Privacy

"Consistent with our desire for personal contact with birth mothers, birth fathers, and adopting persons, and at the same time protecting everyone's identity and assuring the highest level of confidentiality, Adoption Services does not use cookies or any other electronic means to gather information about visitors to this site. Contact and other types of information will be held in the strictest level of confidence ."

Adoption Services, Inc values the privacy of our visitors/customers and takes every known precaution to safe guard the information we collect from unauthorized use.  The following is a detailed explanation of the privacy policy for “AdoptionServices.org”.  Please note that this policy does not apply to those third-party sites that you may visit by selecting a hypertext link on one of our pages.  You will need to consult those web sites’ privacy policies in order to determine how your privacy is protected.   

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Adoption Services does not collect any information on visitors to the site, with the exception of contact information if you call, email or fax us.

Adoption Services does not use cookies or any type of tracking software that could invade your privacy.  

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13, COPPA COMPLIANCE

AdoptionServices.org is a general audience web site intended to be used by people of all ages.  This section gives specific details regarding information collected from children.  Personal information is defined under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 as 1) a first and last name; 2) a home or other physical address including street name and name of a city or town; 3) an e-mail address; 4) a telephone number; 5) a Social Security number; 6) any other identifier that the FTC determines permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual; or 7) information concerning the child or the parents of that child that the web site collects online from the child and combines with an identifier.  When a child registers for any of our child services we collect the following information:  (We do not collect information from children) 

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION PROTECTED?

We use no software or cookies to gather your information. You are not required to register or use any types of passwords on our websites.  Our employee's have signed a confidentiality agreement with regards to any information you give us via email, fax or phone.    

WHO HAS ACCESS TO MY INFORMATION?

We do gather any information from you via the website.  The only time someone (an employee) would have your information is if you communitcate it directly to them via email, fax or phone and there is no requirement for you to do so as a visitor to this site.

CAN I CORRECT OR REMOVE INFORMATION FROM YOUR SITE?

No information about you will be stored on this site.

CAN I OPT OUT OF HAVING CERTAIN INFORMATION COLLECTED?

No information about you will be collect by this website.
 
NOTICE OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time.  However, if any changes do occur, we will publish the changes to our web site and post a notice on the home page that a new privacy policy has been implemented.