Privacy Policy
Hathaway Legal Inc. (“Hathaway” Legal) is committed to protecting the personal information that it collects, uses and discloses in the course of providing legal services and operation our law firm, in accordance with all applicable regulatory requirements, including applicable privacy legislation, and consistent with our professional obligations.. As practicing lawyers, we have professional and ethical obligations to maintain information we have received within our client relationships in confidence. This Privacy Policy supplements our professional obligations of client confidentiality and sets out in general terms how we collect, use, disclose and protect the personal information of our clients, other individuals and our web site users (collectively “you”).
Accountability
Hathaway Legal is responsible under applicable privacy legislation for the personal information in our possession or control. This includes personal information we receive directly, such as from individual clients or other individuals, and personal information we receive indirectly from clients or others. We have established policies and procedures with the objective of protecting personal information and have appointed an Officer to oversee privacy matters for our firm. This Officer can be reached at info@hathwaylegal.com
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
The types of personal information we may collect about you include your name and home contact information, billing and account information, information relevant to a client’s legal matters and other information incidental to the provision of legal advice and services by our firm.
Please note that all email addresses collected from our website by online forms that you fill out are added to our mailing list. Multiple staff members at Hathaway may receive the personal information provided on such forms.
We may also collect from you personal information about directors, officers and employees of a client or other party, witnesses, beneficiaries, family members, adverse parties or parties-in-interest, and information about shareholders, security-holders, investors, potential investors or buyers, business partners, targets, competitors or customers of clients, individuals, clients, pension plan members, or other parties who are individuals.
Before providing us with the above, you confirm that you have the knowledge and consent to the disclosure and use by us of other individuals’ personal information.
Our Purposes for Collecting, Using or Disclosing Personal Information
Hathaway Legal collects, uses and discloses personal information. for the primary purpose of providing our clients with professional legal services and representation, including for the following purposes:
to establish and manage client relationships, provide legal advice, perform legal services, fulfill legal duties, and avoid legal conflicts of interest;
to share personal information with third parties for the purpose of providing legal services in the context of legal proceedings, including conducting litigation, arbitrations, mediations or other proceedings. Such third parties may include opposing parties, parties in interest, opposing, foreign and other counsel and advisors, witnesses, courts, adjudicators, arbitrators, other decision-makers and experts;
to represent clients in the context of business transactions involving the exchange or disclosure of personal information, including by purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation, arrangement or any other type of acquisition, dispassion, public offering, securitization, investment, financing or other transaction;
to establish and maintain commercial relationships with clients, suppliers and other third parties, including to issue invoices, administer accounts, collect and process payments, evaluate credit standing, and to fulfill contractual obligations;
to contact and communicate with clients and other individuals for the purpose of conducting market research, and evaluating client service and satisfaction;
to distribute our publications and invitations to events to individuals who subscribe to our mailing lists;
to maintain, develop and manage our document management, knowledge-management and precedent
systems and databases;to consider the admission of individuals as employees and members of the firm;
to develop and manage our business and operations;
to detect and protect against error, negligence, breach of contract, fraud, and other illegal activity, and where necessary to meet our insurance requirements; and
as permitted by, and to comply with, applicable legal or regulatory requirements or provisions.
Miscellaneous
Hathaway agrees to act on behalf of the customer, exclusively for the purposes of the provision of Services previously limited by the specific (package) program subscribed.
Hathaway declares to be bound in its name and that of its lawyers by the Code of ethics of advocates, the rules of the Quebec Bar, and all other laws or regulations to applicable to the contractual relationship herein.
Hathaway on its behalf and on behalf of its representatives is committed to act with loyalty and transparently, in the interest of his client, and in accordance with the customs and practices of the legal profession.
Upon subscription of a Service, Hathaway will keep the Client's file according to its internal rules, as well as all the information provided, in its servers to be used internally and this all along the contractual relationship between the Parties. Beyond the service delivered, Hathaway is authorized to keep or destroy the customer’s electronic file unless notified by the later. Hathaway will not withhold or require the customer’s original document. The customer is responsible for all the original documents contained in his legal file.
Hathaway commits to respecting the privacy and confidentiality of all the customer’s personal information. All conversations between the Client and a representative of Hathaway can be saved for quality control purposes and to meet the Code of ethics of advocates. Such information provided by the customer to the representative of Hathaway enjoy the protection of the law on the protection of personal information (Canada) and of professional secrecy.
Hathaway cannot share this information with third parties without the express consent of the customer or as required by the law.