We know that the "legal-eeze" of any legal Privacy Statement is a bit tough to wade though. So to make it a bit easier to understand we have highlighted some particular points of importance, using plain English.
However it is IMPORTANT for you, your parents and your teachers to know that this summary is NOT a legal document. You should read the complete terms of the TestToob Privacy Statement, anyway.
Summary of Terms:
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This is a site for teenagers. If you’re under the age of 13 you cannot sign up to be a member of TestToob. If we hear that someone who signed up is under 13 he or she will have 48 hours to provide evidence that he or she is older than 12. After that, registration privileges will be banned.
- Parents: If your child is under 13 and you find out he or she has signed up on TestToob giving a false age, please let us know immediately at info@TestToob.com. We will erase all private information that was given to us at registration.
- However, Parents may register and post video of their children who are under the age of 13. Simply put, TestToob will not collect any registration data for children under the age of 13.
- When you sign up, you have the choice to opt in or opt out of having third parties receive your email address. That is an important choice.
- Names and locations of youth who appear in a video may be used for identification and therefore will be public information. We encourage all users to withhold their names, schools, and locations while filming experiments.
- We hate spam. Members may not upload, post, email, transmit or in any other way make junk mail or commercial ads and other forms of solicitation available on the TestToob website. Period.
- Occasionally members will have opportunities offered to them by TestToob, including contests and products.
Do not use TestToob if you do not agree to the TestToob Privacy Policy.
Effective June 16, 2008
User Privacy
TestToob is a fun website that lets you refer your friends to sign up and communicate with each other. Like any website that offers a service where you register and provide information about yourself or your opinions, it is wise to pay attention to your personal information. At TestToob we understand this, and have established this Privacy Policy to explain how information is collected on our website, and how this information is used. Members must Be 13 years of age or older. TestToob is intended solely for use by persons 13 years of age or older. All persons under 13 are prohibited from registering on TestToob.
How Does TestToob Protect Children’s Privacy?
The safety and privacy of children is extremely important to us.
TestToob is a general audience web site that complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Our registration process is designed to restrict children under the age of 13 from becoming members of TestToob and using our site. We've also designed the tone and style of the site to appeal to teenagers. If we receive information suggesting that a user who has registered with TestToob is under the age of 13, we require the user to provide evidence confirming that the user is at least 13 years old. If the user fails to provide such information within 48 hours, we immediately terminate the user’s account and nullify all personally identifiable information displaying on the site and collected from such user.
What Is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act?
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires that commercial web sites obtain parental consent (under most circumstances) prior to the collection of any personally identifiable information from children whom they know to be under the age of 13. In addition, COPPA requires that web sites that collect personal information from children under the age of 13 provide parents with:
- Notice. Parents must be provided notice regarding what information is collected, how the information will be used, and with whom the information may be shared.
- The ability to prevent further use of the information collected about the child and prevent any future collection of personal information from the child.
- The ability to access and review their child's personal information.
COPPA also limits the amount of personal information a web site can collect from a child. Web sites may not collect any more personal information than is necessary to participate in a given game or activity.
For more information about COPPA, please visit the Federal Trade Commission's web site.
Parents: If your child is under the age of 13 and has joined TestToob using a false age, please notify TestToob at info@TestToob.com, and we will immediately cancel your child's account and nullify all personally identifiable information displaying on the site and collected from them. If you would like to know more about our site, information practices, stored information about your child, or how to close your child's account, please contact TestToob at info@TestToob.com. We will happily respond to all email from parents with Privacy questions or concerns.
Personally Identifiable User Information
All users begin using TestToob's services by registering on the TestToob website. When registering, users provide personally identifiable information, which includes their first and last name, email address, mailing address, which school they attend, a user-chosen password and member name, date of birth, and other personal information. To complete the registration process, TestToob sends a validation email message to each user, with a URL link back to our website. This URL contains an alphanumeric identifier and a user-specific numeric passcode that allows us to confirm the user's identity.
Cookies and Passive Data Collection
TestToob logs standard user information and clickstream data for all users, including a user's IP address, operating system, and page views. When users visit particular pages within TestToob, a UserID may be placed in the URL, allowing customized features for the user. Users should be aware that other websites visited before entering TestToob might place personally identifiable information within a user's URL during a visit to their website, and TestToob has no control over such websites. Accordingly, some of this information may be logged by a subsequent website that collects URL information. In addition to the standard log information, TestToob uses a variety of technologies to create a more personalized experience for its users. Cookies are small data files sent by websites to a user's browser and hard drive that identify the computer to the website. We use cookies to allow enhanced features, such as allowing registered users to bypass typing their passwords before entering the website. We may also use cookies to enable customizable content for users, as they become available. Users have the option, within their Internet browsers, to disable cookies and continue to access the TestToob website. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files that are included in HTML-encoded e-mail messages. We use pixel tags to gather information about the e-mails we send to our registered users. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer accesses our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, and allows us to record and store the date and time, the recipient's e-mail address, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may read cookies. TestToob web pages may also contain similar pixel tags that allow us to count users who have visited those pages, to compile aggregated statistics about site usage, and to deliver co-branded services as they become available. TestToob pixel tags collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the pixel tag resides. TestToob web pages may also contain pixel tags placed there by third party ad servers, to monitor the effectiveness of their advertising.
How TestToob Uses the User Information
Personally Identifiable Information
TestToob uses personally identifiable user information for the purposes of the TestToob website, the TestToob referral and friend list building. Personally identifiable information may be included in a user’s video submissions to TestToob, including members' pictures and names. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join TestToob and to add users to members' friends' networks. TestToob only allows members to communicate with each other by using the Member Names they selected during registration. We also use email addresses to send useful information to all registered users regarding the TestToob website. For example, we use email addresses of users, and of those persons provided on their referral lists, to send an invitation to the referred friend and encourage them to sign up on TestToob. When a user lists an email address on the invitation page, an email is automatically sent from that registered user to the referral address, encouraging the referral to sign up on the TestToob website. If the referred person does not sign up within a few days, we also send a reminder from the registered user to the referral address. All registered users will be able to view other users Videos, which may include personal information. From time to time, TestToob may share the email address and/or other personally identifiable information of any registered user with third parties for marketing purposes. In addition, TestToob may share a registered user’s email address with third parties to target advertising and to improve user experience on TestToob’s pages in general.
Profile Information
TestToob allows Members to post video to a Community Library that is accessible to other users. All information, including any personally identifiable information, which is disclosed by users in his or her public profile and journal entries are available for others to see. Please do not post direct contact information in either your profile or your workbench such as your email addresses, URLs, instant messenger IDs, phone numbers, full names, or addresses. We also caution you not to share sensitive information (such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers) with other users whom you do not know or place such information in your profile.
Invitations
The Invite Friends feature is an easy way for TestToob users to invite friends through email. The email address(es) that you supply to use this service will only be used to send invitations to connect with you on TestToob.
Surveys and Contests
At various times we may offer surveys or contests to users. Surveys may ask for contact, demographic or unique identifying information to increase the value of the results. Contests may require contact information or other demographic or personally identifiable information in order to determine eligibility. TestToob may use information collected from surveys and contests for the entertainment of users, and to determine, notify and contact winners of various contests. In addition, users' demographic and/or personally identifiable information and responses to survey and contest questions may be used by TestToob and/or shared with third parties in order to provide specifically tailored special offers or advertisements. TestToob will not share a user's email address with third parties unless the user specifically opts-in to such sharing during the completion of or registration for a survey or contest.
Third Party Links and Ad Servers
Please be aware that links to third party websites and third-party ad server advertisements that are found on TestToob may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. TestToob may provide links to third party websites, which may, or may not, use cookies, pixel tags and web tags. Ad servers may also use these tools to compile information about where users saw particular advertisements, and to determine which ads were clicked on. We are not responsible for, or have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites and ad servers, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited when linking directly from TestToob.
Protection of TestToob and Others
TestToob may disclose personally identifiable user information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. TestToob may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Service; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TestToob, its users or the general public.
Security
TestToob uses industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the TestToob website in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. Further, while we make every effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information.
Updating or Removing User Information
As a registered user, you may, at any time, choose to correct or update the information you have submitted to us. This may be done by the following method:
- Log in to your TestToob account on our website.
- Go to My Workbench
- Click the button that says "My Account"
- Change or edit any of the information there, and then click the button at the bottom that says "Update".
As a registered user, you may, at any time, cancel your account by emailing TestToob at info@testtoob.com. and requesting cancellation of your account.
No Spam Policy
We at TestToob.com are opposed to spam. Our No Spam Policy and Terms of Service prohibit all users from engaging in any activity involving spam on our service. Violations of these policies may result in immediate termination of service and legal action against any spammer. TestToob's Terms of Service expressly prohibit users from uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available junk mail, commercial advertisements, or other form of commercial solicitation on the TestToob website or through TestToob's services. Any violation of our policies, by sending unsolicited email advertisements to or through TestToob.com computer systems, will use or cause to be used TestToob.com servers, located in Kentucky. Accordingly, any unauthorized use of TestToob.com computer systems is a violation of our policies and certain federal and state laws. Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.
Other Disclosures
Change of Ownership
In the event of a change in ownership, or a direct merger or acquisition with another entity, we reserve the right to transfer all of TestToob's user information, including email addresses and postal addresses, to a separate entity. All registered users will be notified of any change in ownership, merger or acquisition of TestToob's assets by a third party, and may choose to modify any of their registration information at that time.
Revisions to This Policy
TestToob reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. Notice of any revision, amendment, or modification will be posted on the website, and a user's continued use of TestToob will signify agreement to such changes.
Contacting TestToob
Users with questions about this Privacy Policy and any of the aforementioned statements may contact TestToob at info@TestToob.com
or TestToob, Inc., 2337 Frankfort Avenue, P.O. Box #324, Louisville, KY 40207
USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE PRIVACY POLICY.
Effective Date March 1, 2008.