First Five Years Fund, in conjunction with the Ounce of Prevention Fund, has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our Web site. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for OurHeadStart.org and its affiliated Action Center.

First Five Years Fund reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our Site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.

Because we want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, this Privacy Policy notifies you of;

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to First Five Years Fund by contacting us.

Our registration forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, email address, format preference (HTML vs. Text), address, interests, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers.

We collect an IP address from all visitors to our Site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Our Site may use cookies to enhance your experience while using our Site. Cookies are pieces of information that some Web sites transfer to the computer that is browsing that Web site and are used for record-keeping purposes at many Web sites. Use of cookies makes Web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords, your personal preferences regarding your use of the particular Web site and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard.

Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view them.

We protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our Site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of the First Five Years Fund and the Ounce of Prevention Fund. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information. If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our Site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. The First Five Years Fund will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Site. First Five Years Fund stores this information for the sole purpose of contacting these individuals with this initial follow-up. Our Site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another Web site for which The First Five Years Fund has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you can contact: First Five Years Fund,33 W. Monroe St. Suite 2400 Chicago, IL 60603, 312.453.1835, info@ffyf.org