Momentum Business Law Professional Corporation (“Momentum”, “we”, “us”) is a boutique business law firm that has been designed to provide the highest quality legal solutions in the most efficient way possible. Confidentiality is a priority to us, and we use all information, especially personal information, in accordance with the highest ethical and professional standards. We are committed to protecting the personal information that we collect, use and disclose in the course of providing legal services and operating our law firm, in accordance with all applicable regulatory requirements, including applicable privacy legislation, and consistent with our professional obligations.
This Privacy Policy explains how Momentum collects, uses, and discloses the personal information that is collected through the use of the Momentum Business Law website at www.momentum.law (“Website”) as well as other collection methods, including forms, directly provided information and other communications methods.
What Personal Information Is Collected?
We collect and process different types of personal information in the course of operating our business and providing our services. The information collected may include:
- Contact information, such as name, email address and telephone number;
- Billing and account information such as billing address, bank account and payment information;
- Information relevant to a client’s legal matters and other information incidental to the provision of legal services by our firm;
- Marketing, communication preferences and related information;
- Recruitment information such as your curriculum vitae, your education and employment history, details of professional memberships, and other information relevant to potential recruitment at Momentum;
- Website usage and other technical information such as details of your visit to our websites, or information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies;
- Any other personal information provided to us.
We only collect the information that is explicitly given to us, either through your use of the website, or through any form submissions on the site, as well as through our solicitor-client relationship. We do not knowingly collect information from children or other persons who are under 16 years old.
How We Use Personal Information
Momentum collects, uses and discloses personal information for the primary purpose of providing our clients with professional legal services, including the following purposes:
- To provide legal and related services
- To administer client accounts
- To add to mailing lists we maintain for general communications, in accordance with Canada’s anti-spam legislation
- For security and emergency purposes
- To facilitate use of our websites and to ensure content is relevant
- For marketing, business development, research and development purposes
- To fulfil our legal, regulatory, or risk management obligations
Disclosure of Your Personal information
Subject to our professional obligations of confidentiality, Momentum will only disclose your personal information for purposes related to its providing services to you, with your express consent, or if required or authorized by law.
For example, we may disclose your information to:
- Third-party service providers who provide website, application development, hosting, maintenance, and other services to us;
- Law enforcement and governmental entities when required by law;
- When necessary to comply with court orders, regulatory rules (including the rules of applicable provincial law societies) or to satisfy our insurance requirements;
You should not send us any confidential information until we have confirmed in writing that we have been retained to represent or act for you or your company or organization. Any unsolicited emails sent to us from non-clients do not establish a lawyer-client relationship, and therefore, will not be privileged and may be subject to disclosure to third parties.
Protection of Your Personal Information
We recognize our professional and legal obligations to protect the confidential information of our clients. We recognize as well our legal obligations to protect the personal information we have gathered about our clients and about other individuals during the course of our practice of law.
We have therefore made arrangements to secure against the unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or destruction of personal information.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. We have policies and procedures in place to protect your personal information from loss, unauthorized modification or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is completely secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit or provide to us, and you do so at your own risk. We also cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or administrative safeguards.
Accuracy
We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate and complete. In some cases, we rely on you to ensure that certain information, such as your address or telephone number, is current, complete and accurate.
If you demonstrate the inaccuracy or incompleteness of personal information, we will amend the information as required. If appropriate, we will send the amended information to third parties to whom the information has been disclosed.
When a challenge regarding the accuracy of personal information is not resolved to your satisfaction, we will annotate the personal information under our control with a note that the correction was requested but not made.
Contact Us
For any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or collection of personal information, to exercise any applicable rights, to make a complaint, please use the address below.
Momentum Business Law Professional Corporation
320 March Road, Suite 201
Ottawa, ON K2K 2E3
Telephone: (613) 592-3939
Email: info@momentum.law
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change the content of our websites and polices without notice. We strongly encourage you to regularly visit the Privacy Policy at Momentum.law/privacy_policy for the most up to date version.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in June, 2020.