KidBizFamilies.com has always taken our commitment to ethical business practices related to the direct marketing to consumers and their privacy extremely seriously.  We adhere to all government regulatory and compliance guidelines in the communication with consumers and always employ best practices in line with industry standards.

KidBizFamilies.com does not compile or aggregate consumer data or information. In our course of business, KidBizFamilies.com creates direct marketing list verticals from databases, lists and data feeds from data aggregators for advertisers to communicate directly with consumers.   KidBizFamilies.com has been good stewards of our data partner’s data and information with security policies and practices in place to protect all consumers’ data.

Our web site

All users can view content on our web site without providing any personal information.

When you request information from KidBizFamilies.com or about one or more of the businesses listed on our web site, by submitting a registration form with your contact information (name, address, phone number, e-mail, etc.), we provide your information only to the business that you specify. No other business receives your contact information except as otherwise described in this privacy statement. Your information may be stored in the receiving company’s database, as well as ours.

Our newsletter program

We offer opportunities throughout our web site to register for our e-mail newsletter, as well as our advertiser’s newsletters and websites. We only add you to the newsletter that you register to receive. We will periodically send offers on behalf of our advertising partners to our newsletter subscribers. If you wish to unsubscribe from our newsletter, you may opt-out by clicking on the link in any of the email newsletters, or you may email your opt-out request to privacy@kidbizfamilies.com.

Public Display of Information

On our web site we may post interviews or content with various individuals of some of the businesses listed on our web site. Some of these interviews contain personal information regarding the individual who provided the interview. KidBizFamilies.com obtains express consent from individuals before posting any of their information on our web site.

Our use of cookies

In many cases, we use “cookies” to collect non-personal information from your computer. Cookies are standard Internet technologies used to measure user traffic such as browsing patterns and user visits. This information helps us to provide a better user experience through the use of statistics and measurements of user satisfaction. Some of this information is collected and compiled by third-party service providers who place cookies on our web sites to provide us with web analytics.

A cookie is a small amount of data that a web site’s server sends to your browser, which is stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can be removed from your hard drive. Also, depending on your web browser, you may be able to change how your computer treats cookies so that cookies are not used or saved. Please check with your browser provider for more information on removing cookies.

Information sharing

We may choose to share either personal or non-personal information with our partners. In addition, we may share your personal information with a lead verification service provider in order to ensure we are providing legitimate leads. The lead verification company does not further disseminate or use your personal information for any other purpose. We also reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our company.

Links and access to third parties

Although KidBizFamilies.com provides links to other sites and access to third parties that may provide valuable information, we cannot control how they manage the personal information they receive from KidBizFamilies.com. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and data collection procedures on their websites.

Security Measures

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. While no data transfer can be completely secure, we will make reasonable efforts to secure all data that is transferred, stored or processed.

We recommend that you take every precaution in protecting your personal information when you are on the Internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a secure browser and use a strong password by using a combination of numbers, letters and characters.

Children’s Privacy

KidBizFamilies.com is intended to be used by individuals over the age of 18. We do not seek or willingly collect information on children under the age of 18. If we discover that we have collected information on a child under the age of 18, then we will delete that information from our system.

CCPA – Special Notification for California Residents, Your California Privacy Rights

Individual customers who reside in California and have provided their personal information to  KidBizFamilies.com may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

California residents can go to the “do not sell my personal information” link on this website to inquire as to what personal information categories and personal information had been collected, where it was collected and that their personal data record be deleted and not sold.  You can also email privacy@kidbizfamilies.com or mailed inquiries can be sent to Compliance Officer, 7 Edmond Road, Suite 100, Newtown, CT 06470.

Within thirty days of receiving a request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.

Upon a request from a consumer to opt-out or ask that their information not be sold, we will immediately delete the consumers’ information from our database. KidBizFamilies.com will contact all data providers to delete this person from their records and require written confirmation with date that this has occurred. Should a consumer ask for information as to what personal data was collected and where their record originated, KidBizFamilies.com will obtain that information from the data provider and forward to the consumer.

Complaints

If you have questions or concerns regarding KidBizFamilies.com privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@kidbizfamilies.com.  If you would like to opt out and have your information deleted from our database and our data provider’s database, please fill out the form on our landing page under “Do Not Sell My Personal Information”.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes prominently to this privacy statement so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any we disclose it. We may update or change this privacy policy at any time and such changes will become effective 30 days after they are posted unless otherwise stated. Our web site will state the date it was last updated and we encourage you to review our privacy policy whenever you use this web site.

Last updated October 2023