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Privacy Policy

The National Register of Health Service Psychologists (National Register) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. Our privacy policy below applies to all the National Register’s sites and services. Below, we’ll detail the ways in which we may collect information about you and how that information is handled.

In most cases, we separate how we handle credentialing data on members and prospective members, and how we manage the data we track on visitors to our websites.

By continuing to utilize the National Register’s sites or services or by submitting personal information to us, you are agreeing to the terms of this privacy policy and acknowledge that your information will be handled in accordance with this policy.

About the National Register

The National Register is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, established in 1974 and organized for charitable and educational purposes. The National Register office is located at 1200 New York Ave. NW Ste. 800, Washington, DC 20005, United States. Our websites include: www.nationalregister.org, www.findapsychologist.org, www.ce.nationalregister.org, www.journalofhealthservicepsychology.org and www.connect.nationalregister.org. When we mention “we”, “us,” or “our” in this privacy policy, we are referring to the National Register and our websites.

What Data Are Being Collected?

We collect a variety of information about our members, prospective members, and unaffiliated visitors to our websites. For members and prospective members, we collect identifying and personal information as part of our credentialing process. These data may include general information such as name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number, and Social Security number. As part of our credentialing process, we collect specific education and training information including transcripts and confirmation of internship and postdoctoral experience. We also collect information on licenses held by psychologists and disciplinary actions taken against psychologists by licensing boards. Finally, as part of our payment system for members and prospective members, we process credit cards through our website using trusted third-party vendors such as Payflow and Stripe.

Important Takeaways for Members/Prospective Members

  • We have deployed robust security protocols to provide your personal data.
  • We do not store any credit card information in our system.
  • We never sell or rent your email address to third party vendors.
  • We will only contact you about your status with our organization or our member services, or to follow up on requests you have made of us.

To enhance our website experience for members, prospective members, and unaffiliated visitors, we use Google Analytics to track pages visited, time spent on pages, and other usage data. We also gather data based on member and prospective member engagement with our communications and member services.

  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Tracking Data includes information we or others collect about you from cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, and mobile identifiers.
  • Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

Important Takeaways for Website Visitors

  • The National Register analyzes meta-data to enhance our website experience. We do not identify users by IP address to track individual behavior. The only exception is when contacting a psychologist through our referral directory. In that case, we reserve the right to block the IP address for originators of fraudulent activity.
What Data Do We Share?

As part of our role as a credentialing organization, we are frequently called upon to share credentialing data with healthcare organizations, licensing boards, employers, and other licensed psychologists. We share data you have provided to us in order to promote your practice on our FindaPsychologist.org and Psychology Connect referral site. Examples of data we share include your practice address, contact information number, areas of expertise, and treatment modalities.

We also partner with a number of organizations and companies that we deem credible and offering relevant services to members. In some cases, we may release general categories of data, such as your name, degree type, areas of expertise, and mailing address. We never rent or sell your email address. We very carefully evaluate each request by partner organizations to make sure the products and services are relevant to psychologists. You may opt out of this type of data sharing at any time by contacting support@nationalregister.org.

Important takeaways for Members/Prospective Members

  • We never release special categories of personal data about you. Special categories include Social Security number, birthdate, and mailing addresses you indicate as private.
  • We do not release your primary source credentialing documentation without your consent.
  • You can opt out of listing on FindaPsychologist.org or Connect.NationalRegister.org at any time.

Advertising, Marketing and Communications Preferences:

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Tracking, Usage and Profile Data to form a picture of what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which benefits may be relevant for you and tell you about them. This is what we call direct marketing.

We may carry out direct marketing by email or mail. For example, you might receive an eNewsletter or benefit update by email, or a copy of the Journal of Health Service Psychology by mail. On our website, we always make it clear what we are doing and what communications you will be sent, whether it’s starting an application for credentialing or signing up for our eNewsletter—and you have a right at any time to change your mind and opt out. The easiest way to out is to use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the communication, where you can also adjust your communication preferences to ensure you’re receiving the types of communications you’re interested in.

Of course, there are lots of different ways you’ll see the National Register online and in person, and not all of these are based on using personal data–sometimes we just buy advertising space. If you see the National Register’s promotions on websites and in social media, these may not be directed specifically at you, we might just be generally advertising.

Our Website Links to Other Websites

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

Data Retention

We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data; see below for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Our sites and services are not directed to children and children are not eligible to use our sites or services. We do not knowingly collect or store any personal information about children. If we learn that a child has provided personal information to us, we will delete that information from our records to the fullest extent possible.

Your Data Rights

We give you the ability to manage your settings and preferences, including the ability to modify or remove your personal information. You can also ask that we correct or delete your data, if so justified. We protect your right to information by answering your questions concerning the processing of your data and respecting your right to access to your account settings, payment information or other information resulting from your use of our sites and services.

If the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to you because you are in the European Union, you have additional rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to be informed how we use your personal data, the right to be forgotten, and the right to object to us processing your personal data. These rights are subject to certain rules around when you can exercise them.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at support@nationalregister.org.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to your local data protection agency. We would, however, appreciate the chance to mitigate your concerns before you approach the relevant agency, so please contact us first.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or would like to exercise any of your rights, please email us at support@nationalregister.org or write to us with your letter addressed to: Data Privacy, National Register, 1200 New York Ave. NW Ste 800, Washington, DC 20005.

If you need help about our services, or this website generally, please contact us at support@nationalregister.org.

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