Privacy
Pretty Brainy & COPPA, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Pretty Brainy, Inc., is committed to fully complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998.
Dear parents: please help by spending time online with your children and monitoring their online use. COPPA, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information of children who are less than 13 years old. You may review the COPPA guidelines at www.coppa.org.
The following information and legalese, though hard-nosed in tone thanks to the lawyers, is designed to protect you, your children, and Pretty Brainy, Inc.
Parents’ Involvement & Permission
If a child under 18 years old has ordered a product from the Pretty Brainy Girls Online Clothing Boutique at prettybrainy.com without parental permission, the parent or guardian may return the product according to the policy set forth on this Website. For details, please see “Shipping, Payment, Returns and Exchanges.”
To make a virtual purchase on prettybrainy.com, you must comply with our Terms of Sale, including Terms of Use. You acknowledge that you are responsible for maintaining the security of and restricting access to your account and you agree to accept responsibility for all purchases and activities that occur under your account. Pretty Brainy, Inc., sells tangible real-world products only to those users who can legally make purchases with a credit card, which, in the United States, means that you are at least 18 years old. If you are under 18, you may make purchases involving a credit card or Paypal account only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. Pretty Brainy, Inc., at its sole discretion, reserves the right to refuse or cancel orders and terminate accounts at any time.
You have the option to allow Pretty Brainy, Inc., to collect information on your child’s name, birthday, activities, and accomplishments for the purpose of communicating with you and your child or notifying you of contest opportunities and winners.
Pretty Brainy, Inc., does not share, sell, rent or otherwise provide the information to any third party.
Pretty Brainy, Inc., does not require you or your child to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity, such as a contest, as a condition of participation.
You may review your child’s personal information. You may ask Pretty Brainy, Inc., at any time to delete such information and to refuse to allow further collection or use of your child’s information. Please clearly state such requests in an email communication to ideas@prettybrainy.com.
Use of Materials on This Website
Unless otherwise noted, Pretty Brainy, Inc., owns or controls the copyrights, trademarks and service marks for all photographs, illustrations, designs, icons, logos, merchandise, and written material (e.g., Content) appearing on this Website, prettybrainy.com. The Site as a whole is also protected by copyright and trademark laws. Unless expressly labeled for download, you may not download information from this Website. You may not reproduce, distribute, change, display, recreate, publish, repost, transmit, sell, or otherwise use the Content of the Site without the written permission of Pretty Brainy, Inc. If you are an owner of intellectual property who believes your intellectual property has been improperly posted or distributed through this Website, immediately notify Pretty Brainy, Inc., in writing at the following address: Pretty Brainy, Inc., ATTN: Intellectual Property, P.O. Box 1483, Lyons, CO 80540.
Communicating with Pretty Brainy, Inc.
Pretty Brainy, Inc., loves to communicate with you. We are happy to accept and consider creative ideas and suggestions regarding our products and marketing only when we solicit them. Please do not send Pretty Brainy, Inc., any creative or original materials, including drawings, manuscripts, designs, games, books, and other products, or any creative suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts, or other information. Anything you transmit or post (e.g., your suggestions, know-how, techniques, concepts, ideas, and other submissions) becomes the sole property of Pretty Brainy, Inc. Except as governed by our online privacy policy, any communication or material you transmit to prettybrainy.com via electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions and answers, comments, and suggestions, is and will be treated as neither confidential nor proprietary. You implicitly agree that Comments you submit to the Site do not violate the right of any other person. You also agree that Comments you submit do not contain libelous, unlawful, abusive, or obscene material. You agree that you are completely responsible for the content of Comments you make.