Practice Privacy Policy
What is personal infomation?
Personal information means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person, including, but not limited to:
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information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the person;
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information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person;
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any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier or other particular assignment to the person;
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the biometric information of the person;
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the personal opinions, views or preferences of the person;
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correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence;
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the views or opinions of another individual about the person; and the name of the person if it appears with other personal information relating to the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the person.
What personal information is collected?
When you visit, browse, register, or interact through this practice or the practice’s website, the following personal information about you may be collected:
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Name and Surname
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ID/Passport Number
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Contact details
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Email address
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Location
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Health information
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Information relating to your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the date and time of your visit, the duration of time spent on the website pages, and other applicable statistics.
Personal information may also be collected from you directly during your intake consultation, or ongoing consultations.
Where the law requires that information regarding certain diseases be notified to the authorities, this practice will do so without delay.
This practice may also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose.
Aggregated data may be derived from your personal information, but is not considered personal information in law as this information does not, directly or indirectly, reveal your identity.
What to include in the Privacy Policy
Generally speaking, a Privacy Policy often addresses these types of issues: the types of information the website is collecting and the manner in which it collects the data; an explanation about why is the website collecting these types of information; what are the website’s practices on sharing the information with third parties; ways in which your visitors an customers can exercise their rights according to the relevant privacy legislation; the specific practices regarding minors’ data collection; and much much more.
To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Privacy Policy”.
