The use of Talk About Adoption™’s website (the “website”), and other formed websites created by Talk About Adoption™, is conditioned on the user’s acceptance of this Privacy Policy (“policy”). Your use of this website, and other formed websites created by Talk About Adoption™, constitutes your agreement to this Private Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you are not authorized to use this website. It is Talk About Adoption™’s policy to maintain the privacy of our supporters in the electronic environment and inform you of our practices concerning the collection and use of information. Your trust and confidence is important to us.

The Information We Collect

Visitors to our website are not required to reveal individually identifiable information, such as their name, address, email or telephone number. If you choose to provide Talk About Adoption™ with your personal information (i.e. background checks), you can be assured that it will only be used for the intended purpose or to support your relationship with Talk About Adoption™, and that we will take appropriate steps to protect it. If you do not want your personally-identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like for us to remove it from our records, or would like to have it corrected or updated, please contact us. Reasonable efforts will be made to delete your information.

How We Use the Information

Talk About Adoption™ will never sell, rent, lease or exchange your personal information with any other organization. The identity of all who contact us through our website will be kept confidential. The use of your information is limited to internal purposes of Talk About Adoption™ by authorized individuals and serves to only further the mission of Talk About Adoption™ and no other corporation or organization.

We take technical, administrative, and physical steps to protect against unauthorized access to and disclosure of individually identifiable information. All such information is handled securely and is not disclosed to unauthorized third parties. We only use your information for enabling you to complete a transaction or donation online, emailing you confirmation, announcements, digital files, etc., and/or updating you on upcoming events or immediate needs. Credit card numbers are only used for processing payments of your donation.

Children 

The website is targeted to users who are above the age of 13. Talk About Adoption™ has no intention of collecting any personally-identifiable information (such as name, address, telephone number, or email address) from individuals under thirteen years of age. (In general, any personally-identifiable information collected on our website is collected without any information indicating the age of the person providing the information, except where appropriate, to confirm that the person is of legal age.) If a child under eighteen has provided us with personally-identifiable information, a parent or guardian of that child should contact us if they would like this information deleted from our records.  We will use reasonable efforts to delete the child’s information from our existing files.

No Liability for Acts of Third Parties  

Although Talk About Adoption™ will use reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of any personally identifiable information that you provide, transmissions through the Internet cannot be guaranteed absolutely secure. You agree that Talk About Adoption™ will have no liability for disclosure of any such information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.

Opt-out / Unsubscribe

Users who no longer wish to receive email correspondence may opt-out of it by following the instructions in the email or replying with a message to “unsubscribe.”

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with the law.

Notification of Changes

This Policy may be updated or changed at any time under our discretion. Updates to this Policy are effective when posted. Please check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of any changes to these terms means that you have accepted those changes.

Questions and Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us.