Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Luceo Legal

Version: Last updated as of March 18, 2024

This policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes Luceo Legal’s policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of the information associated with You (the individual accessing or using the website, or the company, or other legal entity, on behalf of which you are accessing or using the Website, as applicable) when You use the Website. This Privacy Policy tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Personal Data (defined and described below) to provide and improve the Service. By using the Website, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

A. Interpretation

The words that start with capital letters have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

B. Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  1. Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

  2. Company (referred to as either “Luceo Legal”, "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Privacy Policy) refers to Luceo Legal Professional Corporation.

  3. Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

  4. Country refers to the province of Ontario, in Canada.

  5. Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

  6. Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

  7. Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of Luceo Legal. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by Luceo Legal to facilitate the Website, to provide the Website on behalf of Luceo Legal, to perform services related to the Website, or to assist Luceo Legal in analyzing how the Website is used.

  8. Third-Party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Website.

  9. Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  10. Website means the website for Luceo Legal Professional Corporation, available at https://www.luceo.legal

  11. You means the individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity, on behalf of which you are accessing or using the Website, as applicable.

C. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

While using Our Website, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  1. Email address;

  2. First and last name;

  3. Phone number;

  4. Address, including city, province (or state), and postal (or ZIP) code; and,

  5. Usage data.

D. Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those Website pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Website by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Website or when You access the Website by or through a mobile device.

E. Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

Luceo Legal allows You to create and account and log in to use the Website through the following Third-party Social Media Services, including:

  1. Google;

  2. Facebook;

  3. Twitter;

  4. Instagram; and,

  5. TikTok.

If You decide to register through or otherwise grant Us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal Data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities, or Your contact list associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service account.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

F. Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Website. The technologies We use may include:

  1. Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

  2. Flash Cookies: Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (the “Flash Cookies”) to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Website. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more information on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read "Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?" available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_Where_can_I_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_

  3. Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Luceo Legal, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies: Cookies: What Do They Do?

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

  1. Necessary/Essential Cookies:

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

2. Cookies Policy/Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

3. Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

G. Use of Your Personal Data

Luceo Legal may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and maintain our Website, including to monitor the usage of the Website.

  2. To manage Your Account: To manage Your registration as a user of the Website. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Website that are available to You as a registered user.

  3. For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Website.

  4. To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  5. To provide You with: News, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

  6. To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

  7. For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Website, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  1. With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website, to contact You.

  2. For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

  3. With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

  4. With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

  5. With other users: When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

  6. With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

H. Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our WEbsite, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

I. Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

J. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

  1. Ordinary Course of Business: Luceo Legal is subject to professional and ethical obligations and, as such, will not disclose personal information of clients that is subject to solicitor-client privilege unless the client has waived privilege or the Company is permitted or required to do so by law.

    Subject always to our professional obligations and only for the purposes of providing legal services, Luceo Legal may disclose personal information to third parties (including adverse parties and their counsel, experts, witnesses, service providers), including in the context of legal proceedings and business transactions.

    Luceo Legal may also disclose your personal information to your agent.

  2. Law Enforcement: Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

  3. Other Legal Requirements: The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

    1. Comply with a legal obligation;

    2. Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company;

    3. Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website;

    4. Protect the personal safety of Users of the Website or the public; and

    5. Protect against legal liability.

    Luceo Legal may also disclose personal information as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

    Luceo Legal does not sell or exchange for consideration any personal information it holds.

K. Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

L. Children’s Privacy

Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We will take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

M. Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly encourage You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

N. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

O. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@luceo.legal