SkillBuildingBuddies.com is committed to providing quality on-demand video, online activities and information to parents of children with special needs. While we encourage the interactive nature of online media, we strive to promote the online safety and privacy of our users.

Information-Collection Policies

SkillBuildingBuddies.com target audience is special needs children and their parents. SkillBuildingBuddies.com’s design, content, and language, as well as our activities, target a family audience. We do request personally identifiable information from parents who choose to participate in certain activities available on SkillBuildingBuddies.com, as described below. If we were to discover that a child submitted personally identifiable information, SkillBuildingBuddies.com would delete the information immediately.

Registered Membership

SkillBuildingBuddies.com provides registered membership for our parent audience. In order to participate in our registered member activities, we ask users to submit personal information (e.g. full name, e-mail address, zip code). All such personal information is collected for the purpose of providing our users access to SkillBuildingBuddies.com’s registered members activities. Once registered, users can participate in registered member activities. At any time after the registration process, registered members can choose to discontinue participating in some of the registered member activities (e.g. newsletters) or altogether unregister by electing to unsubscribe to such activity, which option can be found at the end of every SkillBuildingBuddies.com correspondence sent to users.

Use of Registered Members Information

All information collected during the registration process is used for the purpose of providing our users access to SkillBuildingBuddies.com’s registered members activities. For instance, if the registered member selected to receive newsletters, special announcements, offers and promotions from Skill Building Buddies, we use the information provided by such registered member to send them the requested information which we may send by e-mail and occasionally, by postal mail, for those who have provided us with mailing addresses. The information provided by registered members WILL NOT be shared with Third Parties.

General Activities

Electronic Newsletter and Special Announcements Subscription SkillBuildingBuddies.com provides parents the opportunity to receive e-mails containing the Skill Building Buddies Newsletter, along with other Special Announcements pertaining to SkillBuildingBuddies.com and/or SkillBuildingBuddies. These e-mails will provide subscribers with company/product information updates, announcements, and promotions. We request no personally identifiable information from the parent except his/her e-mail address, which we use solely for the purpose of sending the e-mails. The e-mail address provided to SkillBuildingBuddeis.com may be transferred, disclosed, or shared with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle the preparation and delivery of the e-mails and perform other related technical and processing functions. At anytime after the signup process, parents can choose to discontinue their subscriptions to SkillBuildingBuddies.com’s Newsletter and Special Announcements altogether by electing to unsubscribe, through the unsubscribe option found at the end of each SkillBuildingBuddies.com  e-mail sent to users.

E-mail

SkillBuildingBuddies.com provides parents the opportunity to send e-mail to us. We request no personally identifiable information from the parent except his/her first name and e-mail address, which we use solely for the purpose of responding to questions. The grown-up’s first name and e-mail address are deleted from our system periodically.

Tell a Friend

SkillBuildingBuddies.com gives parents the opportunity to send “Tell a Friend” notifications about our site. We ask the user to submit the first name and e-mail addresses of their friends and family. SkillBuildingBuddies.com uses this information only for the purpose of sending the “Tell a Friend” email. The friend’s e-mail address is deleted immediately from our system.

Use and Disclosure of Information

At SkillBuildingBuddies.com, we may share non-individual, aggregate information (e.g. non-personally identifiable information) about our users internally within SkillBuildingBuddies and externally with third parties, such as advertisers and business partners. We also use personal information collected on our site internally within Skill Building Buddies, however, it is our policy to not disclose externally with third parties personal information collected on our site, except in the following instances:

Agents

The personal information provided to SkillBuildingBuddies.com may be transferred, disclosed or shared with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain activities ( e.g., message boards, sweepstakes, e-cards, newsletters, advisory board) and perform other technical and processing functions, such as sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from registration lists, programming, providing user services to our users, or otherwise operating our site. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

Business Transfers

In the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating to SkillBuildingBuddies.com are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.

Special Cases

We may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our website, users of our website, and others.

Information Received Store

Our online store collects personal information about its users and may need to provide such information to Third Parties to handle credit card and transaction processing along with product fulfillment. However, we do not sell, transfer, or share this personally identifiable information with third parties except as described in this policy.

We are always looking for ways to improve your shopping experience with Skill Building Buddies, such as ways to help us offer new Skill Building Buddies products and services we believe may be of interest to you. In order to accomplish this goal, we may combine and share the personally identifiable information we collect online with information available from other sources including information received from promotional partners, from third-party marketing organizations or other third parties. This information, in addition to the information you have already provided us, will help us to offer new Skill Building Buddies products and services we believe may be of interest to you. Additionally, in the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating to SkillBuildingBuddies.com are transferred or sold to another entity, personal information we received from the Shop may be transferred to the acquiring entity. Finally, we may also disclose personal information about Store users to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce the Store’s Terms and Conditions or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Store’s users and others.

In addition, we may use the personal information received from the Store to provide you with our print catalog, and to contact those Store users who have asked that Skill Building Buddies contact them directly about such things as sales and special offers. To request that we discontinue sending you our print catalog, please call 1-800-515-2674. To opt out of receiving Nickelodeon Newsletters, please follow the unsubscribe information at the bottom of any newsletter that you receive.

Cookies and Log Data

Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user’s hard drive. Cookies allow websites to “remember” users’ activities on a website as well as users’ visits to a site. At SkillBuildingBuddies.com, cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our website over a given period. We do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information submitted by users when participating in our activities. Log data collected on web servers both within SkillBuildingBuddies.com’s control and under the control of SkillBuildingBuddies.com’s third party analytics service provider, who is required to maintain such data on a confidential basis, supplies SkillBuildingBuddies.com with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. SkillBuildingBuddies.com uses such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors’ browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many users as possible. We do not link the “log data” collected to personally identifiable information submitted by users when participating in our activities.

Security

SkillBuildingBuddies.com has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against unauthorized access. SkillBuildingBuddies.com is intended for domestic visitors and, consequently, is specifically directed towards residents of the United States.

This policy, like the online medium itself, is subject to change. We will notify you of material changes by posting them at our site. We encourage you to check back and review this policy, from time to time, so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.

This page was last updated on July 28, 2008.

If you have any questions regarding SkillBuildingBuddies.com’s privacy policy, please contact us at:

SkillBuildingBuddies.com Privacy Coordinator

Skill Building Buddies

P.O. Box 86

Bristol, CT 06011

(800) 515-2674

or e-mail us

Your California Privacy Rights

Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail or write us:

SkillBuildingBuddies.com Privacy Coordinator

Skill Building Buddies

P.O. Box 86

Bristol, CT 06011

(800) 515-2674