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LDW® Privacy Policy

LDW® is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We maintain this website in order to provide information and resources to parents, researchers, clinicians, and individuals with learning disabilities. The information that we collect about you when you become a member, make a purchase, or register for a conference, is kept strictly confidential. We do not sell or share the data with any other organizations.

Membership
When you become a member of LDW, you are asked to fill out a form that contains your name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card/debit card information. This information is used process your membership, and provides you with your free subscription to our journal Insights on Learning Disabilities: From Prevailing Theory to Validated Practices. Your information may also be used to help LDW develop better content for our websites as well as to help us with advocacy and fundraising. LDW does not share this information with third parties.

LDW® Highlights
LDW's® free email newsletter, LDW® Highlights, is available to anyone who supplies an email address. Email addresses collected for this purpose are not shared with third parties, but may be used to help LDW® develop better content for our websites as well as to help us with advocacy and fundraising.

Online Shopping
Information collected while shopping LDW's® store is used solely to process your order and is not shared with third parties.

Links to Other Sites
The LDW® website contains links to other websites. Clicking on these links may take you off LDW's® website. At some websites linked to our site, you may purchase products and services or register to receive materials. You may be asked to provide information such as your name, address, phone number, email address and credit card/debit card information. Please use caution when providing this information, as LDW® has no control over these third parties' use of any personal information.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies enabled to use the LDW® website. However, some features of our site will not work the way they should if you refuse cookies.

Children's Privacy
Protecting children's privacy is very important to us. LDW's® policy is to not collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If a child provides us with personal information without the consent of a parent or guardian, the parent or guardian should contact us at info@ldworldwide.org to have the information deleted from our files. LDW® will not publish any drawings or writings by children under 18 unless a parent or guardian has signed a release form.

Data Security
LDW's® web server has security measures in place to protect the misuse, loss or alteration of any information in our databases. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.

Your Consent
By providing us with information through becoming a member, making a purchase or donation, emailing us, or subscribing to one of our publications, you consent to the collection and use of the information you provide to us as described above.

Questions About LDW's® Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about LDW's® Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact info@ldworldwide.org.