Who We Are
drvernig.com is the professional and educational website of Pete Vernig, PhD, MBA, ABPP. The website provides information about Dr. Vernig’s professional work as well as educational resources related to behavioral health. The website address is drvernig.com.
Information You Provide
Professional Inquiries and Contact Forms
If you contact drvernig.com through a website form, information you provide may include your name, email address, organization or role, the nature of your inquiry, and any other information you choose to include in your message.
This information is used to review and respond to professional inquiries, including inquiries related to speaking, training, media, collaboration, and other professional matters.
Information associated with a form submission may also include technical information such as your IP address, browser information, and the date and time of submission. Automated services may process this information to identify spam, abuse, or malicious submissions.
Please do not use website forms to submit treatment requests, medical records, diagnoses, or other sensitive health information. The website and its contact forms are not intended for emergency or clinical communication. Contacting drvernig.com does not establish a psychologist-patient, doctor-patient, or other healthcare professional relationship with Dr. Vernig.
Email Updates
If you choose to subscribe to email updates, information necessary to manage that subscription, such as your email address, may be processed by an external email delivery and mailing-list service.
Subscription information is used to provide the updates you requested and to manage the mailing list. You may unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in those messages.
Comments and Public Accounts
Public commenting is currently disabled on drvernig.com. The website does not currently provide public user-registration or public media-upload functions.
Information Collected Automatically
Like most websites, drvernig.com and service providers supporting its operation may automatically collect limited technical information when you visit the site.
This may include information such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, referring page, pages visited, and the date and time of requests.
This information may be used to:
- operate and secure the website;
- identify or prevent abuse;
- diagnose technical problems; and
- understand how visitors use and navigate the site.
Analytics
drvernig.com uses website analytics to understand how visitors use the site and to improve its organization, performance, and usefulness.
Analytics systems may process information such as pages viewed, session activity, approximate geographic location, browser and device characteristics, referring sources, and identifiers used to distinguish users or sessions.
Analytics information is used primarily to understand website activity in aggregate rather than to identify individual visitors personally.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
drvernig.com and services supporting the website may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as website operation, security, analytics, and remembering browser or session information.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling some cookies may affect how certain website functions operate.
Website Security and Spam Prevention
drvernig.com uses automated security and spam-prevention services to protect the website from malicious requests, unauthorized access, fraudulent submissions, and other security threats.
These services may process technical information such as IP addresses, browser information, attempted login information, and information associated with suspicious activity or form submissions when necessary to protect the website.
Website Backups
drvernig.com maintains secure backups of website files and data for disaster recovery, security, and continuity purposes.
Because backups may include information stored in the website database, information submitted through website forms may also be included in backup copies. Information deleted from the active website may therefore remain in backups for a limited period until those backups expire through the normal backup-retention process.
Embedded Content
Pages on drvernig.com may include content hosted by other websites, such as videos, audio, images, or other media.
Embedded content may behave in substantially the same way as if you visited the originating website directly. The external provider may collect information, use cookies, or monitor interactions according to its own privacy practices.
PDFs, External Resources, and Links
drvernig.com includes downloadable PDFs and links to outside resources, including materials from government agencies, professional organizations, publishers, media organizations, and other third parties.
When a resource is hosted directly on drvernig.com, accessing it may be reflected in normal website and analytics information.
When you follow a link to another website or access content hosted by another organization, that organization’s privacy practices apply. drvernig.com does not control how third-party websites collect, use, or retain information.
How Information Is Shared
Personal information submitted through drvernig.com may be processed by third-party service providers that support functions such as:
- website hosting and operation;
- security and spam prevention;
- website analytics;
- email delivery and mailing-list management;
- website forms; and
- backup and disaster recovery.
Information is shared only as reasonably necessary to provide those functions or when disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect the security or integrity of the website, or protect the rights and safety of drvernig.com, its users, or others.
drvernig.com does not sell personal information collected through the website.
How Long Information Is Retained
Routine professional inquiries and associated contact-form information are generally retained for up to two years after the last substantive interaction, unless there is a legitimate professional, administrative, security, or legal reason to retain the information longer.
Email-subscription information is generally retained for as long as you remain subscribed.
Technical, analytics, security, spam-prevention, and backup information may be retained according to the operational and retention practices of the services used to provide those functions.
Information deleted from the active website may remain temporarily in routine backups until those backups expire.
Your Choices and Requests
Depending on the information involved and applicable law, you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have provided through drvernig.com.
Requests may be submitted through the website’s Contact page. Some information may need to be retained when reasonably necessary for legal, administrative, security, or recordkeeping purposes.
Email subscribers may unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in each email.
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated as the website, its functions, or applicable privacy requirements change. The date at the top of the page indicates when the policy was most recently updated.