MuggleNet COPPA Policy
In order to comply with the Children's Online
Protection Privacy Act, effective April 21 2000, MuggleNet has a policy on how
we deal with information relating to minors.
MuggleNet has a diverse user base, with many readers
aged under 13. We may ask for your email address without prior consent from your
parents:
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In order to allow one-time communication with a
person, after which time the email address will be deleted.
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To protect your safety while participating in the
site.
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To protect the security or liability of the site or in
response to law enforcement.
Before asking for any other information, or asking for
your email address for any other reason, we ask that you have confirmed
permission with your parents. If we are in any doubt over the validity of this
permission, it may be confirmed by asking for a:
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Signed form, via post.
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Telephone confirmation.
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Digital signature.
Giving your email address may be essential to contact
you for some contests or to communicate between staff and users. However,
generally, an email address or any other form of contact information is not
needed to access the site. We highly recommend that you do not give away your
identity: this may include:
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Not giving out your name (by using a "screen name",
dissimilar to your actual name), email address, address, phone number or any
identifiable information in MuggleNet Chat or in the comments form. These areas
are open to the public and we have no way of verifying the identification of
users.
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Never agreeing to meet anyone you meet via MuggleNet
or any website suggested by MuggleNet without seeking permision from your
parents/guardians and being accompanied by a responsible adult.
MuggleNet does not gather any information from you via
cookies, except a non-identifiable cookie in order to determine your preferred
layout. However, our advertisers may use cookies: please
click here
for more information and to opt out.
If you are a parent or guardian and wish for any
information about your child to be disclosed to you or removed from MuggleNet,
please contact any member of staff via the
Feedback Form.
This policy is intended to protect children while
using MuggleNet, whilst still allowing them to participate as much as possible.
Any information collected from any person will not be more than is reasonably
necessary to participate in an activity as a condition of participation. No
information collected will be disclosed to third parties, unless approved by us:
if so, this will be clearly mentioned (e.g. partners in competions, etc.).
This policy applies if you are 13 or under. Any user
found to be falsely claiming to be an age that they are not (either older or
younger than their real age), if disclosed, may be banned from further
participation and your activity may be reported to your ISP or a relevant law
authority, who may take further action at their discretion, if they deem it
appropriate.
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