Privacy
Policy
KidsTube.com is operated and
presented to users in
all locations by KidsTube.com LLC
United States of America. This Privacy Policy
covers use
of information collected by KidsTube.com LLC.
We are committed
to providing a fun, entertaining, and safe website for
people of all ages. We
are dedicated to safeguarding any
personal information collected on the KidsTube
website. We
ensure that our privacy policy and our information practices adhere
to the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act, applicable
European Union Data Protection
legislation, Canadian federal and provincial
privacy
legislation, applicable Brazilian data
privacy laws and all other
applicable legislation.
To
help ensure a rewarding
online experience for our
visitors, we provide you with this Privacy Policy that
describes the information practices of the KidsTube.com
website ( www.kidstube.com ) ,
including how we
collect, use and disclose personal
information.
The
Information
We Collect
As described in this Privacy
Policy, we directly collect from child users during our
initial registration
process a parent's email address, the
child's account name, and the child's
password. When a
KidsTube child registrant acquires a paid membership, we may
collect additional personally identifiable information
("PII") from the
registrant's parent. The types of PII
that may be collected at that time include
the parent's
full name, email address, and credit card billing information
including mailing address. The KidsTube website does not
condition a child's
participation in an
online
activity on the child providing more personal
information
than is reasonably necessary for that activity.
The KidsTube
website requires child users to provide a parent's valid
email address in order
to register on thewebsite. We use
this information to send the parent a message
that can be
used to activate the KidsTube account, to notifythe parent about our
privacy practices, to send the parent communications
either about the parent’s
and child’s KidsTube accounts or
about features of our Web site, and for the
other purposes
described in this Privacy Policy. This
email address is
correlated with the account user name.
We may also
request a user name
and email address when a user submits
a form through the "Contact Us" portion of
the KidsTube
website so that we may respond to the inquiry. We collect the
e-mail address for the sole purpose of responding directly
on a one-time basis
to a specific inquiry.
For some
of our online activities - such as polls
or surveys - we
may ask users to provide information that is not personally
identifiable, such as country of residence or a visitor's
favorite color. We
also enable users to chat online
through our website, but we take measures so
that users
cannot communicate personal information through this chat function.
These measures include filters and live moderation.
Nonetheless, if you use the
chat function within this
website and disclose personally identifiable
information,
you should be aware that such information could be read, collected
or used by other users. We are not responsible for the
personally identifiable
information you choose to
submit through the chat
function.
Additionally,
when visitors come to our site, we may passively
collect
certain non-personally identifiable computer information, such as the
type of computer operating system (e.g., Windows XP or Mac
OS), the user's IP
Address, the web browser (e.g.,
Netscape, Internet Explorer) being used, the
frequency
with which guests visit various parts of our sites, and information
regarding the Internet service provider, in order to make
our sites more
interesting and useful to you and for
various purposes related to our business.
We may collect
this non-personally identifiable information through the use of
software technologies such as unique identifiers or
"cookies." Cookies are small
text files that we place in
visitors' computer browsers to store their
preferences.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is
being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You
do this through your
browser (like Netscape Navigator or
Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is
a little
different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way
to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't
have access to many
features that make your Web experience
smoother, and some of our services may
not function
properly.
Finally, we collect financial information as set
out in Section 5 of this Privacy Policy. We do not use
this financial
information for any purpose other than
processing payments to KidsTube.com LLC.
The financial
information that you enter to purchase a membership is not stored
by KidsTube.com LLC, but, instead, is retained by our
payments processing vendor
for the purpose of processing
credit card payments made to KidsTube.com
LLC.
If
personal information is not provided to us, then KidsTube.com LLC
may not agree to KidsTube membership and may not be able
to provide access to
certain content and functionality on
the KidsTube website, or to provide other
information,
products or services which may be requested.
How we
Use, Disclose, and Protect the Information We
Collect
We may disclose information
where we are required
to do so by law, for example, in
response to a court order or a subpoena, or
where we
disclose information to service providers or other group companies who
provide support for the operations of our website and who
do not use or disclose
the information for any other
purpose. To the extent permitted by applicable
law, we
also may disclose PII in response to a law enforcement agency's or other
public agency's (including schools or children services)
request or if we feel
that such disclosure may prevent the
instigation of a crime, facilitate an
investigation
related to public safety or protect the safety of a child using
our website, protect the security or integrity of our
website, or enable us to
take precautions against
liability.
If we sell all or part of our
business
or make a sale or transfer of our assets or are otherwise involved in a
merger or business transfer, we may transfer PII to a
third party as part of
that transaction, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Finally, we
may
transfer PII and store it outside of the jurisdiction in which a member of
KidsTube is located. As set out above KidsTube.com LLC is
operating from the
U.S.A., which was recognized as a
country providing an adequate level of
protection by
European Commission, so that the information we collect will be
mainly processed and
stored there.
Collection of
Information for
Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
KidsTube
allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad
networks, to serve advertisements within the KidsTube
Sites. These
third-party ad servers or ad networks
use technology to send, directly to
your browser, the
advertisements and links that appear on the KidsTube Sites.
They automatically receive your IP address when this
happens. They may also use
other technologies (such as
cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the
effectiveness of their advertisements and to
personalize the advertising
content you
see
KidsTube does not provide any personally identifiable
information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks
without your consent
or except as part of a specific
program or feature for which you will have the
ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note
that if an advertiser asks KidsTube to show an
advertisement to a certain
audience (for example girls
ages 8-12) or audience segment (for example girls
ages
8-12 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that
advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude
that you fit the
description of the audience they are
trying to reach. The advertiser may also
use information
regarding your use of the KidsTube Sites, such as the number of
times you viewed an ad (but not any personally
identifiable information), to
determine which ads to
deliver to you
You should consult the respective
privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad
networks (see links
below) for more information on their
practices and for instructions on how to
opt-out of
certain practices. KidsTube's privacy policy does not apply to, and
we cannot control the activities of, such other
advertisers or web sites. Any
data obtained by third-party
ad servers subsequently shared with KidsTube is
maintained
and dealt with by KidsTube in accordance with this privacy policy The
following is a list of advertisers currently serving ad
content to the
KidsTube.com Website.
1. Google : http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy.html -
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to
serve
ads on your
site. Users may opt out of the
use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and
content network privacy policy.
2. TheCuteKids.com : http://www.thecutekid.com/legal.php
3.
Red Octane : http://www.redoctane.com/Privacy-Policy;jsessionid=0a010b441f430ac1d914a7954177b5c6a1be6a22e736.e3iKaNePch4Re34Pa38Ta38Oa350
Security
The security of your personal information
is important to us. We have put in place appropriate
physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures to
safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access,
maintain
data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.
When you enter sensitive information, such as your credit
card number, or our
membership subscription form, we
encrypt that information using secure socket
layer
technology (SSL).
Access to Information, and
Objection to Information Collection and
Retention
Please
contact our
Privacy Director as provided in Section 7 if you would like to
access the PII that we have collected
online from you
or your child, correct
factual errors in such information,
request to have this information deleted, or
request that
we no longer collect or maintain such information. Please be sure
to include your email address and a
telephone number where we can reach
you. To protect you and your child's privacy
and security,
we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before
granting you access to the personal information that we
collect
and maintain
about you or your
child.
Contact
Us
If you have questions or wish to
send us comments
about this Privacy Policy, please send an
e-mail with your questions or comments
to privacy@kidstube.com or
write us:
KidsTube.com LLC
Attention Privacy
Director
2707
Delaware Ave.
Joplin, MO
64804
USA
Please be assured that any
personal
information that you provide in communications to the above e-mail and
postal mail addresses will not be used to send you
promotional
materials.
A Final
Note to
Parents
The Internet offers
a world of opportunity for
children. Your guidance and
involvement are essential to help ensure
that
children
have a safe and rewarding online experience. We encourage you to visit
the GetNetWise.org site and look through the "Kids Safety"
section together.
Your efforts to instill responsible
information practices will help steer your
children to
age-appropriate sites and will go a long way toward ensuring that
your children have enriching experiences
online.
Effective Date
The privacy
policy set out above
is effective as of February 9, 2009,
and applies to all information
previously obtained by
KidsTube.com LLC. We reserve the right to change the
privacy policy at our sole discretion KidsTube users will
be informed of any
such change by us posting a new privacy
policy on
the KidsTube website and
the effective date
of any change of privacy policy will be clearly marked. As
required by law, we will not use PII in ways that are
materially different from
the ones described in this
Privacy Policy without also providing notification of
such
practices and obtaining consent to any such
different uses. 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.