StoryChimes™ Privacy Policy

Your California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of STORYCHIMES™ who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to info@storychimes.com or write us:

StoryChimes™
c/o Siena Entertainment LLC
17216 Saticoy St - #121
Van Nuys, CA 91406

Privacy Policy
StoryChimes™ is a site where children ages 4-12 and their parents can find out more about the about our interactive storybooks for the iPhone and iPod touch, download activities and play games. At StoryChimes™, we strive to educate children ages 4-12 and their parents about how to appropriately safeguard their privacy when traveling on the web. We are committed to complying fully with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Our information collection practices are described below. We urge children ages 4-12 to check with their parent or guardian before entering any information on any website and we urge parents and guardians to discuss with their children ages 4-12 restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don't know.

What Information Is Collected
At StoryChimes™, it is our policy to create website content that requires minimal collection of information from our visitors. Consequently, StoryChimes™ generally limits its collection of information to e-mails for subscribing to our newsletter, or for contest participation. This information is collected when parents want to sign up for more information, but is by no means required. From time to time StoryChimes™ may request limited personal information (e.g. an e-mail address), as explained below, in order to let users send electronic materials to family and friends, conduct online contests or sweepstakes or receive the StoryChimes™ newsletter. StoryChimes™ does not condition a user's participation in an activity on the parent's disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity.

Sending Electronic Materials. StoryChimes™ may provide users the opportunity to send certain electronic materials, such as electronic postcards featuring original artwork created by StoryChimes™ to friends and family via e-mail. We may ask for a first name, but do not require users to submit personally identifiable information about themselves in order to send electronic materials via email. We do, however, ask users to submit the email address of the recipient of the electronic materials. These e-mail addresses are used only to send the electronic materials, are retained by our server for several hours, and then deleted from our system.

Contests and Sweepstakes. StoryChimes™ may offer parents of children ages 4-12 the opportunity to enter contests and sweepstakes. StoryChimes™ may ask for the parent or guardian's first name and the e-mail address of a parent or guardian. All the information collected by StoryChimes™ is used only for the purpose of conducting the contest or sweepstakes. Once the contest or sweepstakes is finished, we then delete any personal information collected. The information collected in our contest or sweepstakes may be passed to a fulfillment house that helps run the contest or sweepstakes, who may not use such information for any other purpose and has agreed to maintain the confidentiality of any information that it receives from StoryChimes™.

StoryChimes™ offers parents the opportunity to sign up to receive the StoryChimes™ newsletter by email. When a parent asks to receive our email newsletter, we ask them to provide his or her email address. Within two business days of receiving this information, we send the parent an email confirming his or her request to receive the StoryChimes™ newsletter via email on an ongoing basis and give the parent the option to have his or her email be removed from our StoryChimes™ newsletter database. If at any time after signing up for the newsletter parents wish to be removed for the contact list, they may do so by following the "unsubscribe" instructions found in each StoryChimes™ newsletter email sent by StoryChimes™. All information collected for StoryChimes™ newsletters is used only to send the electronic newsletter and may be transferred, disclosed, or shared with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle the preparation and delivery of the electronic newsletter and perform other related technical and processing functions. These third parties may not use it for other purposes and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

Use of Information
StoryChimes™ uses or may use personal information for contacting parents or guardians of children ages 4-12 in connection with its website activities, such as conducting contests or sweepstakes and seeking permission from parents or guardians of child's to display and use on-air and in other media the digital works made by the children ages 4-12 and their parents or guardians on StoryChimes™. StoryChimes™ currently does not disclose to third parties personally identifiable information that users provide except, from time to time however, we may transfer, disclose or share such information with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain online activities (e.g. conducting contests and sweepstakes). Such third parties have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Additionally, in the event that all or substantially all of StoryChimes's™ stock and/or assets are transferred or sold to another entity, StoryChimes™ may transfer such information and information collected from parents or guardians to the acquiring entity. Finally, we may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties when required by law or is pertinent to judicial or government investigations or proceedings, or otherwise necessary to protect our website or the safety of its users.

Cookies and Log Data
"Cookies" are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a site. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies are used to record whether a visitor has indicated that they have certain plug-in software applications installed on their browser. Cookies also allow websites to "remember" user activities on a website as well as user's visits to a site. At StoryChimes™ cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our website over a given period and to remember non-personally identifiable user-names so that the need for multiple log-ins is eliminated. We do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information that parents of children ages 4-12 submit online when participating in our activities. You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser.

The ads appearing on StoryChimes™ are delivered to you by a third party ad service provider. In the course of serving ads, the ad service provider may place or recognize their own unique cookie on your browser, and may use non-personally identifiable information about your visit to StoryChimes™, such as the number of times that you have viewed an ad.

Log data collected on web servers both within StoryChimes's™ control and under the control of StoryChimes's™ third party ad service provider, who is required to maintain such data on a confidential basis, supplies StoryChimes with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. StoryChimes™ uses such aggregate information to improve access to content based on visitor's browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many children ages 4-12 as possible. We do not link the log data collected to the personal information that parents of children ages 4-12 submit online when participating in our activities.

Security & Parental Access
At StoryChimes™, our goal is to help parents ensure that their children ages 4-12 have a safe and fun online experience. That's why we've set up a system by which parents can print out and mail or fax us a signed form that allows them to review any personal information collected about their child and ask us to correct any factual inaccuracies, delete this information, and/or request that we refrain from further collection or use of their child's information. StoryChimes™ will provide a "bumper page" when linking from StoryChimes™ to an advertiser's site, which lets children ages 4-12 know they are going to an advertiser's site and reminds them not to give out information online without getting permission from their parent or guardian.

StoryChimes™ will provide a "bumper page" when linking from StoryChimes™ to an advertiser's site, which lets children ages 4-12 know they are going to an advertiser's site and reminds them not to give out information online without getting permission from their parent or guardian.

StoryChimes™ provides links to other websites that may have their own information collection practices. StoryChimes provides internal "bumper pages" that inform children ages 4-12 that they have linked to another site and instructs them not to give out information online before checking with their parents. These other websites are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be substantially different from ours. We encourage visitors to other websites to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of those websites.

Questions/Concerns?
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding StoryChimes's™ privacy policy, please contact us at:

StoryChimes™
c/o Siena Entertainment LLC
17216 Saticoy St - #121
Van Nuys, CA 91406

info@storychimes.com This policy, like the online medium itself, is subject to change.

The StoryChimes™ website is intended for domestic visitors and is, consequently, specifically directed towards residents of the United States.

This page was last updated on September 15th, 2009.