WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: 7/10/25
This Privacy Policy describes how Gibbs Psychological Services, PC (the "Practice," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, protects, and discloses information when you visit our website located at www.gibbspsych.com ("Website"). This Privacy Policy, together with our Website Terms of Use, governs your use of our Website including any content, functionality and services offered on or through the Website.
By using the Website, you consent to this Privacy Policy. This means that you accept, agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, please cease use of this Website immediately.
Your privacy is very important. This Privacy Policy states how the Practice will safeguard the privacy of visitors to the Website. The Practice reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time.
This Privacy Policy covers only information collected through our Website. This Privacy Policy does NOT cover protected health information (“PHI”) collected during the course of providing mental health treatment and related services. Please see the Practice’s Notice of Privacy Practices for healthcare by clicking the link at the bottom of this page.
NO PSYCHOTHERAPIST-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP IS ESTABLISHED BY ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
The Practice values your privacy. The Practice collects information from several sources. This includes both Personal Information and Non-Personal Information.
Our Web server automatically collects the domain name and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address for each visitor to our Website. We collect information about the usage of our Websites. In addition, we may request or require you to provide Personal Information and/or create an account in order to access certain services or engage in certain activities on our Website. The Website collects Personal Information in a variety of manners. The types of Personal Information we may collect from you will depend on the products and services you choose.
The types of Personal Information we collect include, but are not limited to:
· General information (e.g., your name, date of birth, home and business address, email address, phone number, and other types of demographic information)
· Professional information (e.g., occupation, place of employment, professional history)
· Financial information (e.g., credit card information, billing information)
· IP addresses
· Website usage (e.g., search terms, referring/exit pages, time on a website, number of clicks)
Any information you may be asked to provide is completely voluntary. The Practice will not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information to any third parties.
The Practice also collects Non-Personal Information that is about you individually, but that does not directly identify you as you interact on our Website. The types of Non-Personal Information we collect includes, but is not limited to:
Products and services viewed
Internet service provider
Geolocation data
Anonymous information and data use
Anonymous information is information that cannot identify a specific individual unless combined with personally identifiable information. The Practice may use anonymous information to obtain a better understanding of how visitors use the Website to improve the user experience and site performance. Examples of non-personally identifiable information include zip code and data collected by browsers and servers using cookies.
Use of cookies
This Website uses cookies and other tracking. Cookies are small text files of information stored by the Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. For example, we may use cookies to collect browsing data to keep track of your preferences and profile information and to collect general usage and volume statistical information. Our cookies do not collect personal or confidential information and are not spyware. Some of our cookies are served by us, and some are served by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf.
You may set your Internet web browser to refuse cookies or to remove cookies from your hard drive. By blocking or deleting cookies used on our Website, you may not be able to take full advantage of our services.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
This Privacy Policy applies to the Practice Website only. We may allow third party ad servers or ad networks to serve advertisements within our Website. These third party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the website. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may use other technologies such as cookies, scripting language or clear gifs to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.
These third parties may view, edit, or set their own cookies. They may also collect non-personal and personal information concerning your online activities over time and across different websites. The information they may collect includes the other sites you have visited or applications that you have downloaded to your mobile device, and other information about you or your device in order to help analyze and serve targeted advertising on our Website and elsewhere. For more information about third party ad servers and your ability to opt-out of targeted advertising from such third parties, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative and/or the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising.
The Practice does not provide any Personal Information to these third party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND SECURITY
The Practice will take reasonable care to protect and maintain the confidentiality and security of the information you provide and the information collected automatically. However, the Practice strongly cautions against sending sensitive personal health information, or any other confidential information, over email or this Website. Should you choose to provide information in this manner, you do so at your own risk. Please keep in mind that any message you may send through the Website or through email is not secure and may be susceptible to third-party interception. As a result, you transmit information at your own risk.
PERMITTED DISCLOSURES
The Practice may share personal information you provide to us with third parties under certain circumstances. For example, the Practice may share personal information with third parties that perform services on behalf of the Practice. These services may include, but are not limited to, operating the Website, hosting the Website, authorization and processing of your payments, and sending advertisements and marketing and promotional materials to you (including direct mail marketing). Those third party service providers are not authorized to use or disclose personal information you provide to the Practice on or through this Website for any purpose other than to perform the services designated by us. When required by state and federal health information privacy laws, the Practice will enter into Business Associate Agreements in which the service providers will agree to comply with state and federal laws requiring the protection and security of patient information.
The Practice may also disclose your personal information as required or permitted by law such as to comply with a subpoena, in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry, court order or similar legal process. The Practice may also disclose personal information when the Practice reasonably believes that disclosure is necessary to protect their rights or to protect your safety or the safety of others. Further, the Practice may disclose your personal information in order to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim, investigate fraud or respond to a government request and to contact users in connection with their inappropriate use of the Website, noncompliance with the Terms of Use or in connection with a complaint filed about the use of the Website by another user. Finally, the Practice may disclose your personal information to any other third party with your prior consent.
NOTIFICATION OF PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
The Practice may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If the Practice makes any material changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on the Website prior to the change becoming effective. The Practice encourages you to periodically review this policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.
CHANGING OR DELETING INFORMATION
If you wish to delete or correct your personally identifiable information obtained through this website, you may:
Send a written request
700 El Camino, Suite 120, #1007, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Send an electronic request
elise@drelisegibbs.com
Submit a verbal request
Call 650-480-1745