East Bay Therapy Privacy Statement and Policy

Policy revised and effective: August 2003

This Privacy Policy statement covers this website, www.eastbaytherapy.com. We encourage you to read the entire Policy and check this page periodically for any changes or updates. By using this website, you expressly consent to the terms of this Policy.

East Bay Therapy is committed to maintaining your privacy and believes that you are entitled to know our information practices. This includes the limitations which East Bay Therapy observes in collecting and disclosing personally identifiable subscriber information, types of personally identifiable information we might collect, how we could use information, under what conditions we may disclose this information, the period during which we maintain it and the rights of subscribers concerning this information and its disclosure. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, you should contact East Bay Therapy at the contact information near the end of this Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other websites, products or services accessed through this website. You should read the privacy policies of the websites you visit to learn how they treat your personal information.

Information Collection

East Bay Therapy reserves the right to collect information from you at several different points on this website. Some of this information can be personally identifiable information you provide us, but much of it is not. Personally identifiable information is information that identifies a particular person.

East Bay Therapy does not collect personally identifiable information about visitors to this website. East Bay Therapy does not collect technical information about your computer hardware and software, customization settings or preferences.

East Bay Therapy only collects personally identifiable information about you when you provide that information to us in response to your desire for further information regarding East Bay Therapy's services. East Bay Therapy does not distribute personally identifiable information to third parties under any circumstance.

Information Use and Disclosure

East Bay Therapy uses personally identifiable information collected as necessary to:

• reply to your request for additional information on our services
• confirm that you are receiving the information requested;
• detect unauthorized reception, use or abuse of this website;
• manage the website; and
• comply with law.

East Bay Therapy reserves the right to collect and disclose personally identifiable information for the prevention of fraud and other electronic information security violations.

East Bay Therapy considers subscribers' personally identifiable information to be confidential. We will only disclose personally identifiable information to third parties under an obligation of confidentiality and for a limited purpose consistent with this Policy. The frequency of any information disclosure varies in accordance with our business activities and needs.

Legal Disclaimer
Although we make every reasonable effort to preserve your privacy as described in this Policy, we will disclose personally identifiable information about you without your consent when required by law in order to comply with a valid legal process such as a subpoena, court order or search warrant. We may also use or disclose personally identifiable information about you without your consent to protect our customers to enforce our rights in court.

Transmission of Information
East Bay Therapy uses a third party to deliver some features and functions - specifically e-mail and website hosting - and that third party could be collecting or transmitting personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information about you. Third parties are not permitted to use your personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing their services. Third party providers do store e-mail messages on computer systems for a brief period of time and could be required to disclose these messages and communications along with other personally identifiable information about you to comply with law.

Service Providers
East Bay Therapy uses a third party to deliver some features and functions - specifically e-mail and website hosting.

Aggregate Information
East Bay Therapy does not share aggregate (non-personally identifiable) information. We will not provide third parties with personally identifiable information about you unless we have received your consent first. We also use aggregate information to better understand how our website is being used, to improve it and for network management, bandwidth usage, maintenance, performance measurement and security.

Third Party Advertisers
We do not use any third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit East Bay Therapy's website.

Business Transitions
In the event East Bay Therapy goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, subscribers' personally identifiable information, if any, will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. If, as a result of the business transition this Policy will be changed, you should refer to the Notification of Changes to this Policy section. Aggregate information may also be transferred in connection with a business transition.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on a computer's hard drive to simplify and improve a user's website experience. A website may store information in a cookie about your computer configuration so that it can more efficiently provide information to you the next time you visit the site. As another example, your browser program might save a cookie with your username and password so that a website's server will automatically recognize you the next time you access the site.

East Bay Therapy does not use cookies.

Some websites reachable via hyperlinks from our website may use cookies (for example, search engines) or in connection with their own advertisers and other business partners. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. For more information about how these vendors and their business partners use cookies, and how you may be able to "opt-out" of those cookies, read the privacy policy that applies to each vendor's website. This Policy covers the use of cookies by East Bay Therapy on the www.eastbaytherapy.com website only; it does not cover the use of cookies by any other party or website unless stated otherwise.

Log Files and Website Management

Like many websites, East Bay Therapy's website hosting provider's servers use log files. These logs record aggregate (non-personally identifiable) information about site usage such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, Internet service providers, referring/exit pages, pages accessed, platform types, date/time stamps, times of use, and numbers of clicks, for example. This information is necessary to analyze trends, administer the website, balance web traffic, evaluate users' electronic browsing in the aggregate and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information except as may be required to comply with law and as described in the Legal Disclaimer section.

Communications from East Bay Therapy

We communicate with you to provide requested information and answers for questions and issues relating to speech-language pathology and our website. We will reply to your requests by e-mail, phone or through any other reasonable means.

Links

East Bay Therapy's website contains links to other sites. East Bay Therapy is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our website and to read the privacy policies of every website that collects personally identifiable information about you.

Security

East Bay Therapy takes reasonable security precautions to protect our website visitors personally identifiable information that we collect from unauthorized access, use and disclosure. However, East Bay Therapy cannot guarantee that our security precautions will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use or disclose your personally identifiable information.

Special Note: In no case will East Bay Therapy ask you for your password in an e-mail or over the telephone. Do not give your password to anyone in an e-mail or over the telephone.

Retention of Information

We reserve the right to maintain most, if not all, of the personally identifiable information collected. We generally will destroy any personally identifiable information after a reasonable period of time if the purpose for which the information was collected has been accomplished and we no longer need to retain the information for legitimate business activities or compliance with law.

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, East Bay Therapy will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen without first obtaining parental consent. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, e-mail addresses, or telephone numbers) over the internet.

Changes to the East Bay Therapy Privacy Policy

If we decide to change this Policy, we will post those changes on this website so our website visitors are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. Your decision to continue visiting this website after we make any changes to this Policy shall be deemed to be your express consent to the changes in the revised Policy.

Special Note about Children

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, East Bay Therapy will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen without first obtaining parental consent. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, e-mail addresses, or telephone numbers) over the internet.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Policy, or wish to contact us about your personal information, please contact us via email at: