TO THE CHILD: Many words in this
statement are big words. If you are under the age of 12, you may not understand
this statement. If you would like a better understanding of the following
statement, get help from someone 13 and up. :)
TO THE
PARENTS: Here at Chibipaws™ we wouldn't want one main thing to happen,
your child's safety put in danger. So here at Chibipaws™, we honor your child's
safety the most. So we have compiled up this Privacy Policy on how we collect
anonymous information on your child and how we use it.
Chibipaws™ takes your privacy very seriously, and one thing we
try our best to prevent is security of your computer, you,and your family, and
anyone else that uses your computer. Because we gather certain types of
information about our users, we want to help you understand the terms and
conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy
statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how
to correct or change it. These privacy practices apply to the Web site that you
were viewing when you clicked through to this policy, which is operated directly
by us, by our partner, or by our affiliate.
What information does Chibipaws™ collect? Our primary goal in
collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most
useful content and services. Several of the services and features that we
offer on Chibipaws™ require you to provide us with information as a condition
of usage. These include access to subscription-only areas, (i.e. platinum
subscriptions the ability to
participate in the art contest or other contest we may provide, email
newsletters and participation in message boards.
We collect personally
identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and credit card
information (only for platinum subscriptions) when you provide it to us. From
time to time, we may also collect other sensitive information such as gender
and user name. We may also receive information about you from other sources and
add it to the information you provided to us. The other sources only shall
give us this information if that source has asked you for the information and
we are a participating sponsor of them.
What is Chibipaws™ practice regarding cookies? Your Internet
browser has a feature called cookies, which stores small amounts of data on
your computer about your visit to every website you visit. You do not need to
have cookies turned on to visit most Chibipaws™, although active participation
in certain areas of Chibipaws™ may require cookies. Although this information
has been stored on your computer, it is safe to delete it, you can delete it
through a Disk Cleanup Wizard. Depending on what cookies you do delete,
determines on if saved login information saved to your computer, (i.e.
passwords, user names, form entries). Cookies alone tell us nothing about who
you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information,
in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways
described below. By adjusting your settings on your browser, you may elect not
to allow cookies to be collected.
We also use technologies, including
electronic images known as Web bugs—sometimes called transparent GIFs, clear
GIFs, or beacons—that allow us to track general user-traffic patterns. We also
automatically receive and record information from our servers and from your
browser, including your IP address, the time of your visit to pages on our
site, and information about pages you visited. Unless you have registered for
platinum, or one of our future services., the information we gather through
the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally
identifiable information about you.
We use cookies and tracking
technologies in a variety of ways, including:
1.: Keeping count of
return visits to Chibipaws™ or our advertisers' or partners' sites; 2.:
Accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate (data collected in mass),
statistical information on Web-site and advertisement usage; 3.:
Determining which features our overall user population likes best; 4.:
Saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit
Chibipaws™; 5.: Displaying the most appropriate advertising or content
based on your interests.
We use the
information we gather for four general purposes:
1.: To customize the
advertising and the content you see; 2.: To enhance the user experience in
Chibipaws™. We use tracking information to determine how well each page
performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to
those pages. This helps us continue to build a better service for you; 3.:
To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending
out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in paid services,
polls, contests, and message boards; 4.: To send you information you agreed
to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
How does Chibipaws™ share the information? Personally
identifiable information We will make your personally identifiable
information available to other companies or people when:
1.: You have
elected to allow us to share that information at the time that you registered
with us or provided us the information, or through a subsequent affirmative
election through our website. 2.: You volunteer information or create a
public profile in the course of your participation in our community features
such as forums, photo sharing or other forms of public communication and
interaction. 3.: You use branded services (i.e., sites or services that
we offer to you in connection with a partner, who is identified on the site).
When you use a branded service within our network of sites, you grant us
permission to pass your registration information back to that service partner.
Their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy
policies. 4.: We hire third-party vendors to provide specialized services
such as customer support; email message deployment; suppression, merge and
de-duplication services; data processing; and special products or services
that you have requested. These companies are only allowed to use the
information in order to help us fulfill our services to you. We do not provide
your information to these companies for their own, permanent use. 5.: You
unsubscribe for a mailing that we send to you on behalf of a third party. We
may share your removal instruction with the third party so that it may be
added to that person’s list of people to whom they may not send emails. 6.:
You are the winner of a contest that is co-sponsored with a third party and
that third party needs your information in order to manage the prize
fulfillment process. 7.: When required by law, such as when we respond to
subpoena, court orders, or legal process. 8.: We believe that your actions
violate applicable laws, Chibipaws™ Terms &
Conditions, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or
threaten the rights, property, or safety of Chibipaws™, our users, or
others.
Aggregate information We aggregate personally
identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally
identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing,
promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any
information that could be used to identify you personally.
Users who would rather not provide any
of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register
with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services
offered by our sites without registering. We also give users the following
options:
1.:Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those
of third parties when registering. Users who opt in may remove themselves from
mailing lists at any time through the subscription-management pages or by
following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from
us; 2.:Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering
for a site, provided, however, that you may not be able to use some of our
products or services without providing us with certain information.
How can I review and update my personally identifiable information?
You can review, correct, or change the information collected during
registration for Chibipaws™. The instructions for doing this can be found in
our member-services areas. Users may change information at any time and as
often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems with our services or
who have questions about how our services work can contact us using our live
support area's, whereas you may submit a ticket if a representative is online,
and if not, send a e-mail to the administration.
Any
modifications to our privacy practices will be reflected in our news page,
located here. If there is a
material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate it on Chibipaws™
that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy
statement. If we are going to be using the information collected from users in
a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we
will send affected users written notice of the change by e-mail.
Privacy of children Chibipaws™ is directed to any user of any age,
but children under the age of 13, must get parental permission to use
Chibipaws™ along with our services. We operate Chibipaws™ in compliance with
the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Questions? Comments? Questions regarding this privacy statement or
any other aspects of Chibipaws™ should be sent to us through the support
area of the website. If no one is online send us a e-mail, which is the
recommended way, because you can contact the administration directly. We read
every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also
file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the information.
