Online Privacy Statement

Effective Date: October 14, 2026

We at Child Mind Institute, Inc., Child Mind Medical Practice, PLLC, and Child Mind Medical Practice, PC (together, “CMI”) want our websites to be a safe and private place for users. We will do our part by not requiring you to register or provide any information at all to use most sections and features of our websites. In turn, you can do your part by reading this Privacy Notice and taking the steps outlined below. 

This Privacy Notice applies solely to (a) the following websites operated by CMI: childmind.org, training.childmind.org, and kai.childmind.org, and (b) other CMI-controlled websites, online services, or mobile applications in which this Privacy Policy is expressly referenced and linked (collectively, (a) and (b) are the “Websites”). Other terms and policies may govern your use of other CMI and third-party online and offline services, including youareokay.org, mirrorjournal.com, gettingcurious.com, all websites directed to international audiences (whether or not linked to or promoted on childmind.org or other Websites), and third-party social media platforms.

Clinical Care Privacy

If you receive clinical care from Child Mind Medical Practice, please also review our Notice of Privacy Practices, which explains how we use and protect your health information and your rights regarding that information.

During your use of our Websites you may be prompted to provide personal information. This is information you provide which personally identifies you, including, but not limited to, your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or other personal information that you provide to us when you are using the CMI websites.

By visiting or using our Websites, you agree that we may collect, process, use, and disclose personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. We may update this Privacy Notice periodically to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will post any updates here with a revised effective date.

We do not knowingly collect or use sensitive personal information as defined under applicable state consumer privacy laws (such as health information or information about children) through our Websites except where it is necessary to provide requested services or where you have provided explicit consent. For example, if you choose to provide us such information in the course of registering for a program as explained in the Program Registrations section below.

There are certain actions and areas of our websites that will require you to provide personal information. These include, but are not limited to:

• Signing up for emails or newsletters
• Downloading certain reports or other documents
• Making a donation
• Requesting an appointment
• Submitting user content
• Registering for or purchasing a webinar, workshop, or lecture

If you do submit information to us, we will use that information for the purposes for which it was submitted. We may also use your information to personalize communications to you and keep you informed about other CMI-related activities, or as otherwise disclosed to you at the point of collection.

We automatically collect and store some information about your computer and your visit. This information includes your IP address, browser type, device information, and site usage data. This also includes “cookies”, discussed in more detail below and in our cookie policy.  We use these types of automatically collected information to analyze trends, improve user experience, and maintain website performance. These statistics do not directly identify individuals.

We use third-party vendors to provide services on the CMI websites and in our offline business operations. The information that you submit on this website may be provided to those vendors on a confidential basis so that those vendors can provide services on our behalf. These services include, but are not limited to, donor contact management; credit card processing; webinar, workshop, and lecture registration and payment processing; email delivery; web analytics; appointment request tracking; and job application processing. A third-party vendor’s collection and use of personal information is governed by the policies of that vendor.

Please refer to our cookie policy regarding information that may be collected by or transmitted to third parties via cookies and your options to disable certain non-essential cookies. Some state laws, if applicable to you, may define the exchange of information through certain cookies (such as, for example, statistical, advertising, marketing, and tracking cookies), as a “sale” or a “share” or similar term.

Other than the information exchanges disclose in our cookie policy, we do not sell personal information collected through the Websites covered by this Privacy Notice.

We do not sell, rent, or trade our donors’ names or personal information to or with any other entity, nor do we send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.

If you choose to make an online donation, you will provide your payment information through our third-party fundraising platform, Fundraise Up. Fundraise Up uses Stripe, a third-party payment processor, to securely process donation transactions. Information collected during the donation process may be shared with Child Mind Institute to facilitate your donation and maintain our donor records, but your full payment card information is not provided to us.

For more information about how these third parties collect, use, and protect your information, please review the Fundraise Up Privacy Policy and the Stripe Privacy Policy.

If you register for or purchase access to a webinar or workshop, including PACT, the SM Webinar, and BEST, your payment information is processed by Stripe, a third-party payment processor, as described in the Terms of Sale section of our Terms of Use. If you register for or purchase a ticket to a Visiting Professor Lecture, your registration and payment are handled directly by Eventbrite, Inc., a third-party event-ticketing platform, and the personal information you provide to Eventbrite is also subject to Eventbrite’s own privacy policy; CMI receives your registration information from Eventbrite in order to administer the lecture, including for continuing education and continuing medical education credit.

For lectures that offer continuing medical education (CME) credit, CMI shares the attendance and completion information necessary to administer that credit with Northwell Health, our CME accreditation partner.

Some Registration Pages (as defined in the Terms of Sale section of our Terms of Use) ask whether your child is a current patient of the Child Mind Institute, and the BEST Registration Page asks two optional free-text questions about your child. CMI treats this information as sensitive personal information. It is stored separately from payment information and is accessible only to a limited number of administrative and clinical staff involved in preparing for your session.

CMI is dedicated to advancing children’s mental health through compassionate care, revolutionary science, and wide-reaching public education. Our Websites support this mission by allowing us to share information with parents, guardians, educators, clinicians, scientists, and others.

While some of our content is designed to be accessed by parents or guardians to support the care they provide to their children, our Websites covered by this Privacy Notice are generally not intended to be accessed by children under the age of 18 directly and we do not intentionally collect the personal information of children except for particular Websites that expressly indicate they are intended for children and which are governed by a separate privacy policy.

Some Programs ask a registrant to provide limited information about their child, such as the child’s age or the registrant’s relationship to the child, for the purpose of registering that child-related Program. This information is submitted by the registrant, who represents that they are 18 years of age or older, and is used only to administer the Program for which it was submitted; it is not information CMI has collected directly from a child.

By using this Website or any other Website governed by this Privacy Notice, you represent that you are at least 18 years old. By using all other any of our other Websites, you represent that you are at least 18 years old unless the Website expressly states that it is intended for children.

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws.

As applicable, these rights may include:

• Access: A right to request access to the personal information we have collected about you.
• Disclosure: A right to request information about the categories of personal data we collect, use, and share.
• Delete: A right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
• Correct: A right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information.
• Opt Out: A right to opt out of certain types of data processing, including targeted advertising or, where applicable, the sale of personal information.

Our Websites are offered and operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.  By providing us with any information through the Websites, you consent to this transfer and our use of such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

To the extent applicable, the laws of your jurisdiction may afford you with particular rights for the protection of your personal information. Some examples of such rights may include the following:

• Access: A right to access a copy of your personal information we have collected by contacting us.
• Correct: A right to request that CMI update or correct your personal information; please contact us.

• Delete: A right to request that we remove your personal information from our systems by contacting us, although in some cases we may refuse your request in accordance with applicable law.
• Restrict: A right to request that we restrict processing of your personal information; please contact us.
• Object: A right to object to CMI’s processing of your personal information by contacting us.
• Withdraw: A right to withdraw that consent to our processing your personal information.
• Complain: A right to report suspected violations of appliable law to your local privacy authority.

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to improve your experience on our website. We use cookies and similar technologies to support essential site functionality, understand how users interact with our content, improve performance, and support outreach efforts.

These technologies may include analytics tools such as Google Analytics and marketing-related tools that help us measure the effectiveness of our communications. Information collected through cookies may include technical and usage data such as IP address, browser type, and pages visited.

When you first visit our Websites, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept, reject, or customize your preferences. You may learn more about our use of cookies and update your cookie preferences at any time, by reviewing our cookie policy.

Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track preference, the browser sends signals to websites requesting them not to track the user. The CMI websites do not recognize or respond to Do Not Track signals or similar mechanisms.

We follow reasonable standards to protect the personal information submitted to us in order to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information you have provided. The security measures used on the CMI websites include, but are not limited to, encryption technology, firewalls and internal policies to maintain the security of stored data. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use reasonable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you are worried because your communication is very sensitive, do not send it electronically.

The CMI Websites may contain links to other websites or social media platforms that are owned or operated by third parties. In some cases, the CMI Websites may also include embedded tools or widgets that are provided and controlled by third parties (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube). When you visit third-party websites or social media platforms, CMI does not control how they may collect or use your personal information collected from their site. When you visit other websites or social media platforms, check each one’s privacy policy yourself and be careful about the information you submit or share.

If you do not want to receive any email from us in the future, click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of an email you have received. Note that your records will remain in CMI’s databases, but your email address will be deactivated.

If you wish to exercise your legal rights under an applicable state privacy law or if you have any other questions or concerns about your personal information, please contact us by mail, email, or telephone, as follows:

Mail: Child Mind Institute, 215 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 212.308.3118