This is the site for Inviting Conversations and the site known as Invitingconversations.com.

Invitingconversations.com is the official site for Inviting Conversations and information related to and/or contained therein is copyrighted and trademarked to Invitingconversations.com, with all rights reserved. Invitingconversations.com is committed to providing a fun, safe and secure website for people of all ages. We are dedicated to safeguarding all personal information collected online and to helping our visitors learn how to exercise control over personal information while exploring the Internet. It is our intent that visitors feel comfortable and safe visiting sour website and to engage in activities available to them on our website. We do request personally identifiable information from visitors who choose to participate in certain activities available on Invitingconversations.com, as described below. If we were to discover that a child submitted personally identifiable information, Invitingconversations.com would delete the information immediately. As we continue to offer our visitors new and different types of content and services, we may modify our practices from time to time. However, we will treat all personal information we collect in accordance with the privacy notice in effect at the time the information is collected.

Our Information Collection and Utilization Policies
At Invitingconversations.com, we do not collect personally identifiable information unless our visitors voluntarily provide it to us. For some activities, such as online polls or surveys, we may ask visitors to provide information that is not personally identifiable. This might include first name only, city or state of residence, age, gender, or information permitting us to post information. For some other activities, such as entering contests and subscribing to our email newsletters, we may ask visitors to provide a name and email address. For other activities, such as sending an electronic postcard or email to a friend, we may also ask for personal information about other people. This is usually limited to a first name and email address. Email addresses collected to send an electronic postcard or email to a friend are deleted immediately when the requested postcard or email is transmitted. For activities such as having a child receive a birthday card from a site character, we will ask visitors to provide information in order to provide this service. Visitors who order merchandise or other materials from Invitingconversations.com will be required to provide their full name, billing and mailing addresses, email address, telephone number and a credit card number. If the order is being shipped to a third party, we will also need the recipient's name and mailing address. Before collecting information in connection with a Invitingconversations.com order, we will verify the validity of the purchaser's credit card. On occasion, we might solicit additional voluntary information regarding shoppers' personal shopping references. When a child under thirteen participates in another ongoing activity that requires the collection, retention, and use of personal information, we will also ask for a parent's email address so that we can notify the parent that we have received personal information from their child. We do not knowingly collect names and email addresses from children under thirteen for these types of activities without notifying the parent via email and giving the parent the option to remove their child's email address from the applicable database for that activity. For specific onetime requests we receive from visitors, email addresses are collected and used only in connection with the specific onetime request. For example, for contests, email addresses are collected for the purpose of entering the online contest on a onetime basis and are used to notify winners of the sweepstakes or contest once by email. Winners will be required to return a completed prize acceptance form contained in the notification email by facsimile or U.S. mail within a designated time period (along with the signature of a parent or legal guardian for all minors). When visitors come to our site, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information such as the type of computer operating system (e.g., Windows '95 or Mac OS) and browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) being used, and the domain name of the Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink). If we were to discover that a child submitted personally identifiable information, Invitingconversations.com would delete the information immediately.

Use of Information
We use visitors' personal information for internal purposes only, such as enabling visitors to enter our online contests, to subscribe to our online newsletter, or to order from Invitingconversations.com. We may also use personal information provided by shoppers at Invitingconversations.com to send them, by email or direct mail, notification of special offers, sale events, or birthday reminders. These notifications are sent only to those visitors to Invitingconversations.com who ask to receive them. We use parents' email addresses to notify them when we have received personal information such as email addresses from their children and to give parents the option to remove their child's name from our lists. We use information we collect about others only to enable visitors to our site to communicate with those other people, for example, by sending them electronic greeting cards or email or to ship gifts purchased on Invitingconversations.com. We keep any personal information we obtain through a contest until we have successfully selected a winner(s), awarded the prize(s), and administered the contest or sweepstakes. We only use the email addresses of subscribers to our Invitingconversations.com email newsletters to send them the requested newsletter(s). Each newsletter also includes instructions for subscription removal via return email. We never sell, rent, or otherwise share our visitors' personal information with third parties. Sometimes, we use agents or contractors, such as the U.S. Postal Service, to provide services to our visitors, such as helping us conduct a contest, sending prizes to winners, or shipping customer orders made on Invitingconversations.com. In these cases, we require the agent or contractor to keep the information confidential and to use it only for the specific services they are performing. We sometimes use non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site, and to improve our visitors' experience on Invitingconversations.com. We also may aggregate this information to analyze site usage, as well as to offer products, programs, or services. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, we may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. We will not use or transfer personally identifiable information in ways that are materially different from the ones described above without also providing parental notification of such practices and obtaining consent for any materially different uses.