Privacy Policy
Last update: May 12, 2025
Lawyers have a professional duty to keep all information received in the context of a lawyer-client relationship confidential. Strachan Family Law recognizes the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information provided in a legal context. By retaining the legal services of Strachan Family Law and providing personal information,, you are agreeing to the collection and use of personal information in accordance with this Policy.
This Privacy Policy may be updated, reviewed, and changed from time to time. The date of this Policy's last update is found at the top of this page.
The requirement for a Privacy Policy
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to lawyers and law firms. Lawyers also have professional obligations that arise from the nature of the lawyer-client relationship. This Policy explains how Strachan Family Law gathers, stores, uses, and discloses personal information.
What is personal information?
Personal information is defined in PIPEDA. It is any information about an individual, such as age, identification numbers, income, ethnic origin, credit or banking information, employee records, medical records, and any information relevant to the issue for which we have been retained.
Why would Strachan Family Law collect, store, and disclose personal information?
The nature of provided legal services requires the collection of certain personal information for reasons such as understanding your legal needs, effectively representing you as a client, maintaining correct contact information, meeting regulatory requirements, and communicating with you about our services and legal advice.
Clients should keep personal information up to date and inform Strachan Family Law promptly of any changes.
What kinds of personal information does Strachan Family Law collect?
Strachan Family Law collects the personal information required to provide legal services. This information could be about you as a client but may also be about other individuals that are involved or connected to the legal matter.
Personal information is collected in the ordinary course of representing a client. This includes directly from a client but may also include other lawful means like an insurance company, a real estate agent, a government agency, an accountant, etc.
Typically, an individual is asked to consent to our collection, use or disclosure of personal information that is outside of the course of ordinary representation of a client. This consent can be verbal, electronic, written, or through an authorized representative, or may be implied through the individual’s conduct. Individuals can also withdraw consent with reasonable notice and subject to legal and contractual restrictions.
How does Strachan Family Law use personal information?
Personal information is used to provide legal advice and services to clients, perform accounting, and marketing. Individuals can withdraw consent from receiving marketing materials at any time and will thereafter not receive any further materials.
When does Strachan Family Law disclose personal information?
Strachan Family Law discloses personal information when required by law or professional ethics to do so, when consent has been provided, when the legal services that are being provided requires the disclosure, when necessary to establish or collect fees, when we engage an expert or other individual on the client’s behalf, if the information is already public, or if Strachan Family Law were to merge or join another firm. Personal information can also be provided to a consult, subcontractor, or professional advisor who assists in the uses previously listed.
Disclosure may also be required by law enforcement or other legal requirements, including to protect Strachan Family Law against legal liability, protect Strachan Family Law’s rights or property, or protect the public.
How Does Strachan Family Law protect personal information?
No method of information storage is ever 100% secure. There are risks to email communication or cloud-based storage. We strive to use secure and commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Strachan Family Law does not disclose personal information to third parties for the purposes of marketing without consent.
Can clients access their own personal information stored by Strachan Family Law?
Individuals may ask for access to any personal information we hold about them. Summary information is available on request. More detailed requests which require archive or other retrieval costs may be subject to our normal professional and disbursement fees.
An individual’s right to access their personal information is not absolute. We may deny access when, for example, denial of access is required or authorized by law. We will explain any denial of a request for access to, or refuse a request to correct information.
How is personal information retained, deleted, or transferred by Strachan Family Law?
Personal data is retained for as long as necessary to comply with legal and ethical obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Personal data may be stored, transferred to, or maintained on computers or servers located outside of your jurisdiction where the data laws may differ. Your consent to this Privacy Policy and your transmission of personal information to us represents your agreement to such transfer(s).
You can request that we assist in deleting the personal information that Strachan Family Law has about you. You may do so yourself within the client portal, or request that we delete or modify your personal information. However, we may have to retain certain information even if you request to delete it, when you have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
For Website Visitors
This website is hosted by Wix. Wix collects personal data when you visit this website, including: information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address.
Wix needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Wix analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including: information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address.
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visite, scrolling, searches, and timestamps.
We share this information with Wix, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies
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• These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Wix, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Fonts
This website may use font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
• Information about your browser, network, or device
• Your IP address
Questions or concerns?
If you wish to access your personal information, have any questions or concerns, or complaints about Strachan Family Law’s Privacy Policy or management of your personal information, please contact megan@strachanfamilylaw.ca or 226-228-0598.