Harbor Regional Center observes all state and federal laws for
the protection of the privacy of our clients and personal client
information. The state law that is most relevant in this regard
is the Lanterman Act. The federal law is the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act, usually known as HIPAA.
At Harbor Regional Center, we understand that privacy is a very
important issue for visitors to the HRC Web site at
www.harborrc.org. This page tells you how we protect the personal
information that you supply voluntarily when you visit this site.
Personal Information Collection and Use
In general, you can visit the Harbor Regional Center Web site
without telling us who you are or revealing any personal
information about yourself.
The choice of whether to and how much personally identifiable
information you provide to Harbor Regional Center is left
completely to you and is voluntary. There are times when we may
need information from you, such as your name, mailing address or
e-mail address. You will be asked to supply that information
voluntarily. Some examples of when we may need information are if
you choose to register for a workshop online, make an online
donation, submit a request to begin an intake application or
request information for becoming a service provider.
Harbor Regional Center uses a secure, encrypted SSL checkout
process verified by an SSL certificate, for personally
identifiable information and credit card data used in submission
of user information through application forms, workshop
registration, e-commerce transactions or charitable donations.
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer, which provides endpoint
authentication and communications privacy over the Internet using
cryptography.
Except when required to do so by law, we do not share any of the
personal information you provide to us with any third party other
than service providers of ours who assist us in providing the
information and/or services you have requested and who need to
know the information in order to verify or fulfill your
transactions with us. They do so in accordance with our agreement
with those service providers, which state that the service
provider agrees to comply with our privacy standards as described
in this privacy policy. We will not sell, rent, lend or give your
personally identifiable information to or share it with any other
company or third party agency, except as permitted or required by
law.
Anonymous Information
This type of information cannot be tied back to a specific
individual user. Like many other Web sites, Harbor Regional
Center receives and collects information about your session when
IP addresses are logged to track a user’s session (the user
remains anonymous). When HRC receives information about your
session, we may use it as part of aggregated statistics for
research or to improve our site. In general, IP addresses (the
Internet address of a computer) are logged to track a user’s
session while the user remains anonymous. This data is analyzed
for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of our
site users are visiting and how long they spend there. This
anonymous information about your session or about you may be
collected using technology such as “cookies” and “Web beacons.”
External Links
This privacy statement applies to all Web pages under our domain
and not to any Web pages not under our domain, regardless of any
hyperlinks from a Web page under our domain to a Web page not
under our domain.
This Web site contains links to other sites. Unless we expressly
state otherwise, Harbor Regional Center makes no representations
whatsoever concerning the content of those sites. The fact that
Harbor Regional Center has provided a link to a site is not an
endorsement, authorization, sponsorship or affiliation with
respect to such site, its owners or its providers. Please be
aware that Harbor Regional Center is not responsible for the
privacy practices of other Web sites. Please check the privacy
statements of these other sites for more information about their
policies on collection and use of personal information.