Privacy Policy

Who Are We?

Our website address is: https://societedesoinspalliatifs.hamakmarketingnumerique.com.

Introduction

The Société de soins palliatifs à domicile du Grand Montréal (SSPAD) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide high-quality palliative care and services at home to any person with cancer or another advanced-stage illness who wishes to live the final stage of life at home.

As an organization providing health care and services, support, and training to employees, partners, members, and, above all, the public, SSPAD uses personal information daily as part of its services.

We adhere to the highest standards when processing all information, particularly personal information.

This Privacy Policy aims to help you better understand our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of personal information.

By providing us with personal information through our website, filling out satisfaction surveys, or completing consent forms for care, you agree to the processing of this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and authorize SSPAD, its employees, partners, and service providers (medical record software) to process your personal information for the purposes outlined below.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites accessible via links on our website. If you follow a link to a third-party site, they will have their own privacy policies that you should review before submitting any personal information.

1. Personal Information We Collect

We may collect and process various types of personal information, including:

1.1 Professional and/or personal contact details, such as name, address, email, date of birth, and phone number(s);
1.2 Communication details, survey responses;
1.3 Recruitment-related information, including resumes, education and professional background, affiliations, and other relevant details;
1.4 Website usage and technical information, such as details of visits to our site and interactions with our online content (via cookies and tracking technologies);
1.5 Information provided within partnerships;
1.6 Details regarding services provided to you;
1.7 Any other personal information provided.

Please note that if someone provides us with personal information about other individuals (such as customers, directors, officers) we must validate that the information was obtained and disclosed with the consent of the individual concerned.

Where applicable, when consent is not verbal, we will retain evidence of consents given to us (date, time, means), in circumstances where such consent is necessary for the processing of personal information.

2. Methods of Collecting Personal Information

Personal information is collected in various ways:

2.1 During the provision of services;
2.2 When you register as a corporate member of SSPAD;
2.3 When you are recruited as an administrator;
2.4 During your employment within SSPAD;
2.5 When you make a donation;
2.6 During exchanges via mail, email, or phone.

3. Use of Cookies

You also share publicly available information with us, including on public platforms, including our website. In order to provide you with an optimal browsing experience on our website, we use cookies.

These files are used for various purposes, for example to dynamically adapt the content of the site to your browsing habits:
3.1 Performance cookies to allow us to learn more about how users use the site, so that we can make changes and improvements, if necessary;
3.2 Targeting cookies allowing us to track the sites you have visited in order to measure the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, solicitations or other events.

Our organization uses third-party website services, such as Google and Facebook, to promote its content and offers.

When you visit our website, these third parties may use cookies or other similar technologies on your hard drive to collect or receive information about your browsing on our website and elsewhere on the Internet.

These technologies allow us to deliver relevant and targeted advertising based on your interests.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can refuse their use by changing the appropriate settings on your browser. You can review cookies and destroy them if you wish. You therefore have full control over them. We advise you to refer to your browser settings to make the appropriate changes.

4. Use of personal information

SSPAD uses personal information in one or more of the ways indicated below, with consent and/or in accordance with applicable legal provisions. Personal information may be used for the following reasons, among others:
4.1 In order to provide our services and to conduct our business, to administer and execute our services, including to fulfill our obligations arising from any agreement concluded between you and us;
4.2 In order to facilitate the use of our website and to ensure that the content is relevant and that it is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device (cookies);
4.3 For communication purposes – to provide details on new services, information on developments in our organization and our sector of activity, invitations to events, training workshops or satisfaction surveys;
4.4 For recruitment purposes – to enable us to process applications for employment or volunteer involvement and to assess whether an individual meets the requirements of the role for which they may apply within our organisation;
4.5 To meet our legal or regulatory obligations
4.6 To prevent fraud and/or carry out other background checks that may be required from time to time under applicable law or regulation and/or best practice (if false or inaccurate information is provided or fraud is identified or suspected, information may be passed to fraud prevention agencies and may be recorded by us or by such agencies). Where we process special category personal information, we may also rely on important public interest considerations (prevention or detection of crime) or legal claims;
4.7 To enforce our rights, to meet our legal or regulatory obligations to provide information or to protect the rights of third parties;
4.8 To ensure that we are paid – to recover payments owed to us and, where appropriate, to enforce such recoveries by using debt collection agencies or taking other legal action;

5. Sharing of personal information

As part of its activities, the SSPAD shares personal information with certain third parties, including:
5.1 SSPAD employees and volunteers for human resources recruitment purposes,
5.2 Third-party service providers and/or partners, including those who provide us with services for: road deployment, accounting system, electronic medical records, database analysis, website hosting and maintenance, application development and other services.

These third parties may have access to or process personal information as part of the services they provide to us. We limit the information we share with these service providers to only the information that is reasonably necessary to enable them to perform their functions, and the contracts we have entered into with these service providers require them to maintain the confidentiality of this information and to comply with the Act to Modernize Legislative Provisions on the Protection of Personal Information;

5.3 Government authorities (MSSS, CIUSS and CISSS) and law enforcement agencies when required by applicable laws.

For greater certainty, we may disclose personal information and other information if we are required to do so by law, including tax laws, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in response to a court order or a government subpoena or search warrant, or otherwise to cooperate with such government authorities and law enforcement agencies.

Our organization does not sell personal information to third parties for any purpose whatsoever.

6. Conservation of personal information

We only retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we obtained it, including to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

7. Protection of personal information

We follow the most stringent and generally recommended security standards in each of our operations to protect the personal information submitted to us. These security standards apply to personal information held in Quebec and outside Quebec, both at the time of transmission and once we have received it.

We maintain appropriate physical, technical or administrative safeguards to protect personal information against accidental or non-compliant destruction, accidental loss, modification, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse or any other unlawful form of processing of personal information in our possession.
We have taken measures to ensure that access to personal information is authorized only to staff members or third parties who need to know it or whose functions reasonably require that this information be known.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or means of electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot therefore ensure or guarantee the security of the information you transmit or provide to us and you do so at your own risk. We also cannot guarantee that such information will not be accessed, obtained, disclosed, modified or destroyed as a result of a breach of our physical, technical or administrative safeguards. If you have reason to believe that personal information has been compromised, please contact us at 514 272-7200.

Should a confidentiality incident occur involving your personal information, we undertake to notify you and the Commission d’Accès à l’Information as soon as possible following our knowledge of the incident. We will take reasonable measures to reduce the risk of harm being caused and to prevent new incidents of the same nature from occurring.

8. Your legal rights regarding your personal information

In certain circumstances and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, an individual has the following rights:
8.1 Access
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
8.2 Accuracy and rectification
We are required to take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information in our possession is accurate, complete, not misleading and up to date. You have the right to ask us to correct any incomplete or inaccurate personal information we hold;
8.3 De-indexing
You have the right to ask us to stop disseminating your personal information or to de-index any hyperlink attached to your name giving access to information if this dissemination causes you harm or contravenes the law or a court order (right to erasure or to be forgotten);
8.4 Anonymization
You have the right to ask us to anonymize your personal information instead of destroying it, to use it but only for serious and legitimate purposes (e.g.: retention of information required for possible tax inspections);
8.5 Automated processing
You have the right to be informed when you are the subject of a decision based exclusively on automated processing;
8.6 Technological processing
You have the right to be informed when using identification, location or profiling technology and the means offered to activate these functions.

9. Notifications of changes to our Privacy and Personal Information Protection Policy

We may change the content of our websites and how we use cookies without notice. As a result, our Privacy and Personal Information Protection Policy may be updated. We invite you to consult it regularly when you visit our website in order to stay informed.

10. Contact details and further information

If you have any questions or concerns, if you wish to exercise your rights or if you wish to file a complaint regarding the protection of personal information, we invite you to contact the following person, responsible for the application of our Privacy and Personal Information Protection Policy:

Société de soins palliatifs à domicile du Grand Montréal
Cyrille Cormier
Director of Administrative Services
cyrille.cormier@sspad.ca
512 272-7200 x 225
Postal address: 1110 rue Jean-Talon Est, H2R 1V9, Montréal, QC, Canada

This SSPAD Privacy and Personal Information Protection Policy was adopted on September 29, 2023.