Privacy Policy

Updated March 8, 2008.

How we maintain privacy and security.
Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic (herein referred to as “Nielsen Clinic”) shares concerns towards one’s privacy and security of personal information. Nielsen Clinic is dedicated to protecting the privacy of our online visitors and is committed to ensure the privacy of all individuals and their personal information, regardless of how it is collected or what format it is held in. This includes any information gathered through our website. Please read our summarized policy to ensure you understand how your personal information will be treated in this organization. This Privacy statement summarizes our policy and our practices as it pertains to the collection, use, transfer, storage and disposal of personal information collected through electronic means.

What personal information does Nielsen Clinic use?
Information collected by Nielsen Clinic is used to:

Nielsen Clinic may use your personal information to create statistics about our website, services and other capabilities. These statistic are created anonymously and do not contain any information that may identify you personally.

When is your personal information collected?
Collection of Information: Personal data may, for specified uses, be collected via the web-site. Such information may include your IP address, name, address, e-mail, telephone and fax number. If you leave this information for the purpose of contacting us or requesting information, we will keep a record of that correspondence for internal data collection purposes. You may choose not to provide the information. To do so may jeopardize our ability to service your request.  

Other ways personal information may be collected are through;

The "Ask Our Doctors" Option:
Health questions may be submitted to the Nielsen Clinic, along with individual contact information in the Ask Our Doctors area of the site. This form also offers Ask Our Doctors users a future contact option. 

The "Nielsen Clinic Survey":
During any number of site promotions, visitors may be encouraged to fill out an online survey for Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic. This survey asks for contact information and user profile information like sex, age, education, internet connection, whether a family member has an ailment/disease, area of health interest and occupation. These questions help us define the needs of our users. We also ask if the visitor would allow the Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic to contact them in the future via email. 

Signing up for a Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic Newsletter: You may choose to submit your email address in the Publications Index, and sign up for the "Personalized Health" newsletter.

New Patient Form / Becoming A Client
When you become an individual client of the Nielsen Clinic, we collect personal information about you that may include medical information, credit card number, email address, address and telephone number, so that we may provide you with health assessment and follow up services. All information is collected with your knowledge and consent.

Request A Presentation Form / Buy A Treatment Package Form
When you are submitting an online form, we collect personal information about you that may include medical information, credit card number, email address, address and telephone number, so that we may provide you with health assessment and follow up services. All information is collected with your knowledge and consent.

Who may have access to your personal information?
Nielsen Clinic maintains strict controls over access to the personal information.

Within Nielsen Clinic
Nielsen Clinic and its employees who need access to this information to provide services to you. Nielsen Clinic has strict controls to protect access to your personal information.

Other organizations
Nielsen Clinic only share information that is necessary for these service providers to perform their role in assisting you. Third parties may require access to database information to provide technical services, such as e-mail and form processing. These third parties are bound by confidentiality agreements to keep all client and personal information confidential.

Except as provided herein, Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic will not sell to any third party your name, address, e-mail address and member name, unless you provide your informed consent, except to the extent necessary to comply with applicable laws.

You understand and agree that the Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic may disclose to third parties your zip code, gender and/or age, but only in the form of aggregated information (your personal information cannot be identified from these aggregate statistics). Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic reserves the right to offer you third party services and products based on the preferences that you identify during the registration process and based on your subsequent preferences; such offers may be provided to you by Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic.

Would Nielsen Clinic disclose your personal information to anyone else?
Nielsen Clinic will only release your personal information upon consent. However, Nielsen Clinic must comply with the law and co-operate with law enforcement and other officials in any investigations, including any information provided online.

Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.  All personal information will be removed and disposed of once it is no longer required for its intended use. Nielsen Clinic cannot however, guarantee that unauthorized use will never occur (e.g. that someone will not overcome our security measures), and makes no representations or warranties to this effect.

The information we collect on this web site is used to improve the navigation and/or content of our web site and to notify you about updates to this web site as requested. This information is maintained in a retrievable format and may be amended by contacting Nielsen Clinic.

If you would like to request access to review, update or change the information you have you have supplied in any way, you may do so by sending an e-mail to.  You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request the credibly shows error. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Access, Modifying or Removing Information:
You may at any time make a written request to find out what personal information are maintained, what the use of that information was and what the status of the stored information is. You may also modify or remove your personal information at any time, through written request. Written request should be addressed to our Clinic Administration, by e-mail at answers@nielsenclinic.com 

Nielsen Clinic continually requests that all individual clients provide us with up to date information so that we may provide informed and timely service. Nielsen Clinic reserves the right to terminate your newsletter signup if it learns that you have provided false or misleading registration information.

Changes in Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy for this site pertains to only and does not cover the any other Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic or Nielsen Clinic Network, the network of independent associations web sites linked to this site. Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic association web sites will be incorporating this Privacy Policy on an individual basis.

Nielsen Clinic reserves the right to change our Privacy policy as the need arises. In the event a change occurs, it shall be posted as a revision to the policy. Policy revised March 8, 2008..

Questions or Comments
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policies or practices, we would like to know what they are so we can address them. Please email us at answers@nielsenclinic.com  or by mail to:
Nielsen Homeopathic Medical Clinic
Unit 220, 1919 Sirocco Drive SW
Calgary, Alberta T3H 2Y3
Canada