THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION
OF
OUR CONCERN FOR PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS
UNDER STATE PRIVACY LAWS.

We collect personal information about you and all our
clients from the information you submit on our applications or other
forms, and through information, we obtain over the course of your
business relationship with our affiliates, others, and us.
As a
rule, we will not disclose any personal information about our clients
or former clients to anyone, consistent with our professional
confidentiality obligations. However, upon your request, we will
disclose information about you, and we may be required by law to
disclose personal information about you, as, for example, in response to
a subpoena or other court order.
We follow State regulations
regarding the confidentiality of information. The use or disclosure of
information pertaining to the child or the child's family shall be
restricted to purposes directly related to the administration of the
subsidized child care services. Data collection and dissemination of
information shall be handled in such a manner as to ensure
confidentiality of the names and addresses of all individuals. We abide
by there guidelines whenever we share information necessary for the
administration of the subsidized child care services with the Department
of Education, participating child development agencies, the county
welfare department, and participating Head Start providers, local child
care planning councils, and any other participating agency in the
county.
We employ precautions to maintain the security of our
data transmitted via computer. We provide access to your personal
information only to those employees who need to know the information to
provide you with services. We maintain physical, electronic and
procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. We have been
and continue to be bound by professional standards of confidentiality
that are even more stringent than those required by law.
We pledge equal access to services and
employment regardless of race, sex, color, ancestry, religion, gender,
national origin, disability, or sexual orientation. Please call us if
you would like to review this or any other matter in detail.