Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11/10/2025

Arielle Shugoll PsyD LLC respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when you interact with our website. This policy applies only to information we collect through the website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our website or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time in accordance with local regulations. Your continued use of the website after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children's and Minors' Data

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

"Personal data" is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, or insurance information.

The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

·      Contact information, including name, email address, and other contact information you provide us.

·      Location information, if you have enabled and consented to location information collection.

·      Technical Data: Like most websites, our site automatically collects non-identifying information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages viewed.

·      Cookies and Analytics: We may use cookies or website analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) to understand how visitors use our site. This data helps us improve usability and content but does not identify you personally.

·      Content and information you elect to provide through the Contact Me form.

We also collect:

·      Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our website.

Automatically Through Our Website

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies and other communication data.

When you interact with the website, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties include:

·      Squarespace, the host of the website.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, for the following purposes:

·      To respond to your inquiries or appointment requests

·      To ensure compliance with HIPAA and other applicable privacy laws

·      In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We also do not use tracking for advertising, remarketing, or behavioral profiling.

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

·      Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent.

Your State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:

·      Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.

·      Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.

·      Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.  

Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at info@arielleshugoll.com

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the website. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the website may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the website, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the website.

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

Info@arielleshugoll.com