MrTiki.com has a mission to entertain everyone, that is super cool, in the universe. We feel, much like you, that your personal information should stay your personal information. Also, we promise to do our best to educate you (fellow Tikians) of your rights and abilities to shelter your info. With our best foot forward, we ensure that our privacy policy and our information practices adhere to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor Principles. Because many of the visitors to this site are children, we take care that our content is suitable for children. In addition, we take special measures to help children protect their privacy while on-line. For example, we do not ask children to disclose more personal information than is necessary for them to participate in a particular activity, and we take efforts to prevent children from posting contact information. Bottom line, we want you safe and we want only genuine and wonderfully precious people here! So let it be known, we don't endorse jerks, questionable characters, bigots, perverts, poopie-heads, or rude people.

PARENTS!!! To assist in ensuring a rewarding on-line experience for our younger visitors - we provide you with this summary of our information practices. *Drum roll*

Food for thought, as we continue to offer our visitors new and different types of content and services, we may modify our practices from time to time. However, we will treat all personal information we collect in accordance with the privacy notice in effect at the time the information is collected.

1. Information We Collect
   
   At MrTiki.com, the only personally identifiable information we collect from users 12 years old and younger is a valid e-mail address. And, we ONLY use this information to send these users one message to activate their Mrtiki account, and then the e-mail address is completely removed from our system. We also ask users 12 years old and under for certain non-personally identifiable information, such as birth date, gender, state/province, zip/postal code, and country. Mrtiki requires users 13 years and older to provide a first and last name, valid e-mail address, birth date, gender, and postal code. Although they have the option to voluntarily enter additional information (such as home address, state and country), it's not a requirement to activate their account. For some of our on-line activities-such as polls or surveys-we may ask users to provide additional information that is not personally identifiable, such as city or state of residence. When a child under 13 enters a contest, we will ask for a parent's e-mail address so that we can notify the parent that we have received personal information from the child. We do not knowingly collect names and e-mail addresses from children under 13 without notifying the parent via e-mail and giving them the opportunity to remove their child's name from the list of entries. Winners of our contests or sweepstakes are notified by e-mail, and are required to send us by fax or regular mail a form containing their street address. Winners who are minors must have the form signed by a parent in order to receive their prizes. Our site uses cookies. What is a cookie use say? Is it anything like a cookie that I buy in a store? No, it's a tool that helps us keep you logged in!



2. What do we do with your information?
   
   Well we are curious! that's a fact! We look at spreadsheets of the information and use it to decide what sort of content we want to add. Also, we sell advertising on MrTiki.com or at least we try! The people that want to buy advertising are interested in who our audience is. On occasion we will average what are called demographics to see who you are. [Listen up this next section is important] start important: We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's or other public agency's (including schools or children services) request or if we feel that such disclosure may prevent the instigation of a crime. We will not use or transfer personally identifiable information in ways that are materially different from the ones described above without also providing parental notification of such practices and obtaining consent for any materially different uses. :end important



3. Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
   
   Our site contains links to other sites, including those of sponsors, advertisers and survey companies, whose information practices may be different from ours. Sometimes the other sites might conduct contests or sweepstakes that are promoted on MrTiki.com. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices, since those sites are not covered by our privacy policy and may follow procedures that are different from ours. Mrtiki never gives a user's e-mail address or other registration information to such third parties without permission, however, if you choose to "opt-in" (click on a box to receive a third party's information), to register with one of our sponsors, or not to "opt-out" (uncheck a checked box that will provide a sponsor with your information), that means you have allowed Mrtiki to give your registration information and other collecting information, including e-mail address, to that that third party. So, if you despise opt boxes, keep a look out when you sign up for something! Again, this is a way that we make money so by signing up for these you are supporting MrTiki.com but you certainly don't have too!! Sometimes third parties use cookies, text files, or similar technologies (see "IV. Cookies" below) to collect user preferences for various purposes. The use of these technologies by such third parties is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours. We can't tell them what to do... and likewise they can't tell us what to do. Visitors who do not wish their activities to be subject to this data collection should consult the websites of these third parties for their procedures for opting out of cookie placement. Also, if you really don't like one of our sponsors, let us know at Support@MrTiki.com.



4. Cookies
   
   MrTiki.com uses a software technology called "cookies." Cookies are small text files that we and certain third parties place in visitors' computer browsers to store their preferences. Cookies themselves do not contain any personally identifiable information. Although cookies could enable us to relate a visitor's use of this Web site to personal information that a visitor has provided, such as an e-mail address, we do not use them for this purpose. We do use "cookies" to determine how many visitors we have and how often they visit various sections of our site. Want more information on Cookies? Check out wikipedia! Here's an excerpt: An HTTP cookie, or a Web cookie, is a parcel of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences and the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term "cookie" is derived from "magic cookie," a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies. We employ P3P codes and so-called P3P privacy policies only as technical switches to enable our web site to function properly. Some Web browsers require those codes in order to trigger the function of certain cookies. However, our use of P3P is completely unrelated to any privacy or data policies that we may be bound to and the DSA token in our compact P3P privacy policy means that the P3P codes and so-called P3P privacy policies we publish have no meaning and carry no obligations or liability. We disavow any significance to those codes and policies and reject all aspects of the P3P protocol.



5. Security
   
   We want you to be safe. Therefore, we've implemented safeguards for your protection. Such measures include: physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. These procedures ensure safty and help to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect on-line.



6. Parental Review of Information
   
   PARENTS!! If you're interested in any of the following:
   
   
   1. access the personally identifiable information that the www.mrtiki.com site has collected on-line from your child,
   2. correct factual errors in such information,
   3. request to have this information deleted, or
   4. request that we no longer collect or maintain such information.
   
   Please email our guru of privacy the Support@MrTiki.com
   
   Please be sure to include your e-mail address and a telephone number where we can reach you. To protect your child's privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting you access to the personal information that we collect and maintain about your child.



7. Contact Us
   
   questions, comments, or concerns??... then you need:
   
   E-mail addresses and regular addresses!!
   
   Support@MrTiki.com
   Privacy Manager - MrTiki.com
   4872 Topanga Canyon Blvd. #290 Woodland Hills, CA 91364
   
   If you are unable to resolve your concerns with our Privacy Manager, we encourage you to contact The Direct Marketing Association at www.the-dma.org.



8. PARENTS!!!!
   
   The Internet offers a world of opportunity for children. Your guidance and involvement are essential to help ensure that children have a safe and rewarding on-line experience. We encourage you to visit The Direct Marketing Association's Web site (www.the-dma.org) and explore the Get CyberSavvy! program at http://www.cybersavvy.org/cybersavvy/index.html. Get CyberSavvy! helps families learn how information flows on-line so they can use the Internet in ways that protect their privacy and well-being. It also contains a number of valuable resources to help parents and children be aware of and express their preferences about information that is collected on-line and how it is used. Your efforts to instill responsible information practices will help steer your children to age-appropriate sites and will go a long way toward ensuring that your children have enriching experiences on-line.



9. Effective Date
   
   The privacy policy set out above is effective as of September 21, 2006, and applies to all information previously obtained by MRTIKI. MRTIKI reserves the right to change its privacy policy at its sole discretion. MRTIKIS' users will be informed of any such change by MRTIKI posting a new privacy policy on the MrTiki.com website. The effective date of any change of privacy policy will be clearly marked.