Privacy Policy

Who we are

EAP European Association for Psychotherapy

Association Européenne de Psychothérapie | Europäischer Verband für Psychotherapie
Member of the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP)
NGO with consultative status to the Council of Europe

Headoffice: Mariahilfer Straße 1d/3. Stock/Tür 13, A-1060 Wien/Vienna/Austria
Tel: +43 1513 17 29 | Fax: +43 1 512 26 04, e-mail: eap.headoffice@europsyche.org

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The European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://www.europsyche.org (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing a service and improving the Site. Our Site is independent of any party, institution, or interest groups. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Information Collection And Use

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name (“Personal Information”).

2. Personal Data

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information about the Site. We will not share your data with other third parties.

3. Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, please be aware that you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

4. Security

The security of your Personal Information 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 Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

5. Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of its creation (May 17th, 2019) and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

6. Contact Us

You can reach out to us via email or contact form. Please note that if you reach out to us, we will store the data you provide us with to answer your requests. This will typically include only your name and email address (or other means by which to contact you), but depending on your specific inquiry we may have to ask for additional information.

Whatever data we collect through this contact, we will not share it with any third party without your express permission.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at eap.headoffice@europsyche.org

7. Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

8. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, fonts).

8.1. Youtube in Privacy Enhanced Mode

Our website uses plug-ins of the YouTube platform, which is being operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

We embed YouTube videos in Privacy Enhanced Mode. This allows to embed videos without using cookies that track viewing behavior. This means viewing inbox isn’t collected to personalize the viewing experience. Instead, video recommendations are contextual and related to the currently played video. Videos playing in a Privacy Enhanced Mode embedded player won’t influence the viewer’s browsing experience on YouTube.

8.2. Google Web Fonts

This website uses the Google Fonts API, a service provided by Google LLC, (Google), Mountain View, California, USA.

The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is needed to serve fonts efficiently.

Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.

In order to serve fonts quickly and efficiently with the fewest requests, responses are cached by the browser to minimize round-trips to our servers.

Requests for CSS assets are cached for 1 day. This allows us to update a stylesheet to point to a new version of a font file when it’s updated, and ensures that all websites using fonts hosted by the Google Fonts API will be using the most updated version of each font within 24 hours of each release.

The font files themselves are cached for one year, which cumulatively has the effect of making the entire web faster: When millions of websites all link to the same fonts, they are cached after visiting the first website and appear instantly on all other subsequently visited sites. We do sometimes update font files to reduce their file size, increase coverage of languages, and improve the quality of their design. The result is that website visitors send very few requests to Google: We only see 1 CSS request per font family, per day, per browser.

Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google’s Privacy Policy.

8.3. Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (“Google Analytics” or “Google”).

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

9. Newsletter

9.1. Newsletter Consent

The EAP Newsletter is an instrument to spread information to our EAP Member Organisations and Individuals. It will be published three times annualy.

9.2. MailChimp

We use MailChimp to send our newsletter to our subscribers. MailChimp is a service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA.

We trust in the reliability and data security of MailChimp. MailChimp is certified by the EU-US Privacy Shield „Privacy Shield“ and obligated to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. Furthermore we have concluded a „Data-Processing-Agreement“ with MailChimp. This is a contract in which MailChimp obligates itself to protect the data of our users and in particular to not hand over any data to third parties. Further information about the data protection offered by MailChimp can be found at: http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

9.3. Newsletter tracking

Our newsletter includes so-called web bugs that allow us to recognise if and when an email has been opened and which links in the email have been clicked by its recipient.

9.4. Information/Cancellation/Deletion

You may cancel your newsletter subscription and revoke your consent to the storage of this data at any time with future effect. Please use the link to unsubscribe from the list at the end of the Newsletter.

On the basis of the Federal Data Protection Act, you may contact us at no cost if you have questions relating to the collection, processing or use of your personal information, if you wish to request the correction, blocking or deletion of the same, or if you wish to cancel explicitly granted consent. Please note that you have the right to have incorrect data corrected or to have personal data deleted, where such claim is not barred by any legal obligation to retain this data.

If you have any questions regarding privacy or have questions about our practices, please contact us via email at news@europsyche.org.

See also our >> EAP Newsletter Policies

10. Statutory regulations and data processing purpose

By using our Site and our services, you have entered your data willingly and we process your data with the purpose of:

• Determining service eligibility – are both parties able to enter a contract
• Contract fulfillment – allowing us to fulfill the service you signed up for
• Answering your inqueries
• Sending you additional information and newsletters (see chapter 8).

You may rescind your agreement to this at any point. Note that once your data has been deleted, we will no longer be able to fulfill our services. To rescind your agreement, please send an email to eap.headoffice@europsyche.org

11. Legal information

Regarding all data relating to you, you have the right to get a report on it, correct it, have it deleted or amended. You may rescind your agreement to have your data transferred to any third party as well.

If you believe that processing your data by us is violating data protection laws or that your data protection claims have been violated in any kind, you may reach out to the appropriate authority. In Austria, this would be the “Datenschutzbehörde”.