Information Collection & Use

Registration
In order to use this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give us contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

You have the option to provide demographic information (such as age range, zip code, and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.

Koolkin LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on www.koolkin.com or www.kidsoutdoorsonline.com. Koolkin collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Surveys or Contests
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).

We use this information to allow you to personalize the web site and/or to improve and enhance the web site and your experience on the web site.

We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we may ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We may send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Koolkin LLC stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact us at koolkin_webmaster@gmail.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Uses of Information
www.koolkin.com and/or www.kidsoutdoorsonline.com is a What To, Where To, How To content site with text, pictures and videos about What To do, Where To do it and How To do things outdoors. In addition it is a social networking web site that allows member users to establish their own profile pages, communicate with their friends, join groups, and submit their own outdoor experiences to the content portion of the web site. The information collected will be used to establish unique memberships, personalize use of the web site, improve the web site, and enhance the users experience.

Communications from the Site

Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information about the web site or your use of the web site. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page, about us page or in your profile page.

Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”

Newsletters
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.

Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you and your parents/guardians/additional adult a welcoming email to verify your username(s) and password(s). We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Profile
We store information that we collect through your use of the web site, cookies, log files, clear gifs, to create a “profile” of your use and/or your preferences. We tie your personally identifiable information, to information in the profile, in order to provide parental, guardian or other adult supervision of your use and to improve the content of the site for you.

We do not share your profile with other third parties. For the purpose described above , we share your profile together with your personally identifiable information.

Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain membership and user services and content to you, we may on occasion supplement the personal information you submitted to us with information from third party sources primarily parents, guardians and/or related adults.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. s

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information:
We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties except as noted below.

Service Providers
We use other third parties to provide targeted advertising and web site content (How To) items on our site. When you sign up for or navigate to targeted advertising and web site content items, we will share only the information as necessary for the third party to provide that service. You may Opt-Out of providing any such information by not navigating to advertisers or other web site content (How To) items.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Legal Disclaimer
We 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 Web site

Choice/Opt-out

For the purposes of e-mail communication, public posting of your personal profile, submission of your outdoor experiences, use of advertising content or use of How To content, we provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase do not wish to receive optional e-mail messages from us you may choose to Opt Out on the registration form or the About Us Opt Out section AND if you wish to Opt Out of connecting to any third party advertiser or How To content manufacturer you may chose not to navigate to that entities web site.

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at webmaster@koolkin.com . We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications on our About Us Information Pages, or you may contact us at 206-255-2973, koolkin_webmaster@gmail.com, Koolkin LLC, 17837 1st Ave. S. PMB #507, Normandy Park, WA 98148 to opt-out.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. [We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use both session ID cookies and/or persistent cookies. [We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by www.koolkin.com and/or www.kidsoutdoorsonline.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)

We employ [or our third party advertising partner employs] a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We tie [do not tie] the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.

To learn more about our advertising company’s use of clear gifs, please go to the web site of any of our advertisers you are interested in.

We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Choice and Opt-out.”

Third Party Advertisers

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Third Party Advertisers who are our advertising partners. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.

Our advertisers use cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that our advertisers collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable.

For more information about our third-party advertisers, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please visit the sponsors tab in the About Us section of our web site.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Koolkin LLC. Please be aware that we, Koolkin LLC, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site

Co-branded sites

As of November 1, 2008 the only web sites active under these policies are www.koolkin.com, and www.kidsoutdoorsonline.com.

Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms

If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. Koolkin LLC reserves all rights related to the disclosure by you of personally identifiable information you submit there and we may at our sole discretion suspend or terminate the membership, and use of the web site(s) for users who use these services in a manner inconsistent with our Terms of Use.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at koolkin_webmaster@gmail.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed above.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, search for secure socket layer technology (SSL) on the Internet.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at koolkin_webmaster@gmail.com.

Business Transitions

In the event Koolkin LLC goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and by prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: Phone - 206-255-2973, e-mail - koolkin_webmaster@gmail.com, or by US mail - Koolkin LLC, 17837 1st Ave. S. PMB#507, Normandy Park, WA 98148.