Who we are
Our website address is: http://www.kiddometer.com
We aim to leverage expert opinions, eCommerce trends and scientific publications, among others, to publish lists that we believe will be useful to parents. We understand and respect your concerns about privacy. This notice describes our privacy policy as it pertains to our website at www.kiddometer.com. We may from time-to-time revise this privacy policy, and the date of last revision will be available at the top of this page, so please be sure to check back periodically. By visiting the Websites, you are acknowledging and accepting this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Websites after changes have been posted to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
What information we collect: We may ask for and collect from you personally identifiable information at certain points throughout the Websites. Depending on the information and/or services you request, we may ask you to provide your name, email address and other information. Once you provide your personal information, you are not anonymous to Kiddometer.
In addition to the information you knowingly provide, we may collect the domain names and IP addresses of visitors, along with usage statistics (e.g., types of web browsers and operating systems used) and browsing history. This data is used to more efficiently operate our business, promote our products and services and administer the Websites. We may combine this information with the personally identifiable information collected.
We may use your information to provide you with personalized content, to process and respond to inquiries, for the purposes for which you provided the information, to improve the content and navigability of the Websites, to alert you to new Website features, special events, products and services, to deliver newsletters from which you may opt out and to enforce the Terms of Use.
Information Sharing with Unaffiliated Third Parties: Kiddometer may disclose your personally identifiable information to another entity (i) for purposes of outsourcing one or more of the functions described in the previous section; (ii) to confirm or update information provided by you; (iii) to inform you of important information. We may also share your information in response to a subpoena, legal order or official request, when we believe you have acted in violation of the Terms of Use or the Code of Conduct (including User Guidelines), or when we believe that doing so may protect your safety or the safety of others.
We may share your personally identifiable information with other entities related to the Kiddometer family, co-branding partners and network partners, and will require the recipient to comply with the provisions of this privacy policy.
Non-personally identifiable information: We may aggregate and/or anonymize information we collect so that the information does not identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated, anonymized, and other non-personally identifiable information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and we may disclose it to third parties without limitation. How we collect information: In addition to the methods described above, we may also collect information using cookies, web beacons or similar technologies. These methods permit us to collect various types of information, including which pages you visit, which of our email messages you read, and other information.
How we protect information: Kiddometer attempts to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your personal information. Our servers are hosted at Bluehost and we defer to them for protection by reasonable physical and electronic security measures.
How you can view or update your personal information: To ensure that you have as much control over your personally identifiable information as possible, you may update your information by contacting us at theeditor@kiddometer.com. We will use reasonable efforts to process any change you make; provided, however, that requests to delete information are subject to our internal reporting and retention policies and all applicable legal obligations.
Targeted Advertising: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Websites. Some of these companies may place cookies on your browser to collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to Kiddometer and other websites and use that information in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. To learn more about this practice, its benefits, or about your choice to opt-out of this practice, see http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. These advertisements, insertions, and automatically generated links include, but are not limited to, affiliate and advertising relationships with Google and/or other networks. Kiddometer is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Children: These Websites are not directed toward children under 13 years of age nor does Kiddometer knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you are under 13, please do not submit any personally identifiable information to us.
Visitors from outside the USA: Kiddometer is targeted to and intended primarily for viewers in the USA. At Kiddometer, we do not target information to viewers in the European Union and do not knowingly collect information from anyone located in the EU. If you are a citizen, resident or located in the EU, you must not submit a comment or any personally identifiable information to us. Existing members now located in the EU may request permanent account deletion and/or purge of member information by submitting the form below. Registrations and comments from visitors in European Union countries cannot be accepted at this time. Email addresses submitted for comments at our website are for verification and spam prevention only. Kiddometer does not otherwise process any personal information for any purpose. Kiddometer does not directly sell any products and does not provide any information or service for outside of the USA.
Links: The Websites may contain links to third-party websites. Kiddometer is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.