At Hippo Works, your privacy is of the greatest importance to us and any information collected from you will never be sold to a third party. Any information you share with us serves only that we may provide you with the best and most enjoyable experience at both Hippo Works and our online Hippo Works Green Shop.

Your Private Information

Hippo Works collects personal information when you sign up for Hippo Works services such as the cartoonlets, when you make purchases from the Hippo Works Green Shop, or if you enter any special promotions or contests provided through Hippoworks.com. At such times, we may ask for your name, e-mail address, age, gender, address, and credit card information (when you make a purchase from the Hippo Works green shop).

Hippo Works may use user data in an aggregate form (never personally identifiable information) for marketing and advertising purposes and may share this non-personal aggregate information to responsible third parties only to inform about Hippo Works' general demographics. The only other use of this information is Hippo Works' direct relationship with you: to send you our weekly It's A Jungle Out There cartoonlets, news from Hippo Works, or to send you eco products that you have purchased from the Hippo Works Green Shop.

Hippo Works shares your personal and not aggregate information to third parties ONLY in the following conditions: at your specific instructions; for instance, when you place an order and have an item shipped to your address and a shipper needs it; or when we are required to by law, in the event that we are required to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, to cooperate with a legitimate law enforcement investigation or to investigate a threat to our network or services; or if we are investigating actions by users whose actions violate our terms of use or any other guideline or rule we have established that controls the use of our services or products.

Children Under 13

Hippoworks.com provides Eco Friendly Edutainment, Clothing, and Good Green Fun for Kids of ALL Ages. For children under 13 years of age, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 requires that any user under the age of 13 who attempts to register at a site enjoyable to children, such as Hippoworks.com, will not be accepted until the consent of the child's parent or guardian is secured.

If a user under the age of 13 attempts to sign up for the It's A Jungle Out There cartoonlets that user must provide the e-mail address of the child's parent/guardian to allow Hippo Works to secure his or her permission for the child to receive these cartoons or other Hippo Works news or eco products.

As with other users, Hippo Works may require that children under the age of 13 provide the same information required of all other users to establish a subscription, including first and last name, e-mail address, and age. Hippo Works uses this information to personalize and improve the user experience. Hippo Works will NEVER require that a child under 13 years of age, as a condition of participation in an activity or to utilize our products or services, provide more information than is reasonably necessary. This is a requirement of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Hippo Works strictly abides by this requirement.

Disclosure of Information to Others

Hippo Works will not: sell the personally identifiable information about children under 13 years of age to anyone; contact children under 13 about products, services or for marketing purposes without the express consent of the child's parent/guardian; share the personally identifiable information about a child under 13 years of age except as stated above.

Computer-Generated Information

Hippo Works may utilize "cookie" technology by sending and/or receiving information from our computers to your browser and computer. This serves to create server logs to track your movement through our Hippo Works web site so that we may customize the user experience in the best way possible. Other companies over whom Hippo Works has no control that serve advertisements on our web site may also utilize "cookie" technology to send and/or receive information from their computers to your browser and computer.

Third Party Advertising

Any ads appearing on hippoworks.com are delivered to you by our web advertising partners. Information about your visit to Hippo Works, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Please check this policy periodically as from time to time Hippo Works may change or alter this policy. At the top of this policy we will indicate the date of the last update. All such changes or alterations will be effective as of the date they are posted on our website.

Disclaimer

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