IPi™ Privacy Policy

The INTERNATIONAL PARENTING institute™, (hereafter referred to as IPi™),  has created this privacy statement as part of the iWatchDog™ Privacy Initiative™, in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy for our customers. The following content, discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for http://www.iparentinginstitute.org, in accordance with Federal Trade Commision, (FTC), guidelines set forth in the Child Online Privacy Protection Act, (COPPA). 

The information below is how we handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website. The information we receive depends on what you do when you visit our site.  For each visitor to our Web page, we collect aggregate information on what pages our users access or visit, etc. ( see list below ).  We also acquire information via personal information volunteered by the user, such as survey, on-site registrations, and personal information volunteered by the consumer on contact and product submission forms. We compile a database each month related to our users which tells us about our services being used by each visitor as follows:

The information we collect is used for internal review only.  The information is used to improve the content of our Web page, help diagnose any difficulties we may encounter with our server, and to administer our Web site in a proficient manner with the least amount of inconvenience to our users. We record past activity at our site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, yet fall within the scope of our content guidelines, which in turn are in accordance with regulations set forth by the Federal Trade Commission and other laws we enforce or administer.  None of the information collected is shared with other organizations for commercial purposes or gain.  

IPi™ will do everything in our power to protect the privacy of information provided to us on this website and will never deliberately share your personally identifiable information with any third party (except as required by law) without your consent. In such cases an email will be sent to you requesting your permission to release personal information.  We never require anyone to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to make use of any services the IPi™ web site has to offer and serve our customers in a proficient manner.

External Links

This site contains links to many other sites. Although the IPi™ tries to review every single link to make sure it is of ChildSafe™ content, we cannot provide any guarantee of the content on external links. 
IPi™ is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such external link Web sites.

IPi™ is an information resource guide which is designed primarily to serve parents. It is the position of the IPi™ that it is essential that parents are involved in their children’s life experiences. This is especially applicable to Internet usage. To remain in compliance with federal law, we do not knowingly collect information of any kind from anyone under the age of 13. Any information that we received that is identified as being submitted by someone under 13 will be purged completely from our database and all accounts associated with that information will be terminated immediately.

Public Forums

This site makes a forum/blog available to it's users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.  Improper conduct is not tolerated!!. Although we do our best to exercise strong monitoring of our blog/forum, we cannot guarantee an absolute perfect environment at all times.  

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control via our Internet Service Provider.  We exercise strong measures in the security of your privacy and personal information.
Third Party Advertising

The ads appearing on this Web site are produced and maintained by Positive Marketing International Corp. Information about your visit to web sites, such as IP address, time, date, and browser being used when you click on a banner or logo is used to allow our advertisers to propagate demographics estimates from each click-thru. For more information about our advertising or click-thru policies, please use our contact form.  

Queries

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

INTERNATIONAL PARENTING institute™ Legal Staff

The INTERNATIONAL PARENTING institute™ legal staff may be reached via:
IPi™ Contact Form

If choose to contact us via any of the above stated methods, we may use the information you provide in the ways we have described in this privacy policy.