KinzGuru.com Privacy Policy

 

This site and its owner respects your privacy.  In order to provide you the ability to properly understand this site, the data it collects, and the use of this data we are making this disclosure available to you.  This policy applies only to this site and the pages kinzguru.com, its owner, and agents control.  It does not apply to sites that may be linked or referenced within our pages that we do not own or control.

 

Collection and Display of Data:

This site provides both free-access and restricted-access areas.  In order to access the restricted area, you must register with the site.  During registration you must provide a valid email address and must choose a username and password.  You must also specify whether or not you are 12 years of age or older, as required by the United States COPPA (your actual birth date is not required to be submitted).  This information may be displayed intentionally on the sites based on the site design or by the choices available to you with the configuration of your user preferences.  Also be aware that while the site makes efforts to keep your data secure, unauthorized intrusions (ie hacks) are always a possibility and could result in the unintentional display or distribution of any data you submit.

 

Understand that the username you choose may be visible in both the restricted and free-access areas.  Therefore, choice of a username that includes Personally Identifiable Information (PII) will allow your information to be freely seen by anyone accessing these pages. 

 

The user preferences allow other members to contact you via email, and personal message.  This option may be turned off via the user control panel.

 

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.   However, once registered, you may, regardless of age, voluntarily submit additional information that may be considered PII such at birth date, instant messenger address, etc.  Submission of such information is purely voluntary and not required for use of the site.  This information is visible to other registered users. 

 

 

The site allows you to submit free-form text as “posts” that are visible to registered and/or non-registered users.  Any information you post  will be immediately viewable.  There may be other methods of submission such as response to polls, surveys, the opt-in of newsletters or RSS feeds, or other similar methods.

 

Parents:

Parents should understand that this site only requires the submission of an email address.  Choice of username, password, as well as the supply of other PII is the responsibility of the user (ie your child).  You should be aware that your child may make their PII available to others, but that this is not required or requested by this site.  Also understand that any information your child posts will be viewable by both members and non-members of the site.  Features of the site include the ability of your child to provide other information about themselves that would allow other members to contact your child by email, private message (a site-contained messaging system similar to email), instant messenger.  These features are controlled in the User Control Panel.  Use of site features is not restricted by age.  The site does not restrict your child’s ability to access the User Control Panel where they can supply this information.  It is your responsibility as a parent to monitor this activity as it is not restricted by this site. 

 

 

This site may also collect other information such as, but not limited to, information contained in server logs, your IP address, cookie information, search terms, post count, and tallied page views.   We do not share any PII with any 3rd party except:

  1. in aggregate form that is not trackable to individual user
  2. unless required by law or pursuant to legal action
  3. the site owner or its agents find that it is reasonable necessary in order to protect the legal rights and/or property of the site owner,
  4. The site is sold to a third party, in which case said party is able to use the data in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

Following links provided on this site, regardless of method (ie advertising, user submitted, etc) may take you to a different web site not owned by Kinzguru or its owners and which is not subject to this privacy policy.

 

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

KINZGURU.COM may create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

KINZGURU.COM uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not knowingly share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by KINZGURU.COM. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

We collect the following information:

1. Click-stream data
2. HTTP protocol elements
3. Search terms
4. User's Name
5. Computer information

These data will be used for the following purposes:
1. Completion and support of the current activity.
2. Web site and system administration.
3. Research and development.

These data will be used by ourselves and our agents. The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Data collected from all Web users: access logs, and search strings (if entered).

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:
1. HTTP cookies

These data will be used for the following purposes:

1. Research and development.
2. One-time tailoring.

These data will be used by ourselves and our agents. The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

COOKIES

Cookies are used to track visitors to our site, so we can better understand what portions of our site best serve you.

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

1. User targeting
2. Research and development

 

Editing and Deleting your information:

You may have access to tools to administer certain features of your account, including the review and modification of your PII such as email address.  You will not be able to change your username.  You may request that your account be deleted, however, deletion of your account will not remove your username, posts, or poll/survey responses from the forum and these items will still be visible for the life of the site. 

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Changes may be made from time to time.  We encourage you to regularly review this privacy policy.  Notification of substantial changes to this policy will be made by posting of a promininent and clearly visible announcement within the forum and/or by email to the address supplied by you and present within our system at time of change and/or personal message within the forum.

 

No Guarantees

While the site and its owner and agents make efforts to fully comply with the policy and its standards for our maintenance of data, we cannot guarantee full compliance at all times.  This may be due to factors out of our control, lack of knowledge of certain site, forum, software, or secuirity vulnerabilities, features, options, or other unknown reasons.  Therefore the site owner offers on warranty or other representation to the maintenance and non-disclosure of data.

 

In simple terms, we do what we can to protect your PII, but can not offer a 100% guarantee for its security and non-disclosure.