COPPA We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13, to remain consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998.

Information You Submit

If you choose to submit a request to the "Contact Us" submission page, we will request your e-mail address only for the purpose of responding. We do not store or share these e-mail addresses and it is not required that an email address be entered here.

If you choose to submit a Creative Submission (message, photo, poetry, video etc.), repyourvoice.com will adhere to the following guidelines:

I. In order to submit a Creative Submission, we require following information:
Screen Name (which is a nickname, NOT your legal name)
* If you are an AOL user, please be sure to alter the screen name you submit to us, because AOL screen names function as e-mail addresses too.
Age

The following registration information is optional:

E-mail address
(So we can notify you if we publish your Creative Submission.)

Please note, none of the information we require through the registration process is personally identifiable information.

While your screen name and your state of residence may be collected if you upload a creative submission to repyourvoice.com, submissions that incorporate any personally identifiable information will be immediately removed from consideration for online posting. For the photo and video submissions, repyourvoice may require an additional parental release to be signed.

Any company that helps us to run this Web site has signed an agreement indicating that they will only use the anonymous information collected in aggregate for the purposes for which they were hired.

• 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 AbovetheInfluence.com from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visits to our site and the content accessed most frequently on the 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.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

You should be aware that repyourvoice.com links to other Web sites that are beyond our control. Those links are marked with an arrow like this We are not responsible for, nor have we reviewed all of the content of these sites. These other sites may collect data or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you end up on the Web.

For more information about online privacy, please review the tips provided on the GetNetWise Web site or the Federal Trade Commission's kid's privacy page:

Security for Your Personal Information
We respect your privacy and we will ensure that information you provide to us will remain protected.