WE'RE COMMITED TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by OttawaDaycare.com. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. We understand that your privacy is very important to you and your Canadian Daycare and we strive to make your experience online satisfying, private and safe. As part of the registration process, you will be asked to provide personal information to us. It is important that you fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. We will never disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

OttawaDaycare.com gathers two types of information about users:

• Information provided by users through voluntary submissions. These voluntary submissions could be to register for our free directory service, to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to leave a comment or feedback, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys.
• Information gathered through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to our readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free for our loyal users. Under no circumstances does OttawaDaycare.com divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

VOLUNTARY INFORMATION AND USE

OttawaDaycare.com offers the following free services which requires some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users.

OttawaDaycare.com offers a free daycare directory service to our users. This feature helps you advertise your Canadian Daycare and find new clients. Contact information collected during the directory registration process will be used on our website so that our users can get in contact with you. To avoid any unwanted email or phone calls, it is important that you remove yourself from this directory if your daycare operation goes out of business.

We offer a free electronic newsletter to users. OttawaDaycare.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list at any time by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. We occasionally send out special editions of our newsletter when we think subscribers might be interested in a particular offer. OttawaDaycare.com never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

Users may voluntarily use OttawaDaycare.com to leave comments, discuss and item, or get in contact with another user. These services are free of charge but require registration. To minimize the possibility of email harvesting, OttawaDaycare.com uses an advanced encrpytion method to scramble your email address when displayed on our site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address. Users do not need to register or provide any personal information to visit or browse the site.

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking the "e-mail this to a friend" link. The user must provide the email address and names of the recipient and the sender. This information is only used to let the recipient know who sent the email and is not used for any other purpose.

OttawaDaycare.com offers interactive polls to our users so they can easily share their opinions with us. Responses to polls are aggregated and are therefore votes are not identifiable to any particular user.

OttawaDaycare.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. We reserve the right to share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any information about specific individuals with any third party.

WEB SITE INFORMATION COLLECTION POLICIES

General information collection policies.

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

In an effort to constantly improve our service and tailor our information to the needs of our users, OttawaDaycare.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. This information is aggregated and we do not correlate this information with individual users. OttawaDaycare.com collects common and anonymous usage statistics including the user's domain, browser type, query strings, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (public information contained in every user's browser). We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

OttawaDaycare.com uses "cookies" to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided, and to simplify the login procedure. More information on cookies is available here. The cookie itself does not contain personal information. It is not required to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by OttawaDaycare.com. If we ever decide to change our privacy policy, we will immideately post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, and and under what circumstances we disclose it.

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