Alfa Counseling & Consultation, LLC

Terms and Conditions of Website Use

1. Terms

You are agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions of our website at any and all times of your use.

2. Use License

Permission is granted to download one copy of the materials on personal use only.

3. Disclaimer

Any and all materials provided are for personal use “as is”.

4. Limitations

Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC shall not be liable for any damages arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on www.alfacounseling.com or www.alfarelationships.com or any other web site under the control of Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC or its representatives, or Jessica Wade.

5. Revisions

The materials appearing on www.alfarelationships.com or www.alfacounseling.com or any other website under the control of Alfa Counseling and Consultation LLC could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. We are diligent verify the accuracy and validity of all materials published under the control of Alfa Counseling and Consultation LLC. Factual errors are very unlikely but still possible.

6.   Parental Permission

 

Content under the control of Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC is not directed to children under the age of 18 and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from minors under the age of 18. Use by minors and children should be only under direct supervision of a parent or legal guardian.
 
 
7.  Links

 

Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC may link to other web sites not under its control and we make no representations and accept no liability about the content or your use of those websites.

 

8.  Site Terms of Use Modifications

 

You are agreeing to be bound by the current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use, which may be changed by us at any time and without notice.

9. Governing Law

The laws of the State of Ohio in the United States of America shall govern any conflict arising out of your use of www.alfacounseling.com or www.alfarelationships.com or any other web site under the control of Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC, without regard to any conflicts of laws provisions.  You agree that any action at law or in equity that arises out of or relates to these terms will be subject to mediation in the state of Ohio. Content published herein is intended solely for consumption in the State of Ohio.

10. Severability

If any of these terms of use are found unlawful, void, or unenforceable for any reason, then that provision will be considered severable from the remaining terms of use.

 

11. No professional advice
 
None of the information accessible on www.alfacounseling.com or www.alfarelationships.com or any other web site under the control of Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC’s is meant to substitute for the services of trained professionals in any field whatsoever. While Jessica Wade and Jeremy Wade are a licensed counselors in the State of Ohio, your use of this website does not form a client-counselor relationship nor a doctor-patient relationship with any professional represented herein.
 
12.  Outcomes and Earnings Disclaimer
 
No guarantees of any kind are made by us. The products and services offered by Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC are provided solely for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes.  No information, product or service offered by Alfa Counseling and Consultation, LLC or any site under our control or published with our consent is a guarantee or promise of future results in any domain, including your business, life, health, relationship or earnings.
 
13. Privacy
We do collect information from website visitors and we do track website use. We may also use the information we gather to present advertisements to you in other social media platforms and to customize our content creation. You may elect to provide us with your e-mail address via a communication form on our website. We may send you newsletters, promotional content, inform you about new programs, or share information we believe you may enjoy. We do not share and will not sell your identity or information with outside parties. Search engine data tracking may track and store your use and interactions on this site.
 

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.alfarelationships.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Who shares your data with us

Advertising and Media organizations may share your data with us so that we may optimize your experience on our site. We may receive data such as your IP address, region, username, or search trends that helped you find our site. This data is contained by such advertising and media companies as Google, Meta, Bing, Psychology Today and others to be determined. Alfa Counseling and Consultation does not directly store this data in our own possession. We may use such data in aggregate profiles to optimize our advertising efforts.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Visitor traffic may be analyzed via Google Analytics, Bing, or other web search engines, referrer, or directory that help visitors to find this site.

Akismet anti-spam service may be used. The information collected typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Relationship Status:

We create all of these resources to educate and inform you about how we can help. In fact, we love to help! Still, until we actually meet face-to-face and both of us sign some papers, we are not your care providers and Alfa Counseling and Consultation is not your counseling agency.

Disclaimer: Please see our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy for further information, and note that neither your use of this web site, nor any interaction that we may have as a result of your use of this web site (including blog post comments and interaction, personal emails, or private or group coaching services) serves to create an counselor-client relationship.

None of the information provided on this web site should be considered to be professional advice, whether mental health, relationship, reproductive, psychological, legal, financial, medical or otherwise. You should always consult your own healthcare team, attorney, and tax or financial professional before making decisions concerning these important areas of your life and your health.

Alfa Counseling & Consultation, LLC is not a crisis intervention facility. If a life-threatening or other crisis situation arises, please take one of these steps for immediate assistance: (1) Call 911 or your local police and/or (2) Call 988 for mental health crises. (3) Once you have received immediate intervention from a qualified crisis intervention facility, call your counselor to make them aware of the situation.