Privacy Statement

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles does not read any of your private online communications.

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles and ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles collects and uses your personal information to operate the ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles Web site and deliver the services you have requested. ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles and its affiliates. ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles may share data with trusted partners to help us 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 ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles, in order to determine what ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles Web site 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 ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles pages, or register with ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles site or services, a cookie helps ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles 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 ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles features that you customized.

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 ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles is protecting your information.

Contact Information

ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles has not adhered to this Statement, please contact ICJ: Interstate Commission for Juveniles at icjadmin@juvenilecompact.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.