THE INTERNET, PRIVACY, MAGAZINES ONLINE
The Internet contains a wealth of information; unfortunately,
it may also contain
personal details about you that you don't want everyone to know. For
example,
your real name (lots of people on the Internet use aliases, alter egos
or
nicknames), street address, phone number, or e-mail address. When you
go online,
sites you visit may be gathering information about you without your
knowledge. At
Magazines Online and the GO Network we strive to help our customers
protect their
privacy while using our services.
MAGAZINES ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Magazines Online policy is to respect and protect
the privacy
of our users. This policy statement tells you how we collect information
from you
and how we use it. Using the Internet should be a fun experience and
we want to
help you make it so.
The information you provide for your personal Disney
Online Account is shared
among the sites, as it is our goal to make your visits to our sites
easy
and enjoyable. However, be assured that Magazines Online will
not disclose your personal information to third parties without your
consent.
Magazines Online may disclose user information in special cases
when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing
injury
to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Magazine
Online
rights or property, other Magazines Online
or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Magazines Online
Network may disclose user information when we believe in good faith
that the law
requires it.
Magazines Online share aggregate information about
our users
with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties.
For example,
we will say Magazines Online's audience is x percent females and y percent
males.
This data is used to customize Magazines Online content and
advertising to deliver a better experience for our users.
There are cases where Disney Online may ask you for
personal information such
as your name, email address, and birth date. For example, we request
personal
information when you register for a Disney Online Account, for online
shopping or
transactions, or for services that require registration or subscription
(for example
Disney's Club Blast). Disney Online needs to collect this information
for fulfilling
prizes, tracking/verifying compliance with Magazines Online
policies as well as federal, state and local laws and/or for editorial
and
feedback solicitation purposes.
In case you change your mind or some personal information
may change (such as
your zip code), we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update
or remove
the personal data you give us. You can do this at the member information
page or
by contacting our Customer Support organization
Information provided at the time of Registration or
submission from a guest who is
13 years of age or over may be used for marketing and promotional purposes
by
Magazines Online, and our affiliates or companies that have been
prescreened by Disney Online and the GO Network. To keep you in control
of your
personal information and the communications directed to you, we allow
you to
opt-out of the following services: sharing your information in our member
directory, receiving communications from Disney Online about new features
or
services, and receiving communications about offers from third-party
companies
that offer a product or service that we think would be of value to you.
Information provided when purchasing products from
any of our online stores may
be used for marketing and promotional purposes and is subject to the
opt-out
processes described on, or linked to, each order form.
POLICIES FOR KIDS (INDIVIDUALS UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE)
Magazines Online encourages parents and guardians
to spend
time online with their children and to participate in the activities
offered on the
sites. No information should be submitted to or posted at Disney Online
and the
GO Network by guests under 13 years of age without the consent of their
parent
or guardian.
Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, Disney
Online and the GO Network
do not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of
its source, to
any third party for any purpose whatsoever from our guests under 13
years of
age. All registrants receive an e-mail confirming their Registration.
In addition,
when a guest under 13 registers, he/she is required to provide the e-mail
address
of his/her parent or guardian and that parent or guardian receives an
e-mail
alerting them to that Registration. The parent or guardian must validate
the
account, as described in the e-mail, in order for the potential member
to use most
Disney Online and the GO Network interactive services. No information
collected
from guests under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional
purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside Disney Online and the
GO Network
except as explicitly stated during registration for contests or promotions
(and in
that case, the information collected is used only for the specific contest
or
promotion).
Although guests under 13 years of age may be allowed
to participate in some
contests and promotions, if such a guest wins, notification and prizes
are sent to
the parents or guardians identified in the initial registration process.
Publication
of contest winners names, ages, or images for individuals under 13 require
parental or guardian consent.
We do not allow guests under 13 years of age to be
listed in our member directory
or to receive direct marketing communications from Disney Online and
the GO
Network or to be sent from our third-party offers.
POLICIES FOR TEENS (INDIVIDUALS 13 TO 17 YEARS OF
AGE)
Teens are required to provide the e-mail address of
a parent or guardian and a
notification message is sent to the parent or guardian of all guests
who are 13 to
17 years of age which identifies the information supplied at Registration
and
allows the parent or guardian to be aware of and participate in the
guest's online
experience.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned
to your computer
whenever you're surfing the Web. Web servers -- the big computers that
"serve
up" Web pages -- automatically identify your computer by its IP
address.
Magazines Online collect IP addresses for the purposes
of
system administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers,
and to
audit the use of our site. When guests request pages from Disney Online
and the
GO Network sites, our servers log the guests' IP addresses. We do not
normally
link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that
a user's
session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can
and will use
IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce
compliance with our house rules or terms of service or to protect our
service, site,
customers or others.
Some services within Disney Online and the GO Network,
such as certain message
boards, may display IP addresses along with the message poster's name
and
message. Please review each service prior to use and only use those
that disclose
information you are comfortable with sharing.
USE OF COOKIES
What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information
that a Web site transfers to
an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make
Web-surfing
easier for you by saving your preferences while you're at our site.
We never save
passwords or credit card information in cookies. The use of cookies
is an industry
standard -- you'll find them at most major Web sites.
By showing how and when guests use a site, cookies
help us see which areas are
popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site
are based
on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information
is
most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information from cookies
to provide
services better tailored to our users' needs.
Magazines Online have two primary uses for its cookies.
First,
we use them to specify unique preferences. For example, in GO Network's
News
Center, users can specify keywords across several news categories. This
way you
don't have to tell us over and over again about the kinds of news stories
you want
to see. Secondly, we use cookies to track user trends and patterns.
This helps us
better understand and improve areas of the Disney Online and the GO
Network
service that our users find valuable. While both of these activities
depend on the
use of a "cookie," visitors to Disney Online and the GO Network
always have the
option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences. Information
from
cookies is sometimes attached to messages sent to our Customer Service
department.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.
You can reset your browser
to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However,
note that
some parts of the Disney Online and the GO Network service will not
function
properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example,
without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized news preferences
or you
may have difficulty completing shopping transactions, entering contests,
or playing
games.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers.
Disney Online and the GO
Network do not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies
sent by
third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Users should be aware that when you are on Disney
Online and the GO Network,
you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There
are links
to other sites from Disney Online and the GO Network pages that take
you outside
our service. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement
or a Disney
Online search result, the "click" takes you off the Disney
Online site. This
includes links from advertisers, Center sponsors and partners that may
use Disney
Online or the GO Network's logo as part of a co-branding agreement.
These other
sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal
information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal
information online --- for
example, via message boards or chat --- that information can be collected
and
used by people you don't know. While Disney Online and the GO Network
strive to
protect its user's personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee
the
security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your
own risk.
Disney Online and the GO Network's policy do not extend
to anything that is
inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond Disney
Online and
the GO Network's control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary
to
applicable law or governmental regulation.
SECURITY
The importance of security for all personally identifiable
information associated
with our guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in
providing
secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed
to be
100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information,
Disney Online and the GO Network can't ensure or warrant the security
of any
information you transmit to us or from our online products or services,
and you do
so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our
best effort
to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information
is transmitted
we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
Your Disney Online and GO Network Account is password
protected so that only
you can access it and view the member information relevant to the account.
We
recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Disney Online
and
the GO Network will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited
phone call
or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy
of your
passwords and any account information.
Remember to sign out of your Disney Online or GO Network
Account and close
your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure
that
others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if
your
computer is accessible to others or if you share a computer with someone
else or
are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet café.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By using this site, you signify your assent to the
Disney Online and the GO
Network Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do
not use our
sites. Your continued use of the Disney Online and GO Network sites
following the
posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
SAFETY TIPS
This is a great place for both new and advanced Web users to find information
on
using the Internet wisely.
MAGAZINES ONLINE'S INTERNET SAFETY TIPS
1. Keep your passwords private, even from your best
friend! Your online service
will never ask for them, so neither should anyone else.
2. Use only your member name and/or e-mail address when chatting or
sending
e-mail. Never give out personal information like your name, address,
or phone
number.
3. Don't share photos of yourself, your family, or your home with people
you meet
online.
4. Always delete unknown e-mail attachments before opening them. They
can
contain destructive viruses.
5. If a person writes something that is mean or makes you feel uncomfortable,
don't respond. Just log off and tell your parents, who can report it
to your online
service provider.
6. Remember that nothing you write on the Web is completely private
- including
e-mail. So be careful and think about what you type and who you tell.
7. Not everyone is as nice, cute and funny as they may sound online.
Never make
plans to meet an online "friend" in person.
8. WHEN IN DOUBT - always ask your parents for help - and just LOG OFF
if
you're not sure! You can always go back online later.
MORE SAFETY INFORMATION FROM MAGAZINES ONLINE
1. Cybernetiquette Comix - an entertaining, interactive
way for families to learn
valuable lessons about online safety. Join classic Disney characters
for
adventure, fun, and online awareness tips.
2. Disney's Doug - Safety Tips from "Doug's Adventures Online"
3. Test Your Internet Smarts - How much do you know about Internet safety?
4. More Top 10 Netiquette Tips - An overview of good manners on the
Internet.
5. "Safe and Sound" - An internet safety article from Family.com.
6. Safe Surfing for Kids - An internet safety article from FamilyPC
Magazine.
TOOLS FOR FAMILIES
A number of tools exist to help parents manage their children's online
experience,
including hardware and software programs that provide filtering options.
Below
are links that contain useful information on choices and levels of filtering
that
parents can use during family time on the Web. You can download special
software or purchase specific hardware that will limit surfing to sites
you deem
appropriate for your household. Many of these services are free of charge;
others
require some form of payment.
LINKS TO ARTICLES AND OTHER RESOURCES
1. JumpStart for Parents - Resource list of links
for parents regarding child
safety, filtering software, parenting organizations, and more.
2. Filtering Facts Website - An online source for information on making
Internet
access in libraries safe for children and communities.
REPORTING TROUBLE ONLINE
This section offers links to a variety of local and national authorities
and
organizations that can assist you with specific online and safety concerns,
including links to local police and the FBI.