Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

By accessing this website you are agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions set out below. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, please exit from this website and do not access any other pages. At any time, we may change this website, these terms and conditions, and the information contained herein, without prior notice. It is your responsibility to check these terms and conditions for changes and updates. Your continued use of this website will be deemed to be your unconditional acceptance of those changes. These terms and conditions were last updated on December 13, 2023.

No Legal Advice or Lawyer-Client Relationship

Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation provides the information on this website (including, without limitation, hypertext links and documents) for general information purposes only. It is neither intended as, nor should be considered, legal advice or opinions of any kind and may not be used for professional or commercial purposes. Neither the use of any such information, nor the transmission of materials or information to our firm by e-mail or otherwise, will establish any lawyer-client, contractual or other relationship between our firm and the user or sender. 

Communications not Confidential

Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation does not guarantee the security or confidentiality of any e-mail or other electronic communications sent to our personnel through this site. If you are not an existing client , do not send personnel your confidential or sensitive information until you have received his or her express request or consent to do so. You will be considered a client only after we have confirmed we are not conflicted to be retained by you and have otherwise consented to the retainer. 

Use of Website, Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

The information on this website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any representations, warranties or conditions, whether express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including, without limitation, any representations, warranties or conditions as to quality, accuracy, completeness, currency, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted access, error free operation, or the absence of computer viruses and other harmful components or corrupted data or information. 

Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation, its partners, agents or employees shall have no liability in connection with any loss, cost or damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, consequential, contingent, special, incidental, exemplary or punitive, related to or arising from this website, its non-availability, the information on it or the use thereof (including, without limitation, any defects, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in this site), including, without limitation, damages for harm to business, damages for loss of profit, business or revenues, programs or data, interruption of activities or any other pecuniary or economic loss, whether based on breach of contract, tort or delict (including negligence), infringement of intellectual property rights, strict liability, breach of warranty, failure of essential purpose, fundamental breach, breach of a fundamental term or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility thereof or reasonably foreseeable.

Intellectual Property

Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation retains all copyright, trade-mark and other rights in all material contained on this website, including all text and graphic images. You may download, display and print copies of these materials for private non-commercial purposes, as long as the content is not modified, the source of the material is indicated, and the Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation copyright and other notices are neither removed nor modified. No portion of this material may be used or reproduced for any other purpose, or distributed, transmitted or mirrored in any form, or by any means, without the prior written permission of Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation 

Links

This website may contain links to other sites. The provision of these links is for your convenience only, and does not constitute an endorsement, recommendation or approval of the other sites. Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation has no control over the availability or content of such sites, and any use of them is at your own risk. Jeffrey A. Smart Legal Services Professional Corporation shall have no liability related to or arising from such sites or the use thereof. 

Governing Law

These terms and conditions and the use of this website shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable in the Province of Ontario, and you irrevocably attorn to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ontario. Anyone accessing this website from other jurisdictions assumes sole responsibility for compliance with local laws.

Web analytics and Cookies

This Site uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your visit to the Site, including your Internet Protocol address, information about the operating system of your computer or device, and information about your browser.

This information is processed by Google Analytics to generate statistics for the firm about patterns of user visits to the Site, including, among other things, the number of page visits, the number of unique page views, the average time spent on a page, traffic to the Site by hour of the day and day of the week, and geographic location of users. This information may be used to measure the use and performance of the Site and to improve the experience of visitors to the Site.  This information will not be used to identify individual users.

This Site also uses cookies to map your session for the purpose of the survey and the intermediate page. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website sends to your browser for storage on your computer or device.  You may modify your browser to decline, delete or disable cookies. Please note that declining, deleting or disabling cookies may result in your inability to use certain parts of the Site as they are intended to be used.