PROTECTION OF PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
The CPMDQ attaches the utmost importance to protecting all personal and confidential information collected from its members and maintained in its database. This information is treated as strictly confidential and is considered proprietary to the CPMDQ.
Such information includes, without limitation, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, academic records, registration and cancellation dates, and any other data provided by a member or stored in the CPMDQ database. Regardless of its format : verbal, written, electronic, or digital, this information is handled with the highest standards of care, security, and confidentiality.
The CPMDQ does not use, disclose, authorize, or permit the communication of any personal information to third parties, except where required by law or expressly authorized by the member.
PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENTIALITY
In accordance with Article 7.01 of the CPMDQ Code of Ethics, all information obtained by a member in the course of professional practice is subject to strict professional secrecy and is protected by a solemn oath.
By virtue of this oath, each member is formally prohibited from using, disclosing, authorizing, or facilitating the disclosure of any confidential information acquired in the exercise of their practice in complementary and alternative medicine, except in circumstances expressly provided by law.