PRIVACY POLICY
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to caprivacy@nickonline.com or write us:
Nicktoons Network.com/CA Privacy Coordinator
Nickelodeon
1515 Broadway
New York , New York 10036
Nicktoons Network Privacy Policy
Nicktoons Network.com is the place in cyberspace where fans of Nicktoons Network can come to find out more about their favorite Nicktoons Network show. Nicktoons Network.com believes in the power of kids and we urge both kids and their parents to use and enjoy our website. While we encourage the interactive nature of online media, we strive to educate parents and kids about how to appropriately safeguard their privacy when traveling on the Web. Nicktoons Network.com is committed to complying fully with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Our information collection practices are described below. We urge kids to check with their parents before entering information on any website and we urge parents to discuss with their kids restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don't know.
What Information Is Collected?
At Nicktoons Network.com, it's our policy to create website content that requires minimum collection of information from our visitors. Generally, Nicktoons Network.com limits our collection of information from kids to what is known as non-personally identifiable information (e.g. birthday, gender, state, zip code and country of residence). When collected, this information permits kids to participate in some activities wit.out giving unnecessary personal information. From time to time, however, we may request limited personally identifiable information (e.g. kid's email address and/or email address of parent or third party), as explained below, in order to conduct online contests or sweepstakes. Nicktoons Network.com does not condition a kid's participation in any of our online activities on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity.
Contests and Sweepstakes
Nicktoons Network.com occasionally offers contests and sweepstakes, which may be entered online. To participate in a contest or sweepstakes, a child is asked to provide his or her first name and email address. Sometimes, when we conduct contests or sweepstakes that may involve more than a one-time contact, we ask additionally for the email address of his or her parent. In such types of contests or sweepstakes, we send the child's parent an email within two business days informing him or her of the child's entry and give the parent the option to have the child's entry deleted. All the information collected by Nicktoons Network.com is securely maintained and used only for the purpose of conducting the contest or sweepstakes. Once the contest or sweepstakes if finished, we then delete any personal information collected. The information collected in a Nicktoons Network.com sweepstakes may be passed to a fulfillment house which may use the information to help run the contest or sweepstakes and may not use it for other purposes and has agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
Email Messages
Nicktoons Network.com may provide the opportunity to send e-mail to us. We may ask for first names, but we request no personally identifiable information except an e-mail address, which we use solely for the purpose of responding to messages and/or requests.
All information collected for email messages is used only to send the requested email message and to respond to email questions and/or requests and is deleted from our system once the email message or email response is sent.
Use and Disclosure of Information
Nicktoons Network.com uses or may use personally identifiable information that kids provide for such purposes conducting contests or sweepstakes, and responding to their questions regarding our products and services. Nicktoons Network.com currently does not disclose to third parties personally identifiable information that kids provide, except from time to time, we may transfer, disclose or share such information with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain online activities (e.g. conducting contests and sweepstakes). Such third parties have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Additionally, in the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating to Nicktoons Network.com are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information submitted to us may be transferred to the acquiring entity. Finally, we may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property or safety of our website, users of our website and others.
Cookies and Log Data
Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies allow websites to "remember" users' activities on a website, as well as users' visits to a site. At Nicktoons Network.com, cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our website over a given period and to remember user screen names so that the need for multiple log-ins is eliminated. We do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information that kids submit online when participating in our activities. You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser.
The ads appearing on Nicktoons Network.com are delivered to you by a third party ad service provider. In the course of serving ads, the ad service provider may place or recognize their own unique cookie on your browser, and may use non-personally identifiable information about your visit to Nicktoons Network.com, such as the number of times that you have viewed an ad. For more information about the third party ad service provider and how to "opt out" of the ad serving cookie, please click here.
Log data collected on web servers both within Nicktoons Network.com's control and under the control of Nicktoons Network.com's third party ad service provider, who is required to maintain such data on a confidential basis, supplies Nicktoons Network.com with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. Nicktoons Network.com uses such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many kids as possible. We do not link the log data collected to the personal information that kids submit online when participating in our activities.
Parental Access
At Nicktoons Network.com, our goal is to help parents ensure that their kids have a safe and fun online experience. That's why we've set up a system by which parents can print out and mail or fax us a signed form that allows them to review any identifiable information collected about their child, have this information deleted, and/or request that there be no further collection or use of their child's information.
You can link to the form from here.
Nicktoons Network.com takes steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting information about a child and to ensure that the person is in fact the child's parent or legal guardian.
Security
Nicktoons Network.com has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected in the future is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against unauthorized access.
Nicktoons Network.com provides internal "bumper pages" that inform kids that they have linked to another site, including an advertiser's site, and instructs them not to give out information online before checking with their parents. These other websites are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be substantially different from ours. We encourage visitors to other websites to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of those websites.
Questions/Concerns?
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding Nicktoons Network.com's privacy policy and/or practices, please email us at:
Nicktoons Network
1515 Broadway
New York , New York 10036
nicktoonsprivacy@nickonline.com
To parents: Nicktoons Network.com offers you and your child an online safety guide.
which we encourage you to use as an entre into discussing safety and privacy concerns with your child. It can be reached by clicking on the "Online Safety" link.
The Nicktoons Network.com website is intended for domestic viewers and is consequently directed towards residents of the United States .
This privacy policy was last updated on January 6, 2005.
|
