Council for Exceptional Children is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Council for Exceptional Children site and mobile app and governs data collection and usage. By using the Council for Exceptional Children site and mobile app, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Council for Exceptional Children collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Council for Exceptional Children also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Council for Exceptional Children. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Council for Exceptional Children for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Council for Exceptional Children site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Council for Exceptional Children public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Council for Exceptional Children does not read any of your private online communications.
Council for Exceptional Children encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Council for Exceptional Children so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Council for Exceptional Children is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Council for Exceptional Children and Council for Exceptional Children family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Council for Exceptional Children collects and uses your personal information to operate the Council for Exceptional Children Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Council for Exceptional Children also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Council for Exceptional Children and its affiliates. Council for Exceptional Children may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Council for Exceptional Children does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Council for Exceptional Children may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Council for Exceptional Children may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Council for Exceptional Children, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Council for Exceptional Children does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Council for Exceptional Children keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Council for Exceptional Children, in order to determine what Council for Exceptional Children services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Council for Exceptional Children to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Council for Exceptional Children Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Council for Exceptional Children or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Council for Exceptional Children; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Council for Exceptional Children, or the public.
How do we use the personal data we collect
Member Profile: (headshot) Name and address information is shared with sub-groups within the organization to promote networking between people with similar interests. Individual demographic is not shared outside of the organization. You have the option to remove, update or upload your demographic information and your headshot image. Registration may also be required to participate in message boards, bulletin boards, or chat rooms at our Web site.
Marketing for publication sales and Event registration Name and address information is used to reach out to people who may be interested in our products and services.
Chapters/Units Name and address information is shared with our Chapters as much our content pertains to activity and issues at the state level. State Chapters/Units are independent 501c3 Non-Profit organizations.
Surveys/Polls/Q&A: We may also request demographic information, such as age, gender, title, or interests. Often this additional information is optional or requested anonymously in connection with a survey. And is not shared outside of the organization
Analytics We do not use third-party services for analytics of app usage.
Use of Cookies
The Council for Exceptional Children Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Council for Exceptional Children pages, or register with Council for Exceptional Children site or services, a cookie helps Council for Exceptional Children to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Council for Exceptional Children Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Council for Exceptional Children features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Council for Exceptional Children services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Council for Exceptional Children secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Council for Exceptional Children secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Council for Exceptional Children will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Council for Exceptional Children encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Council for Exceptional Children is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Council for Exceptional Children welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Council for Exceptional Children has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Council for Exceptional Children at service@exceptionalchildren.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.