Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center Web site.

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center and Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center collects and uses your personal information to operate the Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center and its affiliates. Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center, in order to determine what Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center pages, or register with Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center site or services, a cookie helps Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Changes to this Statement

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Walker County Children’s Advocacy Center. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

 

As a concerned citizen, there are multiple ways to anonymously report suspected child abuse. To report suspected child abuse, contact WCCAC or view our resources page for information on local child protective services or law enforcement agencies to share their concerns.