Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 19, 2024

In His Image Institute of Counseling & Training, Inc. offers counseling and counseling degrees programs.

Questions, Concerns, or Changes to Your Personal Information?

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In His Image Institute of Counseling & Training, Inc.
Lisa Winchell, MA
2389 E. Venice Ave #195
Venice, FL 34292

Phone: 813-684-7927

Email: info@inhisimagecounseling.org

Our website address is:
www.inhisimagecounseling.org

Personal Information

We collect, process and/or store information from you on our website when you:

  • visit our website
  • submit a form (contact form, make an appointment, register for a workshop or challenge)
  • make an online payment

We may hold on to your information until we receive a request for erasure, at which point we will delete or anonymize your information. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you want to edit your data, be removed from our records or request a record of the data we have about you, please call us at 813-684-7927 or email us at info@inhisimagecounseling.org.

Visits to Our Website

This website www.inhisimagecounseling.org is like millions of other websites using Google Analytics to gather information about site visitors and their behavior. We use Google Analytics to get an idea for:

  • how many visits our website gets
  • how visitors found our website
  • in which content they are interested
  • how long they stay on our website and on each individual page
  • what region they are from
  • what type of computer hardware and internet software they are using
  • and similar details

However, we do not send any of your personal information to Google Analytics. The collected information is used only for statistics, which help us evaluate our website’s performance. User-level and event-level data stored by Google Analytics is set to be automatically deleted from Google’s servers after 26 months.

Furthermore, to protect our visitors’ privacy we request that Google anonymize each visitor’s IP address.

To opt-out of Google Analytics completely, install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Form Submissions

The information we collect from this form consists of all the information you enter. We use the submitted information to process your request and to respond to it (if applicable).

For security reasons and to protect this website from spam, your data will be processed in the CleanTalk Cloud Service and they will be stored in log files for 7 days. On the expiry of the mentioned period, they will be completely deleted. CleanTalk may use spam activity information of IP/email addresses to offer proper anti-spam protection to all websites connected to its service. It concerns exclusively those IP/email addresses that are being used for spam mailing.

Online Payments

We give you the ability to pay for services rendered, courses and workshops through our website by using PayPal or Stripe. For them to process the payment, your personal and transaction data is being processed and stored by PayPal or Stripe. They however does not give us access to your full credit card number or bank account. Visit PayPal’s Privacy Policy or Stripe’s Privacy Policy for more information.

Other 3rd Party Providers that Store and Process Your Data

  • Our website is hosted through Cloudways. Cloudways holds a server log of all website visits to help with security and diagnostics. The server log contains the visitor’s IP address but no information like name, phone number or email address.
  • To protect this website from spam form submission and comments, this website is using CleanTalk. CleanTalk may store and process your IP address. For more information visit CleanTalk’s Privacy Policy.
  • MailerLite is hosting some of our workshop pages and sign-up forms. Also MailerLite is used to email people who have signed up for workshops or challenges. You can unsubscribe by using the link in the bottom of the email or by contacting us. Visit MailerLite’s Privacy Policy for more information.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.

You can delete or disable cookies by using your browser. In Chrome you can delete your cookies by clicking on the three vertical dots in the top right corner, then clicking on “More tools” and then on “Clear browsing data…”. The operation is similar in other browsers, such as Edge or Firefox.

  • Google Analytics’ (see description above) core functionalities store 1st party cookies on each visitor’s computer.
  • CleanTalk (see description above) uses 1st party session cookies on our website to determine whether or not you are a human visitor.

Content Hosted by Third Parties

We may embed content on our website from third parties such as Google Maps, Vimeo and YouTube. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

However, since this embedded content is not hosted by our web host, we do not have control of the cookies they use or what personal information they collect. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to them. Please see the third parties’ privacy policies for more information.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, as soon as they are posted on this page.

Complaints

Please call us at 813-684-7927 or email us at info@inhisimagecounseling.org with any complaints regarding your personal data. We will take your complaint seriously, investigate it and take necessary measures where applicable. This does not affect your right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.