Support Groups and Telephone Support

Families United for Children's Mental Health employees or volunteers typically document the name, address, telephone number and ethnicity of support group attendees or callers.  Information such as race and number of attendees or callers is used to satisfy reporting requirements established by public and private funders as well as various government agencies.  When callers and attendees supply information about themselves for a specific purpose, Families United Children's Mental Health uses the information for that purpose (such as to provide the information the caller/attendee has requested or to consider a person for a particular job). When you request services, or request information about services, we may use the individual information to evaluate service needs and contact you regarding additional services you may find useful. We will not disclose the individual information provided to us to anyone outside of Families United for Children's Mental Health unless you specifically authorize it, law requires it, or disclosure is necessary to protect the safety of individuals, employees or property.

If you provide individual information to us in the context of an event Families United for Children's Mental Health sponsors with another organization, such as an education forum, you may also be providing the information to the co-organizer. In those circumstances, the co-organizer's privacy policy will also apply, so review their information carefully.

Website Usage

The personal information Families United for Children's Mental Health obtains about individuals is information the individuals supply voluntarily. This means that you can visit our website without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. To gauge the effectiveness of our websites, we do collect some generic information about our visitors. Our web servers automatically recognizes a visitor's domain name (such as .com, .edu, etc.), identifies the visitor's operating system and browser, internet protocol (ip) address, the webpage from which a visitor enters our site, which pages a visitor visits on our site, and how much time a visitor spends on each page.  We do not track user activity on sites outside of Families United for Children's Mental Health. We aggregate this information and use it to evaluate and improve our website.

If an individual wishes to provide it, Families United for Children's Mental Health may collect personally identifiable information (such as name, email address, postal address, and telephone number) through this website. You may choose to provide individual information to Families United for Children's Mental Health in a number of ways through our website such as by:

Requesting services from us;

Completing a survey;

Sending us e-mail;

Registering to receive our newsletter or information about our services; and

Applying for a job.

When visitors supply information about themselves for a specific purpose, Families United Children's Mental Health uses the information for that purpose (such as to provide the information the visitor has requested or to consider a visitor for a particular job). When visitors use our websites to request services, or to request information about them, we may use the individual information as we would use the same information obtained off-line - for example, to evaluate your service needs and contact you regarding additional services you may find useful. You have the right to choose not to receive this information by notifying us of your preference.

We will not disclose the individual information provided to us on-line to anyone outside of Families United for Children's Mental Health unless you specifically authorize it, it is required by law, or disclosure is necessary to protect the safety of individuals, employees or property. If you provide individual information to us in the context of an event Families United for Children's Mental Health sponsors with another organization, such as an education forum, or if you register on a co-organization site, you may also be providing the information to the co-organizer. In those circumstances, the co-organizer's privacy policy will also apply, so review their information carefully.

Links to Other Websites

The Families United for Children's Mental Health website contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites.

Email

Families United for Children's Mental Health does not send unsolicited "junk" email (spam). We may use email to communicate with our families, to respond to emails, to confirm orders placed online, and to send requested information. If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can simply reply and ask not to receive future emails.

Security

Families United for Children's Mental Health uses hardware and software firewall tools as well as antivirus software to secure sensitive electronic data collected by its employees and volunteers. 

Families United for Children's Mental Health is committed to safeguarding privacy.  We require our employees and volunteers to protect the privacy and information about our families and expect our partners to do so as well. You can feel confident that your individual information will be protected when you access our website, email us, attend our support groups or use our services. We employ physical security measures to safeguard your information and communications with us.

Compliance With Laws

Though we make every effort to preserve the privacy of the individuals we serve, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, mandatory reporting law, a court order, or legal process served on us.

Updating Your Information

Users may update information they have provided to Families United for Children's Mental Health by visiting our website, email, telephone or mail. 

Contacting Us

For inquiries regarding our privacy statement, contacts us at email@familiesunited.org.

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Families United for Children's Mental Health

A Federation of Families Chapter in Connecticut

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