WELCOME

Kids’ Choice, Inc.TM (“Kids’ Choice”) operates this online platform to encourage children and parents to take an active role in promoting a community-based learning environment by participating in an online marketplace where students buy and sell original educational resources to gain 21st Century Skills. The resources are created for children by children in order to enhance technology advancement, reading comprehension skills, mathematical fluency, communication,critical thinking, collaboration, and much more. Our family-oriented platform encourages students to be producers of original education work to earn scholarships and funds for their College 529 accounts. Accordingly, Kids’ Choice does not knowingly collect personal information as defined by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) from children under the age of 13 (“child” or “children”). If you are a parent or guardian and believe that we have collected impermissible personal information, please contact us as noted below.

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy covers the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by Kids’ Choice anytime you interact with Kids’ Choice, such as when you visit our website or when you make a purchase. Please take a moment to carefully read the following to learn more about our information practices, including what type of information is gathered, how the information is used and for what purposes, to whom we disclose the information, and how we safeguard your personal information. Your privacy is a priority at Kids’ Choice, and we go to great lengths to protect it!

1. Reasons Kids’ Choice Collects Personal Information

Kids’ Choice collects your personal information because it helps us to deliver a superior level of customer service. It enables us to give you convenient access to our products and services and focus on categories of greatest interest to you. In addition, your personal information helps us keep you posted on 529 account earnings, announcements, and educational events that you may be interested in learning more about. If you do not want Kids’ Choice to keep you up to date with our news and the latest information on products and services, please Contact Us to update your personal contact information and preferences.

2. Information Kids’ Choice Collects and How the Information May be Used

There are a number of situations in which your personal information may help us give you better products. For example:When you interact with Kids’ Choice, we may collect personal information such as your name,email address, and contact preferences, credit card information, or information related to your child’s College 529 account. We also collect information for market research purposes in order to gain a better understanding of our users and thus provide more valuable service. We collect information regarding user activities on our websites. This helps us to determine how best to provide useful information to users and to understand which parts of our websites, products, and internet services are of most interest to them. We may use personal information to provide products that you have requested as well as for auditing, research, and analysis to improve our products or services. This information may be shared with third parties or in special circumstances as described elsewhere in this privacy policy.

3. Your Online Kids’ Choice ID and Related Information

Our website allows you to create a Member ID so that you may track your child’s account transactions. This convenient service saves you time and allows for easier use of our web services. In order to create your Member ID you will need to create a personal profile by providing your name, email address, and in some cases your mailing address or credit card number. The system saves the information in your personal profile and assigns you your own unique personal Member ID which you can use when performing various activities relating to our website and the products and services you purchase from Kids’ Choice.

4. Publicly Displayed Information is Public

The only information publicly displayed is your store name and username. When setting up these accounts, you are advised not to include any personal information. If you violate this rule, you should be aware that the information you provide will be visible to other users. Kids’ Choice is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to make visible. If Kids’ Choice becomes aware of any such activity, your account will be temporarily disabled.Repeat violators are subject to account termination

5. When Kids’ Choice Discloses Your Information

Kids’ Choice takes your privacy very seriously. Kids’ Choice does not sell or rent your contact information to other marketers. To help us provide superior service, your personal information may be shared internally or with support personnel in order to safeguard your information in accordance with our privacy policy.There may also be times when it may be advantageous for Kids’ Choice to make certain personal information about you available to companies that Kids’ Choice has a strategic relationship with or that perform work for Kids’ Choice to provide products and services to you on our behalf. These companies may help us process information, deliver products or services to you, manage and enhance user data, provide user service, assess your interest in our products and services, or conduct user research or satisfaction surveys. In such situation these companies are prohibited from using your personal information for any unauthorized purposes and are also obligated to protect your information in accordance with Kids’ Choice’s policies, except if we inform you otherwise at the time of collection. Without such information being made available, it would be difficult for you to purchase products or services, have products or services delivered to you, receive customer service, provide us feedback to improve our products and services, or access certain services, offers, and content on our website. We also reserve the right to disclose your personal information for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, such as to law enforcement, for litigation or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information. We may also disclose personal information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our contracts, policies, and procedures. Finally, we may also disclose information about you if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.

6. How Kids’ Choice Protects Your Personal Information

Kids’ Choice takes precautions – including administrative, technical, and physical measures – to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Our websites use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is required and to make online purchases you must use an SSL-enabled browser in order to protect the confidentiality of your personal and credit card information while it’s transmitted over the internet. You can help us by also taking precautions to protect your personal data when you are on the internet. Change your passwords often using a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure web browser. While we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party “hackers” from illegally obtaining your personal information.

7. Integrity of Your Personal Information

Kids’ Choice has safeguards in place to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up-to-date for the purposes for which it is used. You always have the right to access and correct the personal information that you have provided and can help us ensure that your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up-to-date by Contacting Us.

8. Privacy of Children

Protecting children’s privacy is especially important to us. Kids’ Choice recognizes that parents, guardians, or other adults often purchase our products for family use, including use by minors. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 for marketing purposes, but because some information is collected electronically, it can appear to be the personal information of Kids’ Choice purchaser of the product, and will be treated as such by this privacy policy. If a child under 13 submits personal information to Kids’ Choice and we learn that that personal information is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible

9. Notification and Verifiable Parental Consent

Before Kids’ Choice collects any personal information from a child, we will do our best to notify the parent or guardian. Notification will include the exact nature and intended use of the information we are collecting, as well as the opportunity for the parent or guardian to prevent the use of the information and the child’s participation in the activity. For every child (anyone under 18 years of age), we will also require the parent or guardian to provide verifiable parental consent.In order for us to provide notice to a parent or guardian and seek verifiable parental consent, we may request the online contact information of a parent or guardian. This contact information will only be used for the sole purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing notification to the parent or guardian.

10. Cookies and Other Technologies

As is standard practice on many corporate websites, our website uses “cookies” and other technologies to help us understand which parts of our websites are the most popular, where our visitors are going, and how much time they spend there. We also use cookies and other technologies to make sure that our online advertising is bringing users to our products and services. We use cookies and other technologies to study traffic patterns on our website, to make it even more rewarding as well as to study the effectiveness of our user communications. And we use cookies to customize your experience and provide greater convenience each time you interact with us. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you may block cookies by adjusting the settings of your web browser. However, please be aware, if you block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our website.
The following links provide guidance on how to adjust your cookie settings.

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. In addition we use pixel tags—tiny graphic images—to tell us what parts of our website users have visited or to measure the effectiveness of searches users perform on our site. Pixel tags also enable us to send email messages in a format users can read. And they tell us whether emails have been opened to ensure that we’re sending only messages that are of interest to our users. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a user. We store all of this information in a secure database located in the United States.

11. Commitment to Your Privacy

As previously stated, Kids’ Choice takes protecting your privacy very seriously. To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate these guidelines to our employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within Kids’ Choice.

12. International Users

Kids’ Choice abides by the safe harbor framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information collected from the European Union.

13. Links to Sites of Other Companies

Our website may have links to the websites of other companies. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.

14. Further Questions Regarding Privacy

If you have questions or concerns about Kids’ Choice’s Privacy Policy or data processing, please contact us at  support@kidschoiceinc.org.

15. Effective Date; Updates to Privacy Policy

The terms and conditions in this policy statement came into effect on October 18, 2019. Kids’ Choice reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy at any time and in any manner. When we change the policy in a material way, a notification will be emailed to you using the email on record. Your use of our website and any other services provided by Kids’ Choice after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of these changes. Please consult this privacy statement prior to every use for any changes.

16. Consent to This Privacy Statement

By using the website, you consent to the collection and use of information by us as specified herein or as we otherwise see fit unless you inform us otherwise by means of the procedure provided here in.