Last updated: May 12, 2025
Thank you for visiting Unity Health Toronto’s Mpox Image Atlas website. With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you which data Unity Health Toronto (“UNITY”, “we”, “us”) may collect and use from you as a user of the website.
- Before you Use our website www.mpocsatlas.com (the “Site”) you should carefully review this Privacy Notice and our related Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”) and Cookie Notice. You should carefully review this Privacy Notice and our related Cooked Notice and Terms of Us and Conditions of Use. YOU ARE BOUND BY THE TERMS IN EFFECT ON THE DATE YOU USE THE PLATFORM. All terms not defined in this Privacy Notice have the meaning attributed to them under the Terms.
Notification of Changes
- We may make some changes to or update these Privacy Notice from time to time without notice. It is your responsibility to check the Last Updated date of the Privacy Notice at the top of this page from time to time. Your continued use of the Platform will mean you accept those changes.
Privacy Contact
Questions about this privacy notice should be directed to:
Information Access and Privacy Office
Unity Health Toronto
30 Bond St. Toronto, Ont.,
M5B 1W8
privacy@unityhealth.to
Types of Personal Information We May Collect
You are free to Use the Platform and are not required to create an account. However, when visiting our Site and when you communicate with us, we collect a certain amount of personal information about you.
- Personal information such as first and last name
- Contact information such as physical address, email address and telephone number
- Website usage and other technical information such as details of visits to our Site or information collected through cookies, your interaction with our Content and other tracking technologies. For more information please refer to our Cookie Policy.
The only other types of personal information which may be collected from you is information which you voluntarily provide to us for specific purposes, such as to ask a question. This additional information is not requested nor necessary for us, but we recognize that users may reveal personal information in their communications or social media posts.
Notwithstanding the purpose of this Platform, please do not contact us to submit your or another’s photographs or personal (health) information, including but not limited to your personal lived experiences, testimonials, information about your healthcare provider, or medical diagnosis. We do not accept submissions for Content on this Site. We do not provide any health care services or referrals. If you would like to participate in the Mpox Prospective Observational Cohort Study, please visit https://optionslab.ca/monkeypox/mpocs/.
How We May Collect and Use Your Information
We will not collect, use or disclose Personal Information without consent unless authorized or required by law to do so, such as in the following circumstances:
Email Communications
The Site has a Contact page if you would like to submit a comment or message. You may also contact us at our provided email addresses provided in the Privacy Notice, Cookie Notice and Terms. By voluntarily submitting your comment or emailing a message, you agree to the disclosure, and our collection and use of, your name and email and any information contained within the message or comment.
You agree and consent that by contacting or communicating with us via the Contact page, email, or on any other social media account associated with this Site, that we may use your Personal Information in order to respond to you as appropriate, though we are under no obligation to respond.
Please refer to the Terms on the appropriate use of our contact information and acceptable communication.
Mailing Us
You may also contact us at our mailing addresses provided in the Privacy Notice, Cookie Notice and Terms. By mailing us, you agree to the disclosure, and our collection of, your name (if provided), mailing address, and information contained within your communication, in order to respond to you as appropriate, though we are under no obligation to respond.
Please refer to the Terms on the appropriate use of our contact information and acceptable communication.
Cookies & Security
Details of your visits to the Site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, IP address, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access may be collected from our Cookies. This information may indirectly identify you or may be considered personal information in your jurisdiction (e.g., IP address). Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.
Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We will limit the collection of personal information to those purposes identified in this Privacy Notice or at the time of collection. We use or process your Personal Information in accordance with the consent you have provided, as necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, and/or as necessary in connection with our legitimate business interests, which includes, without limitation, activities such as to:
- Answer your mail, emails, or other on-line requests, and retaining a record of correspondence;
- To ensure that the Platform is presented in the most effective manner for you and for the device(s) you use to access and view the Site;
- For Site monitoring to check the website and our other technology services are being used appropriately and to optimise their functionality;
- To enforce our legal rights or to comply with our legal/regulatory obligations
We may disclose your personal information to:
- Our affiliates, who may use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy;
- Law enforcement, government agencies, and courts;
- Third-party service providers and/or vendors who provide website, application development, hosting, maintenance, and other technological services to us; and
- An acquirer, successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets
We will only disclosure your personal information to a third party when such disclosure is:
- reasonably necessary to respond to your communication;
- authorized by you;
- permitted under this Privacy Notice;
- required or permitted by law; or
- reasonably necessary to:
- conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process served on UNITY, such as in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process, or proceeding;
- to establish, protect, or exercise our rights;
- to defend against a legal claim;
- to protect the rights, property, or safety of any other person;
- protect and defend the rights or property of UNITY;
- protect the personal safety of UNITY’s personnel, agents, or members of the public in urgent circumstances; or
- enforce our Privacy Notice or Terms and Conditions of Use
How long do we keep personal information?
We will only keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the relevant purposes set out in this Policy Privacy and in order to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
No Guarantee
We take reasonable security precautions to protect your personal information in our possession. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. We do not provide facilities for secure transmission of information across the Internet. Users should be aware that there are significant privacy risks inherent in transmitting information across the Internet. Email messages sent to or from a website may not be secure. Confidential information should not be sent by email. Site visitors sending email accept the risk that a third party may intercept email messages.
Cookies & Analytics
This website does not currently use cookies or Googleand web Aanalytics. We use cookies that identify your browser. They collect and store information when you visit our Site about how you use it through which it is possible to record your use of the Site, as well as provide you with a better service and experience when browsing and for analytics. The personal data we collect through these technologies will also be used to manage your session. Please visit the Cookie Policy for more information. However,
There may also be intermediaries such as internet service providers who may make a record of your visit and log information to assist them in operating their businesses.
Except as described in this section, third parties do not collect Personal Information about your online activities over time or across different websites when you use our Platform.
Linking to Other Websites
This Platform contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites, which may contain their own web beacons, cookies, or other tracking tools. We encourage our website visitors to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The statement you are reading now applies solely to information collected by this Site.
Children
We do not knowingly collect information from children or other persons who are under 18 years old. If you are under 18 years old, you may not submit any personal data to us.