Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors to www.kids-search.com is important to us. At www.kids-search.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit www.kids-search.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, We also use third party advertisements on www.kids-search.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (interest based targeting).

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. Our search service is powered by Google Custom Search. You should read Google's privacy policy at: https://www.google.com/privacy.html

The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history. For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey. DART uses non personally identifiable information. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.

You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting https://www.doubleclickbygoogle.com

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Children's Privacy

kids-search.com does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you'd like to contact kids-search.com and you are under the age of 13, please have a guardian, parent, or teacher contact us on your behalf. If we discover that we have been sent the personal information of a child under 13, we will take steps to delete that information as soon as possible.

Public Safety and Legal Issues

Your privacy is important to kids-search.com, and we go to great lengths to protect it. However, there may be rare and unforeseen circumstances when we could be required by law or litigation to disclose your personal information. There may also be cases in which we may disclose information about you if we determine that information you send could indicate that you are involved in a crime, or suggests that you may be a danger to yourself or any other person, or if any other issues of public safety importance make such disclosure necessary.

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