Privacy & Terms of Use

Our Commitment to Privacy

The Institute of Psychotherapy & Social Studies (IPSS) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy as a visitor to our Web site at http://www.ipss-psychotherapy.org. This Privacy Statement describes the practices and policies we have put into place to safeguard your personal and health-related personal information that may be gathered and used as you visit our Web site.

The policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. If you have any questions about our privacy policies, we encourage you to contact us using any of the methods outlined at the end of our Privacy Statement.

Who Is Collecting the Information?

The Institute of Psychotherapy & Social Studies is collecting information on this Web site as outlined in this privacy statement.

What Information Do We Collect?

Automatic Collection of Information:

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site or download information, our system will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and is used in an aggregate way to help us improve our web site and tell us the number of visitors to our site each day.

Our Web server automatically collects and records the following information:

The visitor’s domain name, but not the e-mail address
The visitor’s IP address
Aggregate information on what pages are accessed
The name and release number of web browser software used
The operating system used
Date and time you access our site
The address of the Web site that linked to us (referrer URL)

Permission-based Collection of Information:

At different places on our site depending upon the feature you use, you may be asked to volunteer personal information such as your name, email, postal address and telephone number.

The following information is collected only with your permission at this Web site:

The names and e-mail addresses of those who use our contact form
The e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail

How Do We Use the Information We Collect?

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive calls, post or e-mail from us regarding response to their information requests. The information we gather automatically and with your permission during your visit to our Web site is used in the following ways:

Monitor, review, measure, and analyze Web site utilization
Modify and enhance the Web site
Improve the content and design of our Web site
Respond to your requests
Study general usage habits and demographic information for our own marketing research purposes
Distribute news and other health information requested by Web visitors

With Whom Will the Information Be Shared?

We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service.

The personally identifiable information gathered during your visit to this Web site is shared as follows:

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so.
We do not rent, sell, exchange or in some way provide personally identifiable information to any third-party organisation.

Access and Correction of Personal Information

Site visitors may not normally access information we have collected and maintain about them.

Our Use of Cookies

We do not use any cookies to store or collect personal information on our Web site. If you log in to one of the members’-only areas, we may use a ’session cookie’ to store your logged-in status during the duration of your visit.

Registration for Access

Visitors can use the public areas of this Web site anonymously, without registration. IPSS Members and Students will have to log-in to view certain areas of the site.

Our Children’s Privacy Policy

Our site does not feature information and services of interest to children 13 and under.

Security of Communications

We recognize that many people are concerned about the privacy and protection of information as it is transmitted over the Internet. You should keep in mind that the possibility exists for unauthorized individuals to intercept any email message you send over the Internet. We use the following practices on our Web site to enhance the level of security for communication and the transmission of personal information:

We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide.
We use e-mail forms to allow our customers to ask questions about our services and programs. These are not hosted on a secure server. The possibility exists that unauthorized individuals may intercept email messages.
We are not responsible for the privacy of e-mail messages except those stored in our system.
We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

E-Commerce, Online Donations, and Online Shopping

At this time, we do not process credit card payments for donations, merchandise, or services on our Web site.

Advertising Servers

On-line advertising, such as banner ads, has become commonplace on many Web sites. Certain Web sites have developed relationships with third-party advertising servers to display these advertisements on their sites. By clicking on one of these banner ads, you will be taken to another site with different privacy policies. These third party ad servers may also use cookies to collect non-personal information on your preferences and interests via the advertisement you decide to view. At this time, we do not partner with or have special relationships with any advertising server companies.

Links to Other Sites

Web sites often provide a number of links that offer direct access to other useful or interesting web sites holding potential value to site visitors. Inclusion of the other sites by links does not imply any endorsement of the material or information on the other sites. Users are encouraged to review the privacy policy of each linked site before sharing personal and health-related information.

This site includes links to non-affiliated external Web sites. We have the following practices:

We encourage users to review the privacy policy of each linked site, as we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.
We will make efforts to notify you when you are leaving our site and you may be subjected to different privacy policies than those we have established for our Web site.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we have the following practices:

We will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward.

Web Site Contact Information

If you have questions about our privacy policy, or feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, please contact us:

Institute of Psychotherapy & Social Studies
PO Box 1067
London EN1 9GR

Telephone: 0845 271 3303

Modification Date

This privacy statement was last modified on May 14th, 2008.