Pathway Legal's Privacy Policy

General Information

Essential reading for all visitors to www.pathwaylegal.ca

Your Privacy

Just like you, we are sensitive to the data that the online world around us collects so, for anyone visiting the site we have prepared this statement because we know your privacy matters.

This page outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use PathwayLegal.ca, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information.

We hope this will help you make an informed decision, because we have not and will never share personal information about you. If you sign up for our newsletter, we are honoured that you did so, for example, and we realize your email address is sharing personal information with us. That is why, if you still have a question after reading here, do not hesitate to contact us via this page.

You will find any relevant Legal Info here.

The California Consumer Privacy Act

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018, creates new consumer rights relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of personal information that is collected by businesses. You can find a fuller explanation here about the law and how it may affect you. 

We are told that we have to mention the California Consumer Privacy Act and adhere to it. So, in the interest of being able to help you with the information on this site, we are complying. 

We have not sold and will never sell any personal information about you. 

If you have concerns about your information being sold, please contact us via our contact page.

Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

COOKIES

A cookie is a string of information that PathwayLegal.ca stores on your computer, which your browser provides to PathwayLegal.ca each time you return to the site. We use these cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences. And as we said, even if we have this information, we will never sell it to anyone.

WEB BEACONS

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites.

They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.

We never offer 3rd party advertisements on this site. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to anyone for cookie or web beacon use, so you cannot personally be identified with information on our web site.

Your privacy is important.

Google Analytics Cookies

PathwayLegal.ca uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website.

Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

PathwayLegal.ca uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information about you is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

In order to undertake a year to year comparison on any data collected by Google Analytics, I have set my Data Retention settings at Google Analytics to 50 months, after which Google will automatically delete the data.

What if You Don't want your data to be collected via Google Analytics?

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on. This link to Google provides the steps to take: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Do remember that you might not receive the full benefits of the site if you disable cookies.

Advertising Cookies, Amazon or Affiliate Products

There are no advertisements or ad-related cookies for 3rd party services on this site. 

Data Collection

Data is collected for payment and communication purposes. By clicking on an offer or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined on the privacy pages linked below.

SiteSell

Wistia

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse the cookies from PathwayLegal.ca, you might not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

PathwayLegal.ca may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate the site.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service.To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize your user experience.
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
• To improve our site.
• To improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

PathwayLegal.ca may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

• Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will ask for your best email address.
• If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.
• If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you. 
• If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.
• If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number using our payment application. We will not, however, be able to or want to access your credit card number for any other purpose.
• PathwayLegal.ca may also use Facebook commenting. Facebook stores all of your comments and may show them on your timeline, depending on your Facebook settings.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Social Platforms

You will see and may have used Facebook connected to this site. When you click on it or leave a comment, your browser sends data about how you have used the site. 

Should you wish to prevent this platform from collecting data, please view their individual policies. Note, to prevent Facebook from collecting data you will need to log out of your Facebook account while using the site.

Facebook

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Use of SMS

Pathway Legal will sometimes use SMS to update and communicate with clients.  These are specific texts relating to thei matter and not general marketing emails. The details are:

• Opt-Out Rights:
  You have the right to Opt Out of any SMS communication with Pathway Legal.  "You have the right to opt out of receiving SMS messages from us at any time. To opt out, reply 'STOP' to any message you receive from us, or contact us directly through our contact page.
• Mobile Information Sharing:
  Pathway Legal does not share any mobile information collected through SMS registration for marketing purposes.
• Data Sharing Transparency:
  Consumer data is not shared for any purpose
• Data Security Measures: 
  At Pathway Legal, we are committed to safeguarding client confidentiality and ensuring the secure handling of all personal and sensitive information. We have implemented the following measures to prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of user data:

1. Encryption & Secure Transmission
   * Where available, secure communication channels, such as encrypted email and messaging services, are used to protect sensitive information.
   
   
2. Access Controls & Authentication
   * Access to client data is strictly limited to authorized personnel based on role-specific permissions.
   * Regular access reviews ensure that only necessary personnel maintain access to client data.
   
   
3. Data Handling & Storage
   * Data minimization principles are followed to collect, use, and retain only the information necessary for legal services.
   
   
4. Monitoring Policies and Requirements
   * We stay up to date with updates to the legal requirements covering maintenance of sensitive data.
   * Internal policies are reviewed periodically to ensure compliance with evolving security standards and legal requirements.
   
   
5. Employee Training & Confidentiality
   * All staff members undergo regular training on data privacy, cybersecurity best practices, and compliance with legal and ethical obligations.
   * Strict confidentiality agreements are in place for all employees, contractors, and third-party service providers handling client data.
   

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16.

We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site.

We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell PathwayLegal.ca, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue.

In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

Some information is also collected by third-party services. These include VideoDriven and Wistia.

Wistia Privacy Policy (The videos you watch on this site.)

VideoDriven Privacy Policy (The videos you watch on this site.)

Data Storage as it relates to video viewing

This website uses Wistia (https://wistia.com) to power its videos.

Wistia tracks non personally identifiable information when you view a video. This includes how you interact with the videos on this site: how much of a video you watch, at what points in a video you pause or rewind, etc.

Identifiable information may be collected if we pause the video and request that you provide your email address or name. 

You are under no obligation to provide this information, but we reserve the right to limit certain videos to identified users. Wistia aggregates the data collected through the videos here, including names and email addresses, and provides it to us. Wistia does not sell or provide the data it collects to third parties.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click on this link. 

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link. 

Updates and Effective Date

PathwayLegal.ca might make changes to this policy and reserves the right to do so. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy for PathwayLegal.ca, as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

January 1, 2024