Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 4, 2026

PRIVACY POLICY

IMPORTANT: THIS POLICY AND YOUR CLINICAL RECORDS

This Privacy Policy governs information collected through this website only — such as contact form submissions, email list signups, and website usage data.

It does not govern protected health information created or maintained as part of a clinical therapy relationship. If you become a client, the handling of your clinical records is governed separately by our Notice of Privacy Practices, which you will receive as part of your intake paperwork, and by applicable state and federal law including HIPAA.

Please do not include detailed clinical, medical, or sensitive personal information in website contact forms or in email. Email is not a secure or confidential method of communication. If you need to share sensitive details, we will provide a secure channel once contact is established.

If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, do not use this website. Call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room.

This Privacy Policy explains the privacy practices governing the types of information collected through the website (bmetherapyassociates.com) (the "Site" or "Website") owned and operated by BME Therapy Associates ("Company", "we", "our" or "us"), our use of that information, and your privacy choices and rights.

This Privacy Policy applies to the information we collect from or about you from:

Your use of the Site; your signing up for a freebie and/or our email list through the Site (the "Email List"); and/or your creation of an account through the Site, if/when we make that feature available.

You must read this Privacy Policy carefully because when you use the Site, you are consenting to the collection, processing, and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about the Privacy Policy, you can contact us at support@bmetherapyassociates.com.

If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Site.

If you are in the European Economic Area, and you use this site, you consent and permit to the transfer of your data from the European Economic Area to the United States only for purposes laid out in this Privacy Policy.

I. Information We Collect

We collect information that falls into two categories: information you voluntarily provide, and information that your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device (all referred to as "Device") or browser provides automatically.

A. Information You Voluntarily Provide.

When you interact with our Site, we, or our service providers (acting on our behalf), collect "Personal Information" -- information that relates to you as an identifiable individual -- that you intentionally and actively provide to us, such as your first and last name, address, email address, and when necessary, credit card or bank information. We collect this information when you inquire about our Site; create an account on our Site; send a communication through our Site; make a purchase through our Site; or sign up for an Email List or to receive our newsletter and/or advertisements or marketing emails from us.

We may collect content you make available through social media accounts or memberships with third parties if you choose to create an account using a social media login.

You can always choose not to provide us with information. However, if you do withhold information, we may deny you access to some or all of our website's services and features.

Some transactions between you and our website may involve payment by credit card, debit card, checks, money orders, and/or third party online payment services. In such transactions, we will collect information related to the transaction as part of the course of doing business with you, including your billing address, telephone number, and other information related to the transaction.

Depending on how you communicate with us, we may collect the following information: your email address, your first name, your last name, your phone number, and your payment information (if you make a purchase through the Website).

B. Information About You That Is Provided Automatically.

Like most places on the Internet, simply by visiting our Website you or your Device automatically tell us certain information. This includes basic information such as your IP address, when you visited, the website from where you came prior to visiting us, the website where you go when you leave our website, your computer's operating system, and the type of web browser that you are using. Our website automatically records this basic information about you.

And like many other websites, we may use cookies, digital fingerprinting (e.g. device, machine, and Internet browser fingerprints), web beacons, click redirects, pixel tags, container tags, and similar technologies. In plain English, this means information that our website's server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website and to customize our website content for you as an individual. When you browse our Site, we also automatically receive your computer's internet protocol (IP) address as well as other information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system ("Usage Information").

Usage Information includes your IP address, your Device type, your unique Device identifier, your location, and the type of browser software and operating system you are using.

If you download or use mobile software applications ("Mobile Apps") from our website, we may know your location. In addition, your Device using our Mobile Apps may provide us information about the device, including its unique identifier, make and model, operating system, mobile network carrier, and your telephone number. Your Device may have the ability to disable location services as well as deny us access to other information described in this paragraph. To learn more, check your Device's user manual and/or contact your mobile device's manufacturer or service carrier.

The Site may also feature social buttons from networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram. To do so we embed code that they provide. We do not control that code ourselves. In order to function, their buttons generally know if you're logged in. We do not have any access to that information, nor can we control how those networks use it.

If you access the Site via a mobile app, we use additional identifiers, such as the advertising ID provided by Apple or Android, for similar purposes.

C. Cookies and Other Data Tools.

Cookies

We, and/or our third party service providers, use cookies (data files placed on a Device when it is used to visit our Site) and other identifiers to collect Usage Information, for security purposes, to enable you to use the Site, to collect information regarding your preferences, to allow you to share content via social media when you are logged in to a particular platform, to deliver relevant advertising to you, and to generally make the Site perform better.

For example, we may use a tool called Google Analytics to collect information about visitors' use of this Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this Site, how users find the Site, and what pages they visit. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve this Site. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. To opt-out of Google Analytics, please use Google's opt-out tool: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Remarketing Tags and Pixels

This website may use a remarketing tag to advertise online. This means that Google and other third-party vendors may show our ads to you on sites across the Internet. These third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads to you based upon your past visits to our website.

Our website may use DoubleClick's remarketing pixels. If you would like to opt out of DoubleClick's use of cookies, you can visit the DoubleClick opt-out page at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en.

Web Beacons or clear GIFs

The Site also may contain web beacons or clear GIFs, or similar technologies, which are small pieces of code placed on a web page or in an email, to monitor the behavior and collect data about the visitors viewing a web page or email. For example, web beacons may be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. Web beacons may also be used to provide information on the effectiveness of our email campaigns (e.g., open rates, clicks, forwards, etc.).

Interest-Based Advertising

When you visit our website, you may view advertisements posted on the site by Google or other companies. These advertising companies may collect information about you while you are visiting this website and other websites. They may use this data to show you advertisements on this website and elsewhere on the Internet about products and services you might like.

This website does not collect the information or control the content of the advertisements that you will see. You may be able to opt out of such advertising.

If you are in the United States, you may opt out of some advertising via the Digital Advertising Alliance at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

If you are in Canada, you may opt out of some advertising via the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada at http://youradchoices.ca/

If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you may opt out of some advertising via the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/

To find out more about Google privacy policies and its DoubleClick DART cookie used to generate interest-based advertising, go to https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Dynamic Ad Serving

Our Site may use Google's Dynamic Ad Serving Feature. To opt out of interest-based ads by Google, follow Google's opt-out instructions located at https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en.

Your use of this website without opting out means that you understand and agree to data collection to provide you with interest-based advertising.

Opting Out of Cookies; Do-Not-Track

You can opt out of cookies, but if you do, some features of the Site may not work correctly. To learn how to reduce the number of cookies you receive or delete cookies that have already been installed in your browser's cookie folder, you can check your browser's help menu or other instructions related to your browser. We try and honor any Do-Not-Track signals you send through your web browser when visiting the Site.

If you would like to opt out of Google's use of cookies, you can visit the company's Ad Preferences Manager at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en.

You can opt out of the use of cookies by some third-party vendors by going to the Network Advertising Initiative's opt-out page located at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.

II. How We Use Your Information and What We Do With It

We use the Personal Information we collect about and from you to perform our responsibilities under a contract we have with you — for example, to communicate with you about changes to the Website, and to respond or troubleshoot if you submit a support ticket or make an inquiry through the Site.

We also use it when we have a legitimate interest to do so — in other words, when it supports and achieves the aims of the Company. For example: to prevent fraud and protect the security of our Site; to enforce our Terms of Use; to communicate updates and improvements; to develop and optimize our Site; to resolve disputes; to help us provide and operate the Site; to advertise and market to you, which includes displaying targeted ads, offers and content made available to you based on your interests and usage of the Site; to analyze the performance of the ads, offers and content on or originating from the Website, as well as your interaction with them; and to comply with our legal obligations.

We also use it with your consent. We send marketing communications to you only if you consent to receive them, and we do not share your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your consent.

We also use it as otherwise required by applicable law — for example, protecting someone's rights, or when necessary to perform a legal obligation or request from a governmental authority or similar body.

Some government intelligence agencies have the technological ability to access data from our website without our cooperation, knowledge, or consent. Even if we were to learn of such access, we may not be able to tell you because of national security laws. Please take this risk into account before supplying information to us or any other website owner.

Although we do not disclose individually identifiable information, we may disclose aggregate data about our website's visitors to advertisers or other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes.

While we rely on your consent as a legal basis for collecting and processing your information, if you consent to a particular use of your information and you ultimately change your mind, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at support@bmetherapyassociates.com.

If you no longer wish to receive email marketing communications, you may use the unsubscribe tool located at the bottom of that communication. If you withdraw your consent, we will not use your information going forward.

III. How We May Share Your Information

A. Service Providers. We share your Personal Information with other service providers that we have engaged to perform business-related functions for us ("Service Providers"). This includes service providers that conduct research and analytics; create content for Company; provide customer, technical or operational support; conduct or support marketing (such as email marketing platforms); host the Site; maintain databases; send or support online advertising; process payments and/or fulfill purchases; or otherwise support or help us provide the Site.

These Service Providers may use your Personal Information to help us perform necessary actions that support those activities. If a supplier wants to collect information about you, you will be notified. However, you will never be required to give information to a third party supplier. We restrict the way third party suppliers can use your information. They are not allowed to sell or give your information to others.

B. Business Transfers. We will share your Personal Information if we are acquired or purchased by, or merge with, another company, or if we otherwise reorganize our business. However, if that happens, any acquirer of that information will be subject to the provisions of our commitments to you in this Privacy Policy.

C. Legal Disclosure or Governmental Request. We may transfer and disclose information, including your Personal Information, to third parties to comply with a legal obligation or subpoena, when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy or other applicable policies, to respond to an emergency, or otherwise to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of the Site, third parties, visitors to the Site, or the public.

D. Autoresponders. We may use your information with autoresponders in order to communicate with you by email. To protect your privacy, we use a verified opt-in system for such communications and you can always opt-out of such communications using the links contained in each autoresponder message. If you have difficulties opting out, you may contact us by sending an email to support@bmetherapyassociates.com.

IV. Your Privacy Choices, Rights, and Access

A. In General.

You may always direct us not to share your Personal Information with third parties, not to use your Personal Information to provide you with information or offers, to delete information we have collected and maintained about you, or not to send you emails or other communications by sending us an email at support@bmetherapyassociates.com, or by following the removal or unsubscribe instructions in the communication that you receive.

If you wish to verify, correct, or update any of your Personal Information collected through the Site, or request access to all information that we have collected and maintain about you, you may contact us using the details included in the Contact Us section below. In accordance with our routine record keeping, we may delete certain records that contain Personal Information that you have submitted through the Site. We are under no obligation to store such Personal Information indefinitely and disclaim any liability arising out of, or related to, the destruction of such Personal Information. In addition, you should be aware that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information from our databases without some residual data because of backups or other technology-related reasons.

B. For Individuals in the European Economic Area

If you are in the European Economic Area, you have certain rights related to the Personal Information we hold about you, including the right to access it, the right to have inaccurate information corrected and incomplete information completed, the right to request deletion or erasure and to ask us to stop processing it subject to certain exceptions, the right to request that we provide certain parts of it to you or transmit it directly to another company, and the right to withdraw your consent to receive marketing messages at any time. You may also have the right to claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws. To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details set out below.

In addition, if you are in the European Economic Area and you have any complaints about how we use your Personal Information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country.

The Site is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the United States. We make no representation that the Site is governed by or operated in accordance with the laws of any other nation. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect may be transferred to and processed in the United States. The laws of the United States may not protect the privacy of your information at the same level as provided by the laws of your country. We transfer and process Personal Information only as permitted under this Privacy Policy.

C. Rights of California Residents

California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain a list of all third parties to whom their personally identifiable information was provided for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. Company does not disclose any user information to third parties for third party marketing purposes, so we are not required to comply with this law.

The California Consumer Protection Act (or "CCPA") has additional protections for California residents. Though Company does not buy or sell Personal Information of any of its users, Company will honor the request of any California resident that makes an inquiry as to what Personal Information Company has about the user and what Company does with that information; a request to delete the user's Personal Information; or a request not to sell the user's Personal Information.

Please send any such request via email to support@bmetherapyassociates.com, or contact us at BME Therapy Associates, LLC, support@bmetherapyassociates.com, (302) 440-4032.

D. Brazil Residents

If you reside in the Federative Republic of Brazil, you may have certain privacy rights under Brazil's General Law on Protection of Personal Data, Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, Law No. 13,709/2018 (LGPD), to the extent the LGPD does not conflict with the laws of the USA.

V. A Note on Links to Other Websites and Your Voluntary Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

The Site may contain links to other websites, maintained by third parties. These links are provided only as a convenience to you. Company has no control over, and is not responsible for any content, products or services offered by or found on third party sites, or their privacy policies or practices. Links to third party sites do not constitute Company's assumption of liability for or sponsorship, endorsement or approval of these sites or the content contained on these sites. The information practices on those websites may be different from ours and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You may choose to provide information to website visitors or other third-parties who are not our suppliers. Please use caution when doing so and consult the privacy notices on those websites to learn more about their practices.

VI. Minors/Children

Our services are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18 years of age through this Site, and our services are not directed at children.

If we learn that someone under 18 has provided us with Personal Information through the Site without a parent or legal guardian's consent, we will use that information only to respond directly to that individual, or to their parent or legal guardian, to inform them that they may not use the Site. We will then dispose of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you believe we may hold information from or about a person under 18, please contact us at support@bmetherapyassociates.com.

VII. Storage of Your Information

We will generally store information associated with your account until it is no longer necessary to provide services to you, until you ask us to delete it, or until your account is deleted, whichever comes first; but there are some exceptions to this general rule. We will retain information from deleted accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect fees, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce our agreements, and take other actions permitted by law.

VIII. Request to Access or Delete

If we grant your request to access personal data, we will confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data; provide you with a copy of any of your personal data that we possess; and provide you with information about how we process such data.

If you request that we delete your personal data that we possess, we will do so unless the data is needed to exercise the right of freedom of expression; we have a legal obligation to keep the data; we must keep the data for reasons of public interest; or the data has been processed so that it is anonymized.

Any personal data we processed unlawfully will be deleted. If you were a minor when we collected the personal data, we will delete the data upon request.

If we believe any third parties have acquired your personal data through us, we will take reasonable steps to inform them that you have requested erasure of such data.

If your request is an objection to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, we will cease using your data for such purposes.

If we collected personal data from you because of a contract between us or based on your consent, and we processed that data by automated means, you can request that data be transmitted by us to another company or organization.

Note: If you request that data we maintain about you be deleted or erased, no one (neither us nor you) will be able to recover that information later.

Data-Related Decisions and Processing

Rejection

If we reject your request, we will provide you with the reason(s) for doing so. You may then choose to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority and request a judicial remedy.

Fees

As a general rule, there is no fee for processing your request. However, we reserve the right to refuse your request or charge a reasonable fee for processing it if the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

Automated Processing

We may make decisions through automated processing (e.g. algorithms) of personal data that are legally binding or significantly affect you. Any such automated decision-making is done per your express consent or because it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest under applicable law.

IX. Security: We Cannot Guarantee the Security of the Site

We take seriously our obligation to safeguard the confidentiality, security and integrity of personal information collected from our users. The Site uses an SSL (or secure sockets layer) certificate, which provides secure, encrypted communications between a website and internet browser. We also have appropriate security measures in place to prevent Personal Information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your Personal Information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. You should be aware, however, that no system is completely secure from hackers and network failure and error, and we cannot guarantee the confidentiality, security and integrity of information maintained on our Site for that reason.

Email is not a secure form of communication. Please do not send us your credit card number, social security number, clinical or medical details, or other sensitive Personal Information via email.

We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

X. Changes

We may update and post revisions to this Privacy Policy from time to time and will update the Effective Date when we do so. If our Privacy Policy changes in a way that significantly affects how we handle your Personal Information, we will not use the Personal Information we currently maintain without providing you notice or obtaining your consent, where appropriate. We encourage you to review this page for the latest information about our privacy practices. By continuing to use the Site after changes to this Privacy Policy go into effect, you are agreeing to be legally bound by the revised policy.

XI. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at support@bmetherapyassociates.com, or reach us at BME Therapy Associates, LLC, support@bmetherapyassociates.com, (302) 440-4032.

XII. This Policy and Customer Agreements

If you are our customer, any customer agreement between us supersedes this policy to the extent there is any conflict with the terms and conditions of the customer agreement.