Privacy Notice

How We Protect Your Privacy

We handle and protect your personal health information in accordance with Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA) and any other laws that we are required to follow. We provide training, follow established policies, and take other steps to ensure that our staff and anyone else acting on our behalf protects your privacy.

Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Health Information

Your request for care from us implies consent for our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal health information for the following purposes:

to provide and assist in the provision of health care to you through our services and programs;
for the purpose of obtaining payment or processing, monitoring, and verifying the provision of health care or related goods and services;
to plan, administer, and manage the operation of our services and programs;
to manage risk and improve the quality and safety of our services and programs;
for educational and training purposes for our nurses to provide health care;
to conduct research activities as approved by a research ethics board;
to comply with legal and regulatory requirements; and,
to fulfil other purposes that are permitted or required by law.

From time to time, we may communicate about your care with your other health care providers, including collecting, using, and disclosing your personal health information through electronic medical information systems (sometimes called electronic health records, eHealth records, electronic medical records, etc.). If you would like more information about the electronic medical information systems we use, please speak with our Privacy Contact.

Any use of your personal health information other than those mentioned above would require your express consent.

Your Rights and Choices

PHIPA provides you with certain rights related to your personal health information under our custody or control. Please communicate with our Privacy Contact for more information related to your rights:

to see and get a copy of your personal health information;
to ask us to make corrections to inaccurate or incomplete personal health information;
to withdraw your consent to our collection and use of your personal health information or its disclosure to other health care providers (subject to certain legal obligations); and,
to be informed if your personal health information is lost, stolen or improperly accessed.

Google Analytics

We make use of Google Analytics to monitor and analyze the use of our website. You can opt out from the use of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add On. Google’s Privacy Policy is available here: policies.google.com/privacy.

Our Privacy Contact

For more information or to raise a concern about our privacy practices, please contact our Privacy Contact:

Name: Sherry Hnatyshyn

Phone: 416-595-2720 #34830

Email: shnatyshyn@bayshore.ca

Mailing Address: 2101 Hadwen Road, Mississauga, ON, L5K 2L3

The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is responsible for making sure that privacy law is followed in Ontario. For more information about your privacy rights, or if you are unable to resolve an issue directly with our Privacy Contact and wish to make a complaint, contact:

Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

2 Bloor Street East, Suite 1400

Toronto, ON M4W 1A8

Email: info@ipc.on.ca

Toll-Free: 1-800-387-0073

TDD/TTY: 416-325-7539