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Privacy Policy 

What We Collect

“Personal Information” is information in any form which can be attributed to an identifiable individual, but does not include business contact information, such as your name, title or position, business address, telephone number, facsimile number, or e-mail address. Flex Legal Network (“Flex” or “we” or “us”) is committed to maintaining the accuracy, security and privacy of your Personal Information.

We collect and maintain different types of Personal Information in respect of individuals with whom we interact. For our Flex law firm, lawyer, or in-house department clients, in addition to collecting your business address and telephone number, and business email address, we will collect information about the legal work you need assistance with but not including your own client(s)' confidential or privileged information. 

For our freelance lawyers (or potential freelance lawyers) we may collect
: contact and identification information, such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address; client relationship information such as client requests and feed-back and information requested or provided by or from you; and business relationship information, including information related to your agreements with Flex clients.  In order to match our clients with freelance lawyers we may also collect: your resume or c.v. information such as your employment history, clients/transactions lists, academic history and transcripts; your billable rate or flat fees or other remuneration information; and correspondence between potential freelance lawyers and Flex. We may also collect market-related information, which may include Personal Information, concerning market trends and activities impacting our business and information related to our media and public relations activities. 

Website Visitors

For visitors to our Web site, we may use cookies to collect non-personal information such as the type of Internet browser and operating system used by you, the domain name of the website from which you came, the date and duration of your visit, number of visits, average time spent on our Web site, IP address associated with your computer, pages viewed and number of cookies accumulated. Cookies are small browser features stored on the hard-drive of your computer which are used to track and collect information concerning your visit to our Web site. This information is only used for the technical performance of the Web site (including but not limited to ensuring the security of the Web site).

How We Use Your Personal Information

We collect personal information to enable us to manage and develop our business and operations, including: to establish, maintain and manage relations with you so that we may provide you with, or receive from you, the products and services that have been requested (for example, we will use your personal information to determine your suitability for a position as a freelance lawyer); to be able to review the services that we provide to you so that we may understand your requirements for our services and so that we may work to improve our services; to be able to inform you of our services other than those that you have specifically requested, including sending you information promoting our other services; to be able to comply with your requests (for example, if you prefer to be contacted at a business or residential telephone number or e-mail address and advise us of your preference, we will use this information to contact you at that number or e-mail address); to protect us against error, fraud, theft and damage to our goods and property; to enable us to comply with applicable law or regulatory requirements; and any other reasonable purpose to which you consent. 

We will not disclose your Personal Information to any third party to enable them to market their products and services. We may engage with unaffiliated third parties that are under contract to perform services for or on behalf of Flex ("Service Providers"), and are required to uphold and maintain policies with respect to privacy and the treatment of your Personal Information (e.g. Customer Relationship Management services). Any access to such information will be limited to the purpose for which such information was provided to us or our Service Providers. Service Providers are located throughout the world. Accordingly, your Personal Information may be stored in servers in countries which have a different level of privacy protection than Canada.

Use of Electronic Communications
We would like from time to time to send commercial electronic communications (such as emails), with publications, announcements, event invitations, and other information, to subscribers, individuals with whom we have a commercial relationship, and individuals with whom we have a business or personal relationship. If you have not already provided us with such consent and wish to receive or continue to receive such communications from us, please feel free to contact us by email at info@flexlegalnetwork.com  If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time please feel free to contact us by email at info@flexlegalnetwork.com.

Changes to our Policy:
We reserve the right, from time to time, to amend or change this Privacy Policy by posting such revisions to our Web site. Changes to the Privacy Policy shall be effective upon posting. In the event that any amendment affects the purpose(s) for which we collect, use or disclose your Personal Information, we will obtain any additional consent required from you under applicable privacy laws.
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DISCLAIMER

Flex Legal Network Inc. ("Flex Legal") is not a law firm and does not perform legal services. Flex Legal is a company that matches freelance lawyers/law clerk members of our network with law firm/lawyers in need of freelance lawyer/clerk services.  Flex Legal's network of freelance lawyers practice independently and not in an association or other relationship for the joint practice of law. When a law firm/lawyer engages the services of a Flex Legal freelance lawyer the contractual relationship is solely between the freelance lawyer and law firm/lawyer. Flex Legal does not review the legal work provided by the freelance lawyers/clerks with the network.  Each lawyer is solely responsible for her or his own work product and general business activities to the exclusion of any other lawyer and Flex Legal. The information provided in this website should not be construed as legal advice. Transmission of information from this website is not intended to create, and its receipt does not constitute a solicitor-client relationship with Flex Legal or any of its individual network lawyers or personnel. Use of Flex Legal services does not establish a solicitor-client relationship. Flex Legal will protect the confidentiality of information, but information you provide to Flex Legal may not be afforded legal protection as solicitor-client communications. Flex Legal expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken or not taken based on any or all of the contents of this website. See also our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.


​OUR COMMITMENT TO ANTI-RACISM

We are committed to anti-racism and know we are not doing enough. Right now our activism is donation-based and we are listening and learning, and amplifying BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) voices. We know we must take sustained, intentional action to combat racism. One step we are taking is assessing our annual budget and developing a plan to support BIPOC owned businesses, vendors, and contractors. Acknowledging the lack of BIPOC representation on our team, we are committed to improving this lack of diversity. We want to continually and sustainably do the work to build an anti-racist business and community where everyone feels safe and valued. If you would like to contact us about our anti-racism commitment or how we can improve our allyship, please reach out: info@flexlegalnetwork.com . For law firms looking for ways to support the BIPOC community see this article by Lulu Tinarwu for the CBA National Magazine.
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