LaSalle Hospital Foundation - Confidentiality policy

The protection of your personal information, particularly during on-line donations, is an ongoing commitment for the LaSalle Hospital Foundation.

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation considers it essential that you fully know and understand the rules it applies when collecting, using and communicating confidential information provided by you when you visit the Web site or perform on-line transactions.

Consequently, the LaSalle Hospital Foundation invites you to read this Privacy Policy very carefully and to refer to it regularly, by visiting its Web site, so as to keep abreast of any changes the LaSalle Hospital Foundation may make to its Privacy Policy.

A) Responsibility
The LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall be responsible only for personal information which is provided by you and which may eventually be transmitted to third parties for processing. It is possible that the LaSalle Hospital Foundation may share your personal information with service suppliers in order to verify and validate your information and to answer your questions. Service suppliers mainly include the credit card issuing companies.

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation is committed to taking reasonable measures to ensure that the information you entrusted to it and that is processed by these service providers is granted the same degree of protection afforded by the LaSalle Hospital Foundation. This commitment is ensured, if necessary, through contractual agreements entered into with these service providers. If you do not wish that the LaSalle Hospital Foundation share your personal information with these service suppliers, it may be unable to process your request.

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation has appointed a member of its team to the position of Privacy Officer to ensure full compliance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

You may contact the Privacy Officer by email at the following address: confidentialite@fondation-hopital-lasalle.ca..

It is possible that other employees of the LaSalle Hospital Foundation may act on behalf of the Privacy Officer or have certain responsibilities regarding the collection and/or processing of personal information.

B) Collection of your personal information
The personal information collected by the LaSalle Hospital Foundation when you visit its Web site, perform transactions, and particularly during on-line donations, is generally the following: first name, family name, postal code, email address, as well as credit card information for the purpose of processing on-line payments which are secured by on-line payment processing specialists Bean Stream.

C) Use of your personal information
The LaSalle Hospital Foundation collects and uses the information relating to you as an individual in order to better identify your requirements and meet your expectations, and, in particular, in order to :

identify you;

provide you with the services sought by you, in particular, but without limitation, offer the possibility of making on-line donations;

successfully complete the transactions authorized by you and, in particular, process on-line donations; and

maintain a history of your on-line donations.

The personal information provided by you to the LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall be used exclusively for the purposes for which they were collected.

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall not use your personal information for other purposes without your express prior consent.

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the personal information provided by you to it is up to date and accurate when it uses that information. Nonetheless, the LaSalle Hospital Foundation urges you to inform it promptly of any changes or corrections to your personal information by writing to the following email address: confidentialite@fondation-hopital-lasalle.ca.

It is understood that the LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall retain your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

D) Sharing of Personal Information
The LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall never disclose your personal information to third parties without your express prior consent, except where it is obliged to do so by law.

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall not sell, lease or transfer the personal information provided by you to it, particularly that regarding donations.

E) Opt-In and Opt-Out Rights Regarding Personal Information
The LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall provide you with an opt-in right and/or opt-out right as regards your personal information.

By using your opt-in right, you can agree to provide your personal information, but refuse to have such information used for certain purposes mentioned at the time the information is collected.

By using your opt-out right, you can ask the LaSalle Hospital Foundation to remove your personal information from, among other things, its distribution list.

You may exercise these rights by writing to the following email address: confidentialite@fondation-hopital-lasalle.ca.

F) Collection Methods
The LaSalle Hospital Foundation may collect your personal information through forms, through your interactive use of its Web site, through automatic collection through log files, or through cookies.

1)Forms:
Certain personal information may be collected from you through forms, such as the form used to process on-line donations.

2)Interactive Use of the Web Site:
Certain personal information may be collected from you through your interactive use of the LaSalle Hospital Foundation’s Web site, such as when you send correspondence.

3)Automatic Collection:
The LaSalle Hospital Foundation automatically collects non-personal information from visitors of its Web site. This information does not reveal your identity. This information is used only for the administration of and improvements to the LaSalle Hospital Foundation’s Web site. Log files make it possible to record information such as the IP address of visitors, the Web pages that have been visited, the type of computer used and the connection date and time.
The use of log files makes it possible to analyze the type of traffic on a Web site, such as the frequency with which certain parts of the Web site are accessed or the information that is of most interest to visitors.

4)Cookies:
A cookie is a small block of data that identifies you in a unique manner and is sent to your browser by a Web page server and then stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies cannot execute a program or introduce viruses to your computer.
They can be read only by a Web server from the domain that issued the cookie to you.
The use of cookies makes it possible to offer you customized and customizable services so as to identify you, allow you to access your account more quickly and identify the type of browsing you do as well as the areas you have visited, the whole in order to anticipate and better meet your needs and expectations.
You have the possibility of accepting or refusing cookies by changing your browser’s properties. You can also ask it to inform you when a cookie has been placed on your computer.
You are not required to accept cookies that might be necessary for the use of the LaSalle Hospital Foundation Web site. If you refuse the cookies, you will be obliged to tell us your preferences each time you return to the LaSalle Hospital Foundation Web site. If you refuse the cookies there is also a possibility that you may not be able to enjoy all of the interactive features of the LaSalle Hospital Foundation Web site.

G)Right of Access
You may, at any time, ask the LaSalle Hospital Foundation to allow you to consult the personal information that has been collected and request that this information be changed or deleted.

You may exercise your right of access, modification or deletion by writing to the following email address: confidentialite@fondation-hopital-lasalle.ca.

H) Privacy and Security
Your personal information as well as the financial information that you provide to the LaSalle Hospital Foundation are protected in the following manner:

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation has designated the Bean Stream Company to protect donations by credit card by offering SSL technology (Secure Socket Layer) to secure on-line transactions. This technology makes your personal information as well as any information regarding your credit card illegible while they are directed to the server during the on-line donation process. The LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall never have access to your credit card number while you perform on-line donations.

All personal information is held in a secure area, accessible only to authorized persons.

I)Donations Refund Policy:
Donations made to the LaSalle Hospital Foundation are non-refundable.

J)Customs Agency and Revenue Canada Requirements regarding donations:
In order to meet the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) requirements regarding donations, a register of all donations made to the LaSalle Hospital Foundation is kept. Personal information maintained in the register shall remain private and confidential.

K) Links to Other Sites
The LaSalle Hospital Foundation’s Web site may contain links with other Web sites or Internet resources. When you click such links, you are redirected to another Web site. The LaSalle Hospital Foundation is not responsible for the policies developed by these Web sites with respect to the protection of personal information. These other sites are not bound by the rules the LaSalle Hospital Foundation applies with respect to the protection of personal information.

Therefore, the LaSalle Hospital Foundation urges you to exercise great caution and familiarize yourself with the policies applied to the protection of personal information when you visit these Web sites.

L) Changes to Rules Applicable to the Collection and Use of Personal Information
This Privacy Policy may be modified over time in order to reflect technological and/or legislative changes. The LaSalle Hospital Foundation reserves the right to add, modify or retract any disposition of this Privacy Policy, at all times and without prior notice.

Consequently, it is your responsibility to regularly consult the LaSalle Hospital Foundation’s Web site in order to familiarize yourself with any such changes. Whenever this Privacy Policy is updated, the LaSalle Hospital Foundation shall specify the date that changes were made.

It is understood that the LaSalle Hospital Foundation will seek your consent regarding changes that could interfere with the collection or use of your personal information.

M) Information
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact the Privacy Officer at any time at the following email address: confidentialite@fondation-hopital-lasalle.ca

The LaSalle Hospital Foundation is a member of the "Association des fondations d’établissements de santé du Québec".