Chikionline.com, hereby referred to as Chiki, is a site where kids and their parents can play educational games, view poems etc.as available from time to time. At Chiki, we are committed to information collection practices as described below. We urge children to check with their parent or guardian before entering any information on any website and we urge parents and guardians to discuss with their children restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don't know.

At Chiki, it is our policy to create website content that requires minimal collection of information from our visitors. Consequently, Chiki generally limits its collection of information to what is known as non-personal information (e.g. an online username, password, age, gender and zip code). This information is collected when parents register their children for the site to participate in online activities available through Chiki. From time to time Chiki may request limited personal information (e.g. an e-mail address), as explained below, in order to let users send electronic materials to family and friends, conduct online contests or sweepstakes or receive the Chiki newsletter. Chiki does not condition a user's participation in an activity on the parent's disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity.

• Sending Electronic Materials. Chiki may provide users the opportunity to send certain electronic materials, such as electronic cards to friends and family via e-mail. We may ask for a first name, but do not require users to submit personally identifiable information about themselves in order to send electronic materials via email. We do, however, ask users to submit the email address of the recipient of the electronic materials.


• Use of Items provided by Children/Parents on Chiki. Children and their parents who have registered with a nickname and password can upload jokes and other items on Chiki.

Chiki uses or may use personal information for contacting parents or guardians of children in connection with its website activities. Chiki currently does not disclose to third parties personally identifiable information that users provide except, from time to time however, we may transfer, disclose or share such information with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain online activities. Such third parties have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Additionally, in the event that all or substantially all of Chiki’s ownership and assets are transferred or sold to another entity, Chiki may transfer such information and information collected from parents or guardians to the acquiring entity. Finally, we may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties when required by law or is pertinent to judicial or government investigations or proceedings, or otherwise necessary to protect our website or the safety of its users.

"Cookies" are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a site. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies are used to record whether a visitor has indicated that they have certain plug-in software applications installed on their browser. Cookies also allow websites to "remember" user activities on a website as well as user's visits to a site. At Chiki cookies are used to determine the number of unique visitors to our website over a given period and to remember non-personally identifiable user-names so that the need for multiple log-ins is eliminated. We do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information that parents of children submit online when participating in our activities. You can, of course, disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser.

The ads appearing on Chiki are delivered to you by a third party ad service provider. In the course of serving ads, the ad service provider may place or recognize their own unique cookie on your browser, and may use non-personally identifiable information about your visit to Chiki, such as the number of times that you have viewed an ad.

Log data collected on web servers both within Chiki's control and under the control of Chiki's third party ad service provider, who is required to maintain such data on a confidential basis, supplies Chiki with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. Chiki uses such aggregate information to improve access to content based on visitor's browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many children as possible. We do not link the log data collected to the personal information that parents of children submit online when participating in our activities.

At Chiki, our goal is to help parents ensure that their children have a safe and fun online experience.

Chiki provides links to other websites that may have their own information collection practices. These other websites are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be substantially different from ours. We encourage visitors to other websites to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of those websites.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding Chiki's privacy policy, please contact us at:

This policy, like the online medium itself, is subject to change.

The Chiki website is intended for domestic visitors and is, consequently, specifically directed towards residents of the United States.

This page was last updated on Sep 22, 2007.