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All information divulged in any form of communication to Steven Harold, the owner of this website, will be kept in the strictest confidence.
Your email address will never be used to contact you other than for agreed reasons and will never be passed onto a third party without your consent.
Therapy Confidentiality
Please check with the hypnotherapist you make contact with via their website for their privacy and cookie policy. No responsbility is accepted by the owner of hypnotherapy-direct.co.uk for the practice, privacy and cookies policy of any websites linked to by this directory and in using this website you are acknowledging your acceptance of this policy.
Exceptions
There will always be exceptions to any policy and these exceptions may not be known at the time of writing. However if the owner of this website becomes aware of the potential of the possibility of harm to yourself or to anyone else, then the previous privacy statements may not apply. The privacy policy on this website may change or be updated according to new legislation or another appropriate reason for change and you are encouraged to check the website for changes.
Email, Telephone and Web Links to listed therapists
If you use the email enquiry form on the home page the owner of the website receives your communication including your email address. Depending on what option you have chosen in using the email enquiry form will mean that either your enquiry will be passed on to a local hypnotherapist or you will be sent details of a local hypnotherapist.
If you click through to an external website via a link on this directory Google analytics will collect information about that action in the form of statistics accessible by the website owner.
If you send an email to a therapist via a link on this website, the owner of this website receives a copy of that email for purposes of knowing the response a therapist is receiving from the website. The information you divulge will be kept in confidence and the owner of this website is a practising hypnotherapist.
If you use a telephone number listed on this website to contact a listed therapist, no known records are collected from the website of that action.
Cookies and Privacy
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.
This site may use cookies to collect personal information such as for Google Analytics which collects certain search data.
Cookies may be used to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of this website, and their website access preferences. If you do not want us to have cookies placed on your computer, please set your browser (eg Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc) to refuse cookies before using the website, though this is with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies."
Collection of data by this website
This website does not collect or store any personal information, except where anybody may fill in a Contact Form. Data supplied on the Contact Form will be stored in a retrieval system but will never be sold or passed to third parties or used for marketing purposes but purely to maintain communication with the person who initiated the enquiry.
Our website collects analytics data about visitors to the site via Google analytics. This data is presented as statistics and no individual can be identified, nor can data be cross-tabulated to create profiles. The data available at time of writing (May 2012) was:
Views by country
Top posts and pages
Referrers (eg search engine used to find the site)
Search engine terms (eg the actual words visitors typed into their search engine)
Clicks (links on this website that were clicked to go to external sites)
Tags and categories
Totals, followers and shares
This data is very useful for establishing the volume of people using the site, the most popular days of the week and the type of content people are most interested in, but as stated above, the data does not reveal any details about individuals and only gives summary data about the performance of the site.
Links to external websites
This site contains links to many external websites and social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other websites deemed relevant . This site will never add links which are knowingly unsafe or malicious, however you should always check the cookies and privacy policies of external sites if you have any concerns. This site cannot be responsible for external content or sites. If you have any concerns there are some useful links at the bottom of this page which may help to answer your questions.
Useful information
Internet browser cookies —what they are and how to manage them (Direct.gov.uk)
Google policies and principles. As well as Google branded products, Google also owns YouTube.
Facebook Privacy policy
Twitter privacy policy
Allaboutcookies.org
Aboutcookies.org. Includes information on how to remove cookies from your browser.
Your own browser(s). Browsers usually include information under the help section about allowing and blocking cookies and private or 'incognito' browsing.
If you have any questions about the privacy policy or need clarification please contact Steven Harold.
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