Privacy Policy

Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota are 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 Caring Careers Start Here Website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Caring Careers Start Here website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.



Collection of your Personal Information



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota also collect 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 Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Caring Careers Start Here Web site.



Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Caring Careers Start Here public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota do not read any of your private online communications.



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota encourage you to review the privacy statements of Websites you choose to link to from Caring Careers Start Here so that you can understand how those Websites collect, use and share your information. Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Websites outside of the Caring Careers Start Here and Caring Careers Start Here family of Websites.



Use of your Personal Information



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota collects and uses your personal information to operate the Caring Careers Start Here Website and deliver the services you have requested. Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Caring Careers Start Here and its affiliates. Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota do not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota 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, Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota 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 Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota do not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota keeps track of the Websites and pages our customers visit within Caring Careers Start Here, in order to determine what Caring Careers Start Here services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Caring Careers Start Here to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.



Caring Careers Start Here Websites 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 Caring Careers Start Here or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Caring Careers Start Here, or the public.



Use of Cookies



The Caring Careers Start Here 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 Caring Careers Start Here pages, or register with Caring Careers Start Here site or services, a cookie helps Caring Careers Start Here 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 Caring Careers Start Here Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Caring Careers Start Here 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 Caring Careers Start Here services or Web sites you visit.



Security of your Personal Information



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota 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



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota is protecting your information.



Contact Information



Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota have not adhered to this Statement, please contact Care Providers of Minnesota and LeadingAge Minnesota at info@mncarecareers.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.