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Acquisition and Privacy Policy

Francois Renaud, hereinafter “the sexologist”, recognizes the importance of ensuring the protection of personal information collected via his website or by any other technological means. As such, sexologists are responsible for the protection of personal information held or entrusted, as the case may be, to a third party.

“Personal information” means any information about a natural person that directly or indirectly identifies that individual.

This Privacy Policy applies to any person who visits this website and uses the various services presented on it or interacts with the sexologist through the website or any other technological means.

The policy sets out how the sexologist protects your personal information in order to take into account the requirements of the laws applicable in this area in Quebec, namely:

  • Professional Code (CQLR, c. C-26);
  • Code of ethics of sexologists (CQLR, c. C-26, r. 222.1.2.01);
  • Regulation respecting the records, consulting rooms and other offices and cessation of practice of members of the Ordre professionnel des sexologues du Québec (CQLR, c. C-26, r. 222.1.4);
  • An Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (CQLR, c. P-39.1).

As sexologists, psychotherapists and self-employed workers, each of our sexologists and sexologist psychotherapists will now have the following responsibilities within the clinic regarding their clientele:

  • Respond to requests relating to personal information (e.g., access, rectification, transfer of dissemination, etc.)
  • Implement governance rules relating to personal information
  • Notify the Commission d’accès à l’information of any confidentiality incident involving personal information
  • Keep a record of confidentiality incidents involving personal information

For any additional information, please contact your sexologist or psychotherapist directly. It is also possible to contact.

Francois Renaud, Clinical Director, Sexologist Psychotherapist

438 934 1287

www.lesexologue.ca

As sexologists, psychotherapists and self-employed workers, we are committed to ensuring a professional, safe and trustworthy work environment. To provide you with optimal care and excellent service, we collect certain personal information (full name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, employment) and health information (medical and/or psychological information, medications) that we (a) collect from you, (b) receive from your other health care providers with your consent.

Your personal information will never be collected, disclosed or used without your knowledge of the facts or your consent. Only people who have a need to know information for clinical reasons, and at your written and signed request, will be able to access it. In the same vein, we adhere to the principle of disclosing only the information that is essential to the patient’s needs.

We ourselves are designated as Data and Privacy Officers. If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact Francois Renaud at in**@ue.ca

We appreciate your feedback.

How

do we use your information?

We believe it is important for you to know how we use your information. To this end, we collect, use and disclose information about you only for the following purposes:

  • Provide safe and effective patient care
  • Ensure high-quality service
  • Assess your mental and sexual health needs
  • Establish and maintain communication with you, including scheduling and reminding you of appointments
  • Allow us to contact you
  • Dispatch help in the event of an emergency (e.g., suicidal crisis)
  • Communicate with other health care professionals involved in your care
  • Enable us to effectively track treatment, care and billing
  • Comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including communicating with the Privacy Commissioner or any statutory review board
  • Comply with a court order in the event of legal proceedings
  • Billing for goods and services
  • Collect outstanding accounts
  • Comply with regulatory requirements and the law in general

The previous list is rather long, as we wanted it to be as comprehensive as possible. However, it is very likely that as far as you are concerned, a number of these elements will never apply.

Before using or disclosing personal information for a purpose other than those identified above, we will inform you of the new purpose and we will only do so with your consent.

Electronic communication

We may communicate with you electronically such as emails if you choose to do so. We will collect your signed authorization before sending you supplements to the therapy. All messages from our offices must comply with privacy and anti-spam legislation. If you no longer wish to receive CEM communications (commercial electronic message), You may notify each other in writing and we will cease mailings. The information provided in our contact form is maintained on our WordPress portal with the app Contact form 7 and Flamingo and in our inbox: in**@ue.ca. Only Francois Renaud has access to this email box. Our website manager, Blackcat, has access to Flamingo, but they do not visit it. These emails are also forwarded to the assigned sexologist (psychotherapist) once an appointment is confirmed by phone or email. These emails are regularly deleted and put in the garbage box, and are deleted after a period of time automatically.

Questions or concerns about our clinic’s CEMs can be directed by phone at 438 934 1287 . Please note that in the event of errors in the transmission of an email, we will be required to report ourselves to the Commission d’accès à l’Information and that a register of confidentiality incidents must be kept.

How is your information stored?

Your information may be saved in physical form (records, templates, etc.). They are then stored in a secure filing cabinet or a locked safe. Digital information can be saved on encrypted file servers in secure/access-controlled locations such as BaseDpsy. Digital information is protected by two passwords. Our systems are protected by industry-standard computer security hardware and software.

As an information manager, we use the highest standards and best technologies as well as a robust cybersecurity program to protect patient privacy and ensure compliance with all local and federal laws.

We would like to add that we are and have always been subject to the code of ethics of the professional order of sexologists of Quebec.

Subscription to the newsletter or access to the webinar or the purchase of a product online

Payments are made either through PayPal (privacy policy) or Stripe (privacy policy) for the purchase of our webinars or online program. Online products such as the training on desire or the Rekindling Sexual Desire program are supported by the KAJABI (Security and Confidential Information Policy) platform (Protection of Information). These platforms may maintain the following information about you following a purchase.

  • Credit card # (if selected)
  • first name, last name
  • Address
  • date of party

These platforms may also place Cookies on your computer and they have their own privacy policies to maintain in these circumstances. No information collected on our end is shared under any circumstances.

When

you are on our website, several pieces of information are collected through cookies that Google Analytics puts on the platform to have access. The following information may be counted in our Google Analytics account:

  • Gender (male, female)
  • Type of computer used Type
  • of browser or browser used
  • Geolocation
  • Type of device (computer, laptop, cell phone, tablet)
  • The sequence of pages you visited on our site
  • The frequency and duration of your visit to the site and to each of the pages
  • Words used on Google search to find our website
  • Origin of your visit to our site: Organic, pay per click, Facebook, etc.

For more information, it is possible to read this article

Insofar as we collect your personal information using cookies, in order to identify you, locate you or carry out profiling, this collection will only be carried out if you consent to the activation of these technological tools.

In addition to these cookies, we also use cookies that are said to be “necessary” or “strictly necessary” for the operation of our website and therefore cannot be disabled.

Who may have access to your information:

  • You or your legal representative
  • Professionals and employees of the clinic whose duties require them to use patient records may have access to them for the strict performance of their duties.
  • To any person authorized by law to have access to this information
  • To an entity involved in research, studies, statistical production or necessary for a commercial transaction provided that the said information is transmitted in a de-identified and anonymized manner,To
  • any person to whom you have authorized access to the information contained in your file, in writing in a specific way.

Consent – collection, use and disclosure

  • The clinic team obtains your consent before collecting, using or disclosing your personal information to third parties, except as provided by law.
  • Under no circumstances will the clinic team use or disclose personal information without your consent, unless authorized or required to do so under applicable legislation.

You may withdraw your consent to the use and disclosure of personal information already collected by the sexologist at any time. You can exercise your right by contacting the sexologist (contact information below). Withdrawing your consent may prevent us from providing or continuing to provide you with certain services.

By visiting our website or by providing us with personal information (by email, by filling out one of our online forms, by phone, through our social networks, during meetings, etc.), the sexologist considers that you consent to the collection of such information, as well as to its use and communication for the purposes mentioned above.

Who can have access to your information:

  • You or your legal representative
  • Clinic professionals and employees whose duties require them to use patient records may have access to it for the strict performance of their duties.
  • To any person authorized by law to have access to this information
  • To any person to whom you have authorized access to the information contained in your file, in writing in a specific way.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is up to date. Please inform us of any changes to these. In addition, you may submit a request for:

  • access to your personal information;
  • rectification of your personal information;
  • withdraw your consent to the use or disclosure of your personal information;
  • portability;
  • ceasing the dissemination of your personal information, de-indexing

Make a complaint, a request, a request for information or de-indexing

For this type of request, simply contact your sexologist assigned to your file and Francois Renaud

in**@ue.ca

438 934 1287

Policy date: November 17, 2023

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