Other PFRC Policies

Privacy Policy

The information that you provide to the librarians, in person, by phone or by e-mail is considered confidential and will only be used by the librarians in order to answer your questions. It will not be shared with any third party, including your health care professionals, or used for any other purpose except with your permission, or at your request. The information that you provide is kept for as long as needed to fill your request and then it is safely discarded. We retain only information about the general type of question you have asked so that we can better understand the needs of our users and add contents to the PFRC website. This information is not connected with your name.

We collect information about visits to the PFRC website. This information is not connected with your name. We collect statistics about your visit in order improve the PFRC website and to ensure that we provide information on the topics that interest you. We look at the keywords used and add material to the PFRC web site on a regular basis based on the recent searches. 

Although the PFRC website is part of the larger Jewish General Hospital website, this privacy policy applies only to the PFRC web site. You can also access the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal’s  Online Privacy Policy.

Once you click on one of the links to an external resource, our privacy policy no longer applies. Please check the privacy policy of the selected website in order to learn what information they collect and how they will use it.

Advertising Policy

The PFRC web site DOES NOT:

  • display any advertising
  • sell or promote any commercial products
  • receive any money from advertisers.

We do not provide links to external sources unless these sources comply with our Collection Policy.

When you click on one of our links to an external resource, our advertising policy no longer applies and there may be advertising displayed.

Although the PFRC website is part of the larger Jewish General Hospital website, this advertising policy applies only to the PFRC web site.

Content Authors

The content of the PFRC website, including this page, is created by the CIUSSS librarians. Links to external resources are selected by the CIUSSS librarians, but the content of those resources is not created by them. Verify each external link to find their authors.

Although the PFRC web site is part of the larger JGH hospital website, this information about content authors applies only to the PFRC website.

Web Team

The PFRC website is developed and maintained by the CIUSSS librarians. If you have any questions or concerns about the content, or would like to report a technical problem or broken link, please contact the CIUSSS librarians by email at   library.jgh@mail.mcgill.ca.

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