Privacy Policy
Effective
March 16th, 2010
Zoodles.com Privacy
Policy
Inquisitive Minds provides this Privacy
Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection,
use and disclosure of personal information we receive from members of www.zoodles.com (this “Site”). This
Privacy Policy applies only to information that you provide to us through
this Site. This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time.
We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy
Policy on the Site. You are advised to consult this policy regularly
for any changes. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms
used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of
Service www.zoodles.com/home/legal/terms.
As used in this policy, the terms “using”
and “processing” information include using cookies on a computer,
subjecting the information to statistical or other analysis and using
or handling information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting,
storing, evaluating, modifying, deleting, using, combining, disclosing
and transferring information within our organization or among our affiliates
within the United States or internationally.
Information Collection and Use
Our primary goals in collecting information
are to provide and improve our Site, services, features and content,
to administer your Account (as defined below) (together, the “Service”)
and to enable members to enjoy and easily navigate the Site.
Personally Identifiable Information.
- When you register with us through the Site, as an Inquisitive Minds Parent (“Inquisitive Minds Parent”), or when you choose to add information to your profile we will ask you for personally identifiable information. This refers to information about you that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, your name, email address, home address, payment information, phone number and certain information related to your social networks. We use your Personal Information mainly to provide the Service and administer your inquiries. As membership accounts are held by Inquisitive Minds Parents (“Accounts” or “Account”), and not their children, the only information we retain about your child is that information which you choose to provide within the context of your Account so that we may provide the Site and the Services. For example, this information may include, but is not limited to, your child’s first name and month and year of birth.
- We also collect the other information that you provide as part of registration and the administration and personalization of your profile page (e.g., without limitation, zip code (on its own) and individual preferences) (“Non-Identifying Information”).
- We use your Personal Information (in some cases, in conjunction with your Non-Identifying Information) mainly to provide the Service and administer your inquiries.
- Certain Non-Identifying Information would be considered a part of your Personal Information if it were combined with other identifiers (for example, combining your zip code with your street address) in a way that enables you to be identified. But the same pieces of information are considered Non-Identifying Information when they are taken alone or combined only with other Non-Identifying Information (for example, your viewing preferences). We may combine your Personal Information with Non-Identifying Information and aggregate it with information collected from other Inquisitive Minds Parents to attempt to provide you with a better experience, to improve the quality and value of the Service and to analyze and understand how our Site and Service are used. We may also use the combined information without aggregating it to serve you specifically, for instance to deliver a product to you according to your preferences or restrictions.
- Certain data is collected and analyzed while you or your child is using the Inquisitive Minds Browser. This data is used to provide and improve the Service and includes, but is not limited to, URLs visited, time of visit, and errors encountered.
- We also use your Personal Information to contact you with Inquisitive Minds Parents marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you, including but not limited to, parental updates on your child’s learning and progress. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or update your “member preferences” information. (See “Changing or Deleting Information,” below.)
Log Data.
When you visit the Site, whether as an Inquisitive Minds Parent or a
non-registered member just browsing (any of these, a “User”),
our servers automatically record information that your browser sends
whenever you visit a website (“Log Data”). This
Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet
Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type or the webpage you were visiting
before you came to our Site, pages of our Site that you visit, the time
spent on those pages, information you search for on our Site, access
times and dates, and other statistics. We use this information
to monitor and analyze use of the Site and the Service and for the Site’s
technical administration, to increase our Site’s functionality and
user-friendliness, and to better tailor it to our visitors’ needs.
For example, some of this information is collected so that when you
visit the Site again, it will recognize you and serve information appropriate
to your interests. We also use this information to verify that
visitors to the Site meet the criteria required to process their requests.
We do not treat Log Data as Personal Information or use it in association
with other Personal Information, though we may aggregate, analyze and
evaluate such information for the same purposes as stated above regarding
other Non-Identifying Information.
ClickTale.
This site uses ClickTale web analytics service. ClickTale may record mouse clicks,
mouse movements, scrolling activity as well as any text you type in this website.
ClickTale does not collect personally identifiable information that you do not voluntarily
enter in this website. ClickTale does not track your browsing habits across web
sites which do not use ClickTale services. For more information see
Privacy Policy for Information Collected by the ClickTale Web Analytics Service.
We are using the information collected by ClickTale service to monitor and improve user experience. Cookies Like many websites, we use “cookies”
to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we
transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes.
We use cookies for two purposes. First, we utilize persistent
cookies to save your registration ID and login password for future logins
to the Site. Second, we utilize session ID cookies to enable certain
features of the Site, to better understand how you interact with the
Site and to monitor aggregate usage by Users and web traffic routing
on the Site. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted
from your computer when you log off from the Site and Service and then
close your browser. Third party advertisers on the Site may also
place or read cookies on your browser.
You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting
cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites
you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not
be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of the
Service. Phishing Identity theft and the practice currently
known as “phishing” are of great concern to Inquisitive Minds.
Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is
a top priority. We do not and will not, at any time, request your
credit card information, your Account ID, login password, or national
identification numbers in a non-secure or unsolicited e-mail or telephone
communication. For more information about phishing, visit the
Federal Trade Commission’s website. Information Sharing and Disclosure
Inquisitive Minds
Parents. When you
register through the Site and submit your Personal Information to create
a profile page, other Inquisitive Minds Parents will see your “Screen
Name.” You can choose what other Personal Information you provide
as part of your profile (“Other Member Information”).
Providing Other Member Information is voluntary and should correlate
with the degree of interaction you want to have with other Inquisitive
Minds Parents. We recommend that you guard your anonymity and
sensitive information, and that of your children, and that you not use
your real name as your “Screen Name,” since that would allow others
to identify you. Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying
Information. We may share aggregated information that
includes Personal Information and certain non-identifying data collected
through the Inquisitive Minds Browser and we may otherwise disclose
Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry
analysis, demographic profiling and to deliver targeted advertising
about other products and services. Service Providers.
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our
Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Site-related
services (e.g., without limitation, maintenance services, database
management, web analytics and improvement of the Site’s features)
or to assist us in analyzing how our Site and Service are used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to
perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose
or use it for any other purpose. We may also provide Personal Information
to our business partners or other trusted entities for the purpose of
providing you with information on goods or services we believe will
be of interest to you. You can, at any time, opt out of receiving
such communications. Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement.
Inquisitive Minds cooperates with government and law enforcement officials
and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will
disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement
officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe
necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including
but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of
Inquisitive Minds or a third party, to protect the safety of the public
or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be,
or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical or legally actionable
activity. Business Transfers.
Inquisitive Minds may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all
of its assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with
a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event
of bankruptcy. Changing or Deleting Your Information All Inquisitive Minds Parents may review,
update, correct or delete the Personal Information in their registration
profile by accessing their Account management page. If you completely
delete all such information, then your Account may become deactivated.
If you would like us to delete your record in our system, please contact
us and we will attempt to accommodate your request if we do not have
any legal obligation to retain the record. See below for privacy
contact information. Security Inquisitive Minds is very concerned with
safeguarding your information. We employ administrative, physical
and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized
access. We will make any legally required disclosures
of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of
your unencrypted electronically stored “personal data” (as defined
in applicable state statutes on security breach notification) to you
via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient
time possible and without unreasonable delay, insofar as consistent
with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures
necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable
integrity of the data system. International Transfer Your information may be transferred to
— and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province,
country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may
not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are
located outside the United States and choose to provide information
to us, Inquisitive Minds transfers Personal Information to the United
States and processes it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy
followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement
to that transfer. Links to Other Sites Our Site, Service and the Application
contain links to, and may allow you to visit, other websites (“Third
Party Sites”). If you choose to visit any of these Third
Party Sites by “clicking on” another third party link or navigating
to a Third Party Site, you will be directed to that third party’s
website. The fact that we link to a website or present a banner
ad or other type of advertisement is not an endorsement, authorization
or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it
an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or
practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites.
These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your
computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
Other sites follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of
the personal information you submit to them. We encourage you
to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you
visit. Our Policy Toward Children Inquisitive Minds Accounts are held by
parents, as such, this Site is not directed to members under 18. We
do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children
under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her
child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent,
he or she should contact us at support@zoodles.com. If we become aware that a child
under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such
information from our files. Contacting Us If you have any questions about this
Privacy Policy, please contact us at feedback@zoodles.com or at: Inquisitive Minds, Inc. 655 W Evelyn Ave, Suite #3 Mountain View, CA 94041
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