Effective Date: 6/8/25
Welcome to The Center for Mind & Relationship (mindandrelationship.com). Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how Jonah Taylor, LCSW (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information obtained from visitors to this website.
This policy applies to information we collect on this website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and this website. It does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means, including information shared within a therapeutic relationship, which is governed by HIPAA and our Notice of Privacy Practices provided to therapy clients.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including:
1. Personal Information You Provide to Us:
- Contact Information: Such as your name, email address, phone number, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline, when you fill out forms on our website (e.g., contact form for scheduling a consultation), or correspond with us.
- Purpose of Collection: To respond to your inquiries, schedule appointments or consultations, provide you with information about our services, and communicate with you.
2. Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically:
- Usage Details: As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, Browse actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our website (e.g., traffic data, location data, logs) and information about your computer and internet connection (e.g., your IP address, operating system, and browser type).
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use “cookies” and other tracking technologies to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Cookies are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website.
- Purpose of Collection: To improve our website functionality, understand how visitors use our site, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, and for general website administration and security.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information or services that you request from us (e.g., responding to inquiries, scheduling consultations).
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights.
- To notify you about changes to our website or any services we offer.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include:
- Trusted Third Parties: Website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
- Legal Requirements: We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
- Business Transfers: If The Center for Mind & Relationship is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Information may be transferred.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depend on you.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
(Data Retention
We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Your Rights Regarding Your Information
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you. These may include the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of your personal information. To exercise these rights, please contact us.
Health Information (HIPAA)
Please note that this Privacy Policy describes how we protect information gathered through your use of this website. It is distinct from and does not replace our Notice of Privacy Practices, which is provided to all therapy clients and describes how medical information (Protected Health Information or PHI) about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information, in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The confidentiality of information shared within a therapeutic relationship is strictly protected by law and professional ethics.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold depending on applicable local laws, e.g., 16 in some jurisdictions for data consent). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.
Links to Other Websites
Our website 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 Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Jonah Taylor, LCSW The Center for Mind & Relationship, 6425 Living Place, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206, 412-206-9080, [email protected], Or via our Contact Page.