Effective:
12/3/2007
We are updating
our Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy replaces any prior privacy
policy posted on this Web site with respect to all personally identifiable
information provided by guests on or after the effective date of this
Privacy Policy. In addition, upon a guest's acceptance of this
Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy will apply to any personally identifiable
information provided by the guest prior to the effective date of this
Privacy Policy. Please review our new Privacy Policy, which you
will find below.
For over 75 years,
The Walt Disney Company has taken great pride in the relationships that
it has developed with its guests. In keeping with this tradition, we
at the Walt Disney Internet Group are dedicated to protecting your privacy
and handling any personal information we obtain from you with care and
respect. This Privacy Policy is designed to answer your questions regarding
our privacy policies and principles.
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What information
does this Privacy Policy cover? |
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Except as specifically
described below in A2 and A6, this Privacy Policy applies only to personally
identifiable information collected on the Web site where this Privacy
Policy is posted and does not apply to any other information collected
by The Walt Disney Family of Companies through any other means.
As used in this Privacy Policy, "The Walt Disney Family of Companies"
refers to The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiary and affiliated
entities, singly or together, including companies such as ABC and ESPN
that generally do not offer their products and services under the "Disney"
brand name, as well as companies that generally do offer their products
and services under the "Disney" brand name. (At times, our
Web site refers to The Walt Disney Family of Companies as "The
Walt Disney family of companies.") The Walt Disney Internet Group
(including its subsidiaries) is a member of The Walt Disney Family of
Companies, and is referred to in this Privacy Policy as "WDIG,"
"we," "us," "our," and "ourselves."
In keeping with the traditions of The Walt Disney Company, we refer
to individuals who purchase or use products or services of The Walt
Disney Family of Companies as "guests." When this Privacy
Policy uses the term "personally identifiable information,"
we mean information that identifies a particular individual, such as
the individual's name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone
number. When other information (such as, for example, consumer product
preferences or number of children) is directly associated with personally
identifiable information, this other information also is treated as
personally identifiable information for purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Personally identifiable information does not include screen names (also
known as member names, usernames or other online aliases) provided by
our guests in the course of registering with or using our Web site,
except in circumstances in which we request that guests provide their
e-mail addresses as their screen names. Personally identifiable information
is sometimes referred to in this Privacy Policy as "personal information."
Finally, the terms of this Privacy Policy are subject to all applicable
laws.
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What types of personally
identifiable information do we collect about our guests? |
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We collect several
types of personally identifiable information about our guests.
Information You Provide to Us
Much of the personally identifiable information we receive comes directly
from guests who are interested in obtaining various products and services
from us or another member of The Walt Disney Family of Companies. Typically,
this information includes the guest's name, postal address, e-mail
address, and telephone number. We may also collect other types of information
such as gender, age, number of children, and personal interests, which
we may associate with personally identifiable information. If you purchase
products or services from us or another member of The Walt Disney Family
of Companies, we'll note, for example, credit card information, the
type of services or products ordered or purchased, and the date of the
order or purchase. You may also provide us photographs or other video
materials, which may contain personal information. We may collect personal
information when you register on, log on, or visit our Web site, including
when you participate in activities on our Web site, such as sweepstakes,
contests, games, and informational and promotional offers, and when
you provide information to our customer service representatives.
Finally, our Web site may offer message boards, conversation pages,
chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other
Public Forums (as defined in the Terms of Use governing our Web site
(the "Terms of Use")), as well as other features in which you may
provide us with User Submissions (as defined in the Terms of Use).
If you provide personal information when you use any of these features,
that personal information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed
without limitation as to its use by a third party. Our rules regarding
User Submissions are described in the Terms of Use, including in the
"User Submissions," "Public Forums and Communication" and "House
Rules" sections of the Terms of Use.
Information Collected Through Technology
We collect information through technology to make our site more interesting
and useful to you and for various purposes related to our business.
For instance, when you come to our site, we collect your IP address.
An IP address is associated with the access point through which you
enter the Internet, and is typically controlled by your Internet Service
Provider (ISP), your company, or your university. Standing alone, your
IP address is not personally identifiable. We may use IP addresses
to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests
visit various parts of our site, and we may combine IP addresses with
personally identifiable information.
Our Web site collects information through a variety of technical methods,
including cookies and Web beacons. Cookies are pieces of information
that a Web site sends to your computer while you are viewing the Web
site. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images
on the pages of Web sites. Cookies, web beacons and other technical
methods may involve the transmission of information either directly
to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on
our behalf.
We may use the information
collected through these technical methods for many purposes, including
delivering content, tracking and enhancing our guests' experience
on our Web site. For example, when you return to our Web site
after logging in, cookies provide information to the site so that the
site will remember who you are. We also may use technical methods to
analyze the traffic patterns on our Web site, such as the frequency
with which our users visit various parts of our Web site, and third
party Web sites, such as the frequency with which our users visit other
Web sites. In HTML e-mails that we send our guests, we may use technical
methods for a number of purposes, including: to determine whether our
guests have opened or forwarded those e-mails and/or clicked on links
in those e-mails, to customize the display of banner advertisements
and other messages after a guest has closed the e-mail, and to determine
whether a guest has made an inquiry or purchase in response to a particular
e-mail. These technical methods may enable us to collect and use information
in a form that is personally identifiable.
Advertisements may be managed and placed on our Web site by third parties
that are called "network advertisers." Network advertisers
who place advertisements on our Web site may use cookies and Web beacons
to collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits
to our Web site and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements
about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like to obtain
more information about the practices of some of these network advertisers
and to make choices about their use of your information, please click
here. Finally, please keep in mind that if you click on an
advertisement on our Web site and link to a third party's Web site,
then our Privacy Policy will not apply to your personally identifiable
information collected on that third party's Web site and you must
read the privacy policy posted on that site to see how your personally
identifiable information will be handled.
Information That We Collect from Others
We may update and supplement personally identifiable information that
we have collected directly from our guests with other information that
we obtain from third parties and other members of The Walt Disney Family
of Companies. In addition, we may obtain personally identifiable information
about individuals who are not yet users of our Web site or guests of
The Walt Disney Family of Companies. In addition, when we associate
information that we obtain from third parties or other members of The
Walt Disney Family of Companies with personally identifiable information
that we have collected under this Privacy Policy, we will treat the
acquired information like the information that we collected ourselves
and, except as permitted by this Privacy Policy, the information will
not be shared with third parties.
On December 3, 2007,
WDIG purchased substantially all of the assets of iParenting, LLC.
In connection with this purchase, WDIG has posted this new Privacy Policy.
After December 3, 2007, if a guest visits this Web site and accepts
this new Privacy Policy, then, upon such acceptance, the ownership of
all personally identifiable information that is owned by iParenting,
LLC and pertains to the guest will be transferred from iParenting, LLC
to WDIG.
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How is your personally
identifiable information used and shared? |
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As described in detail
below, The Walt Disney Family of Companies may use your personally identifiable
information in many ways, including sending you promotional materials,
and sharing your information with third parties so that these third
parties can send you promotional materials. (By "promotional materials,"
we mean communications that directly promote the use of Web sites, or
the purchase of products or services.) As outlined below in A4, you
may "opt out" of certain uses of your personal information.
General Provisions for Sharing and Use by The Walt
Disney Family of Companies, Licensees and Co-Branding Participants
Personally identifiable information collected under this Privacy Policy
is shared among and used by The Walt Disney Family of Companies for
many purposes. For example, The Walt Disney Family of Companies may
use your personal information to send you promotional materials about
goods and services (including special offers and promotions) either
offered by The Walt Disney Family of Companies or offered by third parties.
These promotional materials may be sent to you by postal mail, e-mail
or other means. You may opt out of receiving these communications as
provided in A4 below. Please keep in mind, however, that when you purchase
or request products or services (or information about products or services)
from a particular member of The Walt Disney Family of Companies, promotional
materials about goods and services offered by another member of The
Walt Disney Family of Companies and/or by a third party may accompany
delivery of the product, service or information that you have requested.
We refer to sending you promotional materials in these circumstances
as "Fulfillment Uses" of your personal information. Because
these promotional materials accompany products, services or information
that you have requested, your opt-outs for Individual Disney Companies,
The Walt Disney Family of Companies and Third Parties under A4 below
will not apply to any of these Fulfillment Uses.
The Walt Disney Family of Companies may also use your personal information
for many purposes other than sending you promotional materials. (We
refer to all of these types of uses of your personal information that
do not involve the sending of promotional materials as "Operational
Uses.") For example, we may use your information to complete transactions
requested by you (such as your purchase of a product or service offered
on our Web site), or to send you administrative communications either
about your account with us or about features of our Web site, including
any future changes to this Privacy Policy. Because these uses of your
personal information do not involve sending you promotional materials,
your opt-outs under A4 below will not apply to any of these Operational
Uses.
In addition to using your personal information within The Walt Disney
Family of Companies, The Walt Disney Family of Companies may share your
personal information with companies that offer products and/or services
under brand names or using characters or other intellectual property
of The Walt Disney Family of Companies. These companies are called
"licensees." The Walt Disney Family of Companies may also
share your personal information with companies that offer products and/or
services that are co-branded using brand names of The Walt Disney Family
of Companies. These companies are called "co-branding participants."
When The Walt Disney Family of Companies shares personal information
with third parties acting as licensees and co-branding participants,
these licensees and co-branding participants are restricted by contract
from using the personal information for any marketing or promotional
purpose that is not related to a licensed or co-branded product or service.
Finally, to further protect your privacy, these licensees and co-branding
participants' use of personal information shared with them under this
Privacy Policy is subject to the same opt-out rights (and limitations
upon those rights) that apply to use of personal information by members
of The Walt Disney Family of Companies under A4 below.
Finally, The Walt Disney Family of Companies may take your personally
identifiable information and make it non-personally identifiable, either
by combining it with information about other individuals (aggregating
your information with information about other individuals), or by removing
characteristics (such as your name) that make the information personally
identifiable to you (de-personalizing your information). Given the
nature of this information, there are no restrictions under this Privacy
Policy upon the right of The Walt Disney Family of Companies to aggregate
or de-personalize your personal information, and The Walt Disney Family
of Companies may use and/or share with third parties the resulting non-personally
identifiable information in any way.
Third Parties Offering Promotions, Products, or Services
Subject to your opt-out choices (see A4 below), The Walt Disney Family
of Companies may share your personal information with selected third
parties so that they can send you promotional materials about goods
and services (including special offers and promotions) offered by them.
(We call this type of sharing "promotional sharing" or sharing
for "promotional purposes.") When sharing your information
for promotional purposes, The Walt Disney Family of Companies attempts
to select only reputable companies that offer high quality products
and services. Moreover, The Walt Disney Family of Companies will not
share your e-mail address with third parties for promotional purposes,
except when you consent to such sharing in the course of your participation
in a Sponsored Activity as described below. When The Walt Disney Family
of Companies shares your personal information with a third party under
any circumstance described in this "Third Parties Offering Promotions,
Products, or Services" section, your personal information will
become permanently subject to the information use and sharing practices
of the third party, and the third party will not be restricted by this
Privacy Policy with respect to its use and further sharing of your personal
information.
In addition to the promotional sharing that is subject to your opt-out
choices under A4 below, The Walt Disney Family of Companies may also
share your information when you engage in certain activities on our
site that are sponsored by third parties, such as purchasing products
or services offered by a third party, electing to receive information
or communications from a third party, or electing to participate in
contests, sweepstakes, games or other programs sponsored in whole or
in part by a third party. The Walt Disney Family of Companies may also
share your personal information when you respond to promotional materials
from The Walt Disney Family of Companies and authorize a third party
to use your personal information for purposes such as, for example,
sending you additional promotional materials, providing you a product
or service, or entering you in a contest, sweepstakes or game. (We
refer to all of these activities and requests as "Sponsored Activities.")
When you participate in Sponsored Activities, you will either be required
or requested to agree that the sponsor or business associate may use
your personal information (including, in some cases, your e-mail address)
in accordance with the sponsor or business associate's privacy practices.
Since you will have consented to this specific instance of sharing of
your personal information, the opt-out choice for "Third Parties"
described in A4 below will not apply.
Companies That Facilitate Communications and Transactions with You
Sometimes The Walt Disney Family of Companies hires companies to help
provide products or services, like a shipping company that delivers
a package or a company that helps fulfill prizes for a sweepstakes.
In those instances, there is a need to share your information with these
companies. Sometimes The Walt Disney Family of Companies also works
with other companies who help either gather your information or communicate
with you, such as a company that helps to provide customer service.
Your opt-out choices under A4 below will not apply to sharing by The
Walt Disney Family of Companies of your personal information with any
of these companies. Nonetheless, except as separately permitted by other
provisions of this Privacy Policy, these companies are allowed to gather,
receive, and use your information only for the purposes described in
this paragraph or to facilitate compliance with laws.
Companies That You Previously Authorized to Obtain Your Information
In certain circumstances, your dealings with a third party may have
authorized that third party to obtain your personal information from
The Walt Disney Family of Companies and to use that information in accordance
with the third party's own privacy practices and policies. For example,
in using an online shopping service (such as the shopping services offered
by Internet portals that refer the portal's users to third-party merchants),
you may have authorized that shopping service to obtain from the service's
participating third-party merchants (including The Walt Disney Family
of Companies) information about your purchases conducted through the
shopping service. In such circumstances, your opt-out elections under
A4 below will not apply to sharing of your personal information by The
Walt Disney Family of Companies. Nonetheless, The Walt Disney Family
of Companies will provide such companies only the information that you
authorized (except as separately permitted under other provisions of
this Privacy Policy). In the example given above, the shopping service
would be provided only information concerning purchases you made from
The Walt Disney Family of Companies through that shopping service, and
would not be provided any other information concerning you, unless any
additional sharing of your personal information were separately permitted
under another provision of this Privacy Policy.
Purchase or Sale of Businesses
From time to time, we may purchase a business or sell one or more of
our businesses (or portions thereof) and your personally identifiable
information may be transferred as a part of the purchase or sale. In
the event that we purchase a business, the personally identifiable information
received with that business would be treated in accordance with this
Privacy Policy, if it is practicable and permissible to do so. In the
event that we sell a business, we will include provisions in the selling
contract requiring the purchaser to treat your personally identifiable
information in the same manner required by this Privacy Policy (including
any amendments to this Privacy Policy). In light of this protection,
your opt-out choices under A4 will not affect our right to transfer
your information to a purchaser in these circumstances. The provisions
of this paragraph will also apply in the event that one or more businesses
of any other member of The Walt Disney Family of Companies are sold
and personal information subject to this Privacy Policy is transferred
to a purchaser of those businesses.
Disclosures to Comply With Laws and Disclosures to Help Protect the
Security and Safety of Our Web Site, The Walt Disney Family of Companies
and Others
Regardless of any opt-out choices that you make under A4, The Walt Disney
Family of Companies will disclose personal information when it believes
in good faith that such disclosures (a) facilitate compliance with laws,
including, for example, compliance with a court order or subpoena, or
(b) will help to: enforce our Terms of Use; enforce contest, sweepstakes,
promotions, and/or game rules; protect your safety or security, including
the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect
the safety and security of our Web site, The Walt Disney Family of Companies,
and/or third parties, including the safety and security of property
that belongs to The Walt Disney Family of Companies or third parties.
Authentication of
Prior iParenting.com Registrants
As discussed above
in A2, on December 3, 2007, WDIG purchased substantially all of the
assets of iParenting, LLC. In connection with this purchase, WDIG
has posted this new Privacy Policy and the new Terms of Use. For
any guest that registered on this Web site prior to December 3, 2007,
WDIG will need to determine whether the guest has signified his or her
acceptance of this new Privacy Policy and the new Terms of Use.
Accordingly, each time that a guest visits this Web site, WDIG will
collect the guest's e-mail address and/or password for that purpose.
Unless and until the guest has signified his or her acceptance of this
new Privacy Policy, the guest's e-mail address and/or password will
not be used by WDIG to send the guest any promotional materials.
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What choices do
you have about the collection, use, and sharing of your personally identifiable
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With regard to personal
information that you have provided under this Privacy Policy, there
are three separate opt-out choices available to you. These opt-out
choices are the means by which you give us, or decline to give us, your
consent to use your personal information for the purposes covered by
these opt-out choices. You can exercise your opt-out choices during
the registration process on this Web site and as described below in
A6. Each of these opt-out choices is subject to the exceptions described
further below in this A4.
Your three opt-out choices are:
Third Parties: You may choose to opt out of receiving promotional
materials from third parties. If you do not choose this opt-out, The
Walt Disney Family of Companies may share your personal information
so that third parties can send you these promotional materials. Please
bear in mind that this opt-out choice for "Third Parties"
will not apply to the licensees and co-branding participants described
above in A3.
The Walt Disney Family of Companies: You may choose to opt out
of receiving promotional materials from members of The Walt Disney Family
of Companies, including the licensees and co-branding participants described
above in A3. Your election to choose this "The Walt Disney Family
of Companies" opt-out will not, however, override any consent that
you provide to receive promotional materials from iParenting.com.
iParenting.com: You may choose to opt out of receiving promotional
materials directly from iParenting.com during the registration process
on this Web site or as described below in A6. However, if you do not
also opt out of receiving promotional materials from "The Walt
Disney Family of Companies" as described in the preceding paragraph,
you may still receive promotional materials from iParenting.com.
Please keep in mind that any opt-out choices you make will not apply
in situations where (a) you either have made, simultaneously make, or
later make a specific request for information from a member of The Walt
Disney Family of Companies, (b) The Walt Disney Family of Companies
uses your personal information for either "Operational Uses"
or "Fulfillment Uses" (as described above in A3), (c) you
either have engaged, simultaneously engage, or later engage in Sponsored
Activities (as described above in A3), or (d) The Walt Disney Family
of Companies shares your personal information under the provisions of
A3 above with respect to "Companies That Facilitate Communications
and Transactions With You," "Companies That You Previously
Authorized to Obtain Your Information," "Purchase or Sale
of Businesses," or "Disclosures to Comply with Laws and Disclosures
to Help Protect the Security and Safety of Our Web Site, The Walt Disney
Family of Companies and Others." Also, any opt-out choices
you make will not apply to personal information that you provide about
other persons, but these other persons will have the opportunity to
opt out of receiving promotional materials.
In addition, any time that we send you promotional materials that you
have consented to receive under one of the previously described opt-out
choices, we may accompany those materials with promotional materials
covered by the other opt-out choices. We may do so even if you
have opted out of receiving promotional materials covered by those other
opt-out choices. Any such additional promotional materials, however,
will constitute only a minor part of any particular communication with
you.
Finally, if you do
not exercise your opt-out choices upon registration or initial log-in
at our Web site, it may take up to ninety (90) days for your opt-out
choices to be fully effective. Our systems require time to update,
and promotional mailings using your personal information shared before
your opt-out may already be in process. Finally, please keep in
mind that, if you have not consistently used the same postal and email
addresses on our Web site, or if you have used a general change of address
process (such as the change of address process offered by the U.S. Post
Office) after providing address information on our Web site, systems
maintained by members of The Walt Disney Family of Companies may have
varying contact information for you. Accordingly, it may not always
be possible to match your new opt-out choices with your personal information
that you previously have provided.
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What kinds of security
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The security and confidentiality
of your information is extremely important to us. We have implemented
technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect
guest information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time
to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate
new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our
best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
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How can you update
your contact information and opt-out choices? |
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You can access and
update the contact information you gave us during registration (that
is, your postal address, e-mail address, or any other information that
would directly enable us to contact you), or modify your opt-out choices,
by logging in with your e-mail address and password at my iparenting.
We may also provide you an opportunity to update your contact information
and/or modify your opt-out choices by sending you an e-mail or other
communication that invites your response. Finally, you may unsubscribe
from certain e-mail communications by clicking on unsubscribe links
in those e-mails.
In some cases, your
account may expire or be terminated under our Terms of Use. If
so, you may contact Member Services at the address in A7 below to update
your information and opt-out choices (to the extent that we still retain
them).
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How can you ask
questions, or send us comments, about this Privacy Policy? |
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If you have questions
or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please send an
e-mail with your questions or comments to ms_support@help.go.com or write us:
Please be assured that
any personal information that you provide in communications to the above
e-mail and postal mail addresses will not be used to send you promotional
materials, unless you so request.
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How will you know
if we amend this Privacy Policy? |
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We may amend this
Privacy Policy at any time. If we amend this Privacy Policy to permit
material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal
information, we will notify you of such amendment by sending you an
e-mail at the last e-mail address that you provided us, and/or by prominently
posting notice of such amendment on this Web site. Any such amendment
to this Privacy Policy will be effective thirty (30) calendar days following
either our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you or our posting of notice
of the changes on this Web site. Please note that, at all times, you
are responsible for updating your personal information to provide us
your current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address
that you have provided us is not valid, or for any other reason is not
capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch
of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective
notice of the amendment described in the notice. In any event, an amendment
to this Privacy Policy may permit material changes in the way we use
and share personal information that you provided us prior to our notification
to you of such amendment. If you do not wish to allow such material
changes, you must so notify us (in the manner we specify) prior to the
effective date of the amendment. If you provide us this notice,
we may choose to deactivate your account. Please be advised, however,
that, regardless of whether you provide such notice to us, any such
amendment to this Privacy Policy will apply to any personal information
that you provide us on or after the effective date of such amendment.
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