SelfhelpMagazine PRIVACY POLICY
4-6-09
At SelfhelpMagazine our goal is to respect your privacy. We gather information about our visitors to help with tailoring our services to our visitors. We do not collect personal information through cookies. We collect only such personally identifiable information as age, sex, e-mail addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted. All such information is kept private, and not sold or transferred to third parties. It is used exclusively for our internal purposes.
The company owning SelfhelpMagazine, Pioneer Development Resources, Inc., will not knowingly violate your privacy. However, any name, address and other information about you, including information we might have regarding the manner in which you use any PDR publication, service or program, including but not limited to SelfhelpMagazine and/or the internet, will be processed or disclosed by PDR as allowed or required by applicable law or legal process. Even if you are anonymous to other users, our registration process requires you to leave information about yourself. That and any other information we have about you and your activities will be released to any court in the United States if they issue a specific and proper court order for us to release our records about you. By participating in any PDR website, service or program, including SelfhelpMagazine, you are agreeing, as a condition of participation, that you accept all of the terms herein, as well as those found in our SelfhelpMagazine Service Agreement and Code of Conduct. By participating in any PDR website, service or program, including SelfhelpMagazine, you are also agreeing, as a condition of participation, that you are acting by your own free choice, without reservation, coercion or restriction. PDR may modify these agreements at any time, at our sole discretion. Any and all modifications are effective immediately from the date of posting on these policy pages, and may apply retroactively. It is your sole responsibility to check our three policy pages for updated changes, and to act in compliance with them, as well as any and all applicable laws.
Also, despite our attempts at protecting you with our internal security, you may wish to know there are several ways in which you may unknowingly compromise yourself be subjected to unethical exploitation on the Internet:
- When visiting SelfhelpMagazine, your exploration of our material is private unless you voluntarily choose to make your identity known to other readers in our Community Forums. By sending a message to any one of our forum areas, your message will appear on our pages for an indeterminate amount of time. If you choose to use these areas of the magazine, please be aware that we are able to offer you FREE access and free information, but our staff is not available to correct mistakes or remove your comments in a timely fashion. Double-check your submissions and post at your own risk.
- If you choose to use our Psychological Resource Links & Lists and click on any website address in that department, or click any advertising that you find on our pages, you will actually be LEAVING OUR WEBSITE. By so doing, you will no longer be in our magazine, and may, therefore, be visiting a website that may track your stop at every page, and sell this information to companies that may try to sell you products or services related to the topics found on the pages you visited. Once you leave our pages, we cannot control what other people will do with your private information. Please proceed at your own risk.
- TeleWorkshops will be audio-taped and either given to the public for free or sold throughout the Internet and other electronic venues. If you want to participate by asking a question, please use the http://teleworkshops.com/ask webpage address to ask your question. Text questions can be also submitted if a Webinar address is offered that will be available with registration material that is available after you sign up for each call. If selected, your question will be read aloud by Dr. Maheu or her designated interviewer. If you want to participate but are concerned that someone will identify the situation you outline in email, omit any identifying information, or refrain from sending your question to us. You are the ultimate judge of what gets divulged during these events. Make your decisions wisely. We cannot and will not be held responsible for any information that you voluntarily give to us. We will not edit material out of our publications after these events if you later decide that you are uncomfortable or should not have participated. You can benefit from simply listening if you think that is the safest way to participate, given your circumstance. If you are under the care of a mental health or other health care professional, we advise that you discuss your level of participation in these events prior to registering, and most certainly prior to divulging any personal information for anyone in the world to potentially hear.
Please use our pages to help yourself. If you become aware of any privacy issues or ways in which the privacy of others might be compromised without our knowledge, please help us make this site safe for everyone by reporting your concerns to us. Please feel free to contact the SelfhelpMagazine Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Maheu with any questions or concerns.