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Member Statement
Membership with the Canadian MedicAlert® Foundation ("MedicAlert") is conditional on an individual's acceptance of the following terms and conditions (the "Member Statement").
I ACKNOWLEDGE and agree that:
On my becoming a member, MedicAlert will create and maintain, an electronic member record ("File") containing personal and personal health information that I provide or arrange to have provided to MedicAlert (together "my Personal Information"), which File will be identified by my name and held at 2005 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario M2J 5B4, and will provide me with: i) a custom engraving on my MedicAlert Identification Product ("ID"); ii) the 24-hour MedicAlert Emergency Hotline service; iii) Communications Pertaining to MedicAlert; and iv) electronic access to my File (collectively the "Services").
MedicAlert will use and disclose my Personal Information for the purposes of providing and administering the Services and where necessary for these purposes, may transfer or otherwise allow access to my Personal Information to third party service providers retained by MedicAlert to assist it in administering or providing the Services, (including the U.S.A. based MedicAlert Foundation International in connection with the MedicAlert Emergency Hotline).
I will advise MedicAlert promptly of any error, or change on my File, MedicAlert ID or membership card, review and confirm my File information at least once per year and I recognize that this is a binding agreement between myself and MedicAlert and, unless I sign and submit a Service cancelation release form, I shall be responsible for all Service fees that I owe under this agreement. Further, if I submit a Service cancelation form, MedicAlert will remove all identifying Personal Information in my File, and cease providing me with the Services; and I will stop wearing my MedicAlert® Identification.
MedicAlert, emergency responders and other health professionals (collectively "Responders") may contact the emergency contacts, guardian and or caregivers (collectively "Contacts") I have identified to obtain or disclose my Personal Information in circumstances which the Responders deem to be an emergency. In addition, in circumstances which are not emergencies, MedicAlert will discuss my File with my Contacts as necessary if: i) I have provided my consent or the Contacts are otherwise legally authorized to act on my behalf; and ii) the Contacts can authenticate themselves.
MedicAlert, its officers, directors, employees and representatives, will not be liable for any consequences of any kind whatsoever, including without limitation, claims, actions, proceedings, damages and losses arising out of or in connection with any errors or omissions in my Personal Information (regardless of whether such information is provided by me or by a third party).
MedicAlert may aggregate my Personal Information with other health information, in a manner that does not identify me or any of my Contacts , and use the aggregate information for research projects or studies of interest.
If I am a participant in the MedicAlert Safely Home Program, MedicAlert will also provide my demographic information to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, and the local Alzheimer Society chapter for the purpose of: offering me access to support and education; and unless I opt out by calling 1.855.581.3794 or by visiting medicalert.ca/mymedicalert information about how the work of the Alzheimer Society in Canada is funded.
- I will receive by e-mail or any other method of communication chosen by MedicAlert special promotions, and information on third party programs and services that may be of interest to me ("Informational Mailings"), unless I opt out by calling 1.855.581.3794 or by visiting medicalert.ca/mymedicalert.
I UNDERSTAND that I may obtain a copy of the MedicAlert privacy policy, more information about MedicAlert privacy practices and information about accessing or correcting my Personal Information in my File on the Canadian MedicAlert Foundation website at medicalert.ca or by calling the MedicAlert Chief Privacy Officer at 1.866.679.3217.
