Privacy Policy for Children
Greetings from The Story Home!
Thank you for visiting our Website. We hope you have done so with the help of a parent, legal guardian or teacher because that is one of the best ways to explore the Internet and make sure that the sites you visit are safe, educational and fun.
Here is about the information we collect from your computer or mobile device when you visit our Website for listening, purchasing stories, looking at artwork, or reading about us:
- How you found us. It may have been from another friend, through your school or in a search by Google, Yahoo, or other search engines.
- The day & time you visited our Website. Our computer calendar and clock will tell us the day and time of your visit.
- Which of our stories or web page you visited. If you clicked on a story to sample or went to a page to read something on our Website, our computer will let us know.
- If you came to us from a web page from a different website, which one it was.
- What country and city you live in.
This information is only used to help us make the Website more useful for you as well as how we learn about the number of visitors that come to our Website, what part of the world you live in and which stories and information you liked the most.
We also collect information when you purchase and download our stories. In order to fulfill your purchase, we need to collect your personal information so that PayPal can put through the transaction. We use the WooCommerce wordpress plugin (https://woocommerce.com/privacy-policy/) and PayPal, to process the purchase.
You must be over 18 years to purchase a story.
Your parent, guardian, or teacher must purchase the story for you if you are under the age of 18.
This is what personal information PayPal needs to complete your purchase:
- Your complete name first and last.
- Your complete address including city, state and zip code.
- Your email address (to send the link to your story you just purchased).
- Your phone number which is optional.
- Payment information
Mailing List
We also collect personal information when you sign up to our mailing list. You must be over 13 to sign up to be on our mailing list.
If you are over 13 and sign up we would collect your email address and your name. We never give out any personal information including email addresses to anyone else, except for a company we use called “Mailchimp”, which collects all the email addresses for us to send out our newsletters and information about special events. You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time.
Mailchimp does not give out any of your email addresses to anyone else. You can visit mailchimp.com and delete your information as well or email them at personaldatarequests@mailchimp.com
Here is MailChimp’s privacy policy link. https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
What happens when you write to us?
If you write to us, we use your email address from your message to respond to you. Always make sure it is okay with a parent or guardian first — and any other time you provide information on line. If you are not sure it is okay with them, you can always come back and visit the Website again later, when you have their permission.
We like hearing what you think! If you leave us a comment about the stories and we decide to post it on our Website, please only use your first name and your age if you want, but that is all.
While we cannot respond to your message without your email address, you can still post a comment and visit the rest of this Website without providing any information about yourself.
Computers and the Police! Don’t forget we promise not to tell anyone anything that you or your computer tells us. The only time we cannot keep this promise is if someone breaks the law and tries to mess up our web pages. Then, the police will need information from us to capture the person who is doing this.
Remember! Although, we do not keep information on you except if you are over 13 and sign up on our mailing list, and purchase a story, some computers you are using yourself might.For example, at your friend’s house or if you leave The Story Home Website on a link and go to another website.They have to tell you first if they are going to keep information about you and they should tell you why and for how long they keep the information.
Make sure your parents know about these links or computers before you give any information about yourself!
Note to Parents: Please see our official Privacy Policy Notice below for the information we collect and maintain.
Official Privacy Policy Notice
Note to Parents, Guardians, Teachers
The Story Home Privacy Policy for Children under age 13 is the same as our official Privacy Policy. The only difference is in the language used.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and its implementing guidelines are the same standards that commercial web sites are obliged to follow under the COPPA. Verifiable parental consent from the child’s parent is required before collecting, using or disclosing personal information from a child under the age of 13 and to determine how to communicate online with children under the age of 13. Here are the exceptions:
There are several exceptions that permit collection of a child’s email address without getting the parent’s consent in advance.
- To respond to a one-time request from a child.
- To respond more than once to a child’s request (i.e., subscription to a newsletter). However, parental consent is required prior to the second communication.
- To protect the safety of a child who is participating on the Website (i.e., in a chat room).
- To protect the Website or to respond to law enforcement (i.e., in the case of Website compromise or hack).
Personal Information
General Policy
This Privacy Policy along with the Children’s Privacy Policy above are part of the Terms of Use Agreement for www.thestoryhome.com (“Website”). The definitions of all capitalized terms can be found here or in the Terms of Use Agreement.
The Story Home ( www.thestoryhome.com ) is owned and operated by Purple Button Media doing business as The Story Home (“Owners”).
Purple Button Media respects the privacy concerns of the visitors to the “Website”. As a general policy, no personal information is automatically collected from Users of the Website,except as otherwise described in the children’s privacy policy numbers 1 through 5.In the event that we do collect any personally identifiable data about visitors to the Website, that information is only collected on a voluntary basis, and it is only known to Purple Button Media.
Certain non-personal information of visitors (for example, the type of browser being used by the visitor, the type of operating system in use by the visitor and the domain name of the visitor’s Internet service provider) is recorded by the standard operation of the Website’s servers. This information is primarily used for internal purposes, and only in an aggregate and non-personally-identifying form. However, Purple Button Media will occasionally provide this information, in aggregate and non-personally identifying form, to other parties for marketing, advertising or other use.
Personally identifiable information may be collected by Purple Button Media when Website visitors voluntarily provide this information (including when visitors fill out purchase, contact or comment forms and subscribe to newsletters). We do not collect personally identifiable information from children under age 13 without the parents’ permission. If this should happen, the information about the child will be deleted immediately upon discovery.
All such personal information is retained by the Owners, Purple Button Media and is not sold or otherwise transferred outside Purple Button Media unless we obtain the User’s express consent to do so or if we are required by law or by court/governmental order to disclose such information in a particular circumstance. This information is used by Purple Button Media, for internal marketing and promotional purposes in order to better understand the use of our Website and to support promotions included on this Website, as well as to enhance User enjoyment during the online experience. This data, in aggregate, non-personally-identifying form, may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses. We sometimes also use e-mail addresses and other personally identifying information to contact visitors who communicate with us. For example, we direct email to visitors who provide us with their email addresses for specific purposes such as receiving our email newsletters or to answer questions from visitors who fill out a contact us form on our Website. Each email newsletter contains instructions on how to discontinue receipt of the newsletter.
This Website also uses “cookies,” which are pieces of information that are transferred to an individual User’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The Website never uses cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie and the cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information. Cookies function by saving your Website preferences – and as a result, it is possible to speed up your future activities at our Website and allow us to provide you information specifically tailored to your interests. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it may be possible that some parts of the Website will not function optimally if you do so.
This Website contains links to other websites. Purple Button Media is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices or the content of such websites.
We do track you coming from other websites, but not after you leave our Website, so we do not respond to a DO NOT TRACK signal.Note: If you are linked with Facebook, Facebook could track as well as other social media sites like Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.
If you have submitted personal information to this Website and would like to review that information, update it or have it deleted from our records, please contact us here .
Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, once the child leaves the Website, we cannot assure a safe space and take no responsibility.
Protection of User Information
All monetary transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our own servers.
We implement a variety of security measures when a User registers, enters, submits or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
User Feedback
We may post User feedback on the Website with your User Name as an identifier. When you participate in the Website blogs, your comments and disclosures are public. You alone are responsible for anything you post on the Website.
Changing or Deleting your Personal Information
You may edit or modify your Personal Information at any time in accordance with instructions on the Website or by sending us an email at privacypolicy@thestoryhome.com however, we may be required to keep it for a period of time, or we may keep it for fraud prevention or similar purposes. When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives.
Tell a friend Campaign
If a User elects to participate in our “tell-a-friend” referral program for recruiting a friend to become a visitor of the Website, the Website will automatically send the friend a one-time email with the chosen story file to sample and enjoy our product. We do not collect email addresses on tell-a-friend.
Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy
By using this Website, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not use this Website. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.
Contact Us
Data Privacy Manager: Sharon Rogan
If you have any questions about this policy, you may contact us by email: privacypolicy@thestoryhome.com
September 9, 2018