Privacy Policy

Our Commitment To Privacy

The privacy of our players is incredibly important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on every page Sqord publishes online.

Overview

Sqord gives players the ability to have controlled interaction with their friends and teammates. We are committed to make Sqord a fun and friendly environment, but the environment on Sqord.com also depends on you. Whenever using this site, or any social networking website, you should be careful about the interactions you have with others. We urge our players to always be respectful and positive in their communications.

Sqord enthusiastically welcomes parents, teachers, principals, organization administrators, and other concerned adults.

On this site, with parental or school permission (and supervision), kids can participate in a virtual online environment, giving them the opportunity to measure their physical activity, compete with friends and teammates in friendly challenges, and earn virtual rewards such as medals and points for their efforts.

We also provide kids with the ability to have controlled communications, using limited and moderated Squawk messages, selected by players from a fixed menu, with their chosen friends. We do not provide mechanisms for free-form text to be sent or received by our players.

In this policy we describe what information we collect, how we collect it, and what we do with it (the policy covers only information collected and used on Sqord.com). Sqord, Inc. strives to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, (COPPA) a U.S. law that governs the use and collection of information online from kids under 13. To learn more about this law, and about how to protect your kids on interactive online websites, visit OnGuardOnline.gov and at COPPA.org for information from the U.S. Federal Government. A detailed list of FAQs is also available at http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm.

What Information We Collect And How We Collect It

Registration

When users, including children under 13, register and create an account on Sqord.com, we ask the following information:

• Username & Password, selected by the registrant for login purposes.
• Parent's Email, used strictly for communication from Sqord, Inc. and account confirmation purposes. Occasionally, Sqord.com sends out updates regarding new site features, via parent announcements and our newsletter. We also need to contact you regarding any Customer Service queries you submit, such as password retrieval.
• Full Name and Mailing Address.
• Date of Birth, Height, Weight, and Gender for use in aggregate demographics. This information is never made available to third parties in any way that can associate it with an individual player.
• Hardware information such as the Player's PowerBand ID.
• Information regarding the organization or school through which the player is registering.

We limit the information we collect, both actively (i.e., what we ask kids) and passively (what we collect through use of web tracking mechanisms like "cookies") to that which is necessary for Sqord to provide the best experience for our players.

Sqord Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on Sqord.com. Sqord Inc. collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site including registration and Customer Service contact queries.

Orders

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

Agents/Service Providers

In some cases, we may use other third parties such as a shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. We use email and the telephone to assist you if you have questions while using our site or regarding your order.

These third parties are prohibited by their relationship with Sqord from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.

About Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is placed in your browser for easy record-keeping purposes. As with most web sites, we use cookies on Sqord.com. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information, and can be deleted (or refused) by your browser if you choose to do so. We use the information in these cookies to quickly link you to the information you have submitted to Sqord while on our site via an encrypted identifier.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.

Third Party Cookies

The use of cookies by our affiliates and/or service providers is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our affiliates or service providers use session ID cookies to provide demographic and metrics information to Sqord, Inc. and to make it easier for you to navigate our site, in order for you to use the subscription service.

Keep in mind, you can use the above methods to clear cookies from your browser, no matter who placed them there.

How Sqord Uses The Information It Collects

Sqord, Inc. uses the parent or guardian's email address provided at registration to notify parents that their kids have created an account on Sqord.com.

Parent email addresses are used to communicate with parents about their kids in relation to their activity at Sqord.com such as a forgotten password.

Upon activation of an account, the information submitted will allow the registered user to participate on the Sqord.com website, which contains a variety of interactive community features. Within those features, users are identified in the community by their screen name, age, gender and country of origin. This limited (and non-personal) identifying information, accompanied by a customized on-screen representation called a PowerMe (created by the Player), will be displayed to the user or kid's friends and others who have obtained the user or kid's screen name.

If you want to read more about how our site operates, we encourage you to read our Parent's Page.

Parental Rights

Parents and legal guardians of kids under 13 who are members of Sqord.com have certain rights under COPPA.

Parents/guardians can consent to collection and use of a kid's personally identifiable information (PII) without consenting to the disclosure of information to third parties. Currently the only identifiable information we collect from children is the parent email address. We will not knowingly register children under 13 years old on Sqord.com without parental consent or consent from their school via a school-administered program. Without consent, a registrant is unable to access the site, and we will delete the information provided during the registration process within a reasonable time period.

A child's participation or access to an activity on our site is not conditioned on their providing more Personal Information than is reasonably necessary for the activity.

Parents/guardians can review information their children have contributed to Sqord.com, request that Sqord delete that information, and refuse to allow Sqord to collect further information from their kids by contacting our Customer Services department by email at support@sqord.com. Parents should include their kid's User Name and the registered (parent's) email address in the email so we can better assist them with their inquiry or request. Sqord may ask additional questions or take other steps to verify the identity of parents/guardians before responding to a request to review or delete their kid's information, or a request to refuse further collection from kids.

Links To Third Party Websites

Sqord does not provide links to third party web sites beyond our login portal, though we reserve the right to do so in the future. In such cases, we will alert the user that they are leaving Sqord.com.

Once they leave our site, a player may submit information to a third party, over whom we have no authority or control, and who may have different information collection and use practices. Users and Parents/guardians should always read a company's privacy policy carefully, including those companies to whom we provide links, before submitting information to them.

Information Sharing And Disclosure

Sqord does not share, rent or trade personally identifying information about our registered users, including kids under 13, with non-affiliated third parties (i.e., companies who are not one of our corporate affiliates or who are not providing support to the internal operations of our company) for their promotional purposes. Sqord makes every reasonable effort to disallow and discourage users and kids from sharing personally identifying information with each other via the community features. Users and kids who use the Squawk messaging features do have the opportunity to draft their own messages to their friends.

Sqord may share other information submitted on its site - non-personal information - to provide requested products or services, if permission is granted, or under the following circumstances:

• We share personal information in certain cases in order to prevent, take action against or investigate situations regarding illegal activities, fraud or suspected fraud, events in which threats or potential threats to the physical safety of any person or persons is evident, when violations of Sqord's terms of use occur, or in other situations required by law.
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders and other legal processes, or make use of information in exercising our legal rights or establishing defense against legal claims.
• We transfer information about users if Sqord is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Sqord notifies the user in advance of any information transfer and before it may become subject to any other privacy policy.
• 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 comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Opting Out

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 you may communicate by emailing us at support@sqord.com please type UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line, or by contacting us by postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to change the information within 3 days.

Updating/Accessing/Amending/Correcting Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove or deactivate it by emailing our Customer Support at support@sqord.com or by contacting us by postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to change the information within 3 days.

Confidentiality And Security

Information a user or child submits to Sqord.com that relates to his or her account is password-protected. No employee of Sqord nor any automated system will contact a user or parent by email or any messaging systems asking for a user or child's login details, password or any other personal information related or unrelated to a Sqord service or product. If any message claiming or appearing to come from Sqord or any of its related websites is sent to you asking for such information, please report it immediately to support@sqord.com.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable 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 support@sqord.com.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

The privacy practices of Sqord.com may alter from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, 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.

If we make material changes to how we collect and use Personal Information from children under age 13, we will notify parents by email in order to obtain verifiable parental consent for the new uses of the child's Personal Information.

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.

Questions And Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please email us at info@Sqord.com.

You may also contact us by mail at our physical address:

Sqord, Inc.
101 West Main Street
Durham, NC 27701

Effective Date 8/22/2012