Confidentiality & Privacy Policy

Your Privacy & Legal Rights

Your privacy is important, and the law protects the confidentiality of communications between a client and a psychotherapist. Information will not be shared without your written consent, except in specific situations where I am legally obligated to take action to protect you or others.

Exceptions to confidentiality include:

· If there is suspected abuse or neglect of a child, dependent adult, or elder, I am required by law to report it to the appropriate authorities immediately.

· If a client makes a serious threat of harm to another person, I must notify law enforcement and the potential victim.

· If a client is at risk of harming themselves, I will make every effort to enlist their cooperation in ensuring their safety. If necessary, and only as permitted by law, I may take additional steps to protect their well-being, even without consent.

Accessibility

Vanilla Pines Counseling is committed to providing an accessible website. If you notice any accessibility problems, have difficulty accessing content, please contact Kristin at (623) 850-4070 or email kristin@vanillapinescounseling.com to specify the nature of the issue and the assistive technology you use. We will strive to provide the content you need in the format you require. We welcome your suggestions and comments about improving our ongoing efforts to increase the accessibility of this website.

General Use

As a professional organization, Vanilla Pines Counseling makes every effort to assure the accuracy and confidentiality of information on this website. While visiting the website, we may provide opportunities for you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you (“Personal Information”) for purposes of interacting with our site, such as, when you ask for information, register for emails, or download material. Vanilla Pines Counseling does not share this information.

Comments Policy

Vanilla Pines Counseling reserves the right, but not the obligation, to edit, remove or deny access to individuals or content that it determines to be unacceptable, including, but not limited to, any illegal, obscene, rude, defamatory or otherwise objectionable content. Comments should not include any advertising, promotion or other type of solicitation; rather, they should contribute to the conversation. NAAR reserves the right to reproduce comments in other communication media. Comments may be edited for space and clarity to fit the other media.

Links to Other Materials

If any link is offered connecting to a third-party website, it is as an accommodation to the respective third-party site owner and without charge. Sites linked to and from this site are not necessarily under the control of Vanilla Pines Counseling, we have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. Vanilla Pines Counseling does not endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which this site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk. Vanilla Pines Counseling hereby disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, tradenames, logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests of third parties.

Cookies

There is a technology called “cookies” that can be used to provide you with tailored information from a website. A cookie is an element of data a website sends to your browser, which may be stored it on your system. Some Vanilla Pines Counseling pages may use cookies so that we may better serve you when you return to our site. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. Some parts of Vanilla Pines Counseling may not be accessible without receiving cookies, so we recommend that you accept cookies when using vanillapinescounseling.com.

Site Technologies

Vanilla Pines Counseling does not provide the technologies used to build its site, and therefore neither recommends nor endorses the same. Any information regarding identified technologies, their capabilities, limitations, applications, etc. should be sought directly from their manufacturers. Vanilla Pines Counseling hereby disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, tradenames, logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests of third parties.

If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, you can contact Kristin at (623) 850-4070 or email kristin@vanillapinescounseling.com.