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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of information when people use our website and educates about privacy rights and how the law protects our website visitors.  We pay special attention to the fact that children use our website’s safe search tools, even though article content is directed at parents, educators, and sometimes students aged 13-17 .  We only use personal data to provide and improve services. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  For children 13 years old and younger who need parental content to accept privacy options, we operate within EU and U.S. state regulations that prohibit certain types of data collection and the displaying of personalized ads.

More about Children’s Privacy:

To further clarify, Safe Search Kids focuses on providing information and resources to adults, including parents, educators, and at time, students.  However, our safe search tools are used mostly by children of all ages. These tools are most often provided to children by parents or teachers.  We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. Details about how we handle the data of children can be found under the sections in our Privacy Policy related to CCPA, CPRA, and GDRP Protection Rights. You’ll also see information about the protect minors that are under the age of 18.

Since we feature advertising on our website, we want to first be clear about how that happens when users browse our site. Advertising will be mentioned again later as we deal with the finer points of our Privacy Policy.

Compliance Regarding Ad Personalization

To comply with European regulations for our website users in the EU Ad Personalization is OFF within the Google platform that manages our ads.  This protects children under the age of 13 who are not expected to understand what it means to manage consent options.  Learn how Google helps publishers comply with the GDPR.

To comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Action (COPPA) we have Restricted data processing. This means that Google will restrict how it uses certain unique identifiers and other data to comply with U.S. state regulations. Google only shows non-personalized ads from Google demand and will request non-personalized ads from advertising partners.  Read how Google Helps publishers comply with US states privacy laws.

For advertising that does appear on Safe Search Kids, we have to the best of your ability blocked sensitive categories to restrict content that may not be appropriate for children.  Learn more about Ads & Made for Kids Content | Google Advertiser Policies.

Definitions

We have done our best to make the wording of our Privacy Policy easy to understand.  Since policies such as these can often use terms that confuse the reader, here are some definitions of words or phrases that we hope will clarify things.

Account means a unique account created for you to access the service of a website.  Safe Search Kids does not have the option for users to create personal accounts, therefore any information related to accounts in our policies does not apply.

Business, for the purpose of CCPA/CPRA, refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.

CCPA and/or CPRA refers to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”).

Company (refers to Safe Search Kids and our umbrella company Online World Media.  The management is the same and will also be refered to as “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this agreement.  Our offices are in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Our website is hosted on servers owned by HostGator in the United States. For the purpose of the GDPR, our company is the Data Controller.

Consumer, for the purpose of the CCPA/CPRA, means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.

Contact Us; Any reference to this term means to visit our website and fill our our contact form, from which we can reply to you by email.

Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to our company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

Device means any device that can access our website such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Do Not Track (DNT) is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.

GDPR refers to EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

• For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to you such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
• For the purposes of the CCPA/CPRA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you.

Service or Services refers to our website, Safe Search Kids.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of our company.  It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by our company to facilitate services and features on our website, to provide services on behalf of our company, to perform services related to our website or to assist us in analyzing how our website is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.

Third Party or Third Parties are companies or websites we do not own. They are seperate websites or legal companies.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of our website or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to Safe Search Kids, accessible from https://www.safesearchkids.com/

You means the individual accessing or using the Safe Search Kids website, a division of Online World Media.

• Under GDPR, you can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.

Google Advertising Cookies

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

If your IP address is outside a region, such as a country, were we not required by law to restrict the displaying of personalized ads, third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

If you have not opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on your site, which should also be disclosed in your privacy policy in the following manner:

Simple Explanation of Our Cookie Policy

Safe Search Kids collects cookies, but it does not collect registration or personally identifiable information from anyone using this site.  This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences.  You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade certain elements of the sites functionality.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

Cookies Explained (Educational Video)

Before we go into how we use cookies, watch this video that shows how cookies work to enhance user experience while visiting websites, but also collects information that you may not want collected.

How Do We Use Cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies to enhance your user experience based on your past general internet use.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.  Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.  Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting ads settings. You may also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info

Third Party Cookies Explained

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. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

• 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 Advertising Privacy Policies.

• The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.

• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time from your profile page at our website or by contacting us.

Geolocation IP Detection: This site is using GeoLite2 City database (updated weekly) to identify the geographic location of your IP address. This site is saving the IP of the visitors of the last 1 week for performance reasons.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

The two types of personal date collected by a website is Personal Data and Usage Data.  Below is an explaination of those types of data and explains the data we may collect or not.  This section contains more specific details about our possible use of Cookies.

Personal Data

While using Safe Search Kids, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to usage data.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using Safe Search Kids.

Usage Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access our service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website or when you access Safe Search Kids through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on this website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies we use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of Safe Search Kids. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our service may use Cookies.

• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit our company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Privacy Policies website article.

Session and Persistent Cookies

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on our Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use our website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use Safe Search Kids.

Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third-Parties

Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to Safe Search Kids and how users use our website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access our website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality to see how our users react to them.

Targeting and Advertising Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third-Parties

Purpose: These Cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you, unless you are in a region where we have turned off the showing of personalized ads (The EU and some U.S. states).  For all others, these Cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third party advertisers can place Cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites.

Personal Data When Contacting Us

Email addresses that come into our possession from individuals contacting us on our contact page are used solely for the purpose of responding to those requests directly. We do not sell or rent those email addresses to third parties, nor do we place those emails on a mailing list.  Email addresses are not stored for any other purpose beyond the function of corresponding directly to the user request via email or via the submission form on our contact page.  These addresses are naturally deleted over time.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers we use may have access to your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our website in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

• Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of Safe Search Kids. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Advertising

We may use Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain Our Service.

• Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager:   Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet, unless you are in a region where we have turned off the showing of personalized ads (The EU and United States).  For all others, these Cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. You may opt out of the use of the Google Ads Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

GDPR Privacy

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

• Consent: You have given your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
• Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
• Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which Safe Search Kids is subject.
• Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.
• Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in our main company, Online World Media.
• Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Safe Search Kids, a division of Online World Media.

In any case, we will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights under the GDPR

Safe Search Kids undertakes to respect the confidentiality of your Personal Data and to guarantee you can exercise your rights.  Before you read this section please note; Safe Search Kids does not have an option for users to create personal accounts and therefore it is not possible for us to collect personal information related to user accounts.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are within the EU, to;

• Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.

• Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

• Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to our processing of your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.

• Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.

• Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

• Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your Personal Data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of our website.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

CCPA/CPRA Privacy Notice

This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information contained in uur Privacy Policy and it applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.

Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA/CPRA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by us, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected.

For example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if you provided such personal information directly to us. Since Safe Search Kids does not provide an option for users to create a personal account on our website, we would only receive very specific personal information if you sent it to us through our contact page, or on of our social media pages.  (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit)

Category A: Identifiers.

Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

Collected: Yes.

Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).

Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

Collected: Yes.

Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).

Collected: No.

Category D: Commercial information.

Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.

Collected: No.

Category E: Biometric information.

Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

Collected: No.

Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.

Examples: Interaction with website or advertisement.

Collected: Yes.

Category G: Geolocation data.

Examples: Approximate physical location.

Collected: No.  However, our cookies do collect your geographical location.

Category H: Sensory data.

Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

Collected: No.

Category I: Professional or employment-related information.

Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

Collected: No.

Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).

Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

Collected: No.

Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.

Examples: Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Collected: No.

Category L: Sensitive personal information.

Examples: Account login and password information, geolocation data.

Collected: Yes.

Under CCPA/CPRA, personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA/CPRA’s scope, such as:
  • Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data.
  • Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. The information you enter when completing our contact form when you contact us.
• Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your activity on our Service.
• Automatically from You. For example, through cookies we or our Service Providers set on Your Device as uou navigate through this website.
• From Service Providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of our website, third-party vendors to provide advertising on our services, or other third-party vendors that we use to provide any service to you.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose personal information we collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA/CPRA), which may include the following examples:

• To operate our website and provide you with our service.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our service.
• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your contact information to ask a question about our website, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA/CPRA.
• For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
• To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Other one-time uses.

Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. For more details on how we use this information, please refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” section.

If we decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes we will update this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:

• Category A: Identifiers
• Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
• Category F: Internet or other similar network activity

Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA/CPRA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact disclosed, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed.

When we disclose personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

Share of Personal Information

We may share, and have shared in the last twelve (12) months, Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:

• Service Providers
• Third party vendors to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you

Sale of Personal Information

As defined in the CCPA/CPRA, “sell” and “sale” mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s personal information by the Business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that We may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.

We do not sell personal information as the term sell is commonly understood. We do allow Service Providers to use your personal information for the business purposes described in Our Privacy Policy, for activities such as advertising, marketing, and analytics, and these may be deemed a sale under CCPA/CPRA.

You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. Once we receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from you, we will stop selling your personal information. To exercise your right to opt-out, please contact us.

The Service Providers we partner with (for example, our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology on our website that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA/CPRA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.  Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser you use. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.

Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age

We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our website, although certain third party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use and privacy policies and we encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.

We do not sell the personal information of Consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to the sale of personal information may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or Your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by contacting us.

If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided us with personal information, please contact us with sufficient detail to enable us to delete that information.

Your Rights under the CCPA/CPRA

The CCPA/CPRA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:

• The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
• The right to know/access. Under CCPA/CPRA, uou have the right to request that we disclose information to you about our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of personal information. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will disclose to you:

• • The categories of personal information we collected about you
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you
  • Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling that personal information
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
  • If we sold your personal information or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, we will disclose to you:
    • The categories of personal information categories sold
    • The categories of personal information categories disclosed

• The right to say no to the sale or sharing of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information. To submit an opt-out request, please see the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section or contact us. This notice should show up on the bottom of website if you are in California.

• The right to correct Personal Data. You have the right to correct or rectify any inaccurate personal information about you that we collected. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct (and direct our Service Providers to correct) your personal information, unless an exception applies.

• The right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive Personal Data. You have the right to request to limit the use or disclosure of certain sensitive personal information we collected about you, unless an exception applies. To submit, please see the “Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information” section or contact us.

• The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data under certain circumstances, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your request, We will delete (and direct our Service Providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our Service Providers to:

• • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

• The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your consumer’s rights, including by:

• • Denying goods or services to you.
  • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties.
  • Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you.
  • Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Exercising Your CCPA/CPRA Data Protection Rights

Please see the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section and “Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information” section for more information on how to opt out and limit the use of sensitive information collected.

Additionally, in order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us by visiting at https://www.safesearchkids.com/contact/

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to your personal information.

Your request to us must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows ys to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with the required information if we cannot:

• Verify your identity or authority to make the request
• And confirm that the personal information relates to you

We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.

For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide wour personal information that is readily usable and should allow wou to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

Our Website

If applicable, click “Privacy Preferences”, “Update Privacy Preferences” or “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” buttons listed Safe Search Kids to review your privacy preferences and opt out of cookies and other technologies that we may use. Please note that you will need to opt out from each browser that you use to access the Service.

Additionally, you can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:

• The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
• The EDAA’s opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
• The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN

The opt out will place a cookie on your computer that is unique to the browser you use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt out again.

Mobile Devices

Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:

• “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices
• “Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices

You can also stop the collection of location information from your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device. Here again, any opt out is specific to the browser you use on your mobile device. You may need to opt out on every browser that you use.

Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information

If you are a California resident, you have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average Consumer who requests such services or goods.

We collect, use and disclose sensitive personal information in ways that are necessary to provide services on our wesbite. For more information on how we use your personal information, please see the “Use of Your Personal Data” section or contact us.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)

Safe Search Kids does not have an option for users to create an account on our website. The following is required information to protect your rights;

California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.

To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account.

Be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

Children’s Privacy

Safe Search Kids does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.

“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.

Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below.

Your Rights Under GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Union (EU), you are entitled to specific rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about how we handle your data.

Your GDPR Rights Include:

1. Access to Your Data: You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, free of charge.
2. Correction of Data: If your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete, you can request that we correct or update it.
3. Erasure of Data: You may request that we delete your personal data in certain circumstances (e.g., if it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected).
4. Restrict Processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your data under specific conditions.
5. Data Portability: You can request a copy of your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format and, where technically feasible, ask us to transfer it to another organization.
6. Objection to Processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your data for specific purposes, such as direct marketing.
7. Withdraw Consent: If our processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
8. File a Complaint: If you feel we are not handling your data in compliance with GDPR, you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Links to Other Websites

Our website contains links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services. We do our best to provide safe resourceful links that support the information provided in our articles.

Facebook Page

Data Controller for the Facebook Fan Page

Our company is the Data Controller of your Personal Data collected while using the Service. As operator of the Facebook Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/SafeSearchKids/, our company and the operator of the social network Facebook are Joint Controllers.

We have entered into agreements with Facebook that define the terms for use of the Facebook Fan Page, among other things. These terms are mostly based on the Facebook Terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Visit the Facebook Privacy Policy https://www.facebook.com/policy.php for more information about how Facebook manages Personal data or contact Facebook online, or by mail: Facebook, Inc. ATTN, Privacy Operations, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States.

Facebook Insights

We use the Facebook Insights function in connection with the operation of the Facebook Page and on the basis of the GDPR, in order to obtain anonymized statistical data about Our users.

For this purpose, Facebook places a Cookie on the device of the user visiting Our Facebook Page. Each Cookie contains a unique identifier code and remains active for a period of two years, except when it is deleted before the end of this period.

Facebook receives, records and processes the information stored in the Cookie, especially when the user visits the Facebook services, services that are provided by other members of the Facebook Page and services by other companies that use Facebook services.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook Privacy Policy here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time.  You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by visiting our contact page at https://www.safesearchkids.com/contact/