Limits of Privacy
 

Your confidentiality is guaranteed to the extent possible for transactions occurring on the internet and through email. Due to my professional obligations as a therapist, I do not discuss clients in any identifying way, although common representative situations may be illuminated during clinical supervision. 

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Gathered Information 

 

In order to communicate with you, your name and email address, and possibly your phone number is collected when you use this website's contact form.  Such information may be maintained and stored as required by law as part of your privileged psychotherapy record. Your information is held as a sacred trust, and is never sold, given, traded or otherwise provided to any 3rd party merchants.  

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​About Browser / Analytic Cookies

 

This website's sitemap may have been submitted to Google Search Console for site ranking purposes in Google's search engine. Google uses computer code called cookies which can ascertain your general location, computer IP address, and type of device used (desktop / laptop / cell phone / tablet) for the purpose of tracking internet use by the general public. However, neither I nor my website designer nor webhost monitors that information. Your browser  -- whether Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla FireFox, Microsoft Edge, etc -- may track your browsing history. Neither I nor this website's host, Wix, has access to your browser history.

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This website's webhost, Wix,  does gather and aggregate minimal non-identifying information such as which pages and posts are visited the most, at what time of day on which days, on which social media any pages or posts are shared, and which countries visitors are coming from. We cannot see your IP address, or city.

 

You are encouraged to check this disclosure on subsequent visits to this website for further information in the unlikely event that analytics software has been added.

 

Terms and Scope of Services

 

Services offered by this website are meant to be informational about clinical treatments provided in my office, and psycho-educational articles are intended for personal empowerment, and growth.  Nothing on this website creates or constitutes a client-clinician relationship. Writings on this website are NOT:

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• health care or mental health diagnosis

• psychotherapy

• professional practice training

• clinical supervision

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Responsibility of the Website Visitor

 

When you visit this website you are responsible for any actions you choose to take based on the insights and understandings you acquire from the information provided.  Nothing on any web page or blog post should be construed as a guarantee, promise, or contract for any particular outcome.  

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Because every situation and person has multiple influences, reasons, approaches, and motivations for choosing an action or choosing not to act, it is ethically and practically unreasonable for Deanne Carter and HeartHealing.org to assume any responsibility for any outcome, consequence or ramification of choices made or not made by recipients of any psycho-education blog post delivered via this website.  

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Other responsibilities and limitations pertaining to in person clinical evaluation and treatment are covered by state and federal laws. Clients are provided disclosure of such laws during the first appointment.

 

Social Media Connectivity

 

This site may use social media apps which allow you to share our content with your accounts on platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and more. These apps allow you to share your page visits across the internet. Even if you are not logged into any of your social media accounts, it is possible that information such as your IP-address, location, and time spent on our page can be shared to these platforms. You are encourage to read the policy statements on data protection and use of cookies on each social media platform.