Privacy
DartHeart's Commitment to Your Privacy
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At DartHeart, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
PARTICIPATION We're always excited to hear from a fellow survivor who wants to be involved! As part of our network, we'd like to get to know you, offer you any support we can, and in turn, hope you'd be willing to offer advice and useful tips about your recovery from trauma so other network members can recover just that much easier.
To post comments, respond to forum topics, and join one of our online support groups, you'll need to sign up for an account. After signing up, our first step is to do an initial phone interview with you so you can tell us a little bit about your experience and interest in joining DartHeart's Peer Support Network. We ask for the phone interview both to protect your safety and privacy as well as to ensure that each member is interviewed before they join the network. We hope this makes you feel confident that you will then be able to participate in the network freely, secure in the knowledge that everyone else involved has also been interviewed.
Once again, the only people you'll speak with on the phone are other survivors who have been trained as DartHeart mentors and who are really looking forward to hearing from you!
USE OF INFORMATION DartHeart Inc. uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience on our website, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the pages or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
We use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic updates and to enable users to participate in forums. We send out updates when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. DartHeart Inc. never shares mailing lists with any third parties, including sponsors or network members.
We will offer free electronic updates to users. DartHeart gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by emailing info@dartheart.org.
We will not disclose information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. Confidentiality is critical in building trust amongst all of us: survivors who use our website, mentors, the DartHeart Team and any other community supporters. We ask you to respect all users' privacy so any information revealed in private discussions should not be shared with non-DartHeart users.
SUPPORT GROUPS Any information shared during the in-person meetings or in private online group forums will be understood as private, for group purposes only, not to be revealed at any other setting or to any non-DartHeart members. Confidentiality provides protection for all members, especially those who may still be at risk for abuse.
FORUMS It is important to note that we practice positivity in our forums. This is not to say that we do not discuss challenging or sensitive topics, but we strive to encourage each other and to maintain a safe online space for sharing our experiences. We actively monitor posts to avoid certain pitfalls that can occur in online support groups such as sympathy-seekers or callous participants. Anyone who wishes to use our site complies with our show of mutual respect, understanding and tolerance to continue our healing without the setbacks of negative commentators.
YOUR CONSENT By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of the information mentioned above by DartHeart, Inc. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it.
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