Privacy Statement

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Last updated: September, 2006

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for the St. Michael's Hospital website. St. Michael's Hospital is a major teaching and research hospital that wants to ensure your utmost confidence in how information collected on this website will be used. St. Michael's Hospital promotes the use of fair information practices on the Internet.

St. Michael's Hospital wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy by disclosing its information practices and having its privacy practices reviewed by all visitors to the site. This privacy statement describes how:

St. Michael's Hospital gathers the information
St. Michael's Hospital uses the information
You can correct or change your information
Your information is kept in confidence
You will be advised on any changes in our privacy statement.

This statement also describes with whom the information is shared, and the rules which govern how long personally identifiable information is retained. If you feel that St. Michael's Hospital is not following this posted privacy statement, you should contact:

The Privacy Office
St. Michael's Hospital
30 Bond Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1W8, Canada

Phone: 416-864-6088
Fax: 416-864-6046
E-mail: privacy@smh.toronto.on.ca

Information Collection and Use

St. Michael's Hospital is the sole owner of the information on this site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. St. Michael's Hospital collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

Online Job Services Registration (Career section)

We collect e-mail addresses for job search notifications on a strictly voluntary basis. This contact information is used to:

Contact you should a potential position become available that we think may fit your profile.
Let you know about enhancements to our online job search service.

Foundation Event Updates

To subscribe to our foundation event updates we ask for your first name, last name and e-mail address. This information is used for the distribution of foundation event information.

Contact Forms

The website has a contact form that asks for personal information. This information is not stored in a database. The information is placed into the body of the associated e-mail and used to provide us with information so we may followup with your information request.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track visitors' movements on the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.

Cookies

We use cookies to help improve the content within our site by helping us understand how visitors use and how many times the same visitor will revisit our site. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent or you can choose to turn off all cookies. This can be done through your browser. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookie acceptance. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features provided by various websites, including personalized login sessions and the storage of your personal preferences.

Sharing

We reserve the right to share aggregated demographic information with various departments throughout St. Michael's Hospital. This information is not linked to any personal information that can identify an individual. For example, a department is notified that their portion of the website is the most visited section. As such, we would like to review and possibly expand the range of services provided within this portion of the website.

We occasionally partner with other parties to provide specific services. When a website visitor signs up for any services that are provided by such parties, we will share names or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Surveys & Contests

From time to time, our website asks you to complete online contests or surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary. Information requested may include contact information such as name and shipping address, and demographic information such as postal code, age level. Contact information will be used to help track the associated demographics of the responses. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this website.

Links and Intermediaries

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that St. Michael's Hospital is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. We encourage our website visitors to be aware to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website. However, intermediaries such as Internet Service Providers may make a record of your visit and log information to assist them in operating their businesses. In the unlikely event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency or other government agency may exercise its legal right to inspect logs of the Hospital's Internet Service Provider. Finally, this site does not provide facilities for secure transmission of information across the Internet. Users should be aware that there are privacy risks inherent in transmitting information across the Internet.

Correction / Updating / Removal / Retention of Personal Information

If your personal information changes such as your postal code, or if you no longer want our service, the option to exists to correct or remove this personal data from our database. Otherwise, we may retain your data as long as it is useful for its identified purposes.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change this privacy statement, we will post notice of those changes on our website. If at any point St. Michael's Hospital chooses to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, users will be notified by e-mail and have a choice if St. Michael's Hospital may use their information. Failing such notification, St. Michael's Hospital will use information in the manner described by the privacy statement in effect at the time the information was collected.