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The
following legal information governs the use of all visitors
browsing the Orphans Overseas website.
PRIVACY
STATEMENT
Orphans
Overseas respects your privacy and is committed to protecting
it. This Privacy Statement is intended to provide you with
details of our privacy policy and show you that Orphans Overseas
takes your privacy very seriously. We make this notice
readily available on the Orphans Overseas website. We have
structured our website so that you may visit www.orphansoverseas.org
without identifying yourself or revealing any personal
information. Orphans Overseas collects no personal information
about you when you when you visit our website unless you choose
to provide that information.
THIRD
PARTY LINKS
As
an additional service to you, Orphans Overseas may include
hyperlinks to third party websites. We have no control over
these websites and do not accept any responsibility for the
content of these sites or their individual privacy policies.
LEGAL
The
pictures of orphan children featured on this website were taken
with the permission of the orphanages where they are living.
None of the children shown on this website are being offered for
adoptive placement. This website is not intended to offer
specific children for adoption or to solicit adoptive families
to adopt specific children shown on the website.
For
families that do elect to begin the adoption process, all
adoptive families must go through extensive background screening
and be approved by the United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services, Orphans Overseas, and the foreign government before
becoming eligible to adopt. It is only after an adoptive family
has been approved for adoption and the orphan child has been
determined by the foreign government to be a legal orphan that
an adoptive family and adoptive child will be matched for
placement. After placement, the US Embassy will conduct
its own investigation to verify the child's orphan status and
that the adoptive family is a family suitable for bringing an
immigrant child into the United States. Orphans Overseas
works closely with both the Department of Homeland Security, the
Department of State, and the foreign government to ensure that
the laws of both the United States and the foreign country are
fulfilled and that each adoptive placement is made within these
applicable laws.
All
monies paid during the adoption process are used for specific
purposes related to costs incurred by Orphans Overseas for
office expenses, staff salaries, phone and fax charges,
overnight mailing, international mailing, document translation
and authentication, humanitarian support to the adoptive child's
orphanage, immigrant visa charges, airfare, hotel, food, and
transportation for adoption related travel. At no time are
monies used to pay for a child.
Any
details included on this website relating to the adoption
timeline, adoption fees, and adoption travel information are
intended to offer adoptive families a better understanding of
the adoption process. These details are estimated and Orphans
Overseas is not responsible if adoptive families experiences
vary from the estimates.
COPYRIGHT
The
copyright of the design and content of this website belong
solely to Orphans Overseas. No portion of the website may be
used without explicit written permission from the Orphans
Overseas office in Portland, Oregon.
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