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This is the official Web site of www.4Kids.org, a syndicated weekly
newspaper feature appearing in newspapers throughout North America. Our mailing address is:
www.4Kids.org
c/o Melanie A. Bacon
1122 West Campus Road
236 Joseph R. Pearson Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Communication to www.4Kids.org may be directed to the Contact Us page.
www.4Kids.org is hosted on an ALTEC server resident on the campus
of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.
At 4Kids.org, we value your child's privacy and strive
to protect his or her safety during their visit to our website. So as
to ensure your child's protection, 4Kids.org is compliant
with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 2000. 4Kids.org
will never require your child to submit any more personal information
other than what is required for activity participation.
Any and all
of the information collected by the www.4Kids.org server
about visitors to the www.4Kids.org site is for internal
review only. The only information collected is the domain name (but not
the e-mail address) of visitors, and the e-mail addresses of those who
communicate with us via e-mail. This information will never be shared
or sold.
Kids may submit data to our Web site via e-mail or through our Web site
forms. They are:
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"Ask Amy" (www.4Kids.org/askamy) Members
of our staff reply to e-mail sent to us. An e-mail address is required
for this activity but the mail received to Ask Amy is never archived,
shared or sold. A first name and last initial, age, gender, and hometown
is optional but not required. Kids without direct Internet access
can mail questions to Amy via the Postal Service. These addresses
are also never sold, saved, or stored.
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"KidQuest"
(www.4Kids.org/kidquest) Kids are
asked to submit their initials, the name of their hometown and state.
They are discouraged from submitting their full name. The results
of KidQuest are refreshed once every week but are never archived.
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"Surftificate"
(www.4Kids.org/safesurf/surftificate)
Kids are asked to submit their first name only, the name of their
hometown and state. They are discouraged from submitting their last
name. They are then asked to complete a form about Web safety and
have the option of adding a personal statement about Web safety. Their
first name is appended to the "Surftificate" page which they may print
out. This information is not archived.
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"SpeakOut"
(www.4Kids.org/speakout) Kids are
asked to answer a new question proposed once a week. They are asked
to submit their first name and last initial, the name of their hometown
and state. They are discouraged from submitting their last name. Responses
can be made by filling out a blank form that does not require an email
address. These answers are posted for one week. There is no automatic
posting for SpeakOut. Responses are looked over by staff for appropriateness
and to delete any personal or contact information that may have been
given. Kids can propose a SpeakOut question; email is optional but
not required for this activity and is not stored.
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Nominations
(www.4Kids.org/nominations) Kids
are asked to nominate a cool website, school, teacher, or kid/teen
tech. Email is required for contact if the child wins this contest.
They are asked for a first name, last initial, age, hometown and state.
They are discouraged from submitting a last name. This information
is not kept.
- Games Feedback (www.4Kids.org/games) Web site visitors are encouraged to provide 4kids staff feedback about games
developed for educational purposes so that we can make the best games for
kids. A first name, email address, age, gender, state, country, profession
is requested but not required. Information is collected actively from the
visitor and stored in a secure database. Information is not shared or disclosed with third parties.
Under the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, you as a parent can, at any
time, contact www.4Kids.org to review your child's personal
information or ask to have it deleted. You may also refuse to allow any
further contact with www.4Kids.org and your child. To
do so, please contact mbacon@4Kids.org.
All Web site
reviews or links to Web sites appearing in the newspaper, in our archive,
called "Cool Spots," or those that are in our "Back Issues" are carefully
checked by our reviewers to ensure that they meet our strict guidelines.
Nothing is automatically posted to our Web site.
We strive to ensure that none of these sites, to the best of our knowledge,
contain pornographic material or links to pornographic material, encourage
illegal activity or racism, provide instructions or discussions about performing
illegal activities, engage in libelous or harassing activities, promote
or utilize software or services designed to deliver unsolicited e-mail,
or are otherwise inappropriate for children.
Should any visitor to our Web site discover such a link to any of the above
directly from our pages, we encourage them to inform us immediately by
visiting our Contact Us page.
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