Privacy

KFL&A Public Health is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal health information. Personal health information is being collected under the authority of the following:

• Health Protection and Promotion Act
• Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
• Personal Health Information Protection Act and other legislated Acts

The employees of KFL&A Public Health collect personal health information about individuals directly from them or from the person acting on their behalf. Employees collect only as much personal health information as is needed to do their jobs. It may be necessary to collect personal health information about individuals from other sources, if consent to do so has been given and if the law permits.

KFL&A Public Health collects, uses, and shares personal health information to:

• provide public health programs and services,
• plan, administer, and manage programs and services,
• conduct quality improvement and risk management activities,
• compile statistics to assess the health of our population,
• comply with legal and regulatory requirements, and
• fulfill other purposes permitted or required by law.

Individuals may withdraw consent for some of the above collections, uses, and disclosures, subject to legal exceptions.

Protecting personal health information

KFL&A Public Health takes steps to ensure that all employees use personal health information only for the purposes described above.

KFL&A Public Health takes steps to protect personal health information from theft, loss and unauthorized access, copying, modification, use, disclosure, and disposal. Personal health information is kept confidential and is available only to authorized employees. Personal health information is kept secure in a locked or restricted area or in the case of computer records is password protected.

Requests for personal health records or general records 

You have the right and choice to: 

• request a copy of your personal health information
• request a correction to your record if you believe the information is inaccurate or incomplete
• request a copy of general records 

Submit a request by completing the Access or Correction Request Form. For immunization record requests call 613-549-1232 during business hours.

For more information about KFL&A Public Health's privacy practices, contact: Manager, Communications, KFL&A Public Health, 221 Portsmouth Avenue, Kingston, ON K7M 1V5

For more information if you believe your privacy rights have not been handled properly, contact: Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, 2 Bloor Street East, Suite 1400, Toronto, ON M4W 1A8 or 1-800-387-0073