Privacy

The short version

• The site sets no cookies and uses no advertising trackers.
• A few small settings can be saved on your device, and only if you say yes.
• If you send an inquiry, it goes by email to Dr. Arori, and we use it only to reply.
• We don’t sell your information or share it for advertising.
• Please don’t send medical questions or health details through this site.

Who we are

Dr. Christopher Arori runs chrisarori.com, his personal website, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. When this page says “we” or “us,” it means Dr. Arori and the people who help him answer messages.

What the site keeps on your device

There are no cookies on this site. It does use your browser’s storage, a small space on your own device that only this site can read. What is kept there stays on your device and is never sent to us.

When you answer the privacy notice or change your Privacy settings, the site saves your answer so it doesn’t ask on every page. This one item is always kept once you choose, because the settings can’t work without it:

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Whether you turned on “Remember me,” and when you made the choice.

If you turn on “Remember me,” the site can also keep these, in your browser’s local storage:

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Light or dark mode, if you picked one.

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Which sections of the home page you have read, for the Explore panel.

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Which inquiry topic you chose and whether you sent it. Never your name, email address or message.

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The language you picked. Only English is available today, so this is not used yet.

If you never say yes, none of these are saved. If you turn “Remember me” off later, they are deleted right away.

Two more items use session storage, which your browser empties when you close the tab. The site uses them only while you browse:

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Keeps a light or dark choice while you move between pages.

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The section you were reading, which question was open and where you had scrolled, so a reload or the back button brings you back to the same spot.

You can clear all of this yourself at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.

Visit statistics

The site has a built-in option for visitor statistics, but it is switched off. It isn’t offered in Privacy settings and collects nothing. If we ever turn it on, it will ask for your permission first, it will stay off if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, and we will update this page.

Separately, we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a basic visit counter from the company that delivers our pages. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. It tells us things like how many times a page was viewed, which site sent visitors here, and general details such as browser type and country, as totals rather than a record of each person. Because it is part of how the site is delivered, it isn’t controlled by the switches in Privacy settings. Cloudflare’s privacy policy applies to it.

When you send an inquiry

The inquiry form lets you ask about speaking, bulk copies, media and interviews, or the books, or tell us what you thought of a book. Depending on the topic, it asks for:

• what your inquiry is about
• your name and email address
• a phone number, if you choose to give one
• your organization or outlet, for bulk, speaking and media inquiries (optional)
• how many copies, for bulk inquiries, or the event date and place, for speaking (optional)
• your message

When you press Send, the form goes to our own web server. The server checks it and sends it as an email to Dr. Arori’s inbox, with your email address set as the reply address so we can answer you. The server doesn’t save a copy of your inquiry; the email is the only record. Our email provider handles that email for us, as any email service does. We keep inquiry emails only as long as we need them to reply and follow up, and we delete them if you ask.

If you share what you thought of a book, we may quote you on the site with your first name and town. Say so in your message if you would rather we didn’t, and we won’t.

The spam check

To keep out spam, the form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that you’re a person and not a bot. It loads only when you open the form, so if you never open it, your browser never contacts it. Turnstile looks at signals from your browser to make its decision. Our server then asks Cloudflare to confirm the result, sending the check’s one-time token and your IP address. Cloudflare handles this under its own privacy policy.

Limiting repeat sends

To stop one connection from flooding the inbox, the server counts recent inquiries from each address (by default, up to five in ten minutes). It doesn’t store your IP address itself. It stores a one-way scrambled version of it (a hash) and the times of recent sends. Records older than that window are deleted the next time the check runs.

If the form can’t send

Sometimes the form offers a “Send from your email app” button instead, for example if the spam check can’t load. That opens your own email app with your message filled in, addressed to hello@chrisarori.com. Your email provider then sends it, under its own terms.

Newsletter sign-up

When you sign up for news, the address you type is emailed to Dr. Arori’s team, the same way an inquiry is. It isn’t added to a mailing service or shared, and it’s used only to send you occasional news. To stop, reply to any of those emails or write to hello@chrisarori.com.

Videos

Talks hosted on YouTube or Vimeo don’t load anything from those sites until you press play. Then the player loads from youtube-nocookie.com, or from Vimeo with its do-not-track setting, and that site’s own privacy policy applies.

Server and network logs

Cloudflare sits in front of our web server. Every visit passes through Cloudflare, which handles your IP address and basic details of each request in order to deliver the page and protect the site from attacks. Cloudflare’s privacy policy applies to that.

Our own web server keeps no log of ordinary visits. It does keep an error log for when something goes wrong, and an entry there can include the IP address and the page involved. We use it only to find and fix problems. Our hosting provider stores the site and these logs for us.

Amazon and other sites

The books are sold on Amazon. When you follow a buy link, you leave this site, and Amazon’s own privacy notice covers what you do there. We don’t see your order, your address or your payment details.

The same goes for the other sites we link to, such as Dr. Arori’s practice listing on Psychology Today, the share buttons for WhatsApp, Facebook and X, and the Google Calendar and Google Maps links for events. Each has its own privacy policy, and nothing is sent to them unless you click.

Please keep health details out

This website is not part of Dr. Arori’s clinical practice. Please don’t use the inquiry form or email to ask medical questions or to send health information about yourself or anyone else, such as symptoms, diagnoses, medications or test results. The site isn’t set up to receive protected health information, and messages sent here are not read as part of anyone’s care.

Writing to us does not make you a patient or create a clinician-patient relationship. If you would like an appointment, contact Dr. Arori’s practice, LifeSupport Skills Mental Health Group, directly.

If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline). In an emergency, call 911.

How we use and share information

We use what you send us only to reply to you, to arrange what you asked about (a talk, bulk copies, an interview), and to keep the site working and safe.

We don’t sell your personal information, and we don’t share it for targeted advertising. We share it only with the services that run the site for us (our hosting provider, Cloudflare and our email provider), or when the law requires it.

Your choices and rights

You can change what the site keeps on your device at any time in Privacy settings, or by clearing this site’s data in your browser.

Depending on where you live, privacy laws in your state may give you the right to ask what personal information we have about you, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted. We’re happy to do this for anyone who asks, wherever you live. Email hello@chrisarori.com and tell us what you would like. We may need to confirm it’s really you, usually by replying to the email address you used before. We won’t treat you any differently for asking.

Children

This site is meant for adults. It isn’t directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. If you think a child has sent us information, let us know and we will delete it.

Changes to this page

If we change how the site handles information, we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change affects what is kept on your device, the site will ask for your choice again.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request about your information? Email hello@chrisarori.com, or send an inquiry and choose “Something else.”