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FOR PARENTS
We are very committed to protecting your child’s privacy and providing a safe, fun online experience. We adhere to the rules and regulations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA). If you have any questions about COPPA or your child’s privacy and/or safety online, please visit the Federal Trade Commission site at http://www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
About Us
Kiki is a quarterly, national print magazine and Web site for girls ages 8 to 14. Kiki is about developing confidence and creativity through the exploration of fashion, and we want to encourage and support our readers’ creative endeavors. With each issue, Kiki readers have the opportunity to submit designs, ask questions, propose crafts, and vote on design ideas they really like. Many of these opportunities submissions can be done anonymously, but for some things, readers will want to be recognized as the creator. It is even possible for one of our readers to become a journalist herself!
We are building a collaborative space for our readers, and we recognize that as parents, you play the most important role in supporting your child’s creative efforts. But—and this is an important but—we don’t need to collect any information online about your daughter for her to enjoy our site. In fact, we are committed to helping girls enjoy doing and creating in the real world more than playing digital games or falling into the computer. Still we do hope that your daughter will share some of her creations with us. When she does, please know that we will work hard to ensure that she does so with your full parental knowledge and consent.
We hope this Privacy Policy will answer any questions you might have about how we collect and use information your child may send us online.
If you have any questions, please contact us at:
Kiki Privacy
214 E. 8th Street
5th Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45202
e-mail: privacy@Kikimag.com
What Information Do We Collect From Your Child Online and How Do We Use It?
It is not necessary for a girl to provide any personal information in order to use and enjoy Kikimag.com. Several pages on the Web site have preset forms where a girl can list books she’d like us to review, topics she’d like us to feature, craft ideas she’d like to read about. If a reader wants to submit an idea or piece of art or writing that cannot be sent through the preset forms, we encourage her to send it through regular mail to our office. Ways that readers can contact us are:
Contact Us Page: Anyone may contact our editorial department and advertising department via e-mail links on our Contact Us page. We do try to respond to these e-mails on a regular basis (as time permits) when they contain a specific question. Once the question has been answered, the e-mail is deleted. E-mails to the various magazine departments are handled as outlined below.
Saijal Says: Saijal is our “girl on the street”. Her column “Saijal Says” covers a variety of topics from getting ready for vacation to how she handles it if someone makes fun of her clothes. We prefer that Saijal receive traditional fan mail rather than email correspondence. This protects both the reader sending the mail and Saijal herself. Our editorial staff will screen correspondence to Saijal and will forward all letters that are of appropriate content.
Book Reviews: Kiki reviews a variety of books in every issue. If our readers have a suggestion for a book to review, we want to hear about it. Kiki readers can use the form on the Your Style page to submit titles they want us to review.
Our online activities are designed to prevent your child from accidentally sending us information you’d rather she didn’t send. We value and want to protect your child’s privacy as much as that of our own children.
Reader Submissions Collected Offline
We want to provide a forum for young, aspiring designers and creatives to publish their work. Because we want parents to be involved, we prefer to receive submissions by regular mail at our office at 214 E. 8th Street, 5th Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Unless otherwise specified, Kiki does not retain any rights to reader-submitted content and will send a form requesting permission to publish original works to the parents of the contributing reader.
KikiIf we wish to use a reader submission to Kiki and need to correspond with the child more than once, we will notify the child’s parent via postal mail (or email if we have it available) and inform the parent of their child’s correspondence with Kiki. We will ask that parents notify us immediately if they do not want us to correspond with their child. We do not use any personal information submitted by a child with her submission (such as full name, address, and e-mail) for any purpose other than corresponding with her and her parents regarding the idea or submission.
If we publish a child’s submission in the magazine, she is identified only by first name, age, and state. If a reader prefers her submission to be anonymous, we will honor that request. Unless otherwise specified, Kiki does not retain any rights to reader-submitted content and will send a form requesting permission to publish original works to the parents of the contributing reader.
Can you review or delete personal information your child has submitted?
You may review the information we have on file for your child, and you may request that personal information about your child be deleted from our files. To do so, you must first provide us information to verify your identity as the child’s parent or legal guardian. Please send a written and signed request with your child’s name and e-mail with proof of guardianship via postal mail to Kiki Parents, 214 E. 8th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202.
What information does Kiki collect automatically and how?
A cookie is a small file that is saved on a user’s computer hard drive and that contains non-personal information that can help to speed the loading of pages, keep track of purchases if you are shopping online, or otherwise make Web-surfing easier. Kikimag.com uses cookies to help measure the performance of the site: how many people visit, which pages are viewed most often, and the search terms a visitor uses to get to the site (i.e. how they found us). We also record IP addresses for the reasons listed above. (An IP address is the number assigned to your computer when you surf the Web.) The information that we collect through cookies and IP addresses is anonymous and not personally identifiable.
You should also know…
We regularly post opinion polls or ask girls to submit their comments on a variety of subjects online. The aggregate results of the polls are added to the upcoming issue of the magazine (for example, “56% of you said you like mittens better than gloves.”). In these cases, we do not require personal information to participate.
Several pages on our site offer girls the option of e-mailing the page to a friend. E-mail addresses your daughter enters on these pages are not saved or stored for any purpose.
You might see quotes from readers on our marketing materials with the girl’s first name, last initial, age, and state. Permission to use this information by the parent of the child has been granted prior to printing the personal information in the quote.
In the future, our Web site may contain links to a few companies that have a mission aligned with ours and whose products, services, or opportunities we feel may be of interest to you or your child. Although we do review and pre-approve these sites (see our Letter to Advertisers to get a sense of the kinds of companies that we might link to), the content of any Web site may change from day to day, and we are not able to review every site we link to every day. Please be aware that when you visit these sites you are leaving the Kiki Web site, and we strongly recommend that you review the Privacy Policies of these sites, including their information collection practices—and, for that matter, any sites you or your child choose to visit.
Only those employees who need access to our users’ information in order to do their jobs are allowed access.
What information does Kiki collect from adults who purchase a subscription online and how is it used?
Customers must be over age 18 and must use a valid credit card or other valid payment method accepted by Kiki to purchase subscriptions online. When a customer places an order, we collect information needed to complete the transaction, such as the customer’s name, mailing address, shipping addresses, and credit card information. We don’t sell our circulation list to direct marketers or other third parties.
Kiki may give other companies access to our information database, but only for the purpose of providing database or server maintenance or security, helping us process and fulfill orders or requests, or providing other similar services. If we will conduct background checks on those individuals who will be viewing the data and require do those other companies to sign confidentiality agreements promising to keep secret any information they see. You may request a copy of this agreement by sending us a SASE to 214 E. 8th Street, 5th Floor, Cincinnati, OH 45202. All information may be transferred as part of the purchase or sale of a business.
As we continue to grow, offer new services, and create different types of content, we may modify our Privacy Policy. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting any changes on this Web site. We will add a flag to the front welcome page indicating that there is new information in the policy and provide a link to the Privacy Policy.
Thanks for taking the time to get to know us through our Privacy Policy.
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