CHILDREN’S PRIVACY POLICY

Children’s Privacy Policy

If you are a parent who has created a child profile, please review this section to learn how we collect and use the child’s personal information and to learn about your rights.

If your child uses The Writing Ninjas Academy at school, or if you connect your account to your child’s school account, please refer to The Writing Ninjas Academy School Privacy Policy which governs the use of The Writing Ninjas Academy School product.

Protecting the privacy of our youngest users is fundamental to our mission and business. We are committed to the following principles to protect children’s personal information:

• We do not collect personal information of a child we know to be under 13 without the consent, and active participation, of a parent.
• We collect only as much personal information as is reasonably necessary for the child to use The Writing Ninjas Academy Service.
• We do not display targeted ads to child users in The Writing Ninjas Academy.
• We do not use or disclose data collected from child users for targeted advertising or marketing purposes.
• We believe that parents should have control over their child’s data.
• We will not knowingly retain a child’s personal information after it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected.
• We will never sell or rent a child’s personal information to third parties, unless the sale is part of a corporate transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other sale of assets.
• We employ industry-standard network security and encryption technology to protect children’s personal information.

Creating a child profile

We do not permit children under 13 to create an account and do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without the consent and at the direction of a parent.

Parents who create an account or purchase a subscription to the Service may set up a child profile associated with the parent’s account so that children under 13 may access The Writing Ninjas Academy Service under the parent’s supervision. Each child user profile must be associated with a Parent account, and the parent must sign into the account and select the child profile before the child may use the Service. We take special precautions to collect only as much information as is reasonably necessary for the child to use The Writing Ninjas Academy Service and to ensure that parents have access to and control of their child’s use of the Service.

How We Collect and Use Personal Information of a Child

Profile Information. We ask you, the parent, to provide personal information about the child, such as a name or nickname, age or grade and reading level, to create the child’s profile. The Writing Ninjas Academy does not request any additional personal information from the user of the child profile.

Usage Information. We collect information about the child’s use of the Service, for example, how many books your child has read, the length of time to complete a book, topics or titles searched for, the child’s reading abilities or interests, and responses to quizzes, which we link to the child’s profile information.

We use this information to provide the Service to you and your child and to personalize the user experience, such as by displaying the child profile name on the reading dashboard, making book recommendations based on reading level or interests, and sending in-app messages or notifications. We send email communications only to you, the parent, at the email address you provided during account creation to communicate messages about the account.

Device Information. When a child user accesses the Service through your parent account, we automatically collect usage information and information about the device used to access the Service. For example, we collect the IP address, device type, browser type and version, operating system name and version, and may collect a persistent identifier or unique ID that allows us to identify the browser, mobile device or account. We may also collect the device’s location data, or we may approximate location by analyzing data like IP address. This information is typically collected through cookies or similar tracking technologies, and we may use third-party providers to collect this information on our behalf. We collect this information to help us understand usage, to diagnose problems and provide support, to administer our Service, facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, to remember users’ settings and preferences, to personalize the user’s experience while using the Services, and to recognize a user’s computer or device in order to assist your use of the Services and for security purposes.

How We Share or Disclose a Child’s Personal Information

We share or disclose your child’s personal information in limited circumstances. We do not permit a child profile user to communicate with others through the Service, though you can send messages to your child within the Service and your child can respond to you using preselected phrases, emojis or images.

We may otherwise share or disclose a child’s personal information as needed to provide our Service or with your consent or permission. For example, we share information with our trusted third-party service providers who provide services to us or on our behalf, such as website hosting and customer support services, information technology and related infrastructure provision, and other services.

We may also share personal information if we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (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, our users or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

If The Writing Ninjas Academy becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, change of control, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, a child’s personal information may be transferred or disclosed in connection with the business transaction, subject to any applicable laws.

We may also share aggregate or de-identified information in a manner that cannot be reasonably used to identify an individual user.

Third-party tracking and online advertising

The Writing Ninjas Academy does not display any targeted advertising on the Service. We permit advertising networks and similar third parties to collect information from website visitors on adult-directed pages of our website to direct targeted advertising on other websites or services. You can learn more about this practice by referring to Section 4 of this Privacy Policy. However, we take steps to prevent these third parties from collecting information from child users by disabling these third-party technologies once a user signs into an authenticated account (e.g., once you sign in to your account through which your child accesses the child profile).

How to access and delete your child’s personal information

You may access, review or modify the personal information we have collected about your child profile at any time by signing into your parent account.

You may also email us at ……………….. or contact us here to request to review or request deletion of the information we have collected from your child through the Service. You may refuse to permit any further collection of your child’s information by no longer providing the child user access to the Service through your parent account.

Unless you submit a deletion request, we will retain the personal information collected from you and your child for as long as necessary to provide the Service and will thereafter de-identify or delete the child’s personal information.