PRIVACY POLICY

Effective March 25, 2025

Vanessa Crites Consulting, LLC (“Company,” “we,” or “us”) respects Your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy governs Your access to and use of www.vanessacrites.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through www.vanessacrites.com (the “Website“), whether as a guest or a registered user.

When accessing the Website, the Company will learn certain information about You, both automatically and through voluntary actions You may take, during Your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between You and the Website.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before You start to use the Website.

By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to You, You accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If You do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, You must not access or use the Website.

Children and Persons Under The Age Of 21

Our Website is not intended for children or persons under 21 years of age. No one under the age of 21 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children or persons under 21. If You are under 21, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about Yourself to us, including Your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name You may use.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child or person under 21 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If You believe we might have any information from or about a child or person under 21, please contact us at vanessa@vanessacrites.com.

Types of Information We Collect About You

When You access the Website, the Company will learn certain information about You during Your visit.

Information You Provide To Us. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, running queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website.

We use the information You provide to communicate with You, deliver the requested product and/or service, improve our overall site performance, and provide You with offers, promotions, and information.

Sensitive Information and Health Data. Some information we collect may be sensitive in nature, including but not limited to health history, mental health background, or personal goals for services involving emotional, psychological, or spiritual transformation. While we are not a HIPAA-covered entity, we treat this information with the highest level of confidentiality and care. Any medical or sensitive data shared is stored securely and accessed only by authorized personnel.

Medical Information & Eligibility Screening. To ensure the safety and well-being of clients, we may collect limited medical history through intake forms as part of our eligibility screening process for services provided.

• What We Collect: Information related to physical and mental health, medications, and medical history necessary to determine if this work is suitable for you.
• How We Use It: Your medical information is reviewed only by Vanessa Crites, our retreat medical team (when appropriate) and, when necessary, shared anonymously with external medical professionals for eligibility assessment.
• Not HIPAA Compliant: We are not a medical facility and are not subject to HIPAA regulations. However, we take privacy seriously and handle your information with care.

By submitting your medical history, you acknowledge and consent to our review process. If you have concerns about privacy, please contact us before sharing your information.

Therapist Referrals & Client Confidentiality. If you are a therapist referring a client for services, you acknowledge that:

• You have obtained the client’s consent before sharing any personal or medical information.
• Any client details shared will be kept confidential and used only for the purpose of supporting their integration process.
• com does not store or share therapy-related session notes. Any information provided is treated with the same privacy protections as other client interactions.
• If a therapist requests consultation on how to navigate psychedelic-related client inquiries, no identifying client details should be shared without explicit client consent.
• Therapists referring clients must ensure they have explicit consent before sharing any client information. No therapy session notes, diagnostic details, or clinical records will be stored by VanessaCrites.com. Any information received will be used strictly for integration support purposes and not shared beyond the necessary support team.

Third-Party Platforms.We utilize third-party platforms such as Jotform (for secure forms and electronic signatures), Stripe, Venmo, or Paypal (for payment processing), and scheduling platforms such as Calendly. These tools have their own privacy policies and may collect and store your data in accordance with their terms. By using these tools, You also agree to their individual privacy and data protection practices.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology. As You navigate our Website, we use automatic data collection technologies such as cookies, pixels, server logs, and analytics software to collect certain information about Your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about Your location, traffic patterns through our website, and any communications between Your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer You use, Your Internet connection, Your IP address, Your operating system, and Your browser type.

The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and to improve our Website and service offerings. To the extent that You voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with Your personal information.

Use of Cookies And Pixels

Like other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about our site’s use. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, the websites visited just before and after our own, and Your IP address.

A cookie is a very small text document, often including an anonymous unique identifier. When You visit a website, that site’s computer asks Your computer for permission to store this file in a part of Your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to Your browser if Your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect Your privacy) Your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to You, not the cookies sent to You by other sites.

The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.

Third-Party Use Of Cookies

 Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. When You use our website, these third parties may use cookies alone or with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about You.

The information they collect may be associated with Your personal information, or they may collect information, including personal information, about Your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide You with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third-party tracking technologies or how they may be used. You should contact the responsible provider directly if You have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content.

Email Information & Policies

 If You choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of Your email messages, Your email address, and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications we employ to maintain information received online, by mail, and by telephone. This also applies when You register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using Your email address or make a purchase on this site.

We are committed to keeping Your email address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties and will not disclose Your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the Disclosure of Your Information section.

We will maintain the information You send via email in accordance with applicable federal law.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all emails sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on contacting the sender. In addition, all email messages will also contain concise information on removing Yourself from our mailing list so that You receive no further email communication from us.

Our emails allow users to opt out of receiving communications from our partners and us by following the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email they receive from us at any time.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the email.

Why We Collect Information

The Company collects Your information to record and support Your participation in Your selected activities. We collect Your information if You register to download a book or resource, sign up for our newsletter, and/or purchase a product or service from us. We use this information to track Your preferences and to keep You informed about the products and services You have selected to receive and any related products and/or services. As a visitor to this Website, You can engage in most activities without providing any personal information.

If You opt to receive any free resources, participate in any free training programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, register for a seminar, or purchase any products sold by the Company on this Website, we will automatically enroll you to receive our free email newsletter. You can unsubscribe anytime if You do not wish to receive this newsletter. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email. If You ever have trouble unsubscribing, You can email vanessa@vanessacrites.com requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.

How We Use the Information That You Provide to Us

 We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to You, providing You with information, providing You with offers for products and services, providing You with information about Your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between You and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.

From time to time, we may use the information You provide to make You offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. If You opt to participate in such promotions, the third parties will receive Your information.

From time to time, we may use the information You provide to us to display advertisements to You that are tailored to Your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.

Disclosure of Your Information

As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer any information collected from You.

We may disclose Your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers to provide our services to You.

We may disclose Your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer, our payment processor, or collection agency, to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between You and the Company.

We may provide Your information to any successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets and/or business.

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.

How We Protect Your Information and Secure Information Transmissions

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information You provide and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors.

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that You do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at Your own risk. Some of the information You enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer or SSL. Credit Card and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.

In the event of a data breach involving your personal information, we will notify affected individuals via email within a reasonable timeframe, and in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic and identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage.

Policy Changes

Our policy is to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify You by email to the email address specified in Your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active, and deliverable email address for You and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Visitors’ Rights

 As a user of this site, You are entitled to certain information and may make certain requests of the Company. Those rights include:

• You have the right to request access to the data the Company stores about You.
• You have the right to rectify any mistakes in the personal data the Company stores about You.
• You have the right to request the erasure of Your personal data.
• You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of Your data.
• You have the right to object to the processing of Your data and the right to the portability of Your data.
• You have the right to withdraw previously provided consent at any time.
• You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
• You have the right to not be required to consent to any unnecessary data processing as a condition of service.

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services or until You request deletion, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

International Users and GDPR Compliance

If you are accessing the Website from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that you are agreeing to the transfer of your information to the United States and processing globally. We strive to take reasonable steps to protect your data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR.

“Do Not Track” Requests

Certain internet browsers allow users to send “Do Not Track” requests to sites they visit. Unfortunately, there is no industry or legal standard (or easy technological solution) to handle these responses. Thus, we don’t currently honor Do Not Track signals.

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

Contact Us

The Company welcomes Your questions or comments:

Vanessa Crites Consulting, LLC
2275 Marietta Blvd NW, Ste 270-112
Atlanta, GA 30318

Email Address: vanessa@vanessacrites.com

Last edited and effective as of March 25, 2025.