Monarch Publishers is committed to protecting the privacy and security of its online visitors. We are also extremely sensitive to families' concerns about their children's personal information and safety. We want you to know about and understand the measures we have taken to keep
our website a safe and secure environment for everyone. This privacy statement tells you how and why we collect information from you, and how we use that information.
We encourage our visitors to read through and understand our privacy statement. We may update it from time to time to address new issues or reflect changes on our site. Please refer to this privacy statement regularly.
Monarch Publishers, LLC reserves the right to make non-substantive changes to this
policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about the statement, please
e-mail us.
The information that you provide to us
Providing personal information through submitting your child's
work, signing our guestbook, and signing up for the email newsletter
are all voluntary and free. Non-submitters can still use the majority of our
site; however, they will not have the opportunity to win our contest
or voice their opinions on the website. When you register with
the Monarch Publishers email sign-up, you provide your email
address.
The personally identifiable information we request from you may be
e-mail address, name, city and state, and age. When you wish to purchase
a book, we will also ask you for the following: shipping address, phone number (for special promotions), and credit card
number via Paypal. When you wish to request a school visit by
our author and artist, you will be asked to identify the name and address of the school or group you wish to benefit.
Please note: Children under the age of 13 cannot subscribe to our
e-mail newsletter, sign the guestbook, or submit their own work with
out a parent.
How We Use the Information You Provide
Monarch Publishers uses your information to tailor the content programming,
and information services that we provide to meet your needs and interests.
We do not share any personal information you provide to us with any partner, sponsor, affiliate, agent, or third party, unless you have given us express consent to do so.
Monarch
Monarch Publishers also collects information on our audience as a whole. Here, no audience members are identified by their personal information -- we are only interested in how
Monarch Publishers looks demographically and statistically. This basic market research allows us to identify the trends, developments, and needs of our audience. The information is organized into reports that are used internally to make sure that
our product or services are appropriately suited to our audience. Every audience member remains completely anonymous.
If you sign up for our e-mail news, Monarch Publishers uses only
uses your email address to email you directly about our news,
updates, etc.
Choice/Opt-out:
When you register for e-mail news, you are given the option to receive important
Monarch Publishers news, events, products, and special offers. If you
later wish not to be contacted, you can simply reply with
"unsubscribe" in your reply mail, or you can revisit our
website and op-out. At any time, you may change this decision and either opt-in or opt-out of this service by sending an email to:
admin@monarchpublishers.com.
We Protect Kids' Privacy
Monarch Publishers encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children. We urge parents to instruct their children to never give out their real names, addresses, or phone numbers without permission when using the Internet. We recognize a special obligation to protect personal information obtained from children.
As a parent, you've probably done a lot of thinking about protecting your family's privacy on the Internet. We have been thinking and working hard to provide you with the best information and the highest quality interaction on the Internet in an environment that is safe. In compliance with COPPA (the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), we have adopted the following policies to keep kids safe:
We will NOT knowingly collect, use, or distribute personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable consent from a parent or guardian.
Personally identifiable information we collect from children under the age of 13 will be used solely by
Monarch Publishers for internal purposes only and will NOT be sold or otherwise distributed to third parties.
We will NOT knowingly allow children under the age of 13 access to chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services within
Monarch Publishers that would allow them to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable consent from a parent or guardian.
We will NOT knowingly ask a child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
We will NOT knowingly keep any personally identifiable information that is inadvertently included in a child's email submission, help inquiry, or other one-time request. Information will be automatically purged or purged immediately after the issue has been resolved.
We will NOT knowingly post any personally identifiable information that is inadvertently included in a child's submission to a general audience contribution area. These submissions will be deleted and handled anonymously thereafter.
We will NOT knowingly provide any direct link to websites that are unsuitable for children or teens.
Monarch Publishers will not advertise on any site that does not comply with the regulations set forth under COPPA.
We will advise children under the age of 13 that they MUST obtain permission from their parent or guardian before sharing ANY personal information.
Upon request, Monarch Publishers will provide a parent or guardian with a description of the information that may have been provided about their child during a registration process for a program or service of this site.
Monarch Publishers only asks for a child's or teen's personal information if it is necessary to participate in the program or service.
If you have any questions about our Kids' Privacy Policy, please
e-mail Monarch Publishers at admin@monarchpublishers.com
Notification and Verifiable Parental Consent
Before any personally identifiable information is collected, we will do our best to notify the parent or guardian that their child is participating. Notification will include the exact nature and intended use of the information we are collecting, as well as the opportunity for the parent or guardian to prevent the use of the information and the child's participation in the activity. For every child (anyone under 13 years of age) we require the parent or guardian to provide verifiable parental consent such as an email, mail-in letter, fax, or toll-free phone call to
Monarch Publishers. When verifiable parental consent has not yet been obtained, we will use online contact information (such as an email address) only as is appropriate to:
Request the name or online contact information of a parent or guardian for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing notification to the parent or guardian;
Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis (for example, to provide assistance with a particular study question), not using that information to re-contact the child for any other purpose;
Respond more than once directly to a specific request from the child (for example, to satisfy the request for a newsletter subscription), not using that information to re-contact the child for any other purpose.
Do We Use Cookies?
Monarch Publishers does NOT use "cookies" (small text
files written to your computer.)
What Are IP Addresses?
An IP address is a number that is assigned automatically to your computer whenever you use the World Wide Web. Web servers -- the big computers that "serve up" Web pages -- automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
Monarch Publishers collects IP addresses for system administration;
and to audit the use of our site. When visitors request pages from Monarch Publishers
sites, our servers log the guests' IP addresses. We typically do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a visitor's session will be logged, but the visitor remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a visitor when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules or terms of service, or to protect our service, site, customers, or other individuals.
A Notice About External Links
Occasionally, you will find links from Monarch Publishers to independently owned, controlled, and/or managed
websites whose content we believe will be of possible interest and value to our visitors.
We don't control the content of these links. These other sites may send you their own cookies, collect data, or solicit personal information.
Monarch Publishers does not share any of your personally identifiable information with these
link partners and they do not share any information with us. Once you leave our servers (you can generally tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), the use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from that site's
home page, you should contact the site directly for more information.
We specifically recommend that children check with their parents or teachers before connecting to any new sites.
Public Forums
Monarch Publishers has a public guestbook and a news group available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. Consequently, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
To the extent that portions of Monarch Publishers, such as the
guestbook, provides users an opportunity to post and exchange information, ideas, and opinions ("Postings"), BE ADVISED THAT
Monarch Publishers MAY NOT SCREEN, EDIT, OR REVIEW POSTINGS PRIOR TO THEIR APPEARANCE ON
Monarch Publishers, and Postings do not necessarily reflect the views of
Monarch Publishers. Monarch Publishers reserves the right to monitor all Postings and to remove any which it considers offensive or otherwise in violation of our legal Terms and Conditions. Please read these Terms of Use according to which
Monarch Publishers will in no way be responsible or liable for the Postings.
Regarding postings: you must have all necessary rights in and to all
postings you provide and all material they contain; your postings must not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties; your
postings must not contain any viruses or other contaminating or destructive devices or features; your
postings must not contain any defamatory, indecent, offensive, tortuous, or otherwise unlawful material or content; and your
postings must not be used to carry out or solicit any unlawful activity and/or be used to make commercial solicitations. Also, you authorize
Monarch Publishers to use and/or authorize others to use all or part of your
postings in any manner, format, or medium that Monarch Publishers or such other parties see fit; and you shall have no claim or other recourse against
Monarch Publishers for infringement of any proprietary right in Postings.
Security and Credit Card Use
Monarch Publishers uses Paypal for the purchase of a book.
Monarch Publishers in no way is gaining access to your credit card
information. To see more on this, please visit the privacy
policy used at Paypal.
Contacting Monarch Publishers:
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of
Monarch Publishers, or your dealings with Monarch Publishers, please
e-mail us.
