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Privacy Policy

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for The Kidira Foundation. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:

  • What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site and how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  • What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  • The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  • How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us such as; name, address, phone and billing information via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

What information is collected?
The Kidira Foundation collects information during the registration process. The personally identifiable information The Kidira Foundation collects includes first and last name, address, e-mail address, and mailing address. In addition, The Kidira Foundation may also collect non-personally identifiable information such as: country, region or state, zip or postal code, time zone, gender, birth date, occupation and other demographics. You may update your Member Information at any time from within your The Kidira Foundation portal by clicking the "Edit my Profile" link in the "My Info" module.

How does The Kidira Foundation use my information?
First and foremost, all of your personally identifiable information listed above is stored in the highest regard. The Kidira Foundation keeps your personally identifiable information private and does not share it with any third parties whatsoever. The Kidira Foundation will never disclose your Personal Information unless acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of The Kidira Foundation; (3) enforce The Kidira Foundation Terms of Use; or (4) act to protect the interests of its members or others.

Your demographic information may be used for one or more of the following: targeted communications. Also, demographic information about specific individual members will never be released to any external party under the same circumstances as the personally identifiable information listed above. In all other uses, demographic information will only be released collectively and, when used, will not be associated with any specific member.

The Kidira Foundation will never send you any unsolicited information, including e-mail and text messages, except as mentioned below. New users will receive a The Kidira Foundation welcome letter explaining the features provided by our service. The Kidira Foundation may also send periodic member letters to announce important service changes, new features, technical issue updates and news about other The Kidira Foundation products and services. The Kidira Foundation may also contact you to conduct research about your opinion of current and prospective services via e-mail surveys. The Kidira Foundation may from time to time contact you, on behalf of external business partners, about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. The Kidira Foundation will never share your e-mail address with these business partners.

How is information COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) compliant?
We take all measures to ensure that your information is handled with the utmost respect. For children's information, it is even that much more important. We have detailed all the specifics for handling children's information on our COPPA Privacy Policy page.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by updating your user preferences or contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

What can I do to manage unsolicited e-mail/text messages with my Kidira Foundation account?
The Kidira Foundation will not sell, lease or rent its member lists with any third parties. The best way to avoid receiving unsolicited communication is to be cautious and limited to the sites which you submit this information. For more information on how to best use The Kidira Foundation's tools, please contact abuse@kidira.org.

How do I control my personal information?
You may update your Registration Information at any time from within your The Kidira Foundation portal by clicking the "Edit my Profile" link in the "My Account" module.

How can I unsubscribe from The Kidira Foundation service altogether?
Because we value our member's privacy and rights, we have made it very simple to unsubscribe from our service. We never want to put a member in a situation that is difficult to unsubscribe. Please note that if you unsubscribe, you will "lose" those members in your Kidira network, and if you wanted to rejoin Kidira, you would not be able to restore your previously invited network. To unsubscribe, simply go to your The Kidira Foundation portal and click on the "Unsubscribe" link in the "My Info" module.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please e-mail privacy@kidira.org or contact us at:

The Kidira Foundation
548 Market Street, Suite #39473
San Francisco, CA 94104

This Privacy Policy was last updated on: 3/8/2010 5:29:47 PM