Privacy Policy

 
TREAT all correspondence related to this website with the same confidentiality that is due to all clinical material. I do not track or sell your e-mail address—or your real name should you reveal it to me. Nor do I ever make unsolicited contact with anyone who has written to me previously.

Nevertheless, there are some points about Internet privacy—or the lack of it—that it is important to understand.

 
E-mail

If you choose to write to me through e-mail, I will treat your correspondence with full clinical confidentiality. I also keep copies of all correspondence—both received and sent—for legal protection. Occasionally, I use excerpts from e-mail—with identifying information removed—to illustrate clinical points on the website or to use in questions-and-answers sections.

Be aware, however, that Internet e-mail is not secure. Always keep in mind that someone, somewhere, could be reading anything you write. I don’t know what anyone would do with it if he or she did read it, but that’s life in the electronic age.

Realize also that if you are using a computer at your work site, the network administrator has the capability to read every piece of e-mail you send and receive under your company e-mail address. It may even be possible to track every keystroke you make on your computer keyboard, regardless of whether you’re sending e-mail. None of this may actually be happening at your workplace, but the capability is there.

 
Freewill Offerings

If you make an offering to this website through PayPal, all of your financial information is kept secure by PayPal. When PayPal sends me a notification of a payment, however, they include the e-mail address that you have provided to them as yours. I will not respond to that e-mail address unless in the “Comments” area on the PayPal transaction form you request a response.

 
Cookies

I do not use “cookies” on this website.