Privacy

• We collect and spread such personal data that our user society has found children need to make friends, and Kidlink needs to identify individuals for the purposes of giving them access, moderating their areas and participation in educational activities.
• We collect credit card data and banking information when someone pays membership dues (not required for participation). Such information is never sold to, traded, or shared with third parties. We only use the data for the collection of dues.
• We attempt to protect our young participants from any covert collection of personal information by outsiders.
• Our Listserv mailing list software distributes messages to members based on lists of participants' email addresses. These lists (and e-mail addresses) are only available to our administrators who use it to correct problems and complaints. They are never shared with users, or outside organizations. Users can signoff from our mailing lists any time. As soon as they have signed off, their email address will dissappear from our mailing list system.

Any information posted to our web or sent to our mailing lists becomes public information. Children are asked to exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information. We do not collect home addresses, telephone numbers, race data, family income, social security numbers, as such information is not needed to reach our goal.

There are no advertisements on Kidlink's web site. We do not employ technical surveyance tools like "cookies" or passive tracking software on our web site. We never look at the specific usage of our website by identifiable individuals. (We do use such technology to help users do what they want. For example, cookies are used to remember a user's choice of language when in KidCom.) We will make every effort to make parents and other users aware of the presence of and reason for any future implementation of passive tracking features.

Generally, Kidlink does not link to external web sites, except when such links may enrich our educational programs and activities. We link to sponsors, and organizations who have presented us awards. We cannot be held responsible for the contents of linked sites, though we be vigilant in monitoring them to ensure that their material is not explicitly harmful or illegal. Some projects may be sponsored by commercial companies, and these will always be clearly identified on our web site as such. We do not provide information to these companies about individual participants for any purpose.

We welcome your input or suggestions regarding these issues.

What we tell teachers about "Keep parents informed" | Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF)
The Rights of the Child in Kidlink's Who-Am-I? | Kidlink Policy on Use of Creative Works from Kids

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