Usage & Privacy Policy

The Center for Anxiety is committed to protecting your privacy and confidentiality. The Center for Anxiety has a professional obligation to keep any personal information received in the context of research participation confidential. All Center for Anxiety research complies with university and legal guidelines to protect your privacy and confidentiality. The purpose of this privacy policy is to advise you as to why personal information is sometimes solicited, how it is used, what safeguards are employed to maintain confidentiality, and how to contact The Center for Anxiety with privacy related questions.

What is personal information?

Personal information is any information that can be used to identify who you are. This may include your first and last name, email address, home address, telephone number, and email address.

Informed consent

Informed consent is always obtained from participants before collecting personal information. This means that The Center for Anxiety will never collect any personal information without your knowledge and permission.

Why the Center for Anxiety may collect personal information during research studies?

Wherever possible, Center for Anxiety studies are conducted anonymously in order to provide the highest degree of protection for participants’ privacyHowever, many studies require in-person participation. Other studies may require that participants provide an active email address to facilitate communication (e.g., studies that require on-going participation). Participants are free to create an alias email address for the purposes of participating in such studies (e.g., [email protected]), unless otherwise noted. Additionally, after completing involvement in Center for Anxiety studies, participants are typically given the option to receive the results of the investigation via email. To protect your privacy, email addresses collected for the purpose of communicating results are not linked to participants’ responses to psychological questions unless otherwise noted.

How your personal information is kept confidential

Where it is necessary to gather personal information for research purposes, data is kept confidential. Personal information is kept in secure files and access is restricted to researchers who use the data for the purposes of investigation (i.e., only those who have a need to know). Wherever possible, personal information is removed from datasets after it is no longer needed. Additionally, the Center for Anxiety makes reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, misuse and alteration.

Other ways personal information may be obtained and how it is protected

“Contact Us” Form: Center for Anxiety website contains a Contact Us page so visitors can ask specific questions about our research and psychological services provided by NYC Psychology Inc. The Contact Us page contains an email form so you can comment, make suggestions, request information and ask questions. On this form, your first name and email address are required so we can answer your questions, however the “last name” field of the contact form is optional – you do not have to provide your last name in this correspondence. Note that we may also track your browser type and referring URL to better diagnose technical issues you may be having. Information sent via the Contact Us page is not connected to responses to Center for Anxiety research, nor shared with third parties. It is simply used to answer your correspondence.

Email: Center for Anxiety researchers do not use encryption in sending emails. Therefore, content of individual email messages is not subject to this privacy policy.

Cookies: As with all websites, you may occasionally get cookies from third party links on our site. We do not control these cookies, and these cookies are not subject to this privacy policy. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. Cookies may also be required by some of the features of our site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the site will not function properly if you do so. When you visit our site, you may be directed to other sites outside our service. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. These other sites are not subject to our privacy policy and we are not responsible for the privacy policies for these other sites, nor for the use of any information that these sites may collect.

Withdrawing your consent to provide personal information

If you have provided The Center for Anxiety with personal information in the past and then have second thoughts or want to update it, please contact us. Please note that it is not always possible to remove or modify personal information in the database, but we will make reasonable efforts to do so upon request.

Questions about this privacy policy

Please direct all questions or comments about this privacy policy to David H. Rosmarin.