Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.dey.org and Defending the Early Years, Inc. (DEY) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Defending the Early Years, Inc. include www.dey.org and DEY. The DEY website is an information, donation, and newsletter subscriptions site. By using the DEY website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, DEY may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

– First and Last Name

– E-mail Address

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when donating or ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information

DEY collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

DEY may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from DEY and its affiliates.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

DEY does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

DEY may share data with trusted partners to help 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 DEY, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

DEY may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 DEY or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of DEY; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of DEY, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

DEY may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within DEY, in order to determine what DEY services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within DEY to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by DEY. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the DEY website.

Use of Cookies

The DEY website may 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 DEY pages, or register with DEY site or services, a cookie helps DEY 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 DEY website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the DEY features that you customized.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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 DEY services or websites you visit.

List of Cookies we collect:

COOKIE TYPE DURATION DESCRIPTION
IDE, .doubleclick.net third-party 390 days
PREF, .youtube.com third-party 243 days
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com third-party 180 days

Security of your Personal Information

DEY secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. DEY uses the following methods for this purpose:

– SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Children Under Thirteen

DEY does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

DEY reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

Defending the Early Years, Inc. welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that DEY has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Co-Directors Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin at geralyn@dey.org and Blakely Bundy at blakely@dey.org

Defending the Early Years, Inc.

35 Eldridge Road, #108,
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.

Effective as of June 1, 2019