Psychlinks fully respects and supports your right to online privacy and informed consent. Unless you choose to send email, we do not have access to any identifying information about any visitor to the web site. We do not collect any private, personally identifiable information about you surreptitiously. No personal information whatsoever is required or requested in order for you to access the information and services on this site. You may access this site in total anonymity if you wish.
If you do choose at any time to send your email address or any other personal information via email or otherwise, be assured that this information will never be given out, sold to advertisers, or used for any purpose other than what you intend. No one associated with Psychlinks will ever contact you by any means, including email, except to respond to a question, suggestion, or problem with the website initiated by you, and any such responses will be limited strictly to responding to your comments or questions.
If you choose to register as a member of the Psychlinks Psychology Self-Help & Mental Health Support Forum, you may receive automatic notifications via email of new posts in topics that you are "watching". All such emails include instructions for opting out of this feature if you no longer wish to recieve them. These emails are generated automatically by the forum software if you choose to have that feature enabled; you have full control over whether you wish to receive these or any other types of emails from the forum software. There is also a weekly email newsletter sent to all members by default. Again,all such newsletters contain instructions for opting out of the newsletter via your member settings page.
All costs of developing, maintaining, and hosting this web site are paid by the author and webmaster personally, Dr. David J. Baxter. As an attempt to help keep these costs to a minimum, some of the pages on this web site may from time to time contain advertising, which will be clearly labeled as advertisements. In some cases, these advertisements are not under the direct control of Psychlinks, although every effort is made to avoid linking to advertisers who make misleading or dubious claims about products or services, or whose advertising contains any offensive material, or who use methods of obtaining identifying information about anyone without informed consent. Be aware that Psychlinks makes no implied warranty, recommendation, or endorsement of or for any of the products, companies, or services mentioned in advertisements on this web site, unless specifically stated otherwise. If you choose to click on any of the advertising links, use the same caution as you would in responding to advertising in any other medium. If you ever have any concerns about any of the advertising on this web site, please contact the webmaster and your concerns will be investigated as a high priority. The same cautions should be extended to the links to book sellers in the "Suggested Reading" sections of many of the pages on this web site. These links are provided for the convenience of visitors to the Psychlinks web site, to facilitate obtaining information about suggested books on various topics. You are free to click on any link to obtain additional information and pricing about any book with no obligation to purchase. Should you decide to purchase on-line, a small portion of the profit from purchases is paid to Psychlinks, which again helps to minimize the costs of maintaining the web site. Be aware that any on-line purchases will require you to provide the seller (e.g., Amazon) with personal information, and you should use normal caution in doing so. None of the information collected by third parties is ever made available to Psychlinks. Please note that the pages on the Psychlinks main web site and its subdomains may include advertisements from Google. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users who are concerned about this practice may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
If, at any time in the future, any of the current privacy policies should change, you will be clearly and openly informed of any information being requested and the intrusiveness of any such information will be kept to an absolute minimum.
Dr. David J. Baxter, C.Psych., Ottawa, Canada (click here to send email to Dr. Baxter)
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