The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring, a free educational content service provided by the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, values and respects your privacy.
Effective as of: May 25, 2018
WHO WE ARE
In 2012, in partnership with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership and the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Center for Evidence-based Mentoring was launched by Jean E. Rhodes, Ph.D. as a non-profit organization.
Learn more about the Center for Evidence-based Mentoring.
The goal of the Center is to advance youth mentoring research, make the findings more accessible to the field and increase practitioners’ skills and knowledge in applying evidence-based practice to their work. To further this goal, the Center has developed online resources to share new findings and encourage conversation and evidence-informed practice in the field of mentoring.
The Center has launched five online initiatives since 2012 which serve a broad range of constituents through independent services, in association with qualified academic partners, and with other grant-based collaborators which are in alignment with the Center’s mission and operating intent.
The Center has supported the development of the online digital service projects listed below, in which this website, the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring, is a critical communication outlet for the Center.
The Center continues to expand and grow within the context of mission-related projects and will declare the nature of those projects within all GDPR and privacy policies.
The Center does not participate in any practice of multi-site user data compilation or meta-analysis comparison of multi-site usage from any of the websites and projects listed herein.
If you utilize one or more of the Center’s websites, your data is not transferred or aggregated into any Center owned or separately managed database nor by any third party analytic product or agency.
We are committed to user privacy.
Center for Evidence-based Mentoring Online Projects:
- Elements of Effective Practice 4th Edition – The Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™ (MENTOR, 2015; the “Elements”) describes the definitive Standards of practice for the field of youth mentoring. By adhering to the Elements, mentoring programs can enhance their overall program quality and help build strong mentoring relationships. The Elements were written by Drs. Janis Kupersmidt and Rebecca Stelter of Mentoring Central, Dr. Jean Rhodes and Stella Kanchewa of the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring (CEBM) at UMASS-Boston, and Michael Garringer of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership.
Learn More: http://www.mentoring.org/program-resources/elements-of-effective-practice-for-mentoring/ - Chronicle for Evidence-Based Mentoring – The Chronicle translates research into practice recommendations and is an important forum for researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, and volunteers. Since its launch, the Chronicle has attracted over a million views from its tens of thousands of monthly visitors and nearly 8,000 subscribers. The site features an impressive editorial board and an ever-changing array of research summaries, profiles, etc.
The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring is the current website that you are visiting and the website address is: https://www.chronicle.umbmentoring.org - Mentoring Central – With funding from NIH, we worked with iRT to develop a comprehensive, web-based online mentor-training tool, Mentoring Central. It remains the only evidence-based training program for volunteer mentors.
Learn More: http://mentoringcentral.net/ - Connected Scholars – In cooperation with iRT, we have developed “Connected Scholars,” a curriculum-based course designed to facilitate students’ recruitment of students’ mentors and social support providers. Instead of matching students with assigned mentors, students are trained to understand the value of building their social capital and then, learn and practice skills to expand their social networks. The goal is for young adults to develop life-long skills that will benefit their academic, professional, and personal lives.
Learn More: http://connectedscholarsprogram.com/ - Everyday Mentors – With funding from the Thrive Foundation to develop, we have launched a website with evidence-based tips and strategies for coaches, afterschool staff, parents and other adults who want to use evidence-based practice in their work with youth.
Learn More: http://everydaymentor.org/
COOKIE NOTICE: WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
The Chronicle of Evidence-based Mentoring does not collect or retain any sensitive personal data such as health, political affiliation, or other demographic information outside of standard user and site visitor information collected through Askimet, Google Analytics, Gravatr, Mailchimp and WordPress.
Basic personal data collected from users and site visitors may include:
- Name
- Email Address
- Personal Account Preferences
- Technical data stored within the user’s cookies
- The personal data secured is used strictly for the following purposes;
- General development support to improve user experience and the establishment of quality benchmarks.
- Proactive security scan for known malicious IP address and malware as published by the website host and verified with the anti-spam control software, and
- Retention of data expires within 30 days of the site visitor experience or the active disabling from the site visitor.
Third party software installations on this website that utilizes cookies are listed below.
- Askimet
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
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When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it, approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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MEDIA
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EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
The Chronicle of Evidence-Base Mentoring does not share customer data or email addresses with any third parties like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked-In or any other social website. All third party cookie notices are declared in the section of this policy, “Cookie Notice: What personal data we collect and why we collect it”.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
Anonymous website usage data is kept for ten years. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA
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HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA
We take your privacy seriously. Technical measures have been put into place to assure the safest browsing experience like SSL, data encryption, two factor authentications as well as staff training in basic security protocol that adhere to industry best practices.
WHAT DATA BREACH PROCEDURES WE HAVE IN PLACE
Should a data breach occur The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring will publish a security notice on the home page of the website and deploy a communication email via MailChimp to all email addresses on file. The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring does not conduct financial transactions for fundraising at this time on the website. Any future fundraising campaigns will include all appropriate security and privacy measures for any website visitor user data and will be updated promptly to this website policy statement prior to publishing any non-profit fundraising campaign(s).
