Privacy starts before disclosure
Privacy & Confidentiality
You should be able to understand the privacy boundary before you share something personal.
You can browse this website without giving detailed sexual, medical or psychological information. If you contact The Female Sex Therapist, start with the minimum information needed to understand your enquiry and reply to you.
1. Start with less information
For a general enquiry, you usually only need to provide your name, a way to contact you, your preferred reply method and a brief non-intimate reason for getting in touch.
You do not need to explain your full sexual or medical history in an ordinary message.
2. Keep ordinary email and WhatsApp brief
Under TFST policy, ordinary email and WhatsApp are for brief administrative communication, general enquiries and arranging the next step.
Please do not use them to send detailed sexual, medical or psychological information.
If more sensitive information is genuinely needed for an authorised service, you should first be given a purpose-specific route designed for that information and the relevant privacy information.
3. Sensitive information should have a defined purpose
Sexual and health information can be particularly sensitive. TFST’s approach is to collect only what is reasonably necessary for the purpose at hand, rather than asking for personal information simply because it might be useful later.
A future consultation questionnaire remains separate from the public website and ordinary messaging until its privacy, lawful-basis, special-category, retention, provider, security and testing requirements have been completed.
4. Consultations are not recorded
The Female Sex Therapist does not make audio or video recordings of consultations.
5. Confidentiality has boundaries
Privacy and confidentiality are important, but they should not be described as absolute secrecy.
Limits may apply where required by law, safeguarding, safety or an applicable professional duty. If a relevant limit applies to a service process, it should be explained clearly and accurately rather than hidden in general wording.
6. You remain in control of what you disclose
You can read the informational pages without booking, creating an account or completing a questionnaire.
Before sharing personal information, you can ask:
Why is this information needed?
Is this the right channel for it?
What will it be used for?
How long will it be kept?
If you are unsure, contact privacy@thefemalesextherapist.com before sending sensitive information.
7. Privacy rights and data-protection complaints
For privacy questions, information-rights requests or data-protection complaints, contact:
privacy@thefemalesextherapist.com
TFST will acknowledge a data-protection complaint within 30 days, investigate it appropriately and communicate the outcome without unjustifiable or excessive delay.
For the privacy information currently available on this protected staging site, read Privacy. The formal Privacy Notice will replace that page only after the remaining legal and provider facts are verified and separately approved.
- privacy questions, information-rights requests or data-protection complaints
- privacy@thefemalesextherapist.com
- acknowledge a data-protection complaint within 30 days
- investigate it appropriately and communicate the outcome
Questions about privacy
Can I send intimate information by ordinary email or WhatsApp?
No. Keep ordinary messages brief. Detailed sexual, medical or psychological information should only be requested through an authorised purpose-specific process designed for that information.
Are consultations recorded?
No. Consultations are not audio- or video-recorded.
Does confidentiality mean absolute secrecy?
No. Confidentiality is taken seriously, but limits may apply where required by law, safeguarding, safety or an applicable professional duty. Any relevant limit should be explained accurately.
Do I need to disclose personal information just to read the website?
No. You can use the informational pages without providing detailed personal information.
Where can I read the current privacy information?
Read Privacy. The final formal Privacy Notice is being prepared separately and is not authorised for publication yet.
How do I raise a privacy complaint or rights request?
Email privacy@thefemalesextherapist.com. Identity evidence should only be requested where genuinely necessary.