Updated: May 18, 2025
Alex Thompson Consulting is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring confidentiality of your personal information. I take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information in my possession from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Visiting My Website
When you visit my website, https://alexthompsonconsulting.com, limited technical information (e.g. browser type, IP address, pages visited) may be collected for analytics and security purposes. Cookies are not used to track personal health data and no identifying health information is collected through browsing.
Please be aware that this website may contain links to third-party websites and embedded content (e.g. videos) hosted by third-party providers. Third-party providers may use cookies and potentially track your online activities across other websites. Alex Thompson Consulting is not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of sites other than its own. I encourage you to examine each site’s privacy policies and to make your own decisions regarding how your personal information is protected, as well as the accuracy, reliability, and completeness of material and information found there.
Inquiring About and/or Receiving Services
The types of personal information collected in the course of communicating and/or working with you may include your/your child(ren)’s name(s), date(s) of birth, address, health history, infant feeding history, and records of the care provided to you/your children. I collect, use, and disclose personal health information for the following purposes:
- to provide lactation assessment and care to my clients
- to obtain payment for services provided
- to conduct quality improvement and risk management activities
- to comply with my regulatory obligations to the College of Dietitians of Ontario and the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners
- for other purposes permitted by law
I will collect, use, and disclose only as much personal health information as needed to achieve these purposes.
You can withhold or withdraw your consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of your personal health information by contacting me (details below).
Third-Party Services
Secure third-party service providers may be used to facilitate provision of services, to provide service on my behalf, to perform service-related services, or to assist me in analyzing how my service is used. These providers only use your personal information for the purpose of providing their services to me and are obligated to comply with Canadian privacy laws and protect your information. For more information about the third-party providers I use, please click the following links: PracticeQ, Square Canada Inc.
Access to Health Records
You have the right to seek access to your health records that I keep and to ask me to correct a record if you believe it is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact me for more information.
Questions or Concerns?
If you have questions or want to make a complaint about my privacy practices, please contact me (Alex Thompson, owner of Alex Thompson Consulting) at 437-849-4402.
You also have the right to complain to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario at the address below if you have concerns about my privacy practices or how your personal health information has been handled:
Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
2 Bloor Street East, Suite 1400, Toronto, Ontario M4W 1A8
Telephone: Toronto Area (416/local 905): 416-326-3333
Long distance: 1-800-387-0073 (within Ontario)
TDD/TTY: 416-325-7539
Fax: 416-325-9195
www.ipc.on.ca