PRIVACY POLICY
Personal Health Information Protection Act
The Ontario Government has legislation, the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) that came into effect on November 1, 2004. This act has been established to set out rules for the collection and utilization of information that is collected about patients.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect personal health information about you. We collect this information either from you directly or from the person acting on your behalf (i.e a parent/guardian). The information that we collect may include your name, date of birth, address, health history, records of your visits and the care that you received. Occasionally, when we have received your consent, we receive and collect information about you from other sources.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Health Information
We use and disclose your personal health information as follows:
To treat and care for you.
To conduct risk management activities.
To conduct quality improvement activities, such as completing surveys.
To compile statistics to improve our programs and services.
To comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
To fulfill other purposes permitted or required by law.
Website Visitor Data
This website you are interacting with is hosted on the Wix.com platform. We receive, collect and store any information you enter on this website. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet and computer connection information. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We collect this site related information to provide our website users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support. We provide the option for you to adjust any cookie related settings upon first interaction with this site.
Email Communications
Emails are sent to inform you of upcoming appointments, confirmation of appointments, changes to appointments and news of clinic updates or changes. Clinic update emails are very infrequent and all such emails will include simple instructions for removal from our notification lists. If you have subscribed to one of our services, you can unsubscribe by following the instructions which will be included in the emails that you receive.
It’s Your Choice
With regard to the above uses and disclosures of your health records and personal information, you have a choice. You may access, correct, or request a copy of your personal health records at any time. If you don’t want us to process any of your personal information data anymore, please contact us at support@amandacressman.com
Our Pledge to Protect Your Personal Health Information
The following are a list of pledges to you that we have made to protect your personal health information:
We will take steps to protect your personal health information from theft, loss and unauthorized access, copying, modification, use, disclosure and disposal.
We will monitor and manage our privacy compliance.
We will take steps to ensure that everyone who performs services for us protects your privacy and only uses your personal health information for the purposes you have consented to.
If you have questions about our policy, please let us know.
Privacy Policy Updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on this website. If we make changes to this policy, we will notify you here on this site that it has been updated.