By using our website, you agree to our privacy policy and terms and conditions. 

Welcome to the Fortify & Restore, PLLC Terms of Use agreement. For purposes of this agreement, “Company” refers to Fortify & Restore, PLLC; “Site” refers to the Company’s website, which can be accessed at  www.fortifyrestorepllc.com ; “Service” refers to the Company’s products and services. The terms “we,” “us,” and '“our” refer to the Company. “You” refers to you, as a user of our Site or our Service. For the purposes of this User Agreement and Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Jo Ellyn Walker, Ph.D. DBA Fortify & Restore, PLLC  include www.fortifyrestorepllc.com and Fortify & Restore. The Fortify & Restore website is a coaching, consulting and psychotherapy practice site. Note that the products and services offered by Fortify & Restore, PLLC are subject to change without notice. By using the Fortify & Restore website, you signify your agreement to the data practices described in this statement.

Please review the following terms carefully. By accessing or using the Service, you signify your agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use in their entirety, you may not access or use the Service. The following Terms of Use apply when you use the Service via our website located at www.fortifyrestorepllc.com

The Company respects the privacy of its Service users and protecting your personal information is a priority. Please refer to the Company’s Privacy Policy which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Service, you signify your agreement to the Privacy Policy as well as these Terms of Use.

Per the Privacy Policy, Fortify & Restore collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested. For example your first and last names, mailing address or email address. We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. As detailed in the Privacy Policy, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future. This may include anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender, race.

Fortify & Restore does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Fortify & Restore may share data with trusted partners to help us provide the best Services and/or to facilitate functionality of the Site. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Fortify & Restore, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Fortify & Restore may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with the law or with legal processes served on Fortify & Restore or the Site, protect and defend the rights or property of Fortify & Restore; and/or act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Fortify & Restore, or the public.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Fortify & Restore. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the Site and/or Service(s), to maintain the quality of the Service(s), and to provide data analytics regarding the use of the Fortify & Restore website.

The Fortify & Restore website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. A primary purpose of cookies is convenience for you with regard to time saved by a cookie recalling information such as your billing or shipping address, during later visits to Fortify & Restore website.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Fortify & Restore services or websites you visit. You can also indicate your cookie preferences using the controls on the Site.

This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. These Third Party Sites and/or Applications, are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness, and we are not responsible for any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available through or installed form the Site, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or the Third Party Applications, Software or Content. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use of installation of any Third Party Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content does not imply our approval or endorsement. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites or to use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies, including these Terms of Use, no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any Third Party Site to which you navigate from the Site or relating to any applications you use or install from the Third Party Site.

Fortify & Restore strives to secure your personal information and protect against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or alteration. Nevertheless, no data transmission via the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Thus, while we do our best to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable written request from you, we will delete your personal information from our records; and direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records. However, we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to comply with certain legal, ethical, public safety, or Company, Site, or Service security needs.

Fortify & Restore does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or legal guardian for permission to use this website. For anyone under eighteen years of age who uses the Service, parental consent/approval may be required.

If you are visiting this Site from a country other than the country in which our servers are located, your communications with us may result in the transfer of information across international boundaries. By visiting this Site and communicating electronically with us, you consent to such transfers.

If you opt-in, Fortify & Restore may contact you via email to share announcement, alerts, confirmations, promotional offers, and/or other general information and communications. For contractual purposes, you: consent to receive communications from us in an electronic form via the email address you have submitted; and agree that all Terms of Use, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing (or printed paper copy).

You may opt out of such email(s) by changing your account settings, clicking “Unsubscribe”, or by sending an email to drwalker@fortifyrestorepllc.com Opting out may prevent you from receiving messages regarding the Site, the Service or special offers.

We grant you permission to use and access the Service, subject to certain conditions surrounding User Content. The following list is not exhaustive; and only applies where applicable. You are solely responsible for your account and the activity that occurs while signed in to or while using your account. You will not post information that is malicious, libelous, false or inaccurate. You will not post any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive. You will not submit content that is copyrighted or subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy, publicity, trade secrets, or others, unless you are the owner of such rights or have the appropriate permission from their rightful owner to specifically submit such content. You cannot share links to protected Member Site assets, such as images and videos. Fortify & Restore (Site, Services) content is protected by copyright laws and cannot be used for commercial purposes by others.

Furthermore, you agree that you will not under any circumstances:

• access the Service for any reason other than your personal, non-commercial use sole as permitted by the normal functionality of the Service;

• collect or harvest any personal data of any user of the Site or Service;

• use the Site or the Service for the solicitation of business in the course of trade or in connection with a commercial enterprise;

• distribute any part or parts of the Site or the Service without our explicit written permission (we grant the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the site for the sole purpose of creating publicly-available searchable indices but retailers the right to revoke this permission at any time on a vernal or specific basis);

• use the Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;

• attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group;

• use another user’s account without permission;

• intentionally allow another user to access your account;

• provide false or inaccurate information when registering an account;

• interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Service;

• make any automated use of the Site, the Service or the related systems, or take any action that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or network infrastructure;

• bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Service, or use any software, technology, or device to spare, spider, or crawl the Service or harvest or manipulate data;

• circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security-related features of the Service or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of content, or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content accessible via the Service; or

• publish or link to malicious content of any sort, including that intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser or computer.

You agree that we have the right to determine whether your User Content submissions are appropriate and comply with these Terms of Service, remove any and/or all of your submissions, and terminate your account with or without prior notice. You agree that failure to adhere to any of these conditions constitutes a material breach of these Terms.

The Site does not, and cannot, pre-screen or monitor all User Content. You understand and agree that any liability, loss or damage that occurs as a result of the use of any User Content that you make available or access through your use of the Service is solely your responsibility. The Site is not response for any public display or misuse of your User Content.

Similarly, Fortify & Restore is not responsible for opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content made available through the Service, but not directly by the Site, which are those of their respective authors, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Site or the Service nor do we adopt nor endorse, nor are we responsible for, the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made by other parties. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any User Content that you or any other user or third party posts or sends via the Service. Under no circumstances will we be responsible for any loss or or damage resulting from anyone’s reliance on information or other content posted on the Service, or transmitted to Users.

Though we strive to enforce these Terms of Use, you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate or objectionable when you use or access the Site or the Service. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor the materials posted in the public areas of the Site or the Service or to limit or deny a user’s access to the Service or take other appropriate action if a user violates these Terms of Use or engages in any activity that violates the rights of any person or entity or which we deem unlawful, offensive, abusive, harmful or malicious. The Company shall have the right to remove any material that in its sole opinion violates, or is alleged to violate, the law or this agreement or which might be offensive, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others.

These Terms of Use and your use of the Site are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America. You acknowledge that you have read these terms of use, understand the terms of use, and will be bound by these terms and conditions. You further acknowledge that these terms of use together with the Privacy Policy represent the complete and exclusive statement of the agreement between us and that it supersedes any proposal or prior agreement oral or written, and any other communications between us relating to the subject matter of this agreement. Furthermore, Fortify & Restore reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy  &/or Terms of Use from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Still, it is your sole responsibility to review this policy to note any changes in the agreement. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will signify your acknowledgment of the revised Privacy Policy; and agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Unauthorized use may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution under Federal, State and local law. If you become aware of a misuse of our Service or violation of the our Service or violation of these Terms of Use, please contact us.

Fortify & Restore welcomes feedback or questions about this privacy policy and terms of use. Please reach out to Fortify & Restore at:

Fortify & Restore, PLLC

P.O. Box 677

Mt. Holly, NC 28120

drwalker@fortifyrestorepllc.com

704-251-9349

Effective as of August 2024