Copyright and Website Use
Hello!This notice explains the permitted use of my website and of material that I write, create, publish or make available through my practice.
It applies to:
Website visitors.
Prospective, current and former clients.
People reading my blog.
People viewing or listening to my videos, talks or presentations.
People receiving handouts, worksheets or other materials from me.
Anyone seeking to reproduce, adapt, distribute, analyse or use my material.
COPYRIGHT AND WEBSITE USE NOTICE
Version: 001
Effective from: 20th july 2026
Last reviewed: 20th July 2026
ABOUT THIS NOTICE
This notice explains the permitted use of my website and of material that I write, create, publish or make available through my practice.
It applies to:
Website visitors.
Prospective, current and former clients.
People reading my blog.
People viewing or listening to my videos, talks or presentations.
People receiving handouts, worksheets or other materials from me.
Anyone seeking to reproduce, adapt, distribute, analyse or use my material.
This notice should be read alongside my Terms of Service and Privacy Notice.
WEBSITE OWNER AND CONTACT
This website is operated by:
Vauna Beauvais
Trading as: Counselling Therapy Online
Business status: Sole trader
Website: https://www.counsellingtherapyonline.com/
Email: vauna@protonmail.com
Postal address: 1, Crown Barns, West St, Luton, LU2 8EG
COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP
Unless otherwise stated, copyright and other intellectual-property rights in original material created by me belong to me.
This may include:
Website text.
Photographs of me
Blog articles.
Essays and other written commentary.
Comic strips.
Comic characters.
Original created images, illustrations, and diagrams.
Videos.
Audio material.
Conference presentations.
Presentation slides.
Teaching and training materials.
Handouts.
Worksheets.
E-Books
Written Materials, Such as Personal Guides and Priles, Journals, and Learning Logs
Exercises.
Models and explanatory frameworks.
Downloadable resources.
Original photographs and graphics.
Branding and visual materials.
Material supplied during psychotherapy, counselling, coaching, training or workshops.
Copyright protection does not depend upon the presence of a copyright symbol.
Where a work was created jointly, commissioned, licensed, recorded or published by another person or organisation, ownership may be shared or may belong partly or wholly to that other party.
I claim only the rights that legally belong to me.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Unless another notice applies, original material may be marked:
© Vauna Beauvais [ RELEVANT YEAR OR YEAR RANGE]. All rights reserved.
The absence of a visible copyright notice does not mean that material is free to copy, reproduce or reuse.
THIRD-PARTY MATERIAL
Some material on this website or in my publications may belong to another person or organisation.
This may include:
Stock photographs.
Fonts.
Embedded videos.
Quotations.
Research figures.
Book covers.
Logos.
Conference recordings.
Interview or podcast recordings.
Material created by event organisers.
Platform-owned design elements.
Material used under licence or a statutory copyright exception.
Rights in third-party material remain with the relevant copyright owner.
My inclusion of material on the website does not give another person permission to copy or reuse that material.
CONFERENCE TALKS, INTERVIEWS AND RECORDINGS
I may appear in conference recordings, webinars, interviews, podcasts, panel discussions or videos hosted by another organisation or platform.
In those circumstances:
I may own copyright in my original words, slides, drawings or underlying presentation materials.
An organiser, producer, interviewer or platform may own copyright or other rights in the recording or production.
Other contributors may own rights in their own contributions.
No person should assume that I can grant permission to reproduce an entire third-party recording.
Permission may need to be obtained from every relevant rights holder.
PERMITTED PERSONAL USE
You may ordinarily:
Read or view publicly available website content for your own personal use.
Download a resource where a download facility is expressly provided.
Print a reasonable number of copies for your own private and non-commercial use.
Save a link to a public page.
Share a link to the original publicly available webpage.
Quote a limited extract where permitted by law, with fair and accurate attribution.
Use material in another way where I have given clear written permission.
Permission for personal use does not transfer copyright or ownership.
PROHIBITED USE
Unless permitted by law or authorised by me in writing, you must not:
Copy substantial parts of the website.
Republish a blog article or other complete work.
Reproduce a comic strip, character, illustration or diagram.
Upload my material to another website, platform, database or shared drive.
Sell, license or commercially exploit my material.
Adapt, translate or create derivative material.
Remove my name, copyright notice, watermark or attribution.
Present my work as your own.
Use my material in paid teaching, supervision, consultancy, training or workshops.
Include my material in a course, membership product, publication or commercial resource.
Record or redistribute videos or talks.
Create transcripts of protected recordings for publication or distribution.
Use automated tools to scrape or systematically extract website material.
Build a competing resource, database, course or service from my content.
Use my material to impersonate me or misrepresent my views.
Edit my material in a way that falsely changes its meaning or context.
Use any material for an unlawful, defamatory, harassing, discriminatory or deceptive purpose.
ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE-LEARNING USE
Except where required or permitted by law, my material must not be systematically copied, scraped, uploaded or supplied for:
Training an artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model.
Fine-tuning a model.
Building a commercial dataset.
Creating a synthetic version of my voice, image, style or identity.
Generating content represented as having been written or endorsed by me.
Automated profiling or analysis intended to reproduce or commercially exploit my work.
This section does not prohibit ordinary use of accessibility tools that process material transiently for a person’s private access, provided that the material is not retained, redistributed or used to train a model.
ACCESSIBILITY COPIES
A disabled person may request an accessible version of material where a different format would address an access barrier.
Providing an accessible version does not transfer copyright or permit wider reproduction or distribution.
An accessibility copy may be used for the purpose for which it was supplied.
Requests may be sent to:
MATERIAL SUPPLIED TO CLIENTS
Worksheets, handouts, diagrams, exercises and other materials supplied during psychotherapy, counselling or coaching are ordinarily provided for the client’s private and non-commercial use.
Unless expressly agreed otherwise, clients must not:
Share them publicly.
Upload them to social media.
Distribute them to groups or organisations.
Use them to provide services to another person.
Teach from them.
Sell or license them.
Adapt and republish them.
Use them as part of commercial training or consultancy.
A client may discuss a resource privately with another relevant professional where this is reasonably connected with their own care or support, provided that unnecessary wider distribution does not occur.
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL MATERIALS
Different permissions may apply to material provided during a paid training course, workshop or professional event.
Any licence or permitted use will be stated in the applicable course information, booking terms or material itself.
Participation in a course does not automatically permit a participant to:
Deliver the same course or program.
Copy the course, program or process materials.
Record the event.
Train other people using my materials.
Create commercial derivative products.
Redistribute participant-only resources.
NO RECORDING OR TRANSCRIPTION OF PRIVATE SERVICES
Psychotherapy, counselling, coaching and discovery calls must not be recorded, photographed, screenshotted, screen-recorded, transcribed or captured through artificial-intelligence tools.
The complete prohibition is set out in my Terms of Service and Accessibility and Reasonable Adjustments Statement.
Nothing on this page creates an exception to that prohibition.
PUBLIC CONTENT IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL SERVICE
My website, blog, comics, videos, public talks and other broadcast material are provided for general educational, reflective or informational purposes.
They are not:
Individual psychotherapy.
Individual counselling.
Individual coaching.
Diagnostic assessment.
Medical advice.
Legal advice.
Crisis support.
Reading, watching, hearing, downloading or responding to public material does not create a therapist–client, counsellor–client or coach–client relationship.
Public material cannot take account of an individual person’s history, circumstances, risk, health or support needs.
ACCURACY AND UPDATES
I aim to present information with reasonable care.
However:
Public material may express an interpretation, professional perspective or opinion.
Knowledge, terminology, law, professional guidance and research can change.
Older content may not reflect my most recent language or thinking.
External links and resources may change without my knowledge.
Website content should not be assumed to remain current indefinitely.
I may correct, update, replace, archive or remove material without prior notice.
EXTERNAL LINKS
The website may contain links to third-party websites, publications, videos, organisations, services or resources.
External links are provided for information or convenience.
I do not control:
Third-party content.
Availability.
Accuracy.
Accessibility.
Security.
Privacy practices.
Commercial conduct.
The continued suitability of an external resource.
A link does not necessarily constitute endorsement.
Visitors should assess third-party material and services for themselves.
LINKING TO MY WEBSITE
You may ordinarily link to a publicly available page on my website provided that the link:
Is fair and lawful.
Does not imply an endorsement or professional relationship that does not exist.
Does not misrepresent the content.
Does not frame or display the page misleadingly.
Does not associate my work with unlawful, defamatory or deceptive content.
I may ask for a link to be removed where it misrepresents me, my practice or my work.
USER-SUBMITTED MATERIAL
Where the website permits a person to submit a message, comment or other material, that person must not submit content that:
Infringes another person’s copyright or privacy.
Is unlawful, threatening or defamatory.
Contains malicious software.
Impersonates another person.
Includes confidential information they are not authorised to disclose.
Contains unnecessary highly sensitive clinical information in a public or insecure location.
Submitting material does not transfer ownership to me unless this is expressly agreed.
I may remove material where reasonably necessary for privacy, safety, legality or website administration.
REQUESTING PERMISSION
Requests to reproduce or license material should be sent to:
Please include:
The material you wish to use.
The precise extract or image.
The proposed purpose.
Where it will appear.
Whether access will be free or paid.
The number of copies or anticipated audience.
The duration and territories involved.
Whether the material will be adapted.
Permission is not granted unless I confirm it in writing.
I may charge a licence fee or impose conditions.
REPORTING POSSIBLE INFRINGEMENT
If you believe that material on my website infringes your copyright or another intellectual-property right, please contact:
Please identify:
The protected work.
The material complained about.
The page on which it appears.
The basis of your ownership or authority.
Your requested action.
I will consider the concern and may ask for further information.
MISUSE OF MY MATERIAL
Where I reasonably believe that my material has been used without permission, I may:
Request removal.
Request appropriate attribution.
Issue a cease-and-desist communication.
Contact a platform or hosting provider.
Seek payment of a reasonable licence fee.
Obtain legal advice.
Take other lawful action.
Nothing in this notice prevents reliance on a statutory copyright exception where it genuinely applies.
TRADE MARKS, NAMES AND BRANDING
Names, logos, designs or branding used in connection with my practice may be protected by copyright, trade-mark law, passing-off law or other rights.
You must not use them in a way that:
Suggests affiliation or endorsement.
Creates confusion.
Impersonates my practice.
Misrepresents the source of a service or publication.
WEBSITE AVAILABILITY
I do not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted or free from technical error.
I may suspend or alter the website for:
Maintenance.
Security.
Legal compliance.
Content revision.
Platform changes.
Another reasonable operational purpose.
This does not affect rights relating to services already purchased.
LIABILITY AND STATUTORY RIGHTS
Nothing in this notice excludes or restricts liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Nothing removes statutory consumer rights.
This notice clarifies the permitted use and status of website material; it does not require a person to waive a right provided by law.
GOVERNING LAW
This notice is governed by the law of England and Wales, subject to any mandatory right that applies in another jurisdiction.
CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE
I may update this notice when:
Website content changes.
New material is published.
My services change.
Law or professional guidance changes.
New technologies create additional forms of copying or use.
The current version will display its effective date.
CONTACT
Questions about this notice may be sent to:
Vauna Beauvais
Email: vauna@protonmail.com
Postal address: 1, Crown Barns, West St, Luton. LU2 8EG. England, UK