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Last updated: January 20, 2024

This site is provided by Dr. Pauline Lysak, a psychiatrist in Victoria, BC (see lysak.org for information about her medical practice) to share information about mental health care in BC. The primary goal is to assist people she cannot help individually in her medical practice. Most of the resources provided on the site are absolutely free. There are a small number of resources (e.g., books, courses) where there is a small fee to offset the cost of producing them.

This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by BC Psychiatrist, accessible from https://www.bcpsychiatrist.com, and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at email [email protected].

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud
Log Files

BC Psychiatrist follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies We use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Third Party Privacy Policies

We do not sell your data to third parties.

We use a small number of trusted third parties to help provide our services, and with whom your data may be shared in the process. The BC Psychiatrist website relies on the following third party services:

  • Kajabi: primary infrastructure the website is built on (hosting content, accounts, online courses, mailing lists, etc.)
  • Google: used to provide information on web traffic (Google analytics)
  • Facebook: we use Facebook 'pixel' to track web events for visitors who arrive via Facebook

BC Psychiatrist's Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party sites for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of our personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

BC Psychiatrist does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: