Privacy Policy

RCM HEALTH CONSULTANCY INC. (“we,” “our,” “us” or “RCM Health”) are committed to protecting your personal data and to fully describing our privacy practices, including how we collect, use, store and disclose Personal Information in relation to the services provided to you related to your RCM Health membership (the “Services”).

The term “Personal Information” includes personal information you provide during the intake process under your membership and health related information provided to us by our affiliated medical specialists or subspecialists in the course of the provision of Services including medical services under your RCM Health membership.

Your privacy regarding your personal health related information and your right to access health records are protected by law under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (“PHIPA”). Your personally identifiable information and customer privacy generally are protected by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”).

Please read this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") before signing up for the RCM Health membership. If you do not wish to share your Personal Information, the Services will not be available to you. By indicating your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and for the Services, you expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to RCM Health as a health information custodian, an agent of a health information custodian, its agents (including employees, affiliated medical specialists and subspecialists, contractors, consultants, and other workers at RCM Health, including all personnel affiliated with third parties), and to all programs, procedures, and technologies at RCM Health that involve Personal Information.

1. What Personal Information and Data Do We Collect?

To provide the Services to you, RCM Health will need to collect the following information during the intake process and prior to the provision of the Services:

  1. Full name;
  2. Phone number;
  3. Email address;
  4. Health history, your medication, immunizations, information pertaining to current health issues (physical or mental) and the name of your substitute decision maker, if applicable; and
  5. Answers you provide to our periodic surveys about the Services.

We also need to collect payment information. You can pay through PayPal or with a credit card. If using a credit card, we will encrypt the data collected.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

  1. Your Personal Information is used during the Services and to bill you for the Services. RCM Health, its partners and affiliated medical specialists and subspecialists will process your Personal Information only for the express purposes that it received the Personal Information, to provide the Services, and for no other purposes.
  2. In particular, RCM Health will not:
    1. sell or share any Personal Information to any third-party other than to our partners and affiliated medical specialists and subspecialists as required to provide the Services;
    2. process Personal Information outside the direct business relationship between RCM Health and our partners and affiliated medical specialists and subspecialists;
    3. combine Personal Information with personal information from third parties (except as permitted by applicable data protection laws); or
    4. retain, use or disclose Personal Information for any purpose other than to perform the Services pursuant to this Privacy Policy;
  3. RCM Health will promptly assist and co-operate as necessary to comply with the following:
    1. take reasonable and appropriate steps to stop and remediate any unauthorized processing of Personal Information;
    2. of any request for access to, correction or erasure of Personal Information, any objection to the processing of Personal Information, any withdrawal of consent, and any request relating to data portability received by RCM Health; and
    3. of any request for access to or surveillance of Personal Information received by RCM Health from any government official (including any court, data protection agency or law enforcement agency);
  4. Personal Information collected or accessed by RCM Health in the performance of the Services will be limited to that which is necessary to perform such Services or to fulfill any legal requirements. RCM Health will make its best efforts to keep Personal Information accurate and current;
  5. RCM Health will comply with all applicable privacy laws related to your Personal Information; and
  6. RCM Health will co-operate in responding to and contesting enquiries, complaints, and claims relating to the processing of Personal Information from any court or governmental official (including but not limited to any data protection agency or law enforcement agency).

3. Our Disclosure of Personal Information

By providing us with your Personal Information, you give RCM Health your express consent to share your Personal Information with our affiliated medical specialists and subspecialists as needed for them to provide the Services. The sharing of such Personal Information will be done through a cloud-based portal operated by one of our service provider partners who are PHIPA compliant. We do not use your Personal Information for any other purpose or disclose the Personal Information to any other third party without your explicit consent.

4. Communication Preferences

By providing us with your Personal Information, you give RCM Health your express consent to contact you using the contact details that you provide.

5. Security

We, our partners and our affiliated medical specialists and subspecialists are PHIPA compliant and take necessary prudent steps to protect your Personal Information by having in place appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard and secure the Personal Information we receive from you, including without limitation, industry standard security technologies. We, our partners and our affiliated medical specialists and subspecialists are continuously utilizing security measures to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access and against loss, misuse or alteration. Despite our efforts, however, we cannot guarantee the security of any Personal Information. Should there be a security breach or unauthorized disclosure of your Personal Information, you will be immediately notified, and we will take prompt actions to rectify the cause of the breach or unauthorized disclosure.

We keep Personal Information only for as long as it is required for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with the applicable laws.

6. Changes to This Privacy Policy and Jurisdiction

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. The use of Personal Information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will post a notice on our website, but in all respects, we will only use your Personal Information in accordance with PIPEDA, PHIPA and other relevant provincial privacy legislation that may be enacted in the future. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you participate in the Services after such changes have been posted.

This Privacy Policy will be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the Federal Laws of Canada.

7. Questions?

It is our goal to make our privacy practices easy to understand. If you have questions, concerns or would like more detailed information, please email our privacy officer at info@rcmhealth.ca.