Privacy Policy
Children's Library Resources's, Inc. (Children's Library Resources's) policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our users. This policy statement tells you how we collect information from you and how we use it. Children's Library Resources follows five core principles of privacy protection in the operation of its Web site:
1. Notice/Awareness of Children's Library Resources' information practices
2. Choice/Consent to provide information
3. Access/Participation to/in your own data
4. Integrity/Security of the data collected
5. Enforcement/Redress through self-regulation
1. NOTICE/AWARENESS This policy statement sets forth Children's Library Resources information practices concerning the type of data that is collected at Children's Library Resources' Web site. This policy is being placed at a link on the bottom of Children's Library Resources' home page, a practice that has become an industry standard location for Web site privacy policies.
2. CHOICE/CONSENT The following paragraphs describe the type of information Children's Library Resources collects and the reasons why Children's Library Resources collects the information. By providing the information requested by Children's Library Resources' online forms and by continuing to use Children's Library Resources' Web site after having an opportunity to review Children's Library Resources' privacy policy, you have consented to Children's Library Resources' use of the information it collects as described at the point of collection or in this policy.
User Supplied Information You may be asked to supply contact information in order to receive information or materials that you request from the Children's Library Resources Web site. We use contact information to send you the information you request when you submit the form. The information we collect in this manner is not used for any other purpose.
Children's Library Resources may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Children's Library Resources' rights or property or other users of the Web site, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Children's Library Resources may use or disclose user information to address violations or possible violations of the Terms and Conditions of use of the Web site. Children's Library Resources may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that the law requires the disclosure.
Children's Library Resources may share aggregate information about our users with business partners and other third parties. For example, we may disclose that the Web site audience comes x percent from east of the Mississippi River and y percent from west of the Mississippi River.
Your IP Address Children's Library Resources collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to generate aggregate information, and to audit the use of our site. When you request pages from the Web site, our servers log your IP address. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms of use of the Web site or to protect our service, site, customers or others.
Use of Cookies Like most other e-commerce Web sites, the Children's Library Resources site uses "cookies." Cookies are small files placed temporarily in your Internet browser that keep track of your stay at our Web site. The text in a cookie, by itself, only tells us that you have visited our site before. A cookie generated by our site contains no information about you and does not gather information from your computer about you. It contains only an alphanumeric ID that, for example, allows you to retrieve your shopping cart.
3. ACCESS/PARTICIPATION You may access the data collected by Children's Library Resources about you by sending a request to the address listed below. If you believe that an error has been made in the accuracy of the data collected from you, Children's Library Resources will correct such error upon adequate verification of the error and the identity of the person seeking the correction.
If you wish to access, remove or correct any personally identifying data you have supplied to Children's Library Resources you may do so either by:
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sending an e-mail request to custserv@childrenslibraryresources.com; or |
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sending a letter via the U.S. Mail to: Manager of Web Site Development Children's Library Resources, Inc. 151 Good Counsel Drive Mankato, MN 56002-0669 |
Please understand that in order to protect your privacy and security, we may also need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
4. INTEGRITY/SECURITY OF THE DATA COLLECTED To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, Children's Library Resources has put in place commercially reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
5. ENFORCEMENT/REDRESS If for some reason you believe that Children's Library Resources has not adhered to its privacy policy, please notify us by either of the methods set forth above. Children's Library Resources will do its best to respond to your concerns and, when appropriate, take steps to correct a problem.
Your Acceptance of These Terms By using this Web site, you signify your assent to this policy statement regarding online privacy. Children's Library Resources may change the terms of its privacy policy with or without notice to you. It is your responsibility to review the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy statement, then please do not use our Web site. Your continued use of the Children's Library Resources Web site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. If you have any questions about this policy statement, the practices of this Web site, or your dealings with Children's Library Resources, you may contact us at address given above.
Last Revised: 08/18/03
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