Hayden Immigration Inc. Firm Privacy Policy
Hayden Immigration recognizes the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information. As lawyers wehave a professional obligation to keep confidential all information we receive within a lawyer-client relationship. We are committed to protecting any personal information we hold. This Privacy Policy outlines how we manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy. Our privacy policy also applies to information gathered via sms and email.Your Privacy Rights
Hayden Immigration is responsible for the personal information we collect and hold. To ensure this accountability, we have developed this policy, and trained our lawyers and support staff about our policies and practice.Why Does Hayden Immigration Need Personal Information
Hayden Immigration provides legal services and products to a wide range of clients. In doing so, it produces direct marketing materials concerning its services and developments in the law.What Personal Information Do we Collect?
Personal information is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. If we did not collect and use your personal information, we could not provide you with legal services.How Do We Collect Your Personal Information?
We collect information only by lawful and fair means, and not in an unreasonably intrusive way. Wherever possible we collect your personal information directly from you, both at the start of a retainer and during our representation.Consent
In most cases, we shall ask you to specifically consent, if we collect, use, or disclose your personal information.Normally, we ask for your consent in writing, but in some circumstances, we may accept your oral consent.Sometimes, your consent may be implied through your conduct with us.Use of Your Information
We use your personal information to provide legal advice and services to you, to administer our client (time and billing databases) and to include you in any direct marketing activities. If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive information about our services, or about new developments in the law, we will not send any further material. Hayden Immigration does not disclose your personal information to any third party to enable them to market theirproducts and services. For example, we do not provide our client mailing lists to other law firms.Disclosure of your Personal Information
Under certain circumstances, Hayden Immigration will 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 legal services we are providing to you requires us give your information to third parties your consentwill 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 (like computer back-up services or archival file storage) and the third party is bound by our privacy policy.
- if we engage expert witnesses on your
- if we retain other law firms at your request, and on your
- if the information is Publicly Available Personal
- Updating Your Information
Is My Personal Information Secure?
Hayden Immigration takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that your personal information is kept safe from loss,unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Among the steps taken to protect your information are:- premises
- restricted file access to personal
- deploying technological safeguards like security software and firewalls to prevent hacking or unauthorized computer access.
- internal password and security
Access to Your Personal Information
You may ask for access to any personal information we hold about you. Summary information is available on request. More detailed requests which require archive or other retrieval costs may be subject to our normal professional and disbursement fees.Correcting Errors
If Hayden Immigration holds information about you and you can establish that it is not accurate, complete and up-to-date, Hayden Immigration will take reasonable steps to correct it.Can I be denied access to my Personal Information?
Your rights to access your personal information are not absolute. We may deny access when:- it is required or authorized by law (for example, when a record containing personal information about you is protected by lawyer-client privilege);
- to do so would reveal confidential commercial information, and the personal information cannot be severed from the record.
- to do so could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual, and the personal information cannot be severed from the record; or
- the information was generated during a formal dispute resolution
Communicating with Us
You should be aware that e-mail is not a 100% secure medium, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Hayden Immigration regularly reviews all of its policies and procedures, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time.
Web Site
Our website may contain link to other sites, which are not governed by this privacy policy.
On our website, like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information in order to optimize our web service. We may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information.
