Know! is committed to protecting the personal information you choose to share with us. Below is our privacy assurance and some additional information about how we gather information about our registered users, why we gather it, and what we do with it.

Privacy Assurance
We will not willfully disclose any individually identifiable information about you to any outside source without your express consent.

Why do we ask for personal information about you?
We ask Know! members for basic information so that we can learn more about our audience. This helps us provide you with a comprehensive set of actionable news, information, and tools to assist you in learning, understanding and dealing with the issues surrounding keeping our kids substance-free. In order to submit your pledge and become a member of Know!, we ask you to complete a simple registration form. Your membership in Know! allows you to receive information that helps you empower kids to be substance-free in our community. It allows our community partners to order materials that will enhance your prevention efforts in the community.

In the future, your membership in Know! may also grant you access to discounts and special offers from Know! sponsors, as well as give you the opportunity to connect with other parents, prevention professionals, educators, businesses and community supporters through future interactive features of the Web site.

What information will we collect?

The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site. We automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Web site;

The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;

The date and time you access our site;

The pages you visit; and

If you linked to www.HelpThemKnow.com from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

On certain Web pages, we may use a certain type of "cookie" - what is known as a "session" cookie - to help you use our Web site interactively. Cookies are data a Web site can send to your browser. Session cookies (also known as session variables) are kept in your browser's memory and are purged after your browser session is over. Session cookies are used to keep track of passwords, preferences, orders, and various other aspects of a user's "session" within a Web site. We may use session cookies to improve your interaction with selected pages on the site. We do not use session cookies to track or personally identify users. Further, we do not make use of "persistent cookies" - another type of cookie that, when used, are stored on your hard drive and can be used to track Web users over time and across Web sites.

To protect your privacy, be sure to close your browser completely after you have finished conducting business with a Web site that uses cookies. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and/or reject cookies. These settings are usually located under "Tools" on your browser toolbar.

Joining Know!

While registration is not required to browse through and access information and materials from our Web site, we encourage you to submit a pledge and join Know!. When you do this, we request that you register as a Know! member. Membership in Know! requires you to provide us with basic contact information such as name and e-mail address, and demographic information such as a ZIP code to help us measure our effectiveness.

If you choose to submit a comment or question to the "Contact Us" submission page, we will request your email address only if you ask for a response. We will store the address only long enough to respond to your request. Once we have responded, we will purge your email address from our records.

If you choose to order Know! materials for use within your business or community organization, we will ask for basic contact information in order to get those materials to you.

What information do we gather?

The only individually identifiable information that we collect about you is that which you provide to us in submitting your pledge, your order form for Know! materials, or through polls and surveys that you choose to fill out. As stated earlier, this information will be closely protected and used for internal purposes only. We will never willfully release your personal information to any third party.

We also collect information about aggregate site usage. Statistics that we gather about unique visits, repeat visits and page views are all based on IP address, not on your individual activities.

Parenting Tips Email Newsletter Sign-up

Our Email Newsletter Sign-up section requires you to enter your email address to sign up for the Parenting Tips email newsletter. When you choose to sign up for our email newsletter, your email address is used solely to provide the newsletter to which you subscribe. Your email address won't be shared with any outside organizations or individuals without your express permission. Whenever you do receive a mailing from us you will always find an easy method to unsubscribe within the contents of the email.

Links

You should be aware that when you are on www.HelpThemKnow.com, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control because there are links to other sites from our site that take you outside of www.HelpThemKnow.com. These other sites may collect data or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you end up on the Web.

Security, Intrusion, Detection Language

For site security purposes, and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Know! may at any time revise this Privacy Policy by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Privacy Policy to which you are bound.

Updated March 20, 2001

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