Web Disclosures & Privacy Policy
This section covers the detailed terms of privacy policy as applicable while using the website of Canada India Bar Council (“CANIBC”). CANIBC is a voluntary organization formed for rendering support to diverse group of professionals and to enhance the overall development.
Collection and usage of personal information
We collect personal information like name, address and contact details for maintaining our user database that is voluntarily provided by you. We do not use your personal information for any other purpose apart from maintaining the membership database for our organization. Information provided by you is solely for the purpose of attaining the objective of this website and for no other improper purpose. CANIBC is committed in ensuring compliance with Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and any other applicable provincial privacy legislation.
In case if you do not intend to share your personal information in accordance with this policy, do not provide the same to us. You also hold the right to withdraw your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information with us.
Consent and Acknowledgement
By providing your consent by clicking on “I agree” you grant your consent to CANIBC to proceed with the collection and usage of the personal information. We undertake to take your consent in case if we intend to your collected information for any other purpose apart from the determined objective for which the information was collected. The consent once granted can be withdrawn at a later stage by sending a written correspondence to CANIBC at [email protected]. By providing your consent you hereby acknowledge that you have obtained legal advice and reviewed with your lawyer, and if any kind of future cost and consequences arises by way of using website, you will indemnify Canada India Bar Council and its authorised officers.
Protection of personal information
CANIBC takes utmost precautions in maintaining the confidentiality of the information that is being collected from this portal thereby preventing unauthorised access to information. CANIBC grants restricted access to its members involved in maintaining the portal thereby protecting the confidential information that is shared with CANIBC.
This website uses cookies for a range of purposes to help us understand your interests and improve the website. By using our website, you acknowledge the use of essential cookies and consent to the use of non-essential cookies, as described in our Cookie Policy. To understand more about how we use cookies or to change your preference and browser settings, please see our Cookie policy.
This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) is intended to inform you of how we use “cookies” and similar technologies on our website at www.mccarthy.ca (“Website”) and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Website. Please take a moment to read and understand this Cookie Policy.
Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to store this file on your computer or mobile device and access information from it. Information gathered through cookies and similar technologies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using the particular website or mobile application. Cookies are used by us as part of our website and they are also used by some of our third party partners.
For more details on cookies and similar technologies please visit All About Cookies. For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Policy we will refer to all technologies using the above features as “cookies”.
Consent to our use of cookies
By using the Website, you acknowledge that we may store and access essential cookies on your computer or other devices. Essential cookies are cookies which are essential for the operation of our Website. Please note that we do not need your consent to store and access essential cookies as we have a legitimate interest (i.e. the functionality of the Website) for doing so.
Further, by using the Website, you consent to us storing and accessing certain non-essential cookies on your computer or other devices. These cookies are not essential to the operation of our Website but allow us to provide additional functionality or to gather additional information about your use of our Website.
If you wish to block or delete cookies, or if you would like to withdraw consent to our use of non-essential cookies, you can find out how to do so below.
Essential cookies
We use essential cookies where they are essential for the operation of the Website.
Session cookies
- We use session cookies to allow the Website to uniquely identify your browsing session on our Website, which allows us to coordinate this information with data from our Website server.
- We use “analytics” cookies. These, along with other information, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people using the Website and see which features of our Website are most popular.
- We use this information to improve the Website, such as to understand what content is most popular so we can produce similar content.
- We do not generally store any information that you provide to us in a cookie.
- Visitors are provided with the option to navigate to a variety of external websites where CANIBC, or users may have a presence or wish to visit. When visitors select the option to view content from these websites, they are directed away from CANIBC website and to the other site, where a variety of cookies may be used throughout the visit. CANIBC is not responsible for any cookies used once a visitor leaves CANIBC website.
Can you block cookies?
You can block the use of cookies altogether by activating the relevant settings in your browser. You can find out how to do this for a variety of browsers at All About Cookies. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.
CANADA INDIA BAR COUNCIL and its affiliates, (“CANIBC” or “we”), are committed to maintaining the accuracy, security and privacy of Personal Information in accordance with applicable legislation. This CANIBC Privacy Policy is a statement of principles and guidelines concerning the protection of Personal Information of our members, service providers and other individuals (“you”).
Consent
By submitting personal information to CANIBC or its service providers and agents, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of such personal information as set out in this this privacy policy and as permitted or required by law. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the identified purposes at any time by contacting CANIBC authorised officer. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with certain services or information which may be of value to you. If you provide CANIBC or our service providers and agents with personal information of another individual, you represent that you have all necessary authority and/or have obtained all necessary consents from such person to enable us to collect, use and disclose such personal information for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Canadian privacy legislation defines “Personal Information” broadly as information about an identifiable individual or as information that allows an individual to be identified. For the purposes of this policy, Personal Information means information about an identifiable individual as defined from time to time in applicable privacy legislation. Generally speaking Personal Information does not include what is considered business contact information: your name, title or position, business address, telephone number, facsimile number or e-mail address. The types of Personal Information that CANIBC may collect about you includes your name, home address, telephone number, personal e-mail address, billing and account information, information about members and other information incidental to uphold
Cookies
When an individual visitor accesses CANIBC 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. 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 registering for an event or sending us correspondence from the website), we will not know who the individual visitors are. In addition to the identified purposes described in our Privacy Policy, we may use this website information and share it with other organizations with whom we have a commercial relationship to measure the use of our website, to improve the functionality and content of the website and to facilitate usage by a visitor. Visitors can reset their browsers either to notify them when they have received a cookie or refuse to accept cookies. However, if a visitor refuses to accept cookies, he or she may not be able to use some of the features available on our website. More info here
Online Communications
In order to provide our website visitors with a service or information, visitors may voluntarily submit Personal Information to us for purposes such as asking a question, obtaining information, reviewing or downloading a publication, subscribing to a Legal Update newsletter or a mail or e-mail list, participating in a seminar or other event, and participating in contests and surveys. If you are known to CANIBC as a registered user of an online service, we may combine and store Personal Information about your use of our website and the online information you have provided with certain other online and offline information we may have collected.
E-mail Communications
Occasionally, we may send marketing or promotional e-mail communications to you with information that may be useful, including information about the services of CANIBC and other third parties with whom we have a relationship. In this process, we may collect certain information such as the date/time you first opened our e-mail communications, the number of times you open our e-mail communications, the number of click-throughs per article, total click-through activity on the contents of our e-mail communications and compile generally the related statistics. We may combine and store any such information to manage and improve our e-mail communications to you. We will include instructions on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if you decide you do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional e-mails from CANIBC.
Links
Our website may contain links to other websites which are provided as a convenience only. Visitors are advised that other third party websites may have different privacy policies and practices than CAIBC, and CANIBC has no responsibility for such third party websites.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
CANADA INDIA BAR COUNCIL 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 CANIBC authorised Officer. However, we will obtain the necessary consents 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.
Disclaimer
Without specification No lawyer-client, advisory, fiduciary or other relationship is created by accessing or otherwise using the Email service with a lawyer by way of e-mail or through our website. Electronic communication may not be safe & user acknowledges the same.