Privacy Policy

1. Scope and contact

Daughters of Dominican Mothers™ (DDM, we, us, or our) operates daughtersofdominicanmothers.com and offers educational resources, a provider directory, and nonclinical coaching. This policy covers website information, directory submissions, general inquiries, consultation scheduling, coaching administration, and our official social-media interactions. Contact [email protected] with privacy questions or requests.

2. Therapy information

Ingrid Vasquez, LCSW, offers therapy separately through Headway. This policy is not a clinical Notice of Privacy Practices, treatment consent, or coaching agreement. Applicable clinical documents and platform notices govern therapy information. Do not send patient information, detailed clinical histories, identification documents, or another person’s sensitive information through directory forms, public comments, routine email, or social-media messages.

3. Information you provide

You may provide your name, email, practice phone, website, credentials, states of licensure, languages, service formats, insurance-related practice information, messages, and scheduling details. The directory form requests confirmation relevant to its Dominican and Dominican American provider focus. The administrative email is used for application communications and matching updates. A separate optional public practice email is requested for publication.

4. Public directory information

Submitting an application requests review; it does not guarantee publication. Authorized professional information and public contact details may be displayed publicly and indexed by search engines. Inclusion can reveal or allow others to infer Dominican or Dominican American identity. The form requests publication permission and explains this cultural-identity disclosure. Submit only information you are authorized to provide. Contact us to correct or remove a listing or clarify what is public.

5. Information uses

Information is used to respond to inquiries, review directory eligibility and professional details, maintain listings, schedule and administer requested services, communicate about applications and appointments, operate and protect the website, maintain appropriate business records, and meet legal obligations. DDM currently sends application and appointment communications only, not promotional emails or texts. A directory application does not authorize unrelated marketing.

6. Website technology

The website and embedded forms use HighLevel/LeadConnector. Hosting, forms, scheduling, and security services can process IP addresses, browser and device details, page requests, timestamps, and operational logs. Cookies or similar technologies may support these features. The directory form has save-progress enabled and records the submitter’s time zone. Save-progress can retain unfinished entries so you can return to them. Avoid sensitive entries on shared devices. Browser settings can limit or clear cookies and site storage; doing so may affect form progress or features.

Reviewed pages load Cloudflare Web Analytics for performance measurement; the Join/Update Directory page also loads a Cloudflare security challenge. Cloudflare describes its performance beacon as operating without analytics cookies. This does not mean every website feature is cookie-free. See Cloudflare documentation.

7. Providers and disclosures

Providers supporting hosting, forms, business communications, and scheduling process information needed for those functions. HighLevel/LeadConnector supports the website and forms; Cloudflare supports performance measurement and security on reviewed pages. Email and phone providers process communications through their services. Authorized listing details are public as described above. Therapy through Headway follows applicable clinical and platform notices. HighLevel website payments are planned but not configured; payment services will be identified before collection. Information may be disclosed when required by law or when legally permitted to protect rights, safety, or service integrity.

DDM does not sell application or contact information or share it with advertisers, sponsors, or other organizations beyond the authorized public listings, service providers described in this policy, and legally required or permitted disclosures described above.

8. Email and text choices

Application and appointment communications use email and, with permission, texts. Text consent is optional and is not a condition of applying or receiving services. Ingrid texts manually from her phone. Frequency varies; message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to stop texts; Ingrid will stop texting and use email for further application or appointment messages. Reply HELP for assistance; Ingrid personally responds. You may also email us to update your details or preferences.

9. Retention and removal

When a provider requests removal, DDM removes the public listing and deletes the application, except records legally required to be retained. Other information is retained as reasonably necessary for its purpose and applicable recordkeeping requirements. Clinical records follow separate rules. Removal does not immediately remove independent copies or search-engine caches. Vendor-held backups and records may follow separate retention and legal obligations. Contact us about the scope of a deletion request. No online system or transmission is guaranteed completely secure.

10. Privacy requests

Email us to request access, correction, or deletion, ask about information uses or disclosures, or raise a privacy concern. Rights, verification, exceptions, appeal procedures, and deadlines depend on applicable law. We may need information reasonably necessary to verify and process a request.

11. Third parties and children

Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Headway, provider websites, and other linked services have their own policies. Public comments may be visible to others. Social-media messages are not the designated channel for confidential clinical care. Website or social-media use does not establish a treatment relationship. Directory submissions are for professional providers, not children under 13. Do not submit children’s information through general website forms. Clinical services involving minors require separate appropriate consent and privacy processes.

12. Updates

The effective date appears above. Material changes will be communicated as required by law and do not retroactively authorize a use requiring new consent. Questions: [email protected].