Privacy Information
I take your privacy seriously and will never share your personal details with a third party, without your permission.
GDPR Specific Information:
– What do you do with contact details made via the phone or email?
I store email addresses and phone numbers confidentially for the purpose of contact during the time you are in therapy. Once therapy has discontinued your details will be deleted digitally. I keep paper records for a period of 5 years in a locked file which is a requirement of my insurance. Once this period has passed all paper data will be destroyed.
– How and why are you collecting data?
I collect data for the purpose of the therapy and for communication purposes.
– How do you want people to let you know if they do not wish for their information to be kept?
If you choose for your information to not be stored this will impact your eligibility for treatment as The Counselling Couch needs your contact information in to arrange treatment.
Note keeping – All notes are kept electronically under a password protected file. The notes are minimal and for supervision purposes.
Cookies
Cookies and how they benefit you
My website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience I can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Cookies help me:
- make the website work as you’d expect
- improve the speed/security of the site
- allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- continuously improve my website for you
- make my marketing more efficient
I do not use cookies to:
- collect any personally identifiable information (without your permission)
- collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- pass data to advertising networks
- pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies I use below.
Granting me permission to use cookies:
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies I take this, and your continued use of my website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from my site, you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that my site will not work as you would expect.
My site includes the following which use cookies:
Social website cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share the content on Facebook and Instagram,I have included sharing buttons on my site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
I use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited my website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when my site isn’t working as it should for technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps me to continuously improve my website. These so called “analytics” programmes also tell me if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.
I use:
Google Analytics
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however, will likely limit the functionality of this, and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concern around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
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