Privacy
Policy
I 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
you should 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.
You should
always 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.
If you choose to
use the FreeFind search feature
on my website, the search results pages display banner ads over which I have
no control, and they may use cookies.
“Web
Bugs”
According to an
article in The New York Times, “Web Bugs” Are Tracking Use of
Internet (August 14, 2001), this “monitoring technology, which can
be used to gather information on visitors to a Web site, is invisibly added
to the Web pages as part of elements that the sites offer to help create
the Web page.”
I do not have any
such advertisements on this website.
Counter
I use a
SiteMeter page counter on this website.
The counter does not use cookies and does not provide any information about
your e-mail address. It simply provides statistics about the number of visitors
to this website, the average number of pages each visitor views, and the
average length of each visit. |
