Privacy Policy
Preamble and Acceptance
This Privacy Policy explains how Freud Psychoanalysis Memorial, available at https://freudpsychoanalysis.com, processes personal information associated with access to, navigation of, communication with, and use of the website.
Freud Psychoanalysis Memorial is a digital memorial, historical, educational, cultural, and editorial project dedicated to the study of Sigmund Freud, the development of early psychoanalysis, classical psychoanalytic concepts, historical debates, texts, case literature, intellectual influences, and the broader history of psychoanalytic thought.
The website may publish articles, essays, reference materials, bibliographies, historical analyses, timelines, quotations, discussions of original writings, commentary on translations and editions, educational materials, and other content concerning Freud, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychiatry, mental health, history of medicine, humanities, and related fields.
The term “Memorial” identifies the commemorative and historical-editorial nature of the project. It does not, by itself, represent that the website operates a physical museum, archive, library, foundation, memorial building, research institute, university, clinic, or legally recognized heritage institution.
The website does not claim, solely through its name or presentation, to be an official website of Sigmund Freud's descendants, estate, copyright holders, the Freud Museum, the International Psychoanalytical Association, or any other independent institution.
Any material relationship, authorization, license, partnership, institutional affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement involving a third party should be expressly disclosed and supported by appropriate documentation before being represented as such.
Freud Psychoanalysis Memorial is not a hospital, medical practice, psychological clinic, psychotherapy service, psychoanalytic treatment service, telehealth platform, or emergency mental health service.
The website does not provide clinical consultations, psychotherapy, psychoanalytic treatment, medical or psychological diagnosis, prescriptions, individualized assessment, treatment planning, or emergency care.
By accessing or using the website, visitors acknowledge this Privacy Policy. When consent is legally required for a particular processing activity, an appropriate consent mechanism will be used.
Applicable United States federal and state privacy laws will be observed when their statutory scope requirements are satisfied. This may include, where applicable, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, federal consumer-protection law, and applicable state privacy or security laws.
Where Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation, applies territorially and materially to a particular operation, the corresponding GDPR requirements will also be observed.
Data Controller and Data Protection Officer (DPO)
For transparency purposes, Freud Psychoanalysis Memorial is the public editorial designation used for the digital project presented through https://freudpsychoanalysis.com.
The use of this designation does not, by itself, establish the existence of a corporation, physical museum, clinic, licensed educational institution, foundation, archive, or healthcare organization with that name.
The person or organization that actually determines the purposes and essential means of a particular processing activity will be treated as the relevant controller, business, or equivalent responsible party under applicable law.
Dr. Arthur Klein is presented as an editorial persona associated with the website. This presentation does not independently establish or verify a particular professional license, university appointment, museum position, board certification, or formal appointment as Data Protection Officer.
The privacy contact channel is [email protected].
United States privacy law does not generally require every informational website to appoint a Data Protection Officer. If the GDPR, UK GDPR, or another applicable law requires a formal DPO designation for a particular operation, the corresponding information will be provided as required.
Legal Definitions
For purposes of this Policy, the following definitions apply according to the relevant legal framework:
- Personal information or personal data: information relating to an identified or identifiable individual, as defined by applicable law.
- Sensitive personal information: information receiving heightened protection because of its nature, which may include health information, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, precise geolocation, biometric information, or other protected categories.
- Processing: an operation involving personal information, including collection, use, storage, analysis, organization, disclosure, transmission, modification, or deletion.
- Consumer or data subject: an individual whose personal information is processed and who may receive rights under applicable law.
- Controller: a person or organization determining the purposes and essential means of processing under applicable data-protection law.
- Service provider or processor: a person or organization processing information for another responsible party under applicable requirements.
- Consent: an affirmative authorization satisfying the requirements applicable to the particular processing activity.
- Clinical data: information collected or generated for diagnosis, assessment, psychotherapy, psychoanalytic treatment, healthcare, or similar clinical purposes.
- Historical material: writings, images, correspondence, archival references, bibliographic information, historical case discussions, or other material used to study Freud and the history of psychoanalysis.
- Profiling: systematic or automated processing used to evaluate, classify, predict, or infer characteristics concerning an individual where recognized by applicable law.
- Cookies: files, identifiers, or similar technologies used for technical functionality, security, preferences, analytics, advertising, or other disclosed purposes.
Information We Collect
Information Voluntarily Provided
When visitors contact the website, submit a question, suggest a correction, propose historical or bibliographic material, or use an available form, information such as name, email address, subject, and message content may be processed.
General contact channels are not intended for medical records, psychotherapy notes, psychoanalytic session transcripts, diagnoses, prescriptions, psychological assessments, patient histories, or other clinical information.
Technical and Navigation Information
Technical information may be processed during access, including Internet Protocol address, date and time, browser, operating system, device type, requested pages, approximate referral source, technical identifiers, and security events.
Analytics Information
Where analytics tools are actually implemented, information concerning page views, approximate session duration, referral sources, clicks, interactions, and technical performance may be processed.
Historical and Scholarly Communications
Communications relating to bibliographies, editions, translations, historical sources, archives, publications, corrections, scholarly collaboration, or research questions may contain names, professional contact information, affiliations, and information voluntarily supplied by the sender.
Such information should be processed only for purposes reasonably compatible with the relevant communication.
Corrections and Source Submissions
If visitors submit corrections concerning dates, translations, quotations, works, historical identities, archives, or bibliographic information, those submissions may be retained as part of the website's editorial verification process where reasonably necessary.
Submitting information does not automatically establish authorship, scholarly affiliation, employment, membership, endorsement, or another formal relationship with the website.
Freud Psychoanalysis Memorial does not intentionally collect clinical data for diagnosis, psychological assessment, psychotherapy, psychoanalytic treatment, or patient care.
Legal Bases for Processing
In the United States, privacy obligations depend on factors including the nature of the information, the responsible party, the visitor's jurisdiction, the purpose of processing, and the statutory scope of the applicable federal or state law.
Where the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, applies to the responsible business, processing will be conducted consistently with California Civil Code section 1798.100 and following provisions and applicable regulations.
Where COPPA applies, online collection of personal information from children under 13 will be handled in accordance with 15 U.S.C. sections 6501 through 6506 and 16 CFR Part 312.
Where processing falls within the GDPR, an appropriate legal basis under Article 6 will be identified.
Where GDPR-covered processing involves health information or another special category of personal data, a condition permitted by Article 9 must also apply.
Depending on the particular GDPR-covered activity, legal bases may include consent, contractual necessity, compliance with legal obligations, protection of vital interests, or legitimate interests where legally permissible and appropriately balanced.
Where UK GDPR applies, the corresponding legal bases and safeguards will be observed.
Where Brazil's Law No. 13,709/2018 applies to a specific operation, the appropriate basis under Articles 7 or 11 will be identified.
Where Peru's Law No. 29733 applies, applicable consent, transparency, proportionality, security, and data-subject requirements will be observed.
The technical availability of the website in another country does not automatically cause every law of that jurisdiction to apply to every website operation.
Purposes of Processing
Personal information may be processed, as appropriate, to:
- operate and secure the website;
- deliver historical and educational pages;
- respond to correspondence and inquiries;
- review source corrections and bibliographic suggestions;
- administer editorial communications;
- manage comments where such functionality exists;
- record privacy and cookie preferences;
- prevent spam, fraud, malicious automation, and unauthorized access;
- identify technical failures;
- produce website-performance and audience statistics where legally appropriate;
- understand aggregate interest in historical and psychoanalytic topics;
- improve navigation and accessibility;
- maintain citation, source, authorship, and revision records;
- comply with applicable legal obligations;
- respond to valid governmental, judicial, or regulatory demands;
- establish, exercise, or defend legal rights;
- investigate security incidents.
Reading material concerning dreams, sexuality, trauma, hysteria, depression, psychosis, anxiety, neurosis, narcissism, or another psychoanalytic or mental-health subject will not, by itself, cause the website to characterize the visitor as having the condition or structure discussed.
Sensitive Data and Mental Health
FREUD PSYCHOANALYSIS MEMORIAL DOES NOT INTENTIONALLY COLLECT CLINICAL DATA FOR DIAGNOSIS, PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT, PSYCHOTHERAPY, CLINICAL SCREENING, OR PATIENT CARE.
The website may publish historical and educational materials concerning sexuality, psychological suffering, hysteria, trauma, neurosis, psychosis, depression, anxiety, suicide, dreams, childhood, family relationships, and other sensitive subjects present in psychoanalytic literature.
READING AN ARTICLE ABOUT A PSYCHOANALYTIC OR MENTAL HEALTH CONCEPT DOES NOT CAUSE THE WEBSITE TO DIAGNOSE THE READER WITH THAT CONDITION.
The website will not use reading history alone to label a visitor as neurotic, psychotic, narcissistic, traumatized, depressed, anxious, suicidal, or as having another clinical condition or psychoanalytic structure.
INTEREST IN FREUD'S WRITINGS ON SEXUALITY, DREAMS, TRAUMA, CHILDHOOD, OR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IS AN EDITORIAL OR INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY AND MUST NOT, BY ITSELF, BE TREATED AS SENSITIVE CLINICAL EVIDENCE ABOUT THE READER.
The website is not designed as a patient-record system, psychological assessment service, or psychotherapy-record repository.
Visitors should not transmit medical records, psychotherapy notes, psychoanalytic session transcripts, identifiable patient case material, diagnoses, test results, prescriptions, or other confidential health information through ordinary website channels.
If sensitive information is voluntarily and incidentally included in correspondence, receiving the information does not create a treatment relationship or clinical record.
Such information should be minimized, restricted, or deleted where reasonably appropriate and legally permissible.
Where GDPR Article 9 applies, health information and other special-category personal data will receive the corresponding protections.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
The website may use cookies and similar technologies for technical functionality, cybersecurity, privacy preferences, analytics, and other disclosed purposes.
- Strictly necessary cookies: technologies required to operate, secure, or provide essential functionality.
- Functional cookies: technologies used to remember requested settings or preferences.
- Analytics cookies: technologies used to understand aggregate audience behavior and website performance.
- Advertising or cross-context behavioral technologies: technologies used for advertising or related tracking only where actually implemented and subject to applicable requirements.
Optional technologies should not be represented as strictly necessary when they are not essential to the requested functionality.
Where consent is legally required, optional technologies will be subject to an appropriate consent mechanism.
Where the CCPA applies and a practice constitutes sale or sharing of personal information under California law, applicable opt-out mechanisms will be made available.
Where legally required, valid opt-out preference signals will be honored.
The website should not create sensitive advertising audiences solely because visitors read content concerning sexuality, trauma, depression, psychosis, suicide, or another mental-health subject.
Sharing with Third Parties
The website does not have, as its stated editorial purpose, the commercial sale of readers' personal information.
Personal information may be disclosed on a limited basis to providers necessary for website operations, including hosting, cybersecurity, email, forms, backups, content delivery, analytics, and technical infrastructure.
Each provider may act as a service provider, processor, contractor, independent business, or controller according to applicable law and the actual arrangement.
Information should be limited to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
If advertising technology or another practice qualifying as sale or sharing under California law is implemented, required notices and opt-out rights will be provided where the CCPA applies.
External Historical and Cultural Institutions
The website may reference archives, museums, universities, libraries, publishers, psychoanalytic organizations, historical institutions, or other third-party resources.
A citation, hyperlink, photograph credit, bibliographic reference, or discussion of a third-party institution does not automatically create partnership, authorization, sponsorship, endorsement, or common ownership.
Information may also be disclosed where required by applicable law, valid judicial process, regulatory demand, or the establishment or defense of legal rights.
International Data Transfers
Because the website is internationally accessible, technology providers may process personal information in the United States or other countries.
Where GDPR applies to a transfer outside the European Economic Area, an appropriate mechanism under Articles 44 through 49 will be considered, including an adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses, or another legally available transfer mechanism.
Where UK GDPR applies, corresponding international transfer safeguards will be used when required.
Where Brazilian LGPD applies to a particular operation, Articles 33 through 36 and applicable Brazilian data-protection regulations will be observed.
Where Peru's Law No. 29733 applies, applicable international transfer and security requirements will be respected.
International processing does not eliminate requirements concerning reasonable security, transparency, purpose limitation, and data minimization.
Retention and Deletion
Personal information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was processed, subject to applicable legal, security, archival, editorial, evidentiary, and rights-protection requirements.
General correspondence may be retained for a reasonable period necessary to respond, verify historical information, maintain editorial records, prevent abuse, or protect legal rights.
Records relating to source verification, copyright permissions, corrections, licensing, authorship, bibliographic information, or publication history may be retained when reasonably necessary.
Sensitive personal information unnecessarily included in ordinary correspondence should be minimized or deleted where appropriate.
Where COPPA applies, children's personal information will not be retained longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Where California law applies, deletion requests will be addressed subject to statutory exceptions.
Where GDPR applies, the storage-limitation principle under Article 5 will be observed.
Rights of Individuals
California Privacy Rights
Where the CCPA applies, eligible California consumers may have rights including:
- the right to know categories and specific pieces of personal information, subject to applicable requirements;
- the right to request deletion, subject to statutory exceptions;
- the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information;
- the right to opt out of sale or sharing of personal information where applicable;
- the right to limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information where legally applicable;
- the right to receive required information concerning categories of sources, purposes, and recipients;
- the right not to receive unlawful discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable privacy rights.
GDPR Rights
Where the GDPR applies, individuals may have rights under Articles 12 through 22, including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent, and rights associated with certain automated decisions.
Other Applicable Rights
Where UK GDPR applies, corresponding rights will be respected.
Where Brazilian LGPD applies, rights under Article 18 will be observed.
Where Peru's Law No. 29733 applies, corresponding rights under that framework will be respected.
The website is not intended to make automated clinical diagnoses or treatment decisions about visitors.
How to Exercise Your Rights
Privacy requests may be submitted to [email protected].
Reasonable verification may be required to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or deletion.
The website should not request excessive verification information where a less intrusive method is reasonably sufficient.
Requests will be evaluated according to the applicable jurisdiction, statutory scope, nature of the request, and personal information actually processed.
Where applicable law permits an authorized agent to submit a request, reasonable evidence of authorization may be required.
If a request cannot be granted in whole or in part, the reason may be provided where required or appropriate under applicable law.
Information Security
The website seeks to maintain reasonable technical and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature and risk of the personal information processed.
Measures may include HTTPS, software updates, authentication controls, administrative access restrictions, least-privilege practices, backups, malicious-traffic protection, technical logging, and provider review.
Identifiable clinical records or confidential patient material should not be used as ordinary editorial, development, demonstration, testing, or artificial-intelligence input data.
No Internet-connected system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Security is therefore treated as an ongoing process involving prevention, detection, response, recovery, and improvement.
Where California risk-assessment, cybersecurity-audit, or related requirements apply to a covered business and activity, they should be implemented according to their legal scope and applicable compliance schedule.
Where a security breach triggers notification obligations under applicable federal or state law, notifications will be handled according to the relevant requirements.
Children and Minors
The website is designed for a historical, educational, scholarly, and general audience and is not intended primarily as a service directed to children under 13.
Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and 16 CFR Part 312, specific obligations apply to covered websites and online services directed to children under 13 and to certain other operators with actual knowledge that they collect personal information online from a child under 13.
The website does not intentionally solicit personal information from children under 13 through ordinary contact functionality.
Where verifiable parental consent is legally required, a child's unsupported representation will not replace the legally required parental-consent mechanism.
If the website learns that personal information has been collected from a child under 13 under circumstances requiring action under COPPA, appropriate steps will be taken according to applicable law.
Children and adolescents should not be encouraged to publicly disclose diagnoses, abuse, self-harm, sexual information, family conflict, or other sensitive personal information through comments or forms.
Where GDPR or UK GDPR provisions concerning children's data apply to a particular service, the corresponding requirements will also be observed.
Changes to this Policy
This Policy may be revised in response to changes in law, technology, website functionality, editorial activities, or privacy practices.
The Policy should be reassessed before implementing user accounts, newsletters, memberships, paid services, behavioral advertising, personalized recommendations, artificial intelligence tools, interactive psychological assessments, research-participant databases, or other functionality that materially changes personal information processing.
If the website begins offering clinical services, formal research involving identifiable human participants, or services specifically directed to children, a separate legal and privacy review must occur before launch.
The current version will be made available through the website.
Supervisory and Enforcement Authorities
In the United States, privacy and consumer-protection matters may fall within the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission, state Attorneys General, the California Privacy Protection Agency where applicable, and other competent authorities according to statutory scope and subject matter.
Where the CCPA applies, California authorities may have jurisdiction over applicable privacy matters.
Where the GDPR applies, individuals may have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent European supervisory authority.
Where UK GDPR applies, the UK Information Commissioner's Office may have supervisory jurisdiction.
Where Brazilian LGPD applies, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority may have jurisdiction.
Where Peruvian data-protection law applies, the competent Peruvian personal-data protection authority may have jurisdiction.
Contact
Questions concerning this Privacy Policy or privacy rights may be submitted to:
Freud Psychoanalysis Memorial
Website: https://freudpsychoanalysis.com
Editorial contact: Dr. Arthur Klein.
Email: [email protected]
Nature of the website: digital historical memorial and educational-editorial project focused on Sigmund Freud and classical psychoanalysis.
Primary jurisdiction: USA.
Last Updated
Original effective date: April 14, 2020.
Legal consolidation of this version: September 1, 2026.