Privacy Policy

What data is collected and why?

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This website is used to securely collect and manage your personal information in compliance with GDPR.

When you undertake an assessment session it is important to gather a variety of information about you, such as any medication you take, any health issues you may have, as well as notes on your mental health - current and past - and what you are hoping to gain from counselling. 

You will also be asked for your full name, address, telephone numbers, your relationship status, any dependents, medical information, GP name and address, history of mental health and goals for counselling and whether you have had previous counselling before.

During the initial assessment sessions, you may divulge other special category information such as your gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, sex life or religion but these are not specifically needed, although this information may also be useful.

• Disclosure of Records and Notes may be ordered by a Court.

• If you have expressed an intent/plan to harm yourself, or to do so in a way that may endanger the public, your GP and/or the Police must be notified.

• If you or someone else is at risk from serious harm, this will have to be shared with your GP, the Police or Social Services.

• If you reveal that you have laundered or are going to launder money - the Police must be notified. 

• If you tell us that you have committed or are going to commit an act of terrorism we have to notify the Police. 

• If you reveal that you are supplying or profiting financially from the drug trade – the Police must be notified.

• If you are committing benefit fraud, the Police must be notified.

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Beyond these circumstances, your data will not be shared with anyone else.