TEENFAX PRIVACY NOTICE
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.teenfax.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:
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What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with
whom it may be shared.
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What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
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The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
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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 via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site
policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information
may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
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 do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
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To personalize your experience
(your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
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To improve our website
(we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
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To improve customer service
(your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
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To process transactions
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested
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To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
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To send periodic emails
- The email address you provide, will be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your account.
Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
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
contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:
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See what data we have about you, if any.
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Change/correct any data we have about you.
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Have us delete any data we have about you.
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Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
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, 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.
Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required
to give certain information (such as name, email address, gender and age). This information is used to contact you about
the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide other
demographic information that may be used to improve your user experience.
Cookies
We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your
access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would
not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and
target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally
identifiable information on our site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.
Sharing
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that
can identify any individual person.
We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other
contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include
or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies.
We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to
protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely
voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may
include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level).
Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of
monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy
Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
As part of Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by
logging in and going to the 'My Account' page.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), our policy is located below.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information
from children under 13.
While TeenFax is mostly targeted toward students aged 13 and older, there are benefits to students who may be 11 and 12 years
old starting sixth grade.
The information we collect from children needed to create a TeenFax report is full name, age and other information such as
hobbies, interests and school and life accomplishments. We do not require an email address, however, it is recommended in
order for the student to receive more benefits from the site.
We do not require the collection of address and telephone numbers, as these are not necessary for the report.
The information we collect is collected directly from the user upon registration and during use of the site to build the
report. We use cookies to remember a user from a previous visit.
We use the personal information for marketing back to the user, notifying winners of contests and prepopulating information
request forms a user may complete to request information from colleges, schools, scholarships, etc.
We may also use personal information to allow a third party to search for candidates that meet certain criteria, that yield
in anonymous results. For example, a college may search the database for students that play sports, musical instruments and
have a GPA of over 3.0. The search results delivered will be anonymous (not show the user's name or other identifiable information),
but allow the college to market to the user.
Third parties that use the site will consist of colleges, universities, scholarship providers, schools, financial aid providers,
school supply companies, book publishing companies and other companies related to education, volunteering and community service,
and learning institutions.
Parents have the option to agree to the collection and use of the child's information without consenting to the disclosure of
the information to third parties. Each user can elect to not have his/her information available to third parties using the site.
Parents can review the child's personal information, ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of
the child's information. A parent simply needs to select the "DELETE ACCOUNT" feature in the My Account section of the site
to remove all instances of the child's account.
A child under the age of 13 using the site cannot allow his/her information to be made public via the site, unless the child
prints and shares a copy of his/her report or provides another party with his/her username and password.
Direct Notice to Parents
Content
The notice to parents must contain the same information included on the notice on the Web site. In addition,
an operator must notify a parent that it wishes to collect personal information from the child; that the parent's
consent is required for the collection, use and disclosure of the information; and how the parent can provide consent.
The notice to parents must be written clearly and understandably, and must not contain any unrelated or confusing information.
An operator may use any one of a number of methods to notify a parent, including sending an email message to the parent or a
notice by postal mail.
Verifiable Parental Consent
Before collecting, using or disclosing personal information from a child, an operator must obtain verifiable
parental consent from the child's parent. This means an operator must make reasonable efforts (taking into consideration
available technology) to ensure that before personal information is collected from a child, a parent of the child receives
notice of the operator's information practices and consents to those practices.
Until April 2002, the FTC will use a sliding scale approach to parental consent in which the required method of
consent will vary based on how the operator uses the child's personal information. That is, if the operator uses
the information for internal purposes, a less rigorous method of consent is required. If the operator discloses
the information to others, the situation presents greater dangers to children, and a more reliable method of consent
is required. The sliding scale approach will sunset in April 2002 subject to a Commission review planned for October 2001.
Internal Uses
Operators may use email to get parental consent for all internal uses of personal information, such as marketing
back to a child based on his or her preferences or communicating promotional updates about site content, as long
as they take additional steps to increase the likelihood that the parent has, in fact, provided the consent. For
example, operators might seek confirmation from a parent in a delayed confirmatory email, or confirm the parent's
consent by letter or phone call.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of
liability governing the use of our website at http://www.teenfax.com/termsofuse.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our websites privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email
at info@teenfax.com.
www.teenfax.com