Licensed
Counselors have clinical guidelines set forth by their state licensing boards,
to help to ensure quality ethical treatment. Some of these guidelines incorporate
state laws, while others are set in place to prevent unethical practices.
The therapist
is obligated to provide information about treatment protocol, often called
"informed consent" which is informative literature on the process of
therapy, costs, confidentiality policies, security measures on the internet,
and termination policies. It includes information about what can and can not be
disclosed from the records created and kept by the therapist. It can also
include treatment approaches used, and other important rules for the operation
of the therapeutic alliance. You can look up my shared ethical view on the
National Board For Certified Counselors web site on the practice of internet
counseling at
www.nbcc.org/webethics2.
This
information may include, but not limited to: Fees, Confidentiality, Record
Security, Abuse Issues and what must be reported,Process of Subpoena Records,
Dual Relationships,Unpaid Fees and Collection Procedures, Boundary Issues in Therapy, Experience
of the Practitioner, Termination of Therapy and Aftercare Goals.
PRIVACY
Your
privacy is of paramount importance to us. To better protect your privacy, we
provide this notice to explain our online information practices and the choices
you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make
this notice easy to find, it's available on our homepage and on every page
where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The information you provide about yourself when placing an order for
counseling products is used by Latest Online Counseling only to complete that
order. We use the email address provided to reply to your request.
We use the description of the situation to create our analysis and
advice. This information is NOT stored on any Web Servers. We don't
disclose or share this information with any outside parties.
We use
return email addresses to answer the emails we receive. Such addresses
aren't used for any other purpose and aren't disclosed or shared with outside
parties.
We use the
email addresses entered in the counseling draw to randomly pick one address.
That address is used only for counseling purposes. All other addresses are
deleted after the draw.
We never
use the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways
unrelated to the ones described above.
Our
Commitment to Data Security
To prevent
unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of
information, we've put appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures in place to safeguard and secure the information we collect
online.
How
To
Access Or Correct Your Personal Information
The only
personally identifiable information we may have stored is your return email
address and the emails that are exchanged during your requests for advice and
our answers to those requests. Storage of this information is of a temporary
nature while counseling is in progress. You may request this information
be deleted at any time by notifying us by email.
In the
interest of complete privacy and security, this information isn't accessible in
any form to anyone, including the counselor and the person who has requested
the counseling, other than that of the email exchange during the counseling
sessions.
In the interest of privacy and security, it's the full responsibility
of the person requesting advice to keep their own copies of the emails received
as advice, since we don't store these communications.
