Privacy Policy

Last updated December 12, 2023

Privacy Policy, Terms and Disclaimer

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the website (“LisaHigginsTherapy.com” further known as “the website”) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

The website of Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, phone number, email, and other personal information. If you purchase Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC's services, we collect billing, credit card, demographic information using a different site which contains it’s own Privacy Policy.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC website. 

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. 

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC website. 

When you access the website by or through a mobile device, the hosting service may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

The website may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit this website or when you access the website by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within LisaHigginsTherapy.com, in order to determine what Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. 

Use of Cookies

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC services or websites you visit. 

Use of your Personal Information 

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested. 

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other services available from Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC. Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. 

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. 

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC; and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC, or the public. 

Retention of Your Personal Data

Lisa Higgins Therapy , LLC will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Lisa Higgins Therapy , LLC will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of the website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at Lisa Higgins Therapy , LLC operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of 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.

Lisa Higgins Therapy , LLC will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data 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 commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.  

 OUR RESPONSIBILITIES

 We are required to maintain the privacy of your health information.   In addition, we are required to provide you with a notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to information we collect and maintain about you.   We must abide by the terms of this notice.   We reserve the right to change our practices and to make the new provisions effective for all the protected health information we maintain.   If our information practices change, a revised notice will be mailed to the address you have supplied upon request.   If we maintain a Web site that provides information about our patient/customer services or benefits, the new notice will be posted on that Web site.   

 Your health information will not be used or disclosed without your written authorization, except as described in this notice.  The following uses and disclosures will be made only with explicit authorization from you: (i) most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes (ii) uses and disclosures of your health information for marketing purposes, including subsidized treatment communications; (iii) disclosures that constitute a sale of your health information; and (iv) other uses and disclosures not described in the notice.  Except as noted above, you may revoke your authorization in writing at any time.

 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REPORT A PROBLEM

 If you have questions about this notice or would like additional information, you may contact Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC.   If you believe that your privacy rights have been violated, you have the right to file a complaint with Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.  The complaint must be in writing, describe the acts or omissions that you believe violate your privacy rights, and be filed within 180 days of when you knew or should have known that the act or omission occurred.   We will take no retaliatory action against you if you make such complaints.

 The contact information for both is included below.

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Office of the Secretary

200 Independence Avenue, S.W.

Washington, D.C. 20201

Tel: (202) 619-0257

Toll Free: 1-877-696-6775   

http://www.hhs.gov/contacts

 

Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC

150 South Warner Road, Suite 130

King of Prussia, PA  19406

 

 NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES AVAILABILITY

 You will have access to and be provided a digital copy at the time we first deliver services to you in your client portal.  Thereafter, you may obtain a copy upon request, and the notice will be maintained on our website.

 Children's Privacy

Children Under Thirteen

 Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. 

Links to Other Websites

The website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on the website, prior to the change becoming effective and 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 Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

  • By email: lisa@lisahigginstherapy.com

  • By visiting the contact page on our website

 NONDISCRIMINATION NOTICE

Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs or activities.

The Health Provider complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. The Health Provider does not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. The Health Provider:

  • Provides free aids and services to people with disabilities to communicate effectively with us, such as:

    • Qualified sign language interpreters

    • Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats)

  • Provides free language services to people whose primary language is not English, such as:

    • Qualified interpreters

    • Information written in other languages

You can file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf, or by mail or phone at:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, D.C. 20201 
1-800-368-1019, 800-537-7697 (TDD)

Complaint forms are available at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/office/file/index.html

 

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the website LisaHigginsTherapy.com and Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC include LisaHigginsTherapy.com and Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC. The Lisa Higgins Therapy, LLC website is an ecommerce site. By using the Lisa Higgins Therapy, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.