Kids Read Now Privacy Notice

Effective Date: March 1, 2021
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for KIDS Read Now, INC. and our website;
https://www.KidsReadNow.org
This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:

What information we collect;
With whom it is shared;
How it can be corrected;
How it is secured;
How policy changes will be communicated; and
How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to ship an order.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Kids Read Now, Inc. and our websites; http://www.Kidsreadnow.org, www.kidsreadnow.net, and www.kidsreadnow.com and our associated mobile apps. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by these websites, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

What information we collect;
With whom it is shared;
How it can be corrected;
How it is secured;
How policy changes will be communicated; and
How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you, and “directory information” (name, address, contact numbers) provided by your school under their privacy policy, that allows us to mail and deliver books, and messages about them to you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via text or email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website:

See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data

Guardian/Parent Registration

In order to use this website, a user must first login using the phone number or email address provided to us by your child’s school, and/or complete the registration form issued by your child’s school for participation in the Kids Read Now summer reading program. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about books and reading programs paid for by your school and/or in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information for your child (such as gender or age), but it is not required.

Summer Books

If your child’s school does not provide Directory Information in order for us to deliver books to your home, we request information from you on the form(s) sent home from your child’s school. To receive new, free, books to keep sent by mail, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) This information is used to ship books to your child(ren). If we have trouble shipping books, we’ll use this information to contact you.

We share aggregated demographic information with our research partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

And:

We partner with third party research analyst services. We share information on books read, reading scores and other demographics to determine the effectiveness of the Kids Read Now summer reading program that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as race or free/reduced lunch status), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon next to our web address at the bottom of on your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g. billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s computer hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Links

These websites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys & Contests

From time to time we may send emails to you and/or display on our site or on our mobile apps, requests for information via surveys, contests or posting of pictures and activities. Participation in these surveys, contests or pictures is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as child’s image and first name), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site and our reading programs. Pictures will be used to highlight your child’s success and to promote reading across other websites, blogs and social media sites.

Notification of Changes

Whenever material changes are made to the privacy notice we will post on our websites and mobile app and send an email notice to you.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 877-536-0130 or via email at support@kidsreadnow.org.