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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

GTA Immigration Services Private Limited (hereinafter “We”) is a firm based in India that specializes in Canadian immigration services. We recognize the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information.

We work with Canadian lawyers and we have a contractual obligation to keep confidential all information we receive. We are committed to protecting any personal information we hold. This Privacy Policy outlines how we manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy.

Your Privacy Rights

We are responsible for the personal information we collect and hold. To ensure this accountability, we have developed this policy, and trained our partners, affiliates, employees, and othersupport staff about our policies and practices.

Why Does GTA Immigration Services Private Limited Need Personal Information

We provide access to 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.

We may also collect personal information from individuals in order to provide them with educational and marketing information about developments in the law and with respect to the services we offer.

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 access to 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 our interaction in the course of the services we provide. Sometimes we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as but not limited to:

  • your insurance company;
  • your real estate agent in a property transaction;
  • from a government agency or registry;
  • your employer, if we are acting for you, at its request;
  • your accountant;
  • your lawyer;
  • your medical professionals;
  • other professionals that serve you;
  • other parties or witnesses in the context of litigation;
  • other parties or participants in a commercial transaction.

With respect to our clients who are not individuals (corporations, associations, etc.), we may collect information about your directors, officers, independent contractors and employees.

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 you access to legal services and 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 Canadian immigration law, we will not send any further material.

The purposes for collecting personal information about our clients and prospective clients are primarily to provide access to legal services, to maintain client relationships, communicate with our clients, and to avoid conflicts of interest.

Personal information supplied to us is confidential and we do not disclose the information to any third party except with actual or implied consent, or as permitted or required by law. We do not exchange or sell personal information

Our use and disclosure of all information with respect to client matters (including personal information) is also subject to our professional obligation of confidentiality and to the requirements of solicitor-client privilege.

We may use third party service providers from time to time to carry out certain functions for us such as but not limited to; printing, storage, shredding, document scanning, document storage, document translations, process servicing, and use of third-party agents, contractors, or professionals to primarily provide legal services and representation to you or on your behalf. The use of third-parties, agents or sub-contractors in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

We do not disclose your personal information to any third party to enable them to market their products and services. For example, we do not provide our client mailing lists to other firms, unless you consent.

Disclosure of your Personal Information

Under certain circumstances we may disclose your personal information:

  • when you consented to the disclosure;
  • when we are required or authorized by law to do so, for example if a court issues a warrant or subpoena;
  • to comply with the requirements of the law;
  • when theservices we are providing to you requires us give your information to third parties, in this case, your consent will be implied, unless you tell us otherwise;
  • where it is necessary to establish or collect fees or our disbursements;
  • if we engage a third party to provide administrative services to us (like computer back-up services, cloud based legal management software, cloud based archival file storage, or insurance)and the third party is also bound by obligations regarding privacy that are consistent with this policy;
  • if we engage expert witnesses on your behalf;
  • if we retain otherfirms at your request, and on your behalf;
  • if the information is publicly available

Updating Your Information

Since we use your personal information to provide access to legal services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date.

If during the course of the retainer, any of your information changes, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.

Is My Personal Information Secure?

We will take 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 security;
  • restricted file access to personal information;
  • deploying technological safeguards like security software and firewalls to prevent hacking or unauthorized computer access;
  • internal password and security policies;
  • requiring all employees, staff, and/or third-party contractors to comply with our privacy and confidentiality policy.

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.

Email Subscriptions and Contact Us Form

If you choose to contact us through our website or by email and choose to provide us your email address, you also agree to receive email notifications about our law firm newsletter. You may withdraw your consent at any time by providing a written notice to stop receiving email notifications.

When you subscribe to our email listyou need to supply information such as; your name and an email address. This email address is used to deliver the mailing list messages to you, such as information about GTA Immigration Services and other updates. Your email address will not be disclosed to any other mailing list subscriber, organization, website, or government agency. If you do not wish to hear from us you may unsubscribe at any time.

Correcting Errors

If we hold information about you and you can establish that it is not accurate, complete and up-to-date, we 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 law);
  • 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;
  • the information was generated in the course of a formal dispute resolution process.

If we deny your request for access to, or refuse a request to correct information, we shall explain why.

Communicating with Us

You should be aware that electronic communication such as email not limited to, is not a 100% secure, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Since we regularly reviews all of its policies and procedures, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time.

Requests for Access

If you have any questions, or wish to access your personal information, please write to our Privacy Contact at:

 

GTA Immigration Services Private Limited

Level 4, Tower A,
Godrej Eternia,
Plot no. 70, Industrial Area-1,
Chandigarh-160002
India

Telephone: +91 8570879284

Email: info@canadagta.com

Employment Inquiries

If you apply to us for a job, we need to consider your personal information, as part of our review process. We normally retain information from candidates after a decision has been made, unless you ask us not to retain the information. If we offer you a job, which you accept, the information will be retained in accordance with our privacy procedures for employee records.

Web Site

Our website may contain links to other sites, which are not governed by this privacy policy. Like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information to optimize your visit to our website. We do not use cookies or any electronic means to collect personal information from you or your computer; however, our website server will automatically collect IP addresses. We may view the IP log from time to time, for example, to maintain the security of our website. We do not link the IP addresses to other personally identifiable information.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or other issues related to your interaction with us, its employees or treatment of your personal information, please write to info@canadagta.com