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Privacy Policy for www.girlsrcool.com
We are committed to protecting your privacy at girlsrcool.com. Please read the following:
Before you submit any personal information to us, please read this entire message with your parents or guardians.
Note to Parents/Guardians: We have worked hard to make our girlsrcool.com a safe place. Please talk to your children about the safe and responsible use of the Internet and protection of their personal information. We would appreciate it if you would review this entire policy with your children. We hope that after you have reviewed it, you will be comfortable with your child's visiting our Web site and corresponding with us.
Personal Identifying Information
You need to be very careful when giving us or anyone else personal information about you or your family over the Internet, particularly information that would allow someone to actually contact you. For the purposes of this policy, we will call information that would allow someone to actually contact you "Personal Identifying Information." Personal Identifying Information includes things like your full name (first name plus last name), your email address, your home address, your telephone number, your school name, your place of employment, your social security number, or other similar items.
Personal Identifying Information is different from information that will not allow a person to actually contact you. Information like your first name without your last name, your city without your street address, your age, your favorite color, what magazines you like, etc., will not allow us or anyone else to actually contact you. For the purposes of this policy, we will call these kinds of information "Profile," "Demographic" or "Non-Identifying" Information. The distinction between Personal Identifying Information and Non-Identifying Information is very important. You should carefully protect all personal information, but Personal Identifying Information is what you need to safeguard the most.
The Kinds of Information We Collect
At girlsrcool.com, we will ask for the following personal information:
- Profile/Demographic Information - we will at times ask you for your first name, last initial (so we can tell girls with the same first name apart), age, state, and country. This is Non-Identifying Information, however, if you are concerned about sharing it with us, you are always free to submit your information under a false or "screen" name.
- Identifying Information - we will at times ask for your email address. Email address is the only piece of Personal Identifying Information we will ask for. We ask for it so that we may add you to our email mailing list and correspond with you. Email address is never mandatory.
- Editorial Information - we will give you the opportunity to voluntarily provide your thoughts and ideas to us through the various sections of our Web site. There are lots of reasons for you to write and we want to hear from you. You might want to suggest topics for our site or things that you would like us to check out.. For the purposes of this policy, we will refer to your comments, ideas, opinions, suggestions, stories, questions and answers, and all other such information or communication as "Editorial Information."
- Server Information - there is information which our server or computer system records in the process of operating, maintaining and administering our Web site. This includes how many visitors we had, the number of visitors which viewed each of the pages on our site, what times of day visitors came to our site, what browsers our visitors used, and what part of the Internet they came to our site from, and other similar information. This "Server Information" provides us with aggregate data and market research that is very helpful to us in evaluating our site.
How We Use the Information
At our Web site, we use the information from or about you to:
- Respond to your correspondence, questions, comments, etc.
- Continually develop and design our content to meet your interests and needs.
- Notify you about new products and new Web site content and to send you girlsrcool.com related announcements and newsletters.
- Contact you in the event you win a prize in one of our games or contests.
- Understand our audience and their interests better so we can continue to improve our products, services and Web site.
How We Protect Personal Identifying Information
- We do not sell, rent or lease any of your Personal Identifying Information to any third party.
- We do not give your Personal Identifying Information (your email address) to anyone outside of our company.
- If we choose to post any of the Editorial Information that you send in to us (and we can only post a small number of all that we receive), we will only post Non-Identifying Information - things like your first name, last initial, your age, state, and country. We will NOT post your email address.
Our Rights to Use the Editorial Information You Send Us
We love to hear from our readers and regularly receive email and postal correspondence from girls and women of all ages! All Editorial Information that you send us will become the sole property of girlsrcool.com, and we will be free to post, publish or otherwise use it for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to publishing new products using such information. All of the information you send us will be carefully reviewed, and if we do decide to post it, publish it or use it, we will have the right to edit it. With the exception of your Personal Identifying Information, everything we receive from you will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.
Our Mailing List
If you would like to be on our email and/or postal mailing list, please contact us in one of the ways listed below and request to be placed on our email or postal mailing list.
Opting-Out
You will at all times have the opportunity to opt-out of receiving further communications from us. Simply contact us in one of the ways listed below and request to be removed from our email list.
Corrections/Updates
If at any time you would like to correct or update the Personal Identifying Information we have on file for you, simply contact us in one of the ways listed below and provide the corrected or updated information.
Parental Consent
If you are under 13 years old and you want us to be able to correspond with you (write you letters, put you on our email mailing list, send you prizes, etc.), we must have a letter on file from your Parent or Guardian giving us their consent.
Note to Parents/Guardians:
If you have read our privacy policy and are comfortable with your child's corresponding with us and being on our email and/or postal mailing list, we will need you to provide written parental consent. This consent cannot be given via email. You must write or fax us a letter giving us your consent along with the email and/or postal contact information you want us to have in our files. You must sign the letter and provide a way for us to reach you (such as your email address or telephone number) if necessary to confirm your consent. You may revoke your consent at any time by contacting us via any of the methods listed in the following section. We realize that these requirements are time-consuming, but they are measures now required by law for your child's protection. Click here if you would like to see a sample consent letter that you can print out, sign and mail or fax to us.
Contacting Us
We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with a safe, enjoyable and enriching on-line experience. If you have concerns or questions about this privacy statement or our Web site, please do not hesitate to contact us via one of the following methods: by email to info@girlsrcool.com or by calling us at 908-832-1543 or faxing us at 908-832-1543
Thank you for your concern about online privacy.
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