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Privacy Policy
The Tonner® Doll Company and www.tonnerdoll.com are committed to protecting your
online privacy and the safety of all our Web site visitors. Our site consists of
several areas, generally intended for the adult collector ages 14 and over;
however, it is also suitable for children ages 9 and older. If you are
under 18 years old, please read this message with your parents before you visit
our site, and ask questions about things you do not understand. If you are under
age 13, you should get a parent's permission before submitting any information
about yourself on this Web site or any other on the Internet. Please remember
that this site and the servers that make this site available are located in the
U.S. By using this site you agree to the transfer, collection, processing, and
use of data by this site.
- Your Friends at Tonner®
Doll Company, Inc.
A Note to Parents
The Tonner® Doll Company makes every effort to make your child's visit to our
Web site safe and enjoyable. We encourage you to monitor your child's online use
and to help us protect children's privacy by instructing them never to provide
personal information on this site or any other without permission. We do not
require a child to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary as a
condition for participating in a contest, game, or other activity, and we do not
collect any personally identifiable information (such as full name, home
address, or phone number) from children who visit our site. Upon proper
identification, parents may review the personal information we have collected
about their child, request deletion, or refuse to allow further collection or
use. Tonner® Doll Company adheres to the guidelines created by the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and the guidelines of the Children's
Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. All of
the Tonner® Doll Company’s marketing efforts, including this Web site, are
closely monitored to abide by these guidelines.
About Our Site
The Tonner® Doll Company’s Tonnerdoll.com Web site includes information about
our company and our products, surveys, sweepstakes and contests, advertising,
entertainment, and games, among other items of interest. Our site links to
tylerwentworth.com (a website for adults and children, with child-specific
activities designed for children who enjoy Tyler Wentworth dolls. Our site
also links to many of our retailers world-wide and doll-related publishing
companies and organizations - Tonner® Doll Company is not directly associated
with any of the linked websites outside Tonnerdoll.com, Effanbeedoll.com,
Tylerwentworth.com, Roberttonner.com, Betsymccall.com, and Kittycollier.com -
Parents are advised that linked websites may or may not contain objectionable
material for children, and we encourage you to monitor your child's online use
and to help us protect children's privacy by instructing them never to provide
personal information on this site or any other without permission. Tonner® Doll
Company cannot be held responsible for the content of any website outside its
own or that may be otherwise linked to Tonner® Doll Company-sponsored websites.
We Protect Children’s
Privacy
In keeping with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)--the law
that protects your online privacy--and the guidelines of the Children's
Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, the Tonner®
Doll Company limits the collection of personal information from children who
visit our site. For example, Tonner® Doll Company does not ask for your full
name or phone number and will not intentionally post, sell, rent, or trade your
personal information to third parties.
Information We Collect
from Collectors in the Tonner®
Doll Collector's Club Section
The "Tonner Doll Collector's Club" section of Tonner® Doll Company's Web site is
directed toward adult collectors ages 18 and older. Tonner® Doll Company does
not require visitors to share any personal information about themselves in order
to enjoy our Web site. A child can visit the tonnerdoll.com site without ever
registering or providing personal information. In the future, users may be asked
to provide a first name, age, and zip code when participating in special
contests or future club activities. This information is completely voluntary.
When asked for a name, children may use "screen names" or “nicknames” (not a
real name) in order to protect their privacy. Before any responses are posted in
response to questions or polls, an editor reviews all the responses received and
deletes any personally identifiable information. When we post a child's e-mailed
submission to one of our departments, we use only his or her first name, age,
and state. We obtain parental consent to post pictures of children. Tonner® Doll
Company may collect some information from a child under age 13 without parental
consent, but only in the following case: If a child sends a comment to
tonnerdoll.com through the E-mail Us form and includes an e-mail address for a
response, the tonnerdoll.com customer service staff will keep that e-mail
address only long enough to respond to that specific question or comment. E-mail
addresses collected through any future section of the Web site are not posted,
released, sold, or distributed to anyone outside of the Tonner® Doll Company.
We strongly advise children to ALWAYS check with parents before submitting any
personal information to this or any other Web site.
Parents: You should know that
COPPA prohibits children's sites from requiring kids to provide any information
other than what is reasonably necessary for participation in activities.
Other Information We
Collect
A "cookie" is a small file that is saved on a user's computer hard drive that
contains no personal information. tonnerdoll.com cookies provide users with
faster access to pages they have already visited, allow users to personalize
certain pages, and keep track of a user's progress in a game. If a child leaves
the tonnerdoll.com Web site, a cookie will "remember" the site she has just
visited. tonnerdoll.com also uses cookies to help determine how many people
visit the site, which Web pages are visited, and how long visitors stay there.
This information helps us create a better Web site by revealing which
tonnerdoll.com features are a success and identifying areas that might need
improvement. For administrative purposes, each visitor's IP address is
collected. An IP address is the automatic number assigned to each user's
computer when that person surfs the Web. Certain Internet Service Providers,
like America Online, may assign the same IP address to many users. The IP
addresses collected are counted as the number of "hits" on the site. A user's IP
address is not connected to any personally identifiable or online contact
information like a name and address, so every user remains anonymous. The
Tonner® Doll Company does not sell or release any information gathered to any
third parties. We may post some identifiable information such as photos in some
areas, but only with parental consent. All information gathered online will be
used only by the Tonner® Doll Company for internal marketing analyses and to
improve products, services, and the Web site. Under special circumstances, we
may give other companies access to our information database, but only when
needed to allow them to provide database or server maintenance or security, to
help us process and fulfill orders or requests, or provide other similar
services to us. If we do provide access, we require those companies outside our
family of companies to sign confidentiality agreements promising to keep secret
any information they see. If we believe that anyone's behavior on our sites may
damage us, our sites, or anyone else, we may disclose the relevant personal
information in order to prevent this harm. In that case, we might try to
identify the user, contact him or her, and/or bring legal action against him or
her. We may also disclose personal information if we believe that the disclosure
is required by law, or in response to a legal request. Thank you for reading our
privacy statement. We are genuinely committed to safeguarding online privacy for
both you and your child. We hope you have a better understanding of the many
activities offered on our Web site. Remember, we may change our policy from time
to time. When this happens, we will notify you of the new policy by posting it
on our site.
If you have concerns about your child's use of our service, please contact us by
calling 1-845-339-9537 and speak with a Customer Service representative. Your
child's use of this site is also governed by our Terms and Conditions statement.
Please read it.
Tonner® Doll Company
© 2005 Tonner® Doll Company. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
All trademarks property of Tonner® Doll Company
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