KidsPost.com takes the issue of safeguarding your online privacy very seriously. Please read the following to understand our views and practices regarding privacy, and how they will apply to you as you enjoy our site.

KidsPost.com is a feature of washingtonpost.com. When you leave the KidsPost.com pages, the privacy policies of washingtonpost.com, or whatever other site you visit, will govern your visit. To review the privacy policy for washingtonpost.com please click here.

When a visitor is under 13 years old, kidspost.com will:

1. NOT collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification. At this time, parents will have the opportunity to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other purposes.
2. NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent.
3. NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent.
4. NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent.
5. NOT, when offering a special game, prize or other activity, ask for more information than is needed to participate in the activity.

KidsPost.com does contain links to Web sites that may ask for personal information. We review these sites carefully before including them in kidspost.com but the privacy and data collection practices of these, or any sites listed on kidspost.com, are entirely separate from our own and are not covered by this privacy policy. kidspost.com and washingtonpost.com have no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions.

Does KidsPost.com use cookies?

We do not use cookies anywhere on kidspost.com. However, the company that provides the advertising for kidspost.com, DoubleClick, does use cookies. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information. For more information on cookies, or if you do not want DoubleClick to place a cookie on your computer, please see the washingtonpost.com privacy policy. In addition, we may offer links or references to other sites that will place a cookie in your computer's browser file, and washingtonpost.com does make some use of cookies on its pages, as explained in its privacy policy. Please look at the privacy policies of these other sites for information on how they use cookies.