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TOYQUEST.COM PRIVACY POLICY AND INTERNET SAFETY INFORMATION
Toyquest.com is designed to inform, entertain, and educate children
about toys and the world of robots. Privacy and safety issues
are important to us, so please read the following: PRIVACY POLICYTHE
INTERNET, PRIVACY, AND Toyquest.COM The Internet contains a
wealth of information; unfortunately, it may also contain personal
details about you that you don't want everyone to know. For
example, your real name (lots of people on the Internet use
aliases, alter egos, or nicknames), street address, phone number,
or e-mail address. When you go online, sites you visit may be
gathering information about you without your knowledge. At Toyquest.COM
we strive to help our customers protect their privacy while
using our services.Toyquest.COM PRIVACY POLICY The Toyquest.COM
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. Using the Internet should be a fun experience
and we want to help you make it so. It is our goal to make your
visits to our sites easy and enjoyable. However, be assured
that Toyquest.com will not disclose your personal information
to third parties without your consent. Toyquest.com 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)
Toyquest.com rights or property, other manleytoyquest.com users,
or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Toyquest.com
may disclose user information when we believe in good faith
that the law requires it. In case you change your mind or some
personal information changes (such as your ZIP code), we will
endeavor to provide a way to correct, update, or remove the
personal data you give us.OPTING OUT Information provided at
the time of Registration or submission from a Guest who is 13
years of age or over may be used for marketing and promotional
purposes by Toyquest.com. To keep you in control of your personal
information and the communications directed to you, we allow
you to opt out of the following services: sharing your information
in our member directory, receiving communications from Toyquest.com
about new features or services, and receiving communications
about offers from third-party companies that offer a product
or service that we think would be of value to you. If a Guest
objects to such use for any reason, he/she may stop that use
-- either by e-mail request or by modifying his/her member information
online. Information provided when purchasing products from any
of our online stores may be used for marketing and promotional
purposes and is subject to the opt-out processes described on,
or linked to, each order form.POLICIES FOR KIDS (INDIVIDUALS
UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE) Toyquest.com encourages parents and guardians
to spend time online with their children and to participate
in the activities offered on the sites. No information should
be submitted to or posted at Toyquest.com by Guests under 13
years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.
Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, Toyquest.com does
not provide any personally identifying information, regardless
of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever
from our Guests under 13 years of age. All registrants receive
an e-mail confirming their Registration. In addition, when a
Guest under 13 registers, he/she is required to provide the
e-mail address of his/her parent or guardian and that parent
or guardian receives an e-mail alerting them to that Registration.
Since all of Toyquest.com’s free interactive activities
are monitored by community policy experts, registered Guests
under 13 years of age may participate in such activities upon
Registration, unless their parent or guardian asks that their
registration be invalidated. No information collected from Guests
under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional
purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside Toyquest.com except
as explicitly stated during registration for contests or promotions
(and in that case, the information collected is used only for
the specific contest or promotion). Although Guests under 13
years of age may be allowed to participate in some contests
and promotions, if such a Guest wins, notification and prizes
are sent to the parent or guardian identified in the initial
registration process. Publication of names, ages, or images
for contest winners under 13 require parental or guardian consent.
We do not allow Guests under 13 years of age to be listed in
our Member directory or to receive direct marketing communications
from Manleytoyquest.com or to be sent third-party offers.POLICIES
FOR TEENS (INDIVIDUALS 13 TO 17 YEARS OF AGE) Teens are required
to provide the e-mail address of a parent or guardian and a
notification message is sent to the parent or guardian of all
Guests who are 13 to 17 years of age, which identifies the information
supplied at Registration and allows the parent or guardian to
be aware of and participate in the Guest's online experience.USE
OF IP ADDRESSES An IP address is a number that's automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Web
servers -- the big computers that "serve up" Web pages
-- automatically identify your computer by its IP address. manleytoyquest.com
collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration,
to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit
the use of our site. When Guests request pages from Toyquest.com
sites, our servers log the Guests' IP addresses. We do not normally
link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which
means that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains
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 house rules or terms of service or to protect our service,
site, customers, or others. Some services within Toyquest.com,
such as certain message boards, may display IP addresses along
with the message poster's name and message. Please review each
service prior to use and only use those that disclose information
you are comfortable with sharing.USE OF COOKIES What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers
to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies
make Web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while
you're at our site. We never save passwords or credit card information
in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry standard -- you'll
find them at most major Web sites. By showing how and when Guests
use a site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and
which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are
based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed.
This information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use
the information from cookies to provide services better tailored
to our users needs. Toyquest.com has two primary uses for their
cookies. First, we use them to specify unique preferences. Secondly,
we use cookies to track user trends and patterns. This helps
us better understand and improve areas of the Toyquest.com service
that our users find valuable. While both of these activities
depend on the use of a cookie, visitors of Toyquest.com always
have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences.
Information from cookies is sometimes attached to messages sent
to our Customer Service department. Most browsers are initially
set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse
all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
note that some parts of the Toyquest.com service will not function
properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies.
For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized
news preferences or you may have difficulty completing shopping
transactions, entering contests, or playing games. You may occasionally
get cookies from our advertisers. Toyquest.com does not control
these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party
servers is standard in the Internet industry.LINKS TO OTHER
SITES Users should be aware that when they are on Toyquest.com,
they could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control.
There are links to other sites from Toyquest.com pages that
take you outside our service. These other sites may send their
own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information
online --- for example, via message boards or chat --- that
information can be collected and used by people you don't know.
While Toyquest.com strives to protect their users' personal
information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of
any information you disclose online and you do so at your own
risk. Toyquest.com’s policy does not extend to anything
that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore
beyond toyquest.com’s control, and is not to be applied
in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.SECURITY
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information
associated with our Guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise
great care in providing secure transmission of your information
from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a
result, while we strive to protect your personal information,
Toyquest.com can't ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us or from our online products or services,
and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission,
we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
When credit card information is transmitted we use industry
standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Your Toyquest.com
Account is password-protected so that only you can access it
and view the member information relevant to the account. We
recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Toyquest.com
will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone
call or e-mail. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining
the secrecy of your passwords and any account information. Remember
to sign out of your Toyquest.com Account and close your browser
window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that
others cannot access your personal information and correspondence
if your computer is accessible to others or if you share a computer
with someone else or are using a computer in a public place
like a library or Internet café.YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE
TERMS By using this site, you signify your assent to the Toyquest.com
Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do
not use our sites. Your continued use of the Toyquest.com site
following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you
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