Confidentiality and Privacy

Confidentiality

PARCS offers a confidential service, however if your counsellor thinks that someone under 18 is at risk of serious harm or abuse they may have to pass that information to other organisations. This is because we work to Hampshire Wide Child Protection Procedures. Most other organisations work to similar ethical procedures

Our address is confidential, and before your first appointment you will be given the details of where we are.

Privacy

Computers store temporary folders about the websites you have visited. If you do not want anyone to be able to see that you have visited this site there are 3 things you can do to help keep it private:

Delete Tempory Internet Files: Click on TOOLS and then click on the tab marked GENERAL in the box that appears. Go to the section that says TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES, and click the box marked DELETED FILES. A box will appear and you need to tick the box that says DELETE ALL OFFLINE FILES ,then click OK.

Delete History: Click on TOOLS and click the tab marked GENERAL in the box that appears. Go to the section that says HISTORY. Click on the CLEAR HISTORY button. A box will appear asking you if you want to delete all items in the history - click YES.

Delete Cookies: Click on TOOLS and then click the tab marked GENERAL in the box that appears. Go to the section that says TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES, and click the box marked DELETE COOKIES then click OK.

YOU NEED TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER ONCE YOU HAVE DONE THIS.

If you have sent an email to PARCS and do not want anyone using the computer to know, you need to delete the emails from your SENT ITEMS and also your DELETED ITEMS box.