Privacy Policy (cont'd)
(2) What is Personal Information?
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual. Personal information includes information that relates to their personal characteristics (e.g., gender, age, income, home address, or phone number, ethnic background, family status), their health (e.g., health history, health conditions, health services received by them) or their activities and views (e.g., religion, politics, opinions expressed by an individual, an opinion or evaluation of an individual). Personal information is to be contrasted with business information (e.g. an individual's business address and telephone number) which is not protected by privacy legislation.
(3) Purposes of Collecting Information
(a) Clients
Like all lawyers, we collect, use and disclose personal information in order to serve our clients. For our clients, the primary purpose for collecting personal information is to provide legal advice and services. Where our client is an individual, we collect information about the client's legal issue including anything the client might have done or said that might affect their legal situation, so that we can advise the client as to their legal rights and
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