THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION
OF OUR CONCERN
FOR PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS
UNDER STATE PRIVACY LAWS.

We
collect personal information about you and all our clients from the
information you submit on our applications or other forms, and through
information, we obtain over the course of your business relationship
with our affiliates, others, and us.
As a rule, we will not
disclose any personal information about our clients or former clients to
anyone, consistent with our professional confidentiality obligations.
However, upon your request, we will disclose information about you, and
we may be required by law to disclose personal information about you,
as, for example, in response to a subpoena or other court order.
We follow State regulations regarding the confidentiality of
information. The use or disclosure of information pertaining to the
child or the child's family shall be restricted to purposes directly
related to the administration of the subsidized child care services.
Data collection and dissemination of information shall be handled in
such a manner as to ensure confidentiality of the names and addresses of
all individuals. We abide by there guidelines whenever we share
information necessary for the administration of the subsidized child
care services with the Department of Education, participating child
development agencies, the county welfare department, and participating
Head Start providers, local child care planning councils, and any other
participating agency in the county.
We employ precautions to maintain the security of
our data transmitted via computer. We provide access to your personal
information only to those employees who need to know the information to
provide you with services. We maintain physical, electronic and
procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. We have been
and continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality
that are even more stringent than those required by law.
We
pledge equal access to services and employment regardless of race, sex,
color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, disability, or
sexual orientation. Please call us if you would like to review this or
any other matter in detail.