NC Clearinghouse on Family & Child Well-being

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The NC Clearinghouse on Family and Child Well-being website may provide links to websites for the following:

  • Organizations serving on the Clearinghouse advisory committee
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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the NC Clearinghouse on Family and Child Well-being website and for reviewing our privacy policy.

We collect no information about you when you visit our website, other than information automatically collected and stored (see below), unless you choose to provide that information to us.

Information automatically collected and stored

When you browse through any website, certain personal information about you can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your visit:

  • The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address ( an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web) from which you access our website
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  • The date and time you access our site
  • The pages you visit
  • If you linked to the NC Clearinghouse on Family and Child Well-being website from another website, the address of that website

This information is used only to help us make the site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We never track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Note: From time to time, we may conduct customer satisfaction surveys through our website. Participation in this data collection effort is completely voluntary, and failure to respond will in no way affect the visitor's ability to access information. This information will be used by the NC Clearinghouse on Family and Child Well-being solely for the purpose of improving our website.