Privacy Statement for Consumers

Overview

MarriageMD is concerned about the welfare of marriages in the United States and the difficult path couples face when trying to select a therapist. We provide couples the opportunity to locate and engage in therapy most comfortable to them. MarriageMD respects your personal privacy and provides this informational statement so that you may better understand how we may collect, aggregate and use personal information about you. Future changes to our privacy statement will be announced on the website a week prior into going into effect. This Privacy Statement describes MarriageMD's privacy and security practices for this Web site.

MarriageMD is committed to safeguarding consumer privacy on our Web site. We operate under the following set of strict privacy principles:

The only information MarriageMD.com obtains about individual visitors to its Web site is that supplied voluntarily by visitors
In cases when MarriageMD.com may need personal information to provide visitors with customized content or to inform them about new features or services, visitors are explicitly asked for that information.
Personally identifiable information provided by visitors (name, e- mail or home address, etc.) will not be disclosed to anyone unless visitors indicate that MarriageMD.com may do so.
Only statistical information about our visitors as a group (usage habits, demographics) may be shared with any partner of MarriageMD.com. Personally identifiable information will not be shared at any time without the visitor's permission. MarriageMD.com employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.


The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: MarriageMD.com


Registration Information

When becoming a registered therapist of this site, users are asked to provide personal information about themselves. This information is made available to potential clients with whom the user enters a relationship. You may add or update any of your information using a username and password.

Therapist information consists of:


E-mail address
First name
Last name
Phone Number
Address
MFT License #
Website


There are three important exceptions to our assurances of confidentiality:

United States law requires that any suspicion of risk of child abuse be reported to child welfare authorities or law enforcement authorities. If we, or the counselors, believe that a child is at risk of being abused, has already been abused, or that someone who previously abused children is still a threat, we have no choice but to immediately make every effort possible to report it to social services agencies and/or the police.
Most United States courts have the power to subpoena our records and a counselor's records if you are involved in a court case in which your relationship with MarriageMD or the mental health professional is somehow relevant. Although this may be rare, if you have any questions, it is better to contact your lawyer prior to disclosing any information you may deem private.
If someone's life is in danger, we will attempt to report it. This applies to potential cases of suicide or homicide.

AT THIS MOMENT, AS YOU READ THIS TEXT, IF YOU ARE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING SUICIDE, PLEASE LOG OFF YOUR COMPUTER AND TELEPHONE THE POLICE OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.


Internet Protocol Addresses

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number assigned to your computer for the purpose of identifying it on the Internet. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted with IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. MarriageMD.com collects IP addresses in order to conduct system administration, report aggregate information to sponsors and advertisers, to conduct site analysis and to accumulate data that can be used to develop meaningful statistical information. If a visitor requests pages from MarriageMD.com, the MarriageMD.com servers enter the visitor's IP address into a log. To maintain visitor anonymity, MarriageMD.com does not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. However, MarriageMD.com will use IP addresses to identify any visitors who refuse to comply with MarriageMD.com's in-house rules or terms and conditions, and to identify visitors who threaten our service, site, customers or others.

Cookies

MarriageMD.com uses cookies to store your User ID on your PC. A cookie is a small data file that Web sites transfer to your computers hard drive when you visit the site. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID; however, the only information a cookie can contain is the information that you supply to it. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or identify other cookie files created by other sites. MarriageMD.com uses these "cookies" to enable you (as a registered user) to enter certain areas of our website that are otherwise restricted, and to save you the trouble of logging back onto the website every time you return. If your browser is set to reject all cookies, you will not be able to become a member (register) of MarriageMD.com

External Links

In order to provide visitors with greater value, MarriageMD.com may provide links to various third party Web sites. However, even if a third-party affiliation exists between MarriageMD.com and that destination site, MarriageMD.com exercises no authority over linked sites, each of which maintains independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. MarriageMD.com assumes no responsibility or liability for these independent methods or actions and is not responsible for the independent policies or procedures of destination sites. Similarly, MarriageMD.com cannot take responsibility for the privacy initiatives or the content of such Web sites. These destination links are provided only for your convenience, and as such, you access them at your own risk. However, MarriageMD.com wishes to ensure the integrity of the MarriageMD.com Web site and its destination links, so any comments pertaining to the MarriageMD.com Web site or any sites accessed through MarriageMD.com links are greatly appreciated.

Surveys and Questionnaires

Our online surveys and questionnaires may ask visitors for contact and demographic information. The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor if necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-in section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users.

E-Commerce and E-Healthcare transactions

Some MarriageMD.com site features may use applications to collect data to facilitate an e-commerce or e-healthcare transaction. We will ask your explicit permission to transfer this data to the third party to facilitate this transaction.

MarriageMD.com may store this information to verify the transaction for customer service and accounting reasons and may use this information to help personalize your experience on the MarriageMD.com site. MarriageMD.com may also share this information with other third parties on an aggregate basis, but it does not indicate the identity of individual users. (See the External Links section above for additional disclaimers regarding third-party Web sites).

Third Party Ad Services

MarriageMD.com may utilize certain third-party advertising services to display advertising for our advertisers. These third-party services may place a cookie on your computer for the purposes of ad tracking and presentation. MarriageMD.com does not share personally identifiable visitor information with its advertising services.

Public Forums

MarriageMD.com may provide its users with chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or news groups. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

The MarriageMD.com Web site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. MarriageMD.com employs strict security measures to safeguard online transactions; personal information is stored in a secured database and always sent via an encrypted Internet channel.

Children's Guidelines

MarriageMD.com does not disclose personally identifiable information about users under 16, whether or not an approval is obtained. Information about users under the age of 16 may be shared with third parties on an aggregate basis. Parents and those permitting minors to use the MarriageMD.com Web site should be aware that any information voluntarily given by children in chat sessions, e-mail exchanges, BBS's, forums, etc., may be used by third parties to generate unsolicited mail or other contact with children.

Choice/Opt-In

Our site gives users the opportunity to opt-in to receive communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.

This site also gives users the following options for removing their information from our database in order to stop receiving communications or our service.

You can send e-mail to info@marriagemd.com
You can send mail to the following postal address:


MarriageMD, LLC.
13337 South St., Suite 26
Cerritos, CA 90703


You can call the following telephone number: (877) LIST-MFT


Correct/Update

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

e-mail info@marriagemd.com
or call us at: (877) LIST-MFT


Contacting MARRIAGEMD.COM

If you have any questions about MARRIAGEMD.com Privacy Statement, the practices of this website, or your dealings with this website, you can email info@marriagemd.com