Who we are
psychiatry4sheep is a private information page that aims to support persons as they deal with depression.
You can contact us at contact@psychiatry4sheep.org
Your privacy is important to us.
We aim to be open and transparent about how we gather, use and share your personal information, to help you make an informed choice about what information you want to share with us.
If you are a resident of California or the EU, you may have additional rights about your information – read the statements marked CCPA and GDPR below.
What are cookies:
When you visit our website, your device will automatically receive cookies, which are small data text files saved on your device, and are transferred from our website to your internet browser. Cookies allow us to get an overview of your visit to our website, to “remember” you and your preferences, and are generally used to show content that is relative to you. They perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. They can be either session based (deleted after each session) or persistent (remembered for a set period of time).
You can reject cookies by changing the settings on your device. You can delete cookies that you have previously accepted. You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent:
By clicking accept when you visit our website, you are consenting to cookies being stored on your computer/device as laid out in this policy. We may amend our cookies policy from time to time. You are advised to visit this page periodically to see any changes.
Our Privacy Policy:
We only collect information from and about you if we have a reason to, for example:
Information you provide to us:
- Basic information like your name and email address if you fill out a contact form
- Contact information if you reply to a blogpost.
Information collected automatically:
- Log information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available,
- Location information from your IP address,
- Information from cookies and other technologies that a website stores on your device and that your browser shares with our website.
psychiatry4sheep is based in the USA and your information is stored on shared servers there through our host HostGator.
Purpose for using your information:
Our main purpose in collecting your information is to aid in functionality of the website and to communicate with you.
Please note that if you use the third-party service or grant access, your data will be handled in accordance with the third party’s privacy policy and practices (for example, if you click a link to a help site or YouTube video).
Users from the European Union or California:
A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that: (1) The use is necessary in order to fulfil our commitments and communications to you, (2) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our site; to monitor and prevent any problems with our site; and to personalize your experience; or (3) You have given us your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on.
We do not sell our users’ data.
We aren’t a data broker, we don’t sell your personal information to data brokers, and we don’t sell your information to other companies that want to spam you with marketing emails. Information that you choose to make public is — you guessed it — disclosed publicly (for example, your email address on a blogpost comment). We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it.
Your choices:
You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:
- Limit the information that you provide voluntarily.
- Limit access to information on your mobile device:Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the option to discontinue our ability to collect stored information or location information via our mobile apps.
- Set your browser to reject cookies:You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
- Opt out of our internal analytics program:You can do this through your user settings. By opting out, you will stop sharing information with our analytics tool about events or actions that happen after the opt-out.
Your Rights
If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.
European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
- Request access to your personal data;
- Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
- Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
- Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
- Request portability of your personal data.
- You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. The CCPA also requires us to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information we collect, as that term is defined in the law, so, here it is. In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:
- Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and device and online identifiers);
- Commercial information (your billing information and donation history, for example);
- Characteristics protected by law (for example, you might provide your gender as part of a research survey for us);
- Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of pages or navigation);
- Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);
- Audio, electronic, visual or similar information (such as an image you share on a blogpost comment);
- Professional or employment-related information (for example, your company and team information if you apply to volunteer); and
- Inferences we make (such as likelihood of retention or attrition).
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:
- Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you;
- Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;
- Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.
We do not sell your data to anyone, however, if you make use of any third-party services or links on our site, your data use is governed by that site’s cookie and privacy policy.
How to Reach Us
If you have a question about our Cookie or Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned above, you are welcome to contact us: contact@psychiatry4sheep.org