We
at ROI.us Corporationhave the utmost respect for individual privacy.We try to foster an understanding of historical events that served to
protect and preserve basic rights, such as individual privacy.Please read this Privacy Policy and understand it before you use any of
the
ROI.us Corporation ™ sites or affiliated web sites. Parents can help their children bymonitoring the
use of the Internet and advise them to not provide any personal information
about them or you to anyone without your permission.When your child is online, encourage their use of a screen name that does
not identify them or you.In order
for a child under 18 years of age to participate in submitting any material to
ROI.us Corporation ™, or to participate in any activity where personally
identifiable information is collected, other than a one-time request for
information, parental consent must be obtained.This statement is to comply with the requirements of US law, so if you
are resident of another country, please obtain your own advice before submitting
personal information.
IF
YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD, PLEASE HAVE YOUR PARENT/GUARDIAN READ THIS POLICY
COMPLETELY.PLEASE ASK YOUR
PARENT/GUARDIAN TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
If
you have any questions, comments or complaints regarding our privacy policy, you
may contact us at the following mail address:
You may also Email questions, comments or complaints to us at
the "email us" button this web page.
For
general information on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, please
see www.ftc.gov for additional information.For the text of the law and the definitions used see www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm.
This
privacy policy applies to only sites maintained by
ROI.us Corporation ™ and not to
web sites of other companies or organizations to which we link.
ROI.us Corporation ™ currently, is the operator for -
Virtualology.com and Evisum.com who have registered or became the registrant for the names listed on the
ROI.us Corporation ™ websites.
This privacy policy may change from time to time.Please check back for future changes to be sure that you are aware of our
most current policy. Your use of this site signifies your assent to these
policies.Your future use of this
site is acceptance of any future policy in force at that time.
HOW INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
Information
is only collected on a voluntary basis from our online visitors and only when:
Submitting materials for possible inclusion on a web site or URL
Entering contests*
Registering
for specific promotions*
Surveys*
Registering
for newsletters from
ROI.us Corporation ™* (anticipated
activities denoted with*)
See
also “Cookies”
Participation
in contests, promotions, newsletters and similar activities to the extent
requiring individually identifiable information from a child under 18 years old,
will require Parental
Consent.
Submittals will require either proof that the submitter is over 18 years old or
prior Parental
Consent.Upon receipt of
a submission,
ROI.us Corporation ™ will
send a copy of the
ROI.us Corporation ™
submission form to
the Teacher and the Parent, which form requires parental consent prior to
submission by anyone under 18 years old, and the obtaining of a submission code
by all under 18 years of age.When
ROI.us Corporation ™ receives an entry for a contest from someone less than 18
years of age, we will send a confirming Email to the parent’s Email address.When
ROI.us Corporation ™ receives a submission for judging from anyone regardless
of age, we will send a confirming Email to the teacher’s Email address, as
submissions must be part of a regular or extra credit classroom assignment.
Because publisher sites and laws across countries vary,
we're unable to suggest specific privacy policy language. However, you may wish
to review resources such as the
Network Advertising Initiative, or NAI, which suggests the following
language for data collection of non-personally identifying information:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads
when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including
your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to
this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this
practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by
these companies, click here.
Information
that may be optionally collected from all general visitorsis Geographical
area, age, gender, academic interests, product or service interests. Individually
identifiable information to be collected from all (regardless of age) who submit
materials for review, grading and judging for possible inclusion as part of the
web page or URL, which includes children under 18 years of age:
Parent/Guardian
name and address (unless submitter is over 18 years old)
Name of Child/ Submitter
E-mail address of child/submitter and parent (if submitter is under 18)
School in which enrolled (or home school) and its address
Grade level at time of submission
Teacher’s name and email or other contact information at school
Class / Subject
Title of Paper
Date of Birth
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTED , and may be made available to third parties
Areas
of academic interest/study
Areas of Products or services that would enhance the learning experience
Areas of Products or services that would compliment educational goals
ROI.us Corporation ™ sites
visited
Geographical area, age, gender, product or service interests
USES
OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
The
following information will appear on submissions and be seen by the site
operator and third parties.It will
be used to separate entries from all other entries, to assure that there are not
multiple entries from the same person for the exact same contest period, to
notify parent and teacher of submittal and if it was a winner.The Information will also be used to separate categories of entrants into
the appropriate class level (example collegiate versus fifth grade)
Parent/Guardian
name and address (unless submitter is over 18 years old)
Name of Child/ Submitter (unless the teacher makes other arrangements with
ROI.us Corporation ™ to use distinctive screen names, combining school, teacher
and class name identifiers) E-mail address of child/submitter and parent (if
submitter is under 18) School in which enrolled (or home school) and its address
Grade level at time of submission Teacher’s name and email or other contact
information at school; Class / Subject; Title of Paper; Date of Birth.
Materials
submitted will be reviewed, judged, and winning submittals may be published in
total or edited on the web site or URL of the topic where appropriate, and may
also be published on the judging or sponsors site through hyper links.The city and state of the winning submitters school, grade level, school
name, class name, assignment and teacher’s names may also be displayed for the
period of time thought appropriate by the site operators. The name of the
submitter, if over 18 years of age will be published. Submitters’ names under
18 years of age will be published if the submission is not clearly and
prominently marked next to the student name “Do Not Publish”, and signed by
the parent.The materials if
selected for inclusion at the web site or URL will be viewed and copied by the
public, in general.The editing
sponsor noted on the particular web site or URL would be the organization which
will view the submissions and the personal information included on it, see the
ROI.us Corporation ™
Submission Form,
The
general information obtained at any of the
ROI.us Corporation ™ sites will be used by
ROI.us Corporation ™ to determine what additional information to include on a
particular site or if additional sites should be added.It will also be used to tailor future enhancements to the sites.
We
may also use personal and general information to perform demographic studies.By doing this, we can improve our sites to meet the needs of our
visitors.Should we merge personal
information and general information, we will use reasonable efforts to maintain
the integrity of the personal information.
When
ROI.us Corporation ™issues a
newsletter,
ROI.us Corporation ™ or a
third party mailing out this newsletter will have access to individually
identifiable informationbut only
for those who have sent their personal information and requested the newsletter.
Our
third party partners may have useful products or services.We attempt to limit use of your information to those services/products
that we feel would be of benefit to you.WE
MAY PROVIDE YOUR INDIVIDUALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION TO THESE PARTIES.You will be asked to have information about these sent to you.As of this writing (see date at beginning), the third parties are either
entities that are a University, University associated, or Museums.In the future, this information will available to advertisers and also be
sent to other third parties who will have products and services to offer.We will limit this to exclude what we feel are inappropriate
solicitations.
We
have asked our third parties to abide by our privacy policy.
PARENTAL CONSENT
Children
under 13 must by United States law have parental consent to provide personal
information over the Internet. We have selected 18 years of age to keep all
parents/guardians involved in the learning process and encourage their
children’s efforts.Our policy is
to require that all persons under 18 years of age provide a parental consent
form to enter any submission and to participate in any activity that requires
the disclosure of personal information.
The form found at Parental
Consentmust be completed, signed by the parent or guardian and mailed to:
THIS FORM states that you are giving
your consent to the collection, transfer and use of the child’s personally
identifiable information.THIS FORM
states that you are giving your consent to the unlimited use, publication (in
total or edited), broadcast, incorporation into websites, television, radio or
other medium, of any submissions and that they may be used in any current or
future advances in the state of communication that may be developed for
ROI.us Corporation ™. YOU MAY SAY NO to having your child’s actual or screen name
information published on any winning entry but we still require the student’s
name for identification purposes in the judging competition.Please send any questions about this policy in writing to:
We
collect and store only certain information about you.We collect and store the internet address of the website from which you
linked directly to any of the
ROI.us Corporation ™
sites and the domain name from which you accessed the internet, for
example Juno.com, if you connected from a Juno account.We also collect and store the date and time you accessthe
ROI.us Corporation ™ sites. We
use the information to measure the number of visitors to each site and each
different section of our sites, the length of time spent at each site, and to
help us make our sites more useful. General information of which
ROI.us Corporation ™ sites you visit will be tracked for the purpose of determining
general interests.
E-MAIL PROCEDURES/POLICIES
A
one-time request for information will be processed without parental consent.
The
material you submit may be seen by various persons.Those persons my be associated with
ROI.us Corporation ™ or the editing sponsors.We
may enter the information you send us into our electronic database, to share
with our editing sponsors..Note
that Email is not guaranteed to be secure against interception.
It
is our policy that all Email is kept in a secure Email system.
As an Email address is a type of personal identification information, the access
to the
ROI.us Corporation ™ Email
system has been limited.Most
messages are deleted after a reply is sent.In certain instances, hard copies or information or data from certain
Email may be kept.
This information will be kept in a secure area and will not be used for
marketing purposes.
Should
ROI.us Corporation ™ be legally
required to disclose any information so kept, it will attempt to have any
personally identifying information removed from the required legal production,
where possible and as allowed by the judicial system.
This Email policy does not apply to any business mail sent to the company nor to
Email from persons over 18 years old.
OPT
OUT PROCEDUREE-MAIL
You may opt out of receiving any Email from
ROI.us Corporation ™by sending an Email to
ROI.us Corporation ™
and stating that you want REMOVED from Email.
WHO
WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION
The
operator of the site, the sponsoring entity for the page, and the judging entity
(if separate or different) for the page will have initial access to the
information provided for all materials submitted for possible inclusion on the
web site or URL.If selected for
publication, all of the information except the child’s/submitter’s and
parents street address will be included with the publication on the internet,
available for anyone in the world at large to view and copy.
Competition
and recognition are keys to this site being successful.While we want to acknowledge the great works of our scholars of all ages,
we do not want to collect or disclose any more information than is necessary to
administer the activities on these sites.We
do not want to have parents feel uncomfortable.On the other hand, the international publication of an excellent student
paper or artwork at a website deserves recognition.The site operator is willing to work with teachers and parents to protect
children’s privacy through other methods that would promote fairness,
competition and recognition.
REVIEW/CORRECTION/DELETION OF INFORMATION
If
for any reason you feel that the information maintained by
ROI.us Corporation ™ is not correct, or you want to delete any information please
write to us at:
You
must provide the initial email that you gave us to make any corrections or
deletions.We will not give out any
information that we have on file without the initial Email information provided
to obtain submission code.
Unauthorized Site:
This site and its contents are not affiliated, connected,
associated with or authorized by the individual, family,
friends, or trademarked entities utilizing any part or
the subject's entire name. Any official or affiliated
sites that are related to this subject will be hyper
linked below upon submission
and Evisum, Inc. review.
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