Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June, 2023
Laughing Together is a division of Wellness Together, Inc. (“Wellness Together,” “we,” or “us”). This
policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when
you visit this website (“Website”), or use any other website or application of Wellness Together, and our
practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
● On this Website.
● Through our mobile and desktop applications which provide dedicated non-browser-based
interaction between you and this Website.
● In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
● Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or
any third party; or
● Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may
link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information
and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to
use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy
may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is
deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Health Information
Through our websites or services, you may provide us with certain personal and medical information
about yourself (“Health Information”). The confidentiality of your Health Information obtained in
connection with counseling is described in the Informed Consent to Counseling Services that is executed
by you or your parent or guardian prior to Wellness Together’s counseling service. For information on our
privacy practices with respect to your Health Information, please review our Notice of Privacy Practices.
The Informed Consent, Notice of Privacy Practices, and other notices are referred to herein as the “Other
Privacy Documents”. Please refer to such Other Privacy Documents to understand how Wellness
Together uses, protects, and in limited cases may disclose, your Health Information. Those documents
also describe certain rights you have with respect to your Health Information.
Donor Information
Wellness Together is committed to respecting the privacy of its donors, whether the donation is made
online, by mail, or any other method. When you make a donation, you provide your name and contact
information. Financial donors provide standard payment information including, in many circumstances,
credit card data.
We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ personally identifiable information with any other entity,
except as described below. Wellness Together may have vendors that assist with processing and managing
donations and donor data. To the extent any donations are processed through such vendors, donor
information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.
Other Personal Information
Wellness Together collects and stores information related to you when you visit this site. Such
information may include the following usage data: (1) the domain name from which you access the
Internet; (2) the date and time you access the Website (3) the pages or screens you visit; (4) the address of
any website from which you linked directly to Wellness Together; (5) the name and release number of
your web browser software; (6) the version of the Wellness Together web services you are using; and (7)
the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the client device you are using.
Wellness Together also collects information provided directly by you, such as (1) information that you
provide by filling in forms on the site (including information provided at the time of registering to use the
site or requesting services); (2) records and copies of your correspondence including e-mail addresses, if
you contact us; (3) details of transactions you carry out through the site and any financial information
provided in connection any transaction; and (4) your responses to surveys that we might ask you to
complete for research purposes.
Some of the foregoing information may be stored on cookies on your device.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with the site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to
collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
● Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other
communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
● Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating
system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and
across third-party websites or other online services.
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information
but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from
third parties. It helps us to improve the site and to deliver a better and more personalized service,
including by enabling us to:
● Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
● Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
● Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your
computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your
browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our
Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system
will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
● Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to
collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website.
Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For
information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices
About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
● Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails 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 (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content
and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal
information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal
information (1) to present the site and its content to you; (2) to provide you with information, products, or
services that you request from us; (3) to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; (4) to notify
you about changes to the site or any services we offer or provide through it; (5) to allow you to participate
in interactive features on the site; (6) in any other way we may describe when you provide the
information; and (7) for any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that
may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please click
“Unsubscribe” at the bottom company publications. For more information, see Choices About How We
Use and Disclose Your Information.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
(1) to our subsidiaries and affiliates; (2) to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to
support our services and how are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information
confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose them; (3) for any other purpose
disclosed by us when you provide the information; (4) to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it; and
(5) with your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information: (1) to comply with any court order, law, or legal process,
including to respond to any government or regulatory request; (2) to enforce or apply our terms of use and
other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and (3) if we believe disclosure is
necessary or appropriate to protect your rights, property, or safety of Wellness Together, our clients, or
others (this includes exchanging information with other organizations for the purposes of fraud
protection).
Payment Information
Payment for any events or conferences made through WellnessTogether.org and any information
regarding this payment will not be retained.
Protection of Other Personal Information
We will take commercially reasonable steps to protect your Other PI from loss, misuse, and unauthorized
access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is
impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the databases of your Institution with
which we may share such Information, nor can we guarantee Other PI you supply will not be intercepted
while being transmitted over the Internet. In particular, communications posted on message boards or sent
to us via e-mail may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what
information to post or send.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have
created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
● Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser
cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note
that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
● Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact
information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you
can opt-out by clicking “Unsubscribe” at the bottom company publications.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising.
However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected
or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising
Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
California Residents
As a nonprofit corporation, Wellness Together is exempt from certain privacy regulations, such as the
California Consumer Privacy Act. However, Wellness Together takes data privacy very seriously and is
committed to implementing and complying with privacy best practices and will help our members,
customers, and other individual users exercise their privacy rights as appropriate.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact info@wellnesstogether.org.
Additional Rights
Wellness Together may collect information that identifies, relates to or could reasonably be linked to you.
Subject to the limitations noted above we may, collect and share Personal Information for Wellness
Together’s business purposes stated herein.
With respect to your Personal Information:
● You may request information about Wellness Together’s collection of your personal information
● You may request the deletion of personal information (subject to certain exceptions), and
● We acknowledge and agree that we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the
foregoing rights.
You may make a request by submitting a request to us at our contact information listed below. We may
require you to provide sufficient information to verify your identity before processing such request. You
may also authorize a person to make such requests on your behalf.
Wellness Together Service Providers
Wellness Together uses service, online software, storage, and other providers (collectively “Service
Providers”) which may have access to Other Personal Information. Such companies may include Google
and Simple Practice. Wellness Together enters into Business Associate Agreements (“BAA”) with each
such service provider which obligate such service providers to adhere to the Privacy Rule under the U.S.
Health Information Privacy Protection Act in connection with the use and storage of Health Information
and PI.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may send us an email at info@wellnesstogether.org to request access to, correct or delete any
personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by
also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe
the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Changes to our Privacy Policies
WellnessTogether.org may amend the Other Privacy Documents and this Privacy Policy at any time, and
only the current documents and statement may be deemed effective. The current release date of this
Privacy Policy will be displayed at the bottom of the final page of this policy. Regardless of later updates
or changes to the Other Privacy Documents or this Privacy Policy, we will never use the information you
submit under our current privacy notice in a manner inconsistent with the immediately prior release of
such documents or statement without first providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prevent
that use.
It is our policy to notify our users that the privacy policy has been updated on the site homepage. If we
make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the
primary e-mail address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the site home page. You are
responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for your, and for
periodically visiting our site and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and privacy practices, contact us at
info@wellnesstogether.org.