The Psychology, Counselling and Wellbeing Centre
Social Media Policy
FRIENDING
Psychology, Counselling & Wellbeing Centre do not accept friend or contact requests from current or former patients on any social networking site (Facebook, Linkedln, etc). We believe that adding patients as friends or contacts on these sites can compromise your confidentiality and our respective privacy. It may also blur the boundaries of our therapeutic relationship.
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LIKING / FOLLOWING
Psychology, Counselling & Wellbeing Centre operate numerous social media accounts. You are welcome to like or follow us on these accounts. However we recommend you consider your own confidentiality in doing so. Whilst we appreciate feedback on Social Media, Psychologists are prohibited from using testimonials in their advertising. As such we are required to delete all posts from clients.
USE OF SEARCH ENGINES
Psychology, Counselling & Wellbeing Centre do not as part of their regular practice search for clients on search engines. If we need to do so for any particular reason we will communicate this with you.
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LOCATION-BASED SERVICES (LBS)
If you use location-based services on your mobile phone, you may wish to be aware of the privacy issues related to using these services. Please be aware of this risk if you are intentionally “checking in,” from our office or if you have a passive LBS app enabled on your phone.
Please be aware that email is not a completely secure or confidential form of communication. If you choose to communicate with us by email, be aware that all emails are retained in the logs of your and our Internet service providers.
NEWSLETTERS
Psychology, Counselling & Wellbeing Centre operate a regular newsletter that is distributed by email. Your consent may be withdrawn at any time by notifying us at reception@cwcqld.com. Your details are confidential and we do not release your email address to third party providers.