Last updated June 2026. Treadstone Law is licensed by the Law Society of Ontario.
Treadstone Law (“we”, “us”) is committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and our professional obligations to the Law Society of Ontario.
We collect only what we need to provide legal services and operate this website:
Your information is used to open and manage your file, communicate with you, meet our legal and regulatory obligations, and improve our services. We do not sell your personal information — ever.
Files and documents are stored using 256-bit encryption in access-controlled systems. When our client portal launches, communications through it will be encrypted in transit and at rest. Access is limited to the staff working on your matter.
When you submit a question through Ask a Lawyer, we use Claude, an AI assistant built by Anthropic, through our own private tools to help prepare a first draft of a reply and, where appropriate, a general-information version for the website. Claude only ever sees the question you submit — it has no access to your file, our other clients’ information, or anything else in our systems.
Every draft is reviewed, edited, and approved by a member of our team before anything is sent to you or published. No AI-drafted content ever reaches you or the website without a human review.
Your question and our reply are stored securely in Vercel’s private file storage (not a public database) until your question is answered. We plan to delete them automatically once answered; until that automated process is built, we clear answered questions manually on a regular basis.
With your consent, we may publish an anonymized, general version of your question and our answer to help others with similar questions — your name, contact details, and any identifying specifics are removed first. You can tell us not to when you submit your question.
You may request access to, or correction of, the personal information we hold about you. To make a request, or to ask a privacy question, contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@treadstonelaw.ca.
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