Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 8, 2025

Please note this is NOT the privacy policy for active clients. Client data is highly secure and protected in compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The policy below describes the policy for website visitors only.

Sandycinilcsw.com (the “Site”) is owned and operated by Sandy Cini. Sandy Cini is the data controller and can be contacted at:

Sandy@sandycinilcsw.com

(267)400-4067

Purpose

The purpose of this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is to inform users of our Site of the following:

  1. The personal data we collect;

  2. Use of collected data;

  3. Who has access to the data collected;

  4. The rights of the Site users; and

  5. The Site’s cookie policy.

This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.

GDPR

For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018. We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Office under article 37 of the GDPR.

Consent

By using our Site, users agree that they consent to the conditions set out in this Privacy Policy. Your consent provides for the processing of your personal data. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting the website owner, Sandy Cini. If you withdraw your consent, it will not make processing which was completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful.

Data Collected Automatically

When you visit and use our Site, we may automatically collect and store the following information:

  1. IP address;

  2. Location;

  3. Hardware and software details;

  4. Clicked links; and

  5. Content viewed.

Squarespace Privacy Practices

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • We pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Website you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor access a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit: The cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allows Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. You can learn about them here. The analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. this website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. You can learn more here.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about youincluding:

  • Information about your browser, network or device

  • Information about this site and the page(s) you’re viewing

  • Your IP address

Other Disclosures

We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:

  1. The law requires it;

  2. It is required for an legal proceeding;

  3. To prove or protect our legal rights; and

  4. To buyers or potential buyers of this company in the event that we seek to sell the company.

If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another Site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.

How Long We Store Your Personal Data

User data will be stored until the purpose that data was collected for has been achieved.

You will be notified if your data is kept longer than this period.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

Website analytics are stored within Squarespace and do not identify specific users. While we take all responsible precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains a risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times, and therefore, we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.

Your Rights as a User

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  1. Right to be informed;

  2. Right of access;

  3. Right of rectification;

  4. Right to erasure;

  5. Right to restrict reprocessing;

  6. Right to data portability; and

  7. Right to object.

Children

The minimum age to use our website is 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under the age of 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child un 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data, their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.

How to Access, Modify, Delete or Challenge the Data Collected

If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to whom we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your personal data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise your other rights under the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer:

Sandy Cini

Sandy@sandycinilcsw.com

267-400-4067

Do Not Track Notice

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track users of our Site over time and across third party websites and therefore, do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals. We are not responsible for and cannot guarantee how third parties who interact with our Site and your data will respond to DNT signals.

Modifications

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of the Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.

Complaints

If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the Contact Information section below so we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority. You can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority by contacting Sandy Cini.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact Sandy Cini at:

Sandy@sandycinilcsw.com

267-400-4067