Children's Privacy Policy
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICYGEOPALZ, LLC (“GEOPALZ”) welcome users of the website located at https://www.geopalz.com/ (“Site”), who are under 18 years of age (“Child” or “Children”). Please read this policy carefully as it explains our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information from Children who register on this Site. It also explains each parent’s or guardian’s (“Parent”) ability to review, request deletion of, or place certain restrictions on the collection, use, and disclosure of, Personal Information of his/her Children. Users (including Children) may use many aspects of this Site without providing any Personal Information, in which case this Children’s Privacy Policy does not apply.
Our general Privacy Policy, available at www.geopalz.com/privacypolicy.php applies to all users of this Site who are ages 18 or older or who use this Site without registering on this Site. This Children’s Privacy Policy is incorporated into GEOPALZ’s Terms of Use, available at https://www.geopalz.com/terms/index.php. Unless otherwise defined in this Children’s Privacy Policy, capitalized terms will have the meanings set forth in the Terms of Use.
PARENTAL CONSENT
We are required by law to obtain verifiable parental consent in order to collect, use, or disclose Personal Information from Children who are under 13 years old.
When a Child registers for an account, before the account is activated, we require the Parent to verify his/her consent by email. By giving consent, a Parent (i) agrees that the Child’s online activities are subject to the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, and this Children’s Privacy Policy, and (ii) consents to our collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information collected from the Child as described in this Children’s Privacy Policy. Once such consent is received and processed, we will activate the Child’s account.
INFORMATION THE CHILD PROVIDES
“Personal Information” means data that allows someone to identify or contact the Child, including, for example, a Child’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about the Child that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data.
We collect and use Personal Information from Children on our Site in the following ways:
- We collect the Child’s first name, gender, age, user name, password, and the Parent’s email address when the Child creates an account.
- We also retain information on the Child’s behalf, such as groups the Child has joined through his/her account, messages that the Child stores using his/her account, the Child’s GEOPALZ code if the Child registers his/her GEOPALZ on his/her account, and the miles/points on his/her GEOPALZ.
- If a Child provides us feedback or contacts us via e-mail, we will collect the Child’s name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, in order to send the Child a reply.
INFORMATION COLLECTED VIA TECHNOLOGY
To make our Site more useful, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect Personal Information from the Child, including browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to the Child’s computer when the Child uses the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for the Child’s visit. We may also use Cookies (as defined below) and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of the Child’s visit and the solutions and information for which the Child searched and which the Child viewed. Like most Internet services, we may automatically gather this Personal Information and store it in log files each time the Child visits our Site or accesses the Child’s account on our network. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to a users computer’s hard drive while the user is viewing a web site. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once the Child closes the Child’s web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on the Child’s computer until the Child deletes them) to provide the Child with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. If the Child chooses to disable Cookies, some areas of our Site may not work properly.
USE OF INFORMATION
GEOPALZ uses a Child’s Personal Information in the following ways:
- to enable the Child to use the Site features that are only available to users with an account;
- to facilitate the creation of and secure a Child’s account on our network;
- to identify the Child as a user in our system;
- to provide improved administration and quality of experience on this Site; and
- to improve our products and services.
We will periodically communicate with the Child information that directly promotes the use of our Site or the purchase of our products and services. When a Child receives these communications from us, the Parent will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the communication that the Child receives or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below).
We may create anonymous information records from Personal Information by excluding information (such as a Child’s name) that make the data personally identifiable to the Child. We use this anonymous information to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may enhance the content of our Site, products, and services. GEOPALZ reserves the right to use and disclose anonymous information to third parties in its discretion.
PARENT’S CHOICES REGARDING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We provide Parents the following choices with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of their Child’s Personal Information. A Parent has the right to review her Child’s Personal Information, which the Parent can obtain by logging into the Child’s account or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below). After reviewing the Child’s Personal Information, the Parent may ask us to update or delete the Personal Information by contacting us directly (please see contact information below).
If a Parent chooses to prohibit any future collection or use of the Child’s Personal Information, the Parent may do so by terminating the Child’s account, and requesting the deletion of the Child’s Personal Information by us. Upon a Parent’s request, we will delete the Child’s account and all the information and data stored for such account. When we delete a Child’s Personal Information, it will be deleted from our active databases but may remain in our archives. GEOPALZ will not have any liability whatsoever for any termination of the account or related deletion of the Child’s Personal Information.
GEOPALZ may (and the Parent authorizes us to) rely on the instructions that we reasonably believe are given by a Child’s Parent. For example, if a person calls our customer support number and provides the account information we request, we may assume that the person calling is the Child’s Parent.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), we may in the future. We may share some or all of a Child’s Personal Information with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Children’s Privacy Policy. If another company acquires GEOPALZ or our assets, that company will possess the Child’s Personal Information collected by it and us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding the Child’s Personal Information as described in this Children’s Privacy Policy.
We may share a Child’s Personal Information with third party service providers to provide the Child with this Site, products and services; to conduct quality assurance testing; to facilitate creation of accounts; to provide technical support; or to provide specific services (collectively, the “Outsourcing Purposes”). These third party service providers are required not to use a Child’s Personal Information other than to provide the services requested by GEOPALZ. You expressly consent to the sharing of your Child’s Personal Information with our contractors and other service providers for the sole purpose of providing services to your Child.
Regardless of any choices your make regarding your Child’s Personal Information, GEOPALZ may disclose such Personal Information if it believes in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on GEOPALZ; or (b) protect or defend the rights or property of GEOPALZ or users of this Site (collectively, the “Enforcement Purposes”).
SECURITY
GEOPALZ is committed to protecting the security of a Child’s Personal Information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect a Child’s Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Despite these measures, you should know that GEOPALZ cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information and mistakes may happen.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our provision of a link to any other website, is for the Child’s convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other website or its contents. When the Child clicks on such a link, the Child will leave our site and go to another website. During this process, another entity may collect Personal Information or anonymous information from the Child. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of data after the Child clicks on links to such outside websites.
CHANGES IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Children’s Privacy Policy is a living document. As part of the Terms of Use, this Children’s Privacy Policy is subject to occasional amendment, in accordance with the terms of the Terms of Use. If we plan to make material changes to our collection, use, or disclosure of Children’s Personal Information, we will revise this Children’s Privacy Policy to reflect those changes, notify the Parents of Children via the Parents’ registered email addresses, and request renewed verifiable consent from those Parents. Sixty (60) days after such notice has been sent to Parents, we will implement the planned changes and suspend the use of any accounts for which we have not received verifiable Parental consent.
CONTACT US
GEOPALZ, LLC owns and operates this Site and is the company that wishes to collect Personal Information from Children on this Site. GEOPALZ welcomes comments or questions regarding this Children’s Privacy Policy. Please e-mail us at info@GEOPALZ.com or contact us at the following address or phone number:
GEOPALZ, LLC
PO Box 1170
Boulder, CO 80306
Phone: 877-546-4803
This Children's Privacy Policy was last updated 5/14/10
