Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At My Private Practice we have a few fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact us.

My Private Practice Inc. ("My Private Practice") operates the website MyPrivatePractice.net. It is My Private Practice's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, My Private Practice collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. My Private Practice’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how My Private Practice’s visitors use its website. From time to time, My Private Practice may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

My Private Practice also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments. My Private Practice only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to My Private Practice's websites choose to interact with My Private Practice in ways that require My Private Practice to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that My Private Practice gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at MyPrivatePractice.net to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with My Private Practice - by creating an account, for example - are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, My Private Practice collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with My Private Practice. My Private Practice does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

My Private Practice may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, My Private Practice may monitor the most popular pages on the MyPrivatePractice.net site. My Private Practice may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, My Private Practice does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

My Private Practice discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on My Private Practice's behalf or to provide services available at My Private Practice's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using My Private Practice's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. My Private Practice will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, My Private Practice discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when My Private Practice believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of My Private Practice, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an My Private Practice website and have supplied your email address, My Private Practice may occasionally send you an email to manage your account, tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with My Private Practice and our products. We primarily use our web site to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. My Private Practice takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

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 Private Practice uses cookies to help My Private Practice identify and track visitors, their usage of My Private Practice website, and their website access preferences. My Private Practice visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using My Private Practice's websites, with the drawback that certain features of My Private Practice's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If My Private Practice, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that My Private Practice goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of My Private Practice may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by My Private Practice and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to us are are stored long enough to use them to improve our service.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, My Private Practice may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in My Private Practice's sole discretion. My Private Practice encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Change log:

  • January 1, 2012: New privacy policy posted to our new site.


Thanks to automattic.com for making their privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which we used as a starting draft for our privacy policy.