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Customizable Resources

Users who want to further Child Care Aware® of America’s (CCAoA) mission (including but not limited to child care resource and referral agencies; Federal, state, and local governments, non-profit organizations, advocates, and child care providers) can download  customizable resources (defined by eBooks, social media cards, videos, or other content items referred to as “Customizable Resources”) throughout the site. Downloading the content allows users to save and customize the materials with your agency’s logo from your own computer. By downloading the materials you are agreeing to the restrictions of CCAoA’s “Guidelines for Use.”

Guidelines for Use

CCAoA has developed a collection of downloadable resources including, but not limited to: social media share kits, eBooks, PDFs, infographics, videos, checklists, and more. Child Care Resource and Referral agencies, as well as Federal, state, and local government agencies providing services to families with young children in accordance to Child Care Aware of America’s mission and vision (“User”) may download Resources and may add the User’s agency logo.

The collection of downloadable Resources (“Works”) are the sole and exclusive property of CCAoA to the fullest extent of the law. CCAoA retains all right, title, and interest in and to such Works. CCAoA grants the User a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, revocable at will, right use the Works for the purpose of non-commercial activities that fulfill CCAoA’s mission and vision. The Works may not be used to promote goods or services for profit. Users must use the Works as provided in full. Examples of improper use include pulling photographs off the web for other purposes, cropping infographics, adding pages to eBook, etc. Furthermore, no derivative works may be created from the Works with the sole exception that the User’s agency logo may be added to the Works.

CCAoA reserves all ownership and other rights in CCAoA’s name, logo, and trademarks (“CCAoA Trademarks”). Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to convey or transfer any ownership rights in CCAoA’s Trademarks to User. CCAoA hereby grants to User, a non-exclusive, non-transferrable, revocable at will, limited license to display and use CCAoA’s Trademarks solely in connection with, and only as it appears in, the downloadable Resources. CCAoA’s Trademarks shall not be altered or changed in any way and shall not be used outside of the Works except under separate license.

Although User may be considered a “messaging partner” of CCAoA with CCAoA’s permission, User and any of its representatives shall at no time represent that that they are an agent, co-venture, employee, representative, or business partner of CCAoA. User agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CCAoA, its officers, directors, employees, contractors, customers and agents from any and all claims, losses, liabilities, damages, expenses and costs including attorney’s fees and court costs, arising out of or resulting from the acts, errors, omissions, breach of representation or misrepresentation made of the User.

By downloading the Works, you (“User”) certify that you understand and agree to the above conditions and restrictions and furthermore you certify that you are want to further CCAOA’s mission (including, but not limited to, child care resource and referral agencies; Federal, state, and local governments, non-profit organizations, advocates, and child care providers).

Privacy Policy

CCAoA has created this policy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. For each visitor to our website, our web server automatically recognizes no information regarding the domain or email address. We collect no information on consumers who browse our website. We do not share information with other organizations for commercial purposes. This site contains links to other sites. CCAoA is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such websites. If you supply us with your postal address online you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address. With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Parents Note

This site does not contain materials that are pornographic, violent or bigoted. We strive to ensure that the sites we link to meet the same standards. However, some of our links will have links to sites related to pregnancy, birth and babies, mature jokes, and medical topics. The adult nature of some of these topics mean that some of the information in the sites may be unsuitable for children. Parents should supervise their children’s Internet use in general and for certain of sites with mature topics.

Non-Discrimination Disclosure

CCAoA delivers all programing without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy (as well as childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity, age, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, union affiliation, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic, in accordance with applicable laws. Concerns may be addressed to our designated civil rights coordinator, Michelle McCready, Deputy Executive Officer, at partnerships@usa.childcareaware.org.

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