Updated: August 15, 2009
Privacy Policy Summary for Kids
As a kid on the internet, worldbyme.com takes special care to protect your personal information. Your privacy is very important to us and should be very important to you too.
To help protect your privacy, the government has created laws that don't let websites collect personal information from kids. Since we don't want to break the law, we ask for as little information as we can and we don't share it with anyone without their parent's permission. We ask for your real first name and last name to identify you to your parent and school. We use the email address supplied by your parent to send your registration information (worldbyme.com name and password) as well as password reset. All other information we ask for - gender and date of birth - is used by worldbyme.com for research purposes to better understand who our users are and provide added security through age-based visibility restrictions.
We think of all of your content creations within worldbyme.com as personal information. That includes anything else you create or upload. Without your parent's or school approval (for those under 13), you can't share any of your creations or interact with any other users, groups or other areas of worldbyme.com.
Once we have your parent's or school approval, it is up to you and your parent and school (if applicable) how your personal creations and information are shared. It's important for you to learn and remember how easy it is to share information with others on the internet that you may regret. Be careful what information you put in content areas and messages. You should never share specific personal information (like your full name, address, phone number and email address) online with anyone. And, if in doubt, talk to your parents, teachers, or other leaders about what is appropriate to create, write, or upload to your worldbyme.com account.
If for some reason, we change our privacy policy, we'll let you and your parent know.
Privacy Policy Summary for
Parents, Teachers, and Adult Leaders
Information we collect and how it is used
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") requires us to inform parents and legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from children under 13 years of age. This policy describes our practices with respect to information we collect from you, as well as from your child.
Under COPPA, we may not, and we do not, condition your child's participation in an worldbyme.com activity on the provision of more information than is reasonably necessary for your child to participate in that activity.
What information we collect from children
worldbyme.com is a social networking site. As such, personal information, such as full name, address, phone number, email address, may be read by others if it's posted in a file, blog entry, in group blogs, in a message, a comment, or a picture album.
If your child is interested in joining worldbyme.com, we directly collect limited personal information, such as name, gender, date of birth and a parent's email address in order to process your child's registration request. All other information we ask for - gender and date of birth is used by worldbyme.com for research purposes to better understand who our users are and for age based visibility rules.
What information we collect from parents
In order to participate on worldbyme as a parent, verifying identity and parental relationship to a child, we directly collect personal information from parents such as your name, address, email address and date of birth. Other information we collect depends on what method of consent verification you choose.
WorldByMe offers two ways to provide consent. A parent can give consent by providing a credit card number and approving a transaction for verification, or verify by faxing or mailing us a completed consent form generated from the child’s account, with a legible copy of a valid U.S. Government or U.S.A. state issued photo ID.
We use a parent's information (name, telephone number, address, and government issued ID or credit card number) to verify your identity. We use your date of birth to verify that you are an adult. We use your email address to communicate with you about support, security, privacy, or administrative issues.
A parent must have and use their own worldbyme.com account in order to interact with and administrate their child on worldbyme.com.
What information we collect from schools
Schools that wish to use worldbyme.com as a portal to school resources may provide information to worldbyme including name, gender, birthdate and other information appropriate for use in relating students to appropriate school employees, such as teachers, that can interact with the child.
Parents, teachers and school officials have the ability to view the school roles of associated children on worldbyme.com. For example, if a child posts a blog entry, the parent or school oficial will see that entry. As another example, if the child sends a message to a friend, a child's parent or teacher may view that message.
In the course of providing web-based products and services (such as web based games and applications) and in order to provide the highest quality user experience for our members, WorldByMe passively tracks the activity of users accessing our site. This information includes IP addresses of users, page views, unique visitors, and repeat visitors. This data is not correlated in any way with any personally identifiable information.
We also use cookies, which are stored on your computer, to enhance your user experience. This cookie passively tracks your preferences, whether you are logged in, and some of your activities while on our site. You may choose to reject these cookies, but if you do, you may be unable to take advantage of all the WorldByMe features and services. Refer to your browser's help information to learn how to disable cookies.
From time to time, WorldByMe may run promotions or special offers that may, if you choose to participate, require you to provide certain information, such as your name, email address, or shipping address. These promotions and special offers are optional, but if you decide to participate, the personal information you provide may be shared with a third party in order to deliver awards or special offers to you.
Parents, legal guardians, or teachers given permission by a parent, may request that we remove children's personal information at any time. They can do this by contacting us via one of the methods below.
Security and protection of information we collect
Information we collect is stored in a secure data facility, and is only available to authorized personnel on a need-to-know basis.
We take additional reasonable precautions to secure and protect the information we collect. For example, all personal information is password protected. Additionally, certain data, such as financial information, is collected via a SSL connection. However, no information collected over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. If we become aware of a security breach that may affect your personal information, we will notify you via the email address you provide.
If you have any questions or concerns about how WorldByMe secures personal information, contact us by one of the methods listed below.
Information we share
worldbyme.com is a social networking site. As such, personal information may be read by others if it's posted in a blog entry, in group blogs, in a message, a comment, or a picture album. If a parent objects to any information posted by their child, they may delete it or contact WorldByMe and we will delete it.
WorldByMe is not in the business of renting and selling personal information to any entity outside of WorldByMe websites. WorldByMe will share your and your child's personal information under the following circumstances:
To comply with a subpoena, court order, or other legal proceeding, or if otherwise requested by a legitimate law enforcement body to cooperate in their investigations.
To prevent, investigate, or to take some other action against illegal activities, potential fraud, potential physical threats to any person, violations of our terms of service, or in any other way as required by law.
If we sell all or part of our business, personal information may be disclosed as part of the sale or transfer of the business assets. Entities we sell or transfer these assets to will be bound by this privacy policy.
Contacting WorldByMe
If you have any questions or concerns about the WorldByMe privacy policy, you can contact us at:
WorldByMe: Customer Support (from a worldbyme.com account)
TotalPersona, LLC
Customer Support - Privacy Policy Issues
1518 W. Fort Lowell Road
Tucson, Arizona 85705-9308
USA
+1 520 262 1726 (Support available from 9AM to 4PM, MST, Monday through Friday)
Changes to the privacy policy
From time to time WorldByMe may make changes to this privacy policy. We will notify you of any material changes that may impact how we use your information or the information of your child by sending an email to the primary email address of each registered adult user or by placing a prominent notice on our site.