Intended Audience
This website is intended to be used by adults. All visitors are presumed to be adults. The Center on the Developing Child does not knowingly collect personal information from persons under the age of 13.
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Information Gathering
Our web server software generates log files of the IP addresses of computers that access this web site and of what files they access. We also may ask our visitors to provide information about themselves voluntarily on areas of the site that are clearly marked. We may use cookies to maintain a user’s identity between web sessions.
Use of Information
We do not provide any personally identifiable information we gather or develop about our visitors to any third parties for any purpose.
We use your IP address and files you access to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site by identifying (1) which parts of our site are most heavily used, and (2) which portion of our audience comes from within the Harvard network. We also use this information to tailor site content to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual visitors.
Personal information entered by users into the forms provided is used solely so that we may contact you and/or provide you with information related directly to the Center’s mission. This information will never be sold or shared with any third party, except for the sole purpose of fulfilling requests to reprint and ship Council publications, and then only upon the request of the user.
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Security
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Copyright Policy
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Changes to this Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time without advance notice. Any such changes will be posted on this page, including the date of the most recent modification.