FAMILYCLICK PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to , a safe place for your family and children to find online information and entertainment! FamilyClick provides family-oriented filtered access to the Internet as well as other online services. We want to contribute to providing a safe and secure online environment for our visitors and customers. Because of this desire, we are strongly committed to protecting your privacy. The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you as to what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit , how we may use that information, under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, your information.
The Information FamilyClick Gathers
When you sign up to use a FamilyClick service (such as the FamilyClick online access service or FamilyClick chat) or when you order a product from FamilyClick, we will require certain personal information about you such as your name, email address or screen name, billing address, type of computer and credit card number. Without this information, we cannot provide you with the products or services that you requested from us. We also may ask you for information about your preferences and interests so that both you and we can take advantage of the interactivity of the online experience. You may always choose not to provide answers regarding your preferences and interests.
When people visit the FamilyClick site, we log screen names, IP addresses and browser types and we may link this information to personally identifiable information to troubleshoot any problems that may arise with your use of the FamilyClick Service. In addition, we may link screen names and IP addresses to personally identifiable information if we have reason to believe that the visitor has violated our Terms of Use. FamilyClick gathers aggregate usage information such as the number and frequency of visitors to and its areas. We do not use or disclose information about your individual visits to .
FamilyClick uses a technology nicknamed "cookies" that tells us how and when pages within our site are visited and by how many people. This enables us to provide our visitors with a tailored user experience. With the help of cookies, we can present you with customized content and ads that will be of more interest to you. You may use cookies so you don’t have to re-enter passwords each time you visit our site. FamilyClick cookies do not collect personally identifiable information, although we may combine information collected through cookies with personally identifiable information we collect during the registration process to enable us to compensate our vendors and partners that may have referred you to FamilyClick. In no event, however, will we share any of your personally identifiable information with our vendors or partners without your express permission. Keep in mind that you may be served cookies from our advertisers while visiting our site. We do not control, nor do we have access to any of the information they may collect.
How FamilyClick Uses the Information We Gather
We may use the contact information we collect from you to notify you of additional products and services, service updates and special offers. You may choose not to receive these notices by letting us know on the Administer Family screens under Email Settings. We also may provide statistical "ratings" information to our partners about how our members, collectively, use . We do this so our partners can understand how much people use their areas and our site which will enable them to provide you with the best possible online experience as well.
The FamilyClick web site logs IP addresses for systems administration purposes, and these logs will be analyzed to constantly improve the value of the materials available on the web site. Our gathering and usage of IP address information is similar to television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. We only use such data in aggregate form for marketing, advertising or other uses. In other words, you can browse the site without entering any personal information and, therefore, remain anonymous during your visit. Using aggregate data helps us to determine how much our customers use certain parts of the FamilyClick online service, so we can improve our service and make it is as appealing as possible.
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personal information on message boards, chat areas or in other public discussion areas, that information could be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people.
Security
Your personal information and credit card information are scrambled using advanced encryption technology before being sent over the Internet. This makes it virtually impossible for your information to be stolen or intercepted while being transferred through cyberspace. When we receive your information, it remains encrypted until we are ready to process it.
Links
The FamilyClick web site contains links to other web sites. Please be aware that our privacy policy does not apply to these linked sites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any web site.
Opt-out Policy
If at any time after registering, you change your mind about sharing your information with third parties, you may email your request to privacy.
Changing and Updating this Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy for , we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and under what conditions we will disclose it to third parties. |
