Privacy Policy

Summary

  • This site is encrypted
  • E-mail form is not secure
  • Activity is logged for security/performance
  • Private data is not shared except with permission or for legal compliance
  • HIPAA protects health data collected in my office

Personal Health Information

As a counselor and psychotherapist I take the issue of privacy very seriously. Everyone receives my Notice of Privacy Practices when they begin counseling or therapy with me which describes privacy protections for people meeting with me in my office. For more information about your rights and health information privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) please see https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/index.html.

This rest of this page describes my privacy policy for visitors to my website.

Personal Information You Provide

My website collects personal information if a visitor chooses to use the e-mail form on the Contact page. This website is encrypted when accessed via HTTP, however anything voluntarily sent via the e-mail form could potentially be intercepted and read by unknown parties because it is not end-to-end encrypted and network connections in between this site and the recipient may not be secure. In order to submit the form the sender must tick a checkbox acknowledging that they accept that risk. I do not rent, sell, or otherwise share this information with anyone. The messages are stored by my e-mail service (Google) and subject to their Privacy Policy as well: https://policies.google.com/privacy

When you contact me the following information may be collected:

  • For appointments we may collect your name, telephone number, mailing, and e-mail addresses.
  • Upon a consultation we may ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, lifestyle, health conditions and well-being – in order to ensure delivery of the best service(s) to you – this information will not be disclosed or used for any marketing purposes.

How your information will be used:

  • Internal client record management
  • To improve services available to you and other clients
  • To follow up, either by e-mail, phone, or mail, with you have received therapy as part of customer care procedure.
  • To communicate with you by email or phone about specific appointments in response to an inquiry
  • Where permission from you has been obtained or you have legitimately expressed an interest, information may be provided regarding new treatments, special offers, or other information I believe you may find interesting or from which you may benefit.

Data Collected By My Website

My website is hosted by a subsidiary of Endurance International Group which also collects information about your browsing activity on my site for the purposes of security, load balancing, and diagnostics. This data is not shared with third-parties, with the exception of proper requests for information from law enforcement. You can read my web host's Privacy Policy here: https://www.endurance.com/privacy/privacy

Your IP address will automatically be added to a server activity log file viewable by both the aforementioned web hosting company and my webmaster (http://www.kmhcreative.com). An IP address by itself cannot directly identify an individual, but in conjunction with other information it might be personally identifying. These log files are only retained for 24 hours and are only used for security and diagnostic purposes. However the IP address may, during that period, be copied to or used by other web analytics services and or software, along with the collection of other information about your browsing activities on this site. This information is only used to analyze the performance of this site and is neither shared nor sold. Currently this site uses Webalyzer and AWStats. The data they collect, and whether it is anonymized or not, is under the control of my web hosting company. You can read about these programs here: http://www.awstats.org/ and http://www.webalizer.org/

Cookie Files

My website doesn't set or use any cookies. Embedded content may try to set third-party cookies if allowed by your browser. For full details please refer to my Cookie Notice

Disclosure of Information

Though I do everything I can to preserve the privacy of visitors to my website, information may need to disclosed when required by law and where I have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process.

This Privacy Policy may be amended in the future. Last revised on 4 August 2018.