Privacy Policy

Effective: August 13, 2018

www.4KidsFundraising.com (“4Kids Fundraisng” or our “Site”) is owned and operated by 4Kids Fundraising, LLC(dba “4Kids Fundraiisng”). 4Kids Fundraising is a fundraising platform that helps teams of all sizes raise money for their projects and causes online. We are dedicated to creating a safe online environment.

4Kids Fundraising is committed to protecting the privacy of any personal information collected or received during the use of the site, especially information from children under 13.

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) requires that we

· Notify parents and guardians on how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from children under the age of 13

· Obtain verifiable consent from parents and guardians in order for children under the age of 13 to utilize certain aspects of the Site

· Require the child to disclose no more information than is reasonably necessary for a child to participate in a given activity on this site

· Allow the parent to review and delete the information collected about their child

What this privacy policy covers

This privacy policy is designed to answer your questions regarding the privacy policy and the collection of information through the Site. “Personal information” and “personally identifiable information” refer to information that can specifically identify you or your child.

What information does 4Kids Fundraising collect from users? How is it collected?

· We do not collect any personally identifiable information from anyone unless they consent to using our site.

· The only information we collect during the user registration is the child's name, parent's email, picture, name and email of potential supporters and user’s birth date. The birth date is used to validate their age. The parent’s e-mail is used only to verify that they have consented to their child's name and picture is being used in contacting their provided emails.

· For users under 13, their parent or legal guardian is required to approve their registration with 4Kids Fundraising before using the website. During this process, we collect the parent’s full name, phone number, and email address directly from the parent.

· During use of the site, a child may voluntarily reveal to us additional information about himself or herself, such as contents of his or her emails to supporters, personal photos, phone number, videos, or written content describing their fundraiser.

· We never solicit information from a child. Parents should be aware that any personal information that the child chooses to disclose in their team pages are made public after launch and can be collected or used by others. During the time of registration, parents should monitor all this data and talk to their children about Internet safety. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

· When giving money or making a donation, supporters are required to give their full name, email address, and then billing information through secure third party processor Stripe. The supporter’s full name, email address, the amount donated, date of donation, and physical mailing address is available to the member they donated to, the member’s team leader, and organizational account holder (if applicable) and may be used for purposes of facilitating the donation transaction and further follow-up.

· 4Kids Fundraising collects personal information passively, by using cookies to track traffic analytics and to monitor unique visitors to our site. This information is used to improve 4Kids Fundraising as a website. 4Kids Fundraising may also collect user’s IP addresses. This information is used to prevent and monitor fraud, diagnose technical problems, and estimate demographic data. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our site.

· 4Kids Fundraising utilizes third party marketing and tracking utility partners to analyze trends, administer the site, and track users’ movements throughout the site. These services may employ the use of cookies. While we do not have access or control over third party cookies, users can opt out of these services by following directions provided below on each third party site or by disabling the use of cookies entirely.

· We employ third party tracking utility services Google Analytics, which collects behavioral data on what actions a user took on our site, what pages they viewed, what they clicked, browser, device, IP address, geo-location based on the IP address, and operating system data. We use Google Analytics  to see how you use our website and mobile application so that we can improve your experience. We encourage you to read the Google Privacy Policy. If you don’t want your data reported by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

· We collect IP address solely to support internal operations. Other than that, none of these services collect any personally identifying information. Our third party tracking utility partners employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movement of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personal information.

· As true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We do not link this automatically

Name of Third Party Partners: Google Analytics; Stripe

What info is shared with or collected by this partner: IP Address, user agent string; Payment processing information (card data, email)

Partner’s purpose: Web Analytics; Payment Processor

Link to Partner’s privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ ; https://stripe.com/us/privacy

If you have any inquiries regarding our partner’s privacy practices or how they use your child’s personal information, please contact us directly at info@4kidsfundraising.com

How are parents notified, given consent, or able to access/change/delete information collected from their children under 13?

· Parents of children under 13 are required to sign a consent form, allowing 4Kids Fundraising to email contacts provided by the student and parent. If a parent does not agree with terms or privacy policy and does not want their child to participate  they can cancel their child’s account by emailing info@4kidsfundraising.com. 

· Parents have the right to consent to our collection and use of personal information collected from their child without having to consent to its disclosure to third parties as we do not share information collected from a child with third parties.

Do third-party sites or sponsors use information collected?

4Kids Fundraising does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you collected in connection with your use of the service with third parties. 4Kids Fundraising may, however, make inquiries, either directly or through third parties, to validate the registration information provided by Teachers and Parents in order to prevent misrepresentation and fraud on the site.

We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping your order or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

We may also disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

How do I edit my information?

To modify or delete any or all of the personal information you have provided to us, log in and update your account or fundraisers or email info@4kidsfundraising.com We will respond to your access request within 30 days.

Security

We use Stripe to process payments and donations. We are PCI compliant. All credit card information entered is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, assuming that you have selected the secure server method and that your browser supports this functionality. No credit card information is transmitted through, nor stored on, 4Kid Fundraising servers. All credit card information goes directly to our payment processors. Regardless, no data transmission over the public Internet is ever guaranteed to be 100% secure.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Social Media (Features) and Widgets

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every Web site that collects personal information.

This privacy policy only applies to information collected by this Web site.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

If we make material changes to how we use Personal Information collected from children under age 13, we will notify parents by email in order to obtain verifiable parental consent for the new uses of the child’s Personal Information.

Questions

If you have questions or suggestions, please email us at info@4kidsfundriasing.com or mail us at

4Kids Fundraising

6700 Elliot Ave.S

Richfield, MN 55423

952-356-2276