Last modified March 17, 2010
The Checkpoints Program was developed by Dr. Bruce Simons-Morton of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This website (saferdrivingforteens.org) was created as part of a research study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Injury Prevention as a way to give parents free, online access to the Checkpoints Program.
We believe that your personal information belongs to you. We have included some questions on the Registration page asking for information about you and how you learned about this website. This information is an important part of the research study and will help us evaluate how to make this website available to a wide audience of parents. The information will not be rented or sold to third parties. It will not be used in any way to attempt to sell you goods or services of any kind. It will be kept completely confidential.
Important data for this research study will be collected when you visit the website, including standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your Internet Protocol address, your browser type and capabilities and language, your operating system, the date and time you access the website, and the website from which you linked to our website, as well as your activity on the website. This information will help us improve the quality of the information provided to parents on the website and make access to the website easier. The information will not be rented or sold to third parties. It will not be used in any way to attempt to sell you goods or services of any kind. It will be kept completely confidential.
If you choose to receive email reminders from us to add new Checkpoints to your Parent-Teen Driving Agreement, but later wish to stop receiving such communications, you may do so at any time by simply following the instructions included in the emails.
Username And Password
When you register on the website to receive access to the Interactive Parent-Teen Driving Agreement you will be asked to choose a password for your account, in which case your online account information shall be protected by your password. We recommend that you do not disclose your password to any other person. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account.
Links To Other Sites
The Resources page of this website contains links to the websites of other agencies and organizations that provide information about teen driving. Please be aware that this website is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. If you submit any personal information to another website after clicking on a link from saferdrivingforteens.org, you are not submitting that information to saferdrivingforteens.org and saferdrivingforteens.org has no control over the collection and/or disclosure of that submitted information. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to familiarize themselves with the privacy statements of every website that collects personal information.
Children's Privacy
We do not seek or knowingly collect any personal information about children under 18 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information from a child under the age of 18, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.
Governing Law; Visitors Residing Outside The United States
This Privacy Policy and the privacy practices of saferdrivingforteens.org will be subject exclusively to the laws of the State of Michigan within the United States of America, without regard to its conflict of law principles. We make no representation that this Privacy Policy and such practices comply with the laws of any other country. Visitors who use the website and reside outside the United States do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. If you reside outside of the United States, by using our website, you consent to the transfer and use of your information outside your country. Without limiting the foregoing, by providing any personal information to saferdrivingforteens.org, all website visitors, including, without limitation, website visitors in the member states of the European Union, fully understand and unambiguously consent to this Privacy Policy and to the collection, storage, and processing of such information in the United States of America.
Updates to this Policy
We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post a notice on the website for a reasonable period of time after such changes are made that this Privacy Policy has been updated and we will revise the "Last modified" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any updates. Your continued use of the website following the posting of updates to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those updates.
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