Togetherville is a real-person network for your children, where the people they are connected to are your friends and relatives, and their children who also have Togetherville. To make this system work, we use real names and real photographs. Ultimately, we want to help parents raise the next generation of digital citizens, so we have created a transparent and accountable system for adults and kids where kids are safe to be themselves rather than hiding behind avatars and screen names.

This is our privacy policy and we will comply with it, as well as applicable U.S. privacy law, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), when we gather and use information from users of our services. We pledge to be transparent about the information we monitor and collect from you. We encourage you to read this privacy policy to understand what we do with the information we collect from you, but we want to first emphasize what we DO NOT do with your personal information.

• We DO NOT share or sell your personal information to anyone without your permission.
• We DO NOT connect your children to any child or adult who has not been approved by an authorized adult on a child’s account.
• We DO NOT allow inappropriate content or ads to disrupt your children’s experience.
• We DO NOT send you newsletters or promotional mail or email if you tell us not to.

By using or accessing Togetherville, and agreeing to our terms of service, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy.

Why Togetherville Collects Personal Information

In order to create an online network for your children that reflects their real-world friends, we need to collect some personal information from both a child and a parent to set up a child’s account. We use this information to:

• Build the child’s network based upon the social network of his/her parent.
• Make online experiences personal, such as comments, artwork and favorite content.
• Store all past sessions, so adult and child users can review them anytime.
• Deliver reward points to children for positive online performance, such as winning games or getting correct answers on quizzes.
• Contact parents about their account.
• Send updates about our service by email.
• Ask for your feedback to help make our service better.

Control of Your Personal Information

You have complete control over your personal information and that of your children. At any time, you may visit the My Account section of Togetherville to see what personal information we have collected. You may also tell us if you want to receive any promotional mail or email from us.

If your children are under age 13, COPPA says that we must have your permission before we collect and use your children’s Personal Information. To make sure you and your children are on the same page, we require that all child accounts be created by parents or legal guardians.

Note to parents of children under the age of 13: Your children are not allowed to create an account on Togetherville – you have to do it for them. You are welcome to call us at (650) 488-8341 to review any identifiable information we have collected about your child. If you desire, you may request that we delete this information and/or specify that we not collect any further information from your child. Please note that we will need to verify the identity of anyone requesting information about a child to ensure that the person is in fact the child's parent or legal guardian, and that a request for us to delete all personal information about a child requires us to cancel the child's account.

Types of Information Collected about Children

To set up a Togetherville account for a child, a parent must enter their child’s first name, screen name (which should be derived from the first name), gender, date of birth, a parent or guardian's email address, as well as picture of the child (optional).

After the account has been created, Togetherville gathers usage data regarding your child's Togetherville activity to share it directly with the parent and other approved adults and friends through our user stream. In addition, we use the data to optimize the child’s experience, and use collective and anonymous data for developing new features. Over time, we plan to offer a digital memory exclusively for each child and parent.

Specific activity that may be collected includes but is not limited to the games, creation tools and applications children use or share; pictures and videos they view or share; who they communicate with and the frequency and content of one-to-one interactions, such as “quips”; content they rate, tag and select as their favorites; and the amount of time spent online. Togetherville also collects information on a child's performance within specific games and academic content to evaluate their performance and provide them with suitably challenging and engaging content.

Togetherville does not collect any more personally identifiable information from children than is necessary to use its services. In addition, users should be aware that sites that are targeted to children 12 or under are prohibited by law from collecting more information than they need. Togetherville collects this personal information in trust for parents and uses it to improve the quality of services it delivers to child and adult users, and not for any commercial purpose.

Parents and Legal Guardians Have Ultimate Control Over Their Child's Account

Only parents,legal guardians or a designate of a parent or legal guardian will be allowed to create Togetherville accounts for children under 13 years old. They will have full transparency into all their children’s Togetherville activity and have unrestricted access to the accounts their children have in Togetherville through the Togetherville application in Facebook.

As a parent, you may request at any time that the information collected about your children be removed from the Togetherville database. If you are a parent and wish to deactivate your child's account, please send an email message to Support@Togetherville.com, with your child's login name and password, requesting that the account be cancelled. When we receive your cancellation request, we will permanently delete all information associated with your child's account. Additionally, parents may disable a child’s account (which will suspend the account) or delete it completely at any time through the Togetherville application in Facebook.

We May Share Your Personal Information For Safety Reasons

We are proud of the neighborhood community feel of Togetherville and are concerned about the safety of all people in Togetherville. If disclosing your Personal Identification is required by law, or is otherwise reasonable to protect someone from possible injury, we may do so.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are files that your Internet browser puts on your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to tell us how often you visit our site, and what pages you go to on our site. The cookies do not contain any personal information, so no one outside of Togetherville can figure out who you are from our cookies.

Sometimes we use files from other companies (called third-party cookies) to help us see where people go on our website so we may improve our services. Third-party cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, and the third party cannot figure out who you are, or contact you.

Links to Other Sites

While we do not intentially direct our users to other sites outside Togetherville, they may inadvertently go to other sites while within the Togetherville application. Togetherville does not make these sites, and we cannot be responsible for what they post on their sites. If you provide any information to these other sites, different rules regarding the collection and use of your personal information may apply. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties. Contact these entities directly or review their respective privacy policies if you have any questions about their use of the information these sites collect.

Friend's Email Addresses

You may wish to invite friends to join Togetherville, which will require you to provide your friends' email addresses to Togetherville. The email addresses and messages you provide will only be used for the purpose of automatically generating an email message and are deleted after use. If you have requested to add a friend to your Togetherville network, you will be notified when they join so you can add them to your Togetherville neighborhood.

Security

We only collect essential data from you to enable Togetherville functionality. Although we take certain security measures to protect your privacy, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Please keep in mind that we cannot and do not guarantee that content you post on Togetherville will not be viewed by unauthorized persons and that you post content in Togetherville at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on Togetherville. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your user content.

Feedback Information

Togetherville may from time to time ask you to provide information on your Togetherville experiences, which will be used to measure and improve quality. You are at no time obliged to provide such information. Togetherville reserves the right to utilize anonymous information for marketing purposes, for instance by displaying selected comments without a user’s identity on the Togetherville.com website or in other communications.

Applicable Law

We control and operate Togetherville from the United States. Togetherville is not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States. Please note that we do not represent or warrant that Togetherville is appropriate for use in any particular jurisdiction. Those who choose to access Togetherville do so at their own initiative and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations.

Modifications of the Privacy Policy

Togetherville reserves the right to modify its privacy policy at any time and will notify you by posting any such changes in a revised privacy policy on the website. Such modifications will become effective on the day they are posted as noted in the policy. Togetherville encourages you to frequently review the privacy policy for any modifications. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting Togetherville

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about Togetherville's privacy policy, email us at privacy@togetherville.com or contact us at:

Togetherville Inc.
530 University Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Info@Togetherville.com

Effective: January 5, 2010