Protection of Personal Information at McGill Financial Services and McGill Health Services

Questions regarding use of personal information should be directed to:

Peter Maccabe, Managing Director
McGill Financial Services and McGill Health Services
1 St. Clair Ave. West,
Suite 303,
Toronto, Ontario
M4V 1K7

1-877-624-4559
peter@mcgillfinancial.com or peter@mcgillhealth.com

Privacy on the Internet - Any item herein will be understood to pertain to both McGill Financial Services and McGill Health Serices and their respective web sites

McGill Financial Services and McGill Health Services respects the privacy of its Internet users and will use its best efforts to protect that privacy.

McGill Financial Services does not collect personal information that identifies individuals except when individuals provide such specific information on a voluntary basis. There may parts of the site where specific personal information is required before an individual can enter. For example, registration may be needed to enter a members only area, or to request a McGill Financial Services brochure or participate in an online forum. This kind of registration helps us to ensure that content standards on these sections of the site are appropriate. Information that may be requested in order to personalize the www.mcgillfinancial.com homepage or any other McGill Financial Services site section would be a similar example.

In all such cases, McGill Financial Services will collect only information that is voluntarily provided by the user and undertakes that such information will be kept strictly confidential. Individual information provided to McGill Financial Services to gain access to any part of the McGill Financial Services site will not be sold or made available to a third party.

McGill Financial Services does reserve the right, however, to perform statistical analyses of user behaviour and characteristics, in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of its sites so as to improve design and navigation and to gather marketing information. Only aggregated data from these analyses, not individual data, will be used for this purpose.

As well, users should be aware that certain non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by McGill Financial Services through the operation of what are called "cookies". "Cookies" are small text files that identify an individual computer's browser entering a web site. They allow the site to track that browser's movement through the site over several sessions. Through cookies, a web site can recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behaviour that will allow content improvements. McGill Financial Services uses cookies only for the above-mentioned purposes and will not use them to identify users or to track non-McGill Financial Services usage.

If you do not want a cookie placed on your computer by McGill Financial Services, you may disable cookies altogether by modifying the Preferences section of your Netscape or Internet Explorer browser (under Edit/Preferences/Advanced). Note that it is possible that some aspects of McGill Financial Services and McGill Health Services sites may be unavailable to you if you choose this option.

If you have no problem accepting cookies, but wish to be informed of their appearance, you may turn on a warning prompt by modifying the cookie warning section in Edit/Preferences/Advanced.