LittleOne respects the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information. As lawyers we have a professional obligation to keep confidential all information we obtain within a lawyer-client relationship. We are committed to protecting any personal information we possess. Our Privacy Policy outlines our practices with respect to the management of your personal information and the safeguards in place to protect your privacy. Our Policy applies to LittleOne, and explains how we collect, use and disclose personal information.
For the purposes of this Policy, "personal information" is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. It includes: your name, home contact information, telephone number, email address, billing and account information, information relevant to a client's legal matters and other information incidental to the provision of legal advice and services of our firm.
Wherever possible, we collect your personal information directly from you at the start of a retainer and throughout the course of our representation of you, both verbally or by written correspondence, including in person, by emails and telephone inquiries.
By providing personal information to LittleOne and its affiliate, or its service providers and agents, you agree that we may collect, use and disclose such personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy and as permitted or required by law. If you do not agree with these terms, you are requested not to provide personal information to us. Note that if you withdraw your consent to certain uses of your personal information, we may no longer be able to provide our services.
LittleOne collects, uses, and discloses personal information in order to provide our clients with professional services. In particular, we collect, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:
- in order to provide you with our services, fulfill legal duties and avoid conflicts of interest;
- client identification and verification;
- administrative management, to invoice you for services, administer accounts, collect and process payments, evaluate credit standing, fulfill contractual obligations and audit our business operations;
- to establish and manage client relationships;
- to contact and communicate with clients and other individuals for the purpose of conducting market research, and evaluating client service and satisfaction;
- to meet legal requirements such as complying with court orders and subpoenas;
- to provide information to representatives and advisors to help us comply with legal, accounting or security requirements;
- to develop and manage LittleOne's business and operations;
- to consider the admission of individuals or employees as members of the firm;
- for any other purpose for which we have your consent or otherwise permitted by law.
We will not collect personal information indiscriminately and we will not provide your personal information to any third party to allow them to market their products or services.
Under certain circumstances, LittleOne may disclose your personal information:
- when we are required or authorized by law to do so, for example, if a court issues a subpoena;
- when you have consented to the disclosure;
- when the services we are providing to you requires us to give your information to third parties your consent will be implied, unless you tell us otherwise;
- where it is necessary to establish or collect fees;
- if we engage a third party to provide administrative services to us (such as computer back-up services or archival file storage) and the third party is bound by our privacy policy;
- if we retain law firms on your behalf;
- to a person who in our reasonable opinion is providing or seeking information as your agent.
Your personal information is stored in secured locations and on servers controlled by LittleOne located at our offices or at the offices of our service providers. LittleOne has implemented reasonable physical, organizational and security measures to safeguard the personal information in our custody or control. These include safeguards to protect personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We operate secure data networks protected by firewall and password protected systems. We will retain your personal information only as long as needed by us to provide our services and as necessary to comply with legal, accounting or regulatory requirements. In some circumstances, personal information may be stored in an off-site storage facility until we determine it is no longer required.
It is important that your personal information be accurate and up-to-date. During the course of our retainer, we ask that you provide us with any changes to your personal information, and contact us to update the personal information we maintain in our client files.
LittleOne 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 the changes on our website. You should review our Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes made.
