Privacy Policy

Socium Law is committed to safeguarding the personal information entrusted to us by our clients.  We manage your personal information in accordance with Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act and other applicable laws. This Policy outlines the principles and practices we follow in protecting your personal information.

Personal Information

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, such as their name, home address, phone number, age, and other information that could be used to identify an individual.

We collect personal information in order to provide legal or other services to our clients. The personal information we collect may include:

  • Basic personal details, such as name, occupation, and contact information
  • Information regarding visitors to our office or attendees at our functions and events, including photographs and other audio visual content
  • Financial information
  • Information relating to a client’s legal issues
  • Information about others collected in the course of representing a client, such as directors, employees, and other parties to a transaction
  • Information that you have consented to us collecting or information that we are permitted by law to collect

Utilizing the right technology is essential to providing efficient legal services. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To provide legal and related services
  • To use collaborative technologies, whether managed internally or externally or involving cloud-based systems, in connection with your matter. Collaborative technologies may include artificial intelligence, machine learning document analysis, matter management tools, and electronic signatures
  • To conduct conflict searches
  • To fulfill our legal and professional obligations as required by applicable law societies
  • To detect negligence, fraud and theft
  • For security and emergency purposes (for visitors to our office)

We may also use your personal information to provide you with marketing and other commercial electronic messages not directly related to the services we provide you, but of matters that may be of interest to you, such as changes at Socium Law, announcement of events, developments in the law, or details about the services of third parties that we become aware of. You may opt out of any such commercial electronic messages at any time. 

We do not sell or disclose any client information, mailing lists or email lists to third parties.

Consent

By providing your personal data to us, whether by our websites, email, in person, or over the phone, you are consenting to this Policy.

We collect your personal information only as is reasonable and permitted by law. We make reasonable efforts to collect your personal information from you directly.  However, we may collect information about you from other sources such as financial institutions, government agencies and registries, other parties involved in your transaction or file, accountants or other professional advisors, and credit bureaus.

You may withdraw consent to the use and disclosure of personal information at any time unless the personal information is necessary for us to fulfill our legal and contractual obligations. Please note that withdrawing your consent may impact our ability to serve you and maintain our relationship. We may collect, use, or disclose personal information without consent as required or authorized by law.

Third Parties and Service Providers

Socium Law follows reasonable security measures to safeguard your personal information.  We may, however, disclose your personal information to third parties or service providers for the purposes of providing services to you. We have professional obligations of confidentiality and will only disclose your personal information in order to provide these services. For example, we may retain service providers to provide administrative services, such as document management, printing and photocopying, or IT services. We use reasonable measures to ensure that service providers will only use your personal information to perform the services we have specified. 

We may also share your personal information with third parties, such as our professional advisors, experts, or other individuals that we understand to be your agent.

Please note that no method of storing information is completely secure. We make no representation or warranty with respect to the security of third parties or service providers. We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information as part of our due diligence, however, by using our services you acknowledge that there is a risk that information may be lost, intercepted, or misused.

Questions and Complaints

If you have any questions or complaints about this Policy, or if you wish to withdraw your consent regarding our collection and use of your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer at:

Attention: Privacy Officer
Socium Law
Info@SociumLaw.com

Socium Law reserves the right to amend this Policy at any time without notice. We encourage you to review this Policy regularly to stay informed on how we manage personal information.