Privacy Policies for Happiness Clinic
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Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to https://www.thehappinessclinic.org and Happiness Clinic and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Happiness Clinic include https://www.thehappinessclinic.org. The Happiness Clinic website offers print, video, and audio information, educational materials, and contact forms related to counseling, meditation, and mental health. By using the Happiness Clinic website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
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Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our site, Happiness Clinic may collect personally identifiable information through contact forms, such as your:
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-First and Last Name
-E-mail Address
-Phone Number
-Job Title
-Information relevant to inquiries for counseling, meditation, and other mental health services
If you purchase Happiness Clinic's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Happiness Clinic may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:
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-Age
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Happiness Clinic's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for a consultation, newsletter, or webinar on our site; (b) sending us an email message. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
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Use of your Personal Information
Happiness Clinic collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Happiness Clinic may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Happiness Clinic and its affiliates.
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Sharing Information with Third Parties
Happiness Clinic does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Happiness Clinic may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name) is not transferred to the third party. Happiness Clinic may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Happiness Clinic, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Happiness Clinic 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 Happiness Clinic or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Happiness Clinic; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Happiness Clinic, or the public.
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Tracking User Behavior
Happiness Clinic may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Happiness Clinic, in order to determine what Happiness Clinic services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Happiness Clinic to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
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Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Happiness Clinic. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Happiness Clinic website.
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Links
This website contains links to other sites, such as Amazon.com, etsy.com, Youtube.com, Instagram, Facebook, Google plus, and 10to8booking.com. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
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Security of your Personal Information
Happiness Clinic secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Happiness Clinic uses the following methods for this purpose:
-SSL Protocol
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.
We 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 we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our 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.
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Children Under Thirteen
Happiness Clinic does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
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E-mail Communications
From time to time, Happiness Clinic may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Happiness Clinic or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Happiness Clinic, you may opt-out of such communications and unsubscribe from emails by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button at the bottom of emails.
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California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We, therefore, will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
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Changes to this Statement
Happiness Clinic reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our 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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Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our online privacy policy.
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Contact Information
Happiness Clinic welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Happiness Clinic has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Happiness Clinic at:
Happiness Clinic
3225 Lakeshore Ave.
Oakland, California 94610
Email Address:
Telephone number:
415-969-4330
Effective as of December 09, 2019
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