Inclusivity Statement
The Metropolitan Washington Ear strives to inform, educate, encourage, and support those with visual impairments, blindness, and physically disabled people who cannot effectively read print, see plays, watch television programs and films, or view museum exhibits. MWE holds the belief that people with vision loss should be accepted, valued, and respected for their individual accomplishments. We encourage people to strive to be all they can be. MWE actively seeks to promote access and inclusivity and opposes any discrimination based on race, creed, religious beliefs, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or for any other reason.
Accessibility Statement
Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc. takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of
- Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
- Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
- Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
- Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
- Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
Web Site Statement
The information contained in this web site is provided as a service and does not constitute legal advice or service or product endorsements. This web site tries to provide quality information, but makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained in or linked to this web site.
Privacy Policy
We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. We may collect personally identifiable information when you visit our online web site or make a phone call to apply for services.
The Metropolitan Washington Ear is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We only have access to information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to provide services .
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new services, or classes, or changes to this privacy policy.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, or to process a donation.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our web site:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the web site, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way, using Secure Sockets Layer software (SSL). You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We use a third party organization to process online donations through the website. This organization does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond submitting your transaction.
Copyright
Copyright © 2024 Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc.
All content created initially for use by MWE in publications, in any media on any web site domains administered by MWE, or as a broadcast or podcast on Metropolitan Washington Ear Radio, Dial-in, etc., archived or not, is considered to be the property of the Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc. Creative content that appears elsewhere originally remains the property of the original copyright holder. Those responsible for creative content submitted initially to MWE are free to permit their materials to appear elsewhere with proper attribution and prior notification to the MWE office.
Conformance Status
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities.
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of https://washear.org. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers: webmaster@washear.org.
We aim to respond to feedback within 2 business days.
This statement was created on September 11, 2024.