privacy policy

Protecting Your Private Information is My Top Priority.

This Statement of Website Privacy applies to www.marialeenmartorella.com, and governs data collection, terms of service (TOS), and usage.

This Privacy Policy governs data collection, processing and usage practices. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. If you do not agree with the data practices, described in this Privacy Policy, or the TOS listed below, you should not use the Website.

This website is a Psychotherapy Business Website. By using this website, you consent to the practices described in this statement.

Further, assessing this website, or any of the social media accounts linked to Marialeen Martorella LCSW-R, BCD, and the information presented on any of these platforms, does not constitute a therapist-client relationship between yourself and Marialeen Martorella LCSW-R, BCD. The information included on marialeenmartorella.com or any of her linked social media accounts (specifically facebook.com/marialeenmartorella/; instagram.com/m.martorella_psychotherapist; twitter.com/MariMartorella) is for information purpose only, is not a substitution for therapy, and does not create a confidential therapeutic relationship governed by licensing and ethics boards practice, rules and laws.

This Privacy Policy, and TOS, may be periodically updated. Any changes will be posted only on this page, including any significant changes. Therefore, I encourage you to review this page periodically.

This website is hosted by Bluehost. Bluehost analyzes data in a de-personalized form.

Your Responsibility

You are responsible for accessing this website from a device and browser that best suits your needs. Accessing this website may create a record within your browser history. It is recommended to access this website, and the linked social media accounts, from a device secured with a unique passcode.

Analytics

This website is hosted by Bluehost. Bluehost collects personal data when you visit this website, including information about your browser, network and device web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address.

Bluehost needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Bluehost analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches. and timestamps.

This information is shared with Bluehost, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic, activity, as well as personal location when accessing marialeenmartorella.com.

Data Share to Trusted Third Parties

Marialeenmartorella.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties, but may share data with trusted third parties to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to marialeenmartorella.com and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. marialeenmartorella.com may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Marialeen Martorella or this site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Marialeen Martorella ; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Marialeen Martorella, or the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

I may sometimes share the data collected from you with the following trusted third parties:

Banks and payment providers – to set up and/or obtain payment of any amounts due.
Our IT system providers – for the purposes of hosting, support and software licensing.
Social media platforms – for the purpose of fulfilling the service and targeted advertising.
Digital analytics – for the purposes of website analytics and reporting in respect of our analytics and marketing.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers – for the purposes of providing consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
Police or other such regulatory authority – as part of an investigation or otherwise for legal or regulatory purposes.
Auditors – to audit systems and transactions for the purposes of ensuring efficiency, or regulatory or contractual compliance.

Security of Your Personal Information

Marialeenmartorella.com secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and uses the following methods for this purpose:

This entire site is accessed using https rather than http, meaning that all information that is sent and received is encrypted for additional security. You can see this in the address bar of your browser.
As described in this Privacy Policy, in some instances disclosure of your personal data may be made to trusted third parties. Where we do, we require that third party to have appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to protect your personal data; however in some instances we may be compelled by law to disclose your personal data to a third party, and have limited control over how it is protected by that party
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

I strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while I strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond my control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Retention of your Personal Data

Marialeenmartorella.com will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes it was collected for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted or anonymized (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, you may be entitled to ask us to delete your data: see ‘Your rights’ below for further information.

Your Rights

You have the right:

To ask us not to use your personal data for marketing.
To ask us not to process your personal data where it is processed on the basis of legitimate interests, if there are no compelling reasons for that processing.
To request from us access to personal information held about you.
To ask for the information we hold about you to be rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
To ask that we stop any consent-based processing of your personal data after you withdraw that consent.
To ask, in certain circumstances, to delete the personal data we hold about you.
To ask, in certain circumstances, for the processing of that information to be restricted.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. marialeenmartorella.com uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you, your browser and your device. I also allow carefully selected third parties to use cookies, pixels and ad tags while you are browsing our website and using our app. These collect information about your browsing habits and usage and allow us to show you ads while you are browsing this website and other sites on the internet. All of our advertising cookies used are described in the cookie list below. There are four main types of cookies and technology. Here’s how and why we use them:

Strictly necessary cookies.

These are cookies that are required for the operation of this website. Without these cookies, you will not be able to use some functionality on this website.

Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use this website and help us improve the way this website works by making it easier for you to navigate to and complete various tasks.

Advertising cookies and pixels

Carefully selected media partners place third party cookies, pixels and ad tags onto our website and app on our behalf. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our website, and the content displayed, more relevant to you. They are also used to limit the number of times you see certain content, as well to measure the effectiveness of our digital campaigns. We may share this analytics information with third parties for these purposes. You can delete these cookies and still continue to use the website. More information about these types of cookies and opt out information can be found in Manage your cookies.

Managing your cookies

For more information about cookies, how to opt out and the steps you can take to protect your privacy on the internet, go to:

http://www.youronlinechoices.com – the guide to online behavioral advertising and privacy

This website is operated by the Internet Advertising Bureau, the industry body for online advertising. On here, you’ll find information about how behavioral advertising works, how to opt out, further information about cookies and the steps you can take to protect your privacy on the internet. If you’d prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from marialeenmartorella.com, you can do so in your browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, then please note that this may limit the way you use this website.

Tracking User Behavior

Marialeenmartorella.com may keep track of the pages users visit within marialeenmartorella.com in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Links

This website contains links to other sites, particularly social media sites including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Please be aware that Marialeen Martorella is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. You are encouraged to be aware when you leave this site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Changes to Privacy Statement, TOS or Usage

Marialeen Martorella reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy or TOS agreement from time to time. You will be notified about significant changes in the ways that personal information is treated, as well as TOS and usage, by placing a prominent notice on this site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

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