Privacy Policy

The National Partnership for Child Safety (NPCS) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy statement describes how NPCS collects, utilizes, and protects the information you provide while visiting this website.

This privacy statement is effective December 1, 2022 and may be updated as necessary; therefore, you are encouraged to check this page periodically to confirm any changes and how they may affect you.

Any personal information provided to NPCS will not be disseminated to unaffiliated third parties. Your continued use of our website indicates consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice. The information NPCS collects generally falls into one of two categories:

Automatically Collected Information

When you view pages on the NPCS website, some specific technical information about your visit is automatically collected. This information includes:

  • Device IP address
  • The domain name from which you visit our website
  • Customer-specific information on which pages are visited
  • Aggregate information on the specific pages visited
  • The website or service that referred you
  • The date and time of the website visit
  • The duration of the website visit
  • Browser and device type
  • Screen resolution
  • Your interactions with the web page
  • Aggregate information collected by Google Analytics

Manually Collected Information

In order to follow-up on interest in NPCS or our resources, NPCS may ask you to provide information voluntarily through forms or other manual input. This information allows NPCS to better serve your needs. NPCS uses personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our mission and operations. We may use the personal information you provide to us for the purposes that you designate (for example, to contact you based on your interest in learning more about NPCS or safety science).  The aggregated information collected for our Site analytics allows us to constantly improve the Site and better serve Site visitors. If you wish to stop receiving notices or emails from NPCS, please see “Subscribing and unsubscribing from email lists” below.

You may choose not to provide NPCS with this information. However, not providing the requested information (or subsequently asking that the data be removed) may impact NPCS’s ability to provide the follow-up and/or services for which the information is needed. Providing the requested information indicates your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this privacy statement. Examples of information that NPCS may ask you to provide include:

  • The email addresses of those who communicate with us via email
  • Name
  • Address
  • Telephone number

When you view pages on the NPCS website, the web server and related systems automatically collect certain technical information from your computer and about your connection.  NPCS also collects information using the following methods:

Cookies

A cookie is a file that is written to your computer containing information about your visit, but does not contain personal data. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you may configure your browser not to accept them at all, or to notify and require approval before accepting new cookies. Some web pages may not function properly if the cookies are turned off, or you may have to provide the same information each time you visit those pages.

Third Party Services

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. including Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyze how customers utilize the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google. You can use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics. For more information, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy.

While NPCS takes reasonable security precautions to maintain a website that safeguards your information, electronic communications over the internet, including via a website, by email, or otherwise, are not completely secure and your privacy cannot be guaranteed. NPCS does not guarantee the security of your information, and expressly disclaims any responsibility for any harm, damage or other injury that you may experience or incur by sending information via electronic means.

In addition, we will comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding the privacy and security of visitor information.

For questions about this policy, please contact us.