Privacy Statement.

This privacy policy explains how Self/Discover Psychology (“the company”) collects, uses and protects your personal information, as well as your rights in respect of this information. All personal information is held in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act 1993.

This privacy notice applies to personal information collected on www.selfdiscover.co.nz. Self/Discover is a company incorporated in New Zealand. Enquires can be made at any time to anna.selfdiscover@gmail.com

By using this website you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Policy, please do not use this site.

Self/Discover Psychology collects personal information from you, including your name, title, email address, telephone number, presenting problem. This information is collected when you fill in the online enquiry form, contact the company with an enquiry, engage with the company for psychology services, or otherwise communicate and correspond with the company.

Self/Discover Psychology collects your personal information in order to identify you, process your referral, contact you about your enquiry, and provide a psychology service to you. The personal information collected is for the purposes specified above, and your personal information is retained for as long as needed in order to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, or as otherwise required by the New Zealand Psychology Board, or by law. Providing your personal information is optional, however, if you choose not to, a service is unable to be provided to you.

The Self/Discover website records standard information such as time, date and URL of request (the web page you arrived from) via our website provide. This information is used to understand advertising, and improve the functionality, structure and performance of this website. Self/Discover Psychology may analyse non-identifiable web traffic data to improve the service and how visitors use this website. When you use the website the server logs the following information, which is provided by your browser:

  • your server's IP address (a number which is unique to the machine through which you are connected to the Internet) or your personal IP address

  • the type of browser and operating system you are using

  • the domain name of the referring site (e.g. the previous Site that you visited) e.g. Google

This information does not personally identify you. Self/Discover Psychology does not disclose identifiable information about individuals without your consent, or in the case of serious risk of harm to you, or someone you know. Self/Discover Psychology uses Squarespace and Gmail to host this website and email, and so please refer to these companies to view their privacy policies about how they protect your data. Please note that Self/Discover is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of those third party websites/website providers and the sites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Third party websites have their own privacy statements which you are encouraged to read here: Squarespace Privacy Statement, Gmail Privacy Statement.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the personal information that Self/Discover Psychology holds about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you believe it is wrong or deleted if you believe the company no longer has a reason to hold it. In order to comply with any of your requests, you may be asked to verify your identity.

Self/Discover Psychology takes all reasonable steps in accordance with the Privacy Laws for Health Professionals, to protect your personal information and prevent it from being lost, accessed, used, modified or disclosed in an unauthorised way. This includes locked cabinets for storage of physical documents, password protected files, and two-factor identification processes for access to client databases.

Please note, this Privacy Policy may change at any time and these updates will be posted on this webpage.