Introduction
Family Front is an online community that provides its members with access to family and parenting information, forum discussions, and to optional coaching services.
We are committed to fair information practices and we respect the privacy and security of our users. Our goal is to provide you with a personalized Internet experience that delivers information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. In order to achieve this goal, we sometimes collect information during your visits to understand what differentiates you from each of our other users. We also may ask for personal information that enables us to give you access to “members only” areas within our web site. We will not disclose your information to any person outside our organization except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use by Family Front
Family Front collects member submitted information such as name, address, email and credit card information in order to register and authenticate members. Relevant information is shared with third parties (e.g., credit card processing companies) for the purposes of facilitating the Parent Learning Center. Your information is provided to these third parties solely for the purpose of providing you such services.
Family Front also uses this information to send notifications to members regarding various Family Front services available to its members. Family Front also collects other profile data including but not limited to marital status, parenting status, and other family information in an effort to meet the needs and wants of our members.
Family Front also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate member data, and browser type, from members and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. Member IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
Email addresses and other contact information of members is not shared or displayed to other members of the Parent Learning Center. Members communicate on the Parent Learning Center with each other through the use of the Forum. This is done without disclosure of identifiable information and with the use of a screen name chosen by the member. Family Front never discloses members' full names to other members. If full names are shared, it is only through the actions of the members themselves.
We may also use a member's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service.
From time to time, Family Front or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on Family Front. Members may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Use of Cookies
Family Front uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and member profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from Family Front in order to use most functions on the site.
Links
Family Front is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When clicking links to enter other sites, you should read and understand the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected by Family Front.
Private and Public Forums
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Private or Public Forums, those bits of information can be accessed by others and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
Family Front members may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit My Profile and Account Info.
Security
Family Front member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. Family Front takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. You can also help protect your information and identity by not sharing your username and password with others. In addition, if you are using a public or shared computer, we strongly recommend that you sign out of your Parent Learning Center account and close your browser when you are done using your account. This will prevent others from accessing your account and personal information.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information Family Front Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Family Front will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Family Front, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Family Front Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and members of the service.
We may provide anonymous, summary statistics about the interests and preferences of visitors of our web site, traffic patterns and related site information. These statistics do not include personally identifiable information.
Family Front reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Family Front or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make members aware of what the changes are so members will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A member is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use members' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.
This privacy policy was last updated on March 13, 2008