Privacy Policy
InternetSafetyForKids.org
Effective and Last Updated: December 7, 2011
This
website is owned and operated by InternetSafetyForKids.org. We are
committed
to protecting the privacy of our visitors while they interact with the
content, products and services on this site (the “Site”). This
Privacy Policy applies to the Site only. It does not apply to other
websites to which we link. Because we gather certain types of
information about our users, we want you to understand what information
we collect about you, how we collect it, how that information is used,
and how you can control our disclosure of it. You agree that your use
of the Site signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.
1) Information
Collected
We
collect two types of information from you: i) information that you
voluntarily provide to us (e.g. through a voluntary registration
process, sign-ups or emails); and ii) information that is derived
through automated tracking mechanisms.
Voluntary Information for
Services and Features
We also collect personally identifiable information when you
choose to
use certain other features of the Site, including: i) making purchases,
ii) consenting to receive email or text messages about upcoming
promotions or events, iii) consenting to receive email, iv)
participating in our forum, iv) commenting on articles, and others.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to
information about the user.
Third-Party
Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this
site,
our third-party advertisers may place or recognise a unique "cookie" on
your browser.
2) Referrals
You may choose to invite
friends to join the InternetSafetyForKids.org by sending invitation
emails via our
invite feature. InternetSafetyForKids.org stores the email addresses
you provide so
that the respondents may be added to your social network, confirm
orders/purchases and also to send reminders of the invitations.
InternetSafetyForKids.org does not sell these email addresses or use
them to send
any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders.
Recipients of invitations may contact InternetSafetyForKids.org to
request removal
of their information from our database.
3) How We Use
Your Information
InternetSafetyForKids.org only uses your personal information for the original purposes it was
given. Your personal information will not be sold or otherwise
transferred to unaffiliated third parties without your approval at the
time of collection.
InternetSafetyForKids.org will not disclose, use, give or
sell any personal information to third parties for any purposes other
than to our suppliers and other third parties who need to know in order
to deliver services on behalf of InternetSafetyForKids.org unless required to do so
by law. Further, InternetSafetyForKids.org reserves the right to contact you
regarding matters relevant to the underlying service provided and/or
the information collected.
Please note that personally identifiable
information is used only to provide you with a more enjoyable,
convenient online experience and to help us identify and/or provide
information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We
use your personally identifiable information to support and enhance
your use of the Site and its features, including without limitation:
fulfilling your order; providing customer service; tracking email
invitations you send; and otherwise supporting your use of the Site.
InternetSafetyForKids.org may use your personal information for target advertising toward you
based on things such as region, gender, interests, goals, habits, etc.
We
may permit certain trusted third parties to track usage, analyse data
such as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP
address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the
referring Web site (if any) and other parameters in the URL. This is
collected in order to better understand our Web site usage, and enhance
the performance of services to maintain and operate the Site and
certain features on the Site. We may use third parties to host the
Site; operate various features available on the Site; send emails;
analyse data; provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling
your orders.
Also, we may share personally identifiable or other information with
our parent, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates.
We
may transfer personally identifiable information as an asset in
connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any
transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding)
involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate
reorganisation, stock sale or other change in control.
InternetSafetyForKids.org may disclose Contact Information in special cases where we have reason
to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our
terms and conditions of use or may be causing injury or interference
with our rights, property, our customers or anyone who could be harmed
by such activities.
WE ARE NOT LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION YOU CHOOSE TO SUBMIT IN
FORUMS SUCH AS A BULLETIN BOARD, CHAT ROOM OR ANY OTHER PUBLICLY
ACCESSIBLE AREA OF THE SITE.
You will receive notice when your
personally identifiable information might be provided to any third
party for any reason other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy,
and you will have an opportunity to request that we not share such
information.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to
better design our website and for business and administrative purposes.
We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated
data that contains no personally identifiable information.
4) How We Protect Your
Information
We
are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We
take appropriate security measures to protect your information against
unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or
destruction of data. To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data
accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we maintain
appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to
safeguard and secure the information and data stored on our system.
While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures
we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a
level appropriate to the type of data involved.
5) Third Party Advertising
Advertisements
appearing on this Site may be delivered to you by InternetSafetyForKids.org or one
of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set
cookies. Doing this allows the advertising partners to recognise your
computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they
may compile information about where you, or others who are using your
computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements
are clicked. This information allows an advertising partner to deliver
targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to
you. InternetSafetyForKids.org does not have access to or control of the cookies
that may be placed by the third party advertising servers of ad
partners.
Third
party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve
ads based on a user's prior visits to our website. Google's
use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our
users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the
Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting
the advertising
opt-out page. Alternatively, users can opt out of a
third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising
Initiative opt-out
page. The
cookies of other third-party
vendors or ad networks
may also be used to serve ads on our site. Users may visit those
websites to opt out of cookies (if the vendor or ad network offers this
capability). Users can opt out of some, but not all, of these cookies
in one location at the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out
page.
This privacy statement covers the use of
cookies by InternetSafetyForKids.org and does not cover the use of cookies by any
of its advertisers.
6) Accessing and Updating Your
Personal Information and Preferences
We
provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personal
information for many of our services. If you are a registered
user, you may access and update your registration information and your
preferences to receive email or other communications from us by
contacting us at the Contact page of this Site.
7) Email Choice/Opt-out
If
any user who receives an email from the Site and would prefer not to
receive such communications in the future, [he or she] can do so by
following the instructions in the emails. In addition, you
may
contact us at the Contact page of this Site. We will make commercially
reasonable efforts to implement your opt-out requests promptly, but you
may still receive communications from us for up to ten business days as
we process your request.
8) Children's Privacy and
Parental Controls
We
do not solicit any personal information from children. If you are not
18 or older, you are not authorised to use the Site. Parents should be
aware that there are parental control tools available online that can
be used to prevent children from submitting information online without
parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to
minors.
9) Disclaimer to Security
By consenting to the Terms and
Conditions of the Site and hence the Privacy Policy, you
consent that
no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure. We cannot
guarantee or warrant the security of any information you provide to us
and you transmit such information to us at your own risk.
10) Notification of
Changes
InternetSafetyForKids.org reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time at
its sole discretion. If at some point in the future, there is a change
to our Privacy Policy, unless we obtain your express consent, such
change will only apply to information collected after the revised
Privacy Policy took effect. Your continued use of the Site indicates
your assent to the Privacy Policy as posted.
11) CONTACT
INFORMATION:
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy
please contact us at the Contact page of this Site.
InternetSafetyForKids.org