Global Profiles Inc. is firmly committed to the privacy and security of all online visitors to our sites; we understand that our visitors need to be in control of their personal information. This policy statement tells you how and why we collect information from you, and how we use that information.

We encourage our visitors to read through and understand our entire Privacy Policy. Please contact our Legal Department if you have any questions about it. However, to quickly access a particular section of the Policy, you can click directly on the links below.

1. Information You Provide to Us
   
2. General Information About Visitors to Our Site
3. Links to Other Sites
4. Security
5. Policies for Children Under Age 13
6. Policies for Teens Age 13 Through 17
7. Choice/Opt-Out/Update
8. Notification of Change

1 Information You Provide to Us

We only collect personally identifiable information from you when you voluntarily submit it. Providing your personally identifiable information to Global Profiles Inc. is optional for using some of our services. If you choose not to register or provide your personal information, you can still visit these sites. However, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification, such as chat rooms and posting to message boards.

Global Profiles Inc. collects this information for administrative purposes, for tracking/verifying compliance with Global Profiles Inc. policies as well as applicable laws, for editorial and feedback solicitation purposes, and/or fulfilling prizes. Global Profiles Inc. may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s), we let you know when we request your information. We may use your personal information to "fulfill," e.g. to deliver a given prize should you be a winner, in which case we may share your information with an outside fulfillment vendor which will deliver your prize.

If you do not want Global Profiles Inc., our partners, or selected third parties to contact you, you may opt out when you provide personal information, or contact us directly to let us know. For instructions on how to do so, please see the Contact Us section below. In case you change your mind or some of your personal information changes (such as your phone number or postal code), we endeavor to provide a way to correct, update, or remove the personal data you give us. You can do this at our Legal Department

What Information We Collect

Depending on the particular section of the site to which you go, we may ask for your name, age, address, telephone, e-mail address, and school details (name of school, position, and/or grade level.) If you are under 18 years of age, we also ask you to provide your parent's or guardian's e-mail address. (A separate section of this privacy statement specifically addresses our privacy policies for Children Under Age 13.) We also ask you to select a user name and password to use when you log in to our site.

How We Use the Information You Give Us

We use the personal information you provide us to tailor the content, services and advertising on our web site to your current and future needs. For the same reason, we may share the personal information you provide to us with third parties who are affiliated with our sites, or who provide services to our sites.

We also use visitor login information to help us ensure that our visitors only see and use appropriate areas of our web site. For example, visitors under age 13 are only permitted to post on certain message boards and not any others, and only authorized visitors are permitted access .

If you provide us with your mailing address or telephone number, we and our partners may use this information to alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information, and new services. If you provide your e-mail address, we may contact you via e-mail as well.

In addition, in connection with an assignment, sale, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of some or all of the assets of Global Profiles Inc., or its affiliated entities, you agree that we can accordingly assign, sell, license or transfer any information, including personally identifying information, that our visitors have provided to us to those third parties directly involved in the transfer or disposition of such assets.

Global Profiles Inc. may disclose visitor information in special cases when we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Global Profiles Inc. rights or property, other Global Profiles Inc. visitors , or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Global Profiles Inc. may disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so.

2 General Information About Visitors to Our Site

Aggregate Information

Global Profiles Inc. shares aggregate information about our visitors with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. For example, we may say that Global Profiles Inc. audience is "x" percent teachers and "y" percent parents. We use this information to customize our content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our visitors.

Cookies

The use of cookies is common in the Internet industry; you'll find them used on our web site, as you will at other major sites. "Cookies" are small text files written to your computer. They make our web site easier for you to use because they save your preferences while you're at our site (although we do not save passwords in cookies.) Cookies also help us know which areas are your favorites, which need a bit of improvement, and what technologies and Internet services our visitors are using. Knowing this information helps us continually improve the online experience for our visitors.

The non-personally identifying information we track with cookies is anonymous and is not used to identify, or lead us back to, any particular visitor. Visitors to our sites may have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences (most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.) However, some features of our Web site won't function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies you may have difficulty entering contests or playing games.

While browsing our web site, you may get cookies from our advertisers or sponsors. Global Profiles Inc. and its affiliated sites do not control these cookies.

IP Addresses

An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you use the World Wide Web. Web servers - the big computers that "serve up" Web pages-automatically identify your computer by its IP address.

Global Profiles Inc. collects IP addresses for system administration; to report aggregate information to our advertisers, sponsors, and partners; and to audit the use of our site. When visitors request pages from Global Profiles Inc. sites, our servers log the guests' IP addresses. We normally do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a visitor's session will be logged, but the visitor remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a visitor when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules or terms of service, or to protect our service, site, customers, or others.

Some features within Global Profiles Inc., such as certain message boards, may display IP addresses along with the message-poster's visitor name and message. You should review each feature prior to use and only use those that disclose information you're comfortable sharing.

Electronic Postcards

We give visitors the option to send "electronic postcards." We ask you to submit the e-mail address of your intended recipient so that we can send the postcard to them for you. We do not store your recipient's e-mail address in retrievable form, and we do not use it for marketing or any other purpose beyond delivering the electronic postcard at your request.

3 Links to Other Sites

You'll find links from Global Profiles Inc. sites to independently owned, controlled, and/or managed web sites whose content we believe will be of possible interest and value to our visitors. Additionally, you will see links from advertisers, sponsors, and other partners who may use Global Profiles Inc. logo as part of a co-branding agreement.

In many cases, these links represent cooperative projects or mutual links established with the organizations connected with these sites. We don't control the content of these links.
For example, if you click a link and that click takes you off the Global Profiles Inc. site. These other sites may send you their own cookies, collect data, or solicit personal information. While we identify sponsor and advertiser areas of our web sites, we do not control these cookies or the content of these third parties.

Global Profiles Inc. has relationships with other companies to provide certain services to our Sites. In some cases, while you may see Global Profiles Inc. logo on another company's site or see "Global Profiles Inc. " within the URL, you are actually not on a Global Profiles Inc. website. Global Profiles Inc. does not share any of your personally identifiable information with these partners and they do not share any information back with us. Once you leave our servers (you can generally tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), the use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you're visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you cannot find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from that site's Home page, you should contact the site directly for more information.

We specifically recommend that children check with their parents or teachers before clicking on to any new sites.

4 Security

The importance of security for your personally identifiable information is of utmost concern to us. We have systems in place to assist us 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 secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Global Profiles Inc. cannot and does not 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.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Global Profiles Inc. does not ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.

Remember to sign out of your Global Profiles Inc. password-protected 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.

Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online - for example, via message boards or chat lines - that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While Global Profiles Inc. strives to protect its visitors' personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.

Global Profiles Inc.'s policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond Global Profiles Inc. control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

5 Policies for Children Under Age 13

Global Profiles Inc. and its affiliated web sites encourage parents to be involved with and aware of their children's online experience. Visitors under 13 years of age should not submit or post information at the Global Profiles Inc. web site without the consent of their parent or guardian.

Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, Global Profiles Inc. does not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party, for any purpose whatsoever from our visitors under 13 years of age, except as expressly provided by this privacy policy. We do not use any information collected from visitors under 13 years of age for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside Global Profiles Inc., except as we explicitly state during registration for contests or promotions. In that case, the information collected is used only for the specific contest or promotion.

When a child under age 13 registers with any of our sites, we request a minimum amount of information in order to process the registration: a first name, last initial, e-mail address and parent's e-mail address. All visitors receive an e-mail confirming their registration. We also send the child's parent or guardian an e-mail alerting them to the child's registration and giving them the chance to cancel the registration and ask that the child's information be deleted from our records. Members under age 13 do not have access to Global Profiles Inc. services or features that might collect personally identifiable information, such as chat rooms, message boards or e-mail accounts, without prior verified parental consent. Global Profiles Inc.'s community policy experts pre-moderate all of our free interactive activities that are designed to be accessible to visitors under 13 years of age. Therefore, children may participate in such activities upon registration, unless their parent or guardian asks that their registration be invalidated.

Although visitors under 13 years of age may be allowed to participate in some contests and promotions, if such a visitor 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 requires parental or guardian consent. Global Profiles Inc. does not require a child under 13 to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity as a condition of participation.

6 Policies for Teens Age 13 Through 17

Teens age 13-17 are required to provide the e-mail address of a parent or guardian when they register at our sites. We then e-mail a notification message to the teen's parent or guardian that identifies the information supplied at registration.

7 Choice/Opt-Out/Update

You can help Global Profiles Inc. maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your address, title, phone number, or e-mail address. Please include your old and new contact information so that we can make the appropriate corrections.

Information provided at the time of registration or submission from a visitor who is 13 years of age or over may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by Global Profiles Inc., and our affiliates, or companies that have been prescreened by us. However, you can request not to receive communications from us about new features or services. You can also ask not to receive communications from third-party companies that offer a product or service that we think would be of value to you. If you object to such use for any reason, you can e-mail your request to our Legal Department.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using this web site, you signify your consent to Global Profiles Inc., Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this, please do not use our web site or services. Your continued use of Global Profiles Inc.'s web site or services following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept those changes in accordance with the Terms of Use.