Chamber of Commerce for Individuals with DisAbilities
Inspiration and History

But what have the disabled ever done? From the beginning of time, people with disabilities, or those close to them, have played an incredible role in the development of society as we know it today. To have a disability does not mean that you are not able to contribute to your fellow man. The disabled have spurred some of the world's greatest inventions and developments.

The first proven typewriter to work was created by Pellegrino Turri in 1808 for his blind friend, Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzono, to help her write letters. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he was attempting to convert speech to a visual representation in order to accommodate his wife, who had a hearing loss.

Only in the last 40 years has a usable choice for telephone access by deaf people become available. At that time, deaf individuals began purchasing and adapting old Western Union Tele-typewriters (TTY's) that only enabled communication with each other. Communication between TTY users and standard telephone users has only become widely available in the last few years due to the establishment of Americans with Disabilities Act that mandated state relay services. Like the typewriter, transfer and extension of text messaging took a long time to develop and could have taken even longer. One of the lead engineers of the original Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the predecessor of the Internet, was accustomed to using the TTY device because he communicated with his hearing-impaired wife.

Some of the world's most revered people have been admired for their leadership, musical talent, literary skills and intelligence. Early leaders Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar had epilepsy and Franklin Roosevelt had polio. Great musicians such as Beethoven (deaf), Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder (blind) and Itzak Perlman (polio), and one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, Steven Hawking (ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease), were all disabled.

As we start to look at people for they are and what they contribute, we begin to lose sight of the disability and see only the ability. From inventions to poetry to literature and music, the disabled have made major contributions.

If you are disabled, don't let that disability keep you from reaching your destiny. And if you are a business owner, don't let the next great invention or development slip away because of your unwillingness to hire the qualified disabled job applicant.

Chamber of Commerce for Individuals with DisAbilities
About This Site

Some divisions within CCID operate as a business within their non-profit mission, benefiting the goals of advancing education and economic self-sufficiency for the disAbled. CCID accepts online sponsorships and supports members seeking resources and assistance to find their way to economic self-sufficiency.

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Chamber of Commerce for Individuals with DisAbilities
Privacy Policy

The CCID Privacy Policy is currently under development and is subject to change without notification until this notice has been removed.

PRIVACY POLICY MODIFICATIONS/NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
Information contained in this document is subject to amendment with inclusions and modifications. Modifications of our Privacy Policy will be posted by identifying them as changes to our previous privacy policy. We will identify those changes here, so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

This Privacy Policy is current as of, Sunday, August 27, 2006 09:23:36 AM.

IDENTIFICATION
When referring to "CCID", identification is defined as all structures of Chamber of Commerce for Individuals with DisAbilities, Inc. and its associated programs, services and website locales. Website locales include chamber4us.org, disabledbutable.com and lowcostprescriptions.org/net. CCID is also referred to as "The Chamber".

EXTERNAL SITE DISCLAIMER
The appearance of external association's hyper-links on this World Wide Web site does not constitute endorsement by CCID of external web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. Once you access an individual document which links you to another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of the website containing that document.

External links, which direct users to a site other than the CCID website(s), are provided for your convenience in supporting the services and programs that CCID provides. We consider an external link a hyper-link to any site that is not a chamber4us.org, disabledbutable.com, lowcostprescriptions.org/net web address or is obvious in appearance and structure, to be a separate establishment.

CCID does NOT exercise any editorial control over the products or information you may find at these locations and bears no responsibility for their accuracy or content. CCID is not necessarily affiliated or associated with the agencies or companies for which external links are provided. CCID does not necessarily sponsor or endorse their products and services, and they do not necessarily sponsor or endorse CCID programs and services.

All hyper-links are reviewed at the time they are added to the Virtual Isle Solutions web site. CCID will not knowingly link to sites that derive from or participate in fraudulent or illegal behavior. CCID maintains the right and privilege to determine what links and information will be provided on this web site. Any complaints should be directed through the contact form, accessible from the navigation bar.

Neither CCID, nor its associated volunteers, subcontractors nor any of its employees, make any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or product accessed through external links.

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TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
Every website you visit on the World Wide Web retains a certain amount of non-personal information from every visitor. This information includes:

• Time and Date
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• Your IP (Internet Protocol) Address
• Your Web Browser Type and Version
• Your Operating System Platform
  

This generic information is utilized to maintain a record of visitors to our site, how they found us, and which pages are receiving the most and/or least interest. This is an everyday process used on every website on the Internet today.

We sometimes utilize "cookies" on the CCID website(s) to transmit secure information in processing financial transactions. Financial information, under transmission is no longer in cookie form and under complete SSL encryption as it is transmitted to the authorizing financial institution.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
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Statistics sharing may be incorporated; however, NO identifying personal information will be shared.

INFORMATION SECURITY
We use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption, which is recognized as an industry standard in encryption technology, to protect the transmission of information you submit to us when you use our secure online order forms. All of the sensitive information (Credit Card Transactions, etc.) you provide to us through these forms is transmitted and stored securely.

EMAIL SECURITY
It should be known that email communications written directly from you to CCID from your computer or use of any web email client on the Internet is not necessarily secure against interception. Please do not send sensitive or personal information such as social security and bank account numbers through email.

SPAM POLICY
The Chamber of Commerce for Individuals with DisAbilities does not condone the use of UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and SPAM. Group members are strictly prohibited from using SPAM in their marketing efforts, and are subject to immediate suspension and/or termination of their member privileges if they do so. If you have found our website due to SPAM, we want to know! Please email ccidsupport@Chamber4Us.org to submit a formal complaint.

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