The BC-CfE creates, collects and maintains personal information for the purposes of fulfilling its mandate. This information falls into the following categories:

1. Data created or collected to manage the Drug Treatment Program, a service to the Ministry of Health
2. Data created or collected to provide health care services such as laboratory, physician visit or other clinical care data
3. Data collected for the purposes of evaluating health care service provision
4. Data collected for the purposes of public health monitoring and surveillance; and
5. Data collected for the purposes of performing research in the public interest.

The personal information in these categories are stored or organized in what the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act [RSBC 1996] Chapter 165 (“FIPPA”) calls “Personal Information Banks”¹. The BC-CfE has several databases, drives or other systems that could constitute a Personal Information Bank (PIB), and in order to be transparent about our collection of this data, has prepared the following list of such PIBs. For more information about how we collect, use and disclose personal information, please see our Privacy Notice.