Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy: The Use of Personal Information
Privacy of personal information is an important principle to JM Nutrition. The trust placed in us by our clients is absolutely essential to our success. We understand that and do all we can to earn and protect that trust.
We are committed to collecting, using and disclosing personal information responsibly and only to the extent necessary for the services we provide. We are open and transparent about how we handle personal information. This document describes our privacy policies.
What is Personal Health Information?
Personal health information is information about an identifiable individual. Personal health information includes information that relates to:
- the physical, nutritional or mental health of the individual (including family health history);
- the provision of health care to the individual;
- payments or eligibility for health care or coverage for health care
Our Organization: JM Nutrition
Our website address is: https://www.julienutrition.com.
We use a number of support workers and consultants that may, in the course of their duties, have limited access to personal health information we hold. These include but are not limited to computer consultants, office security and maintenance, bookkeepers and accountants, lawyers, contractors, credit card companies, website managers and custodial staff.
We restrict their access to any personal information we hold. All your personal health information is private, confidential and secure. We also have their assurance that the support workers and consultants follow appropriate privacy principles.
Why We Collect Personal Health Information
We collect, use and disclose personal information in order to serve our clients. For our clients, the primary purpose for collecting personal health information is to provide nutritional counselling service.
For example, we collect information about clients’ health history, including their family history, physical condition and function and social situation in order to help us assess what their nutrition care needs are, to advise them of their options and then to provide the nutrition care they choose to have.
A second primary purpose is to obtain a baseline of health and social information so that in providing ongoing health services we can identify changes that are occurring over time.
We also collect, use and disclose personal health information for other purposes.
The most common examples of these purposes are as follows:
- To provide you with care and assistance based on your needs
- To make sure your service providers have the most up-to-date and complete record of your health history and needs
- To help us see where there might be gaps or overlaps so we can ensure you are getting the proper support and services
- For general administration and management of our programs and services
- To comply with our regulatory obligations to The College of Dietitians of Ontario and the Nova Scotia Dietetic Association.
- To obtain payment for services provided
- To advise clients about special events or opportunities (e.g., email newsletter)
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit www.julienutrition.com (“Log Data”).
This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics and Google Ads that collect, monitor and analyze this Log Data. This data is used to:
- analyze trends
- administer the site
- track user’s movement on the site (see which pages are of most interest)
- better understand your needs
- improve our services and products
- gather broad demographic information for aggregate use
None of the data gathered enables us to personally identify you.
What Information Do You Store?
We store user input data sent through the contact forms on this website, along with meta information about the submissions, including the time stamp, the origin IP address, and the user agent (browser).
Where Does The Information Go?
We use the Contact Form plugin to manage contact form submissions. The information is sent as email messages that only a select few are allowed to access. The information is also stored in the database on our hosting server for backup and later reference purposes.
How Long Do You Keep The Information?
We don’t set a particular time limit on storing information because we need it for future reference. If you want your information to be removed from our database, please contact us. We will remove it anytime there are concerns about your privacy.
Do You Share The Information With Other Parties?
No, although we do use some WordPress plugins on this website that may pass data, including personal information, to external servers to process.
We only use WordPress plugins and themes that are hosted by WordPress.org.
WordPress.org’s guidelines clearly prohibit tracking users without their explicit informed consent.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links To Other Websites
Our website contains links that lead to other websites. If you click on these links, JM Nutrition is not held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Visiting those websites is not governed by this privacy policy agreement. Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of the website you go to from our website.
Protecting Privacy & Personal Information
We understand the importance of protecting personal information. For that reason, we have taken the following steps:
- Paper information is either under supervision or secured in a locked or restricted area.
- Electronic hardware is either under supervision or secured in a locked or restricted area at all times. In addition, strong passwords are used on all computers and mobile devices.
- Personal health information is only stored on mobile devices if necessary. All personal health information stored on mobile devices is protected by strong encryption.
- We try to avoid taking personal health information home to work on there. However, when we do so, we transport, use and store the personal health information securely.
- Paper information is transferred through sealed, addressed envelopes or boxes by reputable companies with strong privacy policies.
- Electronic information is either anonymized or encrypted before being transmitted.
- Our staff members are trained to collect, use and disclose personal information only as necessary to fulfill their duties and in accordance with our privacy policy.
Openness About the Personal Information Process
The organization must make its personal information Privacy Policy available to the public. Individuals must be able to obtain and understand this Privacy Policy without unreasonable effort.
- Staff are trained to provide the Privacy Policy document to anyone who requests it.
- The Privacy Policy document will be accessible and visible at our place of business.
- The Privacy Policy will be posted on our organization’s website, where applicable.
Right to Access Personal Information
Individuals have the right (with some exceptions) to access personal information about themselves held by the organization and to know what the organization has done with it. This ensures that the personal information is adequate, correct and up to date.
Correction Requests
Clients have the right to request a correction of erroneous information held by the organization. The purpose is to maintain appropriate and accurate information on clients.
Retention and Destruction of Personal Information
We need to retain personal information for some time to ensure that we can answer any questions you might have about the services provided and for our own accountability to external regulatory bodies. We keep our client files for at least ten years from the date of the last client interaction or from the date the client turns 18. We destroy paper files containing personal health information by cross-cut shredding. We destroy electronic information by deleting it in a manner that it cannot be restored. When hardware is discarded, we ensure that the hardware is physically destroyed or the data is erased or overwritten in a manner that the information cannot be recovered.
Complaints System
The organization develops and maintains an internal complaint system and makes external recourse publicly available in order to be able to receive, investigate and respond to complaints. Every effort is made to investigate and decide a simple complaint within 30 days. For more complex complaints, the person investigating or deciding the complaint will advise the person making the complaint within 30 days of how long it will likely take to investigate and decide it.
While we will take precautions to avoid any breach of your privacy, if there is a loss, theft or unauthorized access of your personal health information we will notify you. Upon learning of a possible or known breach, we will take the following steps, as applicable:
Step 1: Respond immediately by implementing the organization’s privacy breach protocol.
Step 2: Containment: Identify the scope of the potential breach and take steps to contain it.
Step 3: Notification: Identify those individuals whose privacy was breached and notify them of the breach.
Step 4: Investigation and Remediation
Depending on the circumstances of the breach, we may notify and work with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. If we take disciplinary action against one of our practitioners (or revoke or restrict the privileges or affiliation of one of our practitioners) for a privacy breach, we are required to report that to the practitioner’s regulatory College. We may also report the breach to the relevant regulatory College if we believe that it was the result of professional misconduct, incompetence or incapacity.
Contact: admin@julienutrition.com