Privacy Policy

GrievingTeens, a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 organization, operates this website. GrievingTeen’s policy is to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Your identity, unless you choose to reveal it to us, remains anonymous as a visitor to our websites. If you do reveal your identity to us, we do not rent or sell your information.

In the more detailed language below, you’ll see that we do attempt to identify which website pages our guests visit and how they use them. The sole use of this information is to help us make our websites more usable and relevant to people who access them and to understand how people utilize our sites.

In order to do this, we utilize industry-standard statistical software that helps us track usage patterns. This software and related processes operate in a way that respects your privacy and allows you to remain anonymous, unless you choose to reveal your identity to us. Below is a more detailed description of the safeguards we’ve instituted to guard your privacy while honoring your requests for service.

GRIEVINGTEENS’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its websites.

As is true with most responsible website operators, collect non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. From time to time, GRIEVINGTEENS, may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

GRIEVINGTEEN‘S, also collects potentially personally identifying information like internet protocol (IP) addresses. This information is not used to identify its visitors and is not disclosed other than as described below.

Certain visitors to GRIEVINGTEENS’s websites and social media pages choose to interact with GrievingTeens in ways that require GrievingTeens to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that GrievingTeens gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for the informational emails to provide their first name, email address, and zip/postal code.

Those who engage in transactions with GrievingTeens – by purchasing through our Grief Support Service are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process transactions.

In each case, GRIEVINGTEENS collects only the information needed to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with GRIEVINGTEENS. Information collection, use, and storage are always secured using widely accepted modern technology.

GRIEVINGTEENS does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. Visitors may always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may limit their ability to benefit from certain YFCGrievingTeens website-related functionality.

GRIEVINGTEENS may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, GrievingTeens may monitor the most popular searches on its Find a Group search function.

GRIEVINGTEENS may display statistical or behavioral information publicly or provide it to others. However, GRIEVINGTEENS does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.

GRIEVINGTEENS discloses potentially personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on GrievingTeens’ behalf or to provide services available at GRIEVINGTEENS websites, and (ii) have agreed not to disclose it to others.

Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using GRIEVINGTEENS’ websites, you consent to their access to such information as GRIEVINGTEENS’s operatives.

GRIEVINGTEENS’s will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, GRIEVINGTEENS’s discloses potentially personally identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when GRIEVINGTEENS believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of GRIEVINGTEENS third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of a GrievingTeens website and have supplied your email address, GRIEVINGTEENS may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with GRIEVINGTEENS and  curriculum tools or opportunities. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish the request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

GrievingTeens uses modern technology as part of its procedures to reasonably protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally identifying information.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, which the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. GrievingTeens uses cookies to help serve visitors by identifying and tracking visitor usage of GrievingTeens websites as well as their website access preferences and as a way to provide visitors with additional information that may be of interest. GrievingTeens visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using GrievingTeens websites, with the drawback that certain features of GrievingTeens websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy policy changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, GrievingTeens may change its privacy policy from time to time, and at GrievingTeens’ sole discretion. GrievingTeens encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its privacy policy. Your use of this site constitutes your acceptance of all site policies.

GrievingTeens provides grief support groups or individuality as directed by the school district that we visit or work in conjunction with in texts, calls, home visits, or meetings with students and their parents. We are not therapists but facilitate groups to support individuals, groups, and families in grief. We volunteer our time while on campus or working in conjunction with school counselors, teachers, and or administrators. In general we provide grief educational information from an array of sources, authors, and experts, but you should not substitute text messages received from GrievingTeens or information on our website for professional advice.

This statement covers GrievingTeens groups, individual support, text messages, as well as website and social media content. Please read this statement carefully. By subscribing to GRIEVINGTEENS’s text messaging service,   newsletter, or accessing this site, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and provisions of this agreement. In addition, when using the GRIEVINGTEENS website or text messaging service, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services, which may be posted and modified from time to time. Any use of GrievingTeens’ or Dr. Tom Morris’ book content will constitute acceptance of this agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the terms and conditions outlined herein, please do not use the GrievingTeens website or text messaging service.

GrievingTeens is not intended to be a substitute for medical treatment, mental health services, psychotherapy, or counseling. Any subscribers or website visitors who are having thoughts of harming themselves, or in are in crisis, should call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK in the US, or their local crisis line if in another country.

If you have questions about any mental health symptom or medical condition, you should seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health care provider, and follow that advice, irregardless of anything you may have received from GrievingTeens or read on our website. Deciding to rely on information provided by GrievingTeens is solely at your own risk.