Privacy Policy
Peaks and Prairies Therapy
Effective Date: March 20, 2026
Last Updated: March 20, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Important Notice: This Privacy Policy applies only to website interactions and non-clinical communications. It does not apply to protected health information (PHI) collected through clinical services, which is handled through SimplePractice, a HIPAA-compliant platform. Do not submit sensitive personal health information through website forms.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words whose initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
Business, for the purpose of CCPA/CPRA, refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.
CCPA and/or CPRA refers to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”).
Company (referred to as either “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Peaks and Prairies Therapy, 32 S. Ewing St., Ste. 108, Helena, MT 59601. For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA/CPRA, means a natural person who is a California resident.
Cookies are small files placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country refers to: Montana, United States.
Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR, refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.
Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept promoted by US regulatory authorities, particularly the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
GDPR refers to EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier, or factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity. For the purposes of CCPA/CPRA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
Service refers to the Website at https://www.peaksandprairiestherapy.com/.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service, or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Website refers to Peaks and Prairies Therapy, accessible from https://www.peaksandprairiestherapy.com/.
You means the individual accessing or using the Service. Under GDPR, You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Name (first and last)
Email address
Phone number (if provided)
Message content submitted via contact forms
Email marketing opt-in data
Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
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 Service 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 Service 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 Service or when You access the Service through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting to refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics.
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your language preference, to provide You with a more personal experience.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies section or contact Us.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To respond to Your inquiries and messages: To attend to and manage Your requests submitted through contact forms or email.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates, service information, or security notices.
To send email communications (if You have opted in to our email list): To provide news, educational content, and information about workshops or services.
To manage scheduling: To facilitate appointment scheduling and service management through SimplePractice.
To improve website performance: For data analysis, identifying usage trends, and evaluating and improving our Service and user experience.
To maintain security: To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
For legal compliance: To comply with applicable legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, and to contact You.
With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your explicit consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company 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.
The Company 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 Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or country unless there are adequate controls in place.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
You may contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us. Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Other Legal Requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us. Reasonable administrative and technical safeguards are in place to protect Your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
HIPAA and Clinical Communication Disclaimer
This website is not a HIPAA-compliant platform and is not monitored for clinical or emergency communications. All clinical services, communications, scheduling, telehealth, payments, and client records are handled exclusively through SimplePractice, our HIPAA-compliant platform.
Do not submit protected health information (PHI) or sensitive personal health information through website contact forms or unencrypted email. This website does not establish a therapist-client relationship. Clinical services require a formal intake process through SimplePractice.
GDPR Privacy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes (e.g., email sign-ups).
Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company, such as improving website functionality.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights. You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:
Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update, or delete the information We have on You.
Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.
Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing.
Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data at any time.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights by contacting Us at krystle@peaksandprairiestherapy.com. Please note that We may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority.
CCPA/CPRA Privacy Notice (California Privacy Rights)
This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in Our Privacy Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following categories of personal information may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
Category A: Identifiers.
Examples: Name, email address, IP address, phone number.
Collected: Yes.
Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
Examples: Name, address, telephone number.
Collected: Yes.
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Examples: Age, race, medical condition, disability.
Collected: No.
Category D: Commercial information.
Examples: Records of products or services purchased.
Collected: No.
Category E: Biometric information.
Examples: Fingerprints, voiceprints.
Collected: No.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Examples: Browsing history, interaction with our Service.
Collected: Yes.
Category G: Geolocation data.
Examples: Approximate physical location.
Collected: No.
Category H: Sensory data.
Examples: Audio, visual, or similar information.
Collected: No.
Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
Collected: No.
Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.
Collected: No.
Category L: Sensitive personal information.
Examples: Account login information.
Collected: Yes (limited to login credentials for third-party platforms such as SimplePractice).
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Directly from You. For example, from forms You complete on our Service.
Indirectly from You. For example, from observing Your activity on our Service.
Automatically from You. For example, through cookies We or our Service Providers set on Your Device as You navigate through our Service.
From Service Providers. For example, from Squarespace, Google Analytics, and SimplePractice.
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose personal information We collect for business purposes, which may include:
To operate our Service and provide You with Our Service.
To provide You with support and to respond to Your inquiries.
To fulfill or meet the reason You provided the information.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may use or disclose in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:
Category A: Identifiers
Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
When We disclose personal information for a business purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Sale of Personal Information
We do not sell, rent, or trade Your personal information. We do not sell personal information as the term sell is commonly understood. We do allow Service Providers (Squarespace, SimplePractice, Google Analytics) to use Your personal information for the business purposes described in Our Privacy Policy.
Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16. Services are intended for individuals 18 years of age or older. We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than 16 years of age. If You have reason to believe that a child has provided Us with personal information, please contact Us and We will take steps to remove that information.
Your Rights under the CCPA/CPRA
The CCPA/CPRA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information:
The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which they are used.
The right to know/access. You have the right to request that We disclose information about Our collection, use, sale, and disclosure of personal information.
The right to say no to the sale or sharing of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct Us to not sell Your personal information.
The right to correct Personal Data. You have the right to correct or rectify any inaccurate personal information about You that We collected.
The right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive Personal Data. You have the right to request to limit the use or disclosure of certain sensitive personal information We collected about You.
The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data under certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions.
The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your consumer’s rights.
Exercising Your CCPA/CPRA Data Protection Rights
To exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA/CPRA, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us:
By email: krystle@peaksandprairiestherapy.com
By contact form: https://www.peaksandprairiestherapy.com/contact
Only You, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that You authorize to act on Your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information. We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request.
"Do Not Track" Policy (CalOPPA)
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals. However, some third-party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked.
Your California Privacy Rights (California's Shine the Light Law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To request more information, please contact Us using the contact information provided below.
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
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 Service 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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or to exercise any of your rights, You can contact us:
Email: krystle@peaksandprairiestherapy.com
Contact Form: https://www.peaksandprairiestherapy.com/contact