{"id":3,"date":"2024-01-17T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becomingfreecounseling.com\/?page_id=3"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:33:44","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/becomingfreecounseling.com\/index.php\/privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/becomingfreecounseling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/About-Clouds-Header.jpg&#8221; background_enable_video_mp4=&#8221;off&#8221; height=&#8221;200px&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;1px|auto||auto||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0%||||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_font_size_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; header_font_size_phone=&#8221;48px&#8221; header_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Privacy Policy<\/b><\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_enable_image=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;on&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;70px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||50px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>BECOMING FREE COUNSELING SERVICES PRIVACY POLICY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared by Becoming Free Counseling Services, PLLC when you visit our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/becomingfreecounseling.com\">https:\/\/becomingfreecounseling.com<\/a> (the \u201cSite\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><strong>PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as \u201cDevice Information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We collect Device Information using the following technologies:<br \/>\u2013 \u201cCookies\u201d are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.<br \/>\u2013 \u201cLog files\u201d track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring\/exit pages, and date\/time stamps.<br \/>\u2013 \u201cWeb beacons,\u201d \u201ctags,\u201d and \u201cpixels\u201d are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.<\/p>\n<p>When we talk about \u201cPersonal Information\u201d in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HIPPA GUIDELINES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Becoming Free Counseling Services, PLLC follows all HIPPA guidelines and requirements protecting your personal information data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We use the Information that we collect generally to:<\/p>\n<p>Communicate with you.<\/p>\n<p>When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information relating to our services.<\/p>\n<p>We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).<\/p>\n<p>We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANGES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT US<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at ashley @ becomingfreecounseling.com.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy PolicyBECOMING FREE COUNSELING SERVICES PRIVACY POLICY This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared by Becoming Free Counseling Services, PLLC when you visit our website at https:\/\/becomingfreecounseling.com (the \u201cSite\u201d). PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:heading --><h2>Who we are<\/h2><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p><strong class=\"privacy-policy-tutorial\">Suggested text: <\/strong>Our website address is: http:\/\/cis290.com\/becoming.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading --><h2>Comments<\/h2><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p><strong class=\"privacy-policy-tutorial\">Suggested text: <\/strong>When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor&#8217;s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https:\/\/automattic.com\/privacy\/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading --><h2>Media<\/h2><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p><strong class=\"privacy-policy-tutorial\">Suggested text: <\/strong>If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading --><h2>Cookies<\/h2><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p><strong class=\"privacy-policy-tutorial\">Suggested text: <\/strong>If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select &quot;Remember Me&quot;, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. 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