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Because
child care is critically important to children, parents,
families, caregivers, employers and others, organizations
and individuals that provide child care information
on the Internet have special, strong obligations to
be trustworthy, provide high quality content, protect
users’ privacy, and adhere to standards of best practices
for online commerce and online professional services.
RECOGNIZING
the responsibility of providing information on the
Web and believing that all people who use the Internet
for child care related purposes must be able to trust
that the sites they visit to adhere to the highest
ethical standards and that the information provided
is credible, child care online has adopted
the following CODE OF ETHICS.
1) To provide the highest
level of service to all users through
appropriate
and usefully organized resources and accurate,
unbiased,
and courteous responses to all requests.
2) To acknowledge the
importance of early years of childhood,
and
encourage the development of the uniqueness and
potential
of each child by providing parents and child care
providers
with industry-standard information and resources
that
assist them in ensuring a child reaches his/her
optimum
physical,
social, cognitive and creative development.
3) To build a partnership
with parents, caregivers, employers and
organizations
by sharing knowledge that will benefit the
development
of all children.
4)
To strive for excellence in the child care field by
maintaining
and
enhancing our own knowledge and skills.
5) To respect and acknowledge
that the responsibility for
choosing
and monitoring child care arrangements lies solely
with
the parent
6) To respect the rights
and dignity of colleagues and other
professional
bodies.
7) To
take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or
distorted
material.
8) To not allow our
personal beliefs to interfere with fair
representation
of the information and resources presented on
child
care online.
9) To protect each user's
right to privacy and confidentiality with
respect
to information sought or received on child care
online.
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