Privacy Statement
The McGill University Health Centre provides this site as a public service. We do
not collect personal information about you when you visit the web site. If you choose
to contact us by e-mail, or respond to an on-line survey, we will only maintain
the information as long as needed to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated
purpose of communication. Your personal information will only be given to a third
party if it is necessitated by your request for specific information. These third
parties are held to strict policies to safeguard the information and provide the
same level of privacy protection as the McGill University Health Centre and as are
outlined in the McGill University Health Centre Code of Ethics.
The McGill University Health Centre collects statistical information from the Health
Education Collection web site. We collect, temporarily, the IP address from which
you access the Internet, the date and time, the Internet address of the web site
from which you linked directly to the site, the name of the file or the words you
searched and the browser used to access the site. This information is used to determine
the number and the geographical location of visitors to the site. We monitor query
words to help us improve the effectiveness of the web site.
In an effort to help visitors to the web site access quality health information,
we provide links to other Internet sites. Once you have linked to another site you
are subject to the privacy policy of that new site.
Advertising Policy
The McGill University Health Centre does not receive funding for website advertising.
External resources (sites to which we provide a link) may contain advertising. However,
this has no influence on the content of our site and we do not receive revenue from
these sources.
(Last updated: Wednesday, 16 July 2008)