Information about our Organization and Web site
    Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organization like the Vanished Children's Alliance . We are based in USA .
   
    Our principal activities are to:

• Assist law enforcement in the location, recovery, and reunification of missing and abducted children with their legal guardians
• Provide prevention and education to the public on missing and abducted children

VCA Mission Statement

The Vanished Children’s Alliance (VCA), a national nonprofit, is dedicated to protecting all children from disappearing. To ensure children’s safety, VCA educates the public and professionals about the serious issue of abducted and runaway children. VCA works to prevent, locate, and recover child victims, and reunify them with their families, in collaboration with law enforcement, communities and other credible agencies.

Our privacy policy covers Vanished Children's Alliance and its Web site:

Organization Name:	Vanished Children's Alliance
Address:	991 W. Hedding St. - Ste.101
City, Zip:	San Jose , 95126
State:	California
Country:	USA
Controller:	Webmaster
Web Sites(s):	www.vca.org

Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access
    You can access our Web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.

The services and links of our Web site
    Our Web site does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others.
    Our Web site does not include links to third party Web service providers.

Automatic Collection of Information
    We do not use cookies on our Web site.
       We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

Data Collection and Purpose Specification
    We do not collect any personal data from our visitors when they use our services. The only time that data is collected is if a visitor decides to sign into the VCA Guestbook.  The information that is collected there is used only by VCA and is never shared with anyone else.
    We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.

Children's Privacy
    We provide children the same protection that we do adults and that is that their information is never shared with any outside source

Access to the personal data we may hold about you
    Personal data information that is held concerning visitors to our website is not maintained on the web server and is pass-word protected in a stand alone data base.  Only select VCA personnel have access to this information.  The primary use of this information is for mailing of the VCA Newsletter and other VCA  communication with our Guest Book registrants
 

Privacy Compliance
   There are no national laws or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organization.
   There are no global or regional regulatory or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organization.
   We cannot demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the privacy instrument.

Privacy Support
If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact:

	Contact 1	Contact 2
Name/designation :	Bill Hammond	Melissa Scampini
Department :	Assistant Director	Director of Casework
Address :	991 W. Hedding St. - Ste. 101	991 W. Hedding St. - Ste. 101
Phone Number :	408-296-1113	408-296-1113
Fax Number :	408-296-1117	408-296-1117
Email address :	bhammond@vca.org	mscampini@vca.org
URL :	www.vca.org	www.vca.org

We do not recommend another means by which visitors' concerns may be addressed.