Privacy Policy

Overall Privacy Policy

CounsellingResource.com is dedicated to safeguarding the privacy of site visitors, and our privacy policy is very simple. CounsellingResource.com and the providers of this site will not normally share individual information about you with any third party, and will not contact you without your permission. (The relationship between the site and the company which formally provides it is explained on the page About Us.) This commitment to confidentiality will be restricted or suspended only under direct legal requirement, and then only to the extent necessary to comply with the rule of law.

How We Use Information You Provide

Data which you provide specifically in connection with your use of CounsellingResource.com discussion and support forums will be used only in connection with the normal operation of the forums and related site services.

Contact information which you provide when subscribing to our newsletter will be used only in connection with the operation of the newsletter and related site services, and all communications via the newsletter will include links to enable you to update your information and preferences, or to cancel your subscription altogether. The CounsellingResource.com newsletter is strictly double opt-in, meaning that you must both sign up for a subscription and confirm your intention to subscribe before the newsletter will be sent to you.

Contact information which you provide when submitting comments on articles published in our Blog & Features section or our Book Reviews section will normally be used only to verify the legitimacy of submitted comments (e.g., to preclude machine-generated comment spam from appearing in article comments). When you submit a comment, please be aware that the comment itself — but not your contact details — will ordinarily be published on the site automtically. That is the purpose of the comment form — to enable you to submit a comment to share with other users of the site. Please do not include any personal contact information (such as your email address, phone number, etc.) within the body of your comment itself.

Site visitors providing personal details to this website will otherwise not be contacted by us unless they have explicitly given their permission that we may do so, or unless they have implicitly given their permission by writing to us with feedback, suggestions, questions or comments. (Note that we may operate automatic reply systems — such as out-of-office notifiers, anti-spam verification systems, and the like — which result in replies automatically being sent in response to certain email messages.) Except in the unlikely event that we are required to do so due to legal considerations, personal details will never be shared with any third party without permission.

Site visitors providing information to the Ask the Psychologist feature explicitly grant permission for that information to be published on the site and grant an irrevocable but non-exclusive license to distribute that content worldwide in any form, without royalty or compensation of any kind.

No personal details will knowingly be accepted from individuals under the age of 13.

More technical details about security and the handling of visitor data — including the cookies used in some portions of the site (e.g., to enable forum users to log in and post messages) — are included in the separate page on Security Details.

Data Protection Act

The provider of this site (Mulhauser Consulting, Ltd.) is registered in the United Kingdom as a Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998.