Privacy Policy

NICK JR. BOOST is an educational online subscription service brought to you by the creators of Nick Jr. (the "Service"). This Site at NickJrBoost.com is fully controlled and operated by Nick Jr. Boost, an online service of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International, Inc (collectively, "NickJrBoost.com," "we," or "our"). The Nick Jr. Boost Service is committed to providing quality online activities and information to parents of preschoolers. While we encourage the interactive nature of online media, we strive to promote the online safety and privacy of our users.

Information-Collection Policies

Nick Jr. Boost's target audience is parents of preschoolers. Nick Jr. Boost's design, content, and language, as well as our activities, target a parent audience, are governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the U.S. and offered and made available only to users who reside in the United States of America, its territories and possessions ("U.S.") or users that reside outside the United States who agree to be bound by U.S. laws and this privacy policy. We make no representation that this Site is operated in accordance with the laws or regulations of, or governed by, other nations. By participating in our Site activities, you certify that you meet the age and other eligibility requirements for this Site as set forth in our Terms of Use Agreement. If you are do not meet the age and other eligibility requirements, please discontinue using the Site immediately as your continued use of the Site indicates that you are agreeing to the collection, use, disclosure, management and storage of your Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you are located in the European Economic Area ("EEA") and Switzerland, for detailed privacy policy and practices with respect to personal information transferred from the EEA and Switzerland, please see our Safe Harbor Privacy Policy. We do request personally identifiable information from parents who choose to participate in certain activities available on Nick Jr. Boost, as described below. If, for any reason, you do not agree with this privacy policy, please do not participate in the features, activities and services that require you to provide your personal information. This privacy policy is a part of the Terms of Use Agreement, and any terms that are not defined herein shall have the meaning given in the Terms of Use Agreement. If we were to discover that a child submitted personally identifiable information, Nick Jr. Boost would delete the information immediately.

Use and Disclosure of Information

Nick Jr. Boost may share non-individual, aggregate information (e.g. non-personally identifiable information) about our users internally and externally with third parties, such as advertisers and business partners. We may also use personal information collected on our site internally, however, it is our policy to not disclose externally with third parties personal information collected on our site, except in the following instances:

Third Party Businesses

From time to time, we may partner with outside third parties to provide you with additional content, products, or services that we believe may be of interest. For example, we may partner with a greeting card company, software manufacturer, or telephone provider to offer you electronic cards, games, or telephone messaging. These partners operate Web sites that are separate and independent from Nick.com and Nick Jr. Boost. Additionally, we receive e-mail addresses from sites of adults who request to receive information--including newsletters, sales, and special offers--from us. If you do not wish to receive information from us, you can unsubscribe by following the information at the bottom of any newsletter you receive or call us at 212-846-2543 and inform us that you no longer wish to receive correspondence from us.

Agents

The personal information provided to Nick Jr. Boost may be transferred, disclosed or shared with third parties who may be engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain activities ( e.g., message boards, sweepstakes, e-cards, newsletters, advisory board) and perform other technical and processing functions, such as sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from registration lists, programming, providing user services to our users, or otherwise operating our site. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Business Transfers

In the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating to Nick Jr. Boost are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.

Special Cases

We may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our website, users of our website, and others.

Cookies and Other Aggregate Data

Unique identifiers such as cookies (which may be html files, Flash files, or other technology), web beacons, or similar technologies (collectively referred to as "Tracking Technologies") are used to help tailor our content, allow users to move between associated websites without logging into each site, and other purposes related to our management of the Site. Cookies are small text files stored locally on your machine that help store user preferences. "Web beacons" or "clear gifs" are small pieces of code placed on websites used to collect advertising metrics, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses.

We may use Tracking Technologies to understand site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the content, offerings or advertisements on the Site. . We use cookies and similar tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

Keeping count of your return visits to the Site or our Parent Companies', Affiliates', Advertisers' or partners' web sites;
Accumulating and reporting aggregate, statistical information in connection with the Site;
Determining which features users like best; and
Saving your User ID or other information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you use the Site.
Offer you products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you and to deliver relevant advertising.

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to the use of Tracking Technologies as set forth in this Policy. This Site adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. Click here for more information about this Site and online behavioral advertising.

In many internet browsers, you can choose to delete, disable, turn off or reject most Tracking Technologies through the "Internet Options" sub-option of the "Tools" menu option of your browser or otherwise as directed by your browser's support feature. Additional information on deleting, disabling, rejecting or turning off Tracking Technologies may be available through your browser's support feature. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information.

For more information about Flash cookies and how to remove them from your computer, please visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/articles/lso/.

Please know that certain areas and features of the Site only can be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content. The Site may contain advertisements, references and links to other websites and organizations. The Site may additionally use a variety of third party advertising networks, data exchanges, traffic measurement service providers, marketing analytics service providers and other third parties (collectively, "Third Party Advertising Service Providers") to, for example, serve advertising on the Site and our web-based newsletters or other communications which you may choose to receive. Often these Third Party Advertising Service Providers .employ cookie and web bug (also known as web beacon) technologies to measure advertising effectiveness and/or traffic on the Site ("Targeting Services"). These Third Party Advertising Service Providers may enable us to display advertisements based on your visits to the Site and other websites you have visited. Targeting Services enable us to, among other things, help deliver advertisements or other content to you for products and services that you might be interested in, to prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times and to conduct research regarding the usefulness of certain advertisements to you.

Although these Third Party Advertising Service Providers do not have access to Tracking Technologies set by the Site, the Third Party Advertising Service Providers, as well as advertisers, may themselves set and access their own Tracking Technologies and/or they may otherwise have access to information about you.

You should be aware that different rules might apply to the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information by third parties in connection with their advertisements, promotions and other websites you encounter on the Internet. The use of such technology by these third parties is within their control and not ours. Even if we have a relationship with the third party, we do not control those sites or their policies and practices regarding your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of Personal Information that a third party Advertiser or ad server may collect from you. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions directly of them in this regard. Use of Advertisers' tracking technology is subject to their own privacy policies. For more information about these third party servers and how to "opt out" of the ad-serving cookie, please click here.

With respect to the serving of ads by DoubleClick to you, please visit http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/privacy for your options and for further information on renewing your opt-outs or opting-out again if you subsequently delete the Tracking Technologies.

For information on how to manage or opt-out of Tracking Technologies set by Third Party Advertising Service Providers used by the Site in addition to DoubleClick, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp for your options and for further information on renewing your opt-outs or opting-out again if you subsequently delete the Tracking Technologies.

Log data collected on web servers supplies us with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. We use such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many users as possible. We do not link the "log data" collected to personally identifiable information submitted by users when participating in our activities. Third Party Advertising Service Providers may also collect aggregate log data independently from the Site.

Security

Nick Jr. Boost has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against unauthorized access. Nick Jr. Boost is intended for domestic visitors and, consequently, is specifically directed towards residents of the United States.

This policy, like the online medium itself, is subject to change. We will notify you of material changes by posting them at our site. We encourage you to check back and review this policy, from time to time, so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.

This page was last updated on April 15th, 2011.

If you have any questions regarding Nick Jr. Boost's privacy policy, please contact us at:

Nick Jr. Boost Privacy Coordinator
1515 Broadway
New York, New York 10036
(212) 846-2543
e-mail us

Your California Privacy Rights

Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits our visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail or write us:

Nick Jr. Boost Privacy Coordinator
Nickelodeon Online
1515 Broadway
New York, New York 10036

This Privacy Policy was last modified on April 15, 2011 and is effective immediately.