Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 30, 2024

Your privacy is important to us. To protect online privacy, AP Vo Counseling (“we,” “us,” or “our”) has implemented the following Privacy Policy which describes how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you use our website https://www.apvocounseling.com/ (“Site”). The terms “Visitor” and “You” and “Your” refer to clients, site visitors, and any other users of our Site.

AP Vo Counseling is located in the United States and our website is U.S.-based. By using our Site, You agree to the data collection, use, disclosure and storage practices described in this privacy policy.

What Information Does AP Vo Counseling Collect?

Personal Information

Most data AP Vo Counseling collects is used only to help us better serve our Visitors. It is our general policy to collect and store only personal information that our Visitors knowingly provide.

We collect information from You when You choose to provide it to us.  This may include when You request information from us, sign up for newsletters or our email lists, submit a rating or review, participate in a survey, or otherwise contact us.

The information we collect may include Your name, address, email address, telephone number, mobile telephone number, or geolocation information. If You use a third party service to login, link to us, or communicate with us (such as a social network or third party video chat), we may receive certain information about you from the third party based on your registration and privacy settings on those third party services.

Usage Data

AP Vo Counseling does not automatically collect any personal information from Visitors browsing its websites. Only usage data are collected.

Usage data may include information such as Your device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Site by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever you visit our Site or when You access the Site by or through a mobile device.

Children

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) protects the online privacy of children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or maintain Personally-Identifying Information from anyone under the age of 13, unless or except as permitted by law. Any person who provides Personally-Identifying Information through the Site represents to us that he or she is 13 years of age or older. If we learn that Personally-Identifying Information has been collected from a user under 13 years of age on or through the Site, then we will take the appropriate steps to cause this information to be deleted. If You are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has become a member of the Site or has otherwise transferred Personally-Identifying Information to the Site, please contact us using our contact information below to have that child’s account terminated and information deleted.

How Does AP Vo Counseling Use Data Collected?

We may use Your information to:

  • seek Your views or comments our services;

  • notify You of changes to our services; and

  • send You communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on Your computer’s hard drive. Once You agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets You know when You visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to You as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to Your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about Your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but You can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if You prefer. This may prevent You from taking full advantage of the website.

For more information about the cookies we use and Your choices regarding cookies, please visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Pixel Tags

Pixel tags on our websites may be used to collect information about your visit, including the pages You view, the features You use, the links You click, and other actions You take in connection with the websites. This information may include Your IP address, Your browser type, Your operating system, date and time information, and other technical information about Your computer or device.

Pixel tags and cookies in our emails may be used to track your interactions with those messages, such as when You receive, open, or click a link in an email message from us.

How Does AP Vo Counseling Share Your Personal Information?

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We will not sell or rent Your information to third parties.

We will not share Your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf: We may pass Your information to our third party service providers, agents subcontractors and other associated organizations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to You on our behalf. However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service.

We may transfer Your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of some or all of our business and assets to any third party or as part of any business restructuring or reorganization, or if we are under a duty to disclose or share Your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our supporters and customers. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that Your privacy rights continue to be protected.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing You an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

We will not contact You for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given Your prior consent. We will not contact You for marketing purposes by post if you have indicated that You do not wish to be contacted.

You can change Your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us by email: hello@apvocounseling.com

Retention of Your Personal Data

AP Vo Counseling will retain Your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Site, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

What Means of Redress Are Available?

If any visitor suspects AP Vo Counseling has handled its personal information in a manner that does not comply with this privacy statement, please contact us by e-mailing to hello@apvocounseling.com or by calling 713-338-0993.

Updates to Our Policies

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.