Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and processed.
This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected from or submitted to Hyde HR Law.
Hyde HR Law, with registered office at 500 Queens Quay West, Suite 109W, Toronto, ON, M5V 3K8 is the Controller for the processing of your personal data for the purposes described below.
- Which personal data is collected about you?
Hyde HR Law offers several services, some of which require you to provide personal information to us. To provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide us
- When you subscribe to Hyde HR Law’s newsletter, Hyde HR Law will collect personal data about you. The main categories of data collected are: your name and your email address.
- When you fill in our severance calculator inquiry, online consultation request form or contact us form on our website, the content of your message and your personal data (name, email, address, telephone number, age, salary, position and other details about your case) will be collected.
- By submitting contact information through this website, our staff may contact you to discuss meeting with one of our lawyers, but the firm will not use submitted contact information for any marketing-related communications, unless it is through a newsletter subscription, from which you can unsubscribe at anytime.
Hyde HR Law also uses cookies and other tracking technologies. Hyde HR Law implements links on its website in a format that allows it to keep track of whether these links have been followed.
- What are the purposes for processing personal data?
Hyde HR Law processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected. We periodically review our data collection, storage, and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store, and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. Your personal data are processed for the following purposes and in accordance with the legal bases set out below:
Category of personal information
Contact Information and basic personal details
(e.g. your name, email address, mailing address, etc.).
How we use this information
- To communicate with you, such as through statements, updates, newsletters, or alerts.
- To respond to an inquiry or process a request from you.
Legal basis for processing
- Our legitimate interest in communicating with you effectively for the purpose of resolving the issue.
- Our legitimate interest in improving our website,
products, and services.
Information about how you access and use our website, such as the pages you visit, the time you spend on a page, whether you click on any links, what browser you use, or what web pages you visit before and /or after your visit to our website.
- To manage and improve our website.
- To determine products and services that may be of interest to you for marketing purposes, and to develop new products and services.
- Performing statistics on the use of the website (please see our cookie policy) to improve the quality of our website.
- Our legitimate interest to provide a website.
- Our legitimate interest in marketing our products and services.
Log files and information about your device.
- Improving the performance of our website and ensuring the technical functioning of our network and services.
- Audit, research, and analysis to maintain, protect and improve our services.
- Our legitimate interests in providing you with a better experience in using our website and in improving the quality of our services.
- Hyde HR Law’s legitimate interest to provide you with a better experience and improve the quality of its services.
Options for personal information
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices unless we have obtained your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case Hyde HR Law may not be able to provide those services to you.
- Who are the recipients of your data?
Your data will be used by authorized employees of Hyde HR Law and/or its agents when necessary for carrying out the above listed purposes.
Under applicable privacy laws in Canada, you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data. Those rights are outlined here: Privacy Laws in Canada
- How long will your personal data be retained?
We will retain your personal information in a form that identifies you only for as long as doing so serves the purposes for which the information was initially collected as stated in this privacy policy, or as subsequently authorized. We may continue processing your personal information for longer periods, but only for the time and to the extent such processing reasonably serves the purposes of archiving in the public interest, journalism, literature and art, scientific or historical research and statistical analysis, and subject to the protection of this Privacy Policy. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals.
- Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes).
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this website or at:
Hyde HR Law
500 Queens Quay West, Suite 109W
Toronto, ON,
M5V 3K8
