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PRIVACY
POLICY
MEG is committed to complying fully with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998. Our information collection practices are described below. We urge
kids to check with their parents before entering information on any website and
we urge parents to discuss with their kids how to have a safe experience online.
What
Information Is Collected?
Generally, MEG limits the collection of information from kids to what is known
as non-personally identifiable information that help us provide a better online
experience. (See Cookies and Logs below.) From time to time, however, we may request
limited personally identifiable information (e.g. kid's email address and/or email
address of parent or third party), as explained below, in order to conduct online
contests or sweepstakes or offer other online activities (e.g. electronic postcards,
newsletters). MEG does not condition a child's participation in any of our online
activities on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary
to participate in the activity. Electronic
Newsletter Subscription
MEG offers kids the opportunity to sign up to receive the Stink Blasters™ newsletter
by email. When a kid asks to receive our email newsletter, the child is asked
to provide his or her email address and the email address of his or her parent.
Within two business days of receiving this information, we send the child's parent
a notification email informing him or her of the child's request to receive by
email the Stink Blasters™ newsletter on an ongoing basis and give the parent the
option to have his or her child's information be removed from our newsletter database.
At any time after receiving this notification email, the child's parent has the
opportunity to exercise the option to request that we stop sending the child the
newsletter and have the child's information removed from our newsletter by following
the "unsubscribe" instructions found in either their initial notification email
or at the end of any of the newsletter emails. In addition, parents may at any
time review any identifiable information collected about their child (see below,
Parental Access). All
information collected for MEG newsletters is used only to send the child the electronic
newsletter and may be transferred, disclosed, or shared with third parties who
may be engaged by us specifically to handle the preparation and delivery of the
electronic newsletter and perform other related technical and processing functions.
These third parties may not use it for other purposes and have agreed to maintain
the confidentiality of such information. Contests
and Sweepstakes
MEG may from time to time offer contests and sweepstakes, which may be entered
online. To participate in a contest or sweepstakes, a child is asked to provide
his or her first name and email address. Sometimes, when we conduct contests or
sweepstakes that may involve more than a one-time contact, we ask additionally
for the email address of his or her parent. In such types of contests or sweepstakes,
we send the child's parent an email within two business days informing him or
her of the child's entry and give the parent the option to have the child's entry
deleted. All the information collected by MEG is securely maintained and used
only for the purpose of conducting the contest or sweepstakes. Once the contest
or sweepstakes is finished, we then delete any personal information collected.
The information collected in a MEG sweepstakes may be passed to a fulfillment
house which may use the information to help run the contest or sweepstakes and
may not use it for other purposes and has agreed to maintain the confidentiality
of such information. Electronic
Postcards and Email Messages
MEG may from time to time provide kids the opportunity to send electronic postcards
featuring Stink Blasters™ characters or original artwork to family or friends.
Also, we feature information about products that kids are interested in and from
time to time will send, on behalf of kids who request it, email messages to family
and/or friends to let family and/or friends share their interest. We may ask for
a first name, but we do not require kids to submit personally identifiable information
about themselves in order to send an electronic postcard or for MEG to send email
messages to family or friends. We do, however, ask kids to submit the email address
of the recipient of such electronic postcards or email messages. All information
collected for electronic postcards and email messages is used only to send the
requested electronic postcard or email message and to respond to email questions
and/or requests and is deleted from our system once the electronic postcard, email
message or email response is sent.
Customer Service
Parents and children may email us their questions through the Contact Us
feature of this web site. We do not request that users submit any personal information
online for customer service inquiries. We may however ask for personal information
to better help us respond to customer service questions. We do not sell, transfer
or share such information with third parties, with the exception that the information
is transferred, disclosed and shared with our third party agents who uses the
information solely to handle and manage customer service, but cannot use it for
other purposes and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
Once we or our third party agents have had a chance to provide responses to customer
service email questions, any personally identifiable information concerning children
is deleted from our system. Use
of Information
MEG uses or may use personally identifiable information that kids provide for
such purposes as sending requested electronic postcards and email messages on
their behalf, and conducting contests or sweepstakes, and responding to their
questions regarding our products and services. MEG currently does not disclose
to third parties personally identifiable information that kids provide, except
from time to time, we may transfer, disclose or share such information with third
parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain online
activities (e.g. conducting contests and sweepstakes). Such third parties have
access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not
use it for other purposes. Additionally, in the event that all or substantially
all of the assets relating to MEG are transferred or sold to another entity, personally
identifiable information submitted to us may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
Finally, we may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties
in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce
our Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property or safety of
our website, users of our website and others. Cookies
and Log Data
Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of
your computer when you visit a website. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor
can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies allow websites to
"remember" users activities on a website as well as users visits to a site. At
MEG, cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our website
over a given period. We do not store any personal information into cookies nor
do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information
that kids submit online when participating in our activities. You can, of course,
disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options
menus in your browser. Log
data collected on web servers both within MEG's control and under the control
of MEG's third party service provider, who is required to maintain such data on
a confidential basis, supplies MEG with aggregate information about the number
of visits to different pages on our site. MEG uses such aggregate information
to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers and operating
system types to make our content available to as many kids as possible. We do
not link the log data collected to the personal information that kids submit online
when participating in our activities. Parental
Access
At MEG, our goal is to help parents ensure that their
kids have a safe and fun online experience. That's why
we've set up a system by which parents can print out
and mail or fax us a signed form that allows them to
review any identifiable information collected about
their child, have this information deleted, and/or request
that there be no further collection or use of their
child's information. You can link to the form from
here. MEG takes steps to verify the identity
of anyone requesting information about a child and to
ensure that the person is in fact the child's parent
or legal guardian.
Security
MEG has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected
in the future is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical
access to our database servers as well as electronic security systems and password
protections which guard against unauthorized access. Questions/Concerns?
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding MEG's privacy policy
and/or practices, please email us at
info@stinkblasters.com
or contact us at:
2041 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 359, El Segundo, CA 90245
Or
call this number:
310-648-7788
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