Privacy Policy

Eastside Social Skills Therapy (eastsidesocialskills.com) | Effective November 2020

Please read this privacy policy before using the Eastside Social Skills Therapy (eastsidesocialskills.com) website or submitting any personal information to the website. By using the site, you are accepting the practices described herein. This contract is negotiated by both parties and won’t be held against the author.

Eastside Social Skills Therapy is a program providing services to children on the autism spectrum and their families. The website provides information about the program. This policy explains what personal information we collect from you when you visit our website; and how it is used, stored and safeguarded.

We make it a high priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of any personal information you provide to us. Additionally, we regularly review our data collection, use and storage practices to ensure data collected is only what is needed to provide services and is purged on a regular basis.

What Information We Collect

IN GENERAL

Eastside Social Skills Therapy may collect personal information which we receive when you:

use our website
submit a job application
contact us
become a client

Our website forms may collect the following types of information:

Your name, email address, telephone number, IP address and other contact details.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN

Eastside Social Skills Therapy will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen (18). Any data on our website found to be from a person under the age of 18 will be deleted.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION FROM CLIENTS

All client and family information including contact information, payment information, treatment plans, etc. are collected on a separate site that is fully HIPPA compliant. See client privacy policy for details.

External Links

If any part of Eastside Social Skills Therapy is hyper-linked to another web site, those external web sites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of third party websites. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements posted on the other sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information.

How we use your information

Eastside Social Skills Therapy uses the information we collect about you on our website for the following general purposes:

to communicate with you in general, including to provide information about Eastside Social Skills Therapy;
to respond to your questions and comments; to measure interest in and improve our services, and Web site; to notify you about special offers and products or services available from us or our partners that may be of interest to you;
to otherwise customize your experience with Eastside Social Skills Therapy;
to solicit information from you, including through emails & surveys;
to resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems;
to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities;
Email addresses may be stored and will be deleted based on our data retention policy below.

Keeping your information safe and secure

Eastside Social Skills Therapy is committed to keeping every website visitor’s personal information secure, to protect it from being inappropriately or accidentally accessed, used, shared or destroyed.

The site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. All form entries are encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Site is equipped with the Wordfence security plugin to protect against hacks and malware.

DATA RETENTION

Data from submitted forms will be deleted from the website after one year.
Email addresses from our newsletter mailing list will be deleted after one year if no emails have been opened within the year.
Offline PII data will be purged on request.
Disaster Recovery Backups – backups are stored for no longer than 180 days and automatically purged on a regular basis.

Cookies and Other Web Technologies.

To improve your experience on our site, we may use ‘cookies’. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our site may place on your computer as a tool to remember your preferences. For example, if you register on our site, we may use cookies to remember your registration information, so you do not need to log into our site each time you visit.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

With Whom We Share Your Information

Eastside Social Skills Therapy will only share your data in a secure way. We will not sell your contact information to other companies for the purpose of contacting you with their own marketing.

Eastside Social Skills Therapy may share your information with the following:

Newsletter platform (ie. Mailchimp, Constant Contact, etc.) – for the purpose of sending our newsletter. You may opt-out anytime using the link at the bottom of every email.
In response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
When we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of Eastside Social Skills Therapy, our clients or others; and in connection with our Terms of Use and other agreements.
We also may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers and investors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors that our website receives or the most popular event categories. This information does not contain any personal information and is used to develop content and services we hope you will find of interest.

Changes to this privacy policy

We regularly review our privacy policy and update as needed. We will place any updates on this web page.

How to Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or to request deletion of your information from our site, please contact us at:

Email: info@eastsidesocialskills.com

Contact Form: https://eastsidesocialskills.com/aba-clinic/

More information on protecting your privacy online

The Federal Trade Commission’s website also offers useful information about how to protect your personal information while on the Internet. https://consumer.ftc.gov/

Updated: September 2020

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