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Fairy Godmother Academy » Privacy and Security Policy (effective 28 Sept, 2009)

WELCOME!
Hello Dreamers, and thanks for visiting our kickoff website.

Now, go grab a Parent.
We want you and your parents to share the Fairy Godmother Academy experience together. If you are under 18, please go get a parent or guardian now, to read and understand together the online policies, rules and expectations of the Fairy Godmother Academy.

About the FairyGodmotherAcademy.com and FGA Media, Inc
The FairyGodmotherAcademy.com website, operated by FGA Media, Inc,  is committed to a safe, fun, controllable and protected online experience. We are committed to protecting our users' privacy, and therefore only collect and use personal information collected online in ways described in this policy. Please read all of it, and feel free to contact us with questions. Contact information can be found below and at http://FairyGodmotherAcademy.com/contact.

Additionally, the terms, conditions and expectations of users of this site are explained in the Terms of Use, found at http://FairyGodmotherAcademy.com/terms

Parents and COPPA
The Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)  and the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus provide laws and guidelines to which the FGA strives to adhere. Parents, please help your children have great experiences online by teaching them to never provide Personal Information (full name, real address, email address, phone number, and the like) without your permission.

If you want to review the information collected, delete it, set permissions for future collections, set how and when you or your child receive emails and other material, or UNSUBSCRIBE your address from emails, you can do so by:

  1. send an email with your request to support@fairygodmotheracademy.com from the PARENTS's address associated with a child account.

 

NOTES TO OUR UNDER 13 USERS
Why we collect information
In order to make this site as fun, safe and worthwhile as we can, we collect different kinds of information at different times. For example, we want to know what games and Wisdom Acts are most popular, what clothing items really rock, and what songs you can't seem to get enough of. So, we track your online activity, as a guest, a registered user, an enrolled student, or online shopper to understand what you like, and what you don't, what we might improve, and what we might ditch.

If you are under 13, you should never just give out Personal Information, such as your full name, home address, phone number and the like. Only your parents, or with your parent's permission, should you ever provide this info to Fairy Godmother Academy or any other website.

What information we collect from different Users
Guests - FREE
You may for free and without providing any information, play with most of the features of the site, including read parts of the book, dress up Birdie and friends in fantastic clothes, listen to songs and other stuff as a “Guest” of the Academy.

Registered or "Joined" users - FREE
If you are under 13, and want to create an account to save creations, your progress, or have a giftcard allowance, you must become “Registered”, which means we will collect only non-personally identifiable information (screen-name and birth date). If you want a giftcard allowance from your parents to buy songs, gifts, special clothes and the like, they will have to provide their credit card information and their email address. This feature is available from your Private Profile, viewable only by you when you are signed in and go to http://FairyGodmotherAcademy.com/friends/me, and then clicking the “Giftcard” tab near the top of that section.

Paying or "Enrolled" Users with Online Friends and Messaging – $2.99
To be part of the social network where you find friends and send and receive messages or to make your voice public in the Million Girl Choir, you must become “Enrolled.” This means you must not yet have had your 13th birthday, you must ask your parents to provide their credit card information, to agree to the terms, and to pay $2.99. This step allows us to employ more chaperons, and tie a real physical address to all the activity of an user and connect a parent or guardian to a child, which is an added measure of security your parents will love.

Special Activities and Features
If you are under 13,  you can get your parent's permission to volunteer extra information in order to play in certain activities, to enter contests, or to get email updates and the like. You can provide your parent's email address and we will follow up with them for you, or have them sit with you and fill in their information when the websites asks for it. You only have to get them to help the first time, because, if you are Registered or Enrolled, we will save their permission in your account,

Online Store and Giftcard Accounts
To buy things from the Fairy Godmother Academy requires your parent's valid credit card number, expiration date, physical address, phone number and email address. Your parents can also provide you a pre-paid giftcard account, so that you can buy items without going back to get your parents. They will have to provide the same information as well as your online FGA SCREEN-NAME (not your real name) and BIRTHDATE to make sure you get the giftcard account.

 

Get your parents involved, keep them involved
We strive to collect only as much information as is needed for any specific activity. If you are under 13, a Parent's email is required at the time of 'Joining' the Academy, which is done by filling in the optional "I'm New" form found on the home page or from the "I'm New" button found on every other page.

 

How and when we might share your information
From time to time, we will share group information with partners and vendors, in a way that does not include or allow any personally identifiable information. We might  allow other companies to see such information to help complete some activities, such as send physical mail or purchases, contest prizes or the like, but only if they agree to keep it secret and then destroy it after their job is done.

We do not share email addresses with other companies, although we may send to you email on their behalf if we think you actually would want to know about it, such as contests, coupons, special deals, and the like. If, in the future, another company controls FGA Media, they will also control the information in FGA Media's databases.

How is your information kept safe
We keep your information safe by encrypting it (putting it in a secret code), and only sharing it with members of our own team and with partners who provide services, we ensure they agree to keep it secret, and keep it only as long as they need to perform their services. When you buy things or provide any credit card or address or phone number information, we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and other technologies to keep the information safe when transmitted.

Optional, voluntary and automated info collection
To learn how to make this site as fun, rewarding, safe and clever as possible, we collect information both when you volunteer it to Register, Enroll, enter contests, sweepstakes and the like, as well as automatically through the use of cookies, clear gifs, and session tracking.

The anonymous information collected by cookies and session tracking, methods used by the vast majority of professionals to make better sites, happens automatically and is limited to anonymous or general information, such as your internet address (“IP address”), your area of the country, and the kind of browser or size of your screen. 

This info allows us to understand what pages are popular, which are not, and how you travel around the site, and for how long.

Changes? We'll tell you by email and post it all right here.
We sometimes will have to change this policy. We'll will do our best to let you know by email (if you allow us to contact you) and by posting it on this page. If we make material changes to how this policy affects the private information of our users under 13, we will try to contact the Parents to get permission again.

Questions? Contact us.
If you feel the need to say “Great Job!” (or for any reason related to this site, its features, policies, or expectations) please use this form:

Email us from the form at
http://fairygodmotheracademy.com/contact

Physical Mail
Fairy Godmother Academy
Attn: Web Comment
1711 S. Congress Ave, 3rd Floor
Austin Texas 78704

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  • This policy is effective as of May 29, 2009.