Website Privacy Policy
How this website collects, uses, and protects information when you visit or contact the practice online.
DRAFT — REQUIRES PROFESSIONAL REVIEW. This page is a structural draft prepared for the practice. It must be reviewed, completed, and approved by the practice's healthcare attorney or compliance professional before the website launches. Until then, it is not in effect and nothing here is legal advice.
Effective date: [EFFECTIVE DATE] · Contact: customer@psychecare.care
Scope
This policy covers this website only. Privacy practices for your health information as a patient are described separately in the Notice of Privacy Practices.
Information this website collects
- Information you submit through the contact or scheduling-request forms — such as your name, contact details, and scheduling preferences. Please do not submit detailed clinical information through website forms.
- Technical information collected automatically by the web host, such as standard server logs. [CONFIRM WITH HOSTING PROVIDER]
- Analytics. [ANALYTICS DISCLOSURE — name the analytics tool if one is installed, what it collects, and how visitors can opt out. If no analytics tool is installed, state that plainly.]
- Cookies. [COOKIE DISCLOSURE — list any cookies actually set by the site, scheduler embed, or analytics. This static site sets no cookies by itself.]
How information is used
Information submitted through this website is used to respond to your inquiry and to schedule care. It is not sold, and it is not shared with third parties for their own marketing.
Third-party services
- Web fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests font files from Google's servers when the page loads. [IF PREFERRED, SELF-HOST FONTS BEFORE LAUNCH AND DELETE THIS ITEM]
- Scheduling & secure messaging. Appointment requests and secure messages run through SimplePractice (clientsecure.me; the booking page loads SimplePractice's widget script from widget-cdn.simplepractice.com), which has its own privacy practices. [CONFIRM BAA STATUS WITH COUNSEL]
- Forms. This website hosts no contact or intake forms of its own; messages and appointment requests go through the SimplePractice services above.
- Psychology Today verification seal. The About page loads a small verification-badge script from psychologytoday.com, which has its own privacy practices.
This website links to external sites (for example, educational resources). Their privacy practices are their own.
A note about health information
This public website is for general information and scheduling. It is not a means of receiving clinical care, and messages sent through it should not include detailed clinical information. No claim is made that website tools (forms, scheduling, email, analytics, or hosting) are HIPAA-compliant unless specifically verified and stated. [VERIFY EACH TOOL'S STATUS WITH COUNSEL BEFORE EDITING THIS SECTION]
Security and retention
Reasonable safeguards are used to protect information submitted through this website; no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. Submitted information is retained only as long as needed for the purposes above. [RETENTION DETAILS]
Children's privacy
This website is not directed to children, and information is not knowingly collected from children through it. [ADJUST WITH COUNSEL BASED ON AGES SERVED]
Changes and contact
Updates to this policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Questions can be sent to customer@psychecare.care.