Privacy Policy
Analytics
This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Blog Comments
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal information when you post a comment, including:
Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
Your website URL (optional)
This website may include “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal information when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
Story Submissions by Email
This website may invite visitors to submit personal stories, reflections, or written contributions by email for possible publication on the blog or elsewhere on Life After Being Sectioned.
If you choose to email me your story, I may collect personal information from you, including:
Your name
Your email address
Any personal information you choose to include in your email or submission
Any biographical information you choose to provide
Any information relating to your experiences of mental health, psychiatric hospitalisation, being sectioned, diagnosis, recovery, support, relationships, work, or life afterwards
Please only include information that you feel comfortable sharing.
Submitting a story by email does not guarantee that it will be published. I may contact you by email to discuss your submission, ask questions, suggest edits, or request your consent before publishing.
If your story is published, I will only publish it using the name, initials, pseudonym, or anonymous credit agreed with you. You can ask for identifying details to be removed or changed before publication.
Please avoid including personal information about other people in your submission unless you have their permission, or unless those details have been changed or removed to protect their privacy.
I may keep a copy of your submission and related email correspondence for editorial, record-keeping, safeguarding, or administrative purposes. You can contact me if you would like to request that your unpublished submission is deleted.
You can contact me about your submission at: lifeafterbeingsectioned@gmail.com
The Recovery Room Members Area
Life After Being Sectioned includes a free members-only area called The Recovery Room.
When you sign up for The Recovery Room, I may collect and store personal information such as your name, email address, membership status, and information connected to your use of the members area, such as which resources you access or download.
I collect this information so that I can:
provide access to protected PDF resources;
understand who is using the resources;
keep the resources safe and protected;
improve the website and create more useful support materials;
contact you about your membership or access if needed.
Membership of The Recovery Room is free. I do not sell your personal information.
The website is hosted by Squarespace, which may process your information on my behalf in order to provide website, membership, analytics, email, and security services.
Signing up to The Recovery Room does not automatically mean you have signed up to receive marketing emails, unless you separately choose to join the mailing list or give consent to receive updates.
You can ask for your Recovery Room membership or personal data to be deleted by contacting: lifeafterbeingsectioned@gmail.com
For website visitors
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
Marketing Emails
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf and help us manage our relationship with you.
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address