PRIVACY

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http://www.drjimpsychologist.com

Dr. Jim Leonidas Ph.D., C. Psych.

Registered Clinical Counselling Psychologist

Canadian Register Health Service Providers Psychology

jimleonidas@mac.com

1.416.484.9912 voice mail

Skype Name: drjimpsychologist.com

10 MCNAIRN Avenue Suite H1 Toronto Ontario Canada M5M 2H5

Nearest major Intersection LAWRENCE and YONGE Streets LAWRENCE PARK NORTH TORONTO Neighborhood GREATER TORONTO AREA GTA

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Summary

I am Committed to Respecting and Protecting Your Privacy

Collection of Your Personal Health Information

Use of Your Personal Health Information

Your Right of Access to your Personal Information Health Record

Further Information

The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity. Daisaku Ikeda

I am Committed to Respecting and Protecting Your Privacy

The following statements outline my policies and procedures concerning the collecting, utilizing, and disclosing your personal health information.

Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. Hafiz

Collection of Your Personal Health Information

I collect your personal health information only directly from you, except: (a) when you have provided consent to obtain such information from others (e.g., reports of previous assessments or other services); and (b) where the law requires or allows us to collect information without your consent (e.g., in an urgent situation, where information is needed to prevent potential harm). I collect only that information from you that I believe is reasonably necessary to provide you with services. If we collect information from you for any other purpose (e.g., research), it will be done only with your knowledge and consent. If you decide that you do not want to provide this information, and it is not needed for your service, you are completely free to refuse. There will be no impact on your services.

The basic needs and rights of the human person to become a full human being, be fulfilled, grow in love, be loved, and love; belong, and be precious. Jean Vainer

Use of Your Personal Health Information

Your personal health information is used to provide you with service. This includes using the information for service planning, service monitoring, and billing purposes. In addition, I also use some information for program evaluation, quality improvement, trainee education, and risk/error management. All staff are trained in my practice privacy policies and procedures, including prevention of loss of information and prevention of unauthorized access. All staff members are allowed to have access to information about you only on a need-to-know basis. A staff person who knows you personally is required to let me know this, and is not allowed to have access to your record unless there is an emergency or unless you give consent. Your record occasionally may be accessed for external auditing, licensing, or accreditation purposes. However, I will not allow any information that identifies you to be taken out of premises for these purposes. All persons involved in such activities are required by law to maintain the confidentiality of any accessed information.

When you have love for yourself, it gives you the power and strength not to let yourself be taken down by anything or anyone. Renee Scalfani

Disclosure of Your Personal Health Information

With only a few exceptions, your personal health information will not be disclosed to persons outside this office without your written consent. The exceptions include circumstances in which disclosure is justified by law and allowed by my profession’s ethical standards (e.g., risk of serious bodily harm; need for confidential professional or legal consultation), or required by law (e.g., reporting a child in need of protection; reporting a health professional who has sexually abused a client; a court order to release information from a record). These exceptions are called ‘limits of confidentiality’. If there are other limits of confidentiality in your situation, I will identify and discuss them with you before proceeding with your service. When consenting to the disclosure of your personal health information, you may restrict me from sharing all or any part of your personal information. However, if, in my opinion, the information is reasonably necessary for another health service provider to provide appropriate service, I am required by law to inform the other provider that you have refused consent to provide some needed information. Although the law allows, under strict conditions, access to personally identifiable health information for research purposes, it is my policy not to allow external researchers access to information that can be identified as belonging to you, unless you consent to such access.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. Elizabeth Gilbert

Your Right of Access to your Personal Information Health Record

With only a few exceptions, you have the right to access any record of your personal health information, and to request copies of the information. If you believe that information in your record is not accurate, you may make a written request to correct your record. If I do not agree with the correction you request, you may file a notice of disagreement into your record.

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. Dr. Seuss

Further Information

I will speak to you to answer any questions, comments, or concerns you might have regarding these Privacy Statements. If you would like more detailed information at any time, have a concern about these Privacy Policies and procedures, or have a concern about the way privacy has been handled, please do speak, e-mail, voice mail, or write to me at:

Dr. Jim Leonidas Ph.D., C. Psych.

10 MCNAIRN Avenue, Suite H1

Toronto Ontario Canada M5M 2H5

416.484.9912

E-mail: jimleonidas@mac.com

Skype Name: drjimpsychologist.com

If you are not satisfied with my response to your concerns, your issues may be addressed to:

The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

2 Bloor Street East, Suite 1400

Toronto, Ontario M4W 1A8

1.800.387.0073

416.326.3333

416.325.9195 fax

The deep sense that every person is important, needed, and has a gift to offer to the whole. Jean Vainer

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