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Privacy Notice
The following policy
applies to
"www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com"
and any other site owned and/or operated by or on behalf of
WRITER for HIRE! Press Inc. or any of its subsidiaries, that
states that it is governed by this Privacy Policy and/or links to
this Privacy Policy (the sites and entities collectively referred
to herein as ""www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com"
" and/or "WRITER for HIRE! Press" respectively)
WRITER for HIRE! Press
is committed to protecting the privacy and security of its online
visitors. This policy statement provides our visitors (e.g.,
parents, teachers, librarians, and children) with an overview of
the measures we have taken to provide a safe online environment.
This Privacy Policy
applies to our online practices only, except the Opt-Out procedure
below also applies to our offline collection of personal
information.
We consider the
following, among other things, to be personally identifiable
information: first and last name, email address, street address
and phone number.
We (and/or our agents
or affiliates) may collect online and use personally identifiable
information from our adult visitors: (1) to process and fulfill
orders for products (such as our books) or services; (2) in
connection with contests, sweepstakes, games, surveys, forums,
subscription registrations, content submissions, classroom
activities, our requests for suggestions and visitors' requests
for information; and (3) to customize the content on our site for
our visitors' current and future needs. In addition, this
personally identifiable information may be used to provide our
visitors, via e-mail or other means, information about materials
and activities that may be of interest to them, including products
or services of third parties. For these reasons, we may share
such information with third parties. If you are an individual who
has provided us with your personal information online or offline
and you do not want us to share your information with third
parties, or if there is a media notification that you no longer
wish to receive from us, please let us know by sending us your
name, address, e-mail and phone number at: Opt-Out Request, WRITER
for HIRE! Press, 1740 Hudson Bridge Road, Suite 1209, Stockbridge,
Georgia 30281. If you are writing to request that you no longer
receive a particular media notification from us, please include
the name of the media notification.
FOR PARENTS AND
GUARDIANS
There may be many
activities on the WRITER for HIRE! Press site that children can
participate in and enjoy without having to share personally
identifiable information.
For those activities
that require personally identifiable information, such as contests
and sweepstakes, in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission's
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, WRITER for HIRE! Press
will not condition a child's participation in an activity on that
child disclosing more personally identifiable information than is
reasonably necessary to administer the activity. For certain
online activities, we may require verifiable parental consent
before collecting or using personally identifiable information
from children under the age of 13. With these activities, WRITER
for HIRE! Press will notify the respective parent of our privacy
policy and obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting
personally identifiable information from the child, unless we
collect only the child's name and online contact information to:
(1) obtain parental consent or provide parents with notice; (2)
respond directly on a one-time basis to a child's specific
request; (3) respond more than once to a child's specific request
along with providing parental notice of such use; (4) protect the
safety of a child; or (5) comply with legal requirements. When we
provide parents with notice and/or seek consent, we also give
parents the ability to let us know if they do not want any further
use made of the personally identifiable information we have
collected from their child. Parents can request to review or have
deleted their child's personally identifiable information from
WRITER for HIRE! Press's records, and refuse to permit further use
of a child's personally identifiable information by writing to us
at: WRITER for HIRE! Press, 1740 Hudson Bridge Road, Suite 1209,
Stockbridge, Georgia 30281, Re: Parent's Request for Information.
Parents can also print, complete and return this letter to the
specified address.
Unless we indicate
otherwise and obtain prior parental consent, personally
identifiable information collected from children under the age of
13 will be used solely by WRITER for HIRE! Press, co-operators of
any customized features on our site, or WRITER for HIRE! Press’
agents for internal purposes and will not be sold or otherwise
transferred to third parties.
It is WRITER for HIRE!
Press's policy never to post on its site more than a child's first
name, first initial of last name, state, and age or grade, and/or
parents’ or grandparents’ names.
There are many
activities on the WRITER for HIRE! Press site that are for
teachers, which enable teachers to add another dimension to their
classroom and students' activities. In order to create such online
classroom activities, we will collect personally identifiable
information from teachers and have teachers provide a password to
their students so that students can publish materials online and
do other activities online in connection with their class through
the use of such password. We will only enable such passwords with
the verifiable consent provided by teachers acting on behalf of
parents. We may from time to time also have classroom activities
where we collect prior consent from teachers on behalf of parents
in order for children 13 years old and under to
participate.
A teacher may revoke
the consent she has provided on behalf of her students' parents,
or inquire about personally identifiable information that has been
collected from a student on WRITER for HIRE! Press Global
Classport, by writing to us at: WRITER for HIRE! Press, 1740
Hudson Bridge Road, Suite 1209, Stockbridge, Georgia 30281, Re:
Teacher's Request for Information. Teachers can also print,
complete and return this letter to the specified address.
At this time, when
teachers access our site, we are not using sign-in information,
which contains personally identifiable information. As our site
becomes more interactive, we may use the sign-in process to ensure
that only the teacher who has signed in has access to his or her
personal areas of the site. Access to administer a teacher's
homepage will then be controlled via that teacher's personal
username and password, which will be established during the
registration process.
KIDS!
Remember to be smart online.
Do not give out your
full name, e-mail address, home address, telephone number or any
other personal information that would enable someone to contact you
either online or offline, without first asking your parent or
guardian for permission.
Sometimes on our
www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com site we will ask you for your
first name and e-mail address along with your parents' e-mail
address. We do this so that we can contact your parents to let them
know that you have communicated with us, and that we have collected
this information from you.
If your mom and dad says
“No, you may not visit that website” then listen to them. They want
you to be safe and may know something you do not.
We
would be very sad if you got hurt. WE WANT YOU TO ALWAYS STAY
SAFE! Remember: Safety First. Fun Second.
We collect
non-personally identifiable information through the use of a
software technology called "cookies," and through our visitors'
voluntary submissions to us and/or upon our request. By
non-personally identifiable information, we are referring to
information about our visitors' browsers (e.g., Netscape Navigator
or Internet Explorer), operating systems (e.g., Windows or
Macintosh), Internet service providers (e.g., AOL or
MSN.COM) and other
similar information which we track in aggregate form. We also
collect the following non-personally identifiable information in
connection with content submissions, games, classrooms, and
bulletin boards: first name only and first initial of last name,
state, age, and grade. The non-personally identifiable information
that we track is anonymous and will never be identified with or
lead us back to any of our visitors.
Cookie technology
helps us to know how many people visit us and where visitors go on
our site. Cookies are small bits of information we send to your
computer. Among other things, this non-personally identifiable
information allows us to know which areas are favorites, which
areas need a bit of improvement, or what technologies and Internet
services are being used by our visitors so that we may continually
improve our visitors' online experiences.
We collect IP
addresses to obtain aggregate information on the use of
www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com
. An IP address is a
number assigned to your computer by a Web server when you're on
the Web. When you are on our site, we have a back-end server that
logs your computer's IP address. We only use the information we
find out from tracking IP addresses in the aggregate, such as how
many users entered a specific area of our site, and not to track a
specific IP address to identify an individual user. However, we
may use such information to identify a user if we feel that there
are or may be safety and/or security issues or to comply with
legal requirements.
We use third-party
companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site and to monitor
traffic to our Web site. These companies may (via cookies, gifs or
otherwise) use aggregate information (not including your name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other personally
identifiable information) about your visits to this and other Web
sites in order to provide us with data about our site and/or to
provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to
you. If you would like more information about this practice and to
know your choices about not having this information used by these
companies, click here.
WRITER for HIRE! Press
ensures that all personally and non-personally identifiable
information that it receives via the Internet is secure against
unauthorized access. This information is kept in a safe and secure
system isolated from direct connection to the Internet. This means
that no eyes but ours will ever see the information that our
visitors send to us, unless we indicate otherwise. We will give
out personal information as required by law, for example to comply
with a court order or subpoena or to assist in criminal
investigations. We may also give out personal information when we
deem it advisable in order to protect the safety and security of
our sites and visitors to our sites.
WRITER for HIRE! Press
uses PayPal as its only online source of credit card
transactions. Checks, including school, business, and personal,
are processed the old-fashioned way: we deposit them in the bank.
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Under the Fair Credit
Billing Act, your bank cannot hold you liable for more than $50 of
unauthorized charges arising from using our site. If your bank
does hold you liable for any of this $50, WRITER for HIRE! Press
will cover the entire liability for you, up to the full $50. Note
that, in the event of unauthorized use of your credit card, you
must notify your credit card provider in accordance with its
reporting rules and procedures.
Visitors will find
links from
www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com
to independently owned, controlled and/or managed World Wide Web
or Internet sites whose content we have found of possible interest
to our visitors. In these cases, but not always, the links
represent cooperative projects or mutual links established with
the organizations connected with these sites. Also, teachers and
schools are encouraged to send the links to their schools’
websites. While we initially visit these sites to which we
directly link, please note that we do not monitor or control the
content that appears on these sites and such content may be
constantly changing. We recommend that children check with their
parents or teachers before clicking off to any new sites, and we
encourage all end users of
www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com
to read the privacy policies of all linked sites before navigating
through them. Please note that we may revise our above policy
without notice to users as the content on our sites continues to
change and we will post all such material changes on this Privacy
Policy.
www.mikeandhisgrandpa.com
is owned and operated by WRITER for HIRE! Press Inc., 1740 Hudson
Bridge Road, Suite 1209, Stockbridge, Georgia 30281. We can be
reached by phone at (404) 358-0951 and by e-mail at
ContactUs@mikeandhisgrandpa.com. If you have any questions
about our privacy policy or practices, or you wish to amend,
update, or verify the information on file, or to notify us that
you want your information deleted from our files, please contact
us at this address.
The effective date of
this Privacy Policy is January, 2006.
Most recently updated
January, 2006.
TM & Copyrights 2006
WRITER for HIRE! Press. All rights reserved.
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