Cope Care Deal: Disclaimer

Look here for tips for coping with everyday stress - and bigger problems, too.

Visit this area to learn about warning signs that a teen may need help and to locate mental health resources for yourself or a friend in need.

This area of the site contains important information about depression, schizophrenia, and other illnesses that can affect teens.

Disclaimer
The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative is a project of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. As part of the initiative, the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands has created CopeCareDeal.org as a resource for teens to learn about mental health disorders and ways to care, cope and deal with mental health issues for themselves and others. CopeCareDeal is administered with the assistance of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The information provided is informational only. It does not replace medical consultation or advice from a health professional.

If you, or someone you know, is contemplating suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) for a local crisis center.

CopeCareDeal.org has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the CopeCareDeal.org Web site (the "Site").

Personal Information
We will only release personally identifiable information that we have collected from you if necessary to comply with valid legal processes, such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or in emergency cases where such disclosure is reasonably required to protect against a physical threat of harm to you or others. We will never use or sell personal information we collect about you for any commercial purposes.

IP Addresses and Cookie Technology
We use your IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information. On certain Web pages, we may use a certain type of "cookie," - known as a "session" cookie - to help you use our Web site interactively. Cookies are data a Web site can send to your browser. Session cookies are kept in your browser's memory and are removed after your browser session is over. We may use session cookies to improve your interaction with selected pages on the site. We do not use session cookies to track or personally identify users. Further, we do not make use of "persistent" cookies - another type of cookie that, when used, are stored on your hard drive and can be used to track Web users over time and across Web sites. Cookies will not be used or sold for commercial purposes.

To protect your privacy, be sure to close your browser completely after you have finished visiting a Web site that uses cookies. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to identify and/or reject cookies. These setting are usually located under "Tools" on your browser toolbar.

Information You Submit
The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site. If you want to send an E-card, submit a personal story, or post a suggestion, you will be asked to enter either your name or a nickname or initials, and your e-mail address. You will never have to give your full name, home address, or other personal information on these pages.

This information will be delivered directly to the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands solely for purposes of the Web site development, so that you may receive a confirmation e-mail follow-up, or so that the information that you submitted may be reviewed prior to posting on the site. We do not collect or share these e-mail addresses.

Links
The Site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

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

If users have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can e-mail us webmaster@copecaredeal.org.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy prospectively, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

If you, or someone you know, is contemplating suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) for a local crisis center.