Our Commitment
Praxis Spinal Cord Institute (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates Ambulation (the “Website”) at https://www.ambulation.ca. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Website. We are fully committed to protecting the privacy of all users of the Website. We value your trust and understand that upholding this trust requires us to be transparent and accountable as to how we use any personal information you provide to us. We created this privacy statement to document our fundamental respect of our users’ right to privacy and to guide our relationships with our users.
This Website operates in multiple jurisdictions to achieve its mandate, and in doing so, the Website is compliant with Canadian legislative requirements, international data protection standards, and privacy best practices. The main purpose of these regulations is to govern the collection, use and disclosure of personal information and personal health information by organizations in a manner that recognizes both the right of individuals to protect their personal information and the need of organizations to collect, use or disclose personal information for purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances.
Use of this Website and the content is at your own risk, and neither Praxis nor its subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, service providers, contractors, licensors, licensees, suppliers, or successors have any responsibility or liability whatsoever for your use of this Website. We make no representations, warranties, or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete, or up-to-date. In no event shall Praxis or its subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, service providers, contractors, licensors, licensees, suppliers, or successors be liable to you or any other entity for any direct, special, consequential, incidental, or indirect damages, liabilities, losses (including lost profits), costs (including legal fees and disbursements), expenses, claims, fines, penalties, demands, suits, actions, proceedings, or judgments, however caused, on any theory of liability, and notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose.
What is Personal Information/Personal Health Information?
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual such as someone’s name, home address, home phone number, personal email address, social insurance number, gender, income or family status. Personal health information is identifying information that relates to the provision of health care to the individual. It can include patient survey data, patient reported outcomes, and abstracted health information. Personal identifying information such as your postal code and IP address is not retained, stored or shared by the Website. The only information the Website will collect are email addresses from those who wish to be notified of future projects or health calculators. These email addresses will be kept until the user unsubscribes to the newsletter or until this email list is deactivated, at which point this information will be destroyed. No other personal identifying information is collected or stored by the Website.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser and/or from the Internet browser onto the user’s computer system or mobile device browser for statistical purposes. Cookies do not damage your computer and they contain no viruses. Cookies identify the number of visitors to different sections of the website, visitors’ browser types, time and length of visits. They do not collect other personal information about our visitors.
Website Analytics
This Website uses third-party cookies from vendors such as Google Analytics to analyze and track users’ use of the Website. The use of cookies is intended to improve and enhance the experience of users by understanding our visitors’ preferences and measure website activity. We may also use the aggregated non-personal analytic or survey data for promotion of the Website. By accessing the Website, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to view their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer any personal information to these third-party vendors. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, however, users can be notified when this happens, or prevent it from occurring, by setting the appropriate browser selections.
Links to Other Websites
This Website contains links to other websites that may be of interest to the visitor of our Website. By providing these linkages, this Website is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, transactions, and functioning of these sites. Users submitting information to these third-party websites should review the privacy policies of these sites before providing them with any personally identifiable information.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Policy Updates and Changes
We review our privacy practices regularly. As a result, changes to this privacy policy may be made from time to time. The most current policy can be accessed on our Website or by contacting our research group. If you have any questions or concerns about our information handling practices, you may contact us at Praxis Spinal Cord Institute.