Online / Media Terms and Conditions

Social Media can be an informative and supportive tool that helps people connect and engage. The Practice and its representatives utilize the following standards, specific to the mental health profession, related to the use of social media:

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• We welcome the ways social media can normalize, uplift and de-stigmatize mental health. We also take responsibility to inform you of our professional boundaries to the therapeutic work as it relates to social media and online interaction. We outline these standards and the possible implications to you so you can make conscientious decisions that are right for you. As a client, you are free to share (or not share) that you are in therapy and how you feel about the process. You can do so at any time, in any way, and with anyone of your choosing, mindful that providers are bound to confidentiality and cannot publicly acknowledge or respond to any inference or possible interpretation of clinical connection with current or former clients. Please review this section to understand how mental health professionals conduct themselves on the internet and what you can expect in response to online situations.

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• In order to maintain your confidentiality, keep clear the therapeutic relationship and uphold each therapist’s respective privacy, we do not respond to or accept friend or contact requests from current or former clients on any social networking site (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc). We do not use social media platforms for any direct communication with clients and any comment, question, review, or message may not ever be seen, could be deleted, is not considered secure, and does not meet HIPAA standards. Be aware of any scams or misrepresentations that target counseling clients. The Practice will never require you to share information of any nature including contact, financial, clinical, judicial and familial details through social media. Clients are encouraged to make updates to their personal information through the secure client portal and to contact their therapist about scheduling adjustments through our secure email or text service. Any content related to clinical and therapeutic work is to be exchanged during the session. Additional feedback from clients is welcomed and encouraged to be given directly to their therapist during sessions or through the Practice contact information listed below.

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• Therapists do not follow current or former clients, for any reason, on any social media platform. If there are things from your online life that you wish to share with your therapist, please bring them into your session where it can be reviewed together, during the therapy appointment.

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• While the Practice maintains a social media presence for an educational purpose, there is no expectation for you to access or follow it. You are welcome to use your own discretion, and your choice has no bearing on access or utilization of the clinical services available to you. As part of our industry ethics code, we will also never solicit reviews, testimonials, endorsements, ratings or grades from clients. There are sites, such as Yelp, that may automatically list businesses, even without their knowledge or approval. If you find a listing with our information, any presence we may have on a platform may be done with or without our knowledge and/or consent. Any listing or social media presence should not be interpreted as a request for client commentary or participation.

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• You may have a social media presence as well, such as a Facebook page, Instagram account or Twitter account. It is not our practice to view these, “google” you, or look up information on you. The therapeutic relationship is based on engagement and references during sessions, not on what can be misinterpreted from casual online viewing. Extremely rare exceptions may be made during times of crisis. If a therapist has a reason to suspect that you are in danger and you have not been in touch through usual means (coming to appointments, phone, text or email) there might be an instance in which using a search engine (to find you, find someone close to you, or to check on your recent status updates) becomes necessary as part of ensuring your welfare. These are very unusual situations and if ever used, therapists fully document and discuss it with you in the next session.

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• If you have questions or concerns about these standards and potential interactions on the Internet, do bring them up with your therapist or with the Practice so they can be discussed. Social media is a constantly changing field and there may be times when updates to this framework are needed, whereby clients will be notified.

Unless otherwise stated, the Practice owns the intellectual property rights in the Sites and material on the Sites.  Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the Sites for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions. 

You must not:

• republish material from this Sites (including republication on another website);

• sell, rent or sub-license material from the Sites;

• show any material from the Sites in public;

• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this Sites for a commercial purpose;

• edit or otherwise modify any material on the Sites with the intention of further use for commercial or personal gain; or

• redistribute material from this Sites except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution, such as the Practice’s material being shared on social media networks.

You must not use the Practice Sites in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Sites or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Sites; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

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You must not use the Sites to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

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You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this Sites without the Practice’s express written consent.

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You must not use the Sites to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

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You must not use the Site for any purposes related to marketing without the Practice’s express written consent.

Access to certain areas of the Sites may be restricted.  the Practice reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of the Sites, or indeed entire Sites, at the Practice’s discretion.

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If the Practice provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this Sites or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential. 

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The Practice may disable your user ID and password in the Practice’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to the Sites, for whatever purpose.

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You grant to the Practice a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to the Practice the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

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Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or the Practice or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). 

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You must not submit any user content to the Sites that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

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The Practice reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to the Sites, or stored on the Practice’s servers, or hosted or published upon the Sites.

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Notwithstanding the Practice’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, the Practice does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this Sites.

The Sites are provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. The Practice makes no representations or warranties in relation to the Sites or the information and materials provided on the Sites. 

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Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the Practice does not warrant that:

• the Sites will be constantly available, or available at all; or

• the information on the Sites is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

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Nothing on the Sites constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.  If you require advice in relation to any legal or financial matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

 

If you are seeking psychotherapy, counseling, or mental health services from the Practice, these services must be rendered in person or by interactive audio-video communication with a minimum full consultation session, unless otherwise explicitly arranged with the Practice.  

 

No content on the Sites constitutes advice, mental health counseling, psychotherapy, or any other manner of service.  

The Practice will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, the Sites:

• to the extent that the Sites are provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;

• for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or

• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

 

These limitations of liability apply even if the Practice has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Nothing in this Sites disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in the Sites disclaimer will exclude or limit the Practice’s liability in respect of any:

• death or personal injury caused by the Practice’s negligence;

• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of the Practice; or

• a matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for the Practice to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

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By using the Sites, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in the Sites disclaimer are reasonable. 

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If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use the Sites.

You hereby indemnify the Practice and undertake to keep the Practice indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by the Practice to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of the Practice’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by the Practice arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

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Without prejudice to the Practice other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, the Practice may take such action as the Practice deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the Sites, prohibiting you from accessing the Sites, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the Sites, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the Sites and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

You accept that, as a corporate entity the Practice has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.  You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against the Practice’s officers or employees with respect to any losses you suffer in connection with the Sites.

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Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in the Sites disclaimer will protect the Practice’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as the Practice, itself.

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Unenforceable provisions

If any provision of the Sites disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of the Sites disclaimer.

The Practice may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time.  Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of the Sites from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on the Sites.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

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The Practice may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with the Practice’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

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You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 

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If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

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These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and the Practice in relation to your use of the Sites, and supersede all previous agreements with respect to your use of the Sites.

​Boca Child Counseling

50 SW 2nd Ave. Suite 201

Boca Raton, Fl. 33432

(561) 941-1400

autumn@bocachildcounseling.com

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Last Updated: March 15, 2026

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