KID'S PRIVACY POLICY FOR WWW.SCBWI.COM

Children can surf www.SCBWI.org and view its content without any personally identifiable information being collected. However, in applying for membership to SCBWI, it is necessary to collect personally identifiable information from the applicant to allow participation in an activity (like entering a contest) or to communicate with our online community (via e-mail or message boards).

We do not allow kids 12 and younger to participate in our Discussion Boards or Email Forums.

SCBWI believes it is good policy not to collect personally identifiable information from kids 12 and younger, so in order to apply for membership to SCBWI, the applicant must be at least 12 years old with parental approval, or over 18 without parental approval.

The only personally identifiable information we collect from child members of SCBWI will be the first name, parent's e-mail address, and parent's mailing address.

We also allow parents to request at any time that the information collected about their child be removed from our database. If you would like to deactivate your child's membership, please send an e-mail message to membership@scbwi.org with your child's name requesting that the account be cancelled.

We will give out personal information about kids if required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena; to enforce our Terms of Service, or site or game rules; or to protect the safety and security of Guests and our sites.

Any time children between the ages of 12 and 18 register with us, we send an e-mail notification to their parent or guardian. In addition, we require parents to give express permission before we will allow their children to use e-mail, message boards, and other features where personally identifiable information can be made public to the Internet and shared with users of all ages.

If we don't hear back from parents, we assume it's okay for a child to be registered with us. Once a child has registered, he or she will be allowed to enter any future registration-based games and contests, and parents aren't notified again. In this instance, we use the information collected only to notify parents when a child has won a game or contest. We don't use this information for any other purpose.

The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our guests is of utmost concern to us. SCBWI takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect all visitors' information. When you provide credit card information, we use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect it. There are some things that you can do to help protect the security of your information as well. For instance, never give out your Password, since this is what is used to access all of your account information. Also remember to sign out of your account and close your browser window when you finish surfing the Web so that other people using the same computer won't have access to your information.

If you need further assistance, please send an e-mail with your questions or comments to membership@scbwi.org or write us at:

Member Services
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
8271 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048