My Pop Studio: Privacy Policy and Terms of Use


	My Pop Studio.com is committed to providing a fun, entertaining, and safe Web site for people of all ages. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information collected on-line and to helping parents and children learn how to exercise control over personal information while exploring the Internet. 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. We have developed our privacy practices as they relate to children based on guidelines established by the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Better Business Bureau and in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and its regulations. To help ensure a rewarding on-line experience for our visitors - and for the parents of our visitors — we provide you with this summary of our information practices. We also recommend that parents monitor their children's Internet activities and learn to employ software and other tools that can help their children enjoy the entertainment of an online experience without compromising their personal safety or allowing them to use the Internet in a manner inconsistent with their parents' preferences. As we continue to offer our visitors new and different types of content and services, we may modify our practices from time to time. When we make modifications to our privacy policy, we will notify users by posting a new version here. The Information We Collect At My Pop Studio.com it is our policy to create website experiences for children under the age of 14 that require minimal or no collection of personal information. The only personally identifiable information we require from users under the age of 14 during the registration process is non-personally identifiable information including their age. This information is used to help us determine the actual age of the users to the site to assure that the content remains age appropriate. When visitors come to our site, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable "computer" information, such as the type of computer operating system (e.g., Windows 2000 or Mac OS), the web browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) being used, and information regarding the Internet service provider. If a child sends us an email request or question, we will hold their email address long enough to respond to them and then delete it from our system after we have provided an answer. How We Use the Information We use visitors' information only for our stated purposes, such as setting up an account or enabling users to send us an email or participate in an activity. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site, to personalize our visitors' experience and to offer products, programs, and services. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage. 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 request. Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors Our site contains links to other sites, including those of media outlets, sponsors and advertisers, whose information practices may be different from ours. 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. My Pop Studio never gives a user's e-mail address or other personally-identifiable information to anyone outside our site without the user's (or that user's parent's) permission. Parental Review of Information Upon providing proper identification, parents can make a request to review, correct, update or have deleted their child's information from our database by writing to us at: Media Education Lab, Temple University, 2020 N. 13th Street, Room 1A, Philadelphia, PA 19122. The Media Education Lab reserves the right to change its privacy policies or practices at any time. Any changes will be reflected on this page. Therefore we recommend that you review this site's Privacy Policy often so that you are always fully informed. Contact Us If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our privacy policy and/or practices, please contact us by writing to us at: Media Education Lab, Temple University, 2020 N. 13th Street, Room 1A, Philadelphia, PA 19122 or sending an email to info@mypopstudio.com. Terms of Use It is very important that you (and your parents, if you're under 18) review the following rules so that you know what you can and cannot do on My Pop Studio.com. The Terms of Use section has two parts. The first includes a Basic Summary. It's written in non-legal language. The second is the full Terms of Use. It contains the legal language for all rules governing the site. By using this site, you and your parents agree to all the following terms and conditions: A. Basic Summary: The My Pop Studio.com activities and games are for you to play with while on the MyPopStudio.com site. You can't sell them (for money or anything else of value), trade them for anything, or pretend you made them. You can display our pictures on your own personal web pages for your personal noncommercial use ONLY as long as you write either "Copyright 2006 My Pop Studio.com. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or "My Pop Studio © 2006. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission" on EVERY page with our pictures and/or text and you link directly to us. This means that you can't sell ads, barter for stuff, offer your services, or otherwise earn money either on web pages that contain our pictures and other materials, or by using our pictures or other materials, such as by offering to make My Pop Studio banners or backgrounds for others. If you see anything mean or nasty on the site, or anyone sends you anything about this site that makes you uncomfortable or asks for your password or personal information (such as your name, address or phone number), please contact us immediately (see "contact us") so that we can handle it right away! However, reporting false abuse or providing inappropriate feedback will not be tolerated and may result in a frozen account. All user content and communications on the My Pop Studio.com site is either restricted to pre-scripted messages, or is filtered and monitored. Nonetheless, so that everyone has a good time, you understand and agree that you will not send through the site any words, images or links containing or relating to: account usernames or any descriptions or names that would be considered inappropriate under our Terms and Conditions trying to test My Pop Studio.com's content filters (or encouraging others to do so) profanity, obscenities ("swear words"), sexual content (express or implied) including inappropriate acts with or by your characters for "real" or in role play) dating requests or offers for yourself, or other people attacks, comments, or opinions about other people or things that slander, defame, threaten, insult or harass another person gangs, gang-slang, or the promotion of gangs chat rooms or links to sites with chat rooms promotions offering prizes of any sort (including contests, raffles, lotteries, chain letters or any kind of giveaway) materials created by someone else without their express written permission information that might identify another user material regarding political, social, or religious views or opinions links to or advertisements for third party commercial Web sites "cheats" or "hacks", or information or links to sites claiming to have these fraudulent requests for user passwords scams of any kind (including requests to users to change their email address) "spamming" (repeatedly posting the same message) or "party boards" anything that suggests it's from a member of the My Pop Studio.com or Media Education Lab staff other information that My Pop Studio.com or the Media Education Lab deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate for this site BEWARE: If you do any of the above we may freeze your account permanently. Do not create any new accounts if you are not going to use them. If you cheat on My Pop Studio.com games or use cheat programs, we may freeze your account. Please don't send us any new product, promotion or advertising ideas. However, if you do send or write something to us in an email, by mail, or otherwise, we might use the same idea on the site or elsewhere. If you're under age 18, remember to ALWAYS check with your parents before you send anything to us! By sending in your comments or ideas, you (and your parents) are agreeing that it's okay to repeat them on the site and elsewhere, and it's even all right for us to use it in an ad or in some other way. So, this means we can use your submissions in any way we want, anywhere, until the end of time. Attempting to gain access to someone else's account and/or account information, or trying to get other people's passwords is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Your account will be deleted and you will be permanently banned from the site. Remember — No member of MyPopStudio.com or the Media Education Lab will EVER ask you for your password! The information above is intended as only a basic summary of our Terms and Conditions. Please refer below for our complete, current Terms and Conditions of Use. B. Full Terms and Conditions PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE (the "Site"). This site is fully controlled and operated by the Media Education Lab at Temple University (referred to below as "My Pop Studio.com" or "we" or "us" or "our"). By accessing and using this Site, you agree to be legally bound by these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add to, or otherwise alter these terms at any time. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon their posting, so please review the Terms and Conditions of Use posted at this link periodically. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes and/or modifications will constitute your acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions of Use. *OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; RESTRICTIONS ON USE* All site software, designs, text, images, photographs, illustrations, audio clips, video clips, artwork, graphic material, or other copyrightable elements, and the selection and arrangements thereof, and trademarks, service marks and trade names (the "Materials") are the property of the Media Education Lab and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, assigns, licensors or other respective owners, and are protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright and trademark laws. Users are not permitted or authorized to copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute Materials (or any portion thereof) in any way or by any means. Modification of Materials or use of Materials for any purpose is a violation of My Pop Studio's copyright and other proprietary rights. For purposes of these Terms and Conditions, use of any Materials in any unauthorized manner (including, without limitation, on web pages or sites that contain paid or free advertisements, third-party endorsements of any kind or nature (including without limitation, endorsements of a religious, political, or social orientation nature), promotions, products, games, services, or other inappropriate content) is strictly prohibited. My Pop Studio hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable, revocable, non-transferable license to use and display, for noncommercial and personal use only, one copy of appropriately limited portions of the Materials and/or software that are downloadable from this Site, including, without limitation, any files, codes, audio, or images incorporated in or generated by or in conjunction with the Site and/or My Pop Studio, provided that "My Pop Studio © 2006. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" or © 2006 My Pop Studio. All Rights Reserved. Used With Permission" accompanies all copyrightable Materials and other notices are properly maintained. You agree not to reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, display, perform, publish, distribute, disseminate, broadcast, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or circulate any Materials to any third party (including, without limitation, display and distribute the Materials via a third party website) without My Pop Studio's express prior written consent. Unauthorized or prohibited exploitation of Materials will result in deletion of the offender's account from the Site, and may subject the offender to civil liability and criminal prosecution under applicable federal and state laws. MyPopStudio.com respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. MyPopStudio.com may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, terminate the accounts of users who infringe the intellectual property rights of others. *MyPopStudio.com's USE OF USER SUBMITTED MATERIALS* By submitting any materials to us and/or the Site by any means whatsoever, you (and your parents, if you're under age 18) automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) to MyPopStudio.com a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology (now known or hereafter developed or devised) throughout the universe. In addition, you warrant that all so-called "moral rights" and other rights recognized throughout the world (including without limitation, the European Economic Community) in those materials have been waived. All comments, suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts, recipes or other information disclosed or offered to us by you shall be deemed and shall remain our property. You understand and acknowledge that we have both internal and external resources which may have developed or may in the future develop ideas identical or similar to your suggestion or comment and that we will only accept suggestions and comments on these terms. In any event, any suggestion or comment is not submitted in confidence and we assume no obligation, express or implied, by considering it. Without limitation, we shall exclusively own all now known or hereafter existing rights to the suggestions of every kind and nature throughout the Universe and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the comments and suggestions for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the submitting party. *DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY* THIS SITE AND ALL MATERIALS CONTAINED ON IT ARE DISTRIBUTED AND TRANSMITTED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, MYPOPSTUDIO.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL MYPOPSTUDIO.COM HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE). *THIRD PARTY HYPERLINKS* The appearance of external hyperlinks and/or other materials generated by third parties does not constitute an endorsement by MyPopStudio.com, its subsidiaries and affiliates, of the opinions or views expressed by these third party web sites. MyPopStudio.com explicitly disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy, content, availability, currency, completeness or quality of the content contained at these sites. Further, MyPopStudio.com is not responsible for the quality or delivery of the products or services offered, accessed, obtained by or advertised at such sites. As such, neither MyPopStudio.com nor its subsidiaries and affiliates are responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of such information contained in these sites. MyPopStudio.com encourages discretion when browsing the Internet using anyone's service. Because some sites employ automated search results or otherwise link you to sites containing information that may be deemed inappropriate or offensive, MyPopStudio.com cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in third-party sites, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against us with respect to such sites. Thus, under no circumstances will MyPopStudio.com be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or special loss or other damage, whether arising from negligence, breach of contract, defamation, infringement of copyright or other intellectual property rights, caused by the exhibition, distribution or exploitation of any information or content contained within these third party hyperlinked sites. MyPopStudio.com cannot ensure that you will be satisfied with any products or services that you obtain from a third-party site that links to or from MyPopStudio.com, since such sites are owned and operated by third parties. MyPopStudio.com does not endorse any of the merchandise or services, nor has MyPopStudio.com taken any steps to confirm the accuracy or reliability of any of the information contained on such third-party sites. MyPopStudio.com does not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any information (including without limitation, credit card and other personal information) you may be required to provide on a third-party site, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against MyPopStudio.com with respect to such sites. We strongly encourage you to make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties. MyPopStudio.com never gives or sells e-mail addresses to sponsors without permission, provided, however that if a user chooses to "opt-in" (click on a checkbox) for sponsor information, or to register with a sponsor, by doing so he has given permission to MyPopStudio.com to transmit his e-mail address to that sponsor. *UNAUTHORIZED LINKS TO SITE* MyPopStudio.com allows users to link MyPopStudio.com-related fan sites to the MyPopStudio.com homepage (http://www.MyPopStudio.com). However, by using this website, you specifically agree not to link to any pages within the MyPopStudio.com site without our express written approval. *DENIAL OF ACCESS* MyPopStudio.com or the Media Education Lab, for any reason and at its sole discretion, may decide that any person shall be denied access to any part of the site. The sending of an e-mail notice by MyPopStudio.com to any e-mail address used by a person who is subject to the denial shall constitute complete and sufficient notice of the denial. By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you agree to cease and desist immediately from any attempt to access the site upon issuance of a denial. *INDEMNIFICATION* You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless MyPopStudio.com, the Media Education Lab, Temple University, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, representatives, and third party providers to the site from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms and Conditions by you. MyPopStudio.com reserves the right to assume, at its sole expense, the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with MyPopStudio.com in asserting any available defenses. These Terms and Conditions are effective until terminated by either party. Users may terminate this Agreement by destroying all Materials (including without limitation, all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under these Terms and Conditions or otherwise) obtained from this Site (or any other web site or source) and by ceasing all use of this Site. The privileges granted to you under this Agreement will terminate immediately and automatically without notice from MyPopStudio.com if, in our sole discretion, you fail to comply with any term or provision of these Terms and Conditions. Upon such termination, you must destroy all Materials obtained from this Site (or any other web site or source), and all copies thereof, whether or not made under the terms of this Agreement, and cease all use of the Site. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of you and MyPopStudio.com, and supersedes all prior understandings of the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof, and cannot be changed or modified except by a writing signed by you and an authorized signatory for MyPopStudio.com. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be illegal or unenforceable, the Agreement will be deemed curtailed to the extent necessary to make it legal and enforceable and will remain, as modified, in full force and effect. This Agreement and all matters or issues collateral thereto will be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of Pennsylvania applicable to contracts executed and performed entirely therein (without regard to any principles of conflict of laws). You hereby agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or the site shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the County of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania. Further, you hereby expressly consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. *CONTACT INFORMATION* You may send your comments and questions by writing to us at: Media Education Lab, Temple University, Annenberg Hall, 2020 N. 13th Street, Room 1A, Philadelphia, PA 19122.