Privacy Policy
Pelud Immigration (“Law Firm”) values your privacy and is dedicated to safeguarding your personal information it under this Policy. We will adhere to this Policy when gathering, storing, and using your personal information unless obligated by applicable law to do otherwise.
Personal Information
The term "personal information" encompasses any data related to a natural person that permits their identification. During your interactions with the Law Firm, you may be asked to provide personal information concerning yourself and/or other individuals (e.g., family members, employees). Examples of such information include names, dates of birth, residency status, citizenship, phone numbers, passport information, driver's license data, and other details relevant to the provision of legal services by the Law Firm.
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Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
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Pelud Immigration offers and provides legal services and information to a wide range of clients. We collect, use, and disclose personal information as necessary to offer and provide clients and potential clients with these legal services and information and generally to fulfill our professional legal responsibilities and manage our business. As lawyers, we have a professional obligation to keep confidential all information we obtain within a lawyer-client relationship.
We collect, use, and disclose personal information for the purposes outlined at the time of collection or as allowed or required by applicable law. These purposes include:
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Providing legal services.
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Complying with our professional obligations, including client identification and verification rules.
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Establishing and managing client relationships, including assessing whether to establish such relationships.
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Responding to inquiries made through the Website and ensuring appropriate follow-ups.
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Sending updates on immigration law and our services.
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Administrative, management, and business operations, such as issuing invoices, managing accounts, processing payments.
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Any purposes for which you have granted consent.
Consent
By sharing your personal information with Pelud Immigration, you agree to our collection, utilization, and disclosure of this information, as outlined in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with legal requirements.
Additionally, if you provide us with another individual's personal information, you confirm that you possess the necessary authority and have obtained their consent to allow us to gather, use, and disclose their personal information as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
Withdrawal of consent
You have the right to decline or revoke your consent for specific purposes, subject to legal and contractual obligations, and you can do so by contacting us at any time. To do so, please contact our privacy officer identified below. However, please be aware that revoking or withdrawing your consent may affect our ability to provide certain services or valuable information to you.
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Information we collect about you
We collect and use various types of information from and about you, including:
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Contact information such as name, physical address, email address, and telephone number.
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Biographical information, such as date and place of birth, citizenship status, marital status, occupation, job titles, employer names.
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Bank account or credit card data necessary for the processing of payments.
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Other personal information relevant to any legal service we have been asked to provide. For example, if we are retained to obtain an U.S. entry waiver due to a prior criminal conviction, we will collect information about the offences and related criminal history.
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Website usage and technical information, including details of website visits and information collected through cookies.
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Any other personal information provided by you.
Please note that providing personal information through our Website does not establish a lawyer-client relationship. However, signing an "Engagement Letter" with the Law Firm does establish such a relationship.
Limitation
The Law Firm strives to limit the collection of personal information to what is necessary and appropriate for the stated purpose of our mandate. We will not utilize or disclose your personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected unless you provide consent, or such use or disclosure is permitted or mandated by applicable law.
How we collect personal information about you
We employ various methods to collect your personal information, including:
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Direct interactions with you, where you provide information by completing Law Firm questionnaires, filling out forms online, or corresponding with us via phone or email, and other interactions.
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Automated technologies or interactions as you navigate our Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and data obtained through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
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Third parties or publicly available sources.
How we use your information
We may use the information collected about you to:
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Provide legal and other services as part of conducting our business, administering, and performing our services, and fulfilling obligations arising from agreements between you and the Law Firm.
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Respond to information requests or inquiries from Website visitors.
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Enhance the Website's usability and ensuring content is presented effectively for your device.
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Devise marketing and business development campaigns to inform individuals who have chosen to receive updates on new services, legal updates, newsletters, etc.
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Meet legal, regulatory, and risk management obligations.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information:
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To third parties in the context of providing legal services, this may include government authorities, contractors, service providers, and other third parties (i.e. translators, foreign educational evaluators, etc.) who support the Law Firm and are contractually obliged to maintain the confidentiality of personal information.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provided the personal information.
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For any other purpose disclosed when you provided the information.
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With your consent.
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To comply with court orders, laws, or legal processes, including government or regulatory requests per applicable law.
The Law Firm never sells or exchanges personal information it holds for consideration.
Third-party Service Providers
When the Company employs third-party service providers to store, handle, or process personal information on our behalf (e.g., data storage, cloud computing), we use contracts and other measures to ensure a comparable level of protection while the information is in their care. Our service providers are contractually obligated to safeguard your personal information and are not permitted to disclose it to others. Some service providers may store your personal information in other countries, and access may be granted to legal authorities under certain circumstances as required by law.
Security and storage of data
Protecting the security of your personal information is of utmost importance to us.
We operate secure data networks protected by industry-standard firewalls and password protection systems, employing security safeguards customary in the legal profession and appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
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Unfortunately, internet transmission is not entirely secure, and while we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information during transmission. Any transmission of personal information via the Internet is at your own risk. The Law Firm is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures by third parties during transmission.
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The Law Firm may store your personal information at its office in Canada or elsewhere.
Data retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, unless otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation. This includes meeting legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under certain circumstances, we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for legitimate business purposes without additional notice or your consent.
Privacy & our website: cookies
When an individual visitor accesses the Pelud Immigration website, we may use a browser feature called a ‘cookie' to collect information such as the type of Internet browser and operating system the visitor uses, the domain name of the website from which the visitor came, date and duration of the visit, number of visits, average time spent on our website, pages viewed, and number of cookies accumulated.
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A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that identifies the visitor's browser, but not necessarily the visitor, to our computers each time our website is visited. Unless a visitor specifically informs us (e.g., by sending us correspondence from the website), we will not know who the individual visitors are.
Our Website allows you to accept or reject all cookies. You may also adjust your browser settings to block certain types of cookies or delete cookies from your device. Configuring your devices to accept all cookies, notify you of cookie issuance, or never accept cookies is possible but may impact the availability of personalized services and certain features on the Site.
Accessing your personal information
Ensuring the accuracy and currency of the personal information we hold about you is important. Please inform us of any changes to your personal information. By law, you have the right to request access to and correction of the personal information we hold about you.
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If you wish to review, verify, correct, or withdraw your consent regarding the use of your personal information, please send an email to the privacy officer at the following email address:
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Privacy Officer
Sarah Pelud
Pelud Immigration
1188 Union Suite 176
Montreal, QC H3B0E5
Email: info@peludimmigration.com
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Pelud Immigration reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a change to this Privacy Policy, we will post such changes on our website and make such revised policy and changes available upon request to the Pelud Immigration Privacy Officer. However, Pelud Immigration will obtain the necessary consent required under applicable privacy laws if it seeks to collect, use, or disclose your Personal Information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained, unless otherwise required or permitted by law.
Responsibility
Contact details for the responsible privacy officer is found below:
Sarah Pelud
1188 Union, Suite 176
Montreal, QC H3B 0E5
Canada
450-497-1644