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I treat all correspondence related to this
website with the same
confidentiality
that is due to all clinical material. I do not track or sell your e-mail
address—or your real name should you reveal it to me. Nor do I ever
make unsolicited contact with anyone who has written to me
previously.
Nevertheless, there
are some points about Internet privacy—or the lack of it—that you
should understand.
E-mail
If you choose to write
to me through e-mail, I will treat your
correspondence with full clinical confidentiality. I also keep copies of
all correspondence—both received and sent—for legal protection.
Occasionally, I use excerpts from e-mail—with identifying information
removed—to illustrate clinical points on the website or to use in
questions-and-answers sections.
You
should always be aware, however, that Internet e-mail is not
secure. Always
keep in mind that someone, somewhere, could be reading anything you write.
I don’t know what anyone would do with it if he or she did read it,
but that’s life in the electronic age.
Realize
also that if you are using a computer at your work site, the network
administrator has the capability to read every piece of e-mail you send and
receive under your company e-mail
address. It
may even be possible to track every keystroke you make on your computer keyboard,
regardless of whether you’re sending e-mail. None of this may actually
be happening at your workplace, but the capability is there.
Freewill
Offerings
If you make an
offering to this website through PayPal,
all of your financial information is kept secure by PayPal. When
PayPal sends me a notification of a payment, however, they include
your e-mail address. I will not respond to that e-mail address unless you
request (in the “Comments” area on the PayPal transaction
form) that I send you a response.
Cookies
I do not use
“cookies” on this website.
“Web
Bugs”
According to an article
in The New York Times, “Web Bugs” Are Tracking Use of Internet
(August 14, 2001), this “monitoring technology, which can be used to
gather information on visitors to a Web site, is invisibly added to the Web
pages as part of elements that the sites offer to help create the Web
page.”
I do not have any such
advertisements on this website.
  
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Huh? Donations? Freewill
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