Privacy Policy

Effective August 05, 2007

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and most pages in the membership site.

Overall, we take privacy very seriously. We use the information you provide to complete the reports you request. In some cases we use data for research, but never in a form which would identify an individual.

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Developmental Discovery Membership website. On some pages, you can register for features or tools, order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:

Name
Address
Email address
User Name
Password
Phone number
(etc.)

On some pages, you can supply/submit information about a child. For example, you could register for the Developmental Checklist. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected might be:

Parent's Name
Child's Name
Child's Birth Date
Child's Current Diagnosis
Child's Current geographic location
Parents Phone Numbers
Skype contact information
Yahoo Messenger contact information
Child's current state with respect to developmental tasks
Child's current behavior with respect to developmental warning-signs
(etc.)

Email Addresses: We use email addresses of members to answer the email we receive and to send announcements about the membership website to our members. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

Shipping Information: We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order. 

Aggregate Marketing Information: We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may determine that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of people completed a registration form.

Individual Information: We would not disclose anything that could be used to identify individual members or their children to anyone, except to respond to an individual's request for information or for an assessment. We use information provided about individual children (from the Developmental Checklist, for example) only for the composition of the reports we send, as requested by the member.

Research: We may use non-identifying and aggregate information for research purposes, which will be shared with the membership. Except for the reports requested by parents, no information which could identify an individual is every used.

Summary: We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important for us. For that reason no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13. No information about a specific individual child is used or released except for reports requested by that child's parent.

To further protect the information about individual children, information in records about a specific child are maintained in a separate part of our database from the information in records about children's developmental steps, tasks, or  behaviors.

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by using the Account Management feature which is available to our members. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Changes to this Privacy Policy will be announced to the membership by email, by an announcement visible during login, or by both email and written announcement on the login page.

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at [email address].