Privacy Policy
Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, understands that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personally identifiable information as you use this website. This Privacy Policy tells you how we protect and use the information that we gather from you. By using this website, you consent to the terms described in the most recent version of this Privacy Policy. You should also read our Terms of Use to understand the general rules about your use of this website, and any additional terms that may apply when you access particular services or materials on certain areas of this website. “We,” “our” means Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, and its affiliates. “You,” “your,” visitor,” or “user” means the individual accessing this site.
PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our Privacy Policy identifies how we treat your personal and non-personal information.
WHAT IS NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW IS IT COLLECTED AND USED?
We do not collect non-personal information from you using cookies or other functions. Non-personal information is information that cannot identify you.
WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW IS IT COLLECTED AND USED?
Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and your city/state.
We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways:
- When you send us an application or other form
- In some places on this web site you have the opportunity to send us personal information about yourself, to elect to receive particular information, or to participate in an activity.
ARE COOKIES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES USED TO COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
No, we do not use cookies and related technologies, such as web beacons, to collect information on our website.
However, third-party vendors may use cookies on our website. For instance, we may contract with third parties who will use cookies on our website to track and analyze anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, manage our site content, and to track visitor behavior. We may also contract with a third party to send e-mails to our registered [users/members].
To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, the third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, is used solely by or on behalf of Achieving Self-Compassion, and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Achieving Self-Compassion website.
For more information on the third-party vendors used by this site:
- We use MailChimp to send you emails that you signed up for. You can read more about how MailChimp uses your Personal Information here: https://mailchimp.com/about/security/.
- We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Additionally, you can opt-out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.
HOW DOES ACHIEVING SELF-COMPASSION, FOUNDED BY NATE TERRELL, LCSW, USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Achieving Self-Compassion may keep and use the personal information we collect from or about you to provide you with access to this website or other products or services, to respond to your requests, and to provide ongoing service and support, to contact you with information that might be of interest to you, including information about products and services of ours and of others, or ask for your opinion about our products or the products of others, for record keeping and analytical purposes and to research, develop and improve programs, products, services, and content.
We may also use your personal information to protect our rights or property, to protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, and to comply with a law or regulation, court order, or other legal processes.
DOES ACHIEVING SELF-COMPASSION, FOUNDED BY NATE TERRELL, LCSW, SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS?
We will not share your personal information collected from this website with an unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy. In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorize them to keep, disclose or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.
We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third-party service vendors (such as MailChimp and Google Analytics) who may provide such services on our behalf may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it. (See above links and contact information to view and update your preferences.)
We may be legally compelled to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law, or regulation.
We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting website visitors who violate our rules or engage in behavior, which is harmful to other visitors (or illegal). We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court order, or other legal processes.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION USED FOR COMMUNICATIONS?
We may contact you periodically by e-mail, or telephone to provide information regarding programs, products, services, and content that may be of interest to you. In addition, some of the features on this website allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a response via e-mail. The e-mail response or confirmation may include your personal information. We cannot guarantee that our e-mails to you will be secure from unauthorized interception.
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and third-party vendors have access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal information.
LINKS
This site contains links to other sites that provide information that we consider to be interesting. Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS
This site may provide public discussions on various topics. Please note that any information you post in these discussions will become public, so please do not post sensitive information in public discussions. Whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the website. Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, does not agree or disagree with anything posted on the discussion board.
HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, AND/OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the website. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the website. To do so, please either follow the instructions on the page of the website on which you have provided such information or subscribed or registered or contact us at nateterrell@verizon.net.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, will not intentionally collect any personal information (such as a child’s name or email address) from children under the age of 13. If you think that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us.
CHANGES
Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, understands that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personally identifiable information as you use this website. This Privacy Policy tells you how we protect and use the information that we gather from you. By using this website, you consent to the terms described in the most recent version of this Privacy Policy. You should also read our Terms of Use to understand the general rules about your use of this website, and any additional terms that may apply when you access particular services or materials on certain areas of this website. “We,” “our” means Achieving Self-Compassion, founded by Nate Terrell, LCSW, and its affiliates. “You,” “your,” visitor,” or “user” means the individual accessing this site.