Getting Information Acceptable Use Policy

Introduction

Indiana Childcare Association  is committed to providing the best service in the Childcare business. Because we respect your right to privacy, we have developed this Acceptable Use and Privacy Policy to inform you about our privacy practices, and the acceptable use of any data gathered from you.

In keeping with our commitment to your privacy, this statement will inform you of:

• Information we gather from you

• How we use and with whom we share the information we gather

• Your ability to opt-out of future notifications

Overview

Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. We at Indiana Childcare Association are acutely aware of and sensitive to the privacy concerns of our members and other visitors to our web site. Whether you are a member of Indiana Childcare Association  or a visitor to our site, we assure you that we do not collect personal information from you unless you or the state  provides  it to us. If you are enrolling in Indiana Childcare Association membership, you will be asked to provide certain personal information. Please note that we are asking for this information for the limited purpose of creating User Accounts from which we will track data from your use of our web site. You should also be assured that we do not provide or sell information about our members or site visitors to anyone.

This Acceptable Use and Privacy Policy apply to the Indiana Childcare Association web site. Each of our partners and affiliates maintains its own privacy policy that may be viewed on its web site. We strive to provide our members and visitors with the highest level of privacy possible, and therefore require that our members, partners and affiliates offer no less protection than that offered in this Acceptable Use and Privacy Policy.

Please note that our site contains links to other sites. Indiana Childcare Association. is not responsible for the privacy practices, privacy statements, acceptable use policies, or any other content regarding these other sites.

Information We Gather from You

Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health or sex life. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.

There are two ways in which you may explicitly and intentionally provide us with and consent to our collection of certain personal information:

E-Mail Request for Information - We use links throughout our site to provide you with the opportunity to contact us via e-mail to ask questions, request information and materials, or provide comments and suggestions. You may also be offered the opportunity to have one of our representatives contact you personally to provide information about us. To do so, we may request additional personal information from you, such as your name and telephone number, to help us satisfy your request.

Enrollment - If you choose to enroll we will request certain information from you. You may be asked to provide different personal information. We may require your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number, and bank account information.

Statistical Information About Your Visit

When you visit our site, our computers may automatically collect statistics about your visit. This information does not identify you personally, but rather about a visit to our site. We may monitor statistics such as how many people visit our site, the user's IP address, which pages people visit, from which domains our visitors come and which browsers people use. We use these statistics about your visit only to help us improve the performance of our web site.

Use of Cookies

We only use "cookies" as described in this section. A "cookie" is a piece of information that our web site sends to your browser, which then stores this information on your system. Cookies are required to access the Indiana Childcare Association web site, and are used to maintain the login state for a particular user account. When your browser window is closed, however, the cookie is automatically deleted from your system. You should be aware that cookies contain no more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to "invade" your hard drive and return to the sender with personal or other information from your computer.

How We Use and With Whom We Share the Information We Gather

We assure you that the information we gather from you is used only by us as explained below.

Sending You Responses and Updates

We respond to any e-mail questions, request for information, and other inquiries that we receive. We may also retain this correspondence to improve our services, and web site, and for other disclosed purposes. Frequently we retain contact information so that we can send individuals updates or other important information about Indiana Childcare Association  . Occasionally these updates or other important information may be sent out by third parties on our behalf. Please be assured that any third party who contacts you in this capacity has executed a confidentiality agreement with us that contains a provision ensuring the privacy and security of any transferred information and limits the third party's use of the shared information to sending updates or providing services on our behalf.

Surveys

From time-to-time, we may request information from our members via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this web site.

Your Ability to Opt-Out of Further Notifications

From time-to-time, we notify our members of new information, announcements, upgrades and updates. If you would like to opt-out of being notified, please contact us via email or at our mailing address.

Our Security Procedures

 Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any information we receive from you. As with any transmission over the Internet, however, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information. In order to try and minimize this risk, we encrypt all information that you submit and when requesting or viewing reports. This encryption uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.