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Children's Museum of Los Angeles Online Privacy Policy ²

For Parents and Caregivers

Children's Museum of Los Angeles Online Privacy Policy

The Children's Museum of Los Angeles has spent the last 21 years working with parents, teachers and caregivers to ensure the health and safety of our children. As we navigate this virtual universe, the Museum will protect the private information of you and your children as well as preserve the integrity of the online medium.

How will the Children's Museum of Los Angeles Ensure the Safety of My Child?

The Children's Museum of Los Angeles adheres to a strict policy for ensuring the privacy of you and your children. It is very important to all of us at the Museum that we protect the private information of each of our visitors. For this reason we developed the Children's Museum of Los Angeles Online Privacy Policy.

How the Children's Museum of Los Angeles Gathers and Uses Information?

1. We will not request personally identifiable information from you, other than what you supply to us on a voluntary basis.

2. In order to participate in some activities, you might be asked to provide some personally identifiable information. This could be in connection with the following:

* contest or sweepstakes registration
* subscription registration for sites or services
* subscription (such as e-mail newsletters)
* content submissions, community postings (i.e., forums or bulletin boards), comments and suggestions, or voting

3. The Children's Museum of Los Angeles Online may use your personally identifiable information for activities explained above and/or, for internal marketing promotional purposes.

4. We will always explain the extent of the use of requested information at the time that you are asked to provide it. If you do not want this information to be collected or used by us for these purposes, you can simply "opt out." Under certain circumstances, opting out may prevent your participation in activities for which personal information is needed.

Acceptance of Children's Museum of Los Angeles Online Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions

By using this site, you signify that you understand and agree to the terms and conditions of the Children's Museum of Los Angeles Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use the site. The Children's Museum may, from time to time, change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy. Please check back with us periodically for the latest information.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement or Children's Museum of Los Angeles Online Privacy Policy or any aspect of the Children's Museum web site, please e-mail us at alexandra@childrensmuseumla.org or call us at 213. 687.8800 ext. 200.

Please read the Notice to Parents and Caregivers.

Last modified: September 26, 2003

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For Parents and Caregivers:

Notice to Parents and Caregivers

For more than 21 years, the Children's Museum of Los Angeles has been a trusted and valued leader in arts-based educational programming. As we move our universe into the digital domain, this trust becomes even more important to you, and to us. We believe that the following will enhance the safety, value, and enjoyment of your child's visits to our site.

1. We will not collect personally identifiable information from your child without parental permission.

2. If we know that your child is under the age of thirteen, we will collect your permission offline (by postal mail, fax or phone) before allowing them to register with our site. If we become aware that a subscriber is under the age of thirteen and has registered without prior parental consent, we will remove his or her personally identifiable registration information from our files.

Please note: we may nevertheless maintain a record of that person's name and address in a "do not register" file to avoid subsequent registration by a child under the age of thirteen (13).

3. If your child sends us an e-mail with a question or comment, we will respond using his or her e-mail, but will not store it for future communications.

4. If your child submits stories, artwork, comments or anything else to us which is posted at our site, he or she will be identified only by first name, age and state.

We will assist children, their families and their communities to find the information they need in order to use the Internet safely and responsibly.

The Children's Museum of Los Angeles is partially funded by outside sponsors. We will mark any underwriter logos with a "sponsored by" tag. We select our underwriters carefully, to ensure that the company's products and services fit Children's Museum of Los Angeles' standards.

The Children's Museum of Los Angeles will make every effort possible to ensure that links to outside sites follow our safety and privacy guidelines. We encourage adults and children to discuss internet safety together. We are not responsible for the content or safety and privacy practices at any sites linked from our pages.

This policy is subject to change from time to time.

The Children's Museum of Los Angeles site is a place where families can surf together, and where parents and caregivers can encourage their children to interact, learn and play. If you have any comments or questions about this site, we'd like to hear them. This is your site!

If you have any questions or concerns or ideas regarding this policy or web site, send us an e-mail at alexandra@childrensmuseumla.org or call us at 213.687.8800 ext. 200.

Please read the Children's Museum of Los Angeles' Online Privacy Policy.

Last modified: September 26, 2003

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