A Place To Talk... Policies & Guidelines

IN ORDER FOR A PLACE TO TALK... TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE SERVICES, YOU MUST CAREFULLY READ AND ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF AND AGREEMENT TO THE FOLLOWING POLICIES PRIOR TO SERVICES BEING RENDERED (for your protection and benefit):

1.) This is not "traditional therapy" in that you will not visit with a therapist face to face. This is a service for personal, online guidance, consultation and support. You, the consumer, are paying for professional feedback which is based on the therapist's extensive schooling, experience and ongoing training.

2.) While we use the latest in Internet security technology, A Place To Talk... cannot be held liable for breaches of confidentiality caused by the consumer of this service or by unknown parties (e.g. "hackers), or for computer-related technical difficulties, such as "crashes" or server errors.

3.) No information you provide to A Place To Talk... may be disclosed to any party by A Place To Talk... except in the following circumstances:
-- By your written consent
-- By your indication that you intend to harm yourself or someone else, or that child abuse or neglect has occurred or is occurring -- in these instances, by law, the relevant authorities must be informed by A Place To Talk...
-- If information is subpoenaed by a court of law
-- To assist relevant personnel in the event of a medical emergency.

4.) A Place To Talk... guarantees that your services will be provided by a masters-level therapist, that services will be conducted in a professional manner, that you will be treated with respect and without discrimination, and that A Place To Talk... subscribes to and follows the code of ethics as outlined in the Pennsylvania statues which govern Professional Counselors and Therapists. You must understand and agree that A Place To Talk... can only be held liable under the laws governing the professional therapists in the State of Pennsylvania.

Website Privacy Notice

Information Use and Sharing

We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone, and we will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access To and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via email at aplacetotalk@aplacetotalk.com.

See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve it. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. All website owners using Google Analytics are required to have a privacy policy that fully discloses the use of Google Analytics. This website uses Google Analytics.

Personal information is information that personally identifies you, such as your name, email address, or billing information, or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information. The Google Analytics Terms of Service, which all analytics customers must adhere to, prohibits the tracking or collection of this information using Google Analytics or associating personal information with web analytics information. This website does not collect any personal information.

Website owners that use Google Analytics have control over what data they allow Google to use. They can decide if they want Google to use this data or not by using the Google Analytics Data Sharing Options. When these options allow, the data is used to improve Google products and services. This website does not share its Google Analytics data with Google.

To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera.

Visit the Google Analytics Privacy Overview page to learn more about Google Analytics.

Consent, Changes, and Concerns

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

If we make changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

This policy was last modified on June 22, 2011.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email at aplacetotalk@aplacetotalk.com.