Invictus Counseling, LLC Privacy Policy

This policy was last updated on 8/7/20. This private policy is effective immediately.

INTRODUCTION

At Invictus Counseling, LLC (the “Company” or “We”), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit this website (our “Website”) and out practices for collecting, using, maintaining, and protecting and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

·      On this Website.

·      In e-mail, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

·      Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interactions between you and this Website.

·      When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those application or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

·      Us offline or through any other means, including on any other websites operated by the Company or any third party (including any affiliates or subsidiaries); or

·      Any third part (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link or be accessible from or on our Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 14

Our Website is not intended for children under 14 years of age. No one under age 14 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14. If you are under 14, do not use or provide information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 14 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe that we might have information from or about a child under 14, please contact us via our contact us link.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

·      By which you may be personally identified, ,such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number or ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS THAT IS DEFINES AS PERSONAL OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFOMRATION UNDER APPLICABLE LAW (“personal information”).

·      That is about you but individually does not identify you, and/or

·      About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

·      Directly from you when you provide it to us.

·      Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP address and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.

·      From third parties, for example our business partners.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

·      Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our services, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.

·      Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses) if you contact us.

·      Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

·      Your search queries on the Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may chose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

·      Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

·      Information about your computer and internet connections, including your IP address, operating systems, and browser type.

We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver better and more personalized service, by including:

·      Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

·      Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

·      Speed up your search.

·      Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

·      Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting in your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

·      Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.

·      Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files know as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or open an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may collect cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they many be used. If you have any questions about advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information:

·      To present our Website and its content to you.

·      To provide you with information or services that your requested from us.

·      To provide you with information about our services.

·      To notify you about changes to our Website.

·      To fulfill any purpose for which you provide it.

·      For any other purpose with your consent.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

·      To our subsidiaries or affiliates.

·      To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

·      To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

·      For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

·      With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

·      To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.

·      To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.

·      If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage. Users have the option to opt-out of Google Analytics cookies altogether by visiting Google Analytics Opt-Out Add-On at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information.

·      Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. TO learn how you can manage your Flash cookie setting, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

·      We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in the way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NIA’s website.

ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION

You may send us an e-mail via our contact link to request access to, correct, or delete personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alternation, or disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen a password) a password for accessing certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

We include links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit personal information to any of these sites, your information is subject to their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat users’ personal information, we will post a notice on our Website identifying that the privacy policy has changed.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us via our Contact Us link.