Privacy Policy of sarahhightower.com
This Website collects some Personal Data from its Users.
This privacy policy contains information regarding your privacy when interacting with sarahhightower.com (the ‘website’), including the following:
- using the website
- signing up for my newsletter
- emailing me or contacting me and interacting with me in other ways
Owner and Data Controller
Sarah Hightower, LPC
The Highland Building
675 Seminole Avenue, Suite 106
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
Owner contact email: info@sarahhightower.com
General
My aim is to provide you with a clear and jargon-free policy that you can understand. Your privacy is important to me. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at info@sarahhightower.com.
Here’s the plain language version of what’s below:
- Client Privacy: Once you are a client, Sarah Hightower, LPC will provide you with access to a separate and unrelated third-party website where you can enter, store, and send confidential information. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact info@sarahhightower.com.
- Website: This site uses the standard tools all websites use to run smoothly. Only the information you provide (to get our newsletter or to reply to requests for information) is used to contact you.
- Mailing List or Newsletter: If you sign up for my newsletter, I will send you blog post updates from this website and other information I think will be of interest to you. You can unsubscribe or not read it.
Using This Website
User Provided Information
This website does not require you to login or provide any information to Sarah Hightower, LPC.
Automatically-Collected Information
Cookies
When you access our website, it will store cookies. These are small text files kept on your computer that contain information about your visit that the vast majority of websites use. We use two main kinds:
- Required Cookies: enable the navigation and basic functionality of the website
- Functional Cookies: allow us to analyze your website usage and include things like browser type, IP address, which site referred you to this site, which pages you visited, how long you spent on each page, etc.
See below for descriptions about the cookies used on this website and how you can opt out from them.
*.sarahhightower.com (Required Cookies)
This website stores various cookies that are required for the navigation and usage of the websites.
Opt-out: You can configure your browser to disable these Required Cookies. This may reduce site functionality.
Google Analytics (Functional Cookies)
Google Analytics is a service that tracks how you use this website.
Google Analytics – Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt-out
Sucuri
We use a service called Sucuri to secure and protect this website. As part of this, Sucuri will check your IP address to ensure that you are not on a list of computers that are being used to harm websites.
Sucuri – Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – There currently is no opt-out. By using our website you agree to using Sucuri.
Blog Post Social Media Sharing Buttons
We have added buttons to our blog posts so that you can share them with your friends and colleagues. This service is provided by Social Warfare, which does not collect any personal data from you. When you click on a social sharing button, the click is tracked by Google Analytics and a new window is launched, which then allows the social network to activate its own sharing function.
Social Warfare – Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt-out by not using the buttons.
How do you use the information you’ve collected?
We are continually looking to improve this website to try and make it as useful and user friendly as possible. By collecting data on how you use our website, what information you are interested in, and how you found us, etc., we can provide you with more of what you want and give as much value to you as possible.
What are my opt-out rights?
Each service listed above has a link to opt-out where available.
Signing Up For My Newsletter
User Provided Information
You can enter your first name and email address to sign up for our newsletter and receive blog post updates and information about our services we think you’ll find interesting. We store your information with a service called MailChimp.
We use double opt-in when you sign up for our newsletter. This means we will send you an initial email to ask if you really do want to receive information from us. If you choose to ignore the email, you won’t be added to our mailing list.
MailChimp – Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy
How do you use the information you’ve collected?
We send out blog post updates with information we think you’ll be interested in. We will also occasionally send you information about new services that we think will be important to you. Over the course of a year, you’ll receive around 15 emails from us.
MailChimp gives us the ability to track who has opened our newsletters and what links they have clicked. This enables us to make sure we are providing you with worthwhile content and give you more of the content that you like.
What are my opt-out rights?
You can unsubscribe from our email list at any time by clicking the UNSUBSCRIBE link in any email you receive or by filling out the unsubscribe form.
Contacting Us
Emails
User Provided Information
When you email us, we will use any information you give only for the purpose of responding to you. We will not add you to our newsletter or any other marketing campaigns, nor use your information in any other way.
Contact Form
User Provided Information
When you contact us using our contact form, we will use any information you give only for the purpose of responding to you. The contact form is provided by Ninja Forms, which does not receive any information collected by the form.
Ninja Forms – Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy
Appointment Scheduling
When you schedule an appointment, we will use any information you give only for the purpose of responding to you. The appointment scheduler is a service provided by Simple Practice, a third-party, HIPAA-compliant practice management platform. All information you provide through the scheduler is collected and stored by Simple Practice.
Simple Practice – Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy
Managing Your Information
Do third parties see and/or have access to information obtained?
We will share your information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement.
We may disclose User Provided and Automatically Collected Information:
- as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process;
- when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
We will never give this data to third party marketing or advertising companies.
GDPR
As a U.S.-based website, we follow U.S. laws for privacy. Under GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, remove consent for us to use, or delete any personal data that we have for you. Please contact us with any queries at info@sarahhightower.com.
Children
We do not use this website to knowingly solicit data from or market to children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian has a concern, they can contact us at info@sarahhightower.com.
“Do Not Track” requests
This Website does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.
Security
We are concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your information. We provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the information we process and maintain. For example, we limit access to this information to authorized employees and contractors who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, or improve our applications. Please be aware that, although we endeavor to provide reasonable security for information we process and maintain, no security system can prevent all potential security breaches.
Changes
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes, as continued use is deemed approval of all changes.
We’re here to help
If you have any questions regarding privacy while using the applications, or have questions about our practices, please contact us via email at info@sarahhightower.com.