Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 2026
Grace Tobin, LMFT ("Grace Tobin," "I," "me," or "my") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit this website.
This policy applies to information collected through this website and does not replace the privacy practices, Notice of Privacy Practices, informed consent, or other documents provided to therapy clients through the clinical practice.
Information You Provide
If you contact me through this website, I may collect information such as your:
Name
Email address
Phone number, if provided
Information included in your message
Other information you voluntarily submit through the website
Please avoid including sensitive or confidential clinical information in website contact forms or email. The website contact form is intended for general inquiries and scheduling questions, not for sharing detailed information about your mental health or treatment.
How I Use Your Information
Information submitted through this website may be used to:
Respond to your inquiry
Respond to requests for information about therapy
Schedule or discuss an initial consultation
Communicate with you about your inquiry
Maintain and improve the website
I do not use information submitted through this website to provide clinical care or to create a psychotherapy treatment record.
Website Analytics and Cookies
This website is hosted on Squarespace. Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies that help the website function and may collect information about visitors' browsers, devices, IP addresses, pages visited, and interactions with the website. Squarespace also provides analytics that may be used to understand website traffic and visitor activity.
Depending on the settings and services used on this website, analytics or other third-party services may also collect information about your visit.
You can learn more about the cookies Squarespace uses through Squarespace's cookie documentation. Squarespace also provides tools for managing non-essential cookies and displaying a cookie consent banner.
Information Submitted Through the Contact Form
When you submit a form through this website, the information you provide may be processed and stored through Squarespace and the storage or email service connected to the form. Squarespace explains that form submissions can be routed to different storage destinations depending on how a site owner configures the form.
I use information submitted through the contact form only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
How Information Is Shared
I do not sell personal information submitted through this website.
Information may be shared with service providers that help operate the website, such as website hosting, form processing, email, analytics, or other technology providers, to the extent necessary for those services.
These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies.
Clinical Information
This website is separate from my clinical records and is not intended to collect or transmit protected health information for purposes of providing psychotherapy.
If you become a client, information related to your therapy and clinical care is handled through the clinical systems and privacy practices applicable to your treatment.
Data Security
Reasonable measures are taken to protect information submitted through this website. However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
For this reason, please do not submit highly sensitive or confidential clinical information through the website's contact form or through ordinary email.
Your Choices
You may choose not to provide personal information through this website. You may also contact me with questions about information you have submitted through the website.
California privacy laws may provide consumers with additional rights depending on the circumstances and whether a particular law applies to the business. California's privacy framework includes rights relating to information collected and used by businesses, including rights concerning access, deletion, correction, and certain uses or disclosures of personal information.
To ask a privacy-related question, contact:
Grace Tobin, LMFT
License #163371
gracetobinmft@gmail.com
615 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to this website, the services used to operate it, or applicable privacy requirements. The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact:
Grace Tobin, LMFT
gracetobintherapy@gmail.com