Privacy Policy

Nick Jr. is totally committed to providing the safest and most secure environment for you to interact with us on the Net. That is why we will never give out your information to anyone else and store your personal data securely.

Top Tips for your Privacy on the Net.

• Never give out personal information to people you don?t know.
• Parents and guardians! Talk to your kids about the release of personal information and make sure everyone understands what the reasons for giving it out are. Sometimes you might wish to give out personal information for good reasons, such as entering competitions. At other times, it might be unnecessary.

Introduction

Nickelodeon Australia?s commitment to privacy is based upon the principles outlined in the National Privacy Principles (NPPs). The NPP?s are the basis of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (effective December 21, 2001), which provides for the protection of personal information of Australians.

Nickelodeon is a member of the Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA). Nickelodeon?s websites are ADMA code compliant. Nickelodeon follows the Direct Marketing Guidelines produced for ADMA members.

Privacy and security on the internet

The Nick Jr. website (www.nickjr.com.au) is a place specially created for parents and caregivers and their kids on the web where they can get involved with the Nick Jr. channel, express themselves and above all, play and learn.

At Nick Jr., we encourage parents and caregivers and their kids to get as much out of the website as possible, but want to ensure that all website visitors know as much as they can about protecting their private and personal information.

What information is collected on the website?

There is a registration area on the website that asks you to enter personally identifiable information. We have made this safe and secure to use by establishing a Nick Name and Password facility. This requires you to enter in personally identifiable information only once at the time of registration. After that you are only requird to put in your Nick Name and Password. This personal information is added to the Nickelodeon database and is used for the purpose of fulfilling prizes, mailing newsletters and birthday cards, emailing our newsletters, sms messaging and for other Nickelodeon marketing purposes. The personal information is not on sold to any third party. It is not displayed anywhere in the website.

We should make it clear however that the Victorian Gaming No. 2 Act (1997) requires us to keep competition entrants? details for three years for possible audit purposes. Other Australian states require us to keep such information for up to three months for certain competitions. These details are protected with the same high level security as our database.

Chats

The only chat sessions that occur from time to time on the website are only ever between web users and our on air hosts/guests in a specific time period related to a program on air. When they do occur, all chat sessions are hosted by trained moderators.

Research

From time to time, Nick Jr. may conduct random research via pop-up forms on the website. This is totally voluntary and will request no personal information only stuff like state, age and gender.

Cookies And Log Data

Cookies are information files which your web browser places on your computer when you visit a website. The website is only able to access the cookies that it sets. It sets these to enable the playing of some of our games and activities by visitors to the website. Without these cookies, some of our games would not be playable. You can of course deliberately disable cookies should you wish by checking the appropriate part of your browser preferences or options menus.

Log data is information collected by the website server, which hosts the website. It exists to tell us things like how many visitors we have, how long they stay for each visit, where they go when they?re at the website and what kind of browser and operating system they have. This information is important because we can continually improve what?s in the website as a result. It?s highly secure and only accessible to Nickelodeon Australia. The information it gives us is only ever used in aggregate form. That is, no personal data is collected or used.

Updates

Nickelodeon Australia reserves the right to change or update these guidelines.

We hope that what we?ve outlined here makes our attitude and approach to privacy and security clear, helping parents and kids to get the most out of playing in and using the website. If there?s anything else you would like us to think about, or any comments you would like to make concerning privacy and or security, please e-mail us at privacy@nickelodeon.com.au

Questions/Concerns?

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding nickjr.com.au's privacy policy and/or practices, please email us at: privacy@nickelodeon.com.au

This privacy policy was last updated on 24th February 2004