Fitness Physiotherapy exists for the purpose of assessing and treating patients with neuromuscular-skeletal injuries and chronic pain syndromes. We are a team of licensed physiotherapists utilizing the full spectrum of current therapeutic knowledge. Our goal is to provide exemplary treatment as effectively and efficiently as possible.
This is a private clinic. In many cases treatment is covered by extended Health Care Insurance, Automobile Insurance and WCB.
Fitness Physiotherapy Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to your privacy
Introduction
Fitness Physiotherapy is strongly committed to a “best
practices” approach to information privacy. As dedicated professionals, we work
towards compliance with the highest standards of information handling practices.
Our privacy and confidentiality commitment is an integral part of our
relationship with our clients.
Why we collect, use and disclose personal information
We collect personal information about our individual
clients for the purpose of providing therapeutic treatment, informational
services and internal accounting practices pertaining to them. We add client
contact details to our data database to send newsletters and other materials of
interest. Clients can opt-out of these mailings at any time by contacting us.
What kinds of personal information we collect
We collect a wide variety of personal information in
connection with our services. This information primarily relates to personal
addresses and medical histories of our clients.
How we collect personal information
Most of the personal information collected by us is
provided directly from the individual. In some cases information is provided to
us by an organization with which the individual is associated, or by medical
professionals. Information is also occasionally collected from government and
regulatory bodies such as MPI or WCB, or from publicly available sources.
Confidentiality
Our clinic adheres to the highest standards of
confidentiality and bides by the standards and ethics set down by College of
Physiotherapists of Manitoba and the privacy rules set forth by the Government
of Canada.
Disclosure
As a general rule, we only disclose the personal
information of our clients as instructed (in writing) by them. However, there
are a few exceptions. Circumstances of disclosure without consent include:
As permitted or required by applicable law;
To defend our clinic in proceedings;
To professional regulatory bodies, as required
Access/Corrections
As necessary, you may view or update your personal
information on file by contacting our Privacy Officer at 135 Roslyn Rd,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3L-0G7. We make every effort to ensure personal information
used or disclosed by us is accurate.
Protection
We will use reasonable security safeguards to protect your
personal information against such risk as loss, theft or unauthorized access.
Retention
We will keep personal information only as long as it
remains necessary or relevant for the identified purposes, as required by normal
business practices or as required by law.
Complaints
An individual who has a concern about our privacy practices
has a right to make a written inquiry or complaint to us. We will use our
internal complaint handling procedure to investigate and attempt to solve the
matter.
Privacy Policy
The Privacy Officer is responsible for questions or
information regarding our clinics privacy policies. The Privacy Officer can be
contacted as follows:
Robert Stegmaier
Fitness Physiotherapy Services or Manitoba.
135 Roslyn Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3L-0G7
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