WhaleTimes, Inc. PRIVACY POLICY:
WhaleTimes does not require any PERSONAL information
to ask questions, submit a story, poem, vote for Hagfish Day Star, or receive a Hagfish Day e-card or for any otherr WhaleTimes activities.If an emailer expects a reply, WhaleTimes will use the "reply to" to respond to the message ONCE.
Email addresses will not be kept on file or shared.
For questions and stories, THOUGH NOT REQUIRED, if an emailer's question requires a personal response, additional information, or they choose to, they can share any or all of the below:
First name
Grade
State, and/or country
This information is used to help the WhaleTimes staff answer questions and provide information at the appropriate age level or grade of requestor. Plus, where a student lives may help us suggest local animals or experts for further research. Again, no personal information is required.
Poem/Story submissions: If a visitor chooses to e-mail (or mail) an addition to our Neverending WhaleTale, Hagfish Haikus, Wish Poems or other pages, the text will be posted on the appropriate WhaleTimes page. Additions must be "school appropriate" and may be edited as WhaleTimes sees fit. If the writer chooses to provide their first name, city, state and country we will put it with their story -- but that information is NOT required for us to post their story. Sometimes teachers choose to post the school name (rather than a specific student). (Please note: All stories submitted to WhaleTimes become the exclusive property and copyright of WhaleTimes and can be used anyway they see fit.)
(Please note: The copyright to questions (and our answers) become the exclusive property and copyright of WhaleTimes to use as we see fit for future publications.)
Passive tracking: Our host site may also passively track visitors to our site. The only information collected is number of visitors to each page, which Internet Service Provider (ISP) they use what area of the country or world visitors are from, and how long visitors stay on each page. All ISPs track web usage, this is unrelated to WhaleTimes. This data is gathered only for our benefit and used to better our website. NOTE: We do not know from this passive information the individual visitor's email, name, or any other private information.
The information gathered -- actively via e-mails from visitors or passively is only used by WhaleTimes. We to not share emails, contact emailer after our initial reply, save, sell, or share email addresses.
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