Privacy Policy

This is the official website of the MCHB FASD Project, supported in part by project U1HMCO7657 from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act). This website is maintained by:

Children’s Research Triangle
180 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 700
Chicago, Illinois 60601

We can be reached by e-mail at gchasnoff@cr-triangle.org, or you can reach us by phone at 312.726.4011.

Collection of your Personal Information

Children's Research Triangle takes your online privacy very seriously. You may visit this site anonymously as often as you like without providing any personal information. You can visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about yourself. There are times when we do need information to provide services that you request and this privacy statement explains data collection and use in those situations.

During your visits to our websites, you may request information, contact us, conduct transactions online, or sign up for an event or training. At that time, personal information will be needed in order to respond to your request. Be assured that we maintain electronic security safeguards to help protect personal information about you that we obtain via the Internet.

There is also certain information that Children's Research Triangle collects about your computer hardware and software. This information may include your browser type, IP address, operating system, access times, domain name, and referring website addresses. This information is only used by Children's Research Triangle for general website statistics.

Children's Research Triangle also collects information regarding the pages that guests choose to view within our site. This type of site visitation data is identifiable only through a unique ID number and is never linked to personal information unless the user consents.

We are always trying to enhance the user experience. In order to better serve our online guests, Children's Research Triangle may use software tools such as "cookies" to collect information about guests’ browsing activities.

Use of your Personal Information

Children's Research Triangle and its IT partners collect and use your personal information. These services may include the display of customized content based upon the information Children's Research Triangle has collected. Children's Research Triangle does not use or disclose sensitive personal information without our guest’s consent.

Children's Research Triangle does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. There might be occasions when Children's Research Triangle may contact you on behalf of external business partners regarding particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Children's Research Triangle may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, to protect and defend the rights or property of Children's Research Triangle, or to protect the personal safety of our website guests.

If you send us an e-mail message, we may retain the content of the e-mail, your e-mail address, and our response in order to service your needs.

Children's Online Privacy

The Protection of children on the Internet is important to our organization. For that reason, we do not intentionally collect information on our website from those guests we know are under the age of 13. It is advised that parents be proactive and limit website access to their children by installing special filtering and protective software.

A child can unknowingly visit inappropriate websites and be exposed to unnecessary risks. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects children under the age of 13 from the online collection of personal information. To find out additional information about COPPA, visit the Federal Trade Commission's web site for children's privacy at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html [Link]

Links to Third Party Sites

Our website contains links to sites that are not under our control, even though they may use the Children's Research Triangle name or logo on their site through an agreement with us. In most cases, links to non-Children’s Research Triangle websites are provided solely as resources to information on topics that may be useful to the users of www.childstudy.org and/or www.ntiupstream.com/mchbproject. Because third party web sites have different privacy policies and/or security standards governing their sites, we advise you to review their privacy policies and terms and conditions prior to providing any personal information.

Changes to this Statement

Children's Research Triangle will occasionally update this information. If there are changes to the above statements regarding how Children's Research Triangle will use your personal information, Children's Research Triangle will prominently post these changes prior to implementing them. Thank you for taking the time to visit our site and we encourage you to periodically review our site and this document to see how we are working to protect your information.