Children’s Privacy Policy
Last Updated: September 19, 2024
Welcome! The Bazooka Companies, LLC (“Bazooka, “we,” or “us”) and its affiliated entities respects the privacy rights of our users, particularly those under 13, and understand the importance of protecting these rights. Before you use the website where this Privacy Policy is posted (the “Site”), please read the following Privacy Policy carefully to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our offerings at this Site.
This Privacy Policy describes: what information we collect from users, including children (individuals 12 and younger) when they visit the Site; how such information is used and stored; when such information may be disclosed to other parties; how users, parents, and guardians can control the use and disclosure of collected information; and how such information is protected. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected at the Site. Other Bazooka websites and mobile apps might post a different privacy policy. Our general Privacy Policy is available at this link.
Residents of California and Texas have additional rights with respect to their personal information. If you reside in one of these states, click here to review our supplemental Privacy Notice.
At Bazooka, our children’s privacy practices are guided by the United States’ Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, as well as data privacy laws throughout the United States. Younger visitors should always check with their parents or guardians before entering information on any website or mobile application, and we encourage families to discuss their household guidelines regarding the online sharing of personal information. We minimize the collection of personal information from visitors to our Children’s Site, and where necessary, obtain verifiable parental consent from a parent.
This Privacy Policy is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
SECURITY, STORAGE AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION
CARU’S COPPA SAFE HARBOR PROGRAM
SUPPLEMENTAL PRIVACY NOTICE
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
We collect personal information and other information when you visit the Site. However, visitors are required to share only the information that is reasonably necessary to participate in the particular activity. As described below, we collect information that you voluntarily provide, and we collect certain information automatically about your use of the Site. We may aggregate the information we collect from and about you.
We collect information for the following purposes: provide our products and services; respond to your questions, comments, and requests; understand how consumers use our products and services; enhance and improve our websites, content, products, and services; communicate with you; prevent misuse of the website, theft, or fraud; protect our intellectual property or the rights or property of others, and protect our users, our business, and third parties; perform website analytics and generate statistics about users and usage patterns; and comply with and enforce applicable laws and our policies and terms. If a child contacts us with a question or request, we will use the information solely to respond to the inquiry.
Information You Voluntarily Provide:
We collect information from visitors when they contact us with questions and comments or exercise their rights with regard to their personal information. For example, we may collect personal contact information (such as your first and last name, email address, phone number, and mailing address) and information contained in your communications to us.
Information Collected Automatically:
When visitors access the Site, we and our analytics providers automatically collect certain information from their devices, such as: the type of computer operating system; the visitor’s IP address, as permitted for the internal functioning of the Site, and web browser; information regarding the Internet service provider; and other standard server log information (collectively referred to as “Technical Information”). We use cookies or similar technologies (collectively referred to as “Tracking Technologies”) on the Site. Cookies (which may be html files or other technology) are text files that help store user preferences and activity. The Site and/or analytics providers use Tracking Technologies to collect Technical Information automatically to support internal operations and provide web analytics. We use Tracking Technologies to help tailor our content, enable the internal functioning of the Site, understand how visitors use the Site, improve or customize the content or offerings on the Site, and/or maintain and administer the Site. These Tracking Technologies collect click stream data and other information regarding your visits to the Site (such as your visits to specific webpages or use of features). Tracking Technologies may collect other information across multiple sessions on the Site, and they may also collect your IP address or some other identifier unique to the device you use to access the Site (“Identifier”). An Identifier may be automatically assigned to any device you use to access the Site to enable internal functioning of the Site. You may be able to have the device you use to access the Site warn you each time a cookie or most other Tracking Technologies are being set, or you can choose to turn off such warnings. This is done through your browser on the device you use to access the Sites.
Additional information on warnings and removal of warnings may be available through your browser’s support feature. Please be aware that certain areas and features of Site can only be accessed in conjunction with Tracking Technologies, and disabling Tracking Technologies might prevent you from accessing such content.
DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES
We may share your information with third parties for the limited purposes described below. Parents of children under the age of 13 have the option of consenting to the collection and use of their child’s personal information without consenting to the disclosure of that information to certain third parties.
Legal Compliance and Safety: We may access, preserve, and/or disclose the information we collect and/or content you provide to us to a law enforcement agency or other third parties if required to do so by law or with a good faith belief that such access, preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with laws or legal process; (ii) limit our legal liability; (iii) enforce the Site’s Terms of Service; (iv) respond to claims that the content violates the rights of third parties; (v) respond to your requests for customer service; or (vi) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the owners of the Site, any user of the Site, a third party or the general public.
Service Providers: Information collected through the Site may be transferred, disclosed or shared with third party providers engaged by us to handle and deliver certain activities, such as technical and processing functions, sending postal mail and email (if you have provided your contact information to us previously), maintaining data integrity and security, programming operations, user services or technology services. We may provide these third parties information collected as needed to perform their functions, but they are prohibited from using it for other purposes and are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
Co-Branded Sites and Features: If the Site offers co-branded services and features, such promotions that we put together with another company (“Co-Branded Partner”), we may share information with our Co-Branded Partner; provided, however, we do not share a child’s personal information with our Co-Branded Partner absent parental consent.
Business Transfer: In the event that assets relating to the Site are transferred or sold to another entity as a result of, for example, a corporate sale, merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, information collected at the Site may be transferred to the acquiring company.
With Your Consent: We may otherwise disclose your information pursuant to your consent. We will disclose a child’s personal information to third parties only with consent of such child’s parent or guardian.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
The Site is operated from the United States. All data is stored in the United States, and we reserve the right, without assuming any obligation, to restrict access to the Site from visitors outside the United States. While users from countries other than the United States may access the Site, we make no representation that the Site is operated in accordance with the laws or regulations of, or governed by, other nations. Please be aware that by providing us with personal information, you understand and agree that: (a) your personal information may be transferred to and stored on servers located outside your resident jurisdiction; (b) to the extent you are a resident of a country other than the United States, you consent to the transfer of such data to the United States for processing by our affiliates in accordance with this Privacy Policy; and (c) the Privacy Policy and the collection of information pursuant to the Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.
SECURITY, STORAGE AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to help ensure that information collected is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers and use of password protections and other security measures to guard against unauthorized access. We also take reasonable steps to help make sure our service providers protect the security of your personal information. However, as with most Internet sites and services, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, despite our efforts. Information collected at the Site will not be stored for longer than is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or to otherwise meet legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Accessing, Updating, and Correcting Information: You have the right to access, update and correct factual inaccuracies in your or your child’s personal information that we collect online at the Site, subject to certain exceptions. To do so, you may e-mail us at privacypolicy@bazooka-inc.com. We will take steps to verify the identity of anyone requesting personal information about a child and to ensure that the person is in fact the child’s parent or legal guardian. If you are a minor under 18, you may submit a request to remove content or information you posted at the Site, if any, at the same e-mail address. We will use reasonable efforts to remove or update content or information in compliance with your request and the prevailing law.
California and Texas Privacy Rights: If you are a resident of California or Texas you have additional rights with respect to your personal information, as described here.
Nevada Privacy Rights: Nevada residents have a right to submit a verified request directing a website operator to not make any “sale” of covered information collected about the consumer for monetary consideration to a person for such person to license or sell the information to additional persons, subject to certain exceptions. The Site does not engage in the “sale” of covered information, as that term is defined.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTIES
This website may contain links to other sites not owned by us. These other websites are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be different from this Privacy Policy. We encourage visitors to other websites to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of third party websites.
CONTACT US
If you have any other questions about our information handling practices, including our practices with respect to children’s personal information, please contact us at:
Bazooka Privacy Coordinator
c/o The Bazooka Companies, LLC
200 Vesey Street, 25th Floor,
New York, NY 10281
Email us at privacypolicy@bazooka-inc.com
Call us at 212-376-0300
UPDATES TO PRIVACY POLICY
We update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will, at a minimum, post the updated Privacy Policy here. We encourage you to periodically check this Privacy Policy for any updates.
CARU’S COPPA SAFE HARBOR PROGRAM
This privacy policy and the CARU icon shown on our website confirms that Bazooka Companies, LLC is a valid licensee and participating member in the CARU COPPA Safe Harbor Program (“CARU COPPA Safe Harbor”). To protect your privacy, we have voluntarily undertaken this privacy initiative. CARU has reviewed and certified that we meet established online information collection and use practices on all Bazooka Companies, LLC properties where this privacy policy is posted.
As part of the CARU COPPA Safe Harbor, we are subject to audits and frequent monitoring of our website and other enforcement and accountability mechanisms administered independently by CARU.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact us here privacypolicy@bazoooka-inc.com. If you believe that we have not responded to your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, please contact CARU at:
CARU Safe Harbor
Attn: Director
1676 International Drive #550
McLean, Virginia 22102
Infocaru@bbbnp.org