PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

Our website address is: https://jblairthompson.com/.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you submit a message to J. Blair Thompson via the website contact form, these messages will not be stored on-site, or in the backend. Messages are delivered to J. Blair Thompson’s corporate email address blair@jbtlaw.ca.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics for the purpose of tracking data and information on users visiting in order to continuously improve upon the user experience and functionality.

Who we share your data with

We do not resell, share, rent or lease any of this data with third-parties with the single exception being Google Inc., whose digital services we employ to track and inform us on visitors to the website for the sole purpose of improving the law corporations ability and capacity to serve users and clients.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We do not sell, lease, rent or otherwise disclose your personal data to third parties unless otherwise stated below.

Your contact information

Your contact information is held in private and is confidential. All emails received via the website contact form is sent directly to the law corporation of J. Blair Thompson and is not without prior expressed consent provided to any third-parties.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We endeavor to only collect personal data that are necessary for the purposes for which they are collected, and to retain such data for no longer than is necessary for such purposes.

The length of time personal data is retained, and criteria for determining that time, are dependent on the nature of the personal data and the purpose for which it was provided.

Your personal information will not be sold, rented, leased or otherwise disclosed to any third-party entities, nor will your personal information be shared beyond any requisite need, with a requisite need being, for instance, sharing information with B.C. and/or Canadian courts and/or legal institutions, or like counterparts out-of-country, for the intents and purpose of furthering your legal matter before the courts.

What data breach procedures we have in place

A data breach generally refers to the unauthorized access and retrieval of information that may include corporate and personal data. Generally speaking, when managing a data breach it is important to protect the personal data of individuals and businesses when said breach occurs. This website, however, does not store any personal or sensitive information of clients or potential clients, including any messages sent via the contact form.

What third parties we receive data from

Your personal information will not be sold, rented, leased or otherwise disclosed to any third-party entities.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not use automated decision-making. Regarding profiling, this website uses the tracking tool Google Analytics.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Lawyers must follow rules and laws about how certain information is handled. Also, parties to legal proceedings have a right to get certain information by law. PIPA does not change that right and does not affect solicitor-client privilege (sections 3(3) and 3(4)). However, PIPA does apply to how lawyers and law firms handle their clients’ and employees’ personal information in the course of their practices. J. Blair Thompson Law Corporation ensures all personal and sensitive information is kept private and confidential.

Personal information in court documents or documents created by judges and the courts are not covered by PIPA (section 3(2)(e)). The same applies to documents containing personal information relating to a prosecution if those proceedings have not completed (section 3(2)(h)).

PIPEDA is a federal act that protects personal information in provinces and territories that do not have their own private-sector privacy laws. PIPEDA applies in BC in two circumstances. First, PIPEDA applies to federally regulated businesses, for example banks, telephone companies, airlines, shipping companies and railways. Second, PIPEDA may apply to BC-based organizations when the personal information of residents from other provinces has been affected.