Children’s Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 18, 2020
This Children’s Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, and disclosed by BFF Book Club in connection with your use of our websites, online services, and mobile applications that link to this Privacy Policy (each a “Service”; collectively, “Services”). Each time you use any Service, you consent to our collection, use, and/or disclosure of your information as described in our Privacy Policy. Each time you allow others to use any Service via your account, you confirm that you have the right to consent on their behalf to our collection, use and disclosure of their information as described in detail below. Accordingly, we urge you to read our Privacy Policy in full and email us at hello@bffbookclub.com if you have any questions.
We market a service to adults who subscribe to our services, which can then be used by children at the direction and under the supervision of these adults. We respect all of our users’ privacy, but we recognize the need to provide additional privacy protections with respect to the personal information we collect from children under 13 pursuant to the United States’ Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). Accordingly, our privacy practices with respect to children under 13 are set forth here.
- A special note to children: If you are under 13, please get permission from your parent or legal guardian before using our Services. You must be 18 or older to subscribe to any Service. We do not market or sell to children under 18, and we seek consent from a parent or legal guardian whenever we identify that a minor attempts to register for a subscription to any Service.
- A special note to parents: Please help us protect your children’s privacy by instructing them never to volunteer their personal information online without your permission.
The Personal Information We Collect from Children, How We Use It, And How and When We Seek Parental Consent
We market a service to adults who subscribe to our service, which can then be used by children at the direction and under the supervision of these adults. Online tools that children may access may collect Personal Information from children, as defined by COPPA. We identify below potential instances of such collection and describe how and when we will provide parental notice and seek prior verifiable parental consent.
We do not knowingly collect, use, disclose or store any Personal Information from children unless we have obtained prior verifiable parental consent. In any instance where we collect Personal Information from a child, we will not collect more Personal information than is reasonably necessary for the child to participate in the Service, and we will retain that information only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the request or allow the child to participate in the Service, ensure the security of our users and Services, or as required by law. In the event that we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from a child in a manner inconsistent with COPPA’s requirements, we will delete that information and attempt to notify the child’s parent. If you believe that we might have collected Personal Information from your child without consent, please email us at hello@bffbookclub.com.
Account Creation and Student Login Credentials
As described in our general Privacy Policy, we do not allow children to purchase or otherwise subscribe to any Service: our account creation feature is intended strictly for adult parent use, and we take measures to make this apparent in order to prevent children from submitting Personal Information to our Service in this manner.
An adult parent user of any Service may open an account for a child by creating the child’s login credentials. Child’s user credentials may be collected each time a child log in to access the service. This information will not be used for any purposes other than authenticating the student’s login and facilitating student access to the Service. We are not authorized to disclose child login information; information regarding child login credentials is strictly controlled by the parent.
Correspondence with Us
As described in our general Privacy Policy we collect and retain Personal and Non Personal Information from users who choose to send us a message or via our website, when you send us an email, or when you sign up for a newsletter on our website. Children are not permitted to communicate with us directly using these means, and we take measures to make this apparent in order to prevent children from submitting Personal Information to us in this manner.
Nevertheless, if a child corresponds with us, we will collect the child’s Personal Information to directly respond to the child’s request for assistance on a one-time basis, and we will delete the child’s Personal Information after responding.
Automated Information
We automatically receive and record certain technical information from a child’s browser, including the child’s IP address, for internal purposes only. When we collect an IP address, we combine it with other information submitted by the user’s browser, such as requests for files from the web server. We compile this information to create access logs, which we analyze to determine trends, such as which pages are used the most, which browsers are most frequently used by visitors to access the site, and which areas of the world site users are accessing our products from most frequently. Our access logs do not contain any information which can be uniquely associated with any particular IP address or Personal Information about any individual user.
Child Account Activity
Certain activities on certain Services allow children to create or manipulate content. These activities do not require children to provide any Personal Information. If a Service requests or allows a child to provide Personal Information in their created content, we will seek prior verifiable parental consent in order to collect that information.
Consent—Parents
For parent subscribers, in the event we wish to collect the Personal Information outlined above from a child, we provide parental notice and seek verifiable parental consent via the email address provided during account creation. In our initial email, we describe what Personal Information we collect from children, how we collect it, how we use it, how we disclose it, how the parent can consent to collection of such information, and your parental rights over such information. In this confirmatory message, we indicate how the parent can revoke consent to our collection of Personal Information.
How We Share Personal Information Collected From Children
We do not provide any child’s Personal Information to third parties—we use this information for internal purposes only.
How We Protect Children’s Personal Information
The technical, administrative, and physical security measures we employ to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to all information we collect through our Services is described in our general Privacy Policy.
Contact Us—Questions About the Children’s Privacy Policy
If you have questions or comments regarding this Children’s Privacy Policy, you may contact us at hello@bffbookclub.com.
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