Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of digital information that SACCounty Healthy Beginnings gathers on visitors to the website, how t​​hat information is used, as well as some of the steps taken to safeguard the information.

Information Collection

  • SACCounty Healthy Beginnings​​ shall not collect personal information about website visitors unless the visitor chooses to provide ​that information to SACCounty Healthy Beginnings. See Section 2 below for details.

  • SACCounty Healthy Beginnings shall collect limited non-personally identifying information that web browsers make available automatically whenever a visit is made to a website. This information includes the internet address of the computer or network, the date, time, and page visited on the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings site, browser and operating system, and the referring page (the last webpage visited before clicking on a link to the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings site).

  • SACCounty Healthy Beginnings shall use the aggregated information from all of our visitors to measure server performance, analyze user traffic patterns and improve the content of the County site.

  • SACCounty Healthy Beginnings shall track the keywords or search terms that are entered into our search engine to measure interest in specific topics, but shall not track which terms a particular visitor enters.

  • Do Not Track (DNT) is a setting in most major web browsers that tells websites that the visitor does not wish to be tracked. SACCounty Healthy Beginnings shall honor the preference of visitors to not be tracked when a Do Not Track mechanism is in use.

  • Some online SACCounty Healthy Beginnings services and/or trainings require registration. Some personal information is required in order to register for an event, typically name, email address, organization, and job title. ); SACCounty Healthy Beginnings will use that information to provide the service.

  • Some County applications and websites provide geographically relevant information to visitors using the visitor’s geographic coordinates. This location information is only collected with visitor permission. ​

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information​

Personally identifiable information is information about an individual that is readily identifiable to that specific individual. Personally identifiable information includes personal identifiers such as an individual's name, address, and phone number. A domain name or IP address is not considered personally identifiable information. SACCounty Healthy Beginnings strives to collect the minimum information necessary to comply with applicable law or provide the requested service. If a visitor chooses to participate in a survey, send an email, subscribe to an email service, or perform other transactions using the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website, the following additional information may be collected:

  • Email address, and contents of emails sent through the websites - for purposes of SACCounty Healthy Beginnings providing a response​

  • Information volunteered in response to a survey or through online forms - for purposes identified by the survey or online form.

  • Information volunteered by participating in an online transaction with SACCounty Healthy Beginnings - for purposes of completing the transaction only.

​The information collected may not be limited to text characters and may include audio, video, and graphic information formats that a visitor sends to SACCounty Healthy Beginnings. The information is retained in accordance with SACCounty Healthy Beginnings’s policies. SACCounty Healthy Beginnings may use visitor email to respond appropriately. This m​ay be to respond to the visitor, to send subscription based emails, to address issues identified by the visitor, to further improve the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website, or to forward the email to another agency for appropriate action. Survey information would be used for the purpose designated.​

Distribution of Information​​

SACCounty Healthy Beginnings does not sell, rent or otherwise distribute visitor's information, including email addresses, to any outside company or organization without the visitor’s permission, unless legally required to do so. This applies to information that may be collected on the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website and on that of any third party with whom SACCounty Healthy Beginnings contracts to provide internet related services.

Some SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website links connect to third party social media pages. The social media sites may collect personally​ identifiable information. Personally identifiable information collected by third party social media sites is not shared with SACCounty Healthy Beginnings.​

Terms of Use​​

The SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website is operated and maintained by NTI Upstream. Materials and information on the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website are provided as a public service and intended to afford general guidelines on matters of public interest. Accordingly, the information in this site is not intended to serve as legal, accounting or tax advice. Attempts to upload information or change information on the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website are strictly prohibited unless specifically authorized in writing by NTI Upstream.​

Use of Cookies

Cookies are text files created by a web browser and stored on a local system to aid in customizing a visitor’s browsing experience. This website may use cookies. Cookies allow information to change as the visitor navigates through this website. Two types of cookies may be used, "session-only" and "persistent". SACCounty Healthy Beginnings uses cookies in the following ways:

If the visitor wishes to access information, SACCounty Healthy Beginnings may use a session-only cookie to reserve storage on his/her computer in order to pass his/her inquiry information to a follow-on page for the purposes of retrieving requested information. The session-only cookies are erased either during web browser operation or after the web browser is shut down.

If the visitor wishes to conduct on-line transactions, SACCounty Healthy Beginnings may use a session-only cookie when processing that visitor’s request. The type of information voluntarily submitted to fulfill the visitor’s request varies by transaction and may include name, address, phone number, e-mail address, social security or federal identification number, credit card number and expiration date, and/or driver license number. SACCounty Healthy Beginnings cannot control the use of cookies by sites outside its websites. If the visitor chooses to link to a site through the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website, SACCounty Healthy Beginnings cannot control that external site’s use of cookies and this privacy policy will not apply.​​

Health Information

Agencies requesting or providing personally identifiable health care information on the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings websites are required to certify that its health care data handling and security procedures are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). If such data and security services are provided to such agency by a third-party provider, the agency shall be responsible for such third party's compliance with HIPAA.​

External Links

Links to other sites from the SACCounty Healthy Beginnings website are provided at the discretion of SACCounty Healthy Beginnings and are provided as a convenience for visitors of this site. Sites that are linked from SACCounty Healthy Beginnings are reviewed periodically to confirm that the link still furthers SACCounty Healthy Beginnings purposes. SACCounty Healthy Beginnings reserves the right to refuse to post any website link or to delete links already posted at any time without notice. In the event that a visitor discovers problems with or has concerns regarding the format, accuracy, timeliness or completeness of a linked external website, the visitor is encouraged to contact the organization responsible for the linked external website. SACCounty Healthy Beginnings does not control nor is it responsible for any linked external websites, pages or content.

Intellectual Property

The content of SACCounty Healthy Beginnings web pages is copyrighted, and contains some third party images/graphics that are used with permission. Visitors are notified, therefore, that one should presume the need to obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise using images/graphics from this website. SACCounty Healthy Beginnings does not give permission for images to be downloaded or saved for any reason.​


​(Revised - ​​August, 2018)