Privacy Policy

Who we are

My Child Care Plan is a project of the 501(c)(3) California Child Care Resource & Referral Network and is supported by funding allocated to California Department of Social Services. This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

Topics:

  • What data do we collect?
  • How do we collect your data?
  • How will we use your data?
  • How do we store your data?
  • Marketing
  • What are your data protection rights?
  • What are cookies?
  • How do we use cookies?
  • What types of cookies do we use?
  • How to manage your cookies
  • Privacy policies of other websites
  • Changes to our privacy policy
  • How to contact us
  • How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect?

My Child Care Plan collects the following data:

  • Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, etc.)
  • Child information (Name, date of birth)
  • Location
  • Child care preferences

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide My Child Care Plan with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

  • Register online for an account.
  • Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback via email.
  • Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
  • Search for child care and/or filter results.
  • Update your child care program profile.

Our Company may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

  • Child care resource and referral programs in California
  • California Department of Social Services, Child Care Licensing Division

How will we use your data?

My Child Care Plan collects your data so that we can:

  • Manage your account.
  • Evaluate the user-friendliness and intuitiveness of our site.
  • Analyze the supply and demand for child care in California.

If you agree, My Child Care Plan will share your data with our partner government entities and non-profit organizations so that they may offer you their services.

  • Child care resource and referral agencies in California
  • California Department of Education, Early Learning and Care Division

How do we store your data?

My Child Care Plan securely stores your data at our partner LiquidWeb.com.  Data center facility is secured and monitored at a manned facility 24/7/365. Datacenter is SSAE-16 & HIPAA Compliant, and Safe Harbor Certified.  Servers are stored in a locked cabinet per HIPAA guidelines.  Application is secured by a Web Application Firewall which is monitored 24/7/365, and SSL at 256-bit encryption.

My Child Care Plan will keep your personally identifiable information for the time period in which AJWI is contracted to maintain partner data in the MCCP DB application. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by destroying all records of your information and wiping all servers and backup records of your data.

Marketing

My Child Care Plan would like to send you information about services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner organizations.

  • Child care resource and referral agencies in California
  • California Department of Education, Early Learning and Care Division

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop My Child Care Plan from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of the Our Company Group.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click here.

What are your data protection rights?

My Child Care Plan would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data from My Child Care Plan. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that My Child Care Plan correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request My Child Care Plan to complete information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that My Child Care Plan erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that My Child Care Plan restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to My Child Care Plan’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that My Child Care Plan transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email:

Call us at: 415-494-4665

Or write to us: info@mychildcareplan.org

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies?

Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

  • Keeping you signed in
  • Understanding how you use our website
  • Loading pages faster on repeat visits

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

  • Functionality – My Child Care Plan uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
  • Advertising – My Child Care Plan uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. My Child Care Plan sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites

The My Child Care Plan website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

My Child Care Plan keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on February 22, 2023.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about My Child Care Plan’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: info@mychildcareplan.org

Call us: 415-494-4665

Or write to us at: My Child Care Plan, c/o California Child Care Resource
& Referral Network, 1 Polk Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102