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The National Institute
on Media and the Family
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to the National Institute on
Media and the Family and we want you to feel as comfortable
as possible visiting our Web site and using our services.
This Privacy Policy and Agreement ("Privacy Policy")
will tell you what information we collect about you and
about your use of our Web site. It will explain how we protect
that information and what choices you have about how it
is used. We urge you to read this Privacy Policy carefully
so that you will understand clearly both our commitment
to you and your privacy, and how we may collect and use
information. By using the mediafamily.org, you agree
to the terms of this Privacy Policy and acknowledge that
you are at least 18 years old and competent to enter into
this Agreement to use the Service.
The National Institute on Media and the Family is an independent,
nonprofit organization whose goal is to build users' trust
and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair
information practices. Mediafamily.org routinely
collects, as do most other Web sites, information on Web
site visitors. We will inform you of the following in this
Privacy Policy:
- What personally identifiable information of yours is
collected;
- What organization is collecting the information;
- How the information is used;
- With whom the information may be shared;
- What choices are available regarding collection, use
and distribution of the information;
- What kind of security procedures are in place to protect
the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our
control; and,
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information collection and use
MediaFamily.org collects personally identifiable
information when you register for a mediafamily.org
account, when you use certain mediafamily.org products
or services, when you visit mediafamily.org pages,
and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes through mediafamily.org.
When you register with mediafamily.org, we ask for
personally identifiable information including geographic
and demographic information. Once you register with mediafamily.org
and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
We use this registration information to provide certain
services to you, such as a personalization feature that
remembers what services you have used in the past and services
you are qualified to use.
We also use the personally identifiable information to
better understand our audience and within the email services
we provide, to provide personalized services to you, and
to contact you about content updates, specials and new products.
MediaFamily.org server statistics
Mediafamily.org's server software collects the Internet
domain of the server of visitors; the date and time they
visited; the type of browser and operating system they use;
and the path they took through mediafamily.org. This
standard information is collected by most Web sites. Mediafamily.org
uses this information to improve the general functionality
of the site, and to determine an aggregate but not individual
picture of mediafamily.org's visitors.
Our server software does not collect nor recognize visitor's
email addresses or their identities unless they register
with the National Institute on Media and the Family and/or
request services provided by mediafamily.org.
Mediafamily.org also automatically receives and
records information on our server logs from your browser
including your IP address, mediafamily.org cookie
information and the page you requested.
Information sharing and disclosure
Mediafamily.org will not sell or rent your personally
identifiable information to anyone. Mediafamily.org
may send personally identifiable information about you to
other companies or people when:
- You've given us your consent to share the information;
- Your information is required to provide the product
or service we offer as a part of mediafamily.org;
- We need to send the information to companies who work
on behalf of mediafamily.org to provide a product or service
to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies
do not have any right to use the personally identifiable
information we provide to them beyond what is necessary
to assist us.);
- Required to comply with valid legal requirements, such
as laws, regulations, subpoenas, search warrants, court
orders or legal process; or
- We find that your actions on mediafamily.org
violate the mediafamily.org Terms
of Service or any of our usage guidelines for specific
products or services.
Mediafamily.org also may have links to other web
sites operated by companies that are not related to and
are independent of National Institute on Media and the Family
and for which we are not responsible for the privacy of
those sites. If you chose to link to a third party web site,
you should review the privacy policy posted on that web
site to understand how that web site collects and uses your
personal information.
MediaFamily.org email updates
Mediafamily.org provides its visitors with email
update services to notify subscribers of new information
and services on the mediafamily.org site. Mediafamily.org
does not and will not rent, sell, barter or give away our
subscriber lists or subscribers' names or email addresses
for use by outside parties' email solicitations. Please
note that although most e-mail messages are deleted after
we respond, in certain cases hard copies or data from certain
e-mail correspondence may be kept on file. If this occurs,
any such copy or data will be stored in a secure location,
and information from these messages will not be used for
marketing purposes.
Mediafamily.org email update subscribers may remove
themselves from the update service at any time by choosing
not to receive our email updates and by clicking
here.
MediaFamily.org Children's Privacy
The National Institute on Media and the Family complies
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. We do
not intentionally collect personal information from children
13 and under. Site visitors under 13 years of age should
not submit personal information on this site. Personal information
can include your name, age, address, or even email address.
MediaFamily.org cookies
Mediafamily.org sets and accesses mediafamily.org
cookies on your computer in order to give you access to
this site and to provide certain personalization services.
Cookies are small computer files that we transfer to your
computer's hard drive that allow us to know how often someone
visits a site and the activities they conduct while on that
site (such as the chat rooms you visited, whether you submitted
orders for products, etc.). The information collected by
cookies helps us dynamically generate advertising and content
on web pages or in emails specifically designed for you
and also allows us to statistically monitor how many people
are using our site and selected sponsors' and advertisers'
sites, or opening our emails, and for what purposes. We
may use cookie information to target certain advertisements
to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain
content or advertisements.
Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies.
Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser
to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the
toolbar. If you reject our cookie, certain of the functions
and conveniences of our site may not work properly but you
do not have to accept our cookie in order to productively
use our site. While it may be possible to link non-personal
cookie information to Personal Information collected in
other ways, we want you to know that if you accept our cookie
we will not, without your consent, link the cookie information
we collect to Personal Information you provide to us on
our site.
Editing and updating your profile information
Mediafamily.org gives you the ability to edit your
mediafamily.org profile and preferences at any time.
You should be aware that it is not technologically possible
to remove each and every record of the information you have
provided to the National Institute on Media and the Family
from our servers. The need to back-up our systems to protect
information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your
Personal Information may exist in a non-erasable form that
will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Nevertheless,
we promise that upon receiving your request, all Personal
Information stored in the databases we actively use for
research and daily business activities, and other readily
searchable media, will be deleted.
Security
The National Institute on Media and the Family wants your
Personal Information to remain as secure as possible.
Your mediafamily.org profile information is password-protected
for your privacy and security.
As a security measure, your Personal Information is also
kept physically separate on a separate server where your
password is encrypted and stored on a database. On the employee
side, only a limited number of the National Institute on
Media and the Family employees are authorized to access
your Personal Information. All the National Institute on
Media and the Family employees must abide by our Privacy
Policy and those who violate our Privacy Policy are subject
to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
Although we will make every reasonable effort to protect
your Personal Information from loss, misuse, or alteration
by third parties, you should be aware that there is always
some risk involved in transmitting information over the
Internet. There is also some risk that thieves could find
a way to thwart our security systems.
Changes to this privacy policy
Mediafamily.org may amend this policy from time
to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we
use your personal information we will notify you by posting
a prominent announcement on our pages.
Privacy as it applies to the Internet is a dynamic, rapidly
developing area. In the future, we may make significant
changes to our privacy policy affecting the use of the Personal
Information we collect. We will notify you by email of any
significant changes concerning our use of your Personal
Information and obtain your "opt-in" consent to
any significant new uses of your Personal Information if
it was collected from you prior to a significant change
in this policy. We may also make non-significant changes
to our Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our
use of your Personal Information and we generally will not
notify you of these non-significant changes. You should
check this posted Privacy Policy for any non-significant
changes. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy
Policy or any revised policy, please exit the site immediately.
Questions and Contacting mediafamily.org
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or comments
regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us as follows:
In writing: National Institute on Media and the Family
Riverside Professional Building
606 24th Avenue South, Suite 606
Minneapolis, MN 55454
By e-mail
form
By telephone: Local 612-672-5437
Toll-free 888-672-5437
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