Privacy Policy

CONTEXT

https://www.thesaferoom.in/ is owned by The Safe Room (registered as The Safe Room).This Privacy Policy explains how The Safe Room (registered as: The Safe Room), hereafter The Safe Room, collects, processes, uses, shares, and protects information about you. It also tells you how you can access and update your information and make certain choicesabout how your information is used.

Sensitive Personal Data or Information or “SDPI” of a person includes any personal information such as a) password, b) financial information – bank account, debit card, credit card or any other payment information c) physical and mental health history, d) sexual orientation, e) medical history, f) biometric, g) any details related to the above points. Any publicly available information is does not come under SDPI.

The Privacy Policy covers both “online” (e.g., web and mobile services, including any websitesoperated by us such as https://thesaferoom.in/, however accessed and/orused, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or otherwise) and “offline” (e.g., collectionof data through mailings, telephone, or in person) activities owned, operated, provided, or madeavailable by the Company. This Privacy Policy also applies to your use of interactive features or downloads that:
(i) we own or control;
(ii) are available through the Services; or
(iii) interact with the Servicesand post or incorporate this Privacy Policy.

BY ACCEPTING THE CUSTOMER TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMSOF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. Please review the following carefully so that you understand ourprivacy practices. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not accept the Customer Terms of Service or use our Services. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into theTerms of Service.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through email address providedon our website.

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
  1. Information you provide to us: We may ask you to provide us with SPDI. We may collect this informationthrough various means and in various places through the Services, including account registration, forms, contact us forms, or when you otherwise interact with us. When you sign up to use theServices, you create a user profile. We shall ask you to provide only such SPDI which is for lawful purpose connected with our Services and necessary to be collected by us forsuch purpose.The current data fields that might be requested for are: Name, Email, Mobile number, Password, Gender, Age, professional, mental health related information, language spoken, sexual orientation.
  2. Information we collect as you access and use our services:
  1. a) In addition to any Protected Information or other information that you choose to submit to us, weand our TPSP may use a variety of technologies that automatically (or passively) collect certaininformation whenever you visit or interact with the Services (“Usage Information”). This UsageInformation may include the browser that you are using, the URL that referred you to our Services, all of the areas within our Services that you visit, and the time of day, among other information.
  2. b) Inaddition, we collect your Device Identifier for your Device. A Device Identifier is a number that isautomatically assigned to your Device used to access the Services, and our computers identifyyour Device by its Device Identifier.In case of interaction via customer service, The Safe Room may record calls for quality and training purposes.
  3. c) Usage Information may be collected using a cookie. If you do not want information to be collectedthrough the use of cookies, your browser allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. Cookiescan be disabled or controlled by setting a preference within your web browser or on your Device.If you choose to disable cookies or flash cookies on your Device, some features of the Servicesmay not function properly or may not be able to customize the delivery of information to you. TheCompany cannot control the use of cookies (or the resulting information) by third partiesanduseof third party cookies is not covered by our Privacy Policy.
  1. Information third parties provide about you: We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect about you through our websiteor Mobile Application or Services with outside records from third parties.
USE OF THE COLLECTED INFORMATION
  1. Our primary goal in collecting your information is to provide you with an enhanced experiencewhen using the Services. We use your SDPI in order to match you to the counsellor best suited to your needs.
  2. Your mental health related data is shared with the counsellor with your consent so that the counsellor can effectively cater to your needs
  3. We use your email id and mobile number to send you reminders about upcoming sessions and other information related to your account. We might also use it for marketing and promotional purposes.
  4. We use your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our computer server,and to administer our web site(s). Your IP address is used to help identify you but contains nopersonal information about you.
  5. We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessaryto do so. For instance, if our Services are temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might sendyou an email.
  6. All information (and copies thereof) collected by The Safe Room, including without limitation SPDI, Usage information and other information related to your access and use of the services offered by The Safe Room, may be retained by The Safe Room for such period as necessary, including but not limited to, for purposes such as compliance with statutory or legal obligations, tax laws and potential evidentiary purposes and for other reasonable purposes such as to implement, administer, and manage your access and use of our services, or resolution of any disputes.
  7. To ensure a seamless experience at the Website for you and to ensure your maximum benefit and comfort, we use or may use the data collected through cookies, log file, device identifiers, location data and clear gifs information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information, including advertising; (c) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Services; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our website and our Services; (e) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (f) otherwise to plan for and enhance our service.
  8. We may use the information collected from you for targeted advertising. This involves usinginformation collected on your web or mobile browsing behaviour such as the pages youhave visited or the searches you have made. This information is then used to select whichadvertisements should be displayed to you on websites other than our website(s). The information collected is only linked to an anonymous cookie ID (alphanumeric number);it does not include any information that could be linked back to you, such asname, address or credit card number.
  9. We use certain third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Services. These tools collect information, which is not personal or sensitive in nature sent by your device or our Services, including the web pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Services. We collect and use this analytics information with analytics information from other Users in the form of anonymised logs, so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify any particular individual User.
CONFIDENTIALITY
  1. Any information shared by you during personal consultation (“Confidential Information”) shall be excluded from the definition of Personal Information and shall not be collected/used in the same manner as Personal Information as mentioned above.
  2. Your confidential information can only be gathered and shared by The Safe Room in the form anonymised call or chat transcripts to its employees, its agents, or any third-party contractors, including the counsellors; either orally or in writing; except only in the following circumstances when it can be used with your personal identity:
  1. a) If The Safe Room believes that there is a significant/ real/ imminent threat or risk to your health,safety or life or to the health, safety or life of any other person or the public.
  2. b) f The Safe Room is required to share such Confidential Information to any authority by law; and
  3. c) If you have claimed a health care insurance and such Confidential Information is required by the insurer.
SHARING OF THE COLLECTED INFORMATION
  1. We may share Personal Information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that The Safe Room is part of, or that become part of that group (“ Affiliates”).Our Affiliates may only use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service (including by providing analytics) and Affiliates’ own services (including by providing you with better and more relevant experiences).
  2. We also may share your Personal Information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data, and confidential information with third-party organizations that help us provide the Services to you. Our service providers will only be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the Services. All the Service Providers and third parties engaged by The Safe Room shall be bound by adequate confidentiality terms to protect the Confidential Information and the Personal Information of the User so that such information is not used in any manner it is not intended to be used.
  3. While sharing any information with any third party, we will remove parts of data that can identify you and share only anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that anonymised aggregated information which cannot be traced back to you.
  4. Please note that only Personal Information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Website, or post to any social media account owned and operated by The Safe Room becomes available to the public. No other information provided by you is shared with the public. Once you have shared such information or made it public, the same may be re-shared by others, re-posted by The Safe Room, or used by The Safe Room for the purposes of analysis, research or studies.
  5. The Safe Room shall not ordinarily share the sensitive Personal Information of a User without their prior consent. You agree that The Safe Room may share sensitive Personal Information of a User with any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the User in the following limited circumstances:
  1. a)When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
  2. b)The Safe Room proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. The Safe Room also ensures that the recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
THIRD PARTY CONTENT AND LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SERVICES

The Services may contain content that is supplied by a third party, and those third parties maycollect website usage information and your Device Identifier when web pages from any online ormobile Services are served to your browser. In addition, when you are using the Services, youmay be directed to other sites or applications that are operated and controlled by third parties thatwe do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these thirdparties. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement, the click may take you away fromone of our websites onto a different web site. These other web sites may send their own cookiesto you, independently collect data or solicit Protected Information and may or may not have theirown published privacy policies. We encourage you to note when you leave our Services and toread the privacy statements of all thirdparty web sites or applications before submitting any SPDI to third parties.

The Safe Room may change or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. The Safe Room’s use of User Data shall be in adherence with consistent with the provisions of the relevant privacy policy under which the information was collected, regardless of new or conflicting provisions in an updated Privacy Policy.

 

Cancellations & Refuned

Last minute cancellations (Before 24hours of the assigned time slot) will be charged the full session fee.
The therapist will wait up to 25 minutes of the session before cancelling.
In events when the client is late, the remainder of the time will be used for the session. In events when the therapist is late, the additional time will be added to the session, or the next session.