Privacy Policy

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Your Contact Details

If you sign up to my contact list, your contact details will be stored for the purposes of sending you information and updates about Autistically Mentoring. You can unsubscribe from such emails at any time by replying to the email or contacting me via this website to request that your name be removed from my contact list. I will not sell or give your details to any other party.

Confidentiality within the Mentoring/Coaching Process

In line with the EMCC’s Global Code of Ethics and UK GDPR laws, all mentees’ personal details, including session notes, will be confidential. 

Exceptions to confidentiality

The only circumstances under which a mentor may be compelled to breach confidentiality are:

1. Where there is indication of significant and imminent harm to the mentee or someone else (in this case, the mentor will always seek to discuss disclosing information to a third party before doing so);

2. Where there is an agreement to provide progress reports or update sessions to a third party (please see below);

3. For supervisory and/or educational purposes. As EMCC mentors are committed to continuing professional development and appropriate supervision and peer support for their practice, anonymised and restricted details may be shared for the purposes of optimising responsible and effective practice. If a session is to be recorded for educational or supervisory purposes, a mentee will always be consulted in advance, and has the right to say no without giving a reason.

Use of Emergency Contact

A mentee is required to provide contact details of at least one emergency contact prior to the commencement of their mentoring sessions. These details may be used only in the following instances:

1. When the mentee has failed to attend an engagement with the mentor without forewarning, and fails to respond to subsequent attempts at contact in the next 24 hours;

2. When the mentee fails to respond to three or more consecutive emails, and does not respond to an alternative means of contact;

3. When there is significant cause for concern about the wellbeing of the mentee or someone else, but it is not clear that local services need to be involved (the mentor will always seek to consult with the mentee before using the emergency contact for this reason);

4. When there is significant cause for concern about the wellbeing of the mentee or someone else, local services need to be informed, and the emergency contact may be contacted as a point of information (the mentor will always seek to consult with the mentee before using the emergency contact for this reason);

5. When the mentor and mentee have agreed in advance that the emergency contact should be informed of a specific situation or when specific circumstances arise.

Safeguarding

All mentees will be required to complete a Safeguarding Form before commencing mentoring, and are responsible for disclosing relevant information at this time. 

Policies regarding confidentiality will not change, but there are additional duties and responsibilities to protect children and vulnerable adults. Vulnerable adults retain the right to refuse support under safeguarding laws.

Your Data

Session notes will be stored for one calendar year from the date of your last session. They will then be deleted. You may request access to your notes or for their deletion at any time during their storage.