CFC Privacy Notice

Last Updated: October 2026

This Privacy Notice describes how Committee for Children (“CFC,” “we,” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you. This Privacy Notice applies to information we collect when you access or use our websites, social media pages, web-based application, or other digital medium owned or operated by CFC, including online products and services that link to this Privacy Notice, such as SecondStep.org (collectively, our “Site”), or when you otherwise interact with us, such as through our customer support channels, social media pages, or attend a webinar co-hosted by CFC. This Privacy Notice does not apply to the Second Step® K-12 digital curriculum platform, including Mind Yeti® sessions, and the related online services, content, and functionality CFC makes available to licensed education customers and their authorized users (the “Services”). CFC’s processing of personal information in connection with the Services is governed by the applicable license agreement or other written agreement between CFC and the education customer, including its data processing terms.

If you interact with our Second Step® digital curriculum learning platform as an authorized user of a licensed education customer (e.g., a district or school), CFC is a service provider to that education customer and our processing of your personal information is subject to the applicable license agreement or other written agreement between CFC and that education customer, including its data processing terms, rather than this Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you are logged in to the Site through an account associated with an education customer, please contact the education customer directly for more information.

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this notice. We may also provide you with additional notice (for example by adding a statement to the Site or sending you a notification), such as in connection with making material changes to this Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

Please be aware that CFC-owned websites may contain links to content hosted on third party sites which may have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party website, you should refer to any posted privacy notice information to determine how your personal information may be collected and used. This Privacy Notice does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our Site or access third-party content imbedded in our Site.

CONTENTS

Collection of Information
Use of Information
Sharing of Information
Advertising and Analytics
Transfer of Information to the United States and Other Countries
Security of Information
Your Choices
Children’s Privacy
Contact Us

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information directly from you when you create an account, fill out a “Contact Us,” “Account Details” or other type of form, submit or post content through our Site, interact with our AI-powered chatbot, make a purchase or a donation, apply for a job, communicate with us via third-party platforms, participate in a promotion, attend a webinar hosted or co-hosted by CFC, request a direct consultation or customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information about you that we collect include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, school affiliation, and any other information you choose to provide. We may also use a third party to assist us with collecting information from you. For example, if you make a purchase or donation, we work with a third-party payment processor to collect and process your payment information.

Information We Collect Automatically

We automatically collect certain information about your interactions with us or our Site through the following ways:

  • Transactional Information: When you make a purchase, we collect information about the transaction, such as purchase details, purchase price, and the date of the transaction.
  • Device and Usage Information: We collect information about how you access our Site, including data about the device and network you use, such as your operating system version, IP address, unique device identifiers, and browser type. We also collect information about your activity on our Site, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our Site.
  • Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We (and those who perform work for us) may use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about your interactions with the Site. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Site and your experience, see which areas and features of our Site are popular, and count visits. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that we use on our Site and in our emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness. Our Site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies that fall into the following categories:
  • Essential: These cookies are essential to support core site functionality, such as providing secure log-in. These cookies cannot be switched off in our systems.
  • Performance & Functionality: These cookies facilitate measurement and analytics for improved browsing experience.
  • Analytics & Customization: These cookies analyze usage for site optimization.
  • Advertising: These cookies help serve advertising content that is relevant to you.

For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see the Your Choices section below.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We obtain information from other sources. For example, we may collect information from data analytics providers, and mailing list providers. This information includes analytics, demographic, and business contact data. In addition, we may collect information from certain co-hosted webinars on a non-CFC platform. Webinar cohosts may provide us with information voluntarily obtained from individuals who participate in the webinar. 

If we are collecting your information as a logged in user of a licensed education customer, we will collect information only as authorized by the applicable agreement with that education customer, including its data processing terms. If we are in possession of any deidentified data, we commit to maintaining and using deidentified data without attempting to reidentify the data.

Information We Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your approximate location based on your IP address. Any information that is collected solely for security, authentication, service operation, or system integrity purposes (including security logging) is not used for advertising, profiling, or analytics purposes.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use the information we collect to deliver the products and services you request, administer your account, and customize your experience with us. We also use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, maintain, improve, and develop new products and services, including to debug and repair errors on our Site;
  • Personalize your experience with us;
  • Send you technical notices, security alerts, support messages and other transactional or administrative messages;
  • Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer support;
  • Communicate with you about products, services, and events offered by CFC and others, process your payments or donations, send you related information such as confirmations and invoices, and provide news and information that we think will interest you (see the Your Choices section below for information about how to opt out of these communications at any time);
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site and products;
  • Personalize the advertisements you see on third-party platforms and websites (for more information, see the Advertising and Analytics section below);
  • Facilitate promotions and process and deliver entries, prizes and awards;
  • Detect, investigate, and help prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and help protect the rights and property of CFC and others;
  • Comply with our legal and financial obligations;
  • Create de-identified, anonymized or aggregated information; and
  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

The personal information we collect is retained as long as is reasonably necessary for our business operations and to comply with applicable law.

SHARING OF INFORMATION 

We share personal information in the following circumstances:

  • We share personal information with vendors that access personal information to perform work for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, operating our e-commerce platforms and websites, shipping and delivery, communications, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, and cybersecurity, as well as marketing and advertising.
  • We share personal information with third parties approved by you, such as social media sites and YouTube.
  • We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
  • We may share personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our Terms, user agreements or policies; if we believe that you have violated the law; or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of CFC, our users, the public, or others.
  • We share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.
  • We may share personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of CFC assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
  • We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.

We also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We do not sell your data in exchange for monetary compensation.

ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS

We engage others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements across the web and in mobile apps. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Site and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by CFC and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Sites and other websites, and better understand your online activity. You can opt-out of our use of your personal information for targeted advertising by rejecting non-essential cookies through our cookie preferences tool.

We also work with third parties to serve ads to you as part of customized campaigns on third-party platforms (such as Facebook). As part of these ad campaigns, we or the third-party platforms may convert information about you, such as your email address and phone number, into a unique value that can be matched with a user account on these platforms to allow us to learn about your interests and serve you advertising that is customized to your interests. Note that the third-party platforms may offer you choices about whether you see these types of customized ads.

Certain third-party content, integrations, or services available through the Site may use cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the third party’s own privacy practices.

TRANSFER TO AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES

CFC is headquartered in the United States and we have operations and vendors in the United States and other countries. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction.

SECURITY OF INFORMATION

We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your information. However, the Internet is not absolutely secure and, thus, we cannot promise guaranteed security. In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you. As applicable, we will comply with notification requirements for a security breach and may also notify you by email.

YOUR CHOICES

Account Information

You may update and correct certain account information at any time by contacting support@secondstep.org. If you wish to deactivate your account, please contact support@secondstep.org, but note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for our legitimate business purposes.

Cookies

You may refuse the use of any of the non-essential cookies CFC uses on our website, and you can update your preferences by clicking the “Cookie Preferences” link in the footer at the bottom of this web page. Strictly necessary cookies will always remain activated since they are essential to the functionality of our website. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Site.

You may also update your browser-specific settings to choose how web browser cookies are managed by your device. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can find information on how to manage cookie settings on certain browsers via the following links:

We do not currently respond to Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control browser settings.

Communications Preferences

You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from CFC by following the instructions in those communications. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

The Site is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 through the Site. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us without your consent, please notify us at privacy@cfchildren.org. If we become aware that information is or has been submitted by or collected from a minor under the age of 13, we will work to promptly delete this information.

CONTACT US 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us:

By email: privacy@cfchildren.org.

By mail: Committee for Children, Attention: Privacy, 1085 Andover Park East, Tukwila, WA 98188