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Our Privacy Policy

Terri's Little Pumpkins II is committed to making the day care facility a professional environment for child care, teaching and learning. In fulfillment of those goals, protecting personal information obtained from parents and children shall remain the highest of priorities for all teachers and administrators associated with Terri's Little Pumpkins II.

Parents and their children or legal charges have a right to expect certain reasonable protective safeguards regarding personal family information as well as confidentiality of individual student records.

The fulfillment of that policy objective shall continue as one of the highest priorities, attendant to the delivery of services to parents and children affiliated with Terri's Little Pumpkins II.

In furtherance of this Prime Directive, Terri's Little Pumpkins II shall stand by, uphold and oversee the following Confidentiality and Privacy Policy Statement;

1. Terri's Little Pumpkins II shall collect only personal information from family and children that is necessary in the conduct of business at the school/daycare center, including medical information as may be required to be kept and maintained for the best interest of any pupil enrolled in the Center, upon the advice and consent of the parent or legal guardian.

2. Terri's Little Pumpkins II shall protect, preserve and maintain any such information collected, with absolute and strict confidentiality, within the confines of the Center and only for the use and distribution among teachers and administrators employed by Terri's Little Pumpkins II and/or in consult with a parent or legal guardian. Each personal file relating to any pupil or family shall be segregated as separate confidential records and all information contained therein shall be subject to strict constraints by all teachers, administrators and directors of Terri's Little Pumpkins II.

3. Parents or legal guardians shall always have access to such information, including medical or educational records in their own family or student files and shall always have the opportunity to review and discuss such information with teachers, administrators and directors and to address any entry therein and render written response thereto, if desirable or appropriate; and such response shall also be maintained as a permanent and confidential record of such file. Any request to review the private file of a pupil by a parent or legal guardian of that student shall be made upon reasonable advance notice to the director of the center.

4. Any internal discussions or conferences relating to students enrolled in the Center including conferences or discussions relating to the contents of any file and information obtained for any student file shall be restricted to conferences by teachers, administrators and director employed by Terri's Little Pumpkins II; and such conferences shall be solely for educational or remedial purposes, in consult with and upon the advice and consent of the parent or legal guardian of such pupil.

5. No discussion, conference or communication regarding a parent or pupil or-the contents of any confidential file or confidential student record, including any information gathered from parents or legal guardians for inclusion into the student's file or student's permanent record shall be discussed, transmitted or disclosed to any third party or any other person or entity that is not employed by Terri's Little Pumpkins II in either the capacity as teacher, administrator or director. This confidentiality preclusion shall also prohibit any communication, discussion or disclosure of the contents of any student file or record or family information with a non-parent or non-legal guardian of said child. All family files, student files or student records shall be and become the sealed privacy of each individual party or family, independent of every and any other enrolled party or family, within the custodial authority of Terri's Little Pumpkins II.

6. No teacher, administrator or director shall discuss any information relating to one enrolled student or family file with the parent or legal guardian of another student or family member enrolled in the Center. Teachers, administrators and directors shall be strictly prohibited from discussing or communicating the confidential contents of one student file or family file with any other person, entity or third party, other than in closed confidential staff or teacher conferences, held at the direction and oversight of an appropriate administrator or director.

7. Any breach, violation or inappropriate infringement upon this privacy principle and confidentiality code by any employee, teacher, administrator or director shall be grounds for immediate censure and termination.

8. No student or family file shall be removed from the Center without the express knowledge and approval of the director, then in charge of the facility and only after obtaining approval in advance from the president of Terri's Little Pumpkins II.