PRIVACY POLICY

Method Law Professional Corporation is a firm that specializes in intellectual property law with an office in Toronto. Since January 1, 2004, all Canadian organizations engaged in commercial activities have been required to comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”). If you provide us with your email address, we may use your contact information (name, email and postal address) so that we may communicate with you about recent developments in the law, keep you abreast of Method Law Professional Corporation news, information about our services and invite you to our firm events, unless you advise us that you do not want such information. You can ask us not to send you marketing communications by contacting us by e-mail at mail@methodlaw.ca

ACCESS, QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS
If you wish to access any of your personal information held by Method Law Professional Corporation, have further questions about your personal information and/or Method Law Professional Corporation’s Privacy Policy or procedures, wish to withdraw all or part of your personal information, or have other concerns, please contact:
Andrea Long, Manager of Privacy Compliance, at mail@methodlaw.ca, (416) 847-0054 ext. 223. If any inquiry or concern is not handled to your complete satisfaction, you may contact: Privacy Commissioner of Canada, 112 Kent Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1H3, 514.873.4196, Toll free: 1.800.282.1376

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have a right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of your personal information and to have it amended, as appropriate. You also have a right to request access to your personal information and receive an accounting of how that information has been used and disclosed, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. For example, if the requested information would reveal personal information about another individual, your request for access may be limited or denied. If your request for access is denied, Method Law Professional Corporation will notify you in writing of the reason for the denial. To request access or to amend your personal information, please contact our Manager of Privacy Compliance using the contact information above. Method Law Professional Corporation will respond within thirty (30) days of receipt of your written request.

CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE
Method Law Professional Corporation will respond to inquiries about its policies and practices relating to its handling of your personal information. Inquiries should be directed to our Manager of Privacy Compliance using the contact information above. Method Law Professional Corporation will investigate all complaints and will respond within 30 days of receipt of a written inquiry. If the complaint is found to be justified, Method Law Professional Corporation will take appropriate measures to resolve it, including, if necessary, amending this Policy and its procedures.

WEBSITE PRIVACY
Like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information to optimize your visit to our website. Our website server will automatically collect IP addresses. We may view the IP log from time to time, for example, to maintain the security of our website. We do not link the IP addresses to other personally identifiable information. By contacting Method Law Professional Corporation using an email address provided on its website, your personal information will be collected for the sole purpose of responding to your email. You should be aware that we do not use “cookies”, which are small files containing information about your visit to our website. For your security, if you do not wish cookies to be used on other websites recommended or suggested by Method Law Professional Corporation, your browser’s options can be set to refuse cookies or to delete any cookies already stored on your computer.

Safeguards
Method Law Professional Corporation uses various safeguards to ensure that our clients’ personal information is protected against loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying or alteration. These include: security of our physical premises; our professional obligations; security software and firewalls to prevent unauthorized computer access; and internal passwords that restrict access to our electronic files.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and as such you may wish to revisit this page to ensure that you are aware of our most recent policy.