TERMS OF USE
Ownership of intellectual property - All trademarks, text, copyrights, photographs, illustrations, artwork, and graphic materials ("materials") are the property of Educational Beginnings Inc. and/or its subsidiaries, licensors, assigns, or the respective copyright owners of the various properties found on the Web site. Any unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.

PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. We respect the privacy of all visitors to educationalbeginnings.com and understand our special responsibility to younger visitors. We want to make educationalbeginnings.com a fun and safe place for kids. This Privacy Policy explains how we protect the online safety of all our visitors.

Specific information will include:

  • What personal information is collected
  • How the information is used
  • With whom the information will be shared
  • How to correct and update personal information
  • How to delete your name from our database
  • How to contact us if you have a question about our personal information practices

Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy. If you are under the age of 18, ask your parent/guardian to read it with you.

If you have any questions or comments about educationalbeginnings.com and its Privacy Policy, please email us at: info@educationalbeginnings.com or call us toll free at 1-888-332-3446.

GENERAL PRIVACY POLICY
educationalbeginnings.com welcomes visitors of all ages. When we need to collect information from child visitors, we keep it to a minimum. In most cases, we ask only for first name. Personal information such as phone number or email address is only required if you (or your child) enter a contest, join our mailing list or email a page to a friend.

Any personal information you provide is protected under the Canadian Federal Privacy Act. This means at the point of collection, we'll tell you that information is being collected, how it will be used, and your right to access it. We will never share your personal information with anybody else unless your consent is given.

educationalbeginnings.com uses encrypting software to ensure that information is securely transmitted from your PC to our servers and is protected while in our possession. We store your information in a secure database behind a firewall that cannot be accessed by anyone but educationalbeginnings.com personnel or others who need to process information on our behalf. Please keep in mind that the submission of personal information is done so at your own risk.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18, PRIVACY POLICY
educationalbeginnings.com is designed for kids, so their privacy is of primary concern to us. By law, Web sites that collect personal information from children under the age of 18 must first get parental consent. To make sure that educationalbeginnings.com stays safe and fun, we make the following promises:

  • WE DO NOT knowingly collect personal or offline contact information from children under the age of 18 without first obtaining parental consent by email, fax, or phone. Parents can revoke their consent at any time. If we learn that we've received personal information from a child under the age of 18 without parental consent, we will delete it from our database.
  • WE DO NOT collect more information than needed for the child to take part in specified activities. We never ask for full name, address or phone number online (unless required for contest purposes) - just first name (or nickname), age, gender, province and/or postal code.
  • WE DO NOT share the personal information of under 18 (years old) users with third parties. We may share aggregated information collected from our online polls or site traffic data, but individuals are never identified. We never use personal information for any direct marketing or promotional purposes.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you vote in an online opinion poll - Your responses are only identified by your age, gender, city, and province or postal code. We use this kind of information to help improve educationalbeginnings.com.

When you join our mailing list – If you are under 18, you must first check with your parents and ask for their consent to provide your email address.

When you send us an email - We will use your email address to reply to you, but we won't keep it or use it again. We'll also collect two things that automatically appear on your email: the time it was sent and the IP address it was sent from. These are precautions against potentially threatening messages and are used only in extreme cases where someone's safety may be at risk.

USERS OVER THE AGE OF 18, PRIVACY POLICY
Registration - Educational Beginnings Inc.’s optional email registration form requires you to provide us with contact information (such as your name and email address). The customer contact information from the registration will allow us to provide you with information about our company, the latest toys news, and advance notice of upcoming in-store sales, discounts and promotions. In addition, customer contact information is used to contact you when necessary to answer your questions and to respond to your feedback responses, etc. If you would like to be added to or removed from the email list, you can:

  • Email Customer Relations at info@educationalbeginnings.com
  • Call Customer Relations at 1-888-332-3446
  • Send standard mail requests to the following postal address: Educational Beginnings Inc., c/o Customer Relations, 3190 Ridgeway Drive Unit 24 Mississauga ON. L5L 5S8 CANADA.

Choice/Opt-out - Educational Beginnings Inc. provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at any time. Educational Beginnings Inc. gives you the following options for removing your information from our database, so as not to receive any future communications or to no longer receive our offers of services:

  • Email Customer Relations at service@educationalbeginnings.com
  • Call Customer Relations at 1-888-332-3446
  • Click on the unsubscribe link included at the bottom of each of our emails and follow the instructions indicated on the Web page

Send standard mail requests to the following postal address: Educational Beginnings Inc., c/o Customer Relations, 3190 Ridgeway Drive Unit 24 Mississauga ON. L5L 5S8 CANADA.

Information Collection and Use
Educational Beginnings Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any third party.

Order Form
We request information from the user through PayPal's order form. There, a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address). This information is used for the purpose of order processing, delivery and payment. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.

Use of Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on the user's hard drive, the user is able to add multiple items to a shopping cart. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. For example, the user wouldn't be able to add multiple items to the shopping cart.

Use of Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as address and phone number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to regain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a
secure environment, behind a locked cage.

Payment Service Provider
Our secure payment service is provided by PayPal. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more information about how PayPal uses the information they collect.


This Privacy Policy applies only to educationalbeginnings.com and not to other Web sites we link to. While we do our best to ensure that these third parties share our views about privacy protection, we have no control over how they collect and use personal information from visitors.