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Welcome to Adoption Learning Partners web site, AdoptionLearningPartners.org. We appreciate your visit and interest in this site. This privacy policy, together with our Site Terms of Use (see tabs below), explains how the Adoption Learning Partners web site operates, what types of information may be gathered, and the conditions placed on users and on us. We hope that e you will understand that our terms and policies are meant to ensure that the Site can operate effectively to serve our purpose of providing a site that supports adoptive families by offering convenient, accessible online learning and sharing opportunities.
Adoption Learning Partners is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We gather and use personal information about your Site visits only as disclosed in this Policy.
JUST VISITING
Unless you submit it to us, Adoption Learning Partners does not collect your e-mail address, personal addresses or other types of information that identify visitors personally. When you visit the Site, our web server records some non-personal information about your access to, use of, and exit from the Site. Examples of such information are identification of the type of internet browser used, the name of the internet service provider, the user's "click path," the advertisement or link used to gain access to the Site, and the exit link or path from the Site. These types of non-personal information help us to diagnose problems with our server and to monitor Site traffic to evaluate the features of our Site and the best ways to provide our services. We use "cookies" to collect this aggregate, non-personally identifiable information from visitors to our Site. (Additional information about how cookies work and how to disable them appears below.)
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USING SITE FEATURES / INFORMATION YOU SUBMIT
You must register to use any of the interactive features of this Site. This means that to take a course or participate in the discussion forums, you must register to use the site. The Site also contains links you can click on to send an email message to Adoption Learning Partners. When you use these forms or links, we may need to know your contact information (your name, email address, mailing address, for instance) and details about the information or services you seek. This information allows us to respond to and fulfill your requests for courses or other information. We may also use information from the forms for occasional future contacts, unless you tell us that you do not wish to receive any future messages from us. (See Choice/Opting Out, below.) We also keep your correspondence on file for our records, just as if you sent us a letter. We will not otherwise use or share your contact information, except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
We may occasionally conduct online surveys that ask you for contact information and demographic information. We use demographic information to evaluate our service and to help us better serve our audience. We may use contact data from surveys to send you information about our products and services, unless you tell us that you do not wish to receive any future mailings from us. (See Choice/Opting Out, below.)
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PUBLIC FORUMS / "VISITOR FEATURES'
This Site, AdoptionLearningPartners.org, may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to you. If you choose to participate in any of these options, please remember that any information that you disclose in these areas becomes public information that can never be removed. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information within these features.
LINKS
You may have reached this site via a 'link' (also known as "anchored hypertext reference") from another web site. In this instance, please be aware that Adoption Learning Partners is not responsible and cannot control the privacy practices or the content of any other web site. Further, that organization may independently collect information from you while you are visiting this web site, so we suggest that you review its privacy policy.
This web site also may include links to other web sites. Again, those sites' privacy practices may differ from ours and we strongly suggest that you review each one's. Remember, Adoption Learning Partners is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any such web sites to which this site may refer you.
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HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
Except as described in this Privacy Policy or may be required by law, we do not use or otherwise provide Site visitors' personal information, such as names and addresses, to any other organization for its use, business solicitation or other purpose. Adoption Learning Partners maintains practices and procedures designed to ensure the security, integrity and confidentiality of personal information collected through AdoptionLearningPartners.org. We educate our employees about the importance of safeguarding personal information and preventing unauthorized access, disclosure and use. We limit access to personally identifiable information to employees and contractors performing services for Adoption Learning Partners who need it to carry out their business functions.
CHOICE/OPTING OUT
You always have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving our communications at the point where we request your contact information. Just click on the box before the line for that option.
If you wish to remove your contact information from our database and not receive future communications from us, send an email to webmaster@AdoptionLearningPartners.org with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line and your contact information in the text. If you wish to review or delete personal information you have submitted through our web site (other than within public forums), please contact webmaster@AdoptionLearningPartners.org.
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MORE ABOUT COOKIES
"Cookies" are files that contain small pieces of information that can be stored by your web browser on your computer's hard drive. This Site may store some information on visitors' computers in the form of a cookie or a similar file. These files allow us to gather non-personally identifiable information about a visitor's experience and to recognize your return to our site. They allow us to provide you with a customized experience and to speed your navigation on our web site. Our cookies do not gather any personally identifiable information, such as your name, or sensitive information such as your credit card number.
Most internet browsers allow you to exercise control over cookie files on your computer by erasing them, blocking them, or notifying you whenever such a file is stored on your computer. Look for cookie options in your browser, in the Internet Options or Preferences menu. You may also wish to review your computer or browser manual, or your help screen for details about options and instructions. However, please be aware that if you do elect to disable our cookie, you will not be able to use any of the site features, including viewing any courses.
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CHILDREN
While Adoption Learning Partners is all about children, this web site it not intended for children under the age of 13 and we will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13 years old.
INTERNATIONAL
This Site is operated under the laws of the United States of America, and the state of Illinois. By providing personal information to our Site, all users, fully understand and consent to the collection and processing of such information in the United States of America.
This Privacy Policy applies to our current practices. We may decide to change our policies in the future if we believe that would help us to serve you better. If we decide to change our practices, in the future, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on our web site to explain what information will be gathered and the options you will have to delete your information and opt-out. Please check periodically for changes in our Policy.
This web site is operated by Adoption Learning Partners, a business unit of The Cradle, a private, not-for-profit non-sectarian adoption agency located in Evanston, Illinois.
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