Privacy Policy
We are committed to respecting the privacy rights of all visitors to our web
site. This Privacy Policy also explains the choices that you can make about the
way your information is collected and used. It is available for you to review
on our homepage and at least on every page where we have requested personally
identifiable information from kids under 13. BY USING THIS WEB SITE, YOU
SIGNIFY YOUR ASSENT TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. If you do not agree
with any term in this Privacy Policy, do not use this web site.
Kids
Please check with your parents before entering any information on this or any
other Web site. See our "SPECIAL NOTE TO KIDS" below.
Parents
We are committed to protecting children's privacy. We developed this Web site
to be an enjoyable experience for customers of all ages, including kids under
13. We recognize that some younger children may not understand some of the
information contained on this web site or how this web site operates. PLEASE BE
SURE TO CAUTION YOUR CHILD UNDER 13 AGAINST PROVIDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION ONLINE PRIOR TO THE WEB SITE OPERATOR OBTAINING YOUR CONSENT. It is
our policy not to collect personally identifiable information from children
under 13 without first obtaining a parent's or guardian's verifiable
permission. See our "SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS OF KIDS UNDER 13" below.
Please discuss this Privacy Policy with your children so that they will better
understand how to use this web site and the information they may be asked to
provide. We strongly believe that providing our visitors with accurate and
adequate notice about the web site will lead to informed choices and decisions
about how to use the web site, as well as protecting our users' privacy.
What Information Do We Collect?
Generally, we limit the collection of information to what is known as
non-personally identifiable information (such as, first name, age, state or
country) and we will not require you to provide more information than is
necessary to participate in any of our web site activities. This information is
collected so that visitors can participate in activities (such as, receiving
our e-mail newsletter[s], building homepages, participating in online surveys)
without giving out unnecessary personal information other than an e-mail
address.
However, in some areas on our web site personally identifiable information is
asked for and collected (for example, online sweepstakes, online promotions and
the registered area of this site) and you may not be able to access those areas
or participate in certain activities without giving the necessary personal
information. Where we request additional information from you in connection
with a web site's activity such information may be personal. Whenever we
request that you submit such information, we will endeavor to notify you of our
intended use of the information, as more specifically discussed below. PLEASE
BE AWARE THAT YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE, AND CAN DECLINE TO
PROVIDE, ANY REQUESTED INFORMATION AT ANY TIME. HOWEVER, IF YOU DECLINE, YOU
MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN CERTAIN ACTIVITIES AT THIS WEB SITE.
The types of information collected at this web site may include:
- Contact information, such as full name, e-mail address and mailing
address.
- Financial information and/or Credit/Debit Card data (for, by way of
example, online store purchase information, third party links).
- Personal identifiers, such as screen names, URLs (for personalized
homepages) and passwords.
- Demographic information, such as date of birth, age, profile, gender,
state and country.
- Internet Protocol (IP) Information, such as your IP address and browser
type.
- Information collected by or held in "cookies."
How Do We Use Information?
Registration
If this web site has a registration procedure, our web site's registration form
requires users to give us contact information, unique identifiers, and
demographic information. All registration information is submitted to us on a
voluntary basis. We may also ask registered members to tell us how they found
out about us. Once you register, we use customer contact information from the
registration form to contact you, to send you information about our company
and/or to give you updates on products and/or services. You may register on our
web site and choose not to receive information and updates by unchecking the
relevant box on the registration form. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, GET YOUR PARENT'S
OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION.
Online Promotions
We or our advertisers, licensees and/or other business partners may have
special online promotions which feature products or services related to our
business activities. TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY PROMOTION, YOU MUST 13 YEARS OR
OLDER (unless otherwise specified by the promotion's rules and regulations). IF
YOU ARE UNDER 13 YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU
CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY. IF YOU ARE OVER 13 BUT NOT AN ADULT YOU WILL
NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT TO COLLECT YOUR PRIZE OR RECEIVE YOUR
BENEFIT. You may be asked to provide an e-mail address or screen name, so that
we can let you know if you won a prize. For other promotions, we may request
your name and home address in order to send you products or information by
regular mail. The specific rules and regulations governing the particular
promotion will vary and your participation constitutes your agreement to abide
by those rules and regulations.
Online Contests and Sweepstakes
We or our advertisers, licensees and/or other business partners may sponsor
contests or sweepstakes which may be entered online. The specific rules and
regulations governing the particular contest or sweepstakes will vary and your
participation constitutes your agreement to abide by those rules and
regulations. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S
CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY. IF YOU ARE OVER 13 BUT NOT
AN ADULT YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT TO COLLECT YOUR
PRIZE OR RECEIVE YOUR BENEFIT. We use the information you provide when placing
an order, entering a contest or sweepstake or when we complete an order and/or
fulfill a prize. We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail that we
receive, and we may use return e-mail to communicate with you or to send you
other information. If you are under 13 (with your parent's or guardian's
consent), or if you are over 13 but not an adult, the information collected for
contests or sweepstakes include your first name, e-mail address and your
parent's e-mail address and, if you win, before your prize is collected, your
parent or guardian is sent an e-mail informing them of your award and
explaining the nature and terms and conditions of the sweepstakes. Your parent
or guardian will then have a chance to "opt out" of collecting your prize on
your behalf, in which case the prize will not be awarded.
Collecting and Sharing Data
We sometimes collect information to find out how people found our web site,
which pages they visited, and how long they stayed. In addition, we may
aggregate demographic, profile and non-personal information you provide and use
aggregate information to better design our web site and to improve our
marketing strategy and our product offerings. Under no circumstances will we
share this demographic and profile information with any advertisers, licensees
and/or other business partners.
Opinions
We may ask for your opinion from time to time. You may send us questions or
comments, which may require personal information for a response. However,
please note that we have a policy against accepting unsolicited material, so do
not submit any unsolicited or unique creative ideas, drawings or other
materials, and refer to our policy on unsolicited submissions in our Terms of
Use. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT
BEFORE YOU CAN PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION.
Personalized Homepages
You may be able to build a personalized homepage from one of our
homepage-building programs. You will have to submit your e-mail address and
password to log-in. HOWEVER, YOU MUST BE OVER 13 TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS
ACTIVITY.
Mailing Lists
You always have the right to unsubscribe from any mailing lists we may
maintain, or to delete personally identifiable electronic information we have
collected online about you. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR
GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY.
E-mail and Newsletters
We may offer fully interactive registered email services. We also may provide
informative newsletters to tell our users about interesting products or
services or to simply convey newsworthy information. Our newsletters may
include links to any independently-operated web site. Although we do not
provide any personally identifiable information to any "independently-operated
web site" (that is, a web site not owned, controlled and operated by us), such
web Site(s) may solicit personally identifiable information from kids under 13,
please be aware that we don't control and are not responsible for their
actions, privacy policy(ies) or terms of use. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL
NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN EITHER
OF THESE ACTIVITIES.
Purchasing Items
Purchasing items from various online stores may require the giving of
personally identifiable information (such as, name, credit card information).
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE
YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY.
Cookies
We may use a software technology called "cookies" to collect non-personally
identifiable information. Cookies are pieces of information that we may place
on your computer to help "personalize" your visit to the web site and to allow
you to enter our web site without having to remember and enter any special
passwords. For example, a "cookie" will allow us to remember certain things
about you, such as your user name or to track your progress on message boards
"Cookies" may include the type of browser software you use to access the
Internet (i.e. Internet Explorer, Netscape 3.0,); type of operating system
(i.e. Windows 95, Mac, etc.), and/or the domain name of your Internet service
provider. Except with respect to our e-commerce activities (e.g., on-line
purchases), we do not link your non-personally identifiable information in
"cookies" with personally identifiable information about you.
IP Address and Machine Type
An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you
are surfing the web. Web servers, the computers that "serve up" web pages,
automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you request a page
from our web site, our servers log your IP address. An IP address does not
contain personally identifiable information. Except with respect to our
e-commerce activities (e.g., on-line purchases), we do not link IP addresses
with personally identifiable information. We may use your IP address to help
diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site. Your IP
address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad
demographic information. We may also collect information about your browser
software and/or machine type (e.g., Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.).
Links
We do create links to the web sites of other parties. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, GET
YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE LINKING TO OTHER WEB SITES.
Independently-operated web sites are not associated with or authorized by us
and may also have links leading to this web site. We cannot control any of
these links and are not responsible for any content appearing on web sites
linked to or from our web site, or for any personal information gathered at
those independently-operated web sites.
Data Integrity and Security
We take reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure. We
have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard the information we collect. In cases where the information is not
stored on separate computer servers, it is only accessible from specific
computers within our control. We have and will continue to take reasonable
measures to assure the security and accuracy of all information our visitors
share with us. Our efforts include procedures designed to avoid any
unauthorized access, alteration, misuse or disclosure of personally
identifiable information.
Changes
Our Changes
We reserve the right to change or remove this privacy policy at our discretion.
If we decide to change our privacy policy we will post those changes here. We
encourage you to visit this area frequently to stay informed. We will tell you
via e-mail if we make any material changes in how we collect, use or we wish to
share your child's information in any manner not previously authorized by you.
Your Changes
This web site gives users options for changing and modifying information
previously provided. If you are a registered visitor, you are welcome to view,
change or delete your registration information at any time, or to update the
contact information we have for you or to inform us that you do not want to
receive new product or other information from us. Simply go to the registration
page of this web site using the same computer from which you initially
registered. When the welcome screen appears, you can click on "delete or add".
Kids under 13 cannot change registration information, only the parent or
guardian can do that. Parents should follow the procedure that they used to
enable their child's registration to change any information at any time.
Special Note To Kids
If you are under 13 years old, ask your parent or guardian BEFORE giving out
any information about yourself, such as your name, age, address or e-mail
address. You do not have to give any personal information about yourself.
Remember, if you are under 13 you must have your parent or guardian make any
changes to information given to us in the past or to update your profile. If
you are ever unsure about anything you are seeing on this web site, ask your
parent or guardian for help.
If you are 13 years or older, you may have the ability to participate in online
contests or sweepstakes, e-mail other users or post messages on portions of
this web site. In the event that you do post messages on this web site,
remember that other users of this web site may have access to your e-mail
address and user name. However, if you participate in online contests,
sweepstakes or promotions, you cannot collect any prizes without your parent's
or guardian's consent.
Special Note To Parents Of Kids Under 13
We may collect the name of a child or parent and online contact information in
order to obtain parental consent to parents of kids under 13 or to provide
parental notice. If a visitor indicates that he/she is under the age of 13,
he/she will be asked to supply a parent's or guardian's e-mail address. In this
case, the parent or guardian will receive an e-mail message containing
instructions on how to enable the child's registration and until the parent or
guardian enables the child's registration, the account is disabled. If we do
not receive the parent's or guardian's said consent within a reasonable time,
we delete this information from our records. We also may collect this
information to respond to a specific request from a child under 13. Once we
respond to a request from a child under 13, we may not contact your child again
and the information is deleted from our records. We take very seriously the
safety of children, especially those under 13 and may also collect this
information to protect that safety. If we do collect information to protect the
safety of your child, we provide notice to you and we do not use that
information for any other purpose. You can always ask us to review or delete
any of your child's information at any time by sending us a written request at
the Contact Information below and you can ask that we do not use or collect any
more personal information from your child. However, if you ask us to delete
your child's information that is necessary to participate in our activities, we
may have to ask your child not to participate in our activities.
To What web sites does this Privacy Policy Apply?
The terms of this Privacy Policy apply to all information submitted on this web
site. In addition, the terms shall only apply to web sites owned and operated
by Richard J. Wells. It does not otherwise apply to any independently-operated
web sites, for which separate privacy policies and terms of use shall apply.
Finally, since this Privacy Policy is intended to protect individuals, it does
not apply to businesses or persons acting on behalf of businesses.
Contact Information
We hope you have a better understanding of our commitment to protect privacy.
If you have any questions or comments about anything in this Privacy Policy,
please contact us.
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, or wish to correct or delete
information that we may have about you or your child, please contact us.
For additional information about our web site, please see our
Terms of Use.
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