Privacy Policy
For centerformindbodybalance.com
The Center for Mind Body Balance offers psychotherapy, somatic practice and integrative healing in Saddle River, New Jersey. This policy explains what this website collects, why, and what you can do about it. It covers this website only. It does not cover the care you receive from a clinician here, which is governed by the practice's own confidentiality and records obligations.
Information you give us
You only give us information if you choose to fill something in. This is exactly what each form on this site asks for:
Contact and consultation form:
- your first and last name
- email address
- phone number
- the general reason you are reaching out, chosen from a short list
- your town and state if you enter them
- and anything you choose to write in the message box
Girl Scouts program form:
- your first and last name
- email address
- phone number
- your troop name, its size and where it is based
- the dates and programs you are interested in
- any badge goals
- and anything you write in the message box
Our contact and booking forms carry a hidden field used to catch automated spam. It records nothing about you.
The contact form asks the general reason you are reaching out, and the options include subjects such as anxiety, grief, trauma and stress. That answer, and anything you type into the message box, is information about your health, so please share only what you are comfortable sending through a website form. You do not have to use the form at all: you are welcome to telephone the practice instead. Do not use this website to send clinical details or anything urgent.
What you send through either form is added to the practice's contact records so we can reply and follow up with you. Where you have given it, that record includes the reason you selected and what you wrote in the message box. A copy of each submission is also kept in our own operational records so that nothing is lost if delivery fails.
Information collected automatically
This site uses Google tags to count visits and see which pages people read. They set cookies in your browser and record your rough location, your device and browser type, the pages you view and how you arrived. We use this only as statistics. We do not use it to identify you and we do not use it for advertising. You can switch this off at any time, and the site works normally if you do. How to do that is below.
Besides counting page views, this site tells Google when someone clicks a telephone or email link on the page, so we can see how often people choose to make contact. What is sent is which link was clicked, not who clicked it.
The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google to fetch them and Google sees your network address when it does.
Like any website, our servers record the ordinary details of each request so the site can run and so we can find and stop abuse. A security and delivery network sits in front of the site and handles the same details in order to serve pages quickly and to filter out attacks and automated traffic.
When a form is sent we record the network address it came from. It is kept with the submission, and it is used to tell real submissions from automated ones and to stop the form being flooded.
Submissions that our checks judge to be automated are discarded and do not reach anyone. The checks look at a hidden field left empty by real people, at how quickly the form was sent, and at the content itself. If a genuine message is ever caught this way, use the contact route below and tell us.
The blog
This site publishes a blog. The posts themselves are served by a content system running on this same site. Blog pages carry the same measurement and the same typefaces as the rest of the site, so what is described above applies there too.
The blog has a search box. What you type into it is sent to our own server, and it is sent as you type so the box can suggest matching posts, not only when you press Search. Those words appear in the ordinary request records described above, so please do not type anything personal into it.
Booking and payment
Classes are booked and paid for on Square's booking pages. When you follow a booking link you leave this website, and anything you enter there, including payment details, is handled by Square under Square's own privacy policy. This website never sees or stores card details.
Why we use it
- To answer you when you get in touch.
- To keep the website working, fast and secure.
- To understand which pages are useful so we can improve them.
- To take and confirm payment when you buy something.
- To meet our legal and accounting obligations.
We do not sell your information. We do not share it with advertisers. We do not use it to build a profile of you, and we do not use it to train AI models.
Who else sees it
- Google provides the analytics tags described above, and the typefaces the pages use.
- Square handles booking and payment, as described above.
- We also rely on a small number of service providers to run the site: a company that hosts this website, a security and delivery network that sits in front of it, a company that delivers our email and holds the contact records enquiries are answered from, and a company that holds our contact records. They only ever receive what they need to do that job and are not permitted to use it for anything else.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it.
How long we keep it
We keep what you send us for as long as it takes to deal with your enquiry and for as long afterwards as we need it as an ordinary business record, or as tax and accounting law requires. When it is no longer needed for either, it is deleted.
If you ask to be removed from our contact records, we act on that when you ask.
Request records kept by the server and by the security network are held only as long as they are useful for running the site and investigating abuse, and are then discarded. Analytics data is held under the retention setting configured in the analytics product and is then deleted automatically.
Your choices
- Ask what we hold. Get in touch and we will tell you.
- Ask us to correct or delete it. Get in touch and we will, unless the law requires us to keep it.
- Ask us to stop contacting you. Say so and we will take you off our contact records.
- Turn off analytics. Install Google's official opt-out browser add-on, or block cookies in your browser settings. The site works normally either way.
If you live in California, another US state with a privacy law, the EEA or the UK, you have specific rights over your personal information, which include getting a copy of it, having it corrected, having it deleted and, in some cases, having it moved. Ask us and we will act on your request. We will never charge you or treat you differently for exercising a right.
Children
The Girl Scouts form is for troop leaders and other adults arranging a group program. It asks about the troop as a whole, such as its name, its size and the programs of interest. It does not ask for the name, contact details or any personal information of an individual child.
This website is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from a child. If you believe a child has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.
Security
The connection between your browser and this website is encrypted. What you send through a form goes into the contact system used to answer enquiries, the people who answer them are notified from there, and a copy is kept so that nothing is lost if delivery fails. No system is perfectly secure, but we keep what we collect to the minimum that lets us do our job, which is the most effective protection there is.
Changes to this policy
If what we collect changes, we will update this page.
How to reach us
For anything in this policy, including a request to see or delete what we hold, telephone the practice or email us using the details shown on this site.