Privacy Statement for Preteenchat.com

Preteenchat.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.    Preteenchat.com serves members between the ages of 7 to 19 and has sections related to preteens (elementary school: ages 7-12) youngerteens (junior highschool: ages 13-15) and older teens (highschool: 16-19).  The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the website www.preteenchat.com.

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site.  IP's are also used for nickname services to determine the proper owner of the nickname.  IP's are logged for 24 hours and then automatically deleted.  IP addresses are not made visible to the public and are not shared with any third parties or used for any other purposes.

Advertisers

We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we do not use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, Adtegrity, and we do not have access to this information.  Adtegrity's Privacy Policy

Special Relationships

WiredReality's chat servers are power by Chatspace Inc.  Chatspace's Privacy Policy

Personal Information

This Web site does not request any personal information or collect any information on members that are 13 years of age and up that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted.

Since we do not collect any personal information on members 13 and up, we do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes.

If you are 12 and under, a parent or guardian must sign and fax this form to us, details on this below.

Children's Guidelines

Members 12 and under must have a parent sign and fax a form to us before they can partcipate in the chatrooms.

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

  1. We will NOT collect, use, or distribute to third parties personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
  2. We will NOT give the child access to chat rooms, that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
  3. When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
    1. Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
    2. Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental notification.
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  4. We will NOT entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
  5. We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information.
  6. We will provide notice to children in age appropriate terms of what personally identifiable information is to be collected.
  7. We will NOT provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.
  8. We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

PreTeenChat.com
873 Jane St
P.O. Box 98604
Toronto, Ontario
M6N 5A6

wiredreality@wiredreality.com