Children's Privacy

Kids on the Net fully respects the privacy of all who visit our website, especially children.

All submissions to the Kids on the Net, Kids' Castle, Monster Motel and its sister sites are carefully monitored by our editors. Contributions are not automatically posted to the website: every one passes through an editing stage before it is okayed. We may refuse to publish any work submitted, and we may edit submitted material.

This is why it may take a few days for your contribution to reach the website.

Before we publish anything on the website we will remove any identifying personal information, such as postal addresses, physical descriptions, last names, phone numbers, names of teachers, etc. We strongly recommend that you do not submit such information to any website including our own.

Copyright: Contributors retain the copyright of their submissions. Copyright statement

Information and writing submitted to Kids on the Net is used only for the purposes of creating and maintaining the website and downloadable educational resources.
We do not share email addresses with any other organisation or company. If you submit your email address it is used only for the purposes of telling you (1) your contribution has been accepted or (2) that your submission has won a competition or (3) updates to the site or copyright requests which affect your writing.

This site, Kids on the Net, is owned by Helen Whitehead

Kids on the Net is grateful to founder supporters Nottingham Trent University (until May 2006); former sponsors Experian Ltd., Nottingham, UK; funders NESTA (The National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) UK; and other partners in specific projects, such as Nottingham City Council and the Galleries of Justice.

Information for parents and carers

Submitted information is not used for any form of marketing or solicitation. Kids on the Net does not sell or otherwise share any information about site visitors with any other third parties, organizations, companies, groups, or individuals, other than providing general, non-personally identifiable information as described below. We collect via server log files certain statistical information about the users of our site: this does NOT identify individual users. For example, information such as the geographical location of users helps us to plan content. Visits from UK and US educational domains tells us that we have a lot of users in schools in these countries.

We also get visits from over 99 other countries which tells us we have to make sure the site is accessible to those for whom English is not their first language.

Information about the browser you are using makes it possible to plan the site in innovative and interesting ways so as to take advantage of the available technology. If we know that 90% of visitors have browsers of version 4 or higher (which we do), then we are able to use more advanced Web technologies (Flash, Shockwave, DHTML) to improve the content of the site and its interest for you.

Statistics help us promote our free website and other resources, and it gives us statistics on numbers and locations of users which are very important for a venture that is dependent on grants and sponsorship.

Parents and carers have the option to agree to the collection and use of the child's information without consenting to the disclosure of the information to third parties. Upon verification of identity in writing by snail mail, Kids on the Net will provide a summary of submitted information about a young writer to that young writer's adult carer. Upon such verification, parents and carers may also ask for information to be deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the young writer's information.

We collect email addresses only for the purposes of contacting young writers to give results of contests, occasional information about new contributory projects in our online newsletters, and help with writing.

We retain online contact information in our records only to protect children's safety and to protect the security or liability of our site or to respond to law enforcement, if necessary.

We do not allow other organisations or companies to use material from Kids on the Net without asking permission from Kids on the Net and the coppyright holders.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns.