Your privacy, taken seriously.

Niroomand Law (the "firm", "we", "us") is a law firm based in Richmond Hill, Ontario. We are committed to protecting the privacy of every individual whose personal information we collect, use, or disclose, including current and prospective clients, opposing parties, witnesses, and visitors to our website.

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected by the firm in the course of providing legal services and operating NiroomandLaw.com. It is governed by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the Rules of Professional Conduct of the Law Society of Ontario, and applicable Ontario privacy law.

We collect only the personal information reasonably necessary to evaluate, accept, and carry out a legal matter, or to respond to your inquiry. Depending on the matter, this may include:

• Identifying information — name, address, telephone number, email, date of birth, government-issued ID where required for client identification under Law Society rules;
• Matter information — facts of your dispute, opposing parties, documents, correspondence, court materials, settlement positions;
• Financial information — income, expenses, assets, debts, banking and tax information where relevant to a family law, employment, or damages assessment;
• Communications — emails, voicemails, web-form submissions, and meeting notes;
• Website data — IP address, browser type, pages visited, referring URL, and basic analytics information.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and we ask you not to send sensitive information through unencrypted channels until representation is confirmed.

We use personal information for the purpose for which it was provided, including:

• Assessing whether the firm is able to assist with a matter and clearing conflicts of interest;
• Providing legal advice and representation under a signed retainer;
• Communicating with clients, opposing counsel, courts, tribunals, and third parties as required by the file;
• Issuing accounts and accepting payment;
• Meeting our regulatory, professional, and statutory obligations (including Law Society audits, identification rules, and trust accounting requirements);
• Improving the website and understanding how visitors use it.

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information for marketing purposes.

We may disclose personal information only as reasonably necessary to advance your matter or as required by law. This may include disclosure to:

• Courts, tribunals, mediators, arbitrators, and opposing counsel — strictly within the scope of the file;
• Experts, agents, process servers, and co-counsel retained on the matter;
• Financial institutions where required to facilitate payments or trust transactions;
• Regulators where compelled by law or by Law Society rules;
• Service providers (such as cloud-based document storage, email, and practice-management vendors) bound by confidentiality obligations comparable to our own.

Solicitor-client privilege governs all disclosure decisions. Where information is privileged, it will not be disclosed without your instruction or as required by law.

We use a combination of administrative, technical, and physical safeguards proportionate to the sensitivity of the information. These include locked physical files, password-protected and encrypted systems, restricted access to client data on a need-to-know basis, and secure disposal of records at the end of their retention period.

Despite these safeguards, no method of electronic transmission or storage is fully secure. We strongly recommend that you avoid sending highly sensitive information by unencrypted email or through public web forms until a retainer is in place and a secure channel is established.

NiroomandLaw.com uses a small number of cookies to enable basic functionality and to understand, in aggregate, how visitors use the site. Analytics data is aggregated and does not, on its own, identify individuals.

You may disable cookies in your browser settings. Doing so will not prevent you from contacting us, but some site features may behave differently.

Subject to legal and professional obligations, you may:

• Request access to your personal information held by the firm;
• Request correction of factual inaccuracies in your information;
• Withdraw consent to certain uses of your information, subject to legal and contractual restrictions;
• Request that the firm cease electronic communications for non-essential purposes.

Some information must be retained to comply with Law Society record-keeping rules, limitation periods, and trust accounting requirements, even after a retainer ends.

Privacy questions, access requests, and complaints may be directed to the firm's Privacy Officer at info@NiroomandLaw.com or 416-850-0094. We will acknowledge requests within a reasonable period and respond in accordance with PIPEDA timelines.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.