BPS Privacy
Policy
Bridgman Psychological Services (BPS)
takes your electronic privacy seriously.
Please read the following to learn about
our privacy policy.
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What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how BPS treats personal
information about you that comes to us
as a result of your electronic interactions
with us. Personal information is information
about you that is personally identifiable
like your name, address, email address,
or phone number, and that is not otherwise
publicly available.
Registration with BPS
BPS does not currently utilize a registration
system for our internet users. Anyone
can view the all of our webpages without
registering as a user. Therefore, BPS
does not collection personal information
such as your name, address, email address,
or phone number.
BPS does provide an email link for users
to initiate communication with us. BPS
will utilize whatever information you
send to us solely for the purposes of
responding to your communication and requests
for service. If you decide to contract
with BPS for psychological services, whatever
information you have sent to us will become
part of your medical record with us, and
becomes subject to Federal and State laws
regarding confidentiality. If the contact
does not lead to a contract for psychological
services, BPS will delete the electronic
personal information in our possession
within 6 months of the last contact, or
at your request, whichever comes first.
Information Collection and Use
General
BPS automatically receives and records
information on our server logs from your
browser, including your IP address, cookie
information, and the page you request.
What is an “IP Address”?
When your web browser or email application
requests a web page or email from another
computer on the Internet, it automatically
gives that computer the address where
it should send the information. This is
called your computer's "IP address."
(IP stands for "Internet protocol.")
For most users accessing the Internet
from a dial-up Internet service provider
(ISP), the IP address will be different
every time you log on.
BPS receives IP addresses from all users
because your browser automatically reports
this information each time you view a
web page.
IP addresses may be used for various
purposes, including to:
Diagnose service or technology problems
reported by our users or engineers that
are associated with the IP addresses controlled
by a specific web company or ISP.
Estimate the total number of users visiting
BPS from specific countries or regions
of the US or the world.
BPS uses information for the following
general purposes: to customize the content
you see, fulfill your requests for products
and services, improve our services, or
contact you.
We limit access to personal information
about you to employees who we believe
reasonably need to come into contact with
that information to provide products or
services to you or in order to do their
jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal regulations
to protect personal information about
you.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
BPS does not rent, sell, or share personal
information about you with other people
or nonaffiliated companies except to provide
products or services you've requested,
when we have your permission, or under
the following circumstances:
We provide the information to trusted
partners who work on behalf of or with
BPS under confidentiality agreements.
These companies may use your personal
information to help BPS communicate with
you about offers from BPS and our marketing
partners. However, these companies do
not have any independent right to share
this information.
We respond to subpoenas, court orders,
or legal process, or to establish or exercise
our legal rights or defend against legal
claims;
We believe it is necessary to share information
in order to investigate, prevent, or take
action regarding illegal activities, suspected
fraud, situations involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any
person, violations of BPS's terms of use,
or as otherwise required by law.
Cookies
BPS may set and access BPS cookies on
your computer. A cookie is a small amount
of data, which often includes an anonymous
unique identifier that is sent to your
browser from a web site's computers and
stored on your computer's hard drive.
Each web site can send its own cookie
to your browser if your browser's preferences
allow it, but (to protect your privacy)
your browser only permits a web site to
access the cookies it has already sent
to you, not the cookies sent to you by
other sites. You can control how your
browser handles cookies and whether you
accept cookies from any or all websites.
Affiliated Websites
BPS has established an affiliation with
Amazon.com specifically for the purpose
of facilitating our user’s access
to Amazon.com products such as books.
Amazon.com has it’s own privacy
policy. Please refer to the Amazon.com
website for their privacy policy. BPS
does receive remuneration for purchases
made by our users following a link from
our webpage to an Amazon.com webpage for
that product. If the user breaks that
link, and then establishes a direct link
to the same Amazon.com product, BPS does
not receive remuneration for that purchase.
