SPARROW HEALTH INC. (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it by complying with this policy.
This policy describes:
Privacy laws in Canada generally define “personal information” as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. Personal information does not include business contact information, including your name, title, or business contact information.
Privacy laws in Canada generally define “personal health information” as information about an identifiable individual, if the information:
Any other information about an individual that is included in a record containing personal health information is also included in the definition.
This policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about you:
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes indicates that you accept and consent to those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. We will notify you in advance of any material changes to this policy and obtain your consent to any new ways that we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.
We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:
We use different methods to collect your information, including through:
Ontario’s Health Report Manager, from electronic medical record providers, in accordance with its policies and procedures.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect directly from you may include:
Information Received from Third Parties
The information we collect from third parties may include:
Information We Collect Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
The information we collect automatically is statistical information and may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways, that you provide to us, or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information and personal health information:
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information and personal health information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your personal information and personal health information:
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
The security of your personal information and personal health information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information and personal health care information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. [We store all information you provide to us behind firewalls on our secure servers. Any payment transactions [and [OTHER INFORMATION]] will be encrypted [using SSL technology].]
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information and personal health information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information or personal health information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information and personal health information that we hold about you.
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
If you want to review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information or personal health information you may also send us an email at [EMAIL ADDRESS] to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information or personal health information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete all of your personal information and personal health information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal information and personal health information that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information and personal health information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
We will provide access to your personal information and personal health information, subject to exceptions set out in applicable privacy legislation. Examples of such exceptions include:
Information that is prohibitively expensive to provide.
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us by mail at Suite 205 – 2009 Long Lake Rd, Sudbury, ON, P3E6C3 or by phones or fax at 706-674-3503 or 705-674-1729 respectively. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information or personal health information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page.
We include the date the privacy policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us at:
We have procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information, our compliance with this policy, and with applicable privacy laws.