

Shrink It with CJ Horner, LPC, LPCC
Licensed in Georgia & California
Virtual Telemental Health

Website
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: January 1, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how your practice name/website ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit or use our website, contact forms, or digital portals (the "Site").
1. Information We Collect
When you interact with our Site, we may collect the following types of information:
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Voluntary Information: Names, email addresses, phone numbers, preferred contact times, or any text you enter into our online inquiry or contact forms.
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Automated Data: IP addresses, browser types, operating systems, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, and the dates/times of your visits via standard internet cookies and web analytics tools.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the data we collect strictly to:
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Respond to your scheduling requests, inquiries, and emails.
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Optimize, maintain, and secure our website performance.
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Comply with applicable legal, licensing, and consumer protection mandates.
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Note: We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
3. Special Notice Regarding Contact Forms & Clinical Data
Our general website contact form is intended for scheduling and administrative inquiries only. It is not a secure, HIPAA-compliant electronic health record (EHR) transmission portal.
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Information submitted through the public contact form falls under general digital consumer privacy rules, not healthcare data rules.
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Please keep initial submissions brief and omit highly sensitive medical or psychiatric histories.
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Once you formally onboard as a client, you will be granted access to a secure, HIPAA-compliant patient portal to transmit Protected Health Information (PHI).
4. California Consumer Privacy Rights (CalOPPA / CCPA / CPRA)
If you browse this site from California, you possess specific consumer privacy rights:
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The Right to Know: You may request to know what personal data we have collected about your web browsing session.
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The Right to Delete: You may request that we erase personal data collected via our website infrastructure.
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Do Not Track: Our website infrastructure responds to standard browser "Do Not Track" signals.
5. Security & Data Retention
We implement industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect information sent through our contact forms. Web browsing log data and contact inquiries are retained only as long as necessary to fulfill the operational business requests described above.