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Privacy Policy

Read our privacy policy to find out what information we get, and how we protect your privacy.

What a privacy policy is
A privacy policy tells you:

• What information we get from the website.
• How we use that information.
• What we do to protect your privacy

How you should use this privacy policy

• Read this policy.
• Know what happens to the information you give us.
• Read the privacy policies of the websites that we link to. Other websites may have different policies.

How we get information

• Surveys
  • Our surveys may ask you for some information about you. For example, we might ask how many children you have, or how you communicate with your baby.

  How we protect your privacy

  We won't ask you for information like your name or address.

• Polls
  • Our polls may ask you what you think about something. For example, we may ask you how you communicate with your child.

  How we protect your privacy

  We won't ask you for information like your name or address.

• Decision-making tool
  • The decision-making tool is a special program that helps you find pages and links to other information you may want to read.
  • This tool asks you questions about your child
  • The decision-making tool asks you what things are important to you. This helps us guide you to the information you may find most useful.

  How we protect your privacy

  We won't ask you for information like your name or address.

• IP addresses
  • We keep a list of the IP addresses of everyone who visits us. An IP address is a number that describes where your computer is on the Internet.
  • We use the IP address only to keep people from breaking into our website.

  How we protect your privacy

  We won't connect your IP address to your other personal information, like your e-mail address.

• E-mailed questions
  • Sometimes you may e-mail us questions. Some e-mails may have personal information.

  How we protect your privacy

  • We won't tell other people what you say in your e-mails.
  • We won't give your e-mail address to anyone else.
• Message boards
  • Message boards are places on our website where people can write messages to each other.
  • Anyone may write a response to a message he or she sees.
  • Anyone who goes to the message board can read what's written there.
  • Don't put information you don't want everyone to see in your messages
  • Some companies go to message boards and copy all the e-mail addresses there. They may use the addresses to send you e-mails you don't want. We can't stop companies from doing this. But we want you to understand what could happen if you join a message board.

  How we protect your privacy

  • We won't share personal information from the message boards with others unless you give us permission.
  • You don't have to use your name to write a message. You can make up a name, like "supermom."
• "Cookies"
  • Cookies are pieces of information that your computer uses to "talk" with a website.

    How we protect your information

    • Our cookies won't connect your personal information to the information you give in other places, like surveys or polls.
    • We won't keep track of cookies.

What we do with your information

• Make our site better
  • Knowing more about you helps us give you more information you want to see.
• Gather information for research projects on deafness
  • We'll use the information that we get to do other projects.
  • We hope these projects will help parents of deaf children like you.

What else we do to keep your information private

• We only collect information that we need for research projects, and to make this website better.
• We don't share any information with companies or advertisers.
• Only the webmaster can get to the server. The server is the computer that stores all the information about the website.
• We get information on visitors to the site as a group. We don't get information on individual people.
• We won't connect personal information you might give us with information that we get online.
• If we use any of your information in another project, we won't say who you are.

How to contact us if you have questions
We're working hard to protect your privacy. E-mail our webmaster Olivia Thetgyi if you have questions about our privacy policy.

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