Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 1st 2019

  1. GENERAL INFORMATION

    1. Your privacy is important to Adidem Corporation (“Adidem”) so we’ve developed a Privacy Policy that describes how we collect, use, shares, and stores your personal information that you provide to Adidem when accessing the website www.adidemlaw.com, any subdomains (collectively the “Website”) or any of the software on the Website. For certainty, we may also use your personal information for the purposes described within the Adidem terms of use found here (the “Terms of Use”). Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and contact us if you have any questions.
    2. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, personal information is any information about an identifiable individual, including data that can be used to identify or contact a single person (and which is other than an individual's business contact information when collected, used or disclosed for the purposes of enabling the individual to be contacted in relation to their business responsibilities).
    3. This Privacy Policy also applies to any of our other websites that post this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites that post different statements. It is our policy to comply with the privacy legislation within each jurisdiction in which we operate. Sometimes the privacy legislation and / or an individual's right to privacy are different from one jurisdiction to another.
    4. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or the period required by law. You can help ensure that your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up to date by signing in to your account found on the Website.
    5. To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to Adidem employees and take reasonable steps to safeguard your personal information.
    6. If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or data processing or if you would like to make a complaint about a possible breach of local privacy laws, please contact us at hello@adidemlaw.com.
    7. Adidem may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.
    8. We take the security of your personal information seriously and use reasonable electronic, personnel and physical measures to protect it from loss, theft, alteration or misuse. However, please be advised that even the best security measures cannot fully eliminate all risks. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We are not responsible for third-party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures (including hacks or unauthorized data breaches).

  2. COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

    1. You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with Adidem and you will be required to provide your personal information if you create a user account with Adidem (and an account is required to use the Adidem software on the Website). Adidem and its affiliates may share this personal information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use. Adidem may also combine your personal information with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.
    2. We may process your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and the Adidem Terms of Use with your consent, including for compliance with a legal obligation to which Adidem is subject or when we have assessed it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Adidem or a third party to whom it may be necessary to disclose information.
    3. The personal information we collect allows us to keep you posted on legal proposals submitted to you, Adidem’s latest product announcements, software updates, request reviews for services rendered by lawyers (or other persons) that may have provided you with services or for lawyers, fees for using the Website where applicable. If you don’t want to be on our mailing list, you can opt out anytime by updating your user account.
    4. When you create an account on Adidem, you will be required to input personal information about you or your potential legal claim, your services in response to a legal claim. This is required so we can confirm that you are in fact a real person and so we or a lawyer providing a proposal to you can actually connect with you in response to your claim. Adidem may also collect a variety of information, including your name, mailing address, government issue ID, phone number, email address, contact preferences. device identifiers, IP address, location information, nature and type of your injuries, insurance information, financial information, credit card information, settlement information, quotation information, employment information, benefits, price of your services, among other personal information (as applicable depending on the user of the Website). In addition, we may also collect your computer operating system type, browser type, browser language, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our Website.
    5. The information we collect is collected for the following reasons:
      • to confirm you are a real person and to help us and lawyers providing proposals confirm your claim is real;
      • in order for lawyers to provide legal proposals to you with respect to your claim;
      • to improve the Website, products, and services;
      • to better cater and market to our customers, as well as learn about how users use of the software and make decisions with respect to legal proposals or the software;
      • to respond to your customer service requests, comments and questions;
      • to send periodic emails regarding our products and services;
      • to follow up with you after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries);
      • to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity;
      • for account and network security purposes, including in order to protect our services for the benefit of all our users;
      • to link or combine user information with other personal information; or
      • as may otherwise be required for us to create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our products, services.
    6. We may use your personal information, including date of birth, to verify identity, assist with identification of users, and to determine appropriate services. We may also use your personal information as permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements. We may also share information to protect the rights and property of Adidem, our agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and Terms of Use. We may share information in an emergency, including in the event we need to protect the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person.
    7. We may share personal information when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding. We will ask the third party to execute a confidentiality agreement before sharing your data in respect of a potential business deal.
    8. We may also share your personal information with our employees, contractors, consultants, affiliates and other parties to develop, operate, store, maintain, update or improve the Website or any software, including third-parties that provide services to us or on our behalf. As a result, your personal information may be collected, used, processed, stored or disclosed in United States and Canada and may potentially be accessible to law enforcement and national security authorities of that jurisdiction.
    9. From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices, such as communications about use of the Website or changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
    10. We may also use personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve Adidem’s products, services, and customer communications. We may also use your information for any purpose specified in the Terms of Use.

  3. SOURCE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WHERE THEY ARE NOT COLLECTED FROM YOU

    1. We may have received your personal information from other persons if that person has shared their content with you using Adidem software or at www.adidemlaw.com, including all subdomains (the “Website”). We may also validate the information provided by you when creating an account with Adidem with a third party for security and fraud prevention purposes.
    2. For research and development purposes, we may use datasets such as those that contain images, voices or other data that could be associated with an identifiable person. When acquiring such datasets, we do so in accordance with applicable law in the jurisdiction in which the dataset is hosted. When using such datasets for research and development, we do not attempt to re-identify individuals who may appear therein.

  4. COLLECTION AND USE OF NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

    1. We also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
      1. We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, referrer URL, location, and the time zone where Adidem is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising;
      2. We may collect information regarding customer activities on the Website and from our other products and services. This information is aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our website, products, and services are of most interest. Aggregated data is considered non‑personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy;
      3. We may collect and store details of how you use our services, including search queries. This information may be used to improve the relevancy of results provided by our services. Except in limited instances to ensure quality of our services over the Internet, such information will not be associated with your IP address;
      4. We may share general information related to legal claims (including injury or accident related information and legal proposals), provided that we will not share any information that does not personally identify you; and
      5. If we do combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.

  5. COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

    1. The Website, software, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use "cookies" and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non‑personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
    2. You may be permitted to disable cookies on your applicable web browser. Please review your settings in the applicable web browser to determine how to disable cookies.
    3. We may gather some information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit websites and applications, geographic location, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to understand and analyze trends, to administer the site, to learn about user behavior on the site, to improve our product and services, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Adidem may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.

  6. CONSENT

    1. By using the Website, we assume that you have consented to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as explained in this Privacy Policy. In addition, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy following your creation of an account with Adidem on the Website.
    2. You may change or withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by contacting us at hello@adidemlaw.com using the contact information set out below. All communications with respect to such withdrawal or variation of consent should be in writing and addressed to [insert]. Please note that in some circumstances, withdrawing or changing your consent to certain uses of your personal information will affect: (i) our ability to provide you with the products or services you request; and (ii) your ability to access to the Website. In some circumstances we may not agree with your request to change your personal information and will instead append an alternative text to the record in question.
    3. It is important that the information contained in our records is both accurate and current. If your personal information happens to change during the course of our relationship, please keep us informed of such changes.