Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY FOR STIGANDSTEN.COM

INTRODUCTION

Protecting your privacy is important to us at EducationCity, Inc. (“EducationCity”), and as owners of StigandSten.com (the “Site”), we are committed to safeguarding the information you give to us. The following privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") will help you understand how we collect, use, store and safeguard the personal information you provide to us on the Site. We strive to ensure that our Privacy Policy complies with the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which governs the online use and collection of information from children under 13, and all other applicable legislation.

We are committed to making your use of the Site easy, safe, and as enjoyable as possible. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy to determine how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our Site. By using the Site or providing the information requested by the Site, you agree to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our use of the information we collect. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.

EducationCity reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and at its sole discretion. As required by law, we will not use personally identifiable information in ways that are materially different from those described in this Privacy Policy without obtaining consent to the different uses. Should we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by marking it with a new effective date, by email, or by adding a notice to the Site homepage. Your use of the Site following any such modification constitutes your agreement to be bound by this Privacy Policy as modified.

I. What personally identifiable information does EducationCity collect from me and how is my information collected?

When users, including children under 13, create a buddy on StigandSten.com, we ask them to select a name for their buddy and a password, to choose a product appropriate for their age, and to provide an email address for their parent or legal guardian (“Parent”). We use this information to create an account to save the user’s buddy, and to send the Parent an account activation email seeking consent for the child’s registration on the Site. The account activation email will give the Parent the choice of whether or not to consent to our collection and internal use of the child’s information. The consent given does not allow us to disclose the child’s information to third parties.

If the Parent does not provide consent, we will delete the information provided at registration within a reasonable period of time. If consent to registration is given, the Parent’s email address may be used to notify the Parent about any change to our privacy practices, to send the Parent communications about the user’s account, to send value-added communications (such as our member magazine or notifications of contest wins), and to provide additional information about our products and services.

Once we receive parental consent to complete the registration of a child’s account via the account activation email, the account will be activated, and the child may participate in certain limited Site activities.Users must enter the proper buddy name and password to log into the account prior to participating in these activities. We do not condition a child’s participation in any online activity on the child providing more personal data than is reasonably necessary for that activity.

When a registered user of the Site acquires a paid membership, we collect additional personally identifiable information from the user’s Parent. The personally identifiable information requested at this time may include the child’s name, sex and date of birth, as well as credit/debit card billing information, including a mailing address. If this information is not provided to us, then we may not agree to paid membership and may not be able to provide access to certain content and functionality on the Site. When you renew your membership, this personally identifiable information may be requested again.

We also request a contact name and an email address when any user submits a form through the Site’s Contact Us area within the Site’s Help page so that we may respond to the inquiry. In this instance, we collect the user’s email address for the sole purpose of responding directly on a one-time basis to the specific inquiry.

Users will also be able to participate in blogs. Before creating a buddy, users can only participate in blogs anonymously. Users that have selected a buddy will be able to participate in blogs using their buddy for only a limited time (e.g. 6 months), unless the account is fully activated by a Parent. While we take measures, including the provision of Blog Rules and live moderation, to discourage users from communicating personally identifiable information, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you post might be read, collected and used by others. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit to the blogs.

We may actively use Buddy Names to track usage of and conduct on the blogs to ensure users are following the Site’s Terms and Conditions. We may use an email address to warn a user that he/she is acting inappropriately and that he/she should not continue to engage in inappropriate conduct, and that he/she might be banned from the Site temporarily or permanently.

If you contact us via email, phone, post, or other channel, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Referral emails that you initiate from the "Tell a Friend” area of the Site will be sent by us on your behalf.

II. How is my personally identifiable information used?

As a member of the Site, we will send transactional emails for various reasons as you continue to use our Site. For example, a welcome email will be sent thanking you for joining, and further emails may be sent telling you about exciting upgrades to the Site. These emails are required for logistical purposes and users cannot opt-out of these at any time.

Unless you withdraw your consent, we may from time to time send commercial emails with additional offers and products. EducationCity is committed to ethical and responsible email practices. Accordingly, we strive to make sure that all commercial emails we send are compliant with current legislation in force concerning the use of commercial email. Members may opt-out of receiving promotional mailings by clicking on the opt-out link contained in the body of any commercial email sent by us or by unsubscribing from promotional emails within the Manage Account section within the Parents area of the Site.

We may use a payment service provider to gather and process the personally identifiable information and payment information you provide when you purchase a membership or other product from the Site. The payment service provider may use your personal data and credit card information to complete your order, and for no other purpose.

With your prior consent, third party businesses advertising through our Site may use personal information that you supply to them to bring selected retail opportunities to you via direct mail and email. The collection, use and storage of your personally identifiable information will be governed by those third party businesses’ privacy policies and other agreements.EducationCity cannot and does not accept responsibility for the contents or actions of any third-party sites. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement of every site you visit, whether you are linking from our Site or browsing on your own. Keep in mind that if you take advantage of an offer from an advertiser on the Site and thus, become their customer, they may independently wish to send offers to you. In the event that you are not interested in receiving future offers from these businesses, you must contact them directly.

III. What control do I have over my personally identifiable information?

If your personally identifiable information changes, you may update it by making the necessary edits by logging into the Manage Account area of the Site.

Parents also have the right:

· to revoke consent to use your child’s personal information

· to review the information we hold on your child

· to deactivate an account, or

· to ask to have an account deleted at any time.

Should you wish to do this, a Parent may contact us directly as set forth below, and provide an email address and a telephone number. To protect the child's and Parent's privacy and security, we must take reasonable steps to verify the identity of the Parent before granting the Parent access to the personal information that we have collected and maintain about the child.

IV. What are cookies and how does EducationCity use them?

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. EducationCity uses cookies to better understand your traffic patterns on the Site as well as keeping your login information securely stored. This information helps us improve the navigation and flow of the Site. Additionally this may allow users who choose to be remembered when they come back to the Site to be automatically logged in. We link cookies to personally identifiable information so that we may track your activities on the Site. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you choose to disable the use of cookies the product will not function. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers/offer providers) may use separate cookies on our Site. We have no access to or control over these types of cookies.

V. Who is collecting information and will the information be shared?

When you are on the Site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with EducationCity, unless it is specifically stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy. Except as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, EducationCity will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information.

We may disclose non-personal aggregated data to describe the Site to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes. We may use aggregate, non-personally identifiable information for our own internal promotion or marketing purposes and we may share such aggregate non-personally identifiable information with others for marketing purposes.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Site. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we also may disclose personal information in response to a law enforcement agency’s or other public agency’s (including schools and children services) request or if we feel that such disclosure may prevent the instigation of a crime, facilitate an investigation related to public safety or protect the safety of a child using the Site, protect the security or integrity of the Site, or enable us to take precautions against liability.

In the event that the Site or all of the assets of EducationCity are acquired, your personally identifiable information would be one of the transferred assets.

VI. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. EducationCity will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your StigandSten.com account and close your browser window when you have finished your activities. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library.

The Site is not a secure website. EducationCity cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted over the Internet or maintained in your user profile. You agree that any data transmission you make or receive through the Site is at your own risk.

VII. Who can I contact regarding my personally identifiable information?

If for some reason you believe that EducationCity has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please notify us and we will respond to your complaint or concern within ten (10) business days, and, when appropriate, take steps to correct the problem. If you have a question regarding our information practices that has not been addressed in this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by:

1. Sending an email request from the Contact Us section of our Helppage on the Site, or

2. Sending a letter requesting the information to StigandSten.com. This should be to the attention of Customer Services, StigandSten.com, EducationCity, Inc., 55 S. Main Street, Suite 271, Naperville, IL-60540.

DATE OF LAST MODIFICATION

November 10, 2010