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 may also keep copies
of correspondence—both received and sent—for legal protection.
Occasionally, I may 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 a
donation 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 (a) you request (in the “Comments”
area on the PayPal transaction form) that I send you a response, or
(b) you send an e-mail message to me through the
Contact Me page.
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