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Gagsters.com strives to provide a fun, safe and secure website for children of all ages and to protect personal information collected online. Because visitors to this site are children, we take care that children access only content that is appropriate for them. In addition, we employ special measures to help children protect their privacy while online. We do not and will not ask children to disclose more personal information than is necessary for them to participate in a particular activity, and we take the necessary steps to prevent children from posting personal contact information. To help visitors have a rewarding and fun Gagsters online experience, we provide this synopsis of our information practices. This privacy notice governs the collection and use of information at Gagsters.com. As content and services may change, we reserve the right to update our practices from time to time, but we will strictly abide by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. I. The Information We Collect We do not collect personally identifiable information unless our visitors voluntarily provide it to us. For some activities, such as online polls, surveys, contests or sweepstakes or, to subscribe to our online newsletter, we may ask visitors to provide information that is not personally identifiable. This might include first name only, city or state of residence, age, gender, or a favorite color. For some other activities, such as entering sweepstakes and subscribing to our e-mail newsletters, we may ask visitors to provide a first name and e-mail address. For other activities, such as sending an electronic postcard or e-mail to a friend, we may also ask for personal information about other people. This is usually limited to a first name and e-mail address. E-mail addresses collected to send an electronic postcard or e-mail to a friend are deleted immediately after the requested postcard or e-mail is transmitted. Email addresses are shared with any third parties or sold any other purpose. Visitors who purchase items via Gagsters.com will be required to supply their full name, billing and mailing addresses, e-mail address, telephone number and a credit card number. If the order is being shipped to a third party, we will also need the recipient's name and mailing address. Before collecting information in connection with a Gagsters.com order, we will verify the validity of the purchaser's credit card. When a child under thirteen participates in another ongoing activity that requires the collection, retention, and use of personal information, we will also ask for a parent's e-mail address so that we can notify the parent that we have received personal information from their child. We do not knowingly collect names and e-mail addresses from children under thirteen for these types of activities without notifying the parent via e-mail and giving the parent the option to remove their child's e-mail address from the applicable database for that activity. For specific one-time requests we receive from visitors, e-mail addresses are collected and used only in connection with the specific one-time request. For example, for sweepstakes and contests, e-mail addresses are collected for the purpose of entering the online sweepstakes or contest on a one-time basis and are used to notify winners of the sweepstakes or contest once by e-mail. Winners will be required to return a completed prize acceptance form contained in the notification e-mail by facsimile or U.S. mail within a designated time period (along with the signature of a parent or legal guardian for all minors). When visitors come to our site, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information such as the type of computer operating system (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) being used, and the domain name of the Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink). II. How the Information is used We use visitors' personal information for internal purposes only, such as enabling visitors to enter our online contests or sweepstakes, to subscribe to our online newsletter, or to order from the online Gagsters store. We may also use personal information provided by shoppers at the store to send them, by e-mail or direct mail, notification of special offers, sale events or birthday reminders. These notifications are sent only to those visitors to the Gagsters online store and who ask to receive them. We use parents' e-mail addresses to notify them when we have received personal information such as e-mail addresses from their children and to give parents the option to remove their child's name from our lists. We use information we collect about others only to enable visitors to our site to communicate with those other people, for example, by sending them electronic greeting cards or e-mail or to ship items purchased on Gagsters.com. We keep any personal information we obtain through a contest or sweepstakes only until we have successfully selected a winner(s), awarded the prize(s), and administered the contest or sweepstakes. We only use the e-mail addresses of subscribers to our website e-mail newsletters to send them the requested newsletter(s). Each newsletter also includes instructions for subscription removal via return e-mail. We never sell, rent, or otherwise share our visitors' personal information with third parties. Sometimes, we use agents or contractors to provide services to our visitors, such as helping us conduct a sweepstakes, sending prizes to winners, or shipping customer orders made on Gagsters.com. In these cases, we require the agent or contractor to keep the information confidential and to use it only for the specific services they are performing. We sometimes use non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site, and to further improve our visitors' experience on Gagsters.com. We also may aggregate this information to analyze site usage, as well as to offer products, programs, or services. This is generally for demographic and marketing research purposes only. We will disclose information we maintain as required by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a specific law enforcement agency's request. We will not use or transfer personally identifiable information in ways that are materially different from the ones described above without also providing parental notification of such practices and obtaining consent for any materially different uses. III. Cookies and Their Use Cookies are small text files that we place in visitors' computer browsers to store their preferences. Cookies themselves do not contain any personally identifiable information. Although cookies could enable us to relate a visitor's use of this web site to personal information that the visitor has provided, such as an e-mail address, we do not use cookies for this purpose with one exception: for some activities, we use session cookies to make certain that visitors under the age of 13 provide a parental email address to assist with our compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. IV. Third Party Information Collection and Usage by Other Sites Our site may contain links to other sites, including those of sponsors and advertisers, whose information practices vary from our own. Sometimes these sites may conduct contests or sweepstakes that are promoted on our site. Visitors should review these third party sites' privacy notices independently, since these sites are not covered by our privacy policy and may follow different policies and procedures. V. Security We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. In particular we are quite sensitive to visitors' security concerns regarding the use of credit cards to purchase products online. For orders placed on Gagsters.com, we use a technology that automatically encrypts credit card data while information is being transmitted over the Internet, provided that the visitor's browser supports the Secure Socket Layer protocol (SSL). VI. Parental Review of Information Parents, please send us an email to privacy@gagsters.com or you can send us letter or postcard to the Gagsters Privacy Administrator at the mailing address provided below if you would like to do any of the following:
Please be sure to include your e-mail address and a telephone number where we can reach you. To protect your child's privacy and security, we will take sound steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the personal information that we collect and maintain about your child. Address: Gotcha Entertainment LLC 276 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1103 New York, NY 10001 VII. Contact Us At Gagsters.com we hope to provide a fun and safe online experience for all children. Please review the policy carefully and contact us if you have any related questions, comments or concerns regarding our privacy policy and/or practices. |