Privacy Policy:
We are all
committed to respecting the privacy rights of all visitors to our
Websites. This Privacy Policy also explains
the choices that you can make about the way your information is
collected and used. It is available for you to review via links on
our homepage and at least on every page where we have requested
ANY information, especially from kids under 13.
Please note that BY USING
this Website, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ASSENT TO THE TERMS OF THIS
PRIVACY POLICY. If you do not agree with any term in this Privacy
Policy, do not use this Website or any of the Websites listed
above.
KIDS
This website
is not intended for children's use. Please
always check with your parents before entering any information on
this or any other Website. See our "SPECIAL
NOTE TO KIDS"
below.
PARENTS
We are
always committed to protecting your children's privacy as well as
our yours! We developed this Website to permit an enjoyable
experience for visitors of all ages, however, this website is not
intended for children. We
recognize that some younger children may not understand some of
the information contained on this Website or how this Website
operate. PLEASE BE SURE TO CAUTION YOUR CHILD UNDER 13 AGAINST
PROVIDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION ONLINE PRIOR TO THE
Website OPERATOR OBTAINING YOUR CONSENT. It is our policy not to
collect personally identifiable information from children under 13
without first obtaining a parent's or guardian's verifiable
permission. See our "SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS OF KIDS UNDER 13"
below.
Please discuss
this Privacy Policy with your children so that they will better
understand how to use this Website and the information they may
be asked to provide. We strongly believe that providing our
visitors with accurate and adequate notice about the Website will
lead to informed choices and decisions about how to use the
Website, as well as protecting our users' privacy.
WHAT INFORMATION DO
WE COLLECT?
Generally, we limit the collection of information to what is known
as non-personally identifiable information (such as, first name,
age, state or country) and we will not require you to provide more
information than is necessary to participate in any of our Website activities. This information is collected so that visitors
can participate in activities, such as: participating in our question polls.
However, in some
areas on our Website personally identifiable information may be
asked for and collected (for example,
receiving our e-mail newsletter(s), or submitting comments,
and eventually perhaps a registered area of this site) and you may
not be able to access those areas or participate in certain
activities without giving the necessary personal information.
Where we request additional information from you in connection
with our Website's activity such information may be personal.
Whenever we request that you submit such information, we will
endeavor to notify you of our intended use of the information, as
more specifically discussed below. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOU ARE
UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE, AND CAN DECLINE TO PROVIDE, ANY
REQUESTED INFORMATION AT ANY TIME. HOWEVER, IF YOU DECLINE, YOU
MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN CERTAIN ACTIVITIES AT this
Website.
The types of
information collected at this Website may include:
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Non-identifying information, such as first name, city and or
state, and comments or suggestions.
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Contact
information, such as full name, e-mail address and mailing
address.
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Financial
information and/or Credit/Debit Card data is not collected at
this time, except as required for product purchases.
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Personal
identifiers, such as screen names, and passwords is not
collected at this time.
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Demographic
information, such as date of birth, age, profile, gender, state
and country.
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Internet
Protocol (IP) Information, such as your IP address and browser
type.
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Information
collected by or held in "cookies" is not collected at this time.
HOW DO WE
USE INFORMATION?
Registration:
Our
websites do not require or allow registration to allow visitors
to use it at this time, except in relationship to the purchase of
a product.
However, if
this Website had a registration procedure, our Website's registration
form would require users to give us contact information, unique
identifiers, and demographic information. All registration
information is submitted to us on a voluntary basis. We may also
ask registered members to tell us how they found out about us.
Once you register, we use customer contact information from the
registration form to contact you, to send you information about
our company and/or to give you updates on products and/or
services. You may register on our Website and choose not to
receive information and updates by unchecking the relevant box on
the registration form. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, GET YOUR PARENT'S OR
GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION.
Online Promotions:
We or our
advertisers, licensees and/or other business partners may have
special online promotions which feature products or services
related to our business activities. TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY
PROMOTION, YOU MUST 13 YEARS OR OLDER (unless otherwise specified
by the promotion's rules and regulations). IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YOU
WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN
PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY. IF YOU ARE OVER 13 BUT NOT AN ADULT
YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT TO COLLECT YOUR
PRIZE OR RECEIVE YOUR BENEFIT. You may be asked to provide an
e-mail address or screen name, so that we can let you know if you
won a prize. For other promotions, we may request your name and
home address in order to send you products or information by
regular mail. The specific rules and regulations governing the
particular promotion will vary and your participation constitutes
your agreement to abide by those rules and regulations.
Online Contests and
Sweepstakes:
We or our
advertisers, licensees and/or other business partners may sponsor
contests or sweepstakes which may be entered online. The specific
rules and regulations governing the particular contest or
sweepstakes will vary and your participation constitutes your
agreement to abide by those rules and regulations. IF YOU ARE
UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE
YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY. IF YOU ARE OVER 13 BUT NOT
AN ADULT YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT TO
COLLECT YOUR PRIZE OR RECEIVE YOUR BENEFIT. We use the information
you provide when placing an order, entering a game, entering a
contest or sweepstake or when we complete an order and/or fulfill
a prize. We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail that
we receive, and we may use return e-mail to communicate with you
or to send you other information. If you are under 13 (with your
parent's or guardian's consent), or if you are over 13 but not an
adult, the information collected for contests or sweepstakes
include your first name, e-mail address and your parent's e-mail
address and, if you win, before your prize is collected, your
parent or guardian is sent an e-mail informing them of your award
and explaining the nature and terms and conditions of the
sweepstakes. Your parent or guardian will then have a chance to
"opt out" of collecting your prize on your behalf, in which case
the prize will not be awarded.
Collecting and
Sharing Data:
We sometimes
collect information to find out how people found our Website,
which pages they visited, and how long they stayed. In addition,
we may aggregate demographic, profile and non-personal information
you provide and use aggregate information to better design our
Website and to improve our marketing strategy and our product
offerings. If you are 13 or older, we may share this demographic
and profile information with our advertisers, licensees and/or
other business partners with whom we link to permit them to
contact you with information about certain products and services.
Opinions:
We may ask
for your opinion from time to time. You may send us questions or
comments, which may require personal information for a response.
However, please note that we have a policy against accepting
unsolicited material, so do not submit any unsolicited or unique
creative ideas, drawings or other materials, and refer to our
policy on unsolicited submissions in our
Terms
of Use. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR
GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION.
Mailing lists:
Where
appropriate, the option to allow us to share certain information
with some of our promotional partners may be provided, or the
option for you to elect not to have us share certain information
may be provided. You always have the right to unsubscribe from any
mailing lists we may maintain, or to delete personally
identifiable electronic information we have collected online about
you. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR
GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY.
E-mail and
Newsletters:
We may offer
fully interactive registered email services. We may also provide
newsletters from time to time, to tell our visitors about all
of our websites and their interesting features and services. Our newsletters may
include links to any independently-operated Websites. Although we
do not provide without parental permission any personally
identifiable information about kids under 13 to any
"independently-operated Website" (that is, a Website not
owned, controlled and operated by us), such Website(s) may solicit
personally identifiable information from kids under 13, please be
aware that we don't control and are not responsible for their
actions, their privacy policy(ies) or their terms of use. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13,
YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN
PARTICIPATE IN EITHER OF THESE ACTIVITIES.
If you are aware
of ANY independently-operated Websites that we link to or are
linked to our websites that do not comply with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act, or that engage in unacceptable
activities or behavior - please notify us at once at
abuse @ hipaahelpnow . com We will investigate the
matter immediately and take what steps are possible to notify the
offending website, to remove links on our website, or to work with
advertisers who sell or provide space on our website for their
advertisers to remove them from accessing our websites.
Purchasing Items:
Purchasing items from
various online stores may require the giving of
personally identifiable information (such as, name, credit card
information). IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, YOU WILL NEED YOUR PARENT'S OR
GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS ACTIVITY.
Cookies:
At
this time we do not use "cookies".
However, at some
point we may use a software technology called "cookies" to collect
non-personally identifiable information. Cookies are pieces of
information that we may place on your computer to help
"personalize" your visit to the Website and to allow you to enter
our Website without having to remember and enter any special
passwords. For example, a "cookie" will allow us to remember
certain things about you, such as your screen name, to track
visitor scores or to help you keep track of where you left off in
a game. "Cookies" may include the type of browser software you use
to access the Internet (i.e. Internet Explorer, Netscape 3.0,);
type of operating system (i.e. Windows 95, Mac, etc.), and/or the
domain name of your Internet service provider. Except with respect
to our e-commerce activities (e.g., on-line purchases), we do not
link your non-personally identifiable information in "cookies"
with personally identifiable information about you.
In addition,
some companies place or provide banner ads on this Website that
might also place cookies. Each of these companies use this cookie
information according to their own privacy and security policies.
You can find and evaluate these companies at the end of this
Privacy Policy as 'Appendix A,' and we will keep this list
updated.
Choice/Opt-In/Opt-Out:
If you
are over the age of 12 you could receive communications from us or
from third parties. In that case, you may: (1) opt-out of
receiving communications from us an "Unsubscribe" option detailed
on each communication or message you receive from us; and/or (2)
opt-in or opt-out of receiving communications from third-party
sponsors or promotional partners at the time of registration if
any when visiting their websites. If you elect to receive these
communications please note, however, that each third party is
governed by a different privacy policy and may have a different
method than our Website to opt-out of future communications.
IP Address and
Machine Type:
An IP
address is a number automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you are surfing the Web. Web servers, the computers that
"serve up" Web pages, automatically identify your computer by its
IP address. When you request a page from our Website, our servers
log your IP address. An IP address does not contain personally
identifiable information. Except with respect to our e-commerce
activities (e.g., on-line purchases), we do not link IP addresses
with personally identifiable information. We may use your IP
address to help diagnose problems with our server and to
administer our Website. Your IP address is used to help identify
you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic
information. We may also collect information about your browser
software and/or machine type (e.g., Windows, Mac, Unix, etc.).
We also use IP addresses to identify illegal access to our
Website.
Links:
We do create
links to the Websites of other parties. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, GET
YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT BEFORE CLICKING ON A BANNER AD
OR OTHER LINK TO OTHER WEBSITES. Independently-operated Websites
are not associated with or authorized by us and may also have
links leading to this Website. We cannot control any of these
links and are not responsible for any content appearing on Websites linked to or from our
Website, or for any personal
information gathered at those independently-operated Websites.
AS ALWAYS, IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, GET YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S
CONSENT OR PERMISSION BEFORE GIVING ANY INFORMATION TO ANY
Website.
Bumper Pages:
We sometimes
provide a "bumper page" when linking from our Website to an
independently-operated Website, which lets you know you are going
to an independently-operated Website and reminds them not to give
out information online without their parent's permission.
HOWEVER, IF THERE IS NOT A BUMPER PAGE - AS ALWAYS, IF YOU ARE
UNDER 13, GET YOUR PARENT'S OR GUARDIAN'S CONSENT OR
PERMISSION BEFORE GIVING ANY INFORMATION TO ANY Website.
Data Integrity and
Security:
We take
reasonable precautions to keep your personal information secure.
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. In
cases where the information is not stored on separate computer
servers, it is only accessible from specific computers within our
control. We have and will continue to take reasonable measures to
assure the security and accuracy of all information our visitors
share with us.
Our Websites
are hosted by a third party Hosting Services Company that provides
most security services related to our Websites. Their
efforts include procedures designed to avoid any unauthorized
access, alteration, misuse or disclosure of personally
identifiable information.
Unauthorized
Changes:
As much as
we attempt to protect the integrity and security of our websites
and their content, it is impossible to always prevent a determined
assault. We have experienced intrusions in the past, and may
in the future. We will take all steps available to us to
prevent such unauthorized access. However, BY YOUR USE OF
this Website YOU AGREE TO HOLD HARMLESS AND WAIVE ALL LIABILITY
FROM TIM MCGUINNESS AND MCGUINNESSDESIGNS WHICH MAY RESULT FROM
THE UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO this Website. SUCH UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS COULD INCLUDE THE PERFORMANCE OF MODIFICATIONS TO THE
WEBSITES OR THE ACCESS OF DATA STORED WITHIN THE WEBSITES.
CHANGES
Our changes:
We reserve
the right to change or remove this privacy policy at our
discretion. If we decide to change our privacy policy we will post
those changes here. We encourage you to visit this area frequently
to stay informed. We will tell you via e-mail if we make any
material changes in how we collect, use or we wish to share your
child's information in any manner not previously authorized by
you. We will require third parties with whom we have written
agreements involving the sharing of personally identifiable
information of kids under 13 to agree to protect the privacy of
that information in accordance with applicable law.
Your changes:
At this
time, this Website DOSE NOT give users options for changing and
modifying information previously provided..
However, if or
when we add visitor registration to the Website, and you are a
registered visitor, you will be welcome to view, change or delete
your registration information at any time, or to update the
contact information we have for you or to inform us that you do
not want to receive new product or other information from us.
Simply go to the registration page of this Website using the same
computer from which you initially registered. When the welcome
screen appears, you can click on "delete or add". Kids under 13
cannot change registration information, only the parent or
guardian can do that. Parents should follow the procedure that
they used to enable their child's registration to change any
information at any time.
SPECIAL NOTE TO KIDS
If you are
under 13 years old, ask your parent or guardian BEFORE giving out
any information about yourself, such as your name, age, address or
e-mail address. You do not have to give any personal information
about yourself. Remember, if you are under 13 you must have your
parent or guardian make any changes to information given to us in
the past. If you are ever unsure about anything you are seeing on
this Website, ask your parent or guardian for help.
If you are 13
years or older, you may have the ability to participate in online
contests or sweepstakes, e-mail other users or post messages on
portions of this Website. In the event that you do post messages
on this Website, remember that other users of this Website may
have access to your e-mail address and user name. However, if you
participate in online contests, sweepstakes or promotions, you
cannot collect any prizes without your parent's or guardian's
consent.
SPECIAL NOTE TO
PARENTS OF KIDS UNDER 13
We may
collect the name of a child or parent and online contact
information in order to obtain parental consent to parents of kids
under 13 or to provide parental notice. If a visitor indicates
that he/she is under the age of 13, he/she will be asked to supply
a parent's or guardian's e-mail address. In this case, the parent
or guardian will receive an e-mail message containing instructions
on how to enable the child's registration and until the parent or
guardian enables the child's registration, the account is
disabled. If we do not receive the parent's or guardian's said
consent within a reasonable time, we delete this information from
our records. We also may collect this information to respond to a
specific request from a child under 13. Once we respond to a
request from a child under 13, we may not contact your child again
and the information is deleted from our records. We take very
seriously the safety of children, especially those under 13 and
may also collect this information to protect that safety. If we do
collect information to protect the safety of your child, we
provide notice to you and we do not use that information for any
other purpose. You can always ask us to review or delete any of
your child's information at any time by sending us a written
request at the Contact Information below and you can ask that we
do not use or collect any more personal information from your
child. However, if you ask us to delete your child's information
that is necessary to participate in our activities, we may have to
ask your child not to participate in our activities.
To What
Websites does this Privacy Policy Apply?
The terms of this Privacy
Policy apply to all information submitted on this Website. In
addition, the terms shall not apply to Websites owned and
operated by McGuinnessDesigns and/or Tim McGuinness,
as well as to some of our selected corporate partners and
licensees who have agreed to abide by our Privacy Policy. It does
not otherwise apply to any independently-operated Websites, for
which separate privacy policies and terms of use (existing and
posted or otherwise) shall apply. Finally, since this Privacy
Policy is intended to protect individuals, it does not apply to
businesses or persons acting on behalf of businesses.
Refer to the
above list for the specific Websites covered.
CONTACT INFORMATION
We hope you
have a better understanding of our commitment to protect privacy .
If you have any questions or comments about anything in this
Privacy Policy, please contact us at the address below
If you have
questions about our Privacy Policy, or wish to correct or delete
information that we may have about you or your child, please
contact us at the following address:
Webmaster
webmaster
@
regulatorycompliance . us
WEBSITE HOSTING & DATA WAREHOUSING
Our websites are hosted by third-party webhosting service
providers under contract with Tim McGuinness. Tim McGuinness
accepts no responsibility for the actions of third-parties.
Our Service Providers represent that they utilize industry best
practices in the administration and security of our websites.
All data submitted through our websites is retained within the
United States of America.
Thanks for
visiting our Website. We hope that you enjoyed this Website and
found it useful.
Back to
start of Our Privacy
Policy.
Appendix A
This site may
display advertisements from the agencies listed below as well as
others added from time to time. As part of
the advertising process, these agencies may place cookies on your
computer. These agencies are not governed by the privacy policy of
this site. Refer to their privacy policies when using or
visiting their Websites:
