Privacy Policy.

1. Website Visitors

Like most website operators, K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, device type, language preference, referring site, the page you arrived on, and the date and time of each visitor request. If you arrived by clicking one of our advertisements, we may also record that the visit came from that advertisement. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc.'s purpose in collecting non-personally-identifying information is to better understand how K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc.'s visitors use its website and which of its outreach is helpful to them.

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. measures visits to KateLoree.com with a privacy-focused analytics service that does not use cookies and does not identify individual visitors. From time to time, K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. may review non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., how many people visited the website in a given week.

2. Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc.'s website choose to interact with K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. in ways that require K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. gathers depends on the nature of the interaction:

Contact form. When you reach out through the contact form, we ask for your first and last name, your email address, an optional phone number, and a short message about what you would like to talk about. Along with your message we record the date and time it was sent, along with the Internet Protocol (IP) address and browser type it was sent from, which helps us protect the form from spam and abuse.

Newsletter. If you sign up for the newsletter, we keep your email address so we can send it to you.

Email. If you write to us directly by email, we receive whatever you choose to include.

3. How We Use Information

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. uses the information you provide only to respond to you, to arrange a consultation if you would like one, to send the newsletter you asked for, to keep the website secure and free of spam, to understand which of its outreach is helpful, and to meet its legal and professional obligations. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. does not use the information you send through the website for any other purpose.

4. Communicating With Us

The contact form is a way to start a conversation, not a substitute for a session. Contacting K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. through the website, or reading anything on it, does not create a therapist-client relationship. That relationship begins only after a consultation, when both of us agree to work together. The content of this website is for general information and is not therapy or professional advice.

You are welcome to share as much or as little as you like, and anything more personal can wait until we speak. Please keep in mind that email and other communication over the internet is never completely secure. When you send a message, you agree that K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. may reply using the email address or phone number you provided.

The contact form and email are not monitored around the clock and are not for emergencies. If you are in crisis, please call or text 988, or call 911.

5. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. uses Google Ads

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. advertises on Google so that people searching for support can find the practice. KateLoree.com uses the Google Ads tag, which places cookies so that Google can tell us how many people who clicked one of our ads went on to reach out through the contact form. When you send the contact form, the Google Ads tag also passes Google a scrambled (one-way encrypted, or "hashed") copy of your email address, which Google uses only to match the message to the ad you clicked. This is reported back to us as a count. Google does not receive your name, your phone number, or anything you write in your message.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to this and other websites. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page (adssettings.google.com), and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

6. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and service providers that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc.'s behalf or to provide services available at K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc.'s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. These are:

the contractor who builds, hosts and maintains KateLoree.com for the practice, under a written confidentiality agreement;

the company that hosts the website's servers;

the email delivery service that carries contact form messages to Kate;

an automated screening service that reviews contact form messages for spam and abusive content. Messages it flags are kept on file but are not passed on to Kate. The screening service is used only to keep the inbox safe and is not permitted to use your message for any other purpose; and

Google, only as described in Section 5.

Some of these service providers may store or process information outside of California. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its contractors and service providers, as described above, K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, when K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the safety of you or others, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. will never publish or share a message you send through the website.

7. Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. KateLoree.com's own analytics do not use cookies. The cookies on KateLoree.com come from the Google Ads tag described in Section 5. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc.'s website. The website, including the contact form, works fully without them.

8. Do Not Track and Tracking Across Other Websites

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting. Because there is not yet a common standard for how websites should respond to it, KateLoree.com does not currently change its behavior when it receives a Do Not Track signal. You can still refuse cookies in your browser settings, as described in Section 7.

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. does not itself track visitors across other websites. Google, through the Google Ads tag described in Section 5, may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. No other third party collects information about you through KateLoree.com.

9. Links To External Sites

Our Service contains links to external sites that are not operated by us, such as podcasts, social media, and books on Amazon. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. does not earn a commission from any of these links. 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 and terms of service 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, products or services.

10. Data Retention and Security

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. keeps contact form messages only as long as they are needed to respond to you and to keep reasonable records of the practice, and keeps newsletter email addresses until you ask to be removed.

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information. The website is served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, and access to contact form messages is limited to Kate and the contractor who maintains the website. No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. cannot guarantee absolute security. If a breach of your personal information ever occurs, K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. will notify you as required by law.

11. Children's Privacy

KateLoree.com is intended for adults. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 through the website. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, please contact us and it will be deleted.

12. Your California Privacy Rights

K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. does not sell your personal information, and does not disclose it to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

You may ask K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. at any time to tell you what personal information it holds about you from the website, to correct it, or to delete it, and you may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. To make a request, use the contact information in Section 14. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. will respond within a reasonable time and will not treat you differently for making a request. This Privacy Policy is available in another format on request.

13. Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc.'s sole discretion. K.S. Loree, Marriage and Family Therapy, Inc. encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy, and the effective date at the top of this page will always show when it was last updated. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.