Delivering Services Online
The Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel and its constituencies on this site are subject to all federal and provincial laws in terms of protecting personal information, notably when it comes to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector.
All laws related to privacy are taken very seriously by the Institut, which takes all necessary measures to uphold these laws.
This policy applies to all services delivered online by the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel and its constituencies: payment of event registration fees, purchase of software or specialized material, online donations, etc.
Privacy Protection
All personal information collected by the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel and its payment partner remains confidential. Only the person authorized to process requests for which the information has been provided has access to it.
At no time will this information be made public, sold, or communicated to third parties without your consent, unless it is to provide you with the service you signed up for or to comply with a court order.
By personal information, we mean any information about you that you have voluntarily provided to us that enables us to identify you.
Personal information that we collect about you via our website serves only to respond to online requests for service or products that you’ve requested from us.
Security
The Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel adheres to very strict and rigorous security standards.
Every precaution is taken to ensure your private information, which you send to us using secured zones, is protected against error, loss, or unauthorized access. All transactions flow to data centres through the Internet via a highly secure SSL protocol.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, which is a protocol than enables the encryption of exchanged data and authentication of the server. It ensures that exchanged data can only be decoded by authorized individuals.
Transactions are registered on computers at a secure data-treatment centre. Only data-treatment centre managers have access to these computers. The payment partner uses specialized firewalls and other safety features to block access to non-authorized computers.