Privacy Policy

Planet-Legal is a website designed to help individuals, organizations and lawyers seeking assistance with sourcing legal professionals.
The following Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to your use of Planet-Legal’s website and services. If you do not agree to any part of the Policy you can withdraw your consent by no longer accessing our website and requesting your account be deleted.

• Information Collected
  1. Usage Information
     1. We collect usage information when you access the website including the Internet Protocol (IP) address, approximate location, referring website and operating system used to access the website. We may also record the date and time you access particular pages within the website, any external links that you click while browsing the website and the amount of time you spend on a particular page. We may use this for various purposes including marketing and maintaining website security. We generally do not use this information to identify or target individual users.
  2. Cookies
     1. Our website uses cookies to remember who you are and improve your site experience by tracking your past actions. We also use this information to analyze how the website is used and generate statistical information.
     2. You can view the public section of our website without telling us who you are. In this case the data collected will be anonymous. If you sign-up for post notifications or for our newsletter you will remain anonymous. If you choose to register on our website, you will provide contact and log-in information which may be used to identify you. You can choose to delete or disable cookies on most browsers although this may interfere with some website functionality.
  3. Personal Information
     1. Under Canadian law personal information is defined as any information about an identifiable individual aside from titles, names, business names, business phone numbers or the business address of an employee.
     2. We request basic contact personal information from users in order to provide services. Lawyers may elect to provide additional information in order to attract clients. Such information is no longer considered personal information.
  4. Public Information
     1. We may receive information from you in the form of posts on the website. Posts, legal articles and blogs posted on Planet-Legal are public. Any information you choose to disclose in such a post is no longer considered personal information and is not confidential. This information may appear elsewhere online and may be internet searchable. It is your responsibility to protect your privacy by not revealing identifying information within user posts.
• Information Handling
  1. Security
     1. We employ industry standard procedural, physical and electronic safeguards to ensure all information you transmit to us remains secure and confidential. All information sent or received through our website uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Despite these safeguards no information transmitted online can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and so use of our website is at your own risk.
     2. Please keep the password you use to access our website in a safe place and do not share it with others. Logout of the account after you are finished especially if using a shared computer to ensure the security of your account.
  2. Retaining, Updating and Deleting Information
     1. We respect your right to control your personal information. If you no longer wish to have your information stored on our services, please send us an email at webmaster@planet-legal.com. We will remove your personal information within a reasonable time after receiving your request, save and except for information that we are under a legal obligation to retain. Note that you will be unable to access any unused services afterwards..
     2. We strive to ensure all the information we have is accurate and up-to-date. If you wish to update any information provided to us, you can do so by emailing webmaster@planet-legal.com with the appropriate details. You can request that we send you a copy of your personal information, although we retain the right to limit disclosure of your personal information if it may compromise the privacy of another user.
     3. As long as you maintain an account on the website, we will retain all the personal information required to provide you with website services, as well as any information we are required to by law.
  3. Disclosure of Information
     1. We may in certain circumstances disclose personal information as required to comply with the law (e.g., a valid subpoena, court order or warrant) as well as certain other situations such as fraud or a potentially life-threatening emergency.
  4. Links to Third Party Websites
     1. Our website contains links to websites operated and maintained by third-parties over which we have no control. These sites may have substantially different privacy policies. We recommend you read the privacy policy of any third-party website before divulging personal information. Access to third-party websites is at your own risk.
  5. Payment Processor
     1. All payments are processed through PayPal’s Web Payment service which includes PayPal accounts or credit cards. Planet-Legal does not receive or have access to payment details provided to PayPal except for basic identifying information which allows us to associate the payment with your account. We suggest users refer to PayPal’s privacy policy before using their service to make a payment.
  6. Email and Email Notifications
     1. We retain your email address in order to provide you with notifications you have requested and to send occasional marketing emails at our discretion. We will not sell or provide your email to any third-parties without your consent. At anytime you can request we remove your email address from our database. Please note a reduction in services may result.
     2. Email is not a secure method of communication and may be intercepted, modified or lost. We cannot be held liable for any personal information you send us by email in the event it is intercepted, modified or lost.
• Amendments to Privacy Policy
  1. We may change the provisions of the Policy from time to time. This page of the website will always contain the most up-to-date, binding version. We recommend you refer back to this page regularly to check for changes that may affect you.
• Jurisdiction
  1. The governing law and jurisdiction here will be that of the province of Ontario.