Ask for Kids is a U.S. site hosted in the United States.
Ask for Kids believes that maintaining the online privacy of children
is essential to building a safe site where kids can learn and
play. We provide the following privacy policy (the "Privacy
Policy") in conformance with the 1998 Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act ("COPPA").
Please note that other sites controlled, owned or operated by
IAC Search & Media or its affiliates - such as Ask.com and
Ask.co.uk, among others - are governed by a different privacy
policy even though they share the "Ask" brand. Please
see the privacy policy linked from the home page of each such
site for more information on the privacy practices on such site.
Also, this Privacy Policy does not govern information collected
through offline means in connection with the Ask for Kids site.
1. What personal information does Ask for Kids collect?
Ask for Kids does not collect visitors' personally identifiable
information, nor does Ask for Kids require visitors to give personally
identifiable information in order to access or use our site. Ask
for Kids will not require a visitor to disclose more information
than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity as
a condition of that participation. The Ask for Kids site contains
links to other Web sites (including those of our advertisers)
that may ask for personal information. Collection of personal
information on other Web sites will be governed by the terms of
that Web Site's privacy policy - not this Privacy Policy. Although
we try to review such sites carefully, IAC Search & Media
and Ask for Kids expressly disclaim any responsibility or liability
for the privacy policies, data collection practices or regulatory
compliance of those independent sites.
2. Does Ask for Kids use cookies?
Ask for Kids may track user visits and behavior on the site by
placing a "cookie" (a small file) on your computer's
hard drive or browser. The information we collect with cookies
helps us make improvements in site navigation and content so we
can serve you better or more efficiently. Users can remove cookies
from their computers if they want; the "Help" feature
of your Internet Explorer®, Netscape® or other browser
can show you how. If you choose to reject cookies, you may be
unable to use certain functionality of the Ask for Kids site.
The privacy policies of such advertisers - not this Privacy Policy
- will govern such activities.
Ask for Kids occassionally uses advertising companies to serve
ads when you visit our Web site. In the course of serving advertisements
to our Web site, these companies may place or recognize a unique
cookie on your browser or use other technological tools to monitor
visitor activity. For example, these companies may use information
about your visit to our Web site in order to provide advertisements
about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Our privacy
policy does not cover any use of information that a third-party
ad server may collect from you. You can configure your Internet
browser to prevent many such types of information gathering. If
you would like more information about this practice, or would
like to know your choices about not having such information used
by these advertising companies, please click here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
3. Does Ask for Kids collect aggregated information?
Ask for Kids collects statistics on which questions visitors ask
and which responses they select. We may also collect statistics
through a visitor survey. Ask for Kids does not ask for personally
identifiable information in these surveys and will delete any
personal information received from children. This information
is gathered together (aggregated) so that individual visitors
cannot be identified or distinguished from the whole. For example,
we might know that 100 visitors asked about giraffes, but we do
not know who those visitors were or who specifically asked about
giraffes. This information helps us make editorial and design
decisions to make Ask for Kids more helpful and even easier to
use. In addition, we may use this information to help us target
advertising or content for the site in general. We also may collect
IP Addresses (which domain a visitor is logged on from), Referral
Data (the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking
through to Ask for Kids), Browser type (which browser is being
used), Platform Type (whether a visitor uses Macintosh or Windows),
and Traffic Flow (where a visitor spends their time while on the
site) on our site, however these collected pieces of information
do not consist of personally identifiable information concerning
the visitor.
4. Does Ask for Kids offer electronic postcards?
From time to time we may offer electronic postcards, which allow
visitors to create a card and email it to a friend. Visitors will
be asked to provide their email address and that of the receiving
friend. Ask for Kids will use these email addresses only for the
purpose of sending the electronic postcard and will not collect
or save such email address information. Any email addresses provided
by users in connection with the electronic postcard feature will
be deleted after use.
5. Does Ask for Kids have a chat room?
No, Ask for Kids does not operate chat rooms.
6. Are questions posted to Ask for Kids private?
No, questions submitted to Ask for Kids are not private and may
be available to others, or used by Ask for Kids for its marketing
purposes, but will not be attributed to any particular user and,
if made publicly available on the Ask for Kids site, will not
include any personally identifiable information.
7. What rights do parents have regarding their child's personal
information?
Ask for Kids will not collect, use or disclose personally identifiable
information from a child without parental notification or without
obtaining prior verifiable parental consent. At this time, no
personally identifiable information is being collected. Should
that change in the future, we will notify parents that we wish
to collect information, post the fact that information is being
collected, identify the type of information being collected, how
it is collected and used by Ask for Kids, and others, obtain consent
from parents in compliance with COPPA, and post the procedures
for parents to follow to review the information. If personally
identifiable information is collected, the parent can review the
child's personally identifiable information, ask to have it deleted
and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child's
information.
8. Sole Authorized Statement
This Privacy Policy is the sole authorized statement of Ask for
Kids' practices with respect to the online collection of personally
identifiable information via the Ask for Kids site and the usage
of such collected information. Any summaries of this Privacy Policy
generated by third-party software or otherwise (for example, in
connection with the "Platform for Privacy Preferences"
or "P3P") will have no legal effect, are in no way binding
upon Ask for Kids, will not be relied upon in substitute for this
Privacy Policy, and neither supersede nor modify this Privacy
Policy.
9. How can I contact Ask for Kids if I have questions about this
Privacy Policy?
If you have any questions about the Ask for Kids Privacy Policy,
contact us online.
You can also contact us by phone at 510-985-7400 or in writing
to: Ask for Kids; 555 12th Street, Suite 500; Oakland, CA 94607-4046