Notice of Privacy Practices
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get information. Please review it carefully. If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact our Privacy Contact — Rita Eisma, our HIPAA administrator.
Social Media Policy
This policy explains how we conduct myself on the Internet and how we will respond to potential online interactions that may occur between our clients and Associated Counseling Professionals. Media Policy
Additional Privacy Information
Who we are
Our website address is: http://acpcounseling.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you use the contact form, your name/contact information/message is forwarded to one of the owner of acpcounseling.com for our response. Our response may be in the form of an encrypted email to you, or your email may be forwarded to other staff at Associated Counseling Professionals for administrative follow-up. Email is handled through Google’s GSuite – with business-level HIPAA-compliant storage of data.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics. Privacy policy here
This site also uses an SEO plugin from Yoast
Who we share your data with
Associated Counseling Professionals manages its site internally. Data is not sent to anyone else.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Terry Moore a co-owner of this site – [email protected] – 402.334.1122
Additional information
How we protect your data
As licensed mental health practitioner, our staff is bound by the laws and regulation of the State of Nebraska, as well as HIPAA regulations. All staff abides by the HIPAA policies for our practice group, Associated Counseling Professionals.
What data breach procedures we have in place
We follow the policies for Associated Counseling Professionals.
What third parties we receive data from
No one.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).