Thank you for accessing the OurKids.net Website ("Site") operated by Our Kids Publications Ltd. We respect your privacy and want to protect your personal information. To learn more, please read this Privacy Policy. This policy has been updated for May 25, 2018, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law and ePrivacy Regulation (ePR). See explicit notice to EU residents below.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose your personal information. It also explains the steps we have taken to secure your personal information. Finally, this Privacy Policy explains your options regarding the collection and use of your personal information. By visiting the Site directly or through another site, you accept the practices described in this Policy.
This privacy policy applies to the Site. This privacy policy does not necessarily apply to any offline collection of your personal information. Please see below for details.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any web site not operated by Our Kids Publications Ltd. to which the Site links or that links to the Site.
We recommend that you read this policy for complete information on how we collect, use, share, and secure information. Here is a brief summary of basic points we think are relevant to most of our users:
Further contents:
Information we collect
Data security
Cookies policy
What cookies are used for
Concerning use by children 13 and under
Our goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide an efficient, meaningful, and customized experience. To do this, we may use your personal information to:
Several locations of the Site permit you to enter the following information to request more information from any of the schools and camps listed on the Site, to register for a School or Camp Expo; or to sign up for email newsletters and special offers:
Your participation is completely voluntary, so you have a choice whether to participate and disclose information to us. If you submit information, you can request that we delete the information by submitting a request to Our Kids Publications at info@ourkidsmedia.com.
If you have an account with the Site, we may collect information regarding certain activities you engage on our Site such as if you shortlisted a specific school, visited a page about a specific school, or watched a video review about a specific school.
When Our Kids Publications sends you emails, we may use tracking, cookies or a web beacon. These tools only allow us to determine the number of people who open our emails and where traffic moves within our site. When you click on a link in an email, we may record this single response.
Through the use of these identifiers, we may collect limited information that helps us with our marketing initiatives and includes the time and date of a page being viewed and the name and location (url) of the page on which the Web Beacon resides. You can disable identifiers by disabling HTML images or refusing HTML (use Text only) emails via your email software.
We may use Google AdWords Remarketing to advertise Our Kids across the Internet. AdWords remarketing will display relevant ads tailored to you based on what parts of the Site you have viewed by placing a cookie on your machine. This cookie does not directly identify you or give anyone access to your computer. The cookie is used to say "This person visited this page, so show them ads relating to that page". Google AdWords Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you. Read more about our Cookies policy below.
1. Information Collection
We collect information from you in several different ways on this Site. One goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide an efficient, meaningful, and customized experience. For example, we can use your personal information to:
If you do not wish to participate in our Google AdWords Remarketing, you can opt out by visiting Google's Ads Preferences Manager.
During registration for expos and events, we may ask for personal information listed under the heading above "Contact and Other Information". If you submit information to us, you can request that we delete the information by submitting a request to Our Kids Publications at info@ourkidsmedia.com
(a) Internal Use. We use your personal information to provide you with customer service. We may internally use your personal information to improve the Site's content and layout, to improve outreach to you, to market our services and resources to you, and to understand activity on our Site.
(b) Communications with You: We will use your personal information to communicate with you about opportunities that may be of interest to you, or about the functioning of the Site (including service related announcements). You can unsubscribe or opt out of future emails (see the opt out section, below, for more details).
(c) Disclosure to schools and camps. If you have an account with the Site, we may share information with schools and camps listed on the Site in connection with certain activities you engage on our Site. Such activities include shortlisting a specific school, visiting a page about a specific school, or watching a video review about a specific school. The information we share with these schools or camps includes: (i) your username; (ii) your child's name or nickname you have designated; (iii) your child's year of birth or age; and (iv) children's interests as identified by you on the Site. If you RSVP for an event connected to a particular school or camp, or request information from a particular school or camp, we may disclose your contact information to that third party. In some cases, you may complete an inquiry form with the following information which is submitted through the Site to the camp or school in which you have expressed an interest: (i) full name; (ii) your email address; (iii) your phone number; (iv) your child's full name; (v) your child's year of birth; (vi) children's interests as identified by you on the Site; and (vii) mailing address (if you have opted in your account settings). At any time, you can opt out of this disclosure of information by sending us an email at info@ourkidsmedia.com.
All data is stored securely on our servers, using commercially reasonable physical, organization or technological safeguards to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system. We restrict access to your personal information to those employees who need access to your personal information to perform a specific job.
We cannot guarantee complete security. 100% complete security does not presently exist anywhere online or offline. If you have submitted data that is controlled by Our Kids, be assured that we take reasonable measures to comply with GDPR stipulations concerning the reporting of data breaches, especially those concerning submitted personal information.
Upon your request, we will (a) correct or update your personal information; (b) stop sending emails to your email address; or (c) delete your information. You can make these requests by telephoning, or emailing your request to Our Kids Publications at info@ourkidsmedia.com.
If we change or update this Privacy Policy, we will post changes and updates on the Site so that you will always be aware of what information we collect, use and disclose. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time so you will know if the Privacy Policy has been changed or updated. If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@ourkidsmedia.com.
This is the Cookie Policy for Our Kids, accessible from ourkids.net.
What Are Cookies
This site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your user experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We tell you how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, disabling the cookies may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the Site's functionality.
How Do We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below.
Diasabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies can affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.
Changing your Cookie Settings. The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you can use the 'Help' option in your internet browser for more details.
More information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Account related cookies
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
As we process leads, it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make inquiries to our clients through our email and other query forms. This is the kind of data that cookies help us to track, making it possible to offer users the most relevant information about schools and camps. It also helps us to price our marketing products (including this website) fairly for schools and camps.
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ. Again, if you do not wish to participate in our Google AdWords Remarketing, you can opt out by visiting Google's Ads Preferences Manager.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites (including Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and others) will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Facebook Connect. For more information about what Facebook collects when you use Facebook buttons on ourkids.net please see: Data Policy.
Facebook Ads. For more information about what Facebook collects and your choices around Facebook Ads, please see: AdChoices.
Twitter. For more information about what Twitter collects when you use Twitter buttons on our platform or when you visit pages on our site that include these buttons, please see: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
More Information
This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the CookiePolicyGenerator.com
If you are still looking for more information, then you can contact us by visiting this link.
A guide to behavioral advertising and online privacy that has been produced by the internet advertising industry can be found at: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
For more information about and to opt out of interest based ads from many ad networks, go to:
More Information About Cookies: International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom
Information on the ICC (UK) UK cookie guide can be found on the ICC website: International Chamber of Commerce UK - Digital Economy
This website's content is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 or under the applicable age limit (the “Age Limit”). If you are under the Age Limit, do not use the Service and do not provide any personal information to us. If you are a parent of a child under the Age Limit and become aware that your child has provided personal information to ourkids.net, please contact us at info@ourkidsmedia.com and you may request exercise of your applicable access, rectification, cancellation, and/or objection rights. If you are a California resident under the age of 18 and you wish to remove publicly available content, please contact us at info@ourkidsmedia.com.
This Policy is intended to provide adequate and consistent safeguards for the handling of personal information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and all the relevant transposing legislation of the Directive in the European Union/European Economic Area, the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act, as such laws may from time to time be amended and valid during the application of this Policy, the Privacy Shield, and any other privacy laws, regulations and principles concerning the collection, storage, use, transfer and other processing of personal data transferred from the European Economic Area or Switzerland to the United States including but not limited to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“the General Data Protection Regulation”) as of its entry into force on 25 May 2018.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information in compliance with the applicable legislation. This compliance is consistent with our desire to keep you informed and to recognize and respect your privacy rights. We agree to observe the following principles when processing personal information:
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