Wonder Stories Privacy Policy
We value the privacy of all of our users and we know you care about your privacy and the privacy of your children, so we created this Privacy Policy. It explains the information we collect from users and how and when we disclose or use it. By accessing or using the Wonder Stories, services, software, applications, and/or content made available by mPath ltd., "Wonder Stories" ("the Wonder Stories Service", "we", and "us"), you are consenting to collection and use of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. When you use the Wonder Stories Service, you also agree to our Terms of Service www.wonderstories.app/tos
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In providing our Services, we and our service providers may collect the following information from you:
Information submitted by you when you register, such as your year of birth, email address, password, your child’s age and a name for your child’s profile
Information when you purchase a subscription to the Wonder Stories Service such as your payment information, mailing address, and telephone number.
Information that you provide in public forums or otherwise voluntarily submit through our product features.
We and our service providers may also collect information from you as you use our Services, including:
By aggregating information : Aggregated information does not identify you or any other user of the Services (for example, we may aggregate information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).
2. HOW WE USE INFORMATION
We use these types of information in the following ways: 1) To provide you with the Wonder Stories Service and any features or services you might request (e.g., monthly subscription); 2) To send you updates about the Wonder Stories Service (including any updates on product features or policies); 3) To communicate with you about purchases or your account; 4) To provide you with personally relevant Content or product features; 5) To send you feedback on your child's reading progress; 6) To investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal; and/or 7) For gathering anonymous aggregate information from all our users to improve the products and services offered through the Wonder Stories Service.
3. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
Your information may be disclosed:
If you have created an account with the Wonder Stories Service, we may publicly associate your profile (or your child’s profile), including the profile name and avatar, with a User Submission (as defined in our Terms of Service) created by such profile. Please keep this in mind when you or your children create User Submissions.
To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
To our service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may use and disclose information that does not identify or otherwise directly relate to an individual for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. For example, we may share aggregated information publicly to demonstrate growth trends related to the usage of the Wonder Stories Service in certain areas.
4. TRANSPARENCY AND CONTROLS
We understand and respect your privacy concerns at Wonder Stories. Accordingly, we provide you with the ability to make certain choices related to our collection, use, and sharing of your information. These choices may include:
You may make choices regarding subscriptions, updates, and product alerts
You may tell us if you want to receive offers and promotions from us and/or third parties
You may request access to the personal information that we have collected on your account and ask us to change or delete it
5. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We do not collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Any child under the age of 13 using the Wonder Stories Service must do so with permission from a parent. All full names, email addresses, and credit card billing information must be from a parent or guardian. We encourage parents to take an active role in their children's activities and interests on their devices. When registering your child with the Wonder Stories Service, we may ask a series of general questions including your child's age, interests and gender. This information is used to customize content to your child's age and interests. We do not use or disclose this information for any other purposes except to provide you with quality service. Any data that is shared is done so on an anonymous, aggregate basis among all users or is related to communicating reading behavior patterns to publishers.
6. THIRD PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates. Although the Wonder Stories Service is a safe place for kids, a child may leave the Wonder Stories Service using the iOS or Android device Home button. Should your child leave the Wonder Stories Service for another application or browser, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. We have no control over how other applications or sites collect, distribute or otherwise use your personal information or how they safeguard and secure your personal information.
7. SECURITY
In circumstances where your personal information is collected, we use reasonable procedural and digital security measures that are designed to help protect against loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of information and data, such as password protection and secure socket layer. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe the security of your account has been compromised, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below
8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change or modify our Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a revised Privacy Policy on our site. The “last updated” legend at the top of this page indicates when this Policy was last revised. As an ongoing user of the Wonder Stories Service, you will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy. We ask that you refer to the Privacy Policy on a continuing basis so that you understand our current privacy practices.
9. CONTACT US
If you would like to opt out of marketing communications from Wonder Stories you can do so by emailing: hedman@buildempathy.com or by following the unsubscribe link in each such communication. If you would like to contact us with questions or feedback, please email hedman@buildempathy.com.
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