Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting www.communityoptionsonline.org. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our on-line information practices.

As a general rule, Community Options does not collect personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site.

If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store the following information:

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet.
• The date and time you access our site.
• The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

The above information is used by software programs on our website to create summary statistics which allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, identify what information is of most and least interest, determine technical design specifications, monitor system performance, and help us make our site more useful to visitors.

If you identify yourself by sending an E-mail containing personal information:

You also may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example your mailing address, in an electronic mail message requesting that information be mailed to you. Information collected in this manner is used solely for responding to requests for information.

Interactive Communication
The Community Options site has or will contain threaded discussions, chat rooms, and other communication forums. By participating in any of these, users agree to send and receive messages that are both proper and related to the forum topic. The following actions are prohibited:

Defaming, harassing, threatening or otherwise violating the legal rights of others, including their privacy (see below);

• Misrepresenting one's person, background, or character;
• Posting any defamatory, infringing, obscene, false, or unlawful material;
• Selling, advertising, or exchanging any goods or services unless expressly allowed;
• Posting any copyrighted material owned by a third party.

Also, you agree to use any Community Options forum at your own risk. While championing proper use of such forums, Community Options cannot guarantee that violations of the above code will not occur.

Cookie Use Notice

On a limited number of its web pages, Community Options may employ "cookies" to provide better service to its visitors. Community Options does not use cookies to collect any personally identifying information from users or to track user activities beyond our web site. Community Options does not maintain copies of cookies on our web site after you leave our web site.

Cookies are small pieces of temporary data that are exchanged between a web site and a user's computer which enable a "session", or "dialog", to be established between the two machines. With the session established, the Department is able to tailor its responses (i.e., identify and provide you with the information you want) and help you traverse our web pages in the most efficient and effective manner possible. The session is often broken when Community Options' server does not receive further requests from your computer or you simply exit your browser.

Community Options limits its use of cookies to "session cookies"… types of cookies that are temporarily stored in your computer's memory. Session cookies are normally deleted from a user's computer when the user logs off the computer or the user exits the browser.

With respect to security:

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of personal information that we have collected from you at our site.

We provide protection against unauthorized disclosure of the information you share with us. We limit employee access to our consumer files only to those with a need to know. We also educate these employees about their responsibility to protect your privacy, and we give them clear guidelines for adhering to our policies and standards.

The policies above also apply to information gathered via non-internet sources: postal mail, fax, and telephone.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the addresses and telephone numbers listed below.

Our postal address is:

14 Farber Road
Princeton, NJ 08540

We can be reached via e-mail at webmaster@comop.org

or you can you reach us by:
Telephone at 609.951.9900
Fax: 609.951.9112