CLIENT'S RIGHTS
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 home page 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 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. 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. |