Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 10, 2024

Vanessa Hastings, Certified Integrative Mental Health Coach, does not use invasive tracking technology, including cookies, to track the individual-specific activity of the users of this website (vanessahastings.net). Through this website, she does not collect any personal information, except for the first and last names, email addresses, and phone numbers of those users who complete the form on the Contact page. Squarespace, the host of this website, uses temporary cookies (i.e., cookies that expire within 30 minutes) to track overall use of this website.

If you schedule with Vanessa Hastings through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)–compliant platform Practice Better, which features its own privacy policy, you will be required to provide certain personally identifiable information so that Vanessa Hastings may contact you regarding the services you seek. The personally indentifiable information may include the following:

  • First and last name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Address

Use of Your Personal Data

Vanessa Hastings may use the personal data you provide via Practice Better for the following purposes:

To manage your registration as a user of Practice Better. The personal data you provide can give you access to different Practice Better functionalities that are available to you as a registered user.

For the development of, compliance with, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the services you have purchased or any other contract with Vanessa Hastings.

To contact you by email, telephone, SMS (text) message, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication. Regarding SMS messages, you can reply STOP to opt out at any time.

To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about services and events Vanessa Hastings offers that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

To attend to your requests.

Vanessa Hastings will never share your information with third parties, except under the circumstances described under Disclosure of Your Personal Data (see below).

Retention of Your Personal Data

Vanessa Hastings will retain the personal data you provide via the Contact page of this website, via the platform Practice Better, or by reaching out to her through other means (for example, SMS message) only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. She will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with her legal obligations (for example, if she is required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce her legal agreements and policies.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at Vanessa Hastings’s office and in the Practice Better platform. This means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. You are responsible for reviewing Practice Better’s privacy policy.

Vanessa Hastings will take the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and that no transfer of your personal data to an organization or a country will take place.

Deletion of Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that Vanessa Hastings assist you in deleting the personal data she has collected about you. The online platform she uses, Practice Better, may give you the ability to delete certain information about you from within the platform.

Please note, however, that Vanessa Hastings may need to retain certain information when she has a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Discolsure of Your Personal Data

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Vanessa Hastings may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Although Vanessa Hastings is dedicated to maintaining client confidentiality and she complies with HIPPA to conduct online sessions, communications, record-keeping (including comprehensive documentation of services and recommendations provided), invoicing, and other client-centered activities, she, by law, cannot maintain this confidentiality if

  • she determines that you are a danger to yourself or others,

  • you disclose the name of a child or elderly person who is being abused, or

  • your records are subpoenaed by the courts for any reason.

Signed Release of Information

With your completion and signing of a release of information, Vanessa Hastings will share select information with other healthcare providers for the purposes of your care.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is important to Vanessa Hastings, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Although Vanessa Hastings strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, she cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to other websites that are not operated Vanessa Hastings. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. She strongly advises you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. She has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Vanessa Hastings may update this privacy policy from time to time. She will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page, and she will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Vanessa Hastings

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact Vanessa Hastings through the following avenues: