The Cradle is firmly committed to protecting your privacy.

What Every Client Should Know
Regardless of the circumstances that have brought you to our organization, we will endeavor to make your experience with us as positive, satisfying and fulfilling as possible.  We view our relationship with you as a true partnership.  To that end, we want to take this opportunity to tell you what you can expect from the staff of The Cradle and we want to explain what we expect from you. Download "What Every Client Should Know"
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Client Health and Information Privacy Protection Act (HIPPA)
To learn about the steps taken to protect the privacy of our client files and information, download our HIPPA statement.

Disclosure Policy
In order to be transparent with our clients, we agree to disclose information to adoptive parents, birth parents, and adopted adults in the course of providing services. This is reflected in our disclosure policy. Click here to read our disclosure policy.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact us at cradle@cradle.org.

Website Privacy Policy
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site: www.cradle.org.

This site provides forms for you to request information and register for classes. We may use the contact information from the forms to send future correspondence. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings by contacting us at cradle@cradle.org.

This site may conduct online surveys that ask you for contact information (like your email address) and demographic information (like your zip code or age). We use demographic information for marketing planning purposes. We may use contact data from surveys to send you information about our products and services. You may opt-out of receiving future mailings by contacting us at cradle@cradle.org.

Public Forums
This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, blogs, and/or news groups available to you. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The Cradle has designated staffers responsible for the maintenance and protection of demographic and contact information. The information collected is stored on a secure non-public area of the web server while it is being collected, then moved to our internal systems on a regular basis.

Choice/Opt-Out
You always have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving our communications at the point where we request your contact information.

If you wish to remove your contact information from our database and not receive future communications from us, send an email to cradle@cradle.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.