Code of conduct
Professionalism
Compliance with Applicable Law: The tarot professional shall maintain knowledge of and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and regulations, including but not limited to fortune-telling statutes and municipal codes governing the business or practice of tarot services. The tarot professional’s services are designated as entertainment only. The tarot professional does not claim, represent, or purport to possess supernatural abilities, predict future events with certainty, divine fortunes, or ascertain the mental state or cognitive faculties of any person.
Scope of services: The tarot professional shall provide clients with information designed to empower clients to make their own decisions within the framework of their personal beliefs and practices.
Prohibited Claims and Representations: The tarot professional shall not claim the ability to cure ailments, provide financial benefits, or offer legal, medical, or financial advice.
Referrals to qualified professionals: The tarot professional shall exercise reasonable care and professional diligence in serving the client. The tarot professional shall advise the client to seek consultation from appropriately licensed or qualified professionals under the following circumstances:
(a) Legal matters: When any client inquiry relates to, references, or implicates legal matters, whether directly or indirectly, the tarot professional shall advise the client to consult a licensed attorney admitted to practice in the applicable jurisdiction.
(b) Medical matters: When any client inquiry relates to, references, or implicates health or medical matters, whether directly or indirectly, the tarot professional shall advise the client to consult a licensed medical physician.
(c) Mental health matters: When any client inquiry relates to, references, or implicates mental health matters, whether directly or indirectly, the tarot professional shall advise the client to consult a licensed mental health professional.
(d) Financial and real property matters: When any client inquiry relates to, references, or implicates financial matters or real property matters, whether directly or indirectly, the tarot professional shall advise the client to consult a qualified financial advisor, certified financial analyst, or licensed real estate professional, as applicable to the specific inquiry.
Duty to decline services: The tarot professional shall decline to provide further reading services to any client when the tarot professional believes, or has reasonable grounds to believe, that the client is utilizing tarot readings as a substitute for, rather than a supplement to, professional mental health counseling. Upon making such determination, the tarot professional shall advise the client to seek appropriate services from a qualified mental health professional.
Prohibition against misrepresentation: The tarot professional shall not engage in dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in the provision of tarot services. The tarot professional shall not:
(a) Claim or purport to possess definitive or absolute knowledge of future events;
(b) Guarantee any specific outcome, whether positive or negative.
Third party consent requirement: The tarot professional shall not provide reading services concerning inquiries into the personal affairs, business matters, intentions, mental state, or activities of third parties who are not present for and have not consented to the reading. All reading services shall be querent-focused.
Communications
Communication of reading process: The tarot professional shall make reasonable efforts to communicate the reading and interpretive process to the client, including responding to follow-up questions for a reasonable period of time during the reading session.
Required Disclosures: The tarot professional shall make reasonable efforts to disclose to all clients that:
(a) Tarot readings cannot replace the counseling services of a licensed mental health professional; and
(b) The tarot professional cannot guarantee accuracy in the interpretation of any reading.
By booking a reading, you as a client understand in unambiguous terms that such readings are provided for entertainment purposes only. By requesting or receiving reading services, the client acknowledges receipt of this disclosure. See also Article Five: Disclosure Statement.
Record retention: The tarot professional shall have no obligation to retain client reading records. The tarot professional may, in the exercise of professional discretion, elect to retain records or files pertaining to client readings. For information regarding confidentiality protections applicable to retained records, see Article Four: Confidentiality.
Fees
Fee disclosure: The tarot professional shall disclose all service fees prior to the commencement of a reading. The tarot professional shall not increase or modify the stated fee after disclosure unless prior contractual terms expressly permit such modification. The tarot professional shall clearly communicate the fee schedule and payment terms to the client before providing any reading services.
Prohibition against coercive sales practices: The tarot professional shall not pressure, compel, or suggest to clients that additional paid services are necessary following a reading. The tarot professional shall not claim or represent the ability to manipulate the outcome of events through supernatural or occult means.
Confidentiality
Duty of confidentiality: Notwithstanding the absence of a legally recognized evidentiary privilege between the tarot professional and client, the tarot professional shall voluntarily assume and be bound by a duty of confidentiality. The tarot professional shall not disclose personal or private information relating to a client reading except with the informed consent of the client.
Disclosure statement
Limitations of services: Clients shall not rely upon tarot readings to make decisions affecting their legal, financial, or medical condition. Clients whose inquiries involve legal, financial, or medical matters shall seek the advice of appropriately licensed or qualified professionals in those respective fields. Tarot readings cannot replace qualified mental health care services and are intended solely to facilitate client decision-making within the context of the client’s personal circumstances. All tarot reading services are legally designated as being for entertainment purposes only.
Eligibility requirements: Services are provided only to individuals who are of sound mind and eighteen (18) years of age or older. By requesting services, the client represents and warrants that the client meets these eligibility requirements.