DOBRMAN PRIVACY POLICY
Last modified: 2026-04-17
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR COLLECTING, PROCESSING, STORING, USING, AND DISCLOSING YOUR DATA AND PERSONAL INFORMATION. BY ACCESSING OR USING ANY PORTION OF THE PLATFORM THE INDIVIDUAL ACCESSING OR USING THE PLATFORM (“YOU”, “YOUR”, “USER”) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THEY HAVE READ THIS POLICY, UNDERSTAND IT, AND PROVIDE EXPRESS CONSENT TO THE POLICIES AND PRACTICES STATED HEREIN EFFECTIVE THE DATE YOU FIRST ACCESSED OR USED THE PLATFORM. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES, YOUR ONLY CHOICE IS TO NOT USE THE PLATFORM, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY, AND STOP INTERACTING WITH US. PLEASE KEEP A COPY OF THIS POLICY FOR YOUR RECORDS.
INTRODUCTION
Julian Dobre Professional Corporation (“we”, “us”, “our”, “DOBRMAN”) is a law firm from Alberta, Canada that provides legal services, content, and information to our users and clients, including the website found at www.www.dobrman.ca (the “Platform”).
This Privacy Policy interacts with and USER additionally agrees to the terms and conditions as set out in our Terms of Service. Certain defined terms in this Privacy Policy may be found and defined therein. Please review the Terms of Service together with this Privacy Policy.
CONSENT TO PRIVACY POLICY
By accessing or using the Platform or in any other interactions with DOBRMAN or DOBRMAN’S products or services, you state that you clearly and irrevocably understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. For greater clarity, USER acknowledges and agrees that any of the following actions shall clearly evidence, constitute, and denote USER’s express consent and agreement to the policies and procedures as described in this Privacy Policy, including when USER interacts with any Interactive Function of the Platform (as defined in our Terms of Service), USER enters into a written agreement with DOBRMAN, USER submits any data, personal information, materials, documents, or files to DOBRMAN or the Platform, USER submits User Submissions to the Platform (as defined in our Terms of Service), or USER engages in continued use of the Platform.
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Platform and DOBRMAN’S products or services, including after we make changes, indicates that you accept and consent to those changes. It is your responsibility to check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
CONSENT TO MAIL LIST & MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Without limiting anything in this Privacy Policy, by using or accessing the Platform or our products or services, USER expressly agrees and provides consent to DOBRMAN to send, distribute, or otherwise transmit to you any commercial electronic message or other communications or notifications, including for commercial and other promotional purposes; and you agree to be added to our mail list until and when you provide us written notice that you wish to unsubscribe in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy.
AGE RESTRICTIONS
Use of and access to the Platform is not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information from individuals under 18. If you are under 18, do not do not register for the Platform, submit any information to the Platform, use any of the Interactive Functions of the Platform, or submit any User Submissions to the Platform. If you believe we might have any information about individuals under 18, please contact us in accordance with the notice provisions at the end of this Privacy Policy.
GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS
The owner of the Platform is based in Alberta, Canada. We provide the Platform for use only by persons located in permitted areas of Canada. The Platform is not intended for use in any jurisdiction where its use is not permitted, including for use in Quebec, Europe, United States, or United Kingdom. Such users must leave the Platform immediately. If you access the Platform from outside the permitted jurisdictions, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with local laws of your jurisdiction.
USER acknowledges that DOBRMAN does not have sufficient capabilities to determine where a user is located, including to block a user based on its geographic location, prevent a user’s access to the Platform or certain features or functionality of the Platform, or prevent a user from completing a transaction on the Platform. If you access the Platform from outside the permitted regions, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with local laws and regulations of your jurisdiction. You must immediately stop using the Platform if your access and use of it as it is offered by DOBRMAN is prohibited under your local laws or regulations and in no way shall DOBRMAN be responsible or liable for your unauthorized or unlawful use of the Platform.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We collect and use several types of information from and about you (“data”), including: personal information, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, including demographic and psychographic information, and your name, age, gender, location, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, IP address, username, billing and account information, or any other identifier that may identify you; non-personal information, that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identifiable individual, such as statistical or aggregated data; technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, device and device settings, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, advertising identifiers and trackers, and information about your internet connection, hardware, software, and your usage and interactions with the Platform or any of our intellectual property, including on third-party sites, apps, or channels; non-personal details about your Platform interactions, including URLs, clickstream to, through and from our Platform (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs); and usage information, including as pertaining to USER’S submission of a User Submission, USER’S interactions with content, features, functionality, products, and services on the Platform, USER’S back-end information and settings as set by USER, and USER’S transactions, advertisements, solicitations, and engagements for products and services on the Platform and the details thereof.
HOW WE COLLECT DATA
We use different methods to collect your information, including through: direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by submitting or publishing a User Submission, by interacting with Interactive Functions on the Platform, or corresponding with us by phone, email, social media, mail, or otherwise; automated technologies or interactions, for example, information may be collected automatically as you use the Platform, including through cookies; third party software, including the use of third party plugins, applications, or APIs that enhance the Platform which may collect information on you; and third party tracking technologies, such as Google Analytics, Google Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, which may include usage details, demographic or psychographic information, IP addresses, advertising data, tracking information, identifiers, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
DATA YOU PROVIDE TO US
The information we collect directly from you on or through the Platform or through other means may include: information that you provide in a User Submission or by interacting with Interactive Functions on the Platform; information provided to us during the registration process, subscribing to our services or products, or mailing list, or as uploaded to your profile; information and copies of your correspondence and details if you contact us; details of transactions you carry out through our Platform and of the fulfillment of your orders; contract details if you enter into a contract with us; details, information, files, documents, and other materials you provide to DOBRMAN or to the Platform; and your search queries on the Platform and usage of the Platform.
DATA WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC MEANS
As you navigate through and interact with our Platform, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including: details of your visits to our Platform, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Platform; usage information about your use of the Platform; and information about your device and internet connection, including your device make and model, IP address, operating system, and browser type. We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services.
The information we collect through automatic means allows us to improve our Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns; store information about your preferences; customize our Platform according to your interests; speed up your searches and load times; personalize your user experience or user interface; recognize you when you return to our Platform and allow you to pick up where you left off; deliver advertisements to you, including on third-party websites, applications, or services; and save your payment preferences and information to make future orders easier.
The technologies we use for automatic data collection may include using Cookies, a small file placed on the hard drive of your device or your internet browser; Flash Cookies, that collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Platform; and Beacons/Pixels, small electronic files that permit us to monitor usage, gather statistics, and enhance the effectiveness of our advertisements.
HOW WE USE YOUR DATA
We use information that we collect on users or that is provided to us in order to: offer our products, services, and Platform (and content and functionality found therein) to our users and clients; to provide users information and fulfil their requests; to add users to our mailing list; to provide users with notices about their account or content; to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with a user, including for billing and collection purposes or to comply with legal requirements; to verify the accuracy or appropriateness of any User Submission; to monitor our Platform and enforce our standards; to notify users about changes to our Platform or any products or services we provide; to allow users to register for the Platform; to allow users to participate in Interactive Functions on our Platform; to allow users to submit User Submissions to the Platform; to manage our relationship with users; to deliver relevant advertising to users; to study and generate industry, market, economic, and financial data; to contact users about goods and services that may be of interest to them; to enable advertisers to directly market to users; to collect and measure data used to make the Platform and DOBRMAN and our products and services more effective; to train artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; to use artificial intelligence tools offered by third parties to enhance and improve our products and services; or in any other way we may describe when a user provides the information or for any other purpose with their consent.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR DATA
We may disclose your information that we collect or you provide: directly on the Platform when you submit or publish a User Submission or interact with an Interactive Function; to our subsidiaries, assigns, and affiliates; to third parties to market their products or services to you; to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business or deliver our products and services; to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law; to enforce our Terms of Service or Retainer Agreement, including for compliance and billing and collection purposes; to third party vendors and service providers who allow us to increase the quality and effectiveness of our products and services; or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of DOBRMAN, our customers, other users, or the public.
We may disclose and share your personal information and data with third party providers such as Google Analytics, allowing us to measure website traffic and usage; WordPress, our website provider, and plugins used on or found through the WordPress platform including Jet Engine, RankMath, and WPForms and; and AI-tools provided by third parties including Anthropic and Gemini.
USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
We use Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic, PBC, on our firm’s Enterprise subscription, to help with tasks such as drafting, summarization, research, and document review. A lawyer reviews AI output before it is relied upon.
When we use Claude, personal information and client information (which may be confidential or privileged) may be sent to Anthropic for processing. Under our Enterprise agreement and Anthropic’s Data Processing Addendum (DPA):
- Anthropic acts as our data processor and processes information on our documented instructions;
- Anthropic does not use our inputs or outputs to train its AI models by default;
- Information may be processed and stored outside Canada, primarily in the United States, and is subject to the laws of those jurisdictions;
- Anthropic applies security measures including encryption in transit and at rest, and limits retention in accordance with its published policies and our agreement.
Where required, we obtain client consent to this use in our retainer letter. If you have questions or want to know more, contact our Privacy Officer in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy, or review Anthropic’s terms at privacy.claude.com and anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms.
STORAGE OF YOUR DATA
We currently host our servers and data in the United States. Different privacy laws may apply that may or may not be as comprehensive as Canadian law. The governments, courts, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and other third parties may be able to obtain access to your data through foreign laws.
CHOICES ABOUT YOUR DATA
You can control the collection and use of your data including with: browser and device choices, including by setting your browser to refuse cookies; opting out of third-party advertising, by providing us notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy; and opting out of marketing communications, by providing us written notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy.
To withdraw your consent to the practices stated in this Privacy Policy, please provide us notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy. Please note that if you withdraw your consent or opt out of any feature, you may no longer able to access and use our products, services, or Platform.
DATA SECURITY
We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures to help secure your data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for your profile on the Platform and for keeping your password confidential. The transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your data on the Platform. Any transmission of data is at your own risk.
DATA RETENTION
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your data so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR DATA
It is important that the data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your data changes. By law you have the right to request access to it and to correct the data that we hold about you. If you want to review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your data you may send us written notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy. We may not accommodate a request to change data if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the data to be incorrect. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access the data, and to provide you with the data that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the data that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your data anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your data, we will inform you, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy at DOBRMAN to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. We include the date the Privacy Policy was last modified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Platform and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
HYPERLINKS
Any hyperlink in this Privacy Policy is provided for convenience only and is subject to change from time to time as the server, data, or destination changes, or as posts or pages are taken down or moved, and you understand that a wrong or missing hyperlink shall not affect the interpretation of this Privacy Policy.
CONTACT, COMPLAINTS & NOTICES
All notices and communications to DOBRMAN shall be delivered in writing via email to:
Julian Dobre Professional Corporation
Attention: Privacy Officer
All notices and communications to USER shall be delivered to USER in writing via email to the email address you used to contact DOBRMAN and/or the email address we have on file for USER.
We welcome your questions, comments, complaints, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy and digital practices. If submitting a notice, complaint, or request to withdraw consent or remove your account, content, data, or information from the Platform, please particularize and substantiate all information and evidence DOBRMAN needs to comply with such notice, complaint, or request, including to comply with all relevant rules, regulations, and this Privacy Policy, within thirty (30) days of the circumstances of such notice, complaint, or request being made known to USER.