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Emotions Tracker Dr Grif Privacy Policy
We recognize the sensitive nature of the “Emotions Tracker Dr Grif” data that you record. We take the security and confidentiality of your data very seriously. We recommend that users be 18 years of age or older or minors under age 18 have parental/legal guardian consent. By using Emotions Tracker, you confirm and agree that you are at least 18 years of age. Minors under the age of 18 using Emotions Tracker Dr Grif should have legal guardian permission to do so. Counselors, Therapists, etc. using Emotions Tracker as a therapeutic tool with any minor understand and agree that they will require legal guardian written authorization for use of the Emotions Tracker.
You, as the User, shall be responsible for choosing with whom you share your Emotions Tracker Dr Grif data, with special consideration of your ability to send your data/reports to yourself and up to four other individuals of your choosing. Therapists, Counselors, any Emotional Tracker Partner, etc. using Emotions Tracker Dr Grif as a therapeutic tool with their clients should view all data recorded with the same caution as any other piece of confidential information.
Your use of Emotions Tracker Dr Grif and the data contained within will remain confidential. It will only be automatically shared with the (up to) 5 individuals of your choosing, one of which should always be yourself. You can elect to change or delete these individuals at any time. The only identifying information collected by Emotions Tracker Dr Grif is the email address and phone number used to access Emotions Tracker Dr Grif. IP addresses are routinely recorded as well but will remain completely confidential. Your contact information will never be shared with any third party (other than the up to 5 individuals with whom you have explicitly chosen to share your data, including your counselor/therapist). Minors’ legal guardian(s) will always be allowed legal access to their minor child’s data, even if they are not listed as one of the 5 individuals with whom data is shared. Legal guardians of minors who purchase Emotions Tracker Dr Grif are responsible for transferring data to their child once the child is of legal age (18 in the United States).
Emotions Tracker Dr Grif uses cookies to improve the quality of our services by enabling us to see how people use Emotions Tracker Dr Grif. Cookies could also be used (if you so choose) to remember your log-in information as a courtesy so that it does not need to be re-entered each time you want to access Emotions Tracker Dr Grif.
Your personal information will never be sold. We do reserve the right to sell the Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app. Only your percent time in feeling data will ever be used in any way to conduct research to prove that emotional tracking is a valuable treatment tool. If you are Dr. Grif’s private patient using the app, all standard patient/doctor confidentiality will be applied. Aggregate research results acquired by data obtained with the Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app may be shared in journal publications, but those results will not contain any personally identifiable information. Any individual’s use of the Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app will remain completely confidential to owner/designer of Emotions Tracker Dr Grif. Should you have any questions, concerns or to request a deletion of your data, please contact us at emotionstrackerdrgrif@drgrif.com .
Emotions Tracker Dr Grif Privacy Policy:
1. How is the data collected? What personal information do we collect? The user enters the data by typing or speaking into the phone. The app user either enters their feelings/ thoughts/behaviors when they feel they have had a strong thought /feeling/behavior or when the app alerts the user to think about what they are presently doing, feeling or thinking about at a random or fixed interval. Additionally, we are overall collecting the users’ e-mail address, the name they want listed on the data they want sent to themselves and up to 4 other emotional tracker partners of their choice, and the e-mail addresses of who they want their data sent to.
2. How we use the data. (How we use your personal information. We do not use your data for anything other than to construct graph/chart/information that allows you, as the user, to see on a daily and weekly basis what “percent time in feelings” you are and what specific thoughts/feelings/behaviors you recorded. We do not sell your data or share your data with anyone you have not told the app to share your data with. You, as the user, decide if you want to share the data with anyone other than yourself and you really don’t even have to e-mail your data to yourself if you don’t want to see your own data. However, it is advised that you send your data to yourself and learn from your recordings what thoughts/feelings/behaviors trigger your emotions or moods across days, weeks and months. If you are using the app with a therapist or your emotional tracker partner and you have them listed as someone you have decided to share your data with, then they also see your total entries, total scheduled entries, scheduled entries completed, the scheduled entries you missed, your “percent time in feelings” data, what you recorded, times you recorded the data, number of times you recorded the data and the number of times you missed recording the data when prompted by the app.
3. How the data is disclosed Your data is only disclosed to the people you list as your emotional control partners. The data is sent each night between 12 midnight and 5 a.m. to the server and the server in turn sends the data up to 5 e-mail addresses you listed on your phone as your emotional tracker partners. You must list your own e-mail address to have the data sent to you and the e-mail addresses of your emotional tracker partners for them to receive your data. The app does not send the data to anyone that isn’t listed as someone you want to share your data with. The user can delete and add emotional partners as you, the user, desires. Dr Grif, the app developer, does not receive or see the user’s specific recordings unless the user has listed Dr. Grif’s e-mail address as an emotional tracker partner. Unless Dr. Grif is your personal therapist, you should not list him as an email address that you want your data sent to.
4. How the data is transferred. Your data is transferred from your phone to the server and from the server to the emotional partner e-mail addresses you have listed on the app in your phone. The data is sent between 12 midnight and 5 AM every day.
5. How your personal data is stored. Your personal data is stored on the server as a courtesy; to be retrieved in circumstances such as the user getting a new phone and wanting their old data transferred within the app to your new phone. Your data is secure and protected on the server. You and your emotional tracker partners, however, could move your received data to a file to be stored elsewhere at their sole discretion and without the permission or knowledge of Emotions Tracker Dr. Grif app or its owner/developer. Emotional Tracker Dr Grif app has no control of what you or your emotional tracker partners do with the data once you send it to them or yourself. It is recommended you store your own data in a file on your computer, so you can see your emotional control progress or lack thereof across days, weeks and months.
6. Source of your personal information where they are not collected from you. The Emotions Tracker Dr. Grif app does not collect any personal information from anyone other then the app user and it is only the user who provides that information.
7. Collection and use of non-personal information. To allow the field of clinical psychology to aide in the advancement of cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, with the idea of helping people live happier lives, Dr. Grif and any other doctors or university research teams using the app would use the “percent time in feelings” data without any identifying personal information to show how self-recording of thoughts, feelings and behaviors can be used to change emotions, moods and maladaptive coping techniques.
8. Cookies and other technologies. The Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app uses no other technologies other than cookies to improve the quality of our services by enabling us to see how many people look at, buy and use the Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app. Cookies could also be used (if you so choose) to remember your log-in information as a courtesy so that it does not need to be re-entered each time you want to access the Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app.
9. Disclosure to third parties. The Emotions Tracker Dr. Grif app never discloses a user’s personal data to a third party without the user’s explicit consent. The server collects your data and passes it onto the e-mail addresses chosen by the user, which is one of the main purposes of the emotional tracker app. Only a user’s “percent time in feeling” data would ever possibly be viewed by a third-party for research or publication purposes (such as a professional journal, if group data is published). Note: all personal identifying information of the specific user is never provided in research publications.
10. Protection of personal information. As a licensed private practice psychologist in the state of Florida, Dr. Grif does everything in his power to protect your personal information. Dr. Grif has no motive for designing this app other then improving the field of psychotherapy and helping people live a happier life. The app server, where the data passes through, has no legal rights to use user data and they respect the confidentiality of the app user data as well.
11. The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling. The Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app uses no automated decision-making, including profiling.
12. Integrity and retention of personal information. The Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app is a one-time, lifetime purchase. So, it can be used or not used at the user’s discretion during different times for the life of the app, at different times in the user’s lifetime, depending upon the user’s need to measure and change their thoughts/feelings/emotions/moods/attitudes. The data remains on the server unless the user requests that their data be deleted, or the app is terminated and deleted from the app stores. An app user’s request of deleting data will always be honored.
13. Children and education. We recommend that users be 18 years of age or older or minors under age 18 have parental/legal guardian consent. By using the Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app, you confirm and agree that you are at least 18 years of age. Minors under the age of 18 using Emotions Tracker Dr Grif should have a legal guardian’s permission to do so. Counselors, Therapists, etc. using the Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app as a therapeutic tool with any minor understand and agree that they will require legal guardian written authorization for use of the Emotions Tracker. Minors’ legal guardian(s) will always be allowed legal access to their minor child’s data, even if they are not listed as one of the 5 individuals with whom data is shared. Legal guardians of minors who purchase Emotions Tracker Dr Grif are responsible for transferring data to their child once the child is of legal age (18 in the United States).
14. Location based services. The Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app is not designed to monitor your location.
15. Third-party sites and services. The Emotions Tracker Dr Grif app contains no links to third-party websites, products or other services.
16. International Transfers.
17. Our company wide commitment to privacy. To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to our server, their employees, our employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company.
Dr E.E. “GRIF” GRIFFITH
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