Protection of Personal Information at McGill Health Services
Questions regarding use of personal information should be directed to:
Peter Maccabe, Managing Director
McGill Health Services
1 St. Clair Avenue West, Suite 303
Toronto, ON, M4V 1K7
1-877-624-4559
peter@comprehensivehealth.ca or peter@mcgillhealth.com
Privacy on the Internet - Any item herein will be understood to pertain to McGill Health Serices and its web sites
McGill Health Services respects the privacy of its Internet
users and will use its best efforts to protect that privacy.
McGill Health 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 Health 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.comprehensivehealth.ca
homepage or any other McGill Health Services site section
would be a similar example.
In all such cases, McGill Health 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 Health Services to gain
access to any part of the McGill Health Services site will
not be sold or made available to a third party.
McGill Health 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 Health 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 Health Services uses cookies only for the above-mentioned purposes and will not use them to identify users or to track non-McGill Health Services usage.
If you do not want a cookie placed on your computer by McGill Health 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 Health 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.
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