Privacy Policy
BIZKIDZ.COM is dedicated to providing a fun, educational, and safe website for people of all ages. We are committed to safeguarding any personal information collected on BIZKIDZ.COM and to helping parents and children learn how to exercise control over personal information while exploring the Internet. We ensure that our Privacy Policy and our information practices adhere to the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Many of the visitors to this site are children; we take special measures to help protect their privacy while online. For example, we do not ask children to disclose more personal information than is reasonably necessary for them to participate in BIZKIDZ.COM and we take efforts to prevent children from posting personally identifiable information. To continue a positive experience for our visitors, BIZKIDZ.COM provides you with this Privacy Policy.
Our Commitment to Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your personally identifiable information is collected and used. To make this policy easy to find, it is accessible on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
Our Commitment to Data Security:
We follow generally accepted industry standards to prevent unauthorized access to data, to maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the correct use of information. We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personally identifiable information we collect online from you and/or your child. No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your and/or your child's personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our website, you can email us at cs@bizkidz.com.
Please note when you choose to upgrade and or sign up for a paid account, you will be taken to PayPal to complete your transaction. Note that their Privacy Policy will govern the collection and use of information that you provide to them.
The Information We Collect:
On some of our retailer's web pages, you can order products, make requests and register to receive materials. The types of personally identifiable information collected on these web pages from the shopper may include, but is not limited to:
Name
Postal Address
Email Address
Phone Number
Please note that the Privacy Policy of the third party governs the collection and use of this information.
On some web pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, this happens when you enter the name and email address of another person to send them your Wish List. We will use this third party information for the sole purpose of sending them this one time email on your behalf. We do not store this information for the purpose of tracking the success of the Wish List program. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
Name
Email Address
When a new customer registers with BIZKIDZ.COM the only information the child has to disclose is the following:
Name
Email Address (only for a paid membership)
Parent/Guardian Email Address
Store Name
Password
If a child uses our Contact Us link, we request their user name and email address so that BIZKIDZ.COM may respond to the inquiry. We collect the email address for the sole purpose of responding directly on a one-time basis to a specific inquiry. Once the request has been fulfilled we will then take appropriate measures to delete that information.
These recipients are granted the same rights of access, correction, and removal from future contact from us as regular web visitors. To access/change/ modify or deny future contact, the recipient can write, email, or call using the customer service information listed at the end of this privacy policy.
Agents/Service Providers:
We use other third parties such as PayPal to bill you for goods and services, and an email service provider to send out emails on our behalf. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.
Cookies:
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords so you don't have to enter it more than once.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site.
The use of cookies by third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies.
The Way We Use Information:
For each visitor to our website (www.bizkidz.com), the web server automatically recognizes the visitor's domain name (IP address), but not the visitor's email address.
Service-related Announcements:
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account by contacting us at cs@bizkidz.com.
Customer Service:
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcome email to verify your username and password. Parents will receive a welcome email as well as a direct notice providing them with all the information received from their child and how the information will be used. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
What We Do NOT Do With Your Information:
BIZKIDZ.COM will not sell, share, rent, or otherwise disclose your or your child's personal information to any third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy and unless required by law to do so. we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
Collection of Information for Third-Party Sites and Sponsors:
We do not allow third-party companies to advertise or solicit to our users on our site. Our objective is to keep BIZKIDZ.COM free from any of this sort of direct advertising.
Access/Change/Modify:
You may change, request deletion, or modify personally identifiable information or your child's personally identifiable information previously provided to us. To make a change to you or your child's personally identifiable information, or access your personally identifiable information in our files, please write or email us using the customer service information listed below.
COPPA Compliant:
BIZKIDZ.COM is a licensee of the TRUSTe Children's Online Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build user's trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site www.bizkidz.com. Because this website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practice reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact BIZKIDZ.COM at cs@bizkidz.com. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUTe at http://www.truste.com/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the website to resolve your concerns.
BIZKIDZ Bookmark:
The BIZKIDZ Selector bookmark is the tool designed to add products to a BIZKIDZ.COM store. Adding the BIZKIDZ Selector bookmark to your toolbar/favorites is the only way in which a child is able to pull product into their store from our list of affiliate retailers. No personally identifiable information is tracked when adding our bookmark to your browser. Please click the following link to learn more about the BIZKIDZ Selector bookmark, BIZKIDZ Selector bookmark.
Referral Program:
For every friend your child encourages to sign up for the yearly BIZKIDZ.COM membership, your child will earn $5.00! This is another great way to make extra spending money just by sharing the BIZKIDZ.COM opportunity to their friends, classmates, teammates, etc. To receive the $5.00, the new BIZkid must enter your child’s store name (correctly and case sensitive) upon registering (in the “referred by” field) for their own BIZKIDZ.COM account.
BIZkids can refer potential users by handing out their business cards, emailing, or simply telling about BIZKIDZ.COM. This is a great and profitable way to share the incredible opportunity of making real money while learning about running your own business!
Contacting BIZKIDZ.COM:
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this website or any other inquiries please contact us.
BIZKIDZ.COM, Inc.
125 South Market Street, Suite 700
San Jose, CA 95113
E-mail: cs@bizkidz.com
*If we decide to change our privacy practices, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy, the home age and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we change how we use you or your child's personally identifiable information, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
