Privacy Policy

Protection of Personal Information & Cookies

Lexis Communications respects the privacy of all individuals who visit our website and utilize our language services. We also recognize the sensitivity and confidential nature of the data and materials entrusted to us by our clients. This statement of our Privacy Policy delineates our commitment to our clients and prospective clients, as well as visitors to our website, and describes the measures we have taken to ensure their privacy and to protect the confidentiality of all information we receive and process. We take all reasonable steps to protect any confidential personal information you send. If you voluntarily provide personal or confidential information in connection with the use of this website or by email, this information will remain accessible only to our staff and our IT department and only in order to comply with your request. We will not disclose any of your personal information to third parties without your consent.

Please note that this Web Site uses cookies for the purposes of visitor statistics and analytics. In this respect, non-personal information is automatically shared between your computer and our servers when you access our website. The following information can be gathered at the time of access, such as your ISP’s domain name, the type of browser and operating system you are using to access our website, the date and time of access, as well as the pages you have visited. This non-personal information may be used for analysis purposes as is demonstrated by such services as Google Analytics.

Option to decline the use of cookies

You can prevent your browser from accepting cookies, having the browser require user consent before a new cookie is placed in your browser, or to block cookies altogether by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser's privacy preferences menu. You can also avoid receiving cookies on the browser of your mobile device, to do so please refer to its user help manual or page.

Our commitment to you

As a visitor to our website or as a prospective client of Lexis Communications, you can be assured that we will carefully and consistently safeguard your identifying information. Your name and contact information (including mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers) will only be used by Lexis Communications to contact you and to maintain your account. Additionally, we will not disclose to any third party any identifying information about you unless we are legally required to do so.

As a client of Lexis Communications, you can be further assured that all information within files we receive for translations purposes will be held in strictest confidence. Should you require a specific confidentiality agreement before submitting any document or material to us, or to view our security clearance credentials, we will be happy to comply. Additionally, all hardcopy and electronic files and materials are both electronically and physically secured from unauthorized access.

Information sharing

Our website also displays a select listing of some of our clients' business names, with their permission. If there are any changes in your business or organizational policy concerning the display of your name by third parties or you no longer wish to be included in this list, please advise us accordingly by contacting us.

Your personal and/or company information will never be used as references for prospective clients of Lexis Communications, unless you have previously authorized us to disclose such information to a third party.

For the protection of the confidentiality of attached document submissions as well as that of email addresses, Lexis Communications does not use any web-based email submission forms. As no third parties are involved, we feel that chances of confidentiality are greatly improved. Nevertheless confidentiality of electronic communications through this website cannot be considered as 100% foolproof. In the event of needing to contact us, in order to send confidential documents, please call us to arrange for physical delivery, or alternately use an email encryption method.

Website Usage

The use of crawlers, robots, data mining or similar data gathering and/or extraction technologies - whether employed once or multiple times - for purposes of archiving or re-utilization of any elements of the Web Site, is forbidden without the express written consent of Lexis Communications. This includes all mass-downloading methods, Web Page screen captures as well as any other methods which do not respect the robots exclusion file and or page scripts. It is forbidden to sell, trade, share or distribute the contents of this Web Site or any data obtained from this Web Site to anyone for any and all intended uses, with no exceptions. Such methods are illegal and will be reported to the appropriate authorities. Logs and server information, will be used as evidence against perpetrators in any litigation proceedings that may arise as a result of such actions. This Web Site is the property of Lexis Communications. All unauthorized data extraction is thus in direct violation of our copyright.