Milestones Behavioral Services 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 Milestones Behavioral Services website and governs data collection and usage. By using Milestones Behavioral Services website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Milestones Behavioral Services collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Milestones Behavioral Services 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 Milestones Behavioral Services. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Milestones Behavioral Services for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of Milestones Behavioral Services website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Milestones Behavioral Services public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Milestones Behavioral Services does not read any of your private online communications.
Milestones Behavioral Services encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Milestones Behavioral Services so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Milestones Behavioral Services is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of Milestones Behavioral Services and Milestones Behavioral Services family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
Milestones Behavioral Services collects and uses your personal information to operate Milestones Behavioral Services website and deliver the services you have requested. Milestones Behavioral Services also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Milestones Behavioral Services and its affiliates. Milestones Behavioral Services may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Milestones Behavioral Services does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Milestones Behavioral Services 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, Milestones Behavioral Services 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 Milestones Behavioral Services and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Milestones Behavioral Services does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Milestones Behavioral Services keeps track of the website and pages our customers visit within Milestones Behavioral Services, in order to determine what Milestones Behavioral Services services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Milestones Behavioral Services to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Milestones Behavioral Services website 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 Milestones Behavioral Services or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Milestones Behavioral Services; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Milestones Behavioral Services, or the public.
Use of Cookies
Milestones Behavioral Services website 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 Milestones Behavioral Services pages, or register with Milestones Behavioral Services site or services, a cookie helps Milestones Behavioral Services 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 Milestones Behavioral Services website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use Milestones Behavioral Services features that you customized.
Milestones Behavioral Services uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information.
Milestones Behavioral Services reserves the right to use Google’s remarketing tools. AdWords Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Google. It connects the activity of www.mbs-inc.org with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie. It enables Milestones Behavioral Services to advertise products and services you may be interested on participating sites as you browse the internet. An appropriate description of how you’re using remarketing or similar audiences to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the Internet. These third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits our website. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies here: http://google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout?hl=en
Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
In addition, as you browse mbs-inc.org, advertising cookies will be placed on your computer so that we can understand what you are interested in. Our display advertising partner, AdRoll, then enables us to present you with retargeting advertising on other sites based on your previous interaction with mbs-inc.org. The techniques our partners employ do not collect personal information such as your name, email address, postal address or telephone number. You can visit this page (http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy) to opt out of AdRoll and their partners’ targeted advertising.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer (version 9) you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block All Cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.
Security of your Personal Information
Milestones Behavioral Services secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Milestones Behavioral Services 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 websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Milestones Behavioral Services will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Milestones Behavioral Services encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Milestones Behavioral Services is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Milestones Behavioral Services welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Milestones Behavioral Services has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Milestones Behavioral Services at [email protected]. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.