Privacy Policy
Last updated December 29th, 2023
The privacy of my website visitors is of the utmost importance. This Privacy Policy details the types of personal information received and collected, as well as how it is used. If you have any questions or concerns about my policy or my practices regarding your personal information, please contact me (Lucy Sherman) at lucy@perceptivecounselingpdx.com If there are any terms in this Privacy Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of my website.
Collection of Information
Personal information you disclose to me
When you visit my website; place a comment on a post; subscribe to a newsletter; respond to a survey; fill out a form; click on a link; or connect with other activities, services, features, or resources available on my site, I may ask for your name, email address, and/or other personal information from you. Some of this information (like your IP address) may be automatically collected, and more personal details (like name and email address) may only be collected with voluntary consent from the user. You can always refuse to supply this personal information, except that it may prevent you from engaging in certain site related activities.
Information automatically collected
My site is hosted by Squarespace. Personal information (as defined below), hosted by or through Squarespace, is subject to their privacy policy, which may or may not contain terms as protective as this Privacy Policy. By using my site, you are agreeing to be bound by Squarespace’s privacy policy, which can be found here.
Squarespace uses analytics tools to help me measure traffic and usage trends for my site. Squarespace automatically collects certain information when you visit, use, or navigate this site. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information), but it may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use my site, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of my site, as well as for internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Usage of Information
Perceptive Counseling LLC may collect and use personal information for the following purposes: to improve customer service; personalize user experience; improve this site; run a promotion, contest, survey, or other site feature; and to send periodic emails. If a user decides to opt-in to my mailing list, they will receive emails that may include news, updates, related product or service information, or more. If at any time the user would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, I will include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of every email.
Protection of Information
In short, I only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
I will only share and disclose your information in the following situations:
Compliance with Laws. I may disclose your information when I am legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests and Legal Rights. I may disclose your information when it is believed to be necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of my policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which Perceptive Counseling is involved.
Other Third-Party Service Providers. I may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for my business or on its behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. I may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on this site, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with this site over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity. Unless described in this policy, I do not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
Third-Party Advertisers. I may occasionally use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the site. These companies may use information about your visits to my website and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Cookies & Web Beacons
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. My site uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of my website, and their website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using this website, with the drawback that certain features of this website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Third-party advertisers may also place and read cookies on your browser and/or use web beacons to collect information. Perceptive Counseling LLC has no access or control over these cookies. You should review the respective privacy policies on any and all third-party ad servers for more information regarding their practices and how to opt-out.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your web browser options. Instructions for doing so and for other cookie-related management can be found on the specific web browsers’ websites.
For more information on Squarespace's use of cookies, please visit their cookie policy here.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool I use to help understand how visitors engage with my website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read more about this here.