Purpose and Scope of the Policy

This privacy policy describes how we collect, use and disclose your personal information

By visiting www.jkennedylaw.ca (the “Website”), contacting us or agreeing to receive emails from the law office of Julia Kennedy (“Julia Kennedy”, “we”, “us” or “our”), you accept the terms and conditions of this policy.

This policy does not extend to websites operated by third parties. We are not liable for their privacy policies, procedures and practices. You should review the privacy policies posted to any third-party websites for their terms.

Personal Information Collected 

We collect your personal information in several ways, including when you contact us by telephone or email, or if you are a client, by providing information through third party services, portals or links.

Depending on the circumstances, personal information may include your name, contact information (street address, electronic address, telephone number), biographical information (job title, employer), photograph, video or audio, billing and financial information, information about the services that we have rendered to you, or other information provided to us by or on behalf of clients or generated by use in the course of providing services (including special categories of personal information). Personal information collected by us may include identification and other background verification data such as a copy of driver’s licence, passports or utility bills or evidence of beneficial ownership or the source of funds to comply with anti-money laundering laws and collected as part of our client acceptance and ongoing monitoring procedures.

Please note that if you provide personal information to us about other people (such as your customers, directors, officers, shareholders or beneficial owners), you must ensure that you have given those individuals an appropriate notice that you are providing their information to us and have obtained their consent to that disclosure.

Do not send us confidential information until we have confirmed in writing that we represent or act for you or your company or organization. Unsolicited emails sent to us from non-clients do not establish a lawyer-client relationship. Such emails may not be privileged and, therefore, are subject to disclosure to third parties.

Website Use and Cookies

We may also collect data relating to your visit to our Website. This information may include your IP address, the date, time and duration of your visits as well as the web pages you consulted.

Our Website, like most other commercial websites, may also uses cookies. These are files that are installed on your computer hard drive or web browser in order to collect information such as your language of preference, browsing history and browser type and version, all for the purpose of optimizing your experience on our Website. These cookies are not used to extract personal information. Disabling cookies on your browser could adversely affect your browsing experience on the Website.

Use and Communication of your Personal Information

We use and disclose your personal information mainly:

To respond to requests for information or enquiries from visitors to the Website.

To provide our legal and other services and to conduct our business, to administer and perform our services, including to carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us.

To fulfil our legal, regulatory, or risk management obligations – to comply with our legal obligations (performing client due diligence, anti-bribery and sanctions screening, and identifying conflicts of interests).

To enforce our legal rights, to comply with our legal or regulatory reporting obligations and/or to protect the rights of third parties.

To ensure that we are paid – to recover any payments due to us and where necessary to enforce such recovery through the engagement of debt collection agencies or taking other legal action.

For marketing and business development purposes – to provide details of new services, legal updates where you have elected to receive these.

To reorganize or make changes to our business – In the event that we undergo a reorganization (for example if we combine our practice with other lawyers or another law firm, or divest a part of our business), we may need to transfer some or all of personal information to the relevant third party (or its advisors) as part of any due diligence process or transfer your personal information for the same purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy.

We will only use personal information to fulfil the primary purpose and applicable legitimate purpose it was collected for, or for a purpose compatible with that primary purpose.

Disclosure of Personal Information

When we disclose your personal information to third parties, we take reasonable measures to ensure that the rules set forth in this policy are complied with.

We may provide your personal information to our service providers and partners, or to third parties during the performance of our services in accordance with your instructions.  We may disclose your personal information to fulfill a legal obligation or to enforce our rights.

We may also share personal information with certain third parties such as:

Third-party service providers and vendors who provide website, application development, hosting, maintenance, and other technological services to us, or human resources management and marketing activities.

Law enforcement and governmental entities when required by law or as instructed by you in connection with the performance of our services. For greater clarity, we may disclose personal information or other information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in response to a court order, subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies.

An acquirer, successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

We limit the information provided to these third parties to that which is reasonably required in the circumstances.

Protection of Personal Information

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us. We maintain appropriate physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the personal information in our possession. Where applicable, we take steps to ensure that the only personnel who are granted access to your personal information are those whose duties reasonably require such information and who are under a duty of confidentiality.

No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is completely secure. We cannot 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. If you believe personal information has been compromised, please contact us.

Retention of Personal Information

We will only keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the relevant purposes set out in this Policy Privacy and in order to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

Right to Access and Correct

On written request and subject to proof of identity, you may consult the personal information that we have collected and retain, and ask that any necessary corrections be made, where applicable  and as authorized or required by law.

However, to make sure that the personal information we maintain about you is accurate and up to date, please inform us immediately of any change in your personal information.

Update

This Privacy Policy may be amended without notice. This policy was last updated on 16-04-2026.