MY CHANGING PLANET PRIVACY POLICY
My Changing Planet, LLC (“MCP”) is committed to complying fully
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Our
information collection practices are described below. We strongly
encourage kids to check with their parents before entering information
on any website and we urge parents to discuss with their kids
restrictions regarding the online release of personal information
to anyone they don't know.
What Information Is Collected?
At MCP, it's our policy to create website content that requires
minimum collection of information from our visitors. In general,
MCP limits our collection of information to that which is required
for purchasing products and offerings at our site (e.g., credit
card and billing information). We may decide to collect information
from kids and in general, limit that information to what is known
as non-personally identifiable information (e.g. screen name,
birthday, gender, state, zip code and country of residence).
This information is collected so kids can participate in activities
(e.g. chat with celebrities, post messages, play online games)
without giving unnecessary personal information. From time to
time, however, we may request limited personally identifiable
information (e.g. kid's email address and/or email address of
parent or third party), as explained below). MCP does not condition
a kid's participation in any of our online activities on the
disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to
participate in the activity.
Ordering from the Site and Opening An Account
When customers make purchases through the MCP website, customers
are required to provide their full name, billing and/or shipping
addresses, email address, credit card number/expiration date
and a phone number. We also provide our customers the opportunity
to send to family and friends gift items purchased by the customer.
Along those lines, we will send, on behalf of customers who request
it, emails to family or friends notifying them that someone has
sent them a gift. To do this, we ask customers to provide us
with their family member or friend's first name and email address.
We only use this information to send the gift recipient the item(s)
the customer has requested their family or friend receive. During
the checkout process, customers are provided the opportunity
to receive newsletters, sales and promotions from MCP. To be
removed from the contact list at any time, customers can elect
to unsubscribe in the next email they receive from MCP. If customers
do not complete the order process (e.g., fail to enter a valid
credit card number/expiration date or fail to complete a purchase
transaction) the information customers submitted during the order
process will not be captured by our systems. Once customers have
successfully entered a valid credit card number/expiration date
and completed the order process, an account will be created and
maintained for customers. We use this information to process
the customer's order and to send order confirmations via email.
We may also send our customers a print catalog based on the information
provided. We do not sell, transfer or share the information with
third parties, except when the information is transferred, disclosed
and shared with our third party agent who uses the information
solely to handle and manage fulfillment and customer service.
Our third party agent is not permitted to use the information
for other purposes and the third party agent has agreed to maintain
the confidentiality of such information.
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting
access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility
for all activities that occur under your account or password.
MCP does sell products for children, but it sells them to adults,
who can purchase with a credit card or other permitted payment
method. If you are under 18, you may use MCP only with involvement
of a parent or guardian. Amazon reserves the right to refuse
service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel
orders in their sole discretion.
Customer Service
Other than a parental email address, we do not request that users
submit any personal information online for customer service inquiries.
We may however ask for additional non-personal information to
better help us respond to customer service questions. We use
the parental email address to communicate directly with parents
about technology-related questions, and provide them with answers
that they and their child may find helpful. We do not sell, transfer
or share the parental email address with third parties, with
the exception that the information is transferred, disclosed
and shared with our third party agent who uses the information
solely to handle and manage customer service, but cannot use
it for other purposes and has agreed to maintain the confidentiality
of such information. Once we or our third party agent have had
a chance to provide email responses to customer service email
questions, the parental email address is deleted from our system.
Use and Disclosure of Information
MCP may use personally identifiable information that kids provide
for such purposes as sending requested electronic postcards and
email messages on their behalf, and conducting contests or sweepstakes,
and responding to their questions regarding our products and
services. MCP currently does not disclose to third parties personally
identifiable information that kids provide, except from time
to time, we may transfer, disclose or share such information
with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle
and deliver certain online activities (e.g. conducting contests
and sweepstakes). Such third parties have access to personal
information needed to perform their functions, but may not use
it for other purposes. Additionally, in the event that all or
substantially all of the assets relating to MCP are transferred
or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information
submitted to us may be transferred to the acquiring entity. Finally,
we may also disclose personally identifiable information to third
parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement
agencies, to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect
the rights, property or safety of our website, users of our website
and others.
Cookies and Log Data
Cookies are information files that your web browser places on
the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. Cookies
cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from
a user's hard drive. Cookies allow websites to "remember" users’
activities on a website as well as users visits to a site. At
MCP, cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors
to our website over a given period and to remember user screen
names so that the need for multiple log-ins is eliminated. We
do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we
link or combine information collected through cookies to any
personal information that kids submit online when participating
in our activities. You can, of course, disable cookies on your
computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus
in your browser.
Log data collected on web servers both within MCP control and
under the control of MCP’s third party ad service provider, who
is required to maintain such data on a confidential basis, supplies
MCP with aggregate information about the number of visits to
different pages on our site. MCP uses such aggregate information
to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers
and operating system types to make our content available to as
many kids as possible. We do not link the log data collected
to the personal information that kids submit online when participating
in our activities.
Security
MCP has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information
collected in the future is secure, including limiting the number
of people who have physical access to our database servers as
well as electronic security systems and password protections
which guard against unauthorized access.
When MCP links from its website, we may open the other sites
in a new browser window. MCP makes every effort to link to appropriate
outside sites for kid. When linking to other sites, MCP provides
a "bumper page" when linking from MCP to another site,
which lets kids know they are going to another site and reminds
them not to give out information online without getting permission
from their parents. These other websites are governed by their
own privacy policies or information collection practices, which
may be substantially different from ours. We encourage visitors
to other websites to review the privacy policies and information
collection practices of those websites.
Questions/Concerns?
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding MCP’s
privacy policy and/or practices, please email us at: info@mychangingplanet.com
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83
permits our visitors who are California residents to request
certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information
to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make
such a request, please send an e-mail to info@mychangingplanet.com
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