Effective date: August 13, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service. We collect, use, and disclose Your information as described in this Privacy Policy and, where required by applicable law, only where We have a valid legal basis to do so, including Your consent (where consent is required).This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words whose initial letters are capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Privacy Policy) refers to Eric Goodwin Counseling, LLC.

Cookies are small text or data files stored on or retrieved from Your browser or Device when You visit a website. Cookies may be used for purposes such as enabling website functionality, remembering preferences, and measuring how visitors interact with the Website.

Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.

Do Not Track (DNT) is a browser setting or signal that communicates a user's preference regarding the tracking of their online activity.

Personal Data (or "Personal Information") is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

We use "Personal Data" and "Personal Information" interchangeably unless a law uses a specific term.

Service refers to the Website.

Service Provider means a third-party company or service that processes Personal Information on Our behalf or provides services that support the operation of the Website, such as website hosting, analytics, or consultation inquiry forms.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

User means any individual who accesses or uses the Service.

Website refers to Eric Goodwin Counseling, accessible from https://www.ericgoodwincounseling.com.

You means the individual accessing or using the Website.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

If You choose to submit the consultation inquiry form on the Website, We collect the Personal Information You provide through that form. This information includes:

· First name and last name

· Phone number

· Information voluntarily submitted through the consultation inquiry form, including your preferred time to be contacted, acknowledgment of practice fee, and information about how you heard about the practice, including search terms you choose to provide.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when You visit the Website. This may include Your IP address; information about Your browser, network, and Device; the web page You visited before coming to the Website; and information about how You interact with the Website, such as pages visited, clicks, scrolling, searches, and timestamps.

This information is collected through Squarespace, which hosts the Website and provides website analytics, and is used to understand Website traffic and activity and to maintain and improve the Website.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

The Website uses cookies through Squarespace, Our website hosting provider. Necessary cookies allow Squarespace to securely serve and operate the Website. Squarespace analytics and performance cookies are also used to collect information about Website traffic and activity:

· Cookies or Browser Cookies. Cookies may be managed through Your browser settings. Depending on Your browser, You may be able to review, block, or delete cookies stored on Your Device. Blocking certain cookies may affect some Website functionality.

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

These cookies are used by Squarespace to securely serve and operate the Website and to enable necessary Website functionality. The specific necessary cookies used may vary depending on the features of the Website.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies are used by Squarespace to collect information on Our behalf about how visitors interact with the Website. They support Squarespace Analytics by providing information such as Website visits, pageviews, unique visitors, and traffic sources. The length of time these cookies remain on Your Device varies depending on the particular cookie.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Service.

To respond to Your consultation inquiry: We may use the phone number and preferred contact time You provide to contact You about Your request for a consultation or information about starting therapy.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

We may share Your Personal Data in the following situations:

· With Service Providers: We may disclose Personal Information to Service Providers that support the operation of the Website and consultation inquiry process. These include Squarespace, which hosts the Website and provides website analytics, and Google Forms / Google Workspace, which receives and processes information You voluntarily submit through the consultation inquiry form.

· With Professional Consultants: We may permit professional consultants who assist Us with business development, website performance, or marketing strategy to access Website analytics. Their access is limited to information reasonably necessary for those purposes and does not include information You submit through the consultation inquiry form.

· With Your consent: We may disclose Your Personal Data for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

Consultation inquiry information submitted through the Website is retained in Our Google Workspace account for administrative, communication, recordkeeping, and practice-management purposes. We do not currently maintain a fixed deletion schedule for consultation inquiry information.

We may retain Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to comply with applicable legal or professional obligations, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

We may retain Personal Information when reasonably necessary for one or more of the following reasons:

· Administrative and practice-management purposes: Consultation inquiry information may be retained to document and respond to inquiries and for related practice-management purposes.

· Legal or professional obligations: Information may be retained when required or reasonably necessary to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, or professional obligations.

· Legal claims or disputes: Information may be retained when reasonably necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims or resolve disputes.

When Personal Information is no longer reasonably needed for these purposes, We may delete or de-identify it, subject to applicable legal or professional obligations and the retention practices of Our Service Providers.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Personal Information may be processed or stored in locations other than Your state or country through the Service Providers described in this Privacy Policy, including Squarespace and Google. These providers maintain their own privacy and security practices governing their processing and storage of information.

Requests Regarding Your Personal Information

This Website Privacy Policy applies to the public Website and consultation inquiry process. It does not replace the privacy notices, informed consent documents, or other policies governing psychotherapy records and services.

You may contact Us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of Personal Information You have submitted through the Website. We will consider and respond to such requests as appropriate, subject to applicable legal, professional, and record-retention obligations.

Requests concerning psychotherapy records or information maintained as part of a therapist-client relationship are governed separately by applicable healthcare privacy laws, professional requirements, and Our clinical privacy practices.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may disclose Personal Information when required or permitted by applicable law, including in response to valid legal process or requests from governmental authorities. Any disclosure of information that is subject to healthcare privacy laws will be handled in accordance with those laws and Our applicable clinical privacy practices.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Information is important to Us. We take reasonable steps to protect Personal Information collected through the Website and use Service Providers with security measures designed to protect the information they process. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

We use third-party Service Providers to operate the Website, provide Website analytics, and process information submitted through the consultation inquiry form. These providers process information in connection with the services they provide to Us and maintain their own privacy and security practices.

Analytics

We use Squarespace Analytics to understand Website traffic and activity. Squarespace collects information on Our behalf about how visitors interact with the Website and uses that information to provide analytics reports, including information about visits, pageviews, unique visitors, and traffic sources.

For more information about how Squarespace handles information, please review the Squarespace Privacy Policy at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy

Consultation Inquiry Form

We use Google Forms / Google Workspace to provide and process the consultation inquiry form on the Website. Information You voluntarily submit through the form, including Your name, phone number, preferred contact time, and other form responses, is received and stored within Our Google Workspace account.

For more information about how Google handles information, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Sale of Personal Information and Behavioral Advertising

We do not sell or rent Personal Information collected through the Website to third parties. We do not use information submitted through the consultation inquiry form for advertising, remarketing, or behavioral advertising.

"Do Not Track" Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

The Website does not respond to browser Do Not Track (DNT) signals.

Squarespace may automatically receive certain information when You visit this Website and may process certain information for its own purposes, as described in the Squarespace Privacy Policy. Google may receive information when You use the embedded consultation inquiry form, as described in the Google Privacy Policy.

We do not use third-party advertising or remarketing technologies on the Website and do not knowingly permit third parties to collect Your Personal Information across unrelated websites for behavioral advertising.

Children and Minor’s Privacy

The Website and consultation inquiry form are intended for adults age 18 and older. We do not knowingly solicit Personal Information through the consultation inquiry form from individuals under 18.

If We learn that an individual under 18 has submitted Personal Information through the consultation inquiry form, We will take reasonable steps to delete that information, subject to any applicable legal or professional obligations. If You believe a minor has submitted Personal Information through the form, please contact Us using the information below.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When We make changes, We will post the revised Privacy Policy on this page and update the Effective Date at the top of the policy. If a change materially affects how We collect, use, or disclose Personal Information through the Website, We will provide a prominent notice on the Website when appropriate.

Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or requests concerning Personal Information collected through the Website, You can contact Us at:

By email: eg@ericgoodwincounseling.com