Scallyroo.com has special concerns about the privacy of users who are children under the age of 13. Parents are strongly encouraged to participate in their children's online activities and monitor their children's use of e-mails and engagement in other electronic communication.

As a kid on the internet, scallyroo.com takes special care to protect your personal information. Your privacy is very important to us and should be very important to you too.

To help protect your privacy, the government has created laws that don't let websites collect personal information from kids without letting their parents know. Since we don't want to break the law, we ask for as little information as we can and we don't share it with anyone without your parent's permission. We ask for and use your real first name only to identify you to your parent so your parent can authorize your account. We also ask for your date of birth to confirm your age, and a nickname / password to allow you to login upon account activation.

We also think of all of your content creations within scallyroo.com as personal information. That includes your interests, messages, messages to our support staff, and anything else you create or upload. Without your parent's approval, you can't create an account, share any of your content or interact with any friends on scallyroo.com.

Once we have your parent's approval, it is up to you and your parent to figure out how you want to share your personal information. It's important for you to learn and remember how easy it is to share information with others on the internet that you may regret. Be careful what information you upload to any site... You should never share specific personal information (like your full name, address, phone number and email address) online with anyone. And, if in doubt, talk to your parents, teachers, or guardians about what is appropriate to create, write, or upload to your scallyroo.com account.

If for some reason, we change our privacy policy, we'll let you and your parent know.

Scallyroo.com was created with two objectives in mind. One of our goals is to bridge the communication gap between you and your child in an online space. In doing so, we think it is vital to have an outlet for your child to keep you updated on events in their life and our application permits this free flow of communication.

Second, is to allow parents the ability to control whom their children interact with in the scope of the website. We make you the contact for anyone looking to add your child to their Friends network.

The profiles on scallyroo.com are completely privatized, meaning that in order to interact or communicate with any other members on the site, our users need to be on each others friends list. Users under the age of 13 are insulated from any and all communication from any users on Scallyroo with whom they are NOT friends. And we give you, the parent, complete control over who your child is friends with by sending the friend requests to your email account. Essentially, you can accept or reject a friend request for your child. They can not. By including an authorized adult in the creation of every kid's scallyroo.com account, we are partnering with you to educate kids and protect their privacy.

Scallyroo is based on a social networking platform. As such, personal information, such as your child’s nickname and interests, may be read by others on your child’s profile page. But only by those in their friends network, which you (the Parent) control. Your child and all their information are basically invisible to other Scallyroo users, except for those users in your child’s friends list. If your child is interested in joining scallyroo, we directly collect limited personal information, such as a first name (to identify them to you as your child), nickname, date of birth (to confirm their age), and a parent's email address in order to process your child's registration request.

Once a parent provides consent to activate a child's account, they will have restricted access to the many features of Scallyroo, such as the Wish List, Goal Contracts, and Calendar. If you do not activate your child’s account they will be unable to register. If you decline (“Reject”) your child access to the site they will not only be unable to register but all the information they input while creating their account will be purged from our database.

In order for you to provide consent and fully activate your child's account, we directly collect personal information from parents such as your email address

We use your email address to link you to your child's account and to communicate with you about support, security, privacy, or administrative issues.

Once you activate your child's account he or she will have limited access to the website. He/she can create a profile, create wish lists, set goals with you and add media to their profile page. They have no contact with other Scallyroo users. The only time they can be contacted by other Scallyroo users is when you approve a user as a friend for them. At which point they can message each other, and take advantage of some of the social networking features that Scallyroo offers. Other than the friends that you approve for them, they are completely insulated from all other interaction with other users of Scallyroo.

If you fully activate your child's account by providing consent, your child can begin to create content such as uploading music, setting goals, adding products to their wish list, and writing messages on their Graffiti Wall, all of which can be viewable by you and some of which can be viewed by any friends of your child on Scallyroo. We provide tools to allow you to monitor or approve your child's interaction with other Scallyroo members. These tools include specialized security settings that have been developed so that you, as the parent, can control and monitor your child's Scallyroo experience.

We allow Scallyroo members to provide us with non-member friends' first names and email addresses to have Scallyroo send an invitation to the non-members to join Scallyroo. The names and email addresses are immediately deleted so no personal information is stored.

In the course of providing web-based products and services (such as web based games and applications) and in order to provide the highest quality user experience for our members, Scallyroo passively tracks the activity of users accessing our site. This information includes IP addresses of users, page views, unique visitors, and repeat visitors. This data is not correlated in any way with any personally identifiable information.

We also use cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer, to enhance user experience. This cookie passively tracks your preferences, when you are logged in, and some of your activities while on our site. You may choose to reject these cookies, but if you do, you may be unable to take advantage of all the scallyroo features and services. Refer to your browser's help information to learn how to disable cookies.

From time to time, Scallyroo may run promotions or special offers that may require you to provide certain information, such as your name, email address, or shipping address. These promotions and special offers are optional, but if you decide to participate, the personal information you provide may be shared with a third party in order to deliver awards or special offers to you.

Parents or legal guardians may request that we remove their child's personal information at any time. They can do this by sending us an email at support@scallyroo.com.

Or they can delete their child's account from the Edit Profile page.

Personally identifiable information is information that can personally identify you, such as your full name (first and last name), your e-mail address and your city/state. Information that may be personal in nature, but cannot identify who you are, is not personally identifiable information. For example, your age, your first name and even your favorite group network are all personal information, but are not personally identifiable information because they cannot be used to identify you.

Information we collect is stored in a secure data facility, and is only available to authorized personnel on a need-to-know basis.

We take additional reasonable precautions to secure and protect the information we collect. For example, all personal information is password protected. However, no information collected over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. If we become aware of a security breach that may affect your personal information, we will notify you via the email address you provide.

If you have any questions or concerns about how Scallyroo secures personal information, contact support@scallyroo.com.

We collect information in a variety of ways on the site. We will collect no more personally identifiable information from you than is reasonably necessary for you to participate in an online activity.

Registration: When you register for your online Scallyroo account, we ask for your first / last name, birthday, school and the state/province where you live. During the registration process, you are also asked to create a password. This password is protected and only known to you. Our staff doesn't even have access to the password you create.

Surveys and Feedback: We may collect aggregate information in connection with surveys or other online activities that allow you to give us your feedback. We do not collect any personally identifiable information in connection with surveys or feedback requests, nor is the information you provide connected to any personally identifiable information we may have about you.

Site Management: We may collect information through technology to make our site more interesting and useful to you. For instance, we collect IP addresses and use technology to track traffic patterns on the site. Once you have logged into the website, we track your activities by using logs of database transactions and server interactions. We use this information to understand which areas of our website are most appealing or least appealing. Our site also uses cookies, which are pieces of information that a website sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. Cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember who you are. These technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. None of the information collected through these methods is, or is connected to, personally identifiable information about you.

E-mail Communication from You: If you contact us by e-mail, we use your e-mail address (which is personally identifiable information) only to respond to your specific request or question, after which the address is deleted. If we ask for your parent's e-mail address, we keep that information and use it only for the purpose of providing notices to parents and requesting parental consent.

E-mail Communication from Us:Our site may allow you to sign up to receive newsletters, birthday e-cards and e-mails regarding special Scallyroo promotional messages or offers. The newsletters and e-mails will provide you with information about new website features, or special Scallyroo promotional messages or offers to you. In order to participate in these activities, we collect your first name and your parent's e-mail address if you are under 13 years old. We use this information to contact your parent by e-mail to notify him or her that you have provided personally identifiable information to us for these purposes, and to provide them an opportunity to opt-out of the collection of the information. If you are over the age of 13, we will allow you to opt-out of any promotional material at anytime, to which you will no longer receive promotional copy from us.

Safety and Security: We may collect your first name and e-mail address where necessary for your safety. We may also collect your name and e-mail address for the limited purposes of protecting the security and integrity of the site, taking precautions against liability, responding to the judicial process, or for law enforcement on a matter related to public safety.

All personally identifiable information collected by us is only used to provide services related to the Scallyroo website. We do not share your personally identifiable information with any third parties for marketing purposes. We may engage third parties to assist with services related to the website, such as technical and processing services, contest fulfillment, mailings, and analyzing website performance. These third parties are obligated to keep the information secure and confidential and must use the information only in connection with providing services to Scallyroo.

In the event that substantially all of the assets related to the Scallyroo website were transferred or sold to another entity, all information, including personally identifiable information would be transferred to that entity.

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

Our site may contain links to other websites, including websites directed to children. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our advertisers or other sites to which we provide links from our sites. These other sites may use cookies, collect data or solicit personally identifiable information. We have no control over these practices and strongly recommend that you check the applicable privacy policy of the website sponsor when linking to other websites.

Your parent may review the personally identifiable information we collect from you, request corrections, and ask that we delete your personally identifiable information from our databases, or refuse further collection or use of your information by contacting our webmaster at support@scallyroo.com.

To request further information about our privacy practices, you may send us an e-mail at service@scallyroo.com.

The online experiences and activities described in this web site may be available now or planned for future, and this version reflects our current policies on information collection, use and disclosure. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy as soon as they go into effect on this site.

NOTICE: Visit www.ftc.gov/privacy for information from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting children's privacy online.

Visit www.OnGuardOnline.gov for social networking safety tips for parents and youth.