HIPAA Policy.
Notice of Information Practices and Privacy Statement
Privacy Statement
How Information About You Is Collected:
Dr. Julia Smith, LPCC, NCC collects data through a variety of means including but not necessarily limited to letters, phone calls, emails, voicemails, and from the submission of applications that are either required by law or necessary for purposes of communication, treatment, and care.
What I Do Not Do With Your Information:
Information about your financial situation and health conditions and care that you provide to us in writing, via email, on the phone (including information left on voicemails), contained in or attached to applications, or directly or indirectly given to us, is held in strictest confidence.
We do not give out, exchange, barter, rent, sell, lend, or disseminate any information about applicants or clients who apply for or actually receive our services that are considered client confidential, restricted by law, or specifically restricted by a patient/client in a signed HIPAA consent form.
How I Use Your Information:
Information is only used as is reasonably necessary to provide you with therapy, counseling, or coaching services which may require communication between health care providers, insurance companies, and other providers necessary to verify your health information is accurate and determine the type of mental health services you need.
If you apply or attempt to receive psychotherapy or coaching through me and provide information with the intent or purpose of fraud or that results in either an actual crime of fraud for any reason including willful or un-willful acts of negligence whether intended or not, or in any way demonstrates or indicates attempted fraud, your non-medical information can be given to legal authorities including police, investigators, courts, and/or attorneys or other legal professionals, as well as any other information as permitted by law.
Information I Do Not Collect:
I do not use cookies on this website to collect the date of visit from site visitors. I do not collect information about site visitors except for one hit counter on the main index page that simply records the number of visitors and no other data. I do use some affiliate programs that may or may not capture the traffic date through our site.
Limited Right to Use Non-Identifying Personal Information From Biographies, Letters, Notes, and Other Sources:
Any pictures, stories, letters, biographies, or correspondence sent to me become the exclusive property of Dr. Julia Smith, LPCC, NCC. I respect your right to privacy and assure you no identifying information or photos that you send to me will ever be publicly used without your direct or indirect consent.
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