The Healthy Children Project (HCP) maintains this website in order
to provide information and resources to women of child bearing age
and their partners, especially adolescents and teens; doctors, nurses
and other health professionals and counselors; public health officials;
children’s environmental health advocates; and interested
consumers in general. The privacy of those who use this website
are of the utmost importance to us. The information we collect about
you when you become a sign up to receive the HCP E-Newsletter, policy
constituent, or to request specific information and feedback, is
used to process your order or request for information and to provide
you with requested services.
REGISTRATION
When you register to receive the HCP E-Newsletter, we ask you to
fill out a form that requests your name, address, telephone number,
and email address. Your name and address information is used solely
to process your order or request for information. By policy of the
Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), the sponsor
of the Healthy Children Project, this information will never be
sold, given, rented or traded to others for purposes other than
those specified on these web pages.
WEB SITE LOG FILES
When you visit the HCP website we automatically log your IP address,
your browser type and your access times. We utilize this information
to conduct site performance evaluations, to see where visitors are
coming from and to keep track of click stream data (the screens
our users visit on our site). This data helps us to determine what
content our visitors find most appealing so that we can maximize
your usage of the site.
USE OF INTERMEDIARIES
HCP may utilize the services of intermediaries such as United Parcel
Service (UPS) FedEx and various mailing houses to process and send
requested materials. To our knowledge, these intermediaries do not
store, retain or use the information in any way.
COMMUNICATION
From time to time we may send out email messages soliciting your
support, prompting a call to action, or alerting you to information
of importance to HCP website visitors. In addition, you may receive
communications from us if you have contacted us for a particular
reason, and to receive the information or service you have requested.
SURVEYS
From time to time, HCP may request your input to evaluate website
features, or policy positions via a survey sent you by email. Your
participation is completely voluntary.
INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN
HCP has no intention of collecting any personal information from
individuals under 18 years of age. If a child provides us with personal
information without the consent of a parent or guardian, the parent
or guardian should contact
us if they would like to have us delete this information from
our files.
EMAIL REQUESTS
Individual requests emailed to HCP are kept strictly confidential.
Personal data such as address, telephone number, address, age and
gender may be collected in order to fulfill a specific request for
information. Records regarding the nature of individual inquiries
used to create aggregate reports. HCP does not distribute your personal
information except in the event a complaint or legal action arises
from any messages posted by you.
PUBLIC FORUMS
The HCP website uses forums for posting essays and responses, questions
and comments, and operates some listserve type functions. Please
remember that any information disclosed in a forum or bulletin board
setting becomes public information and you should exercise care
in deciding to disclose your personal information in these settings.
COOKIES
Cookies are pieces of information that your browser stores on your
computer’s hard drive which identifies you when you enter
a website. The cookie doesn’t actually identify the visitor,
just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless
you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example),
we won’t know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your
computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you supply. A cookie can’t read data off your
hard drive, and our cookie can’t read the cookie files created
by other sites. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your
needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. We can build
a better site if we know which pages our users are visiting and
how often.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You
do not need to have cookies enabled to use the HCP website. However,
some features of our site will not work the way they should if you
refuse cookies.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The HCP website contains links to other websites. Please note that
when you click on one of these links, you may be leaving the HCP
site and entering another website. These sites may independently
collect or request information about you and we encourage you to
read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy
policy may differ from ours.
SECURITY
When making any financial transactions with us online we will secure
your information in transit to us and upon receiving your order
to safeguard your personally identifiable information.
The web server system employs software programs to monitor network
traffic to block unauthorized attempts to upload or change information,
and thwart attempts to identify individual users or their usage
habits other than for the purposes identified in this policy. Intentional
misuse of secure information may result in federal prosecution.
YOUR CONSENT
By becoming a subscriber, donor or constituent of HCP, and /or by
using our website, you consent to the collection and use of the
information you provide to us as described above. If we make any
material changes in our privacy practices or in how we use your
personally identifiable information, we will post a prominent notice
in the LDA bi-monthly publication Newsbriefs and on the HCP website
prior to implementation of the change.
If you prefer not to receive member benefit offers or requests
for donations, please contact HCP:
1-888-300-6710
info@healthychildrenproject.org
Healthy Children Project
4156 Library Road
Pittsburgh PA 15234.
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