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Privacy Statement
General Privacy Statement |
Children's Privacy
Policy
FunEducation fully respects
your rights to privacy and developed this statement to demonstrate our
firm commitment to protecting your privacy. The following privacy policy
discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the
funeducation.com Web site ("Site").
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
In order to fulfill
licensing transactions or provide service to you as a customer of
FunEducation, we may require you to provide certain information to us.
Common items may include, but are not limited to, your name, address,
phone number and credit card number. By providing this information, you
are agreeing to allow us to utilize this information to complete all
transactions you request through this Site and to disclose that
information and details of all such transactions to our subsidiaries,
affiliates or necessary payment processors. ^
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Here is an explanation of
the information we gather and how it is used:
REGISTRATION
The Site's registration
form gathers contact information (e.g., your name and address), unique
identifiers (e.g., your e-mail address) and demographic information (e.g.,
your zip code). We use contact information from the registration form to
send you important updates about new features on the Site and special
offers from our affiliates. Your contact information is also used to get
in touch with you if we have a question about your registration. You may
opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Opt-Out Policy below.
Demographic and profile data is also collected at our Site. We use this
data to tailor your experience at our Site, showing you content that we
think you might be interested in and displaying the content according to
your preferences. This information is shared with our affiliates on an
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ORDER
The Site uses an order form
to request products and services. We collect contact information (e.g.,
your shipping address), unique identifiers (e.g., your name and telephone
number), financial information (e.g., your credit card number), and
demographic information (e.g., your zip code). Contact information from
the order form is used to process orders and is also used to get in touch
with you if there is a question about your order. You may opt-out of
receiving future mailings; see the Opt-Out Policy below. Financial
information that is collected is used to bill you for products and
services. Unique identifiers (e.g., your billing address) are collected to
verify your identity and protect against fraud. We keep a purchase history
for each user, tracking all purchases made on the Site. We use this
information to provide a high level of customer service, help you track
your orders and offer personalized products and content that we think you
would find helpful. Demographic and profile data is also collected during
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CONTESTS AND SURVEYS
We run contests and conduct
surveys on our Site where we will obtain contact information (e.g. your
email address) and demographic information (e.g. your zip code). We use
contact data from our contests and surveys to send visitors information
about our company, to notify winners and award prizes, and to monitor and
improve the use and satisfaction of this Site. Participation in these
contests or surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a
choice whether or not to disclose this information. Users may opt-out of
receiving future mailings; see the Opt-Out Policy below. ^
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SPECIAL OFFERS
We send all new members a
welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will
occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and
a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the
option to not receive these types of communications; see the Opt-Out
Policy below. ^ Top
PROFILE
We store information that
we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and third party sources
to create a “profile” of your preferences. We tie your personally
identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in
the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers
and to improve the content of the site for you. ^
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Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement
the personal information you submitted to us with information from third
party sources such as:
Address Verification
We use third party software to verify your address, in order to send you
future updates, promotions and information.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing
user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent
offers in which we think you would be interested. To enrich our Profiles
of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally
identifiable information they have provided to us.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user
movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small text
file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We
use cookies on this site. We link the information we store in cookies to
personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We use
both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. We use session cookies
to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie
expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your
hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent
cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help”
file.
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to
enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and
target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site.
We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party
Advertisers.” ^ Top
LOG FILES
As is true of most Web
sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log
files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser
type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating
system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to
analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around
the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a
whole.
We do link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable
information to track and store testing results. ^
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CLEAR
GIFS (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ a software
technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us
better manage content on our site by informing us what content is
effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar
in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web
users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard
drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the
size of the period at the end of this sentence. We may tie the information
gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable
information.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails
have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness
of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing
campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see
“Opt-Out Policy.” ^ Top
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Based upon the personally
identifiable information you provide us, we may send you a welcoming email
to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in
response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to
manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone,
in accordance with your wishes. ^
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AGGREGATE
INFORMATION
We share demographic data,
sales, traffic patterns and related site information with our affiliates
and other reputable third parties in aggregate form only. The shared
aggregate data does not include any personal information. ^
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TELL A
FRIEND
If you elect to use our
referral service for informing a friend about our Site, we will ask you
for the friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your
friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the Site. We use this
information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. We do not
store, rent, sell or trade these e-mail addresses. ^
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SECURITY
PROCEDURES
This Site has security
measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the
information under our control. All information is stored in a secure
database behind a firewall designed to prevent unauthorized access and
none of the information can be retrieved via the Internet.
To provide you with an additional layer of security, all credit card
numbers are stored on a computer that is not connected to the Internet.
After you type in your credit card number, it is transferred to our secure
computer. This computer is not accessible by network or modem and your
credit card number is not stored anywhere else except for normal back-ups.
In addition, all credit card numbers stored in the secure computer are
encrypted as an added security measure.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive
it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic
storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use
commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we
cannot guarantee its absolute security. ^
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OPT-OUT
POLICY
Our Site gives users the
opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications from
FunEducation. You can opt-out of receiving non-essential communications
from us at any time by emailing us.
In addition, whenever we send you a non-essential email communication, you
can opt-out of similar future mailings by simply clicking on a link
provided in the e-mail message.
If at any time you believe that we have not followed this Privacy Policy,
you have any questions about this policy, or if you would like your
information to be removed from our system, please
contact us.
We will make reasonable efforts to identify and correct any reported
problems. ^ Top
CORRECTING AND UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
If you would like to revise
the information provided to us, or feel that what we currently have on
record is incorrect, you may update the information by
emailing us.
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CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and
other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we
disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so
please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy,
we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home
page. ^ Top
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