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5MinFun.com or 5MinFun is part of 5 Minute Fun Learning, and is operated and presented to users in all locations by 5 Minute Fun Learning, Inc., a Sub-C company, incorporated in Wilmington Delaware, USA, with offices in Palo Alto, California, USA.

We are committed to providing a fast, fun and effective educational interactions on our website, in social networks and through other distribution vehicles, which can be safely used by people of all ages.
This Privacy Policy covers use of information collected by 5MinFun.com or 5MinFun, part of 5 Minute Fun Learning (the "Company").
We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information collected on the Company's website or information collect from the Company's pages in social networking sites, like Facebook, or other distribution vehicles or mobile devices.

We strive to have our privacy policy and our information practices adhere to the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, applicable European Union Data Protection legislation, Canadian federal and provincial privacy legislation, other applicable data privacy laws and other applicable legislation, but cannot guarantee we comply with all of these laws and regulations.

To help ensure a rewarding online experience for our visitors, we provide you with this Privacy Policy that describes the information practices of the Company's website (http://5MinFun.com) and from our pages in social networking sites like Facebook and other distribution vehicles, including how we collect, use and disclose personal information.

  • The Information We Collect
  • As described in this Privacy Policy, we directly collect information from child or student users during our initial registration process or awareness contest such as a parent's email address, the parent's names, the student's account name, the student's email address, the student's password, the student's cell phone number, the student's grade and school, zip code, Facebook id and other information. When a 5MinFun.com student registrant acquires a paid or free subscription or membership, we may collect additional personally identifiable information ("PII") from the registrant's parent or payer (possibly a grandparent, relative or other friend of the student) and from the student. The types of PII that may be collected at that time include the parent's or payer's full name, email address, phone number, Facebook id and credit card billing information including mailing address. The 5MinFun.com registration process does not condition a student's participation in our online activity, on the student providing more personal information than is reasonably necessary for the activities associated with our program experience.

    The 5MinFun.com website requests student users to provide a parent's valid email address in order to register on the website. We use this information to send the parent a message to inform the parent of the student's participation in their 5MinFun.com account, to notify the parent about our privacy practices and other policies, to send the parent communications about the student's 5MinFun.com account, to ask to parent to sign up for a full annual subscription to our service and for the other purposes. This parent's email address is correlated with the account user name or student's name. We also utilize the parent's email to gain approval for children under age 13 to engage in the game in accordance with federal privacy regulations.

    We may also request a user name and email address when a user submits a form through the "Contact Us" portion of the Company's website so that we may respond to the inquiry. We collect the e-mail address for the sole purpose of responding directly on a one-time basis to a specific inquiry.

    For some of our activities, students have the ability to share personally identifiable information. For example, when playing learning games, individuals may chat, share information or see live video streaming from other students, teachers or players. As an additional example, students will engage in our 5MinFun.com activities while they are in existing social media spaces, like Facebook. Such spaces have their own safety and security policies. Students should not excessively share their personal information and should maintain good internet security and safety.

    When a student discloses personally identifiable information, you should be aware that such information could be read, collected or used by other users and other people or organizations within these existing social networks (like Facebook). We advise parents or payers to monitor and supervise their students in this regard. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information student choose to submit through the tools or services offered on the 5MinFun.com website or social networking sites, like Facebook, or other distribution vehicles.

    We may offer public forums, chat, score summary updates and video capabilities, as well as other features in which you may provide us with information, including personally identifiable information. If you use a public forum, chats, videos or other feature on this website or in our social networking site (in Facebook) or other distribution vehicles, and you disclose personally identifiable information, you should be aware that such information could be read, collected or used by other users. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information or other information you choose to submit in these public forums, chats, videos or other features.

    Additionally, when visitors come to our site, we may passively collect certain non-personally identifiable computer information, such as the type of computer operating system (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), the user's IP Address, the web browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) being used, the frequency with which guests visit various parts of our sites, and information regarding the internet service provider, in order to make our sites more interesting and useful to you and for various purposes related to our business. We may collect this non-personally identifiable information through the use of software technologies such as unique identifiers or "cookies."

    Cookies are small data or text files that we place in visitors' computer browsers for record-keeping purposes and to store their preferences. Many software programs and companies utilize such cookies. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you may not have access to many features that make your Web experience smoother, and some of our services may not function properly.

    We collect financial information as set out in this Privacy Policy. We do not use this financial information for any purpose other than processing payments to 5MinFun.com. The financial information that you enter to purchase a membership is securely stored by 5MinFun.com or a third party payment vendor like PayPal, and is retained by our or their payments processing vendor for the purpose of processing credit card payments or PayPal payment made to 5MinFun.com, part of 5 Minute Fun Learning, Inc.

    Information provided to 5MinFun.com, that is not personally identifiable information or financial information in nature, such as words, roots, prefixes, suffixes, definitions, parts of speech, sentences, etc. that could be inputted by students, teachers, parents or payers during their use of the service, would come under the full ownership of the Company and could be used by the Company at its sole discretion. Game scores, milestone achievements and certain performance metrics achieved by players when using the game, may also be shared with the Company's community at our sole discretion.

    If personal information is not provided to us, then the Company may not agree to provide a membership or subscription, and we may not be able to provide access to certain content and functionality to the Company's services, or we may not be able to provide other information, products or services which may be requested by a user.
  • How We Use, Disclose, and Store the Information We Collect
  • In addition to the purposes described above, we may actively collect and use email addresses, user names and other information, to track usage and to ensure users are following the site's Terms of Use. In addition, we may use an email address and user name to ban a user temporarily or permanently from the Company's sites, if that user engages in inappropriate conduct on the site. We may also use email addresses and user names to enable parents or payers to review PII, student's participation and performance data and to provide notification regarding the site, such as any future amendments to this privacy or other policies. We also may use information in the aggregate or geographic sets to analyze site usage, as well as to offer the Company's products, programs, or services.

    We may disclose information where we are required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We may disclose information to service providers or other groups or companies who provide support for the operations of our website, social networking pages and other distribution vehicles, and they may be required to further disclose such information for any other purpose. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we also may disclose PII in response to a law enforcement agency's or other public agency's (including schools or children services) request or if we feel that such disclosure may prevent the instigation of a crime, facilitate an investigation related to public safety or protect the safety of a child or user of our website, social networking pages and other distribution services, or to protect the security or integrity of our website, social networking pages or other distribution vehicles, or to enable us to take precautions against liability.

    If we sell all or part of our business or make a sale or transfer of our assets or are otherwise involved in a merger or business transfer, we may transfer PII to a third party as part of that transaction, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

    Finally, we may transfer PII and store it outside of the jurisdiction in which a member of the Company is located.
  • Collection of Information for Third-Party Sites and Sponsors :
  • We may allow third-party companies to solicit or advertise to our users. For example, students may be able to earn awards that would allow them to be converted into sponsor awards, like discount coupons or gift cards from retailers, food providers, etc. In addition, parents or payers could purchase gift cards as rewards for their students through our website and social networking pages. We may, in the future, offer certain add-ons to 5MinFun.com in conjunction with third partners. However, students are not obligated to engage in such transactions. In the future, we will update our policy to reflect how personal information might be shared with such partners.
  • Security :
  • The security of your personal information is important to us. We have put in place and/or contracted for appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. When you enter sensitive information, such as our membership subscription form, we encrypt that information.
  • Financial Information :
  • As noted above, if you decide to purchase a membership or subscription, the parent's or payer's full name, email address, credit card billing information, including mailing address, will be required at the time of purchase. That information is collected and stored by the Company and / or our payments processing vendor (PayPal) for the purpose of processing payments made to the Company. That information is safeguarded with appropriate security, and it will not be used for other purposes. Furthermore, our payments processing vendor has agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of the personal and financial information it obtains from the Company and only to use this information on our behalf. Our financial payments processing vendor is bound by all applicable privacy laws relating to the provision of financial services.
  • Access to Information, and Objection to Information Collection and Retention :
  • Please contact us, if you would like to access the PII that we have collected online from you or your student, correct factual errors in such information, request to have this information deleted, or request that we no longer collect or maintain such information. Please be sure to include your email address and a telephone number where we can reach you. To protect you and your student's privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting you access to the personal information that we collect and maintain about you or your student.
  • International Transfer
  • Your information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, the Company transfers Personal Information to the United States and processes it there and your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
  • Collaboratorium Service
  • The Company is focused on improving education services and collaboration between people. One of the features of the Company is the Collaboratorium page. This page is intended to all students to openly share information on their computers, chat about class work and exchange streaming video for their exchanges. In addition, a Teacher could use the Collaboratorium to provide additional teaching exchanges on the computer through the Company, as if they were standing in front of their class rooms. Such streaming chat, video and computer exchange may be available from other web services. Students and teachers would have to invite individuals into their Collaboratorium sessions. However like all internet services, students and teachers should maintain an eye toward security and not invite people they do not know to their Collaboratorium sessions. In addition, students and teachers need to maintain appropriate decorum with using the Collaboratorium and other Company services. The Company reserves the sole right to deny people who abuse the use of these chat, video and computer screening services or other Company services, and such action could lead to the termination of access to the Company's services. The Company cannot police all uses of the Collaboratorium and other Company services, so participating students, parents and teachers must take individual responsibility for their actions and understand the potential inappropriate actions of others are not endorsed by the Company.
  • Our Policy Toward Children
  • The Company's services are not directed to children under age 9 or fourth graders. For children under age 13, in accordance with federal privacy regulations, we do not allow them to play the game without first asking their parent(s) for approval to engage with the Company's program. These under age 13 students are denied access when trying to enter the game and asked to provide us their parent's email so we can contact them for approval. In general for all students, we request students provide information to enable the Company to contact their parents by email and when provided, we do notify the parents of their child's interest in our site.
  • Contact Us
  • If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this privacy policy, please send an e-mail with your questions or comments to Privacy@5MinFun.com or write us:

    5MinFun.com
    5 Minute Fun Learning, Inc.
    Attention Privacy Director
    3464 Cowper Court
    Palo Alto, California 94306

    Please be assured that any personal information that you provide in communications to the above e-mail and postal mail addresses will not be used to send you promotional materials, unless you so request.
  • An Important Note to Parents or Payers :
  • The Internet offers a world of opportunity for students. Your guidance and involvement are essential to help ensure that students have a safe and rewarding online experience. We encourage you to visit the GetNetWise.org site and look through the "Kids Safety" section together (link http://kids.getnetwise.org/safetyguide/) . Additional safety information can be found on-line (for example from Google at http://www.google.com/familysafety/). Your efforts to instill responsible information practices will help steer your children / students to age-appropriate sites and will go a long way toward ensuring that your students have enriching experiences online.
  • Effective Date :
  • The privacy policy set out above is effective as of 1 September 2011, and applies to all information previously obtained by the Company. We reserve the right to change the privacy policy at our sole discretion. The Company's users will be informed of any such change by us posting a new privacy policy on the Company's website and the effective date of any change of privacy policy will be clearly marked. As required by law, we will not use PII in ways that are materially different from the ones described in this privacy policy without also providing notification of such practices and obtaining consent to any such different uses. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

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