World Almanac Education Group Online Privacy Policy

For The World Almanac For Kids Online

( http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com )

Last Reviewed June 2, 2007

The World Almanac For Kids Online is proud to offer kids, teens, teachers, and parents a safe place to visit on the Internet. We have developed our privacy policy in accord with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998. This privacy policy outlines the steps we have taken to protect the privacy of all our Web site visitors and to address your concerns about the information you and your children give us.

GENERAL SAFETY TIPS

Kids and Teens: Be sure to ask your parents or teachers for permission before you send ANY information to The World Almanac For Kids Online.

Teachers and Parents: We recommend that you spend time with your kids or teens while they are online. Have them show you what they do when they visit The World Almanac For Kids Online.

FEATURES INTENDED FOR KIDS AND TEENS

We are prohibited from conditioning a child's participation in any activity on the child's disclosing of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in that activity.

CONTENT CONTRIBUTORS

Some features on The World Almanac For Kids Online invite kids (younger than 13) and teens (13 and older) to send written work to us with the possibility of their seeing it posted online on the Web site or in the print version of The World Almanac For Kids.

The following features - Ask The Editors and Contact Us - invite young kids to send e-mail to The World Almanac For Kids Online editors.

We ask kids to include their first name along with their question, comment, or suggestion. We collect this information so that we may post some of the solutions online or in the print version of The World Almanac For Kids and credit the kids who contributed them. We take out, delete, and do not post any personal information your child submits with his or her e-mail solution, including e-mail address. World Almanac Education Group does not release or sell personally identifiable information to any third party for any purpose whatsoever. After we review the e-mail solutions, we delete each child's e-mail from our computer system.

OPTING OUT OF CONTENT FEATURES

Parents have the right to review and have deleted their children's personal information and to refuse to permit further collection of that information. To do so, please send an e-mail to info@waegroup.com.

Parents: If you wish to cancel your child's content contribution to The World Almanac For Kids Online features mentioned below, please send an e-mail to info@waegroup.com. The subject line of your e-mail should read Delete. Please include your child's first name, along with the name of The World Almanac For Kids Online feature, in the body of the e-mail, so that we know which feature contribution to delete. Upon receiving a delete request, we will delete your child's content from The World Almanac For Kids Online and then delete your e-mail from our computer system.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COOKIES

World Almanac Education Group does use "cookie" technology on The World Almanac For Kids Online. Cookies are small text files sent by our Web server to your Web browser. Cookie technology tells us non-personally identifiable information, such as what browser you use (Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer), what operating system your computer runs on (Macintosh or Windows), what type of Internet Service Provider you have (AOL, .com, .edu, or .org,), and what The World Almanac For Kids Online features you most frequently visit. We track this information in the aggregate and use the information to identify which content and technologies our visitors use, which areas of The World Almanac For Kids Online site are most successful, and which areas we need to improve.

We also use cookie technology to track an individual score when a person is taking one of our polls or quizzes. The non-personally identifiable information we collect to track scores is anonymous and can never lead us to any World Almanac For Kids Online.

Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you may change the settings so that your browser can refuse cookies. If you choose to refuse cookies, some features on The World Almanac For Kids Online, such as our quizzes, won't function properly on your computer.

IP ADDRESSES

Every computer or network on the Internet has a unique, identifying number known as an IP address. World Almanac Education Group does collect IP addresses. We do this so that we can gather aggregate information about the use of The World Almanac For Kids Online. This information is used to report site statistics in-house to World Almanac Education Group and to our partners and to sponsors.

When a World Almanac For Kids Online visitor accesses a page from our site, our host server logs (collects) the visitor's IP address. As a rule, we do not link the IP address to any personally identifiable information unless we establish the need to protect our site, its visitors, or others.

LINKS

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that World Almanac Education Group is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

SECURITY

The security of your personally and non-personally identifiable information is very important to World Almanac Education Group. Although we make every effort to secure the transmission of any information you send from your computer to our ISP's server or The World Almanac For Kids Online's e-mail server, we cannot guarantee the absolute safety of this information. (Transmission of any information over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be secure.) Any information you send to us is sent at your own risk.

World Almanac Education Group does not release or sell any personally identifiable information about The World Almanac For Kids Online visitors to any third party for any purpose whatsoever unless otherwise stated at the time of collection.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

By using The World Almanac For Kids Online, you accept the conditions of our privacy policy. If you do not accept, please do not use our Web site.

World Almanac Education Group reserves the right to change the content and policies of The World Almanac For Kids Online. Any changes made in our privacy policy will be noted in our privacy policy statement. Please check the date located at the top of this privacy policy to find out when the most recent privacy policy changes occurred. After a change takes place, your continued use of The World Almanac For Kids Online means you accept those changes.

Thank you for reading our privacy policy. We hope you enjoy visiting The World Almanac For Kids Online!

Send your comments or questions to :
World Almanac For Kids Online
512 Seventh Avenue, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
(646) 312-6829
info@waegroup.com