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Privacy Policy & User Agreement

Primary Care Advisory Incorporated Privacy Policy, March 20, 2012

This privacy policy sets out how Primary Care Advisory (PCA) uses and protects any information that you give PCA when you use this website. PCA is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website; you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.  PCA may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from March 20, 2012.

What we collect & retain

We may collect and retain the following information:

  • name and job title
  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode,
  • financial and demographic information regarding your medical practice

What we do with the information we gather

  • We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with the FHO Income Analysis.
  • Once we have provided you with the FHO Income Analysis, all the information you have provided us is shredded and/or deleted
  • To improve website services

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us improve our website in order to customize it to our client needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

Consent

When you submit your personal information to this Website, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information for the purposes described in your user agreement and this Privacy Policy.

 

User Agreement

This Website User Agreement governs your (“you”, “buyer”, “subscriber” and “your”) use of this website and the relationship between you and Primary Care Advisory Inc.

Your use of Primary Care Advisory Inc. is governed by this Website User Agreement (“Agreement”). Primary Care Advisory Inc. reserves the right to update or modify this Agreement at any time and for any reason without notice to you, and you agree that by continuing to use this Website after we make any changes to this Agreement and post them on the Internet, that you are bound by the then current version of this Agreement. By visiting or using this Website, you agree to the following:

1. Your act of visiting or using this Website has the same legal force and effect as a written contract with your written signature and that you won’t challenge the validity, enforceability or admissibility of this Agreement on the grounds that you agreed to it electronically. You also agree that you have had an opportunity to print a copy of this Agreement for your records.

2. IN NO EVENT SHALL PRIMARY CARE ADVISORY INC. AND/OR WEBSITE, OR ANY CONTRACTORS OR AGENTS OF PRIMARY CARE ADVISORY INC. AND/OR WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE LINKED SITES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT, OR ANY PRODUCTS ASSOCIATED, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, EQUITY, TORT, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS.

3. You agree that in no event shall Primary Care Advisory Inc. and/or Website, or any contractors or agents of Primary Care Advisory Inc. and/or website, be liable to you for any damages (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, lost profits, or damages) resulting from the use or misuse of any information you provide.

4. Subscriber Conduct:
(A) Subscriber shall use website for lawful purposes only. Subscriber shall not post or transmit any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable, which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law, or which, without company’s express prior approval, contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services. Any conduct by a Subscriber that in Primary Care Advisory Inc.’s discretion restricts or inhibits any other Subscriber from using or enjoying website will not be permitted. Subscriber shall not use website to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users to become subscribers of other on-line information services competitive with website.

(B) Website may own copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound, and the entire contents of Website may be copyrighted as a collective work under the Canadian copyright laws. Primary Care Advisory Inc. may own a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original to it.  Subscriber may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. If the copyright is owned by Primary Care Advisory Inc., subscriber may download copyrighted material for Subscriber’s personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of Primary Care Advisory Inc. . In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. Subscriber acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.

(C) Subscriber shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on website any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the expressed permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with Subscriber. Subscriber shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. By submitting material to any public area of website, Subscriber automatically grants, or warrants that the owner of such material has expressly granted Primary Care Advisory Inc. the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material. Subscriber also permits any other Subscriber to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that Subscriber’s personal use. Subscriber hereby grants Primary Care Advisory Inc. the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made available on website by Subscriber.

(D) The foregoing provisions of Section 4 are for the benefit of Primary Care Advisory Inc., its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.

5. You agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or dispute against Primary Care Advisory Inc. or its Linked Sites arising out of your use of this Website or purchase of its products shall be governed by Ontario law without regard to its conflict of law principles, and that any such claim or action shall only be filed in the state or federal courts sitting in Ontario and you agree and expressly consent to the exercise of exclusive personal jurisdiction in such courts. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of this Agreement remain in full force and effect.