We take your privacy very seriously. In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and the online privacy guidelines of CT Turning To Youth and Families, we do not sell, share or rent any personally identifying information about you.
We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13, to remain consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998.
The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting this site. If you want to post comments, send messages, chat or blog you will be asked to register for the site.
If you choose to submit a request to the "Contact Us" submission page, we will request your e-mail address only for the purpose of responding. We do not store or share these e-mail addresses and it is not required that an email address be entered here.
CTYF has no intention of suppressing our bloggers, but until there is better guidance on these murky privacy and legal matters we reserve the right to review all entries and not post every blog/forum entries or comments submitted if they are viewed as disrespectful, threatening, abusive, unsafe or inconsistent with recovery core values.
Please note, none of the information we require through the registration process is personally identifiable information.
Submissions to ctyouthandfamilies.org that incorporate any personally identifiable information will be immediately removed from consideration for online posting.
Any company that helps us to run this Web site has signed an agreement indicating that they will only use the anonymous information collected in aggregate for the purposes for which they were hired.
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Web site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visits to our site and the content accessed most frequently on the Web site.
On certain Web pages, we may use a certain type of "cookie" - what is known as a "session" cookie - to help you use our Web site interactively. Cookies are data a Web site can send to your browser. Session cookies (also known as session variables) are kept in your browser's memory and are purged after your browser session is over. Session cookies are used to keep track of passwords, preferences, orders, and various other aspects of a user's "session" within a Web site. We may use session cookies to improve your interaction with selected pages on the site. We do not use session cookies to track or personally identify users. Further, we do not make use of "persistent cookies" - another type of cookie that, when used, are stored on your hard drive and can be used to track Web users over time and across Web sites.
Pursuant to Connecticut Public Act 08-167, “An Act Concerning Confidentiality of Social Security Numbers”, CTYF hereby advises you of its policy about safeguarding personal information.
As defined in the Act, "personal information" means information capable of being associated with a particular individual through one or more identifiers, including, but not limited to, a Social Security number, a driver's license number, a state identification card number, an account number, a credit or debit card number, a passport number, an alien registration number or a health insurance identification number, and does not include publicly available information that is lawfully made available to the general public from federal, state or local government records or widely distributed media.
The Act states that personal information that CTYF acquires from you must be safeguarded against misuse by third parties and that CTYF "shall destroy, erase or make unreadable such data, computer files and documents prior to disposal."
Personal information with regard to you that is collected on this Web Site is maintained by the CTYF finance staff. It is CTYF’s policy to restrict access to such files to only finance personnel, management personnel and company legal counsel all with a need to know, and to destroy personal information upon disposal of the files. It is also the policy of the company to (i) protect the confidentiality of Social Security numbers, (ii) prohibit unlawful disclosure of Social Security numbers, and (iii) limit access to Social Security numbers.
To protect your privacy, be sure to close your browser completely after you have finished conducting business with a Web site that uses cookies. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and/or reject cookies. These settings are usually located under "Tools" on your browser toolbar.
If you wish to remove your online submission from our Web site, you can use our on-line contact form, or email us at info@ctyouthandfamilies.org. Be sure to clearly indicate your screen name, and a brief description of your submission. We will retain your e-mail address and any other information you provide only until we've removed your submission. If we have questions about your correspondence to your "remove submissions" request, we may write back to you one time for further clarification.
You should be aware that ctyouthandfamilies.org links to other Web sites that are beyond our control. All external websites linked to from these pages have been carefully selected and provide education-related resources we consider useful and relevant. However, we do not take responsibility for the content of these sites or of further sites that they may link into. Some sites may contain advertising and the inclusion of any company's name within the pages should not be construed as a recommendation by us of that company's products and/or services. These other sites may collect data or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you end up on the Web.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy or are interested in sending us your suggestions, comments or concerns, please contact us at info@ctyouthandfamilies.org.
We respect your privacy and we will ensure that information you provide to us will remain protected.
This privacy policy also pertains to the following URLS that are directed to the ctyouthandfamilies.org server: ctyf.org, ctyouthandfamilies.com, ctyaf.org, ctyaf.com, ctturningtoyouthandfamilies.org, ctturningtoyouthandfamilies.com.
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