without regard to the form of action, even if we have been advised of the possibility of damages or if such damages are reasonably foreseeable.

Communications Not Confidential
We cannot not and do not guarantee the confidentiality of any communication via e-mail or its website that relates to a matter for which the firm does not already represent you. In matters that we do represent you, e-mail may not be secure.

Ontario Law Applies
The laws of the province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein shall govern use of this website and the interpretation, validity and effect of this agreement, notwithstanding any conflict of laws, provisions or your domicile, residence or physical location. You hereby consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the province of Ontario in any action or proceeding related to this website and agree not to commence any such action or proceeding except in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Reserved Rights
Copyright © 2010 George C. Eyre, Law Offices All rights reserved. Our web site contains information, communication, software (including program code that may execute on the server or that may be embedded in or downloadable from individual pages on this site), images, sounds, music, graphics, photos, videos and other materials and services (collectively, the "content").

You agree that the content and the selection, arrangement, architecture and enhancement of the content and other website features (the "website design") are protected by Canadian and international intellectual and industrial property rights, including copyrights, trade-marks and other proprietary rights. These rights are valid and protected in all media existing now or later developed, and all use of the Content or Website Design shall be in accordance with such rights and the terms of this agreement.

Users of this website are granted a limited licence to display or print its content for their own personal non-commercial use, provided the content is not modified. Any other use of the Content or the Website Design is prohibited. The Content and Website Design may not be otherwise reproduced, republished or re-disseminated in any matter or form without our prior written consent.

Linking
You may link to the front page of this website at www.law4it.com. Any other link to this website, and any linking to the pages within the site or framing of content on this site, is prohibited without our prior written consent. Any reference on this website to any product or service by trade name, trade-mark, hypertext link or otherwise is provided to you for your convenience only and does not constitute or imply its endorsement or recommendation by us. To the extent this website contains links to other websites; we do not control the availability or content of such websites. Your use of any linked websites is at your own risk.

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George C. Eyre, Law Offices provides legal services in the areas of independent contractor agreements, Computer & Internet Law, Intellectual Property such as trade marks & copyright; Employment Law (wrongful dismissal),Entertainment, Multimedia and Advertising Law; Corporate, Commercial & Business Law