Children's Privacy Policy

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY

Our Mission
Jill Brown Associates, LLC.com is a site committed to allowing you to have fun, without sacrificing your privacy. At Jill Brown Associates, LLC.com, we intend to give you as much control as possible over your personally identifiable information and it is our goal to help you protect your privacy while using our services.

Purpose of Privacy Policy
The purpose of our policy is to inform you about the types of information we gather about you online when you visit our site, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct the information.
Jill Brown Associates, LLC.com has special concerns about the privacy of users who are children under the age of 13. The government has set up created laws that restrict websites from collecting personal information from kids without their parent’s permission. Jill Brown Associates, LLC complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We ask only for the minimal amount of information and we don’t share it with anyone without obtaining your parents permission. We strongly encourage parents to participate in their kid's online activities and monitor their kid's use of e-mails and engagement in other electronic communication. For more information about COPPA or children's privacy, please visit www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
If we make any changes to our privacy policy we will let you and your parent know.

What is personal information?
Personally identifiable information is information that can personally identify you, such as your full name (first and last name), your e-mail address and your postal address. Information that may be personal in nature, but cannot identify who you are, is not personally identifiable information. For example, your age, your first name and even your favorite itsmylocker.com NEED TO ADD INFO. HERE are all personal information, but are not personally identifiable information because they cannot be used to identify you.

What type of personal information do you collect?
The Children’s Online Privacy Act (“COPPA”) requires parents and legal guardians to be informed about how Jill Brown Associates, LLC collects, uses and discloses personal information from children less than 13 years of age. This policy describes how we use the information we collect from the parent(s) and child.
Under COPPA, we may not condition a child’s participation in any www.itsmylocker.com activity on the requirement of more personal information than is necessary for child to participate in any given activity.
We collect information in a number of ways on the site. We will only collect the minimal amount of personally identifiable information that is reasonably necessary for you to participate in an online activity. We may ask for your real first name in order to identify you to your parent and to include on your profile once your parent has approved your account. Your e-mail address will only be used to send information upon your specific request to Jill Brown Associates, LLC for an Itsmylocker.com password.

How is the information used?
Personal information regarding a child may be collected and used to enable a child's participation in certain interactive features such as instant message chatting, sending e-mail, and posting on message boards and other similar activities. These activities may involve disclosure of a child's personal information to third parties and will only occur once proper parental/guardian consent has been obtained. Gender and date of birth information will only be used by our research department to allow us to gain better understanding of our users and will not be shared with any outside sources.
IML is a social networking site. You should be aware that any personal information, including, but not limited to: full name, address, phone number, e-mail address may be read by others when posted in a blog entry, message, picture, video, etc. Please use discretion when posting any such items.

How is the information shared?
All personally identifiable information collected by us is only used to provide services related to the Jill Brown Associates, LLC website. We do not share your personally identifiable information with any third parties for marketing purposes. We may engage third parties to assist with services related to the website, such as technical and processing services, contest fulfillment, mailings, and analyzing website performance. These third parties are obligated to keep the information secure and confidential and must use the information only in connection with providing services to Jill Brown Associates, LLC.
In the event that substantially all of the assets related to the Jill Brown Associates, LLC website were transferred or sold to another entity, all information, including personally identifiable information would to be transferred to that entity.

ItsMyLocker.com is a social networking site. As such personal information is accessible to third parties when posted in an individual or group blog entries, messages, photos, videos, comments. If a parent objects to any information posted by their child they can request that it be removed or they may delete it themselves.

We may also disclose personally identifiable information about yourself or your child to third parties in order to comply with court orders or with requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms of Use, to prevent illegal activity such as fraud, or to protect the rights, property, safety of our website and other users of the site or if we sell information as a part of the sale or transfer of our business. Any purchaser shall remain bound to the privacy policy.

Our site may contain links to other websites, including websites directed to children. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our advertisers or other sites to which we provide links from our sites. These other sites may use cookies, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information. We have no control over these practices and strongly recommend that you check the applicable privacy policy of the website sponsor when linking to other websites.

Any questions and concerns can be addressed to Jill Brown Associates, LLC at jill@itsmylocker.com

Registration
When you register for your online Jill Brown Associates, LLC account, we ask for only your first name, birthday and the state/province where you live. None of this is personally identifiable information, because it cannot be used to contact or identify you offline. During the registration process, you will also be asked to create a screen name and password. You should not use any personally identifiable information as your username since others may view this screen name on the site. All communication from Jill Brown Associates, LLC and itsmyocker.com will be forwarded to your parents e-mail address. This may include photos, blog entries, job posting, messages to online support staff or anything else you create or upload. In order to share anything you have created, you will need your parent’s approval. Once your parent’s approval has been obtained, it is then the responsibility of you and your parent(s) to control how your creations and information are shared. You should be aware that the Internet can be a dangerous place and you should never share your full name, address, phone number or e-mail address online with anyone. Parent and teachers can help guide you in deciding what information is safe to post or upload to your account. We use the most technologically advanced security systems in order to keep your information secure.

Information collected from Child
Jill Brown Associates will collect the following information from your child prior to setting up their account:
We collect first name, gender, date of birth, e-mail address (optional), and parent’s e-mail address for the processing of the registration. The child’s e-mail address will be kept in an encrypted file, which is not accessible to anyone. NEED TO CONFIRM THAT THIS IS THE CASE
Prior to receiving parental consent we will only use the e-mail address supplied by your child to respond one time to a direct request such as for password reset or other technical support issues.
Information Collected from parents and parental consent:
In order to activate your child’s account you will need to provide your name, address, e-mail address and date of birth. We will then require your consent. You can provide consent by several different methods:
1. Providing a credit card number for verification along with payment in the amount of .
2. Provide a consent form via fax or regular mail, which shall include a valid photo ID that has been issued by the government such as a driver’s license or a passport.
The information you provide will be used to verify your identity and the date of birth will be used to verify that you are over the age of 18. The e-mail address you provide will be used to link you to the registered child’s account and to send any applicable notices.
Parents are also required to create an account to provide consent in order to fully activate the child’s account. The parent account will not be created until their identity has been verified.
Until Jill Brown Associates, LLC has your consent and your identity has been verified the accounts of you and your child will not be fully activated and your child will not be able to have any contact with any other tsmylocker.com users since this could result in public disclosure of the child’s personal information to third parties on the internet such as posting on open message boards. This is the reason we require such a high level of verification to confirm that a parent has consented to a child’s participation in such features of the site. If a parent refuses to allow their child to register, Jill Brown Associates, LLC will delete the child’s information from the Itsmylocker.com website within hours. NEED TIME FRAME AND ALSO NEED TO SET UP TO MAKE THIS OCCUR WITHIN THE TIME FRAME AND PROVIDE CONFIRMATION OF THE DELETION TO THE PARENT.
Once an account has been fully activated your child can then begin to create content, use the message boards and blogs, access the job board and post jobs, upload videos and photos WHAT ELSE DO WE NEED HERE??? All content will then become accessible to you, your child and any friends of your child. IML will provide ways for you to monitor or approve all interaction of your child with other IML members NEED SPECIFICS HERE AS TO TOOLS WE WILL PROVIDE IN ORDER FOR PARENT TO MONITOR THE CHILDS INTERACTION WITH OTHER MEMBERS. SUCH AS SECURITY SETTINGS SO THAT THE PARENT CAN CONTROL AND MONITOR THEIR CHILD’S IML EXPERIENCE. WHAT IS THE ABILITY OF PARENT TO SHADOW THE CHILD’S ACTIVITIES?? EXAMPLE: PARENT WILL SEE ANY POSTS, BLOG ENTRIES, AND MESSAGES. THIS CAN BE OPTIONAL TO PARENT DOES NOT NEED TO BE AUTOMATIC. WE ALSO NEED TO LOOK AT OPTION OF ADULT INDICATOR ON SITE WHEN AN ADULT IS INTERACTING WITH THE CHILD.
Jill Brown Associates, LLC will allow itsmylocker.com members to provide non-member friends first names and e-mails so an invitation to join can be sent to them. These names and e-mails will not be stored and will immediately be deleted after the invitation is sent to the non-member.
Jill Brown Associates. LLC passively tracks to activity of users accessing our site in order to provide other products and services. This information may include IP addresses of users, page views, unique visitors and repeat visitors. This data does not correspond to any personal information that is identifiable. CHECK THIS TO CONFIRM THAT THIS FUNCTION APPLIES Cookies are used to enhance the user experience. The cookies will track your preferences, your log in times, and activities visited while on the site. You have the option to reject the cookies but in doing so you may be unable to take full advantage of all the Itsmylocker.com features and services. You can disable the cookies by going to your browser’s help information. DOES THIS APPLY???

Promotions DOES THIS APPLY??
Jill Brown Associates, LLC may run promotions on itsmylocker.com, which may require you to supply your name, e-mail address, mailing address. These promotions are optional but if you choose to participate, you must be aware that the personal information provided by you may be shared with third parties in order for them to provide awards or other special offers.

Review or corrections to personally identifiable information
Your parent may review the personally identifiable information we collect from you, request corrections, ask that we delete your personally identifiable information from our databases, or refuse further collection or use of your information by contacting our webmaster at jill@itsmylocker.com

Removal of Personal Information
Parents may refuse to permit us to collect any further personal information from their child at any time. They may also request that we remove a child’s personal information from our records at any time. They can do this by e-mailing IML at or sending a letter to us at . NEED INFO HERE TO DESCRIBE HOW THIS WILL BE DONE. I WILL REVISE ONCE WE HAVE THIS INFO. ONE METHOD FROM ANOTHER SITE IS:
A parent can access, change, or delete his or her kid's personal information by logging on to the child's account at the Home Page located at NEED ADDRESS HERE The parent will need to have their child's member name and password. There are instructions on the Your Account home page explaining how to recover a password if the kid has forgotten it.
A parent can contact our customer service department to access, change, or delete the personal information that we have collected from his or her kid by sending an e-mail to NEED ADDRESS HERE Please include the kid's member name and the parent's e-mail address in the e-mail so that we can better assist you with your inquiry or request.

Security Measures
Information collected is stored(secure data facility) and only accessible to authorized personnel. NEED INFO HERE
The following additional security measures have also been put into place: password protection for all personal information, financial data is collected via SSL connection IS THIS TRUE FOR US??? We cannot however fully guarantee that all information that is collected over the Internet is completely secure. We will notify all participants in the event that we become aware of any security breach and request that you please notify us immediately if you are made aware of any security breach. Please contact us at if you have any security concerns.

Surveys and Feedback We may collect aggregate information in connection with surveys or other online activities that allow you to give us your feedback. We do not collect any personally identifiable information in connection with surveys or feedback requests, nor is the information you provide connected to any personally identifiable information we may have about you.

Site Management We may collect information through technology to make our site more interesting and useful to you. For instance, we collect IP addresses and use technology to track traffic patterns on the site. Once you have logged into the website, we track your activities by using logs of database transactions and server interactions. This data is used to maintain your pets' status on the website. We also use this information to understand which areas of our website are most appealing or least appealing. Our site also use cookies, which are pieces of information that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. Cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember who you are. These technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. None of the information collected by through these methods is, or is connected to, personally identifiable information about you.

E-mail Communication from You If you contact us by e-mail, we use your e-mail address (which is personally identifiable information) only to respond to your specific request or question, after which the address is deleted. If we ask for your parent's e-mail address, we keep that information and use it only for the purpose of providing notices to parents and requesting parental consent as required under COPPA.

E-mail Communication from Us Our site may allow you to sign up to receive newsletters, birthday e-cards and e-mails regarding special Jill Brown Associates, LLC promotional messages or offers. The newsletters and e-mails will provide you with information about new website features, whether your registration is going to expire, new releases of Jill Brown Associates, LLC plush products, or special Jill Brown Associates, LLC promotional messages or offers to you. In addition, if you sign up for this service, we will also e-mail you birthday e-cards at the appropriate time. In order to participate in these activities, we collect your first name, your e-mail address, and your parent's e-mail address. We use this information to contact your parent by e-mail to notify him or her that you have provided personally identifiable information to us for these purposes, and to provide them an opportunity to opt-out of the collection of the information.

Safety
We may collect your first name and e-mail address where necessary for your safety. If you want access to our CHAT area NEED ADDRESS HERE, we will collect your parent's e-mail address to contact your parent for their consent to your use of that feature. We may also collect your name and e-mail address for the limited purposes of protecting the security and integrity of the site, taking precautions against liability, responding to the judicial process, or for law enforcement on a matter related to public safety.

Questions about Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please send e-mail with your questions or comments to NEED ADDRESS HERE
You may also telephone us at NEED # HERE . (If you are not 18 years of age or older, you must have your parent or guardian's permission to call this number.)
The Jill Brown Associates, LLC is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. If you believe that we have not responded to your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, please contact TRUSTe http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. WE NEED TO CHECK INTO THIS TO SEE IF YOU WANT TO BECOME A LICENSEE.

Changes to Privacy Policy
We may amend our Kids' Privacy Policy at any time. We will provide parents notice by e-mail of any material changes in the way we intend to collect, use, and/or share kids' personal information. We will notify you by sending e-mail to the parent’s e-mail address or by placing a prominent notice on the site. Please note that, at all times, parents should update their personal information to provide us current e-mail addresses. We will apply material changes in our Kids' Privacy Policy only in conformance with applicable law, including any applicable provisions of COPPA that require parental consent.

Additional Privacy Protection Information
Please visit the following links to learn more about protecting your child and their privacy online:
Visit www.ftc.gov/privacy for information from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting child’s privacy online.
Visit www.onguardonline.gov for social networking safety tips for adults and kids.
Visit www.connectsafely.org for information on safe socializing on the web.
Visit www.cyberbully411.org for information on cyberbullying
Visit www.getnetwise.org for information on online safety
Visit www.ikeepsafe.org for information on Internet safety.
Visit www.staysafeonline.org for information on cyber safety.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED ON January 2009.
The online features described in this web site may be available or in the near future. This Children’s Privacy Policy states our current policies on information collection, use and disclosure. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy as soon as they go into effect on this site.