Our Privacy Promise

Last Updated: 7/10/2026

Safe Steps United respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains the information we may collect, how we use and disclose it, and the choices available to you when you visit our website, purchase educational resources, register for a program or event, submit an inquiry, or otherwise interact with Safe Steps United.

By using this website or submitting information through it, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Safe Steps United.

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:

• Submit a contact, partnership, or collaboration inquiry
• Request information about workshops, presentations, programs, or educational resources
• Purchase educational resources or request bulk pricing
• Register for a program, workshop, presentation, or event
• Subscribe to email updates
• Create an account, if account functions are available
• Complete a survey or feedback form
• Communicate with our team

The information may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Mailing, billing, or shipping address
• Organization, school, employer, or professional affiliation
• Job title or professional role
• Order and transaction information
• Program or event registration information
• Questions, comments, and other information included in your communications

Please do not submit confidential case information, medical records, educational records, criminal-history information, or other sensitive information concerning a young person through a general website form or ordinary email.

When you purchase an educational resource, register for a program, or make another authorized payment, the transaction may be processed by an independent third-party payment provider.

Safe Steps United generally does not receive or store complete payment-card numbers or card security codes. We may receive limited transaction information, such as:

• Customer name
• Billing or shipping address
• Order details
• Transaction amount
• Payment status
• Transaction date or confirmation number

Payment providers maintain their own privacy, security, and data-handling practices.

When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, server logs, and similar technologies.

This information may include:

• Internet Protocol address
• Browser and device type
• Operating system
• Approximate geographic area
• Referring website or source
• Pages viewed
• Links selected
• Date and time of access
• Time spent on the website
• Website performance and error information

We may use this information to understand website traffic, maintain security, address technical issues, and improve the visitor experience.

Safe Steps United may use information to:

• Respond to questions and inquiries
• Process and fulfill orders
• Provide shipping, delivery, and order-status information
• Manage registrations for programs, workshops, presentations, and events
• Respond to partnership and collaboration inquiries
• Provide requested information about our resources and services
• Communicate organizational news, updates, events, and opportunities
• Provide customer service
• Maintain transaction, registration, and operational records
• Improve our website, educational resources, programs, and outreach
• Understand website use and visitor engagement
• Detect fraud, misuse, security risks, or technical problems
• Enforce our Terms and Conditions and other agreements
• Protect the rights, safety, property, and integrity of Safe Steps United and others
• Fulfill legal, contractual, accounting, regulatory, and operational obligations

We may also use information for another purpose disclosed when it is collected or with your permission.

Safe Steps United does not sell or rent personal information.

We may disclose limited information to service providers that perform functions on our behalf, including:

• Website hosting and maintenance
• Payment processing
• Order fulfillment and shipping
• Email communications
• Event or program registration
• Data storage
• Website analytics
• Technical support
• Accounting, legal, and professional services

These providers may receive only the information reasonably necessary to perform the applicable service and are subject to their own contractual, legal, privacy, and security obligations.

We may also disclose information:

• At your direction or with your permission
• To complete a purchase, registration, or requested service
• To comply with applicable law, legal process, court order, subpoena, or governmental request
• To investigate suspected fraud, misuse, security threats, or violations of our agreements
• To protect the rights, safety, or property of Safe Steps United or others
• In connection with an organizational restructuring or transfer, subject to applicable law
• In an aggregated or de-identified form that does not reasonably identify an individual

Submitting a partnership or collaboration inquiry does not authorize Safe Steps United to publicly identify you or your organization as a partner. Public announcements, logo use, endorsements, and representations of affiliation require separate approval.

The website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Support basic website functions
• Remember visitor preferences
• Understand website traffic
• Measure page performance
• Identify technical issues
• Improve website navigation and content
• Support website security

Cookies may also be placed by third-party services used through the website, including website-hosting providers, analytics services, payment processors, embedded-video services, and social-media platforms.

You may be able to control, restrict, or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the availability or performance of certain website functions.

Where required, the website may provide additional cookie notices or preference controls.

Safe Steps United may send emails relating to:

• Purchases and orders
• Program or event registrations
• Workshop or presentation inquiries
• Partnership opportunities
• Responses to questions
• Educational resources
• Organizational news and activities

Transactional or service-related communications may be necessary to complete a purchase, registration, inquiry, or requested service.

You may unsubscribe from promotional or general informational emails by using the unsubscribe option included in the message or by contacting Safe Steps United.

Unsubscribing from promotional communications will not prevent us from sending necessary order, registration, account, contractual, safety, or service-related messages.

Safe Steps United develops educational resources for children and young people. However, the website’s forms, purchasing functions, registrations, accounts, and organizational inquiries are intended for adults.

Children under 13 should not independently:

• Submit personal information through the website
• Create a website account
• Subscribe to email communications
• Make a purchase
• Register for an event, workshop, presentation, or program
• Submit a contact, partnership, or collaboration inquiry

A parent, legal guardian, educator, organizational representative, or other authorized adult should complete these activities when appropriate.

Safe Steps United does not knowingly collect personal information online directly from children under 13 without appropriate authorization. If we learn that personal information has been submitted directly by a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to remove it.

A parent or legal guardian who believes a child has submitted personal information may contact us at team@safestepsunited.org.

A specific program or activity involving minors may be governed by additional notices, participation agreements, consent forms, or information-handling procedures.

Safe Steps United does not request detailed personal, medical, educational, legal, or behavioral records concerning young people through its general website.

Schools, families, community organizations, public agencies, and other authorized partners should provide only the minimum information reasonably necessary for an agreed-upon program, service, or activity.

Any person or organization providing information about another individual is responsible for confirming that it has the appropriate authority, permission, or legal basis to provide that information.

Sensitive records should not be transmitted through a general contact form or ordinary email unless Safe Steps United has specifically requested the information and established an appropriate method for receiving it.

Safe Steps United may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Complete an order or transaction
• Respond to an inquiry
• Manage a program, workshop, presentation, or event
• Maintain organizational, contractual, and transaction records
• Fulfill legal, accounting, reporting, or operational obligations
• Resolve disputes
• Protect organizational and legal interests
• Maintain website and information security

Retention periods may vary based on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

When information is no longer reasonably needed, Safe Steps United may delete, destroy, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable record-retention requirements.

Safe Steps United uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, or alteration.

These measures may include:

• Limiting access to individuals who reasonably need the information
• Using password-protected systems and accounts
• Relying on established website, payment, and technology providers
• Maintaining reasonable document and account controls
• Reviewing information-handling practices as organizational needs change
• Removing or securely disposing of information that is no longer needed

No method of internet transmission, electronic storage, or information security can guarantee complete security. You should use caution when transmitting personal or sensitive information online.

You may contact Safe Steps United to request that we:

• Confirm whether we maintain personal information about you
• Provide access to certain information
• Correct inaccurate or outdated information
• Update your contact information
• Delete information that is no longer required
• Update your communication preferences
• Unsubscribe you from promotional emails
• Explain how certain information has been used or disclosed

Requests may be submitted to team@safestepsunited.org.

We may need to verify your identity or authority before completing a request. Certain information may be retained when reasonably necessary to complete a transaction, comply with legal obligations, maintain records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, or protect legal rights.

The website may contain links to or integrations with independent third-party websites and services, including:

• Payment processors
• Online retailers
• Shipping providers
• Social-media platforms
• Video-hosting services
• Registration tools
• Partner organizations
• Public agencies
• External educational or community resources

Safe Steps United does not control the privacy, security, content, or operating practices of independent third parties.

When you leave our website or interact directly with a third-party service, that organization’s privacy policy and terms will apply. We encourage you to review those policies before providing personal information.

Safe Steps United may maintain profiles on social-media platforms. Information posted publicly or submitted through those platforms may be visible to the platform provider, Safe Steps United, and other users according to your settings and the platform’s policies.

Please do not use public comments or social-media messages to submit sensitive, confidential, or emergency information.

The Safe Steps United website, email address, contact forms, and social-media accounts are not monitored as emergency or crisis-response services.

Do not submit emergency reports, threats of harm, or urgent safety concerns through the website. Contact 911, local emergency services, or an appropriate crisis-response provider when immediate assistance is required.

Safe Steps United may update this Privacy Policy as its website, programs, resources, technology providers, or information practices change.

The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through another reasonable method when appropriate.

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or Safe Steps United’s information practices may be directed to:

Safe Steps United
Detroit, Michigan
Email: team@safestepsunited.org