Website Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2025-05-25

1. Introduction

Habing Laviolette respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information submitted through our website.

This policy applies only to information collected online through our website, including contact forms, email links, phone links, and similar online features.

2. Information We Collect Online

Through our website, we collect only the following personal information:

  • email addresses; and
  • phone numbers.

We collect this information only when it is voluntarily provided by a website visitor.

We may also collect limited technical information through website tools, such as basic usage data, browser information, device information, IP address, and cookies, if applicable.

3. How We Use Online Information

We use email addresses and phone numbers collected online to:

  • respond to inquiries;
  • communicate with prospective clients;
  • arrange appointments or follow-up communications;
  • determine whether further intake steps are required; and
  • manage and improve our website and online communications.

Submitting your email address or phone number through our website does not, by itself, create a lawyer-client relationship.

A lawyer-client relationship is formed only after Habing Laviolette has agreed to act for you, completed any required conflict checks and intake procedures, and confirmed the terms of the engagement.

4. Additional Information If a Client Relationship Develops

If a lawyer-client relationship develops, we may need to collect additional personal information to provide legal services, verify identity, comply with professional obligations, open a file, communicate with you, and complete the work we are retained to perform.

Any additional information collected after a client relationship develops will be handled in accordance with our legal, professional, and privacy obligations.

5. Confidentiality and Online Communications

We take reasonable steps to protect information submitted through our website. However, internet communications are not guaranteed to be secure.

You should not send confidential, highly sensitive, or urgent information through our website unless we have specifically asked you to do so.

6. Disclosure of Information

We do not sell personal information.

We may disclose personal information where reasonably necessary to:

  • respond to your inquiry;
  • communicate with you;
  • work with service providers who assist with our website, email, advertising, analytics, or office administration;
  • comply with legal, professional, regulatory, or Law Society obligations;
  • protect our legal rights or interests; or
  • complete a business transaction involving the firm, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.

7. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising

Our website may use cookies, analytics tools, or advertising technologies to understand website usage, improve website performance, and measure the effectiveness of online advertising.

These tools may collect limited technical information, such as device information, browser information, pages visited, general location information, and time spent on the website.

You may adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies, although some website features may not function properly.

8. Retention

We retain personal information collected online only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to respond to inquiries, manage communications, maintain business records, and comply with legal or professional obligations.

9. Safeguards

We use reasonable physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

10. Accessing or Correcting Your Information

You may contact us to request access to, or correction of, personal information we hold about you, subject to legal, professional, and regulatory limits.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our handling of personal information, please contact:

Habing Laviolette
2643 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3J 0P9

Phone: 204-832-8322
Email: info@habinglaviolette.com

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version will be posted on our website with the “Last updated” date above.