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NOURISH INTERACTIVE PRIVACY POLICY

 

Children's Privacy Policy

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Updated June 23, 2014

 

Overview

Nourishinteractive.com was created and is produced by Nourish Interactive, Inc. At NourishInteractive.com, we respect the privacy needs of our members, customers and viewers. This policy outlines what specific information is gathered on our sites and how the information is used. Nourish Interactive is committed to bringing you information that meets your individual needs while protecting your privacy.

By using the Nourish Interactive, Inc. Sites and services, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy. Nourish Interactive reserves the right to modify this privacy policy from time to time by Nourish Interactive, Inc. without the consent of its users. If Nourish Interactive, makes any changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our Sites along with the date of the most recent revision, so our viewers and customers are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. . If we were to make material changes to our Privacy Policy, especially in the way we handle children’s personal information, we will notify you more prominently, and, if necessary, gain your prior permission or the permission of an authorized parent or guardian.   Your continued access to nourishinteractive.com or other agreement constitutes your acceptance of any changes or revisions to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree with our policies, please discontinue using the Sites and services.

All capitalized terms have the definitions that are set out in the Nourish Interactive Terms and Conditions of Use. Please read the Nourish Interactive Privacy Statement below. To quickly access a particular section of this policy, you can click directly on the links below:

Nourish Interactive, Inc. is happy to answer any questions that you may have regarding our privacy policies. You can direct your questions in an email to privacy@nourishinteractive.com.

Use of Personal Information

Nourish Interactive, Inc. only collects personally identifying information with your specific knowledge and consent. Nourish Interactive, Inc. takes many precautions to protect the privacy of the viewers and recipients of the Nourish Interactive Content. Nourish Interactive, Inc. Content may be accessed directly from Sites or received through email. For instance, when you sign up to our online educational game, newsletter or enter a sweepstakes, contest or survey you are asked to provide information such as your name, address, phone number, date of birth and email. The above information is used to provide you with the services that you have requested. For example, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your email address to send you e-mail newsletters, inform you about new features, products and services, or other changes to the services or the Content.

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.

Also, while your individual information is protected as outlined above, Nourish Interactive, Inc. reserves the right to use aggregated anonymous data about our users as a group for any business purpose, such as improving the user site experience and analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers and partners.

Steps To Protect Your Privacy

Nourish Interactive DOES NOT sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Nourish Interactive may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners or advertisers about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (i.e., e-mail, name, address) is NOT transferred to the third party.

When Nourish Interactive Content is delivered through an email, it is because the recipient has requested to receive information. All emails delivered by Nourish Interactive, Inc. will have an option to unsubscribe. Unsubscribe requests will ensure that no further communications will be sent to a recipient who has stated that they do not wish to receive information from us. All unsubscribe requests shall be processed within a commercially reasonable time. Nourish Interactive shall have no responsibility for, and disclaims any and all actions in contravention of this Privacy Policy by other Nourish Interactive users.

To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.

What are Cookies

The use of "cookies" is common in the Internet industry; you'll find them used on Nourish interactive.com, as with other major websites. What Are Cookies? "Cookies" are small text files written to your computer. They make our website easier for you to use because they save your preferences while you are visiting our sites (although we do not save passwords in cookies). Cookies also help us know which areas are your favorites, which areas need improvement, and what services our visitors are using. Knowing this information helps us continually improve the online experience for our visitors and members.

The non-personally identifiable information we track with cookies is anonymous and is not used to identify, or lead us back to, any particular visitor. Visitors to Nourish Interactive.com may have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences (most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies). While browsing through Nourish Interactive.com, you may get cookies from our advertisers or sponsors. Nourish Interactive sites do not control these cookies.

Third Party Access

We also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services such as technical maintenance, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide you with those services. Any third party who has access to our database for this purpose is bound by the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy. There may also be occasion when we are legally required to provide access to our database in order to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings. In those instances the information with only be provided for those purposes and for no other.

Nourish Interactive Content

This Nourish Interactive Privacy Statement applies to data collection and usage on this site; it does not apply to other online or offline partner sites and Nourish Interactive, Inc. Nourish Interactive, whether or not affiliated with the Sites that may be linked to the Nourish interactive Content, is not responsible for the Content and disclaims any and all liability thereto. Access to the Content is at your own risk.

Limitations

While Nourish Interactive, Inc. takes steps to protect your privacy, you should be aware that any use of the Internet or email creates the possibility that someone could access the data transmitted. This is no more likely with Nourish Interactive, Inc. content originating from our site than it is from any other site or email sent using another service.

Legal Disclaimer

Nourish Interactive, Inc. may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on Nourish Interactive, Inc.

Data Protection

Nourish Interactive, Inc. has put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to provide a high level of data security on our website and data servers. We take precautions to protect this data from loss, misuse or alteration. While we strive to protect this data after it has arrived at our servers, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is being transmitted over the Internet. To further protect the security of the information, all information is encrypted, making the reading of this information nearly impossible. However, as a result of these protections, Nourish Interactive, Inc. shall not be responsible for any external misuse of data therein.

Children's Privacy Policy (for www.nourishinteractive.com/kids)

Although nourishinteractive.com is not only designed for children, we realize that they may use the service, and we encourage them to do so.

We provide a section on our website designated for children (www.nourishinteractive.com/kids).   This area of our site does not offer account registration, advertisements, or other features that collect personal information from children.  We also take measures to partition this area of our site from the grown-up section of our site.
 
We may allow children to invite their parents, teachers, or other guardians to create a master account on the grown-up section of our site.  This feature would only collect an email address from the child, which would be used on a one-time basis to send the parent or other grown-up an invitation to create an account.  The purpose of account creation on nourishinteractive.com is so that a parent/grown-up can manage their children’s information and activities on the kids’ section of our site.  
 
All other personal information collected or used on our site is gathered exclusively in the non-kids area of our site and is used to provide features and services intended for users 18 and older.  A parent or grown-up can create children profiles or a group of children profiles under their master account.  These profiles, which entail anonymous usernames, can then be used by children to login to the children’s area of our site to earn points for gameplay activity. 
 
We do not collect and store any personal information directly from children users, and therefore cannot share any personal information collected from such users.  We also do not provide children access to any features (such as chat, community boards, etc.) that would enable them to share personal information publicly or with other users. 
 
With regard to the children profiles created under a parent/educator account, the adult owner of the account can view and modify the children profiles at any time, as well as set restrictions on whether children can modify parts of their profile (such as their login password).  The account owner also has the option to remove/delete a child profile at any time.  These changes can be made under the My Page area after logging in to the master account.        
 
For any other requests, including a request to learn more about what information we collect from children or that we discontinue any collection or use of your child’s personal information, please contact us using the information below:
 
Nourish Interactive
PO Box 6457, 135 W 25th Ave
San Mateo, CA 94403 
privacy@nourishinteractive.com
650-245-2435
 

We believe that parents should supervise their children's online activities and also consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools can sometimes prevent children from disclosing online their name, address, and other personal information without parental permission. We want children to enjoy Nourishinteractive.com as much as adults do, but responsible computing is first and foremost a family matter. Please help us protect your child's privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this site or any other without your permission.

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