Effective Date: 4/8/2025
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC
Dominique Sanchez-York, MSW, LCSW-S
Email Address: info@BloomWithinTC.com
Protecting your private information is a top priority at Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC. This Statement of Privacy applies Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC for the sole purpose of governing data collection and usage. Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC has a mental health counseling site and by using the site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC receives, collects, and stores any information you enter on our website or provide in any other way. We will collect and maintain personal information provided by users, including first and last names, email addresses, telephone numbers, state of residence, and other personal information clearly stated on any contact forms present on the site. This personal information users provide is completely voluntary and will only be obtained and collected if the user provides it. However, providing less information might limit a user’s ability to access all of the site’s features and offered services. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only. Alternative options would be to directly email or call using information provided on the contact page to limit personal information collected on the website. **When submitting a form anywhere on this website (e.g. contact form, group registration), user's information provided will result in an automatic subscription status to Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC. Opting out of subscription option will always be available for everyone at anytime.
Communication and Use of your Personal Information
All direct, and back and forth communication with Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC will be conducted via HIPPA compliant and secure email, to protect and ensure secure communication. We may contact you through email or telephone if you submit any contact forms on the website for purposes related to the services provided through Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC. We may contact you for promotional purposes, updates about the company or services, or otherwise necessary to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC might use personal information for periodic general announcements to user. These can include notifications, updates regarding the company or the site, marketing communications, and so forth. For these purposes, we may contact you via email or telephone.
Usage and analytics data
In addition, we collect the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet and computer connection information. We may use software tools to measure and collect site session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC collects the above-mentioned usage information to assess how users access and utilize the site. This data is valuable to Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC for various internal purposes, including trouble shooting, improving the site’s functionality, to create aggregated statistical data and other inferred non-personal information to provide and improve services, and to comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site to enhance the site’s functionality. Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC in collaboration with Google Sites as the website platform, have cookies initially placed on the website categorized as essential cookies. Google Sites uses cookies for important reasons, such as:
To provide a great experience for visitors and customers.
To identify registered members (users who registered to the site).
To monitor and analyze the performance, operation, and effectiveness of Google Sites’ platform.
To ensure Google Sites platform is secure and safe to use.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Links
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC contains links to other sites as resources. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites.
Sharing Information with Third party service providers
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC might need to use personal user data in connection with website maintenance, upgrades, new releases, or analytics data review or compilation. We will be required to share user data with any third-party service providers that it might engage to assist in these efforts. This does not include sharing any personal information, only usage and analytics data.
As a general policy, we use personal information and message data for internal purposes only. We do not sell or rent information about you. We will not disclose personal information or message data to third parties without your consent, except as explained in this Privacy Policy. Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC is hosted on the Google Sites platform. Google Sites provides us with the online platform that allows us to market, advertise, and interact with users. Your data may be stored through Google Sites’ data storage, database, and the general Google Sites applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
Compliance with laws
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC cooperates with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law. We may therefore disclose personal information, usage data, message data, and any other information about you, if we deem that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process (such as a subpoena or court order), or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce the Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC, its users or the public, as required or permitted by law. Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC is a local Texas company. Users’ information will be subject to the laws of the United States of America, regardless of the country from which their data originates.
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC provides mental health counseling services through professional providers licensed in their state. As licensed providers offering mental health services, Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC abides by The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). To comply with the HIPAA federal law, please take note that your sensitive patient health information will be protected and will not be disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge in accordance with the law.
Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete that information.
Security
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC will use necessary measures to protect the security of their data. However, it's impossible to completely guarantee that user data will be immune from malicious attack or compromise; as such, the users should understand that their transmission of personal data is always at their own risk. Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC encourages users to carefully protect the personal information they submit on the site so that third parties cannot manipulate their accounts or assume their identities.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please periodically revisit the statement for any updates. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. Users who continue to interact with the site following a revision of the Privacy Policy will automatically be subject to the new terms.
Contact Information
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC is happy to answer any questions or address concerns regarding this Statement of Privacy.
Please contact us at:
Bloom Within Therapy and Consulting, PLLC
Dominique Sanchez-York, MSW, LCSW-S
Email Address: info@BloomWithinTC.com