Privacy Overview
Scope
This statement applies to KidCheck’s products, services and websites worldwide (collectively, KidCheck’s “services”).
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KidCheck collects personal information when you register for a KidCheck
service or otherwise voluntarily provide such information. We may
combine personal information collected from you with information from
other KidCheck services or third parties to provide a better user
experience, including customizing content for you.
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KidCheck uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online
experience and to learn about how you use KidCheck services in order to
improve the quality of our services.
* KidCheck’s
servers automatically record information when you visit our website or
use some of our products, including the date and time of your request.
* Read more in the full privacy policy.
Uses
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We may use personal information to provide the services you’ve
requested, including services that display customized content and
advertising.
* We may also use personal information for
auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve KidCheck
technologies and services.
* We may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties outside of KidCheck.
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When we use third parties to assist us in processing your personal
information, we require that they comply with our Privacy Policy and any
other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
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We may also share information with third parties in limited
circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing
fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and
services.
* KidCheck processes personal information on
our servers in the United States of America and, may at our discretion,
use servers located in other countries.
Your choices
* We offer you choices when we ask for personal information, whenever reasonably possible.
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You may decline to provide personal information to us and/or refuse
cookies in your browser, although some of our features or services may
not function properly as a result.
* We make good faith
efforts to provide you access to your personal information upon request
and to let you correct such data if it is inaccurate and delete it, when
reasonably possible.
More information
For information about specific KidCheck services, please check out the KidCheck Help page.
If
you have additional questions regarding your privacy and KidCheck,
please contact us. Please note that we will not respond to inquiries not
related to KidCheck’s Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policy
Last modified: October 20, 2008
At
KidCheck we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy
applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by
KidCheck Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies, collectively,
KidCheck’s “services”. In addition, where more detailed information is
needed to explain our privacy practices, we post supplementary privacy
notices to describe how particular services process personal
information.
KidCheck adheres to the US Safe Harbor
Privacy Principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data
Integrity, Access and Enforcement.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at
KidCheck, Inc.
10215 W. Emerald, Suite 150
Boise, ID 83704 USA
Information we collect and how we use it
In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
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Information you provide – When you sign up for a KidCheck Account or
other KidCheck service or promotion that requires registration, we ask
you for personal information. For certain services, we may also request
credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in
encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you
submit under your account with information from other KidCheck services
or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to
improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give
you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
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Cookies – When you visit KidCheck, we send one or more cookies – a
small file containing a string of characters – to your computer that
uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality
of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends.
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Log information – When you access KidCheck services, our servers
automatically record information that your browser sends. These server
logs may include information such as the date and time.
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User communications – When you send email or other communications to
KidCheck, we may retain those communications in order to process your
inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
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Affiliated sites – We may one day offer some services in connection
with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those
sites may be sent to KidCheck in order to deliver the service. We
process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
* Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to KidCheck services only.
KidCheck
only processes personal information for the purposes described in this
Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific
services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
* Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content;
* Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
* Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
* Developing new services.
KidCheck
processes personal information on our servers in the United States of
America and may one day do so in other countries. In some cases, we may
process personal information on a server outside your own country. We
may process personal information to provide our own services. In some
cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to
the instructions of a third party, such a government agency.
Choices for personal information
When
you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask
you to provide personal information. We will ask for your consent
prior to any additional use of this information. We will also offer you
an effective way to opt out.
Most browsers are
initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to
refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
some KidCheck features and services may not function properly if your
cookies are disabled.
You can decline to submit personal
information to any of our services, in which case KidCheck may not be
able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
KidCheck
only shares personal information with other companies or individuals
outside of KidCheck in the following limited circumstances:
* We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
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We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies
or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing
personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree
to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance
with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and
security measures.
* We have a good faith belief that
access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is
reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce
applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential
violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to
the rights, property or safety of KidCheck, its users or the public as
required or permitted by law.
If KidCheck becomes
involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of
its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is
transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We
may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information. Such information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We
take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and
processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security
measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store
personal data.
We restrict access to personal
information to KidCheck employees, contractors and agents who need to
know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our
services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and
may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal
prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
KidCheck
processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was
collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable
service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage
and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and
process the personal information needed to provide or improve our
services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal
information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend
on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever
necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When
you use KidCheck services, we make good faith efforts to provide you
with access to your personal information and either to correct this data
if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not
otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business
purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the
information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before
processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that
are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate
technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be
extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise
required. In any case where we provide information access and
correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so
would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have
different procedures to access, correct or delete users’ personal
information.
Enforcement
KidCheck
regularly reviews its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel
free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy
or KidCheck’s treatment of personal information by contacting us through
this web site or by writing to us at
KidCheck, Inc.
10215 W. Emerald, Suite 150
Boise, ID 83704 USA
When
we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is KidCheck’s
policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We
will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including
local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding
the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between KidCheck
and an individual.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Please
note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not
reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit
consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we
will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes
are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for
certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). Each
version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page
by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this
Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
If you
have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy,
please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at
KidCheck, Inc.
10215 W. Emerald, Suite 150
Boise, ID 83704 USA