DiscoverYour Daughter

Privacy Policy Welcome to our DiscoverYourDaughter.com! DiscoverYourDaughter.com is a service provided by Discovery Girls, Inc. (“Discovery Girls” “we” or “us”). By visiting our site, you agree that your visit is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service. Please take a few minutes to read them before using or registering with our site. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES ONLY TO OUR ONLINE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION AND DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU MAY PROVIDE TO US BY OTHER MEANS, SUCH AS VIA MAIL OR TELEPHONE. Please read this online Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our privacy practices regarding:

• Children Under 13    
• Information We Collect    
• Contests & Other Promotions    
• Tracking & Information Cookies  
• How Your Information Will Be Used  
• Sites to Which We Link  
• Shopping  
• How to Correct or Update Your Information    
• Promotional E-Mails    
• Security
• Web Site Registration Information  
• Other Disclosures

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@discoverygirls.com.

Children Under 13

Discovery Girls cares about protecting the privacy of children. This web site, DiscoverYourDaughter.com, is not intended for children, and we will not knowingly collect any personally identifying information from children on this site. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any personal information such as their names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We encourage you to become involved in your children’s online experience, and to share your interest in our site with your daughter(s). If you are under 13, please do not register with this site or provide us with any personally identifying information (such as your name, your e-mail address or your phone number). For information about how we collect and use information on our COPPA-compliant web site for girls ages 8 to 12, please read the Privacy Policy on DiscoveryGirls.com.

Information We Collect

The information we gather on DiscoverYourDaughter.com falls into two categories: (1) information you supply when you register or initiate transactions, and (2) tracking information collected as you navigate through our site. Personally Identifying Information Registration Information. When you register, we collect some personally identifying information about you, including your name, e-mail address, user name and password. In addition, when you place an order for products, we may collect additional information such as your address and phone number for the purpose of processing your order. We may also occasionally collect your name, e-mail address, and state, if you choose to participate in surveys on our site. These surveys will be used to tailor the site to your interests, to make it more useful to you, and to help improve the site generally.

Contests and Other Promotions

From time to time, we may offer contests or other promotions involving marketing or advertising partners. If you choose to participate in one of these contests or promotions, you’ll have to provide some information about yourself (such as your name, address, and e-mail address). We may share this information with sponsors of the contest or other promotional partners, but we will always identify the other parties involved (for example, in the contest rules) and provide notice that your registration may be disclosed to these parties. We don’t control these third parties’ privacy practices, and our Privacy Policy does not apply to their collection and use of your information. We urge you to review their privacy policies and learn how they will use your information before participating. If you don’t want us to collect the information requested in connection with a promotion, or to provide it to our co-sponsors or partners, please do not participate in the promotion.

Tracking Information Cookies

To help us serve you better, we use “cookies” to store and sometimes to track user information. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. A cookie contains a unique number that allows our site to identify your computer. For example, cookies allow us to keep track of your user name and password (if you are a registered visitor) so you don’t have to re-enter that information each time you visit our site. The help function on most browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you don’t accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of various features on our sites that are available to other visitors. In addition, our advertising and marketing partners may use their own cookies. Cookies can also help to speed the loading of pages, keep track of purchases if you are shopping online, or otherwise make web-surfing easier. Cookies help us determine how many people visit our site, which of our web pages are viewed the most often, and how much time people spend on our various web pages. This information helps us determine which of our web features are successful and which need improvement. We also record IP addresses for the sole purpose of improving the function of our polls and comments features. (An IP address is the number assigned to your computer when you surf the web.) The information that we collect through cookies and IP addresses is anonymous and not personally identifiable.

How Your Information Will Be Used

Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with a customized experience when visiting our site and to make our site more valuable to you. Vendors and Service Providers: To make your experience on our site more useful and enjoyable, we may offer some features (such as our e-mail newsletter) in conjunction with third party providers (“Provider Partners”). We share with these Provider Partners only such information as is necessary for them to fulfill whatever services we have contracted with them to provide. Their use of this information will be subject to the terms of their respective privacy policies, which you can find on their web sites. We will not provide your e-mail address to such third parties unless it’s necessary to provide the services you have requested, or to allow you to participate in a co-sponsored promotion.

Sites to Which We Link

We also may provide links to other sites, and provide access to products and services offered by third parties whose privacy policies we don’t control. When you access another web site or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions through our web site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you’re visiting or the provider of such products or services. When you provide information in the course of obtaining products or services through our site, use of any information you provide may be governed by the privacy policy of the provider of those products or services, even if it appears that you’re on our site throughout the transaction. The provider’s privacy policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of our providers via a link either from the site’s homepage or from the pages on which the products or services are offered, you should contact the provider directly for more information.

Shopping

Customers must be over age 18 and must use a valid credit card or other valid payment method accepted by Discovery Girls to purchase subscriptions or other products online. When a customer places an order, we collect information needed to complete the transaction, such as the customer’s name, mailing address, shipping addresses, and credit card information. Discovery Girls will only share your e-mail address with companies outside Discovery Girls Inc. for direct marketing purposes if you have given your prior consent. When you place a subscription order, you are offered the opportunity to choose to receive information on upcoming Discovery Girls’ products, DiscoveryGirls.com, and DiscoverYourDaughter.com updates and promotions, and information about the products or services of carefully-selected third parties. If you want to stop receiving such updates and product information from Discovery Girls and/or our affiliates at any time, please notify Customer Service or write to us at: Discovery Girls P.O. Box 420235 Palm Coast, FL 32142-0235 Discovery Girls may give other companies access to our information database, but only if necessary to allow them to provide database or server maintenance or security, help us process and fulfill orders or requests, or provide other similar services. If we do provide access, we require those other companies to sign confidentiality agreements promising to keep secret any information they see. All information may be transferred as part of the purchase or sale of a business.

How to Correct or Update Your Information

You may access and edit the personally identifying information that you have provided to us through DiscoverYourDaughter.com by visiting our My Account area. Newsletters and Promotions: Newsletters. As part of the services of DiscoverYourDaughter.com, we offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our monthly e-mail newsletter. If you opt to receive the newsletter, you can always unsubscribe later either (1) by following the ‘unsubscribe’ link located near the bottom of each newsletter, or (2) by going to My Account, unchecking the box next to the Newsletter option and clicking the “Save” button.

Promotional E-mails

If you provide us with your e-mail address, from time to time we may send you e-mails about Discovery Girls products, services, and special offers (such as Discovery Girls magazine subscription offers) that we believe may be of interest to you. When you register, you will also be given an opportunity to tell us whether you would like to receive e-mails about products, services, and special offers from third-party providers. Though we hope that you will find both types of promotional e-mails helpful, if at any time you decide that you no longer wish to receive either or both types of e-mails, you may go to the My Account page and update your preferences. We will make any changes you request as quickly as we can.

 Security

The personally identifying information we collect is stored within a database that we control. We use standard, industry-wide procedures such as firewalls and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption to protect your information. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a message you post to any message board, discussion group, or other public posting area on our site is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don’t want people to know your name or e-mail address, for example, do not to include it in any message you post publicly. Please see our Terms of Service for more information related to posting materials on our site, including our use of such materials. As we continue to offer new services and different types of content, we may modify our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting any changes on this web site.

Disclosures of Web Site Registration Information

When you register to become a member of DiscoverYourDaughter.com and when you use our site, you may be invited to sign up to receive special offers from reputable third-party advertisers that we think may be of interest to you. If you choose to register for these offers, we will share your registration information with the advertisers that sponsor the offers you elect to receive. To prevent the disclosure of your registration information to these advertisers, please do not register to receive third-party offers when you sign up for membership and/or use our site.

Other Disclosures

We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Terms of Service, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of visitors to our sites, the public, or Discovery Girls, Inc. As our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that Discovery Girls, Inc., substantially all of our assets, or one or more of our sites (or substantially all of its assets) is acquired by another company, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.