The following policy applies to Presidential Youth Debate 2012 and any other site owned and/or operated by or on behalf of Portable Heroes LLC, that states that it is governed by this Privacy Policy and/or links to this Privacy Policy (the sites and entities collectively referred to herein as “Presidential Youth Debate 2012.”

Presidential Youth Debate 2012 is committed to protecting the privacy and security of its online visitors. This policy statement provides our visitors with an overview of the measures we have taken to provide a safe online environment.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site when you submit a question/solution through our forms.

When registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: first and last name, age, state, and e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

- To personalize your experience(your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Database to be only accessed by those authorized with special access rights to our systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

Do we use cookies?

Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information

We use cookies to keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

There are activities on the Presidential Youth Debate 2012 site that children can participate in and enjoy without having to share personally identifiable information.

For those activities that require personally identifiable information, such as submitting candidate questions or solutions, in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, presidential youth debate will not condition a child’s participation in an activity on that child disclosing more personally identifiable information than is reasonably necessary to administer the activity. For certain online activities, we may require verifiable parental consent before collecting or using personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. With these activities, Presidential Youth Debate 2012 will notify the respective parent of our privacy policy and obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting personally identifiable information from the child, unless we collect only the child’s name and online contact information to: (1) obtain parental consent or provide parents with notice; (2) respond directly on a one-time basis to a child’s specific request; (3) respond more than once to a child’s specific request along with providing parental notice of such use; (4) protect the safety of a child; or (5) comply with legal requirements. When we provide parents with notice and/or seek consent, we also give parents the ability to let us know if they do not want any further use made of the personally identifiable information we have collected from their child. Parents can request to review or have deleted their child’s personally identifiable information from Presidential Youth Debate 2012 records, and refuse to permit further use of a child’s personally identifiable information by writing to us at: Portable Heroes, LLC, 200 East 10th St., Ste. 186, NYC 10003, Re: Parent’s request

Unless we indicate otherwise and obtain prior parental consent, personally identifiable information collected from children under the age of 13 will be used solely by Presidential Youth Debate 2012 or Presidential Youth Debate 2012′s contractors or agents for internal purposes (such as administration and services related to the operation of our site) and will not be sold or otherwise transferred to third parties.

It is Presidential Youth Debate’s policy never to post on its site more than a child’s first name, first initial of last name, state, and age or grade.

FOR KIDS
Remember to be smart online. Do not give out your full name, e-mail address, home address, telephone number or any other personal information that would enable someone to contact you either online or offline, without first asking your parent or guardian for permission. Sometimes on our Presidential Youth Debate 2012 site we will ask you for your first name and e-mail address along with your parents’ e-mail address. We do this so that we can contact your parents to let them know that you have communicated with us, and that we have collected this information from you.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Visitors will find links from YouthDebate2012.com to independently owned, controlled and/or managed World Wide Web or Internet sites whose content we have found of possible interest to our visitors. In many cases, but not always, the links represent cooperative projects or mutual links established with the organizations connected with these sites. While we initially visit these sites to which we directly link, please note that we do not monitor or control the content that appears on these sites and such content may be constantly changing. We recommend that children check with their parents or teachers before clicking off to any new sites, and we encourage all end users of YouthDebate2012.com to read the privacy policies of all linked sites before navigating through them.

THIRD-PARTY SERVERS
We use third-party companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site and to monitor traffic to our Web site. These companies may (via cookies, gifs or otherwise) use aggregate information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other personally identifiable information) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide us with data about our site and/or to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.