At SCAEYC we recognize that privacy is important. Board Members and employees of SCAEYC may not disclose, divulge, or make accessible confidential information belonging to or obtained through their affiliation with SCAEYC to any person, including relatives, friends and business and professional associates, other than to persons who have a ligitimate need for such information and to whom SCAEYC has authorized disclosure. Board members and employees shall use confidential information solely for the purpose of performing services as a trustee or employee for SCAEYC. This policy is not intended to prevent disclosure where disclosure is required by law.

Board members and employees must exercise good judgment and care at all times to avoid unauthorized or improper disclosures of confidential information. Conversations in public places should be limited to matters that do not pertain to information of a sensitive or confidential nature. In addition, Board members and employees should be sensitive to the risk of inadvertent disclosure and should, for example, refrain from leaving confidential information on desks or otherwise in plain view and refrain from the use of speaker phones to discuss confidential information if the conversation could be heard by unauthorized persons.

At the end of a Director's term in office or upon termination of an employee's employment, he or she shall return, at the request of SCAEYC, all documents, papers, and other materials regardless of medium, which may contain or be derived from confidential information, in his or her possession