Scikids Mail Privacy Statement 


OVERVIEW OF OUR POLICY
The security of personal information is a high priority at Scikids.com. Scikids.com respects your privacy. Our staff, contractors and others who help us operate our web sites follow this policy on privacy and fair information practices for online activities of Scikids.com. We maintain these web sites and all associated data with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification and improper disclosure. No computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard. But Scikids.com is committed to providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our web sites and their information against foreseeable hazards.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY.
This Privacy Policy will always be available to users on this page for you to read. We will update this privacy and fair information practices policy to reflect new features, services and options, as well as any other changes with regard to the use of personal information. By registering as a member of a Scikids.com, you agree to accept this Privacy Policy and are aware that our policy may change over time. Continued use of the Scikids.com services will signify that you agree to these changes.

CHILDREN.
Kids under 13. The Scikids.com Sites are not directed to children under the age of 13. 

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE.
Below are more details about the information Scikids.com  gathers from you and how we use it.

A. Membership Information. When you register for membership on our site using our  online registration form, You provide us with Your full name, password, secret question with answer (for password recovery) , password, state, country, zip code, gender and your year of birth.

B. Email Updates to Members. Scikids.com  may send service email announcements to registered users.  These email updates will not be sent more than six times a year. 

C. Surveys and User Research. Scikids.com conducts email and web-delivered surveys from time to time, as well as instant polls, to gather information about our audience. It is important to remember that taking these surveys and polls is entirely optional. You have no obligation to respond to them. We share only the aggregate results of these surveys, not individual data, with our advertisers and partners to help them better understand our services and monitor the reach of their advertising on our service. We also store some of the information that our users provide in these surveys to help us understand your interests and to make the site more useful for you.

D. Use of Cookies. On the Internet, a "cookie" is a piece of information (a file) that a Web site transfers to a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is common on the Internet. The process we use to serve advertisements and to track use of our site involves cookies. Cookies also enable us to measure aggregate, or total usage and traffic to our site and to specific offerings. This aids us in producing content that best meets our users’ preferences. In order to implement new services, we may use other types of cookies as well. You may configure your browser to reject cookies, but this may interfere with some functionality of the Scikids.com Sites. 

E. Other Third Parties. Scikids.com may share non-personal, aggregate, or summary, information regarding our users with other third parties not mentioned in this policy. Scikids takes reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that Aggregate Information does not describe or reveal the identity of an individual user, and instead describes only the demographics, habits or usage patterns of users as a group.

F. Legal Authorities. As used in this Policy, "Personally Identifiable Information" means information about You which, in our reasonable judgement, could be used by third parties to identify you as an individual. Scikids.com may disclose Personally Identifiable Information in cases when it is necessary to identify someone who may be violating Scikids.com’s Terms of Service . Scikids.com  may disclose Personally Identifiable Information of our users to  comply with any subpoena, order of court, or request by a regulatory or law enforcement agency to gain access to the information, including Personally Identifiable Information, which We collect.

ACCESS TO OTHER SITES THROUGH SCIKIDS.COM
Linking to Other Sites. You should be aware that when you are on a Scikids.com site, you will have the opportunity to visit, or link to  independent web sites, not operated by Scikids.com, that are connected to our network for our users. Such sites are operated by external, third-party service providers. Some of these sites will have their own separate membership processes and privacy policies. Scikids.com does not control sites that are operated by others and so cannot be responsible for the information practices of these sites. Other sites may set their own cookies, collect data or solicit personal information. It is always a good idea to check the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of any site before offering any of your personal information.

SECURITY.
The Scikids.com Sites use diligent efforts to protect the security and integrity of the information you provide to us once it is received on our systems. We also try to protect Your information against third parties who may try to obtain it unlawfully. However, "perfect security" does not exist either in Cyberspace or in real space. For instance, information that You provide may be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. 

UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION.
To update your account information , please use the "Modify your account" at the Scikids Site.

QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about the Scikids.com Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@scikids.com.  


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