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PRIVACY STATEMENT

PsychDirectory reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users through a notice posted on PsychDirectory.com or by e-mail, of the existence of a new privacy policy or any updates.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you are registering before entering your listing information or when purchasing and/or registering PsychDirectory products. Personal information collected by PsychDirectory.com often is limited to name, e-mail address, user login, or location, but may include other information when needed to provide a service you requested.

PsychDirectory does not collect credit card or banking information. All payments and transaction are processed securely through PayPal. Your PayPal e-mail is the only information PsychDirectory.com will collect to process each billing transaction. If you choose a service or transaction that requires payment, such as purchasing enhanced listing, you will be asked to pay through PayPal's secure website.

PsychDirectory.com also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of PsychDirectory.com.

PsychDirectory.com also collects information about which pages our customers visit within PsychDirectory.com. This site visitation data is identified only by a unique ID number, and it is never linked with personal information unless a user consents as described below.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use your personal information for the following purposes:

* To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
* To deliver services, such as newsletters, services or files, that you request or purchase.
* To help us create and publish content most relevant to you.
* To alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information and other new services from PsychDirectory, if you so request.
* To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our site as appropriate.

Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which PsychDirectory or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

CONTROL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you register, or otherwise give us personal information, PsychDirectory.com will not share that information with third parties without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions already listed. It will only be used for the purposes stated above.

Registering also allows you to tell us how or whether you want PsychDirectory.com to communicate with you. PsychDirectory.com may send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service or security issues related to a product or service you requested, or confirming you requested a product or service. You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered an essential part of the service you have chosen.

E-MAIL HARVESTING PROTECTION AND ANTI-SPAM POLICY
PsychDirectory collects personally identifying e-mail information only during the registration process. e-mail information is collected in certain portions of PsychDirectory.com in which users specifically and knowingly provide such information along with content submissions, PsychDirectory submissions or suggestions. PsychDirectory use e-mail information for its internal purposes only. e-mails information submitted at the time of registration in the intend of allowing visitor to contact listed members will also remain confidential.

To prevent specific user-agents from harvesting e-mail addresses from PsychDirectory's public listings, all e-mails on PsychDirectory are hidden within both the link and displayed address. e-mail harvesting robots are prevented from retrieving any type of e-mail information that could be used for spam and or fraudulent purposes by any individual and/or third party company, therefore protecting our listed members from receiving unsolicited e-mails trough their listing.

PsychDirectory anti-spam protection does not however prevent or restrict visitors from contacting enhanced listed registered members by e-mail. Registered paid members who do not wish to be contacted by e-mail through their listing may remove the e-mail reserved to this effect in their profile.

COOKIES
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes while at the site. Cookies make Web-surfing easier by, among other things, saving your passwords and preferences for you. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and you'll find cookies at most major Web sites.

Cookies help make PsychDirectory better, by showing how and when guests use the site. Many content improvements and updates are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. A cookie lets PsychDirectory remember that you've registered, which allows us to speed up your future activities at our sites. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information although it may enable PsychDirectory to relate a user's use of PsychDirectory to personally identifying information that has previously been submitted by the user, if any.

You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. These cookies are sent from third-party computers and are subject to such third parties' policies. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, it is likely that most areas of the site will not function properly if you do so.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The sites displayed as search results or linked to by PsychDirectory Search Services are developed by people over whom PsychDirectory exercises no control. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. PsychDirectory may choose to exhibit its search results in the form of a "URL redirecter." When PsychDirectory uses a URL redirecter, if you click on a URL from a search result, information about the click is sent to PsychDirectory, and PsychDirectory in turn sends you to the site you clicked on. PsychDirectory uses this URL information to understand and improve the quality of PsychDirectory.

REMOVAL FROM OUR DATABASE
Should you ever wish to be removed from our database, simply contact us and we will fulfill your request. Additionally, should you wish further clarification of this policy, please do not hesitate to e-mail us at .







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