Security is Our Priority!
Playgroups USA is extremely committed to protecting your privacy and will always take all reasonable steps to safeguard profile data and information supplied to us. We protect your privacy by using industry accepted security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data entered into our system.
The Playgroups USA Privacy Policy is designed to ensure the safety and accuracy of Internet users' personal information, whether gathered on this site or by our clients. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties. We understand the importance of personal information security and are absolutely committed to personal privacy over the Internet. To that end, we strive to only work with companies guarding any personal information they collect from their existing or potential customers. Playgroups USA will only send regular communication via e-mail to those that opt in to our permission-based newsletter. You will always be provided a way to opt out of future communications should you desire.
Playgroups USA collects data from Internet users including non-personally identifiable information from its site's visitors, IP address of their server and what pages they visited. We use this information to continuously improve our site's functionality. eROI also collects personally identifiable information, including e-mail addresses, from those visitors who opt-in to receive some information from us, make inquiries or comments. We use this information to directly respond to visitors' communications. If a customer joins an online marketing program with any of our clients, they typically submit some personally identifiable information to participate in this program. However, the type and amount of information collected varies, and each of our clients specifies what information is collected.
Playgroups USA collects personally identifiable information from those who register on our website to use any of our services. Such information includes name, address, and billing information. We use this information only to provide our services and for accounts receivable to these services. We also may collect information regarding your use of our services. We may use this and your personally identifiable information to compile general information about our clients and our services so that we may improve the services we offer. We may create reports based on that information to share with our clients, but these reports never contain any personally identifiable information. For example, we might determine from all of our data that there are certain days that are better for playgroup dates than others.
You may view your personally identifiable information that we have at any time by logging into your account through our website. You may update or correct this information at any time.
Keeping your personal information secure is a top priority for us. Therefore, Playgroups USA utilizes 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, the industry's leading data security solutions, and has implemented policies and procedures to ensure the physical and electronic security of data stored by Playgroups USA . Playgroups USA may employ permission-based marketing principles: it requires its clients to communicate only to users who affirmatively express an interest in receiving e-mails relevant to their interests in a particular company or product. Permission to receive e-mails may be granted and taken away; in other words customers may "opt-in" and "opt-out". If a customer chooses to opt-out, the Playgroups USA client is required to stop sending messages to that customer. Playgroups USA puts a high value on a customers' ability to discontinue receiving unwanted e-mail.
Playgroups USA utilizes Cookie technology. A Cookie is information our website places on the hard disk of your computer so that our web site can recognize who you are when you return to our web site. We use Cookies for purposes of web site traffic analysis such as the time/date of the visit, the time/date of last visit, the page viewed, the referrer, transaction information, potentially, for eCommerce pages, and other data. Playgroups USA may track click behavior in the e-mails and newsletters it sends out. This data is used to update specific user-profile information, ascertain the areas of most interest, and to personalize e-mail messages.
Playgroups USA does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information whether gathered by Playgroups USA itself or received from its clients. When Playgroups USA, on behalf of its clients, collects personally identifiable information from opt-in participants in those clients' marketing programs, such information belongs to those respective clients and is subject to their policies on sharing of the end user information. You will always be notified within the message if you are supplying this information to a third party.
Playgroups USA is a general audience site and is not directed to children under the age of 13. Whether for itself or for its clients, Playgroups USA will not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from or about anyone under 13. Playgroups USA will make the best effort to assist its clients in complying with privacy laws and adhering to the highest industry standards on privacy.
If you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent via our system or purporting to be sent via this system, please forward a copy of that email with your comments to info@playgroupsusa.com for review.
We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time and will post the most current version of this policy on our website.
