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PRIVACY
BC Children’s Hospital and the Sunny Hill Health Centre
for Children are part of the Provincial Health Services Authority. We are committed
to maintaining confidentiality and personal privacy. Collection, use, disclosure
and retention of personal information must comply with the provisions of the
BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
What is personal information?
Personal information means recorded information about an identifiable
individual other than contact information and would include, but is not limited
to, such things as an individual’s name, address, birth date, e-mail address,
phone number, blood type and health care history.
What kind of information is being collected?
Unless you provide additional information, we collect only the
following information as you browse through our website:
• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address and browser-type.
• The date and time of your visit.
• The pages visited within our site.
• The address of the referrer website, if you have been referred to our
site by a search engine (or other site).
We collect this information for statistical purposes and for
evaluating our website to make it more useful to visitors. Our software records
the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of computers that contact our web site.
We use these addresses to generate geographic-related statistics, and to help
administer the site, in general. We make no attempt to link addresses with the
identities of individuals visiting our site.
If you send an email message to us or complete a questionnaire, form, or other
on-line survey found on our website, we only use your personal information for
responding to and processing your requests for information. Personal information
collected will only be used for the specific purpose for which you provided
the information and will not be made available to others for any other purpose.
Information provided by you becomes a record of the organization under the control
of the BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
We do not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information
about our website visitors unless required for law enforcement or otherwise
provided for by law.
Some of our web pages use “cookies” which are small
amounts of information stored by your web browser software on your work station.
In most cases this information is temporary in nature (called “session
cookies”) and is deleted as soon as you leave our website. The use of
temporary cookies is solely for the purpose of allowing the user to interact
with our website in an effective manner. In a few cases our website uses cookies
to store information for longer periods than the current session. In those cases
the web page is clearly noted and the user can choose not to use that web page
feature.
E-mail
Information sent to our website over the Internet is not secure.
This means that if the visitor uses the Contact Us page, or other e-mail addresses
published on this site, to send an e-mail, the information provided may be intercepted
as it travels to our website. We will not be responsible for any damages suffered
by individuals as a result of the transmission and information that is sent
to us or for any errors or changes made to transmitted information.
Copyright © 2005. BC Children’s Hospital and the
Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children. All Rights Reserved.
Last revision date: Oct 24, 2005.
Last updated: Sunday, August 05, 2007
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