Privacy Policy

For the School Backpacks Site 
 
Last Updated: June 12, 2011

Overview 
Schoolbackpacks.org has no interest, financial motivation or desire to compromise the privacy of our Website visitors. 
 
Schoolbackpacks.org does not collect personally identifiable information on any of its users. Nor does it place cookies or information on your computer's hard drive.
 
Cookies & Web Beacons
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. Our website does not use cookies. However, Google AdSense, our Third Party advertising partner, may use cookies via our website. We have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. 
 
Information gathering & dissemination practices for the School Backpacks Site include:

Log Files
Like most standard Website servers we collect and use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Through our traffic monitoring devices, Schoolbackpacks.org does temporarily collect information about users to include: search terms by which they entered our website, IP address, referring website or search engine, browser type and settings.
 
Advertisers 
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, you may visit: google.com/privacy_ads.html
 
The DoubleClick DART cookie (see complete information at: http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/faq.aspx) is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.

Aspects of the DoubleClick DART cookie include:
# Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on publisher's websites.
# Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to Schoolbackpacks.org and other sites on the Internet.
# Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
 
Emails to the School Backpacks Site:
If you contact schoolbackpacks.org, your email and all the information you list therein, will be kept on file. By contacting schoolbackpacks.org it is understood by you, the individual initiating contact, that you are volunteering to provide information about yourself and query in the contact email. All emails are confidential and will never be shared with Third Parties.
 
Third Parties 
Schoolbackpacks.org does not share your personally identifiable information with Third Parties, with the exception of Google AdSense, because we do not personally collect such information. 
 
Schoolbackpacks.org is not responsible for the practices employed by Websites linked to or from our Website or the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Website.
 
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link on our Website, is subject to that Website's own rules and policies.
 
A Special Note About Children 
Children are not eligible to use our services unsupervised and we ask that children (under the age of 14) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with permission and guidance from your parents or guardians. 
 
Policy Modifications 
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.