The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

Support from qualified counsellors for addicts and partners of addicts

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://atsac.org.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Directory

When you sign up to our site you are entering into a contract with us to hold you details on our database. Our directory membership plans are thus:

This category is open to individuals who hold a professional qualification in counselling or psychotherapy and have completed a recognised training course in sex addiction counselling (please contact info@atsac.co.uk for details). Benefits include: Listing on Find a Therapist for the promotion of your services Listing on Find a Supervisor for the promotion of your services Subscription to the Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity Journal. This is a scholarly journal published four times a year which deals with sexual addiction and other related topics. Receipt of the ATSAC Newsletter Notification of latest news, resources and events Discount on a wide range of CPD days, events and training courses, including our Annual Conference Opportunities to network with other professionals working in the field.
This category is open to individuals interested in the issue of sexual addiction but who are not therapists or counsellors working in the field. Benefits include: Subscription to the Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity Journal. This is a scholarly journal published four times a year which deals with sexual addiction and other related topics. Receipt of the ATSAC Newsletter Notification of latest news, resources and events Discount on a wide range of CPD days, events and training courses, including our Annual Conference Opportunities to network with other professionals working in the field.
This category is open to individuals who are undergoing professional training in sexual addiction counselling and who are expecting to become ATSAC Qualified Members in due course. Benefits include: Subscription to the Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity Journal. This is a scholarly journal published four times a year which deals with sexual addiction and other related topics. Receipt of the ATSAC Newsletter Notification of latest news, resources and events Discount on a wide range of CPD days, events and training courses, including our Annual Conference Opportunities to network with other professionals working in the field.

In order for your membership to ATSAC to be accepted you will need to consent to our GDPR policy. This consent will be obtained via a membership form sent to you upon receipt of your membership registration on this website. Until you receive a membership number and receipt from ATSAC you are not a member. If you decline to consent to the GDPR policy or you decide not to proceed with your membership application a full refund will be made available to you.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics – By using this site you consent to us tracking site usage statistics. Ful terms and conditions of this can be found here https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/

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 we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We will not pass on your details to any 3rd parties without your expressed consent.

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